Just had my yearly car maintenance at the local VW shop. They’ve started passing on the credit card processing fees to the customer. It’s only like 3 or 4%, but it made me use a debit card instead of a CC. Guess that’s where we’re at now.

I get the sense that a lot of commenters here never had an openmailbox dot org experience.

I hear you, though I think this is less about education and more about getting folks to fork over $9.99 a month. Like so many others, I’ve a long frustrating relationship with Microsoft. They’re literally the largest company in world atm and they just keep laying off people. I don’t hate them quite as much as EA or Comcast, but it’s getting pretty close.

We don’t keep bread in the house anymore but occasionally I want cinnamon toast. Nuke a little butter, mix in sugar & cinnamon, enjoy on saltines. It’s a little messy because the sugar and butter won’t completely emulsify but it scratches that itch when I’m baked.

Holy cow. Thank you! Didn’t know that was there. ❤️

I wonder if they ever did the Anne Rice Sleeping Beauty series as audiobooks, because that would probably get you where you want to go. 😆

Edit: They did, because of course they did. From Wikipedia:

In 1994, the abridged audio versions of the first three books were published in cassette form. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty was read by actress Amy Brenneman. Beauty’s Punishment was read by Elizabeth Montgomery (known for her role in the ABC situation comedy Bewitched) as Beauty with Michael Diamond as Tristan, and Beauty’s Release was read by Montgomery with actor Christian Keiber reading as Laurent.[2] A compact disc version of the audiobooks was read by Genviere Bevier and Winthrop Eliot.[3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_Quartet

I think Frankensteinian would work based off second definition of Frankenstein from m-w dot com.

2: a monstrous creation especially : a work or agency that ruins its originator

Frankensteinian is the adjective form.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Frankenstein

“It’s five o’clock and all is well, you cunts.” 😄

It’s raining Bens! Hallelujah! It’s raining Bens!

GTFO! TIL.

Mossad has entered the chat.

Mmm what?

WireGuard® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends…

Doesn’t seem to have impacted Wireguard.

I’ve started to buy the Blu Ray set a couple times but the lackluster reviews with respect to image quality have kept me from it. My *coughs* archival copy *coughs* of the series is of reasonable quality. *loses balance on fake pegleg, crushes fake parrot*

Sorry. I’m out of practice. Wife won’t let me sail those waters anymore.

In general I think lack of empathy is the main problem, though I think even well-meaning people can make others feel guilty about having normal negative emotions, e.g. “You’ll get through it”. IMO the worst may be the one-uppers, the guy who says “That’s nothing. I knew this other guy who had cancer of the kitten.”

Thinking about it, I generally only share really upsetting news with friends and almost never online.

I find the question as phrased is ambiguous. Are you asking if there are people using Lemmy to express positive emotion in general or to express positivity about Lemmy?

I can comment generally that I do feel like positivity is often in short supply in social media spaces, and when one does encounter it, it may be of the toxic variety.

I can remember around 1999-2000 if you clicked the wrong thing in IE you’d get 50 popup windows with ads for porn. At least that’s behind us.

Biden’s original pick got jammed up in the Senate and finally withdrew their name from consideration. This wasn’t resolved until last September.

https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-7-2023/fcc-deadlock-vote-senate/

Love all of Jay Foreman’s videos. ❤️

Out of curiosity I did some searching yesterday and the only thing I turned up was this post. I didn’t realize search engines crawled the Fediverse!

Hope you find what you’re looking for. ✌️