That’s so much better, and I’m upset that I didn’t think of it myself.

I’m imagining an event like the old school Punkin Chunkin, where people build elaborate devices to try and fling a pumpkin as far and as accurately as possible. Call it The Billionaire Fling and wherever the billionaires land is where they get buried.

Have amusement rides, bounce houses, fair food, etc, and donate all proceeds to food banks and homeless shelters.

Yeah, my last apartment had toilets that weren’t compatible. The supply hose going to the tank actually had a compression washer and went all the way through the tank before attaching to the valve. Like I couldn’t just unscrew the water hose from the bottom of the tank to tie in, because there wasn’t anything to unscrew. The hose just went straight through to the inside of the tank.

I’ve never seen anything like it before or since. It honestly had me baffled, and I was left settling for baby wipes until I could move into my current place. And you’d best bet that during my walkthrough for my current place, I checked the toilet to see if it would work with my bidet. The leasing agent looked at me like I was crazy when I dove behind the toilet, but it’s a new checkbox on my list.

Are you-… Uhh… Are you using Pringles to wipe, in some sort of Three Shells system?

Yup, there’s a reason that engineering degrees require ethics classes. On the surface, you don’t realize civil engineering can be racist, until you learn about engineers designing bridges too short for busses to drive under, so white neighborhoods can keep bus-riding minorities out.

Wrong thread.

Yeah, that’d be culturally Jewish. Someone who was born Jewish, but doesn’t actively practice. They’re not religiously Jewish. My point was that he’s actively practicing, so it’s not just cultural.

For what it’s worth, he’s not just culturally Jewish. He’s an actively practicing orthodox Jew. He’s wearing a yarmulka in this photo, and pretty much every photo you’ll see of him.

There’s a big difference between someone who was born Jewish because their mom is Jewish, and someone who is actively practicing. Not that it excuses the Neo-Nazis and antisemites. But he’s not just culturally Jewish.

You seem to be correct. Some sort of drive by login token scraper. Changing your password won’t help, because they still have an authorized copy of your login token. And I don’t think Lemmy has any sort of “Log out of all devices” button, (which deauthorizes all of the account’s login tokens) so there’s not much that a compromised account holder can do to stop it once the hacker has that token.

It’s the same thing that got Linus Tech Tips a few weeks back. Their entire YouTube account got hacked and turned into a fake “buy into our crypto and Elon Musk will give you a bunch of money” scam a few weeks back. And Linus quickly discovered that changing their passwords didn’t help, because the hackers were able to simply continue using the token they already had.

This was likely going on for a while, and only recently got activated because they finally snagged an admin account. Shit like this can lurk for a long time, simply waiting for the right target to stumble into it. They don’t really care about the individual accounts, except for helping spread the hack farther. But once they grabbed that admin account, they had what they wanted.

No need to register. You can just subscribe to their communities with your current account. That’s part of what makes federation so handy. I’m on Reddthat.com but you can see this comment even though you’re on lemmy.world.

Honestly, this was helped simply by subbing to a lot of different communities. Each day is a fresh feed. It’s not up to Reddit’s “every single refresh is a brand new front page” level, but it’s enough to be able to scroll for an hour or two each day.

Oh, I know. Memmy actually just hit the App Store, so I switched over to that this morning. Still exploring it, but I’m enjoying it so far.

Primarily a mobile user, which I’m assuming most migrants are. I like it so far, but have some minor complaints about the available apps. I was so used to Apollo, and a lot of the apps like wefwef and Mlem are frustratingly close but not quite there yet. Mlem Is missing some things like being able to zoom images, make image posts, (Correct me if I’m wrong, but Mlem doesn’t appear to be able to post anything except links) automatically fetch inbox messages, or view comment replies in threads. Wefwef seems more like Apollo so far, but it has its own quirks since it’s entirely web-based.

That’s something that I expect to improve with time though, as the apps are all still under development. So here’s hoping that things improve.

I know. The point is to avoid using jargon. Or at least explain the jargon you do use.

What are you, a cop?

For those who actually don’t know: MarkDown (the markup language used by Lemmy and Reddit) uses the backslash as a “cancel” command. And it uses the underscores as an italicize command, just like the *asterisks* you’re probably in the habit of using.

For instance, _this_ turns into this. But when I cancel those underscores with a backslash \_like this\_ they appear.

So why does the backslash disappear on the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ face? For starters, the backslash cancels the underscores around the head. So the underscores show up, but the arm doesn’t. So what if we try two backslashes? Then we get:

¯\(ツ)/¯

The first backslash canceled out the second, but now the underscores are italicizing the head. So let’s try three:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Now the first backslash is canceling out the second, and the third backslash is canceling out the underscore.

I have a similar story. My partner and I had gotten sick right after thanksgiving. Something that one of her family members had. We tested negative for everything, but we felt absolutely fucking awful. What started as a minor sinus infection quickly spread to our throats and chests, and the coughing kept us awake every night.

After the first week, we went to the local doc-in-the-box urgent care. He officially diagnosed us with “The Gunk.” He assumed it was viral, so there wasn’t much to do besides wait for it to go away on its own.

My partner can’t take decongestants due to some other medicine interactions, and the pharmacies were all backordered anyways. They told us it’d probably be a one month wait before we could fill my prescription. Gee, that’s helpful. So we settled in for what we hoped was the downward curve. Turns out, it wasn’t. We were sick for another two weeks, so three weeks total.

By this time, it’s nearly Christmas. I had been gone from work for too long, but the office was planning on taking a break between Christmas and New Years. So I go back into the office to hurriedly play catch-up before the Christmas break. I briefly spoke with my coworker at the coffee maker, but besides that it was just me at my desk.

She went home halfway through the day, because she started feeling sick. She tested positive for COVID. She was literally the only person (besides my partner) I had spoken to in the past two weeks. Three days later, (just in time for Christmas) I tested positive. I spent the entire Christmas/New Years break holed up in my room, isolating from everyone (including my partner!)

Merry fucking Christmas to me. I go back to work for one day and catch it, after having been COVID-free for the two years prior.

For what it’s worth, The Gunk was way worse than COVID. COVID just gave me some mild chills and body aches. The Gunk was a fucking nightmare, but COVID was practically a (very lonely) Christmas break.

Yeah, the concept behind the fediverse nests pretty well with leftist ideals, so it’s no surprise that leftism has thrived here. An open-source site that anyone can host, with no centralized power structure, and that openly promotes opening and administrating your own server? The idea behind it is inherently anti-fascist, because fascism relies on consolidating power so only an elite landed gentry are allowed to make decisions.