Conversations with Tyler. An academic asks interesting people (often prolific academics in other fields) personal and professional questions. One that I keep going back to is Professor Dunlap’s explanation of Chinese cuisine while a panel of foodies ask her questions at the dinner table: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onWbXaRFge0

Personally, I’ve lessened my overall social media usage. Even started reading books again. Feelsgoodman.

Well, no, but actually yes

Where the hell are the clothes folding robots??

It’s /b, the whole thing is probably made up

I’d put that shit on my wall like Mr. Krab’s first dollar

This is the most Lemmy answer possible lmao

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Everybody is looking at each other wondering who will start the revolution

You should write on an unsettled question that interests you enough to keep your interest for a long time. If you don’t have a clue what this is, then I recommend you do some literature review. Research is not done in a vacuum. Once you know what conversations people are having, then you can see where your perspective can make a valuable contribution.

Shit like this makes people go back to reddit. At least there’s more content and getting banned from one million user subreddit doesn’t stop you from going to another big sub. Here, if you get banned in one or two of the big instances you have to become a lurker. I take pride in being able to disagree with the dominant opinion in a reasonable way, but these .ml mods are unreasonable.

Oh you have a micropenis? Prove it.

The community seems split on this one lol. Makes me think that some of the people who subscribed to this community literally don’t know what a greentext is. Which is nothing new; I made this months ago:

Personally, it takes the fun out of creating OC because I like making edgier memes but there’s no community for it here. And even if something does make people laugh and get upvoted, the mods will take it down. (For example, I made a meme about a pregnant alcoholic mother and it got taken down. Like really? We can’t make abortion jokes?) So fuck it, I mainly just repost now. If you can’t beat em join em.

You gotta understand just how few pictures men have of themselves. Most of us aren’t randomly taking selfies; a lot of us don’t even have pictures of us with our friends.

[Mean insult]

“What of the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed before this attack?” some may ask. Our response is simply that we aren’t going to engage with that because it would be too hard. We also won’t be addressing Palestinians living in refugee camps without access to clean water, electricity, or housing. Others may ask, “Isn’t it your responsibility to provide context, particularly on thorny issues such as this one?” To that, we merely say: No, shut up. You’re being annoying.

Damn these guys are good. Managing to satirize the media, take a hands-off approach, and still raise valid points all in a couple paragraphs.

I want to wear a cowboy hat but I don’t live in a place where it would be viewed as normal and I don’t want to look like a poser.

I’m going to go with good old fashioned, “extra luck”. Never know when it’s going to show up, but it would definitely improve your general disposition when things tend to go your way.

Lip service

There’s a large possibility that your kids will be apathetic towards the media that you watch now. When’s the last time you listened to a song or watched tv from the 50?

(I can hear you typing right now; yes, I myself even watch the Adams Family and listen to psychedelic rock every now and again, but that’s not typical.)