It's not my thing and I truly don't get it. That said, I'm curious about the initial draw, how you started and why. What does participating look like to you? Do you consider it an interest, hobby, kink or some combination/something else? I support you doing whatever you like so long as everything is legal/consensual. If you're going to comment and you're not a furry please be respectful.

Everything's about creating and consuming shit or just keeping up with whatever the fuck the people we already know is doin, i miss the days when you could find a random chatroom with 4 people and be friends with three of em through shared hobbies, i doubt there's any such thing anymore but if there is feel free to suggest .

this was my last year doing igcses (year 12) so that means if I’m not mistaken that I missed out on so many opportunities and activities that I could have done before in school because yes I’ll go to university of course (its not that bad) but its ESLSCA (the egypt branch too) which I think is not as prestigious as going abroad for a bachelors or going to the AUC in egypt

basically is it over for me given I’m going to a less prestigious university I think like well yes its an european (French) uni and all that but still I wanted to go to the AUC because of the stuff they offer like I think the competitions and stuff plus the prestige

my grades too I think are average its like 1 As 2 Bs and ig 2 or 3 Cs that kind of thing basically grades like mixed up which is what also worries me if you for example won’t be seen as that strong acedemically

I used to love these threads on reddit. I'll go first.

This one is kinda mundane and is most likely a hypnogogic/pompic hallucination but it used to happen A LOT when I was younger and I kinda realised earlier that it's been a long time since I last noticed it.

So from about the onset of puberty till my early mid twenties, at least a few times a month I'd be falling asleep, drifting in and out of sleep, or even woken up by- my bed shaking.

Usually it was a steady-ish rumble, almost like being on a train, but like 1/10 times I'd wake up to my bed rocking like someone was shaking it.

It scared me a few times when it was particularly violent, but as I freeze up when scared I'd just be lying there terrified, wondering why the fuck this was happening and hoping the bed didn't start squeaking. Usually when this shaking happened though it was just a thing I noticed, filed away as a curiosity, and tried to go back to sleep.

This happened in probably every place I lived (which was a lot of places as I was moving like 2 or 3 times a year most years from about 11 till 16, then less so as I got older) and mostly around the south east of England. And I very rarely lived on a main road with heavy vehicles on it or by railways either, so it wasn't environmental. We do get the occasional very minor earthquake here every ten years or so, and it's a similar feeling!

Idag har jag sorg! Första spadtaget har just tagits för Googles första gigantiska datahall i Sverige. 😢 Ett bygge som när det står klart om några år kommer att öka Svenska folkets redan allt för höga elkostnader till oanade höjder. Bered er på stora hål i plånboken!

Could be a one liner or a long drawn out thing I don't care. I like all kinds of comedy.

I'm currently using discord for practicing English speaking with strangers. Is there any alternative?

I am trying to Quit my "Listening addiction"(e.g podcasts, YouTube vids, Creepypasta). It started when my family moved away and I was alone in a really big house for a couple of months, so I would have Earphones on with something turned on, at all times. Now its become such I a problem that I can't get anything done without something blaring in my ear at all time(never mind what this well do to my hearing in the long run)

Most task, like cleaning or grocery shopping dont need my focus, but then there is studying and work.

I know that, really, I would eventually have to give up my earphones at some point, but I wanted to start by replacing what listened to, with white Noise or brown noise

For example

Most of the searches for background noise on YouTube, bring up rain sounds and I just dont like the sound. Actual rain droplets make my skin crawl. Anyone got other recommendations?

P.S: I did delete my YouTube and podcast apps, so I can only listen to them on the Computer. I can listen to white noise from the mobile browser.

Any ideas how to do that, preferably in a GUI program? I'm not good at CLI or scripts.

CONTEXT

I uploaded a video in Matroska mkv format (~1gb) to Internet Archive. IA added its own converted mp4 of much lower video quality (~500mb) & that's the only video it will stream. The mkv only available by downloading.

As I'd prefer streaming availability, I used Handbrake (on Linux) to convert the mkv to mp4 myself, hoping to make a better quality mp4 that IA would stream.

