I’m the same way with my mail.

I’m a millennial - I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.

If I order something, then I know about it and expect it at my door (because it’s fedex, amazon, or ups).

Otherwise, it will have to wait until I happen to remember I have a mailbox.

For example, with bills - I expect you to have my email address and use it, because I supplied it whenever I established xyz account.

Exceptions:

1. Around the holidays when people send out holiday cards!
2. For a local property tax exemption, my county refuses to email it. Their requirement for receiving the exemption is that you live here locally, and part of their way for verifying that, is by sending the request form to your local physical address.

It still shows as 4.8 interest Apple IOS store, with a proud “editor’s choice” mark on it.

I did my part and left a 1-star rating and correlating review.

And it was in this moment, I finally felt that the fediverse had made it. We are ready for the mass migration coming on July 1st.

The profile picture is super memorable to me, for some reason.

Thank you for breaking it down the way you did. It’s the first time I’ve been able to build/read the urls/addresses where it actually makes sense to me.

It’s felt like everyone was saying “the bathroom is to the left” to me in Spanish, but I don’t speak Spanish. You just pulled out Google translate for me lol.

I had similar thoughts at the beginning. I initially planned to simply manage my Reddit addiction for 2 days (lol).

As the individual subreddits started talking about going black indefinitely, I began to change my mind. When I read the internal memo from spez saying “this will pass” and they demonstrated their complete unwillingness to negotiate, however, that was the end of Reddit for me.

I like your description of them as ‘nasty’ - it’s fitting.

I appreciate that everyone doesn’t have perfect relationships with their siblings.

Growing up, my parents made me feel horrible for having a bad one with my sibling. As though there was something wrong with me.

To this day, I carry a lot of shame around it, as in, how can I expect to have healthy relationships with friends and professional relationships at work if I couldn’t even manage one with my sister?

So, thank you all for making me feel less like an anomaly.

It does not, courtesy of this recent brain-freezee lol.

I think we’re just unintentionally smarter about how we consume things?

1. What type of floor does your basement have? Is it carpet or cement?

Basements tend to be damp. So if it is carpet, there is a good chance it is retaining some moisture and already has some slight mildew/mold build up. This would transfer easily over to your blanket.

Would this make a big difference to you, since you’re already living in that environment? Not likely. If you’re allergic, it would just make you more sneezy, your nose rub more, etc.

1. Spiders and other creatures of the night. For this reason alone, don’t put your blanket on the ground. Unless you live in Alaska, where there are genuinely ZERO spiders, I guarantee you that you have spiders in your basement. And that the run across your basement floor at night.

Don’t believe me? Just stay up late watching a movie on your tv one night (with all other lights off), and I promise you’ll see their shadows on the ground as they move around.

So - no! Put your blanket on something! Anything! Doesn’t have to be fancy. Other people are making responsible adult recommendations, which is great and all, but the point is - keep your gosh darn blanket off the ground. Do you have an extra lounge chair (the type that has armrests; not a folding chair)? Put that by your bed and throw your blanket on that if you get too hot.

You do NOT want to put your blanket on the floor, and pick it up the next day… or three days later… and put it on your bed, accidentally picking up a spider or two along with it. NO thank you.

Kbin for me personally.

1. I originally tried Lemmy, but I couldn’t get past the constant refreshing on the ‘all’ page. I know they acknowledged it was a glitch they were working on, but it took too long for them to fix it before I found that kbin worked equally well for me.

2. Then, I learned about Lemmy having its beginnings tied to ‘Tankies’ - People who essentially support China/Russia. (There are better explanations out there.) I’m not sure the platform has moved far enough away from that yet.

Right now my priority is to leave Reddit. And if it can be accomplished by not going to Lemmy, that’s a plus. Hence, kbin.

But, as both grow and change in the coming months, I might change my mind again. They’re both still so young. It’s exciting to be witness to this time!

I am blown away.

I personally don’t like the kbin icon AT ALL. It just looks like a weird, boring folder in the middle of opening. As though this was a computer-nerd community not welcoming to the average user. Maybe someone could explain the appeal to me?

That being said, the way you used the surfaces to display something unique about each instance is incredible.

I was particularly amazed by the natural rendering you did for the Artemis app.

I still don’t understand the kbin icon, but now I believe in it - all because you turned it into something meaningful.

