I’m convinced that some USB plugs rotate through a fourth spatial dimension.

My dog is better at following basic commands, and she’s old, deaf, and dumb as a box of hammers.

I unplugged my Alexa speaker last week because I needed the outlet for something else and haven’t plugged it back in. Never use the thing. I have a Google home mini that I really only keep around because I enjoy being able to turn my window AC on by saying “reroute power to life support”.

I feel like if you’re subbed to a meme community you ought to know what you’re in for. Memes are typically low effort both to make and to consume, which means there will be more of them created and upvoted in the same period of time as other posts. They will ALWAYS overwhelm other content. This is why many sufficiently large communities either split and create meme-only spaces contain them or limit them to specific days of the week.

On reddit I had a separate account for meme subs, because otherwise it was all I saw in my feed.

Also definitely want to avoid the letters page in old Marvel comics.

I can only speak from personal experience, but I feel much the same way you do. However, novelty still does it for me. And I think that’s the explanation for the gradual drop-off. When you’re young, everything is new. By the time you’re older, you’ve seen it all, and so those little spikes of novelty are few and far between.

Wow, that is a lot of… stuff I don’t understand. Very cool though. Neat to have it all in one place.

Right? Like I get it, but it’s a bit much, you guys.

This is really cool, if it works. Anyone try it out yet?

Murder falls under intolerance. Religion can exist without being intolerant, but often doesn’t. The smell test really is pretty simple: if you’re not actively hurting someone besides yourself, you should be tolerated. Along with that, we decide that intolerance for other reasons (ie, because of a person’s genetic makeup or mode of expression) is itself harmful.

Now we can find tune and dicker about where that line of injury is, and of course there are special cases where the alleged hurt is spread around and it’s hard to decide how to adjudicate that, but that’s what the law and all its apparatus is for, after all.

Keep an eye on this site when Thursday rolls around.

Why does it bother you?

This may be a basic film-bro™ answer, but Oldboy is a good baseline for “kinda fucked up” but also “really really good”. It’s even better on the second viewing, and I even recommend watching Spike Lee’s misguided remake, because it makes you seriously appreciate the artistry behind what Park Chan-Wook was doing.

Unsubscribing to dank memes would be a good start.

Mūns, if anyone asks for clarification.

Well I mean if you’re expanding the argument to things as well, then yeah, it becomes rather unwieldy. But if you constrain it to intolerance for people, then it remains rather simple.

If it was a bootstrap paradox situation, where everything that happened happened, then you’d start to get some serious temporal feedback loops, like some mics too close to a bunch of speakers.

The instances that are federated with one another I believe are publicly listed, somewhere. From there it would be fairly straightforward to create a tool that tells you whether your instance is “compatible” with the one you’re interacting with.

Anyone good at coding? Sounds like a project. Make one and add it to the list that I’m sure is also out there somewhere. If there are such useful things, they should be added to all the sidebars and made common knowledge.

moons

Short for 'munities.

They orbit the central world of the instance.

I assume this is a multiverse situation, and at the end of the party they go back into their normal timelines, only with the experience of that gathering now with them.

No changing the past for yourself, but maybe changing the course of all of theirs based on how they react. With that in mind, I can’t think of a single thing I’d say that would help any of them, except maybe:

“Let’s all work on figuring out how this happened, because this rather breaks the universe, doesn’t it?”