It really was. Great nostalgic vibes with the modern blend of garbage YouTube level comments. This will make its rounds in my group

Agreed, I love coming here to contribute now that I can't comment or upvote on Reddit. This platform will eventually be considered Reddits successor.

Do you think the stress has made him eat more or less? I bet that he's been fluctuating the last couple months, I feel like the unde might be the way to go

Mostly you and me making noise here right now lol but as long as we keep content fresh for when season hits the community could pop

Thank you very much for the very easy to digest explanation of his multiple investigations. We are living through an absolutely insane time

I'd like to at least have all the breaking news pieces here so we can comment on them. I'm trying to post as I see them come out. When season starts I figure we'll get a few more members and get some more discourse.

Hard to tell if he's winning or losing. If he's being incentivized to destroy the integrity of a mainstream information-sharing platform, he's done well. If he in any way wanted to run the company, he's done laughably bad. I guess time will tell

They did! Spielberg is so committed to his craft that he went to Tom Hanks hometown and asked all the locals if they'd like a chance at being as famous as Tom. So many signed up without reading their contract, which stated that there was live ammunition being used on set. Vin Diesel was actually supposed to die, but a machine gun jammed and the ensuing awkward conversation with the director led to Vin getting a feature role in exchange for his silence about Spielberg's method directing. He parlayed that little incident into a ten film series about cars or some dumb shit.

To think that if Steven Spielberg had done his goddam job we could've all been saved from watching the Chronicles of Riddick! Crazy times.

In the real world, evil must be met with appropriate force. Not every "right" action is covered in flowers and rainbows, sometimes you have to do hard, unlikeable things because otherwise people trying to change the world for the worse will succeed. You can't give fascists a slap on the wrist.

You think Snyder will insert The Office memes into it or Dat Boi? You know he's gotta have a couple jokes

This man is going to be a DAWG this year. Perine is gone, no meaningful backups were signed. Mixon is gonna get hella work.

Doesn't communism do the same? In fact why the fuck do the crazy psychos rise to the top seemingly everywhere? Is this one of those "nice guys finish last" kinda deals or some phenomenon I've never heard of?

This is so cool, I'm so uninformed about Plex. I just heard about it on r/Piracy days before the Reddit shutdown. I'm getting ready to sit down and learn how to do all that, the hardware will baffle me I'm sure.

They captured a rare moment when he was listening to Taylor Swift and caught a whiff of someone smoking DMT nearby.

Full size in Connect on Android for me

While you are correct that suffering is a better metric, there would be many in our society that would gravitate towards higher rated suffering items in the same way they want real fur coats and real leather in their Ferraris. That would backfire quickly.

Lovie Smith isn't here to take our Kool-Aid away after four games, we should have plenty this year

That's the thing about beans, there's always more...

He was pretty damn good for the Bills, I think he'll be one of our more underrated signings. Man I'm stoked for this season, with signing Jimmy Ward and Denzel Perryman on defense and Devin Singletary and Dalton Shultz on offense, along with our current draft and improvements from last year's draft, we're gonna make a run for this division.

Yeah that's crazy, I was furious when they fired Victoria back in the day. It's nice to see that Alexis Ohanian is the one who deserves the blame for that massive fuckup. Man that gives me a pang of nostalgia for the old days of reddit though. Interesting that the Wiki article points to Obama's presidency and the 08 financial collapse as a "glass cliff" event.

I'm about to play the Bioshock trilogy for the first time in over a decade. Never played 2 and 3, only got about halfway through 1 when it came out. I'm also about 75% through Super Metroid, which I never beat as a kid. I know that's outside of the 1-2 year window, but I love older games. Scored the Bioshock trilogy for like 15 bucks too, can't beat that.

Wow, that shit is crazy. I read the article posted, and the one within the this article that portrays the decision in a more neutral light. Still very disturbing, this force should not have the ability to arrest citizens after completing a two week training course for a weekend gig.

Desantis notes that Florida has one of the worst National Guard presences in the USA, and this force is to supplement that deficiency. He still doesn't provide any reasonable justification as to why they should be able to arrest citizens, as opposed to just providing relief for natural disasters.

Dems really need to show up in FL in 2024

That's a thought exercise I first explored when I was tripping on LSD one time. Once you accept that colors could look entirely different, what's to stop us from imagining that the entire makeup of our perception is adjusted to the individual, but the chaos of the universe keeps all of our unique perceptions in enough alignment that we can interact seamlessly with one another. The concept of an "alien green man" could be what someone actually sees the whole human species as, and the words "alien green man" just fit a different description to that individual, so when refrenced, that person envisions an alien being as foreign as the "alien green man" is to us, and can communicate with others on that concept.

Perception defines your experience

So this is gonna be the post that makes me ask, "how do we save posted images through Connect?"

I was hoping it'd be something a little more dignified but I need what I need.

Which is why different animals perceive color in different ways. I'd have to look for it but I think it's tigers that see green in a totally different way than people do.

I just finished the Behind the Bastards podcast on Vagrancy. the destruction of the third place and destroying the ability to be anywhere for free without being hassled by the law has changed a part of America that was great. The freedom to exist is becoming elusive. The freedom to find common space with like minded people, that's becoming hard to find too. I hope this place helps.

So I was wondering what this meant as far as additional responsibilities that Nick is taking on with this role, and I found this article: https://www.executive-vp.com/executive-vp-of-football-operations/

Seems like he will be responsible for cohesion between coaches and front office staff and players, spending time with all to make sure things run smoothly. He's responsible for making sure players are obeying rules and not getting suspended, and are healed fully before returning from injury. He's more involved in the financial side of operations. All thing that I feel he kind of did anyways, but now has the title and probably pay increase for it.

Side note: remember earlier this year when people thought Nick might get fired? I, for one, never believed it, but this move seems to even further cement his status within the organization.

You're helping! I was nowhere near as much of a contributor on Reddit as I have been on Lemmy these past few days. Users like you and me will help build this place into something hopefully even more special than Reddit was.

I really liked Wefwef, it led me to finding Connect, which I like even more. Excited for Sync too, it'll just get easier and easier to help build this community

As a Floridian beach/park goer who is totally fed up with DeSantis' bullshit, I gotta say nothing gives me more satisfaction than to vote Democrat every election. Marching and protesting will do little to nothing here, we have to quash this fascism with our votes. Desantis hit poor black voters with felonies over fraudulent voter fraud charges (the charges brought had no merit) so I have no doubt he would mobilize police forces to give out felonies to any and all Dem voters that march or protest. I'm gonna rip this cancer out from the inside.

Absolutely, I'm way more actively engaged on Lemmy than I was in the recent past on Reddit. I feel like the community isn't too flooded yet, and conversation can be more easily seen. I'm very excited for the future here.

I'm pretty "stupid" as well when it comes to online literacy, it's definitely challenging me to use Lemmy (I'm on Jerboa right now, gonna try some other apps like Wefwef and Sync when it comes out to see how I like them) but I really like the community and the potential here. I'm gonna have to learn how to do a lot of new things here, like figure out the extent of where my log in works, how to organize the instances I want to go to and be a part of, and how to search through this content. But I'd rather get on the ball now so I can fully integrate and leave Reddit behind. It already felt like a cesspool before Spez did his thing, and it's getting worse by the minute now that the 3rd party apps are down