I love using Edible Arrangements. Yes, they’re a bit expensive, but I’ve used them for several special occasions throughout the past decade and at different locations throughout the US, and they’ve each shown up fresh, on time, at the right location, and beautifully done. Even small/cheaper arrangements look full of fruit and don’t look cheap.

Depending on the age of your neighbor’s children, Edible Arrangements also has a lot of fun shapes you can get the fruit in, so they’d enjoy looking at that.

Plus, it’s fresh fruit, so you don’t have to worry about it being halal. There is the option to get some of it covered in chocolate, so you’d have to explore halal for that, or just avoid the issue all together and get no chocolate. Or, have a couple pieces in chocolate and allow the family to make their own decision about eating it, because some chocolate is halal and some isn’t.

You can have Edible Arrangements delivered to your neighbors too, so you don’t have to pick it up yourself. Just make sure they’re home so it’s not waiting outside for them.

Overall, it’s a good one-time gift to really blow their pants off.

Great job thinking of thanking your neighbors in return and continuing to make your community a more welcoming place!

For moving the app windows anywhere you want… is that available on the iPhone too?

That is what has prevented me from purchasing a larger iPhone, because I can’t physically reach the apps on the upper parts of the screen. If I can place the apps on the bottom part of the screen, then I’ll get a larger phone for sure.

I’ve been wanting a pro for the new camera for a while, but have been holding onto my iPhone 7. If they turn this into a real thing (and not just beta), I’ll switch.

I am almost to the point where I don’t mind normal junk mail. That’s easy to quickly scan, identify as junk, and toss.

What really grinds my gears are when my companies contact me and write something like “Important” on it. This happened recently with my credit card company. I thought maybe I had gone overdue, or had overpaid and this was letting me know my bill the following month would be less (it has happened before).

No - it was letting me know I had good credit and could get a good % on a loan through them if I wanted. Now, that made me mad. Junk mail, from my very own credit card company. B.S.

This is a good point too. The nice thing about Walmart delivery is that you can change your address.

So if you typically have it delivered to your home address, but you fly somewhere on vacation and don’t get a rental car, you can have Walmart deliver your groceries to your vacation spot. That’s a lot cheaper than using a taxi to get groceries, or buying every meal you eat on vacation - especially if you have a family!

They have Avocado in refrigerated, individual cups now. (Not guacamole, avocado!)

It requires the slightest bit of effort because you have to open it (like a normal thin metal yogurt top) and throw it away afterwards (or stack it in a trash pile in a corner in your room…). You can lick it out with your tongue or scoop it with your finger if you want to avoid a spoon.

So there’s a semi-easy healthy option out there.

My favorite meal though, is sour cream scoop on a burrito. Very not healthy, but super easy.

Thought I was getting déjà vu while reading your comments lol. Glad you explained why I saw it so many times!

I agree with your foundational stance on using kbin vs. Lemmy due to the political beliefs (‘Tankies’) of those on Lemmy.

But, I’d never heard of them referred to as far left before. In my mind, Bernie is generally considered far left in the US (even though I wish he wasn’t).

I am glad that others provided their explanations of left vs. progressive because it helped me to better understand why you said left (instead of right).

I’m in the military lol. The government definitely knows I’m alive by 0600 sharp every morning.

I’ve been on Reddit for 13 years. I posted more when I started, but now mostly scroll the front page in a logged out status.

I only found Lemmy.world because someone posted a link (last week) and only found kbin.social because the mods recommended it.

I think building your community here and providing the link to it from Reddit is perfect. People still want the community engagement, and lemmy/kbin can adequately provide that. The breadcrumbs, as you said, is how we build the mass movement from Reddit to a new location.

Yeah, I live in the US too. I’m in the military though, so we get free healthcare. I genuinely appreciate the luxury of it and am a fierce advocate of free healthcare for the rest of the US too. I’ve spent sometime overseas and just marveled at the lack of stress other countries’ citizens have with regard to their access to healthcare. We deserve that too.

I’m so glad you have decent healthcare and access to the ER. It’s definitely worth the trip! The best metaphor I can think of is going to your aunt’s house to use her pool on a hot, summer day. You still have to do the travel (wait a little in the waiting room), and it takes a bit to get there (for the meds to work), but once you jump in the pool (once the meds actually work), it’s such a relief and well worth it.

Here’s hoping you don’t experience a migraine like this for a while though, and it just remains a tool in your tool bag!