Oh, spend time on Reddit.

I was there almost 15 years and it is mind-meltingly toxic compared to lemmy.

Now I’m on the lemmy.zip instance and tend to lean towards more tech ended stuff, so maybe that’s the difference…

This site is light-years nicer than Reddit’s been since about 2018.

I think it’s the lack of rage-bots here, that’s the ticket…

I am certain Spez and his minions/investors (fuck /u/spez) doesn’t want people to start using alternatives.

Dude, that is the absolute truth. After I got banned in October, I spent days using logins on several different devices I had and deleted ALL my posts (back to 2010) and got the last years worth of comments (the prior 14 years were of course made unavailable when Reddit locked down the database to prevent AI from scraping the site…) and then tried to delete the account.

Tried to.

Reddit won’t even let users delete their accounts.

If that’s not ginning the numbers of users to look good for the investors, I don’t know what is. Point of fact, I’m probably not the only person to notice this behavior and methinks it’s part of why Reddit stock is lower than the market says it should be and they’re reassessing “user metrics.”

I’ve certainly not been silent online about the fact that I was permabannned yet cannot delete my account.

Reddit fuckiness, for sure.

Holy shit. Lemme guess… it’s a southern state and in a majority black district?

Oh, you fuckers!!

Is this why I can’t get any rotisserie chickens at Market Basket anymore?

FUCK!!

LOL!

(I recently discovered avocado toast… it’s quite nice! Job well done.)

Oh, I recognize that ‘script!’ Just like my younger brother’s when we were kids.

I like that you’re getting sneaky with it. The thing with the comic book lettering or the architectural stuff is that it is all capitals. Is a good start for just getting the shapes down and the basics are of course squares.

My younger brother was an emergency C-section and he came out fully purple as the umbilical cord had wrapped around his neck and was choking him…

Ended up with impared development due to lack of oxygen and he was diagnosed on the Autism spectrum - used to be called Aspergers… He would literally sit on a pillow on the floor and rock back and forth for hours and God save you if you touched him. He’d freak out. Too much stimulus. When he was still an infant, folks had to feed him by leaning him back and putting a small throw pillow on his belly and propping his bottle on that.

Touch was too much.

Dad taught him to write with the architectural lettering and he’s now in his late 50’s and has a beautiful script.

It takes time and it’s just a matter of finding something the kid can latch on to and be excited by. Brother loved Star Trek and sci-fi in general so we ran with that.

Part of his adult education classes he was taking a few years ago involved writing a page of whatever he wanted… So he wrote a short science fiction story - as he put it - more of a part of a chapter of a story he’d had in his head… It was quite well written!

I told him he should keep at it once the class was over. Instead he decided to focus on cooking afterwards. Who’da thought?

He’s a fantastic cook, eats better than I do - is all organic and whole foods. So funny how we all turned out.

This was a public school and they tolerated this shit?

Sweet Jesus the standards have fallen.

Is it the parents, school board and administration or a combination of all 3?

The fine motor control that comes of handwriting is critical if he likes to tinker or discovers any sort of work/hobby that requires manual dexterity.

Keep pushing on that, also, get a book on how to print like you’re writing the dialogue in a comic book or how to print like an architect making a blueprint. If he can work out the shapes and spacing, he can develop his own legible style in time and move on to a fusion-style cursive with those print shapes… It realy does make a difference in note-taking.

My dad was a design draftsman and taught me how to do that block print that I’d see on blueprints, and I have a super easy to read cursive based on that now.

… it’s a problem that’s arisen because class sizes are out of control …

If I may ask, just how large are the classes today?

For reference, in 1980, my 10th grade English class (Mrs. Chase, she was awesome) had 36 students.

That was average for my school at the time.

The BIG classes like general US History (taught by Mr. Conway, who was wildly popular) had 40+ kids.

Mr Conway also kept a real honest to goodness stocks in his class room, so anyone that misbehaved had two options… into the stocks for the class or off to the assistant Vice Prinicpal’s office and spend a day in ISS. (in school suspension)

There would ALWAYS be one jackass Junior in each class that would opt for the stocks, at the start of every year and then NO one EVER caused a beef in Mr. Conway’s classes - or really ANY of the government studies (US History, Civics, Social Studies) deparement classes… Hearing about who chose the stocks and the rumors usually scared the underclassmen shitless, so they rarely ever piped up… except for the really stupid smartasses that always tried to test how far they could go…

Absolutely. It’s a testament to what people that care can do.

I love it here.

NGL, I got permabaned there in October… just 2 weeks shy of 15 years… Found old.lemmy.zip, fell in and fell in love.

Haven’t missed Reddit at all.

God, I hope so…

Not sure on the auto stop being a good thing from the get-go. Co-worker’s work truck has auto stop in it. It’s on its second starter motor at this point, though that may be down to the fact it’s a Ford, more than anything else.

Yeah… when the point is hit where the ID stuff needs to be implemented, you’re too big a site to avoid going into the shitter anyhow.

Honestly, if this decentralization push as a result of the corporatization of social media means we end up with websirtes smaller and run by individuals like the web used to be 20+ years ago… you know, I’m totally fine with that.

I’ve been on lemmy since early October when the reddit ban-hammer smacked me down… and I do not miss the “sturm un drang” of that site one bit.

I get them from ebay. If you sort by lowest price + shipping first, you can pick up tons of music you’re looking for on the cheap. Just gotta be consistent in searching, as listings come and go all the time.

Drag and drop’s gonna be your best bet. Use whatever phone ap to build playlists the like and sort it that way.

AKA “pinwheel of knives…”

Fuck yeah… I so would buy this.

…c/amputeesPeeingOnFabrigeEggs…

LOL! Okay. I’m in, just for the weirdo factor…

Well!

Accidents happen… Yup.

Just like when Demonoid finally went down after Deimos died in an accident in 2018. Some of the other admins tried to keep it up but the community spirt there died with his death.

Happens.

…get along with banks that would normally turn their nose up to a literal porn site…

Ohhhh, banks and big corporations have quietly had their fingers in Adult Entertainment for decades.

One of my favorite gay porn actors - who was also a phenomenally proportioned model, which was how I first discovered him - gave many interviews while he was in the business and he often stated that the public would be surprised by who the backers and investors in a lot of the studios and sites really were. Big business and finance.