Reddit might still have more content, but it’s been overwhelmed by noise. Lemmy might have less, but I don’t have to sift to find it.

Doing those things didn’t make you and bad person.

Being a bad person made you do those things.

Change the person that you are, and you won’t have more of these regrets in the future.

Believe you me, I’ve been trying for years. Tribalism runs too deep in the human condition for there to be any obvious fix.

I have a lot of original content, mostly Tom Swifty jokes here on lemmy at !tomswifty@midwest.social

I got a lot of help from HUD and FHA when I bought my house. I couldn’t have afforded to buy and renovate my home when I did without that program, which is only for first-time buyers. The program also helps housing supply by renovating unfit older buildings into usable housing stock.

So, at least in the US in general and Chicago specifically, gov’t is doing things to help first-time buyers.

Twenty, even fifteen years ago I would’ve said Windows Notepad / vim. Now I rarely use basic text editors.

I don’t think there’s any technology that can never be superseded.

Sounds great! I’ll keep adding tracks as I think of them. Liked that Astropol track, BTW.

Jenny Lewis — “Head Underwater”

Cordelia’s Dad — “Little Speckled Egg”

Cracker — “Guarded by Monkeys”

Freelance Whales — “Generator ^ First Floor”

Minus the Bear — “Let’s Play Guitar in a Five Guitar Band”

You’re gonna share the playlist when you’re done, right?

This one might be too mainstream, but:

Iron & Wine — “Woman King”

Excellent write-up. Will it also work from threads?

She’ll need to work with the home country to get baby issued appropriate citizenship and identity documents, but just to travel home? Birth cert and mother’s docs should be enough.

IIRC the mother needs her own proof of citizenship and proof of birth for the infant.

My white-and-chartreuse vintage bicycle is “Americano”. Like the cocktail, not the coffee.

I agree, but I can back it up: You’d be more disappointed if the cucumbers were missing than if the hummus was.

Socratic intetjection: What’s the meat in a hummus and cucumber sandwich?

Electronic doesn’t work for me, notifications and even the act of unlocking the phone distract me. Pen and paper bullet journal are what have worked best for me. If there’s anything I need to remember while I’m out, I text it to my wife, because I’ll recheck that messaging thread throughout my day.

English natively, but I also speak Spanish every day at work. I can read and write Latin. I can exchange pleasantries in half a dozen other languages.

Chaotic neutral, you love to see it

zsh: ĵ
ssh: “ssh bby is ok”
sudo: like sumo wrestling

I make all my playlists by hand. I have three types:

• Mixes that I’ve made, either as gifts or for myself; where the order is carefully chosen so one song leads into another pleadingly, where no one artist dominates the tracklist, usually with a specific mood or theme, like “cleaning” or “summer” or “breakup”. These kind of playlists are additive and creative; I start with an empty playlist then add and rearrange tracks until I’m happy.

• “Best of” playlists that are every song I like of a genre or artist or local scene or year or music label. These are usually in release order, grouped by album; or sometimes in descending order of how much I like them (but still grouped by album). These kind of playlists are subtractive and reactive; I dump large swathes of the library in and then remove whatever I don’t like enough until only the cream is left.

• Hemerographs, which is a word I made up to describe playlists where I’m picking songs one at a time and adding them to the queue, but I’m saving the whole queue to listen to again later to recreate the vibe of that day / party / activity. It’s additive like the mixes but more flow-of-consciousness and reactive; and also includes inputs from other people, since I’m usually making them on the fly in a social situation.

I hear it more in-person recently, but also online. What does “out-of-pocket” mean when describing behavior? I’ve only ever heard it used to describe financial circumstances until a couple years ago.

It seems like it’s roughly synonymous with “crazy” or “rude” or “unexpected”, but I’d love to have it explained better.