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Kurt

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Dad, husband, and mechanical engineer based in beautiful New Jersey. On Reddit I’m u/engibineer.

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crimedad, to dadsplain

Finally got around to putting up the hammock this year.

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Selfie (second in a series of three): same set up as the previous photo, but the photographer's daughter has positioned herself on top of him and is smiling at the camera.
Selfie (third and final): same set up as the previous shot, but the photographer's daughter is sticking her tongue out at the camera.

Kurt,
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Yes, I decided to host my own Pixelfed instance and I needed a URL. Still working out the kinks. Apparently, replying to a comment from a Lemmy user doesn’t work properly.

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Yeah, that’s exactly it. It’s an open source alternative to Instagram based on ActivityPub, like Mastodon and Lemmy. In terms of functionality I think it’s better than Instagram. There are no ads or sinister algorithms; I can select and copy text; I can easily reshare posts I like; and I can include working hyperlinks in my posts and replies.

The main benefits to running your own instance are that you don’t have to rely on anyone else to keep the site running and you can decide for yourself about federating or not with other instances. For me it’s also just a fun little DIY project to set up and maintain my own server.

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Blame!

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No. Organ “donation” after death should be compulsory. For living donors there should be a publicly funded bounty system where you either take the money or not. Donors and recipients don’t get to be picky.

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Hmmm okay, but it has to be difficult to opt-out, kind of like how conscientious objectors have to go through a whole process to get out of military service.

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Because living people who are sick might need those organs, which would otherwise just go to waste in your corpse. Also, it good to have a steady supply of organs from the deceased in order to avoid perverse and exploitative market situations.

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You’re kind of talking about different things. Copyright should of course be abolished along with all private property. I don’t rule out compensation to your estate for organs harvested after death and there should definitely be a public bounty/reward system to encourage the living to donate.

You shouldn’t be able to opt out, or at least it should be very difficult to do so, because when you are dead what you have a say in that affects the living should be very limited, because those organs won’t matter to you anymore, and because those organs might matter very much to living people. Whether you trust society or not doesn’t matter anymore when you are dead.

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There’s not really a problem with meat either. You don’t have to eat it and if you do, you don’t have to feel bad about eating animals.

That said, there is kind of a problem with insulin manufacturing in that it’s kind of centralized and distribution can be difficult, especially in remote areas with unreliable electricity. If insulin manufacturing could be done at the garage or shipping container scale in the places where it’s needed, it would help a lot of people.

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Oh that sounds fascinating. I’ll have to search for that.

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It was Eva Saxl. She had fled the Nazis from Czechoslovakia only to find herself under Japanese occupation in Shanghai. From the Wikipedia article, it seems like she extracted the insulin from water buffalo pancreas. I’m not sure if that counts as homebrewing. When I think of homebrew insulin, I think of actually manufacturing it by fermenting specialized yeast as opposed to harvesting it from animals. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, but it isn’t really the same.

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Really? I’ve only seen good reviews of the stuff as served by restaurants.

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We should always be suspicious when someone starts both-sides’ing Nazis and Communists. Only one side was killing Nazis, after all.

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I like Tusky. It just works, but it also has a nice feature that lets you open posts from whichever accounts you have set up with a couple of taps. In the official app you have to switch accounts and then find the post again, which is a pain. I have two Mastodon accounts so this feature is convenient to me.

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I wish it had support for Lemmy accounts, too!

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Try the old finger trick.

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Porkbun worked well for a newb like me.

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Lol nice. The answer is milkshakes and spicy chilli dogs

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I don't know about the trans stuff, but Blåhaj has this neat little feature: https://twitter.com/FatherMcGruder/status/1429470778412699652?t=BcBVKBA4DIPtVIif__2c5w&s=19

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Sorry, pal. I just like hyperlinks.

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I haven't seen any comments suggesting a plug, so I guess it'll be me. Try using a butt plug.

How was your Father's Day?

Mine was mostly pretty low-key, which is how I like it. I got some small gifts from my wife and daughter, including a 7oz hammer with a colorfully painted handle. I actually really liked that. For dinner my mother-in-law took us out to an expensive steakhouse, where I had a wonderful ribeye, but I don't think it was worth the...

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Congrats on the jams, man!

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Lol no! Everyone else needs these days off as well so they can celebrate the moms and dads.

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Thanks! We were very lucky to get this house.

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No tulip trees, just a bunch of maples, a few oaks, and one black walnut. There’s about 1/6 of an acre behind us in the photo with a cemetery beyond that. Plenty of space for the kiddo to romp around and the critters love it too.

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