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If only it were once a year. This year, people started on the 28th of fucking June, and didn’t stop until the goddamn 6th.

If it actually was contained to the 4th, I would be fine with it, but getting woken up by an explosion every night at 1:30am for a week straight, it gets real old, real fast.

If a loud concert or horror movie popped up next door and rattled the houses of an entire neighborhood from 10pm to 2am, I’m pretty sure law enforcement would do something about it.

I never woulda guessed you were doing so much “on the job” learning behind the scenes. Seemed like lemmy.zip just materialized fully formed, and that is a testament to all you and Sami have put into this instance for us. Thank you!!

Or lobby so their private planes are untrackable.

I give this comment 5 Meow Meow Beanz.

What, haven’t you all spent three months to grow one head of lettuce? Just skip breakfast for breakfast and eat cereal for dinner!

Which often led to visible confusion, as people could hear John Cena, but not see him.

Nintendo has entered the chat

Shadow the Hedgehog for everyone!

Probably was Big Screen. And you can indeed throw popcorn, now.

Layoffs.

Just be aware with this technique that going to the ER to patch up your sliced open finger is probably more distracting than the sound of the can opening.

I disagree, he should kill them…

With kindness!

Personally, I think that’s an absolutely fair barrier to place, and is very similar to the one I used when I moderated my town’s subreddit, which caught an incredible amount of bots and bad actors before they could cause problems. But I appreciate your desire to hold off on implementing something like that until it’s necessary.

They do. Personally, I think it makes the most sense, in regards to instance news like this, to put a pinned and locked post on the actual platform you’re talking about, and then put a discord or matrix or whatever off-site link in the body of the post for those who wish to discuss. That’s what a lemmy.zip admin did recently, and I think it worked well.

I’m going Blockbuster, just because I’d love to be able to rent new release video games again. Redbox used to scratch that itch, until they stopped carrying them.

Well, you have to answer to make sure that nobody died; otherwise, if you let it go to voicemail, then you just sit and wait to see if a message is left, and then oh shit, they did. Now, I’m going through the 2 fucking minutes it seems to take to get to my voicemail, my heart pounding, oh God, what happened? And then it’s just a robot trying to reach me about my car’s extended insurance.

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With that said, I think that a companion pet can often help one make those changes. Since it sounds like money and allergies are a bit of an issue, I would suggest looking at rats. They are incredibly loyal and affectionate, clean, intelligent. They only live about 2-3 years, which sucks, but if you find that pet ownership isn’t for you (and it’s okay if it isn’t), you aren’t beholden to an animal that will live 4-5 times as long.