Top one is pine, bottom one looks like oak?

Not even the same timber if so. Pine is softwood Oak is hardwood.

I have a weird switcheroo situation. My family came across no worries but my friend group, nobody switched.

I deleted all the meta bullshit a while back and went 100% signal, let everyone know where they could reach me and so far 1 person has contacted me via signal (in about 6 months). Feels kind of shit tbh.

Still cant understand why people stay on those platforms full of ads and horrible UI when soooo much better alternatives are out there.

Just in case no one has said it, Pixelfed

Fuck pokies, they've destroyed what pubs once were.

This reads like my childhood internal monologue, thank you for the walk down memory lane.

You only ever get to play OSRS innocently / for the first time once.

Throwing cigarette butts on the ground.

This is definitely an unpopular opinion.

I tend to listen to music for how it feels, not just how it sounds, and if I even suspect a track is AI made I feel like someones trying to shovel dog shit into my mouth.

I guess you could equate it to you eating food just for the taste, but I eat food for the taste, smell and nutritional value.

That made me angry

Yes. Once you see the shit you get off your tongue you can never return to before.

I feel like this is the worst piece of advice to ask for in the worst place to ask it.

How about you just sit down and have a meal without trying to manipulate or 1 up someone for fuck sake

I use Symfonium to do the same thing.

My rating system is a bit loosey goosey because its hard and tedious to catagorise music into more that 5 levels. Its mostly defined by how much/often I would listen to a song because that seems like a good base line.

Songs sonetimes get upgraded / downgraded on the fly and then siphon in / out to the respective playlists.

• 5 star: high energy, 99% wont skip, will listen to hundreds of times again
• 4 star: any energy just a good song, will listen to many times again
• 3 star: indifferent, might be a hit on the right day in the right mood, wouldnt listen to more than once a week
• 2 star: not for me, can understand why others might like it, wont make it in to any of my playlists
• 1 star: absolutely fucking not, mark for deletion (hyper commercial pop like the overplayed shit through the 2010s mostly fills this category)

So when the shit for brains nazi starts driving off at the end and actually does almost run over someone... Im assuming that someone had cause to unload a full clip through the windshield if they had a gun and get away with it, right? Right??

Its hard for people to give advice if you arent honest with them or yourself.

This doesnt classify as sober from my understanding. You say 3 years sober then 3 weeks ago then last night... your story isnt passing the stink test so far mate.

The person who put it there takes it down

You could start by using the connection test on the mullvad website that checks for 3 different leaks.

VPN use is not illegal (yet).

Your ISP can still match your internet traffic to the act of torrenting - however they can not know what you are torrenting and the act of torrenting itself is not illegal.

Theoretically - using torrents to download free use material like you are going to do is 100% legal and above board. So what if you are choosing to use a VPN while doing it?

Its hard to balance staying informed and staying away from political content these days.

I personally have a few key word filters on lemmy and still cant avoid all the news about whats happening in the US, Iran, Gaza etc.

I just want to know whats going on in the world so I can adapt accordingly but man its nothing but doom, depressing, downright scary times.

And I dont even have any other social media except for lemmy. I cant imagine the people also dealing with tiktok, meta and all that shit too thats designed to make you feel as shit as possible for engagement.

I was raised in a lutheran family and had to go to church until I was a teenager.

It was always so boring from the beginning so it never had a hold on me and I remember thinking something along the lines of "If I was god I would be so pissed off that I have to listen to this shit (horrible singing and people sucking ass) every week."

From that day on I made a pact with god that if he exists, I will never bother him cause hes got enough people screaming for his attention like a bunch of toddlers.

So anyway now we catch up for a beer every few months to blow off some steam and he gives me the next weeks lotto numbers as a thank you

The equivalent stigma that women get shamed for is the inverse of mens, that being a "large" or "loose" vagina.

Women already have many sexist things to deal with that are a bit more sinister than your tic-tac being laughed at. Look up the "Husband stitch".

Although I think you already knew that and are either searching for something to get angry at that doesnt exist or rage baiting.

Either way, are you ok man?

I think your issue may be quantity of droplets, Ballshapedman. They look good otherwise!