Yes! I struggle to motivate myself to stick with hobbies. I love photography, making art, writing - but often the motivation is just lacking. But cooking? I’m biologically motivated to cook (most days) so it’s easy to keep up with. All I have to do is save recipes and plan ahead just a little

Every year I get a little bit happier to live in a major metro area in Indiana so that I dodge the majority experience of the state.

But man it still doesn’t help me feel better about my state. I wish rural Hoosiers would wake up and realize they could have it better

Then we just need to put ice cubes in the ocean. Plus that would help us cool the earth down

You lost a remnant of someone you cared about, so it makes sense even though it was bad for you in the long run

Reminds me of my local Rally’s switching to an “automated drive thru assistant.” The jank thing doesn’t even respond when you talk to it, just reminds you every 60 seconds that it’s ready when you are. First time I went I drove off. Went a second time thinking it might have been a fluke and I’d get actual human service. Nope. Guess I’ll be finding a new burger place for my hangovers

I can’t fathom having all these unique experiences, all these stories and love letters to genres and cultures getting lost in the vortex of time.

Something something lost like tears in the rain. (Blade Runner)

Just know that every generation before you and every generation after feels the same about their culture/experiences. C’est la vie

Humanity’s existed for hundreds of thousands of years without any kind of permanent medium, and we still do. It’s only in the very recent history of extreme archival that we’ve come to think that information should last forever.

Houses, cities, peoples, cultures, public works, countries, knowledge, technologies, languages - all that we are is ephemeral, and we’ll continue on

witty commentary on current issues

Am I the only one who doesn’t enjoy the twitter-takes? Don’t get me wrong, I actually agree with most of the takes. It’s just that it all feels like they’re trying to one-up each other with the cleverest gotcha and it makes me roll my eyes. Maybe I’m just not the target audience for a twitter/mastodon style community

I’d just log off lol

How about you use the most basic social etiquette available and be at least not a total asshole.

And how about I take this chance to remind everyone that we can all block the users we don’t want to interact with. And that maintaining a block list is a great way to ensure a decent online experience

Yeah after getting used to the not-totally-assholes community of lemmy I’m not going back to reddit. The community there kinda sucks

Using Connect too, surprised I don’t hear more about it. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty solid

I would imagine it working just like on reddit and lemmy, where it can originally be claimed by the original poster or anyone who wants it. It’s obviously not an ideal solution, but it’s worked well enough historically. Maybe someone else would have a better idea