Seems successful, plays fine locally, much better quality than IA's mp4, & smaller file size (~800mb) than original mkv.

But I can't upload it to IA as I get an error

There is a network problem

400 Bad Data

BadContent

Uploaded content is unacceptable.

Resource>video file has improper extension, try one of these: .mpv .mkv

I'm not sure I want to die of a heart attack if I live to old age. I thought maybe I'd use a gun to relieve my suffering so that everything would end quickly, but I'm too scared. Are there any recommendations on how to die without suffering or something like that? Maybe I should leave this world during a happy dream?

Or should I humble myself and go through suffering before I die?

I'm clarifying: it's not that I want to commit suicide when I'm young or right now, no, I mean when, let's say, I have one day, a week or a month left to live suffering from an illness, or I know that after a while I'm going to have a heart attack that will definitely kill me.

In my mind I almost think we need to go on a general strike and become homeless together. Homeless in a sense that we migrate to a location where we can get sensible people together in a location.

Then we can rebel against the for profit system by protecting each other with weapons, food, community.

Go back to a system that protects nature, people, and land.

But I’m curious what everyone else thinks. I know congregating in one location would make us vulnerable to domestic terrorism from our government. But in all honesty who wants to live in an oppressive regime anyway?

To be clear, the time probably needs to be expressed via UTC / GMT or other time zone labels.

I regularly post across ~half a dozen communities, the most frequent being to my own, where I post at 9AM (UTC-4 / EST zone) so as to hit early risers in the States and afternoon surfers in Europe. But with other posts, I get the sense that it would be better to post later in the day to hit more viewers. I'm just not sure when that would be.

TBC, I usually use the PieFed scheduler to post, so it's no problem for me posting at any time of the day.

Thanks for any insight!

I do not believe in the supernatural, magic, ghosts or anything like that. However, I can be very superstitious about tempting fate and won't make jokes or flippant remarks that could be interpretted as such.

For example, my partner made a dark joke about how she'd rather have cancer than such and such. I begged her not to say such things, not because the thought of her having cancer upset me (although it did), but because it feels as if saying stuff like that could make it happen.

Growing up in Canada, I had to contend with learning two different spellings and pronunciations for words like "schedule", "colour", "omelette", "zed" vs "zee", "-ise" vs "-ize", and so on and so forth, so I had to come up with some little tricks to remember how to spell things. Sometimes I'd put on a mental Quebecois or English accent.

Other ones like diarrhea was "Die-err-HEE-uh", and now that I'm in Australia, it's most definitely "Die-err-HOE-uh". 😂

I also recite the ABCs more often than I should. I know a lot of you do, too.

What are some ways that you thought of to help you remember how to spell things? Any language counts.

Mine are as follows:

1. Getting chased by a Saint Mary statue that was made like a greek statue and 30 feet tall. She was stomping the hell out of the grounds.
2. Getting chased by a chuckie doll.
3. Watching a demon little girl eat a human bone like it was popeye's chicken fresh out the oil. She looked hungry. I was like just staring. O_O

Anyway what are yours?

I got some money from my college back when I was going to college in the form of financial aid, but now that I am not going to college, am I allowed to use the money however I want?

If I do use it, will I have to pay them back because I am no longer going to college?

Edit: Also, how do I formally quit college? Is there a way to formally quit?

I know it's been asked too much, but we've come a long way. Curious to see everything from the fullest trajectories/journeys to short wacky simples.

Why your instance, platform? What keeps you there? Are you a piefed PWA enjoyer? A traditional browser lemmy diehard? Do you refuse to use any front-end that isn't blorpblorp or has some invaluable feature like tesseract/alexandrite? I think there are even a few who only mobile voyager or ??(whatever that other popular one is...apollo maybe?) Curious to know what future options lie on the near future's horizon too

I admit I have trialed many but go back to plain browser more than not tho 😆

PS: I can't remember if these posts in anyway get federated out to other platforms like mastodon or what not, but would still be interested in their respective answers too