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That sounds like it could help people out. I imagine sometimes you might not know you need to talk to someone unless somebody brings to the idea.

That reminds me that I remember different companies that do gifts (I think I got emails from ProFlowers, for instance) that they send emails a month or so out from holidays like Mother's/Father's Day to click anything on the email so you don't get those promos.

I wish everyone could do the same. The dang veterinarian that we used years ago kept sending me annual checkups for years after they had to put a few of my pets down. That always really bummed me out, and that's not a person...

We also got the Nestle baby formula sample thing in the mail after my ex's miscarriage. That one was not very appreciated either.

I feel I got on a tangent, but once I started replying I got reminded of less sensitive companies...

I actually saw a post to our town's community page last night that the big local funeral home holds a once a month meeting in different topics to help people discuss these matters.

The coming event is a tour of the crematory where you can see the equipment, what can be done with the cremains, and a Q and A to determine if that is something you'd want for yourself.

A previous one was green burials, which I'm really bummed that I missed!

One person commented it was morbid, but the two from the funeral home said the last crematory tour had around 100 show up.

If you search "death conversations" or "death cafe" near you, you may be able to find something similar.

In Stephenson's "Diamond Age" novel, even the super poor had basic access to in-home replicators. They were limited to pretty basic items, but they were available.

With everyone having access to basic goods, the rich people would go to villages of artisans that would hand make items to get unique, one of a kind things, as most crafts were now basically lost skills to most of society.

Throughout the story, the tech is explored and eventually hacked to upend society by removing limits on what can be generated by the replicator.

As far as I know, Belka and Strelka got to live nice lives afterwards as celebrated space pups. I'd think they'd have gotten far more radiation up in space than Pushinka would have gotten from a couple exams, so I'd think she was fine. The wiki page says at least up to 2015, her descendants were still around being good puppos.

We had a great time there.

I scrolled through my pics quick looking what other whacky stuff there was and the best I got is:

Satellite Drop / Ariel Recovery Film Container

Fake Nutsack Radio 😆

Since the story of The Great Seal has already been shared in the article and the comments here, I just recently read a book on the Soviet space dogs.

Strelka's puppy, Pushinka, was given to Caroline Kennedy, but only after a thoughrough exam!

Pushinka (Russian: Пушинка, lit. 'Fluffy') was a dog given by the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, who had travelled into space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2.

Pushinka arrived at the Kennedy White House after Jacqueline Kennedy had spoken to Khrushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna. Mrs. Kennedy asked about Strelka's puppies, and one was subsequently sent by Khrushchev to the White House. Pushinka was examined by the Central Intelligence Agency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center over fears that she might be concealing an implanted listening device. Pushinka was x-rayed, screened with a magnetometer, and inspected by sonogram. She was found to be free of subversive devices.

The White House electrician and kennel manager, Traphes Bryant, trained Pushinka with peanuts to climb up a ladder to Caroline Kennedy's playhouse and slide down the other side.

Came to share this too, as it was one of my favorite things from the museum. Their website says it's a replica though.

Much better than the scowling Apprentice promo looking portrait that is his official one.

I do look to have made it to your feed now! It deleted my 3 posts that were photos with short blurbs and kept my news article that is mostly text.

We rarely get the meme type posts, but if your setup is looking at anything like text:photo ratio, that could be doing it.

I have most meme communities block myself, so I understand how overtaking they can be to a feed. 😁

I'm interested in what you're doing because I am interested in news and politics, but it would be nice to get rid of most of the garbage US news and the dupe posts, and let a better variety of news come in. I've gone to keyword blocking, but while I have "Trump" blocked, I'd still like to see things from other countries about their responses to his actions., for example.

Lol she was very secretive!

She had a husband supposedly, but she never really talked about him other than saying he existed. She came over for the paprikash dinner, but he did not. She supposedly came to America as a child. Her and some others were supposed to be here for some sports tournament thing, but whoever had the money in Romania stole it ,so they were stuck here and most of them just stayed.

We joked in the office she was in some weird kind of mafia situation, and then one day we never saw her again. Her whole situation was mysterious and fascinating from start to finish.

There are worse spirits I could have encountered and a hungry Romanian one! 😆

I had never made crepes until I met a Romanian at work and once she found out I cooked, she encouraged me to make her some things to remind her of home.

We had clatite first, with nutella and preserves. Now I usually think of crepes as clatite since that was what I got familiar with first. 😄

We also had Parprikash with mamaliga, and my favorite of the bunch, cozonac! I made 2, one with the nut filling, and I want to say the other was poppy. The nut one I have made a few times since. So tasty, and the rum flavoring makes it so unique!

She just randomly disappeared on day, so I don't know if she quit or what, but I will always have fond memories of my bried education on Romanian food!

a Dutch child? 😆

Dutch baby should be more popular. So good!

I used it for about 10 years. I didn't notice any difference in my clothes or machine.

Fiance is fussy and wants Tide, so she pays for it.

I was curious what would happen to the ratio of political posts, specifically Trump/Elon, to other communities, but it feels >= the amount as All on lemmy.world.

None of my superb owls look to have made it through, but I didn't see them removed in the mod log. We're a pretty large community, so I'd have thought some would have gotten through. I don't recall if I saw stuff from any of the animal comms.

Came here looking for this!

I'm glad that was helpful!

It looked great and I really wanted to stick with the dev on it once they originally announced they were going to make a Lemmy version, but even after a couple months going between it and some other apps, while it looked much the same as Boost for Reddit, it just didn't feel the same.

Boost still looked nice, but the posting UI was terrible for me. I couldn't figure out how to do half the things I wanted to do, and since I became a regular poster using a ton of media and formatting, it was just a no-go.

The dev has done a lot to help with my specific use cases, and I haven't started since. I gave everything a look around the end of the year to make sure I wasn't missing out on anything, but at this point I don't feel I'm missing a thing from the experience.

I like the apps are all independent in that we can try one or all and hop between them at will without losing anything.

I agree, they definitely have to be passionate about it, and I feel it really shows. Truly shocked it never seems as popular as some others. I've given a number of bug reports and feedback/suggestions and they've all been addressed shockingly quick, and it's fun to think this or that bit is there just because I agreed nicely. 😇

I've test driven a majority of the apps at this point, and I think the variety of apps we have to choose from is impressive. They all feel pretty different too, so everyone should be able to find what works for them.

I think it was Connect I kept installed longest other than Summit and the discontinued Liftoff. I was a huge Boost fan on Reddit, but never jelled with the Lenny implementation.