Oh, man, I’d almost forgotten about the Latvian potato jokes from reddit :D

Can’t sue 'em if you’re already in the ground…

IDK, it worked out well for me. I lived in a duplex for about 3 years where the landlord lived upstairs. He took pride in keeping up his properties really well. Super responsive for any issues. I remember texting him about the heat one time, he was at my door to look at it in under 10 minutes.

It turned out to be a pretty simple thing - he bled the radiators and added some water to bring the boiler pressure up - but still. 10 minutes on a Sunday morning!

I’ve blocked a lot of communities out of annoyance. Someone will have an idea for a community, create it, and instantly add around 20 posts.

One or two a day would have been fine, but when my entire page is from one community? Nope.

Fuck, I’m over here wondering whether it isn’t ALREADY too late 🙁

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This made me think of episodes with the Silence in Doctor Who. Another chore, another mark on your arm…

You could try codidact. I’m not sure what kind of gatekeeping they have around account creation, but the project basically started up with “Stackoverflow sucks now, let’s make our own!”

Are they seeing a payoff or just not admitting defeat (yet)?

…It was about this time I realized the other poster was about 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from protozoic era.

dude who ended up as a soldier in a war while technically still participating in a marathon

Do you recall anything else about that guy? I just tried to look it up, and all I got was articles about Hiroo Onoda

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Hmm… All of them?

I don’t have kids.

Ha, ha, yes, I’m very funny :P

To answer your secondary question, well, I’m not sure. I can think of infuriating things adults did when I was a kid, but it isn’t something I think a lot about day-to-day.

Things like hearing a dismissive “No one ever said life was fair”, maybe.

Yeah, I get that, like blocking should be an extreme step?

But for me it’s kind of a defensive measure. I feel political-flooded basically all the time online. There’s no respite, so I have to carve out what sanity I can.

Well, I block posters and communities pretty quickly when I see politics. I already feel like I have to add to that list way too much. Worse would be “I can’t even click Next without needing to block another one”.

We love Furryosa! 🤍

I have mixed feelings.

On one hand, agreed @ wanting more variety in communities.

OTOH, Lemmy already has too much fucking politics. I don’t want whatever’s infecting reddit to become even MORE prevalent here. shudder

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Ahaha, yep, totally a joke.

Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They’re absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your “third way” comment was misguided.

But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What’s taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It’s funny in sort of a sad way.