Yossarian had everything he wanted in the hospital. The food wasn’t too bad, and his meals were brought to him in bed. There were extra rations of fresh meat, and during the hot part of the afternoon he and the others were served chilled fruit juice or chilled chocolate milk. Apart from the doctors and the nurses, no one ever disturbed him. For a little while in the morning he had to censor letters, but he was free after that to spend the rest of each day lying around idly with a clear conscience. He was comfortable in the hospital, and it was easy to stay on because he always ran a temperature of 101. He was even more comfortable than Dunbar, who had to keep falling down on his face in order to get his meals brought to him in bed.
you can only focus on about 10 percent of what you actually see in front of you,
I read about this when I was in high school and it freaked me out because I convinced myself that there were Cthulhu-like eldritch abominations inhabiting the spaces I could not see RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME and I couldn’t concentrate on school for the rest of the day.
At the time, France was ruled by Emperor Napoleon III who was the nephew of Napoleon I who had fought an early battle nearby: The Battle of the Pyramids. Of course Napoleon III was deposed during the Franco-Prussian War, 6 years after this photo was taken.
Learning curve is huge compared to other social media
The sad thing is, is not really that more complicated, it’s just got a bumpy on-ramp. join-lemmy.org is a lot better than it used to be, but it’s still got this anxiety-producing step where you have to select a home server.
It’s worth noting that Lemmy only had around 1000 active users for the first half of 2023. (Kbin had fewer than 40 active users until May 2023!) Currently Lemmy + Kbin have about 38,000 active users.
I think “the good ending” looks something like that.
We aren’t beholden to stockholders, so we don’t need perpetual growth. We aren’t driven by an egomaniacal CEO so we don’t need to be the biggest social network around. We just need to find our equilibrium.
‘NORMALITY’ [OC] (feddit.nl)
Lemmy memes (lemmy.world)
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It's like everyday (lemmy.world)
Legibility [toonholechris] (startrek.website)
A group of samurai visiting the Sphinx, 1864 (sh.itjust.works)
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Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)
Ðððð (mander.xyz)
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Why? Are we not doing enough? (file.coffee)
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Roughing it (startrek.website)
The devil's in the House of the Rising Sun (startrek.website)
‘RANDOM FLUFF #41’ [OC] (feddit.nl)
Strange times... (lemmy.world)
Berry Club by J.L. Westlover (@mrlovenstein)
I have an archaeology joke but it's probably just a ritual. (mander.xyz)
It is November. (lemmy.world)
data loss (media.tech.lgbt)
Rust Lord squad for life (lemmy.world)