I upvote things I like. I downvote things by accident, because my back gesture is similar to Lemmy’s downvote gesture.

I obviously also downvote people who are being annoying.

Weed.

My four year old son cannot game get, but he’ll ask to put that on and he just honks at people. He also likes to be the hat in that Mario game with the hat, can’t remember the name. I Mario, he hats.

Only branch to pass financial audits. So competent, and obviously mission capable. I know folks like to do the whole crayons thing, but it just demonstrates an obvious lack of understanding.

It’s cold today, for New Jersey. It just works out that electric costs way more than the radiators, and they just work really well. I’ll use the mini splits if it’s maybe 50 out, and I’m just looking for a burst of heat, but for continued use, which we have been lately in Jersey, the radiators have been the way to go for my bills.

My steam boiler (nat gas) costs significantly less to heat my house than my heat pumps. I wish it wasn’t true, although I do much prefer radiators to the air regardless.

Marines hit retention goals already. Typical Marine Corps being the most capable and competent branch.

I’m a soldat!

Crazy, but it’s almost like parenting can make the environment safer!

Lemmy likes to portray Roblox the same way the 10pm news portrayed the Internet when I was in my preteens and teen years, like it was the wild west, everyone was a predator, etc. I let my kids hop on. Their friends include me, their mom (who has an account for some reason), each other, and the kids who live across the street. They like to play the platformers, and they invite me sometimes and we play them.

They’ll get older and they’ll go explore the internet the same way I did. I spent my adolescence and teen years eventually in AIM chat rooms, then forums, and thn Skyping random people, and somehow didn’t become a terrorist, didn’t get predated. I also am of the school of thought that you need to learn things on your own, rather than have no exposure to things that could potentially be bad.

What about if you live in the real world? If I fell asleep for three months I’d wake up ten grand poorer. It’s great that you can completely uproot yourself for three months and then comeback and restart life and somehow save money, but that is so incredibly unrealistic. My bills don’t stop because I took a cheap trip to Brazil.

I also am part of the “I downloaded jerboa first and it’s good enough” crew.

Yeah. And it’s a give and take for sure, because it being dead isn’t great either, but there’s definitely sometimes too many dicks on the dancefloor.

I think we can and do have normal things. I feel like exposure to mass media brings problems right to your door, and it just isn’t how it is. At the same time, there is a bit of responsibility that falls on your (my) shoulders to be involved. I certainly won’t stand by while some bullshit is going down especially bullshit that my kids are exposed to. I will let kids be kids, but I won’t let them be poisoned with negative, fearful nonsense.

And so yeah, my response to much of the crippling depression that’s blasted at us over the past 10 years has been to stick my head in the sand. And people here will chastise me for this, but I refuse to take on global problems when I’ve got things right here that need my attention. I know this isn’t exactly what we’re talking about, but I come to Lemmy to philosophize.

Yeah, I’m from Jersey, and similar to you it was just a thing for boys to do. There was no homophobia, we accepted from the weird kid to the sporty kid, and eveyone in between, and sometimes there were cliques and sometimes we whittled soap. We went camping sometimes. There was fire, yeah, that seems to be ubiquitous among the boy scouts.

I stopped when I got bored. There were no scandals.

Except vote systems are abused to hell. Dissenting opinions are down voted into oblivion and we end up with the echo chamber.

I spent a lot of time on the ebaumsworld forums in the early 2000s, and it was your classic shitshow. Not a huge amount of traffic, though, so you could have conversations, but you’d leave, and come back the next day, and sometimes you’d have pages of nonsense to read through.

Then, they introduced rep, and it was such a shitshow. Users conspired together to abuse it, because that’s how it goes, except now, instead of late night Skype sessions, it’s bots, and marketing, and PR.

I guess the problem was and always is, when there’s too many people, it ruins things.

The most recent boys season was a difficult watch, but the last episode was phenomenal and so I’m a sucker and will continue watching.

Hey, the trillion dollar company is trying their hardest, give them a break!

The US has given twice the aid as the entirety of the European Union.

Same. I’m definitely guilty of glossing over community names, but fortunately saw that community the one time it took to block.