This was super helpful, thanks!

Yup, probably all people cared about in that article. Just saving people time. No need to be a little bitch about it

Gkids indicated that it would give “The Boy and the Heron” a North American theatrical release “later this year.”

Any recommendations on how to start finding those communities of interest on Mastodon?

Interconnected points about time and scale:

1 We don’t realize our impact. Over time we can change lives and never know. I could tell many stories about this, but you can inspire people and never know - or change their lives and they’ll never have a chance to thank you. After working in customer service, an important truth of life is easily recognized: people complain more than they say thank you. Besides, people who do good often do it behind the scenes and can’t always see the fruits of their labor.

This can be true of one time meetings or by being a constant light in their lives.

2 The amount of news we intake is literally incomprehensible. I mean this without intending to sound uncaring, but the human mind was not meant to care about billions of people (or me, who has been cursed by caring about all the fucking animals too). We’re animals that evolved in small tribes and then small communities. Caring about all the hurt in my city of a couple million is wild in and of itself, but my state? The country… the world? Are you kidding?? It’s literally impossible. Every being that exists suffers so much - from the roadkill gasping for life on the side of the road to the family trapped underneath rubble in an earthquake across the globe. You’re not responsible for taking on that mental load. It’s an unbearable weight that you were not programmed for. You’re not mad that your calculator can’t drive you to work.

3 Shit spreads in water better than more clean water. Put a little shit in water, it’s fucked. People freak and it gets attention. Add more good to good, nobody gives a shit. This metaphor brings me a lot of clarity.

4 We are too close. Over time things are, in fact, getting better. Many times, many well-meaning (mostly white) liberals push back against me here by trying to downplay historical progress. (Even with overturning Roe - support for a women’s right to choose has never been higher - we’ve just been overrun by Originalist Christofascists.) But to my point, even with how shit everything is now it’s materially better to be a person of color today, for the most part. Schools aren’t segregated (they are, of course still segregated in many cases - GOP has dismantled public education pretty well here), you can get a loan from the bank, run for office, etc. This is NOT trying to say everything is even approaching good or acceptable… but we have to take stock sometimes and recognize things aren’t totally doom and gloom. To make sure I wasn’t being a stupid man, I asked my fiancée if she thought being a woman of color now was better than at most points in history and she laughed, saying “of course, that’s undoubtably undeniable.”

So there ya go. A bunch of anecdotal bs from a sleepy dude.

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I’ll have to look into that. I’ve always liked the idea of Grammarly, but it seemed like I was basically downloading a keylogger, which seemed… unwise, lol.

Thanks! That’s what I was doing, just wondering if there was some elegant solution I was mising.

Is there an easy way to search through all the kbin communities at once?

Yeah, that’s the unfortunate side of this.

I love the smaller community vibe, but I will admit it’s frustrating to have federation be sold as a huge advantage to users and then be cut off from like half the communities I was subscribed to in lemmy.world. They just have tons of communities that aren’t anywhere else because of how many users there are.

I get not wanting to create too many communities and have them all be empty. So that just means I have to make two accounts, along with my new Mastodon account, just to keep up with everything. Not ideal, but we’ll see how this plays out.

Is it just because of some ad-blocker I have, or does specll checking not work in Lemmy?

If it’s the latter, I’d love that addition for our clusmsier counterparts.

redditors around the world pounding their fists on tables

let us jerk, let us jerk!

Same. It’s really struck me both how little I miss it and how much I like the communities here. There’s a much friendlier vibe.

And for the most part, aside from the bullshit threads where it’s encouraged and expected, the comments are a lot more ‘high-effort,’ which is nice. That’s something that I would expect to tend to naturally go down with the lowest common denominator as user count increases, but we’ll see.

That’s quite beautiful. They are, “each the other’s world entire.” Although, I hope you say, “I love you” a bit more than pops did in The Road, lol.

Do you mean that it helped you cope with the flipside of joy and fear that comes with having a child?

I highly encourage it! I’m going to read All the Pretty Horses after hearing this news. Remember these final days before you meet one of the greatest literary characters I’ve ever encountered: The Judge.

Warning: It’s a difficult book. Thankfully, I read it with a class that kept me honest. Don’t feel any shame if you want to use something like LitCharts. You can use it without paying. That’s how I am, at least. When I try reading a dense classic and it turns into a slog, if I get frustrated I’ll just fall off.

However, I think its themes are important today and the questions it asks of the reader can lead to some serious growth and reflection.

I feel the same.

I do like the microblogging platform for dumb chatter and quck updates (like new music coming out, for example). But in general, I much prefer threaded comment trees.

Same. I’m trying to decide what I like more.

Part of me thinks I’d prefer to have two seperate accounts - one here, one on Mastodon.

They’ll get there. The cool thing about this system is - from what I understand - since it’s not top-down, nobody has to approve people working on something.

Relative to lifespan, I would assume that would mean someone will take it upon themselves and will make it a lot sooner than if permission to even start working on a solution had to be approved via 6 months of meetings.

Oh, you’re right. I haven’t used that since I was on the team at Pied Piper!

He was my favorite living author. Blood Meridian is a modern masterpiece. I think it will stand the test of time and will be read for generations, more so than some of his other work. I think his entire collection is wonderful, but I think that one in particular will still be read 100 years from now (if there is a ‘we’ to be reading thing 100 years from now).

Either way, you will be missed and thank you for staying with it even when you were destitute.

I’m so thankful he didn’t become posthumously famous but instead passed away being viewed as a modern master.

Yeah! I chose my words carefully. I’m curious, not necessarily excited!

I’m unfortunately stuck in a red state, so I feel you there.

This is great - they really distinguish themselves well from other communities.