Don’t forget Fukushima bring an excellent reminder

Nuclear: As long as you don’t care about the magic rocks once the magic has decayed to a level where they’re not boiling water anymore

The same can be said of lemmy, mastodon or any publically accessible forum

With bluesky ,the sign up has a section where you choose a server. The bluesky server is prefilled. Otherwise you add your own.

But not having that default option and instead having to have the user go research and figure out which server to use is an immediate turn off.

That’s kind of hilarious :D

Unironically, this makes me pine for the old days where usenet discussions were lively.

Quartile

https://simplyfun.com/products/quartile?srsltid=AfmBOop09ABddbZdM5bz8rjCiUxzoa2F35ERKOhxo6exVtLh0V3D2MCD

Closely followed by Mexican train domino

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Train

Tradwives

Sure. And so ending up with a dead platform.

How so?

…or following people and interests you want to follow and keeping up with their updates.

ffs stop gatekeeping social media

Twitter has 106 million users in USA.

Prove it

Shakes fists at clouds

Mastodon has like zero comments on any news source i follow.

Can’t the same be said of turning point usa?

So in confused. Do I need to install thunderbird or…?

Not the answer you want, but for me, I quit cold turkey after smoking a pack a day for 15 years.

The thing that helped is that I wasn’t being forced to quit for health or social reasons. I simply realized that all smoking a cigarette was doing was making me not want to smoke another cigarette for 30 minutes. I felt I had no more desire to continue the trend.

The first week sucked. I ended up rolling loose-leaf paper into the cylindrical shape of a cigarette, putting Scotch tape on one end, and poking holes into it so that dragging on it felt like dragging on a cigarette. That actually got me through week 2.

After that, the pull to smoke was far, far weaker. It’s weird. It ends up coming in waves. You’re fine, you’re fine, then you get an overwhelming urge to light up. The need lasts for about 30 seconds and goes away quickly. Over time, the frequency between those cravings gets longer, and the cravings get smaller. At some point, I just didn’t feel like smoking at all anymore.

But yeah, the first few weeks are not great.

Best of luck!

Edit: my main advice here is that if you don’t feel like you really want to quit, you’re going to have a much harder time. If your plan is to taper down, it may be torture. If you’re plan is “I’ll only show myself this one” every so often, it’s going to be a long, drawn out losing process.

Alternative:

“Can I scan your badge?”

…quietly walk away backwards, staring them dead in the eye

I’ve never seen an illuminated logo from manufacturers other than those I’ve listed. Large, sure. Though some like Kia or Hyundai I haven’t seen get huge. Honda, maybe?

“African American culture is the antithesis to your argument. Even the most wealthy individuals sporting logos of all kinds, literally as status symbols.”

Really you’re describing the difference between striking it rich and generational wealth.