I use them as reactions on platforms that support it. Someone sends a PR and I react with eye emoji for looking at it, checkmark for done, or speech bubble for comments. It takes less space than a full text response. Especially in damned Teams that doesn’t have threads in chats, so you can’t even group your responses.

That’s pretty much it. I don’t use them as punctuation and rarely use them in an actual message

This matches my intuition. I extremely rarely do any city driving (I don’t even own a car anymore) but like… You’re not going to go that much faster. You’re probably not driving very far. The total amount of time can’t be that big.

“wearing all black doesn’t make you cool, but it probably doesn’t hurt and I think you’re kind of cool anyway” - no men:
https://no-men.bandcamp.com/track/w-a-b-d-m-y-c

The average transaction price for a new car now sits around $50,000.

I could ride a NYC subway or bus 16,666 times for that, assuming I never do more than 12 rides in a week to trip the “rest of the week is free” condition.

“Make cars cheaper” is a stupid solution that won’t scale well. Cars do tremendous damage to the environment and our society. But I expect everyone subscribed to “Fuck Cars” already knows that.

if he does, that’s pretty much ww3

So I don’t want to like die in nuclear fire but if a foreign power toppled the US government and tried+convicted all the Republicans of crimes against humanity, that doesn’t sound so bad.

prohibits gatherings of more than 20 people on open land where the music played consists wholly or predominantly of “a succession of repetitive beats”

This is a monstrous law and everyone involved in its passage should be barred from politics and positions with decision making power.

It enables unskilled people to punch above their weight class, similar to giving a chainsaw to a toddler.

I’ve used them a little for coding, but it’s not always correct. It’s often incorrect in subtle ways. Or inefficient in non obvious ways. It gets worse as you build more.

Often it’s better overall to do it yourself if you know what you’re doing. If you stick to letting the LLM do it, you won’t learn much.

I don’t think I’ve blocked anybody, but I mostly don’t read names. Sometimes I wonder if I’m having a metaphorical fist fight in one thread and a love fest in another with the same person.

It’s eclipsed (no pun intended) by the horrors of war, disease, and conservatism. It’s hard to be excited about the moon when there’s measles outbreaks and at least one genocide.

“too good to go”. Cheap food from places near the end of their business day. Like a whole pizza for $6.

Living someplace with usable mass transit is pretty nice.

Gas is too cheap relative to its real costs anyway.

Cool. I hope it succeeds.

If americans could learn we wouldn’t have a 2nd trump presidency. We’re on average stupider than bart with the cupcakes.

Centralized platforms have obvious and severe problems. Unfortunately, most people don’t care.

Coincidentally, I was taken as a plus-1 to a Broadway musical, “Ragtime”, this month. I normally don’t go out much for theater, but it was free so I went.

It wasn’t bad. The style of music isn’t my jam, but it had some fun parts.

Also interesting is the play’s message seems to be “the only way you’ll get something approaching justice is violence” and I’m not sure if that’s the author’s intent.

Technically yes, but it’s ancient and almost never used. Someone got me one of those toy NES things that’s plugged into it, but I don’t use it much

. I need to donate the tv (no one on free cycle offered to take it) or send it to an e-waste place. It’s very heavy so it mostly just sits there.

If I’d made 500k for a couple years I’d be happily retired at like 40. Buy a home for less than $1mm, then live off the interest and safe investments

Rich people are bad at money.

Posting this from the train. It’s pretty great.

Took the train to another part of the city. Walked around until I found a little bar with food. Saw a show. Now I’m taking the train back.

Probably because all the horrible shit trump does takes up all the space.

I affectionately call lemmy “the commie site”, but my current instance I think defederated with a lot of the spicier places.