Shower Thoughts

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You could replace "car accident" with pretty much any non-smoking-related cause of death, but car accident is one of the most likely (in the USA) and sounded the weirdest when it occurred to me.

I picked up 24 oz "Green Tea" from the convenience store earlier. I forgot to check how sweet it was, 60g added sugars in the 706.8ml beverage. So this is like 8.5% sugar (g/ml). Obviously that's napkin math but this is showerthoughts, not theydidthemath

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Privacy ftw

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Basically instead of posting on the closed off counterparts, it definitely feels good to post something to a free, open and decentralized platform.

The FOSS community has done alot recently. I still hope Aaron's dream of a free and open internet will continue to flourish.

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Climate change is killing off coral reefs and destroying fish habitats, plastic pollution poisons, chokes and further kills off sea life, and then huge trawlers come in to scoop up whatever's left.

It's a three pronged attack on the ocean, and once it dies, we won't be far behind. Not just because of food, but because something like half of our breathable air comes from the ocean. It's also a huge carbon sink. Once it goes, climate change accelerates, and we choke and starve.

No fucking wonder the orcas are pissed.

Not sure this is the right place for this, but it was a legit shower thought, and I had to get it out of my system.

Is there a magazine/community for existential anxiety support or something? Preferably not one full of weird denialism?

Update: There wasn't, but now there is. @ClimateAnxietySupport

I need a quippy response to say it’s not that bad, I promise, google or click the link and scan it. Then let’s chat about what you think

The Fediverse isn't very big. Overall there's a few million users which is more people than I know, but as many people as a big city rather than as many people as a big country.

Despite not being very large, I can fairly easily hang out with people I'm cool with.

I mean, sometimes I'll see something that pisses me off, but I subscribe to people and communities I like, and I don't subscribe or unsubscribe to people and communities I don't like, and so even if someone I am cool with shares something I'm not cool with, I just keep scrolling.

There's a space for everyone. There's far left spaces, and there's far right spaces. There's religious spaces and atheist spaces. There's horny spaces and there's non horny spaces. There's authoritarian spaces and libertarian spaces.

Despite all those different types of people in all kinds of spaces, it seems like for the most other people get to see what they want to see too. Yeah, there's defederation I guess, but overall it seems like the people who want to see the fediverse as a left wing utopia can believe that it is, and the people who want to see the fediverse as a right wing utopia can believe that it is, and both can be right without getting into massive clashes daily (again, for the most part, and some people really want to get into clashes)

Facebook allegedly knows all kinds of stuff about you. It knows everything about your Facebook profile. It knows everything on your Instagram profile. It tracks where you live and where you walk and who you talk to and what you say.

Threads allegedly had 100 million people in the first few days, so there's way more people than on the fediverse. There's got to be at least as many posts on at least as many topics as the fediverse.

So when I see people complaining about threads being super far right or super far left, I'm sitting there puzzled. Why is Meta showing you posts you'll hate?

I mean, I'm pretty sure they intentionally trigger fights between people who disagree like the Jerry Springer Show, but it just seems really strange that they'd almost mathematically pick stuff that seemed to be meant to turn off people from the platform.

Maybe it's just a tremendous miscalculation somewhere?

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Shower Thoughts arent even created in the shower...

Or maybe TikTok itself

cuz it's not "the future" because the future is now.

It was my daughter who said it, in passing. My wife didn't catch it but I managed to... erm... fish it out, so to speak.
Anyway... they all stuck with "sticks". They seem like old-fashioned people over at the frozen fish sticks industry, very orthodox.

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I believe it would be beneficial to relocate most issue discussions from GitHub to lemmy.ml/c/feature_requests. This transition would not only enable developers to focus on critical tasks, but also foster increased user engagement and collaboration. By leveraging the voting system to sort comments, the most valuable ideas would naturally rise to the top, facilitating the identification of impactful contributions. While developers have expressed a preference for minimizing interactions on issue trackers[^1], GitHub activity remains consistently high. By shifting discussions to Lemmy, we can reserve the issue tracker for concise summaries of crucial information and effective problem-solving, ultimately enhancing the development process and improving the overall user experience.

[^1]: Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout

Especially since during the reddit migration I had been worried about these alternatives being a ghost town. I just wanted a reddit alternative with not much care which company ran it or who.

But, now after being away and using a platform run by regular people and finding that lower user counts has still led to nice content the appeal of instances involved with Meta is now gone. Now I find myself at odds with past me.