What’s the saying?

“What do you call someone who got all D’s in med school?”

Doctor. You call them “Doctor”

Definitely different experiences, but yeah, agree. Generally, I only like to listen to the audiobook after I’ve read it (unless there’s no other option). It’s difficult for me to not miss important plot points when I’m listening to it, but that’s probably just my ADHD.

No, actually, it was for the Ladybird community. But I’m also memeing about the blue Sonic, so any similarities of completely coincidental. If you’re a mod in one of those wholesome communities and both of you agreed, I stand by my tacit approval.

However, there is this: https://lemmy.zip/post/40774562

The pinned post in your Fedigrow community (also pinned in the older lemm.ee one) is literally pushing people to look for communities to consolidate and nag the mods about it. That’s where my annoyance with blue Sonic is coming from. Just going around trying to “fix” things that aren’t broken.

The bag dissolved and spilled gasoline all over the pavement before they could even lift it into the trunk of their car.

If you do, post it!

Not against mergers per se, no . I even said so in the post. Though I’m not necessarily happy about it.

TL;DR of my life is I’ve been screwed by M&A’s way too many times, and it’s never made things better. lol

Okay, but if that community didn’t merge in the first place - the likelihood would be that it wouldn’t even explode in activity for that to even happen as the audience would be split between multiples.

Bigger isn’t always better. I stand by that.

You see bug, I see feature.

I like having options. Meme community gets too political? Just block it and use another.

On the flip side, if a niche topic community merges with another and turns to crap (for any number of reasons), then there’s nowhere else to go unless I start my own. And if it moves to an instance I’ve blocked? Well, I’m just gonna have to go without it because I blocked that instance for a reason.

It all ends up in the same feed whether it’s a 1 active user community or a million active user community. 🤷‍♂️

As an example, there’s multiple Star Trek meme communities. I just switch back and forth and post to both (unique content to each).

Oh, yeah, that’s true. I think it cuts you off somewhere below the pre-auth amount (whatever that dollar amount translates to in gallons). Didn’t even think of that, but yeah.

That one’s sadly true. I saw it firsthand in my neck of the woods. Also garbage bags. Same result either way.

I can’t speak for this one, but I have seen it before.

What leads me to believe it might be faked is if the cashier knew and was calling the police (as stated in the video), they can and should have hit the emergency stop for that pump; same thing they have to do if there’s a fuel leak from one of them.

COVID brought the dumbest of us out of the woodworks.

People filling garbage bags and grocery bags full of gasoline was not (just) a meme. I saw it firsthand.

SNACO?

He could just be on vacation? Someone just pointed out earlier today he hasn’t posted in 2 weeks.

No clue, but it very easily could have come from the one I grew up in.

The_Picard_Maneuver is MIA, so I dove into my ~2014 era meme folder and am posting some golden oldies

I was literally wondering that this morning! Noticed the non-political shitposts had largely dried up, and realized I hadn’t seen TPM for a good minute. Come back, we need you.

I just started this one yesterday. Enjoying it so far. I’m only a few chapters in, but it definitely fills in a lot of blanks from PIC S1 like “Who is Raffi and why are she and Picard suddenly BFFs?” After reading her introduction, yeah, I’d want to be best friends with her, too.

It puts so much of the first season into context that I felt was missing when I watched it.

Thanks for the recomendation.

Lol, well, maybe if Eeyore would can it once in a while and just let people enjoy things…

The genre doesn’t exist, but it should: “Bedtime Stories: Narrated by Morgan Freeman and Stepehn Fry”.

Seriously, this. I can’t stand to read “the classics” but I love reading things that interest me. Would be nice if schools recognized that and encouraged reading just for the sake of it rather than forcing kids to trudge through endless stanzas of “ye art incorrect and thou must protest this injustice. Oh Horatio! Oh, lamentation this! Lamentation that!” Like, fuck, I lost the plot 3 pages of lamentations ago.

Just let kids do book reports on Harry Potter (or whatever’s cool these days). At least they’re reading and their brain cells are firing.

Provided it’s got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories, and a lot of players have “sleep mode” that will either set a timer or stop it after the current chapter. Seems like an easy way to get people into them, IMO.

I have two of Stephen Fry’s autobiographies on audiobook and would basically let his smooth voice lull me to sleep. 😆