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KingThrillgore, in Lottery winner
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Buy citizenship out of the US and build a better country abroad with your foreign investment. Not much to do with the way things are going, but you can make Ireland or Monténégro a better place.

Mediocre_Bard, in What's a food you love, that isn't worth making from scratch?

Apple Pie. The first step is nearly impossible.

KingOfTheCouch,

captain america meme: I understood that reference

Pulptastic,

I missed the reference but I make a great apple pie. Homemade crust makes a difference.

some_guy, in What do you like about socialism?

The concept of helping people.

jj4211, in What's the consensus on swearing here

For me, it’s just uninteresting and pointless, and detracts from when I might use them for emphasis, if they are used all the time.

I also find a lot of popular media leans on vulgar as the entire end game. Like a comedy where the only attempt at being funny is saying words you’re not “supposed” to stay. Use your language as you wish, but you better have something more to bring to the table than a willingness to say “dirty” words.

Admittedly, it’s not as much a thing as it used to be. With media not caring much about language anymore, it stopped even in theory being funny by itself, but there was a time in the 80s and 90s where a number of personalities were nothing but swearing in contexts they weren’t “supposed” to, and it was so boring.

So that carries forward to why I don’t bother to swear, because I found it so unimaginative then and that stuck with me.

MrMobius, (edited ) in What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?

I’ve been using qwant for a few weeks and it gives me quite satisfying and accurate results. Before I had been using ecosia for years but the results can be lackluster sometimes. Especially when you search very specific “niche” things (like obscure Linux problems troubleshooting). But I’m still looking for a browser which let’s you pick multiple languages for results.

skyspydude1, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

Kombi, like the VW bus

squidman, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

I fucked up with a woman I really like, so, I did :'(

greencactus,

That sucks, dude - you get a hug, if you want one hug

squidman,

Thanks, friend.

victorz,

What happened, buddy? 🙁

squidman,

Miscommunication and mismatched expectations. Wish I had brought it up earlier.

victorz,

Sorry to hear that. Sending you friendly vibes! 💛💚💙

VintageTech, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

Punky Eufster

Bigoldmustard, in What's the best approach/pathway to learning iOS development?

Sign up for a dev account and check out some of apple’s free resources while you wait, then do whatever the actually smart people on here tell you to do.

Drunemeton,
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Turns out, you’re one of those people…

Drunemeton,
@Drunemeton@lemmy.world avatar

Turns out, you’re one of those people…

VintageTech, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

I’m gonna go with the Romans?

FlyingSquid,
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What have the Romans ever done for us?

mossy_, (edited )

The aqueduct!

gac11,

And the vomitorium

Jakdracula,
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Ok, sure, fine, the aqueducts, but what else have the Romans ever done for us?

trd, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

When I grew up we had a saying that translate to something like " it was so messy after the eating we could just let the chickens inn to clean up around the dinner table "(chickens are never a clean option). So I named it robot chicken, RELEAS THE CHICKEN!

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oxjox, in What's a food you love, that isn't worth making from scratch?
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Brunch. I’m too hungover to be cooking anything.

Definitely lots of food out there I’m not cooking from scratch but any “food I love” is probably something I’m cooking from scratch to begin with.

Bleach7297, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?
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My parents’ is called Hair Brain (they have pets)

trslim, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

Weebette. Our first robot was Weebo, Weebette is her daughter. Yes, we like Flubber.

justlookingfordragon, (edited ) in Is there any way to flag OC lemmy/fediverse posts? Maybe an optional checkbox "OC lemmy/fediverse content" or something that marks the post with an OC badge or something similar?
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I just think that Lemmy can’t survive if there is no way to make people aware that a particular post is OC to a fediverse-Plattform.

I have seriously no idea what you even mean by that. Care to elaborate why a site that managed to exist without an OC tag for nearly half a decade is suddenly doomed if there’s no extra OC tag now? Or why good content can not be appreciated if it doesn’t have the right tags?

DandomRude, (edited )
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Well, maybe lemmy is just not for me.

Edit:

I expect a social media site to produce original content via its community. Even on a link aggregator style site, there should be more than just expressing an opinion - I can and should do that to greater effect on the site that provided the content in the fist place. After all, it’s about a discussion, not about seeing my particular opinion validated by many like-minded people. So I’m of the opinion that Lemmy needs original content. If that can’t be encouraged even at a basic UI level, I have little hope that lemmy will ever produce genuine content, because there’s no point in going to the trouble if you can just post some link or screenshot to greater effect instead, which you just copy and paste from another post on another platform. And that’s where the problem lies for me: I don’t think Lemmy has enough relevance just by commenting on bot posts. That’s why I’m asking for possible solutions, but nobody seems to want to hear that here. So my quick answer was: “Well, maybe lemmy is just not for me.” Simply because I thought that meaningful, objective dialog and genuine content would be possible here. After about 8 months on this platform, I can’t generally confirm that. This post with a rather neutral question confirms my negative impression - only downvotes. You can perhaps imagine that this didn’t go as I would have hoped. Maybe it was the word “flag” that did not go well with the folks here, but that is basically what i meant: make OC content more prominent because it takes way more effort then your standard link or copy/paste meme. Please just give at least some credit to real the content - that would be a very welcomed change from your average social site.

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