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So growing up, I had this idea that the American dream was about that if you put in an honest amount of work, you would be rewarded with a good life. This would mean you would be able to take care of yourself and your family, afford a car and a house. In my view, working one job would probably be enough....

Does anyone know of a list of regional instances? I’m trying to expand beyond lemmy.world but am unsure exactly where to go

We have next door neighbors that are Muslim and are so very kind. They bring us plates of food when they cook and they even scared away some kids trying to steal our car at 2 in the morning....

In the past, we’ve had issues with women suffrage, slavery, and sanitation, among many other things....

I’m spending a week in La Jolla, CA, USA, about 15ft above sea level and I’m wondering where the sewage goes? There’s no room between here and the sea for a treatment plant. There’s pretty big apartment complexes and hotels that would need enormous septic tanks. How does it work?

I’m a software developer, and I’m currently noodling around with the idea of a small suite of software to help me moderate a couple communities. Right now, the features I’m thinking of are:...

Does anyone have any experiences with these services like gollum Network? Is it safe? Does it earn you a net monetary gain compared to your electric bill? I have a pretty nice desktop that sits around for most of the day, just wondering what else I can do with it while I’m at work....

# The use of content warnings on !asklemmy...

My experience...

I’ve browsed a bunch of recent threads about more niche communities which people are hoping to grow. Which is awesome, and I’ve subscribed to a bunch of them… with the result that I now still barely have new content in my feed, because most are at only a few new posts a month....

Is there a website that unifies lemmy and mastodon?

The most famous is probably friday the thirteenth, but setting that aside, what other days in general (regardless of specific date) do you hold some superstitions about?

I’m talking about that movie you saw that was so bad it was good.

This is a bit of an Ask Historians question....

As per title, what’s the best worst present I could buy for under 100 dollars?

Every day I am noticing more and posts by bots....

I’m thinking of going in to get my masters in climatology and I want to know everything from the mouths of those that do the work....

What is the best opening scene/ sequence of any movie? And why is it the animated Lion King?

I’m rather new to lemmy but I’m really enjoying it, which is the best instance to use ?

So I developed a chronic illness years ago. It makes working outside the house pretty much impossible for me. I ran my own business for a good while, but it’s struggling. I have all kinds of random skills and abilities, but I don’t really see how they fit together in the context of employed work, so for all intents and...

With the tentative success of the UPS Teamsters, the seemingly growing unionization of Starbucks locations, and the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, is it…appropriate to have some optimism for the working/salaried classes in the US?

I was reading a book on social life of the upper-middle class and new rich of the American 1920s and realized so many things we now do proudly were considered socially taboo back then. This was especially the case for clothing, makeup, women in certain public spaces, etc. What do you think will be different in the 2120s? Or...

Feel free to post multiple suggestions for different genres. For example, atmospheric, sci-fi, adventure-like, etc.

I could make them, but I’m not too interested in all the moderation responsibilities, and I’ve tried searching via Lemmyverse and have been kinda surprised to not find much. Might be using the wrong terms?...

What’s the starting salary for fresh graduates in engineering?