Your filter list is very similar to mine. Makes a hell of a positive change.

Sort of like US Democracy.

I think it’s such a niche subject that you won’t find much on Lemmy. I’d go to a dedicated forum, like caraudio.com, for help.

Honestly, I thought you were using it rudely as well. Like,“Look in the mirror, ya dipshit” Your explanation cleared it up, and then going back and rereading it, I see what you meant, but don’t get too bent about the person taking you the wrong way. I probably would have done the same at first.

Any big dump of money (Manhattan Project, Space Race, Arms Race) brings about great strides in progress. It would have been great to see a big dump of money, on the aforementioned scale, dumped into raw research.

I barely have two nickels to rub together, but I would donate them if it would get these fuckheads to Mars.

I’d imagine it will come around, but not the way people think, and not for many more generations. I mean, unless we just kill this planet before we get there, which is where I’d put my money.

My dad thought something was wrong with me when I tried to explain the colors of certain words to him when I was about 10.

The class president of my senior class would bring his “punk” clothing in a backpack and change in the school bathroom every morning. Blew my mind. My parents couldn’t give a shit what I wore.

A woman I used to know said when she got glasses for the first time, she was amazed at being able to discern leaves on trees from further than a couple meters.

Whitey here. I once got stopped by border patrol at an immigration checkpoint on the freeway. They had me pull off to the side, pulled all the shit out from under my seats, out of the door pockets, etc. Opened the trunk and took everything out. Brought a dog over. Then said I was good to go. Took me a little to get everything put back in place.

Last time I was stopped was flying back after taking a solo surf trip to Central America. They just couldn’t handle that I went by myself. Took me into a little room at the airport. Took my boards out of my board bag, emptied my carry-on and suitcase, then tried to grill me about what I had been doing. I had a 5 hour layover, so I wasn’t overly concerned. Just seemed so stupid.

That guy was really patient while explaining to the magat. I’m disappointed in it being a short, and accept your apology 100%. At the same time I’d like to say thank you for posting it. Just sent it on to a family member.

I was taught that was the point of free trade. Not offshoring human misery and environmental destruction.

I think I’ve finally seen Dave enough times before Portnoy to stop the “I’ve read he is a great drummer…I’m not a fan of prog rock at all…why is he being mentioned” repeat that was going on every time I read the name.

LOL, you and me both. I’m too old to make any radical changes, but I’ve encouraged my kid to finish a University degree that will get him a job outside of the country. I think if I married for emmigration purposes, I’d end up in Hungry or something. Out of the pan and into the fire.

Seeing that the PRC has secret, illegal police in the US, are known to go after Chinese in the US, coupled with the US not being a country of laws…well, you do you. Just don’t do it in ignorance.

As Big Black sang back in the '80s

🎵 The only good love’s unenforced

I acquiesced to marriage twice over the decades. Both times I didn’t really want to get married. The problem was I didn’t really NOT want to get married either. I think these choices, well-intentioned and made with love, kind of fucked up too big of a chunk of my approximate 4000 weeks of life. Unless there is a seriously pressing reason to do so, my very subjective advice is always: DON’T DO IT.

Not Vim? WTF?

When I’m on my home instance (piefed.social for you I suppose), I see a list of subscribed communities on the sidebar. I think you can go into your profile and see as well. I used to just look at someplace like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to find new communities, but I don’t know what the goto is now, it’s been awhile since I’ve looked.

One weakness/strength of the fediverse is that it’s not a single point of failure. By that I mean reddit might just nuke /r/foobar and it’s all gone. The fediverse may break up that single community into several, ie foobar@piefed.social, foobar@lemmy.world, foobar@whateverhost. Now you have 3 or more communities discussing foobar, but they aren’t linked. The weakness is that they aren’t linked and can split the userbase. The strength is that if the owner of lemmy.world fucks off and their server disappeared, the other choices are still there. If you find <hobby or interest>@skism.net, but there only are a handful of people and 3 posts over the past 6 months, you may find the same <hobby or interest>@another.com that has a super active userbase.

It can be a little annoying at first, if you are used to reddit and 10k people commenting stupid shit all over the place, most of Lemmy you’ll usually find 10s or 100s of people commenting stupid shit. It’s worth it for me, and I haven’t opened reddit in over a year. Your mileage may vary.

• Fight Club
• Click
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Spanking the Monkey
• Punch Drunk Love
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Those are just off the top of my head. Pretty standard list I think. The more I was thinking of the question, the more I was thinking that the majority of films probably could be used as an answer.