JohnnyEnzyme @ JohnnyEnzyme @lemm.ee

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Everyone's favorite show from the 90s

I dunno, man.. I remember the Newsradio cast a bit differently.

Still does!

But it's no doubt better to follow the places that @Crul@lemm.ee posted.

In my case I found that creating a community that was missing here, then regularly populating it with content, has worked wonders. That it was not just a good way to get myself engaged here, as well as to grow the Fediverse, but to attract users from Reddit and other places given a bit of cross-posting.

Seriously, I'm not sure how many people understand that right now, given that new content is generated relatively slowly across the FV, that any new community putting quality stuff out there is going to get a hugely* larger proportion of eyes on it. That's compared to similar communities on Reddit, FB, etc, in which smaller / newer communities tend to get completely drowned out in the ALL streams.

My own niche community (Euro graphic novels) already has 350+ subscribers in less than 90 days. Even for Reddit that's a nice jump-start and growth. Which is why I urge people to jump on this opportunity now, because eventually it's probably going to dry up.

Indeed, maybe it would be good to get this message out to people on Reddit, FB, etc who always wanted to start a sub/community, but the opportunities were 'all filled up' already.

I've believe I've seen something like that stated before, but we're talking zero* mastodon content showing up in ALL. Which happens to be the same instance as yours, btw, with Lemm.ee being the third largest instance in the Lemmysphere. You'd expect at least a little mastodon content showing up, but there's just nothing.

So far the two resources just don't seem to be mixing, so perhaps what the other person was saying is correct. Right now in order to search mastodon, I'm using this tool.

you can go to /instances to see a list of other connected and blocked instances.

I just did, and noticed a bunch of supposedly-federated mastodon instances, but in reality I've never seen them in my 'all' stream.

Are they not supposed to show up there?

There's also the 'Ask Historians' analysis, which posits that there were at least three major ideas about how to handle a nuclear bombing entertained between the principles deciding.

While it's tempting to look at the situation in retrospect and agree with the report that 'yes obviously there wasn't a need to bomb to elicit a surrender' that nevertheless doesn't mean that the majority of the deciders were fully on board with that understanding & approach, unlike Ike.

Without doing a deep dive, the AH approach makes about the most sense to me and seems consistent with history, in which there was a level of uncertainty and multiple players & arguments going in to the final decision.

Btw, that first link barely mentions the matter, and the second link is far too subjective to be of much use, far as I can tell.

Weren't the nukes also dropped because Japan's highest-level commanders were dead-set on fighting more or less to the end, which would have caused horrific loss of life on both sides?

Also, I don't remember reading this theory, but I would guess some of those commanders also felt like something 'magical' might happen to save the motherland, hearkening back to Kame Kaze's taifuns that saved Nippon from Mongol invasion on two occasions, centuries earlier.

@davel@lemmy.ml

I don’t think I’ve seen a single Heathcliff without Heathcliff comic where Heathcliff would’ve added anything

Oh, I've definitely seen a few. Usually they involve Heathcliff occupying the center and/or another character addressing the spot where he's standing. Something is clearly missing in those.

Honestly I think OP has gotten way more mileage out of these strips than I ever thought possible. Sometimes they're sharp improvements, sometimes they're just sort of neutral, and sometimes they're worse, but regardless, they make us ponder the strip and maybe the very nature of comics.

My doctorate is in cognitive psychology, not nutrition science :)

Oh, hey! Is that still a thing? I.e. the 'Penn School approach?' Bahh... I have my local pride, after all, yet still... Cheesesteaks! :D

The thing that tastes “creamy” is the saturated fat

Interesting, Dr Cog, but isn't it also possible that it's more than just sat fat at work?For example-- let's say we placed three equal mixtures of sat fat side-by-side, each symbolically representing peanuts, cashews, and 'brand X.'

Now, via the mixture application of esters, aromatic compounds, and whatever else, would it not be possible to mix up one candidate as 'creamier' than the other? And if so, then wouldn't that tend to suggest that sat fat wasn't the only player in the 'creaminess equation?'

NOTE: Not trying to be argumentative or assholery, here. I appreciate the knowledge you brought, but I want to understand better as a cook with as much science aid as possible.

Hello again.

When I was in one of my pizza-making phases a few years back, I bought some cashews, roasted and ground them in to butter, and got everything else ready. One taste of the cashew butter and the plans were quickly scuttled, with me having a load of calories to work off in the following weeks. Never did find out about the melting. >_<

Peanuts taste creamier than other nuts

I think cashews might just take that award.

In this case, a major improvement over the original.

Gallagher's completely beaten that visual & sequence in to the ground, but the 'voodoo trashcan' is a lot more interesting, plus it even has an accidental Halloween theme.

similar with 'the it crowd' - co-stars an irish actor and is written by graham linehan

quite a funny show, in which you'll learn nothing more about IT other then turning a computer off and then on again to solve 99.9% of problems

Well, ten days later and none of the images were restored, no LW staff ever responded further to either of us, and no new information came along to explain the clusterfluff.

Compare that to the speedy, excellent responses and service of my own instance staff, and there's just no way I could honestly recommend LW. Indeed, nothing has changed to indicate that any other user here might not randomly get temp-banned and their uploads wiped.

FYI-- your refrain of 'let's not jump to any rash conclusions' was in the end useless, and even detrimental, since patience availed us nothing, and we're still trying to clean up the mess over on our sub/community.

The dictionary dikshunary

Do they have those at the lie-berry?

These are good points and good techniques IMO, and to add on--

Humans have always been drowning in the unknown, hence our chronic set of coping mechanisms, but on top of that, in this high-tech information civilisation we currently live in, now we're drowning in information, as well. Which leads to some big problems, of course.

As in-- it takes considerable effort, honesty and openness to form a decent perspective on most subjects these days, particularly significant ones, and because of that hurdle, I fear that most people (you, I, everyone) are inclined to 'settle' for flawed understandings of topics, even with best intentions. Or at worst, some of us form whatever ludicrous opinions simply because it makes us feel better / at peace / self-righteous.

Point is-- it seems like the world just has way too much information for people to handle these days, effectively worsening our collective mental health and communal behavior, one might say.

@CobblerScholar@lemmy.world

I haven’t used Lemmy in a month because this site is more transphobic than Reddit.

Well that's very disappointing if true. Could you give an example?

Btw, just to be clear-- Lemmy isn't "one site," so you're likely to get a wide range of reactions depending on issue/cause where you happen to be (communities, instances).

It's the specific direction the current creator started going in over a decade ago. He took over from his uncle and gradually made it much less of a 'standard funny animal' strip, and much more of a gonzo, absurdist creation.

That said, I think he's been kind of stuck in a rut the past few years.