Use it as the seed money to get one of those bank accounts that give you $250-500 after 90 days. Some do come with some strings attached like setting up a direct deposit.

Close the account sometime after you no longer want it. Rinse and repeat a few times a year.

That’s potentially a 50% return on investment, better than any other return you will likely get.

I did it a few times back 10+ years ago and It helped to fund a trip for me.

Better to have loved a bot than to never have loved at all.

I will never understand a certain counter culture’s attraction to American Spirit cigarettes. I roomed with the owner’s son back in university. The company is owned by frat douches. The son and I once got into a fight over the placement of a guest mattress (for his friend) and he tried to break my jaw. Serious anger issues there.

I woke this morning to thinking of socialism. The wind in the US is shifting. Not just the left either. Working class people are fed up of barely getting by. The last time this happened at scale was the 70s, Cities around the country built tall buildings to house folks, many of which were poorly maintained and turned to cesspools (but not all) and eventually were torn down. I hope we learn from the mistakes of the past - not only build massive buildings, but the infrastructure to support them too. People need green spaces…and not just roads and parking lots.

I’m optimistic that we will get closer to a success this time. It’s a shame other western countries get to have nice things while we have to work 3 jobs to cover the rent.

How do I plan to prepare? Inform, advocate, encourage. Vote.

Reference to a zombie movie.

This guy’s a total shower.

Tiny home that I’m moving into in two weeks. And then a larger home that I plan on moving into at the end of the year if i can ever get my contractor to fix the mess his “buddy” made on the last roof repair.

And then, in addition to those two, just myself.

Lazy request warrants a lazy response. LMAITFY:

About 1.2 to 1.4M active users across the fediverse, with Mastodon making up the bulk at around 990k MAU on its own. Other platforms are much smaller: Pixelfed ~110k, Lemmy ~48k, PeerTube ~40k, Misskey ~21k.

Since these instances are defederated, it’s an approximation.

At some point, about a decade ago, I started using inciteful rather than insightful in messages. I only realized my mistake after I got a new phone that flags it as a spelling error.

Oh man, what a dunce! I don’t know when my spelling got so aweful! I’m really glad to finally get that one off my chest.

Well, that’s just a price you pay for not springing for the premium service.

Now, watch this ad about a funeral service provider in your area before we can open the doors.

But aren’t they all running on open source infrastructure? Well, except for the ones who’ve undergone cosmetic surgery

• Ad free music, especially if most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free content creation, especially is most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free games, especially if most of it….
• lichess.org
• Activity pub development and hosting
• ability to pay my bills online
• central platforms to buy goods and services that I want (clothing, furniture, car parts, etc) mostly eBay nowadays as I try not to support Amazon and had a terrible experience on Mercari
• ad free podcasts that like to listen to
• direct from manufacturer car……soon-ish

Andean Condors - multiple of them. I want them to fly me around. “Today we fly, my birds!” - in exchange, I will give them as much food as they would ever need.

There was this one time a few years back that I had to go to the dump to dispose of some various large material. Our dump is more of a transfer station with a big warehouse where everything is disposed of, compacted by giant bulldozers and then loaded onto other trucks to take to a nearby landfill in a separate county.

This particular visit it had been rainy for a few days, and I guess I must’ve gotten there right after the transfer trucks picked up all the refuse. Except for the floor, it was covered in a slippery stink-filled film. I carefully threw my truckload in, making sure that I didn’t fall, though I did slip a bit. It took some time to do so, so I came up with this little ditty. “Trash juice, trash juice, oh bring back my trash juice to me, to me!”

I did my work, shuffled my shoes and got into the car. Next stop was the grocery store. I’m fumbling around in the cheese aisle, and I guess I was still singing my song at a quiet mumble. Well, this old blue haired lady must’ve heard me. She turned around and recoiled “what are you singing!” In that way where it seemed like her whole life was built around cleanliness and my recitation was an affront to everything that she stood for.

Well, I got a good laugh out of that reaction, still do. Moral of the story is that singing to yourself does not necessarily negate other people thinking you’re a crazy person.

I got onto design there for a while. Sketchup Make is still free out there if you can find it. Blender is also an option.

Learning is another option. Khan Academy, MIT Open Courseware.

Brewing, taking care of plants, terrariums, puzzles, bonsai, yoga. All good stuff.

Came here to say this. I attend 1-2 times a month and mine has so far taught me about breathing exercises for meditation and the shadow self from Jung. Just a group of great people also searching for community.

I came in to comment Bosch as well, but it seems they’re already well represented here. That said >$1000 was a steep friggin price for a dishwasher, not sure I’d do it again.

I really like that you put a lot of thought into this. I did not, just wanted to be tongue in cheek about that third one since our dumbass is acting like the world is his playground.

Also, if this was a legit list, it should get some additional gender representation.

Just like our servers, as the gods intended:

• Spider-Man
• Venom
• Captain America
• Ragnarok
• Thanos
• Thor
• Black Panther
• Groot
• Dr. Strange

You just named them after your poops, didn’t you?