alex [they, il] @ alex @jlai.lu

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re: the first one

Kind and nice are not the same thing. Kind means you're assuming good intent and you're trying to benefit the other person - maybe by educating them or changing their mind. You're not just yelling at them.

re: the third

I'd argue that shitposting is very much necessary because it makes me happy, but that's a stretch haha

Fellow French - wait until you realize their unions only apply to one company and not a whole industry so they can't actually do anything on a large scale. This broke me.

Well, less than 10 years ago, Fort Lauderdale wanted to be the US capital of trans tourists, so maybe not that long.

Their EU compensation is excellent. Nearly as good as FAANG.

In an European context:

• Food, shelter and water.
• Identity papers.
• Access to the Internet for essential administrative proceedings, since it's all getting digitalized really fast. If possible a smartphone with wifi access and access to a way of charging it, if not and in an urban area, public library access.

You may survive without it but it's nice to have a (digitized) proof that you're allowed to be wherever your shelter is, and to be able to renew your ID.

It's a Lemmarr now!

You can translate selected text!

You can still come back!

I feel like if I were to wear this I'd look like an Elvis impersonator

I think so too and made an issue which I hope will get fixed someday!

I'm talking about WordPress :)

Last time I tried to @ a Lemmy community it didn't work at all unfortunately.

I never played it and feel "too old to start" now. But a few of my friends (all girls!) did!

For horror, if you haven't done so already, you can read some Stephen King - The Shining, It, etc. are classics. Carrie is very short and I really like it. The Long Walk is my favourite, with Battle Royale vibes.

I find him pretty easy to read and he's definitely a master of his craft. I think you're incredibly lucky that you can discover these masterpieces as an adult without previous influence!

Thanks for the detailed test! I thought it would be an option for people who already opted in and not just having the book on their to-read :(

I really don't think they're bad or even worse than the rest. I do feel like they're so different from the other books that whether someone liked them or not doesn't tell them if they'll like the rest, which is the only reason I don't recommend it as a taster before deciding on whether to read the other 30+ tomes.

I believe The Storygraph is working on creating something relatively similar on the longer term. Currently they have « buddy reads » - I've never used them but from what I understand you can sign up for a buddy read on a book and get matched with someone else?

you're right!

I have it and love it! But I still get ads when watching on my phone so I need to juggle between the vanilla client (for casting) and NewPipe (for watching) and wish I could just have one app for both.

about time, this whole shitshow felt like it lasted forever.