That’s really cute and so sweet of your friend. Entirely different if someone is surprising you with a cake based on something you’re interested in.
Now I’m wondering how I would react if a friend gave me a CSA themed cake. “Here, Vanth, I know how much you like being a racist piece of shit.” I would be wondering how I got my friendship so, so wrong.
Is your brother an adult? No excuses based on age, I’m just trying to fathom motivations.
Like, I can be passionate about my hobbies. I homebrew beer a lot but slapping beer on a cake would feel so childish. I follow the Scottish national rugby team, and would feel lame af putting their logo on my birthday cake, doubly so since I’m not Scottish and don’t live in Scotland. I dabble in Linux but would die of cringe if I made a cake with some distro logo on it. I have some thoughts on political systems but it wouldn’t even occur to me to put their symbols on my birthday cake. I also simply wouldn’t want to make my birthday all about one niche interest.
Out of all the passions and interests your brother has, he 1) decided the CSA flag is the one he most wants to elevate and 2) he wants so much to express his interest publicly, he would use his once-per-year special day to do it.
Yeah, I’d skip the brother’s birthday. I’m an adult and I get to pick my family and friends now. And I’m not picking blood relatives that bog me down with their hateful baggage.
Ask them why they stay married then. I have a lot of male colleagues who partake in “boomer humor” about how much they hate their wives. But they shut up real quick when I remind them no-fault divorce exists in our country (for now). I think they just like to whine and complain because admitting they have any sort of emotion other than anger is something they look down on.
Yeah, the ones I have a connection with.
Aunt because we talk plants. She’s hella good at hoyas and I’ve learned a lot from her.
Cousin because she ended up in a similar career field and we swap stories. Also some similar hobby interests.
Another cousin who has similar interests when it comes to politics and volunteer work.
Dude, the church my family followed was similar. I was asked to sign a document pledging I would do all sorts of things, like raise the kid in the religion if their parents died, also to live a “moral sex life” and resist the evils of gay culture and drugs. I didn’t sign and saw it as an act of honesty and respect to explain I couldn’t fulfill their request.
If you think so little of other people’s religious beliefs that you would lie to become a godparent, you do you.
Not sure the saying actually comes from a rom-com, but I sure could see it. Dumb. Can’t even wear a set of goddamn underwear without someone overanalyzing it.
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I don’t like sugary sweet Christmas movies but dig a good Christmas themed black comedy horror/slasher.
Jack Frost (1997) > Jack Frost (1998)
Good call. As the scene opened I thought they were siblings. The chemistry was so bad (and Luc Besson is such a pervert), I still wasn’t sure after the first scene.
My sister’s network is named:
Ce n’est pas un réseau
I upvoter things I like or unique takes I disagree with that still seem interesting and in good faith.
I intentionally joined an instance that disabled downvotes.
Flavored sparkling waters. My kingdom for a La Croix.
I read about the Fediverse years ago and opened a couple accounts across a couple platforms. As I expected at the time, too low volume of people to really keep me engaged.
I stayed on reddit until same as everyone else here; they killed 3rd party apps and mod tools. I was a mod on a small, friendly little niche hobby sub. It started getting overrun by bots and MAGA types who wanted to make every post about guns and women staying home to serve their husbands. Good members started leaving the sub and I turned from having fun to loathing it very quickly. I created some fresh Fediverse accounts and made the move for real.
Ah, thanks for the explanation.
I would guess the next set of features “missing” from the Roku app have similar reason then. 1) I use a plugin to search and download subtitles from the browser interface; it would be great to be able to do that from the Roku app too and 2) once subtitles are available, easily adjusting the offset.
Yes, laryngitis is a known possible effect of Covid. If it doesn’t seem to be coming back after two weeks, I would suggest a doctor if you can, maybe even an ENT specialist specifically.
Stay hydrated, eat well, go easy on your voice, cough drops, etc. Beyond that generic advice, especially if you’re a singer, don’t fuck around with dumb advice from Internet strangers. I saw someone during the depths of Covid recommend shots of olive oil to “lube” the vocal chords; replies were from people who did it and gave themselves the shits.
The feature from web browser I use most that is missing from the Roku app is the option to increase playback speed.
If you’re really a/the Roku app dev, cheers. I recognize it’s a passion project for a lot of those involved and I am grateful.
Certain ones, sure. The cucumber lime one is pretty distinctive, for example.
I think companies have gotten more aggressive with theirs algorithms shoveling people towards content that gets companies the most money.
I try hard to block out right-wing crap (U.S.) on YouTube. I’m talking blocking channels liberally and going into my history to delete a watch if I find a video is spreading misinformation. I still get so much of it recommended. And anecdotally, it’s gotten worse this year. Not sure if there’s hard data available out there to prove it but I agree with you, OP, it sure feels like it.
Spotify is obvious. They dumped a ton of money into Rogan so push his podcast shamelessly to ensure maximum return on their investment, despite Rogan being a piece of shit.
I would use reddit for crowd-sourced hobby advice. If someone gave bad advice, most subs had plenty of other members who would quickly correct them and explain or even provide sources.
Outside of Linux and a few other techy things, Lemmy doesn’t have enough members experienced in hobbies that interest me to be able to rely on the community correcting itself.
So I often see, eg, Bob from ABC community says something, but it sounds a little off to me. I don’t know enough to say if Bob is right or wrong, and no one is chiming in with better advice. So it’s a mostly worthless interaction.