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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Americans. We fucking suck. Planes are the same all over the world, and yet America has the lion’s share of the nightmare passenger stories, because we have an attitude problem.

    I don’t really believe this is true. I mean we Americans do suck for other reasons, but I think the reason we have more bad plane stories is because we have to fly more. You can take trains across most of Europe, but passenger trains suck in the US, and it doesn’t seem like either side of the political isle is really interested in fixing it.





  • Either when I lived through a magnitude ~7 earthquake while on the 21st floor of an airbnb in a country I didn’t speak the main language of, or the time a moth flew into my ear and got stuck there alive so deep in my ear that four hours later at the hospital the doctors almost didn’t believe that it happened to me at all. I could hear it flapping and struggling the whole time.

    The building I was in stayed structurally sound, and the doctors did eventually believe me and find a way to drown/suffocate the moth (although they couldn’t get the corpse out until I could make an appointment with an ear specialist 3 days later because of a long weekend. So I guess maybe both stories are not so interesting in the end, but they still mark two of the worst moments of my life







  • (I’m making this post so that people who love Lemmy can help me understand, not to hate. I want to love Lemmy)

    I’ve been on Lemmy since the reddit migration and every day I dislike it more.

    I never understand what people are talking about when they say they like Lemmy for the “closer community”, most posts I see barely have any comments, and the ones that are there mostly look no different to what I used to see on Reddit.

    the smaller community results in less posts about less topics, so it’s difficult for me to find anything I’m interested in. on Reddit I could join dozens of videogame-specific or niche hobby subs and they’d all be at least a little active, here it seems the only posts I can get to show in my feed are environmental and big tech doomerism and occasionally some Linux discussion, with very few memes or otherwise just funny/easy posts. I like talking about Linux, sure, but I don’t want a sinking feeling in my gut every time I wanna scroll idly.

    there just seems to be a lot of toxicity here on top of everything. I’m constantly seeing people arguing or being rude about Linux opinions, big tech/privacy topics, etc. I worry it’s a bit more of an echo chamber than reddit ever was for me as well. I feel there are just a lot of perspectives I’m not getting here.

    I left reddit because I hate the business decisions they’re making, but every day I get closer to going back. I don’t want to support such a shitty company that treats users more like cattle than customers, but I’m struggling to adjust to Lemmy even all these months later.