cilantro would also be good in that soup

Agreed! Unfortunately for me, we forgot to get it out of the fridge when the soup was ready.

Cilantro in general is tough. It comes in large enough bundles from the store that we really struggle to use it all before it goes bad.

True. Dishwasher is one thing, but IDK that I’d be able to swap out any parts on my coffee maker or immersion blender.

manufacturers actively making products harder to repair.

Possible counterexample: My dishwasher. The drain pump is super easy to replace – unplug it, disconnect the hoses, and pop it off the little metal piece that supports its weight. It takes longer to bail out the water in the pan and wiggle it out from under the counter than it does to replace the faulty pump.

(At the same time, it’s a pretty crap model. We’ve had to replace that drain pump 3 times since 2019)

It’s just one of reddit’s autogenerated usernames. It looks like another post in this thread talks a bit about it.

I played it. Beautiful game. Terrifying.

I didn’t think I had thalassophobia until Subnautica.

What did you think of Torchlight? I’m a bit surprised it didn’t make your list.

…well, then again, I haven’t played anything you listed, so I can’t compare.

Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I’m not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.

For a different direction on this – I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I’m not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder

VENT! Ha, I remember using that back in the Counterstrike days.

I’m supposed to say ‘fun times’, but I sucked at Counterstrike. Not actually that much fun for me.

Go to a zoo and insult the monkeys?

focused on radio

And there, you’d be looking at 1901 for the first trans-Atlantic signal.

But then again, a general passenger couldn’t use the plane’s radio on a whim back in – oh, 2003 (first airplane wifi came about in 2004 apparently). There are some layers to this thought.

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Are they seeing a payoff or just not admitting defeat (yet)?

dude who ended up as a soldier in a war while technically still participating in a marathon

Do you recall anything else about that guy? I just tried to look it up, and all I got was articles about Hiroo Onoda

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Yeah, I get that, like blocking should be an extreme step?

But for me it’s kind of a defensive measure. I feel political-flooded basically all the time online. There’s no respite, so I have to carve out what sanity I can.

Well, I block posters and communities pretty quickly when I see politics. I already feel like I have to add to that list way too much. Worse would be “I can’t even click Next without needing to block another one”.

I have mixed feelings.

On one hand, agreed @ wanting more variety in communities.

OTOH, Lemmy already has too much fucking politics. I don’t want whatever’s infecting reddit to become even MORE prevalent here. shudder

I’m creeped out by spiders, and I still recommend it. It’s just that good.

Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They’re absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your “third way” comment was misguided.

But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What’s taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It’s funny in sort of a sad way.

Like Lemmy? The site we’re all using?

Cute. Except Lemmy hasn’t helped me solve any programming problems. StackOverflow has.

And I think you missed my point, so I’ll restate it: If this theoretical middle-ground moderation were actually viable, it would have eaten StackOverflow’s lunch like a decade ago. People were SALTY about SO’s hostility even before the “summer of love” campaign in 2012.