If you honestly expected a different general response to this question given the current US political climate and America’s reputation abroad, I’ve got a highly lucrative meme coin to sell you.

The scalding water serves as a moderately acceptable substitute for the warmth of human contact I’m so terrible at cultivating.

Trump’s mouth is Putin’s cock-holster. It’s not really all that curious.

Best job ever.

Very thankful for my sisters and their kids making up for the fact that the only grandkids my mother will get out of me are dogs.

Sorry gays can’t get pregnant, Ma. But by god I’ll certainly keep trying.

That fucking trash. I’ve got vasovagal syncope.

A sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure leading to fainting, often in reaction to a stressful trigger.

Common triggers include strain, stress, long periods of standing, heat exposure, or the sight of blood.

Symptoms include paleness, nausea, sweating, a rapid heartbeat, and fainting.

It’s inconsistent, though. For example, never had issues with the numbing shots at the dentist. One day they start giving the shots to numb me up, and next thing I remember they’ve got me sitting up over a trash can trying to clear the vomit I was aspirating on. Scared the shit out of those dentists.

Once while in middle school I lightly nicked a finger with some scissors - barely even bled. All of a sudden I feel nauseous and ask to go to the bathroom. I manage to get out into the hallway before collapsing to the floor, hitting my head at least twice on the way down and traumatizing my classmates who thought I just dropped dead.

Intelligent design my big gay ass. Damn vagus nerve is a dodgy self-destruct mechanism.

I never get invited to the fun parties. 🥺

Those tiled bathrooms have great acoustics for it.

That you, Morgoth? Stop trying to trick me into revealing the location of Gondolin.

I GOT A MANGINA!

Right? Alabama doesn’t even have 10 million people.

Mostly referring to the recent rumblings about their potential IPO. Once shareholders get their hands on something, it’s all downhill.

Matrix supports “bridges” for a number of third party services so you can keep in contact with friends who haven’t made the transition to federated services.

Other than Lemmy, I’ve got a self-hosted and federated Matrix instance. I don’t actually do much with Matrix at the moment, it’s mostly the result of me tinkering with self-hosted services. I did recently bridge it to Discord, and I’ve let my friends know it’s a potential alternative if Discord continues going down the shitter.

Trade it for something a little lies swastikar-y.

I tried using DuckDNS for a while for DDNS, but noticed it seemed to have frequent periods of a few minutes each when it just wouldn’t resolve. Also was unable to get a matrix/synapse setup working behind it. It’s handy as a free service and nice if you just need basic DDNS, but it’s not the most reliable for hosting stuff from my experience.

I eventually settled on buying my own domain. Was much cheaper and easier to figure out DNS management than I was expecting, and my hosted services run so smoothly now.

Edit RE: downvotes: fuck me for sharing my experience? Kinda thought that was the point of this community…

Almost wish the guy would find it so this non-news story would stop making the rounds every few weeks with no new details. Doesn’t even tickle my sense of schadenfreude anymore.

Yay! Sportsball!

Pass the nachos.

I’m seeding the CDC datasets that were posted about a day or two ago. I’ve still got some terabytes to spare, though - are there any other datasets floating around out there that need to be backed up?

Testing a new AI moderator in production, I’d wager.

Given that they started unbanning some of these, $20 says these dumbasses plugged in a new “AI mod” without testing it first.