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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Why do these always exist before the internet? We can order bullion online now. It’s almost midnight in a fairly rural area

    But yeah, I know a guy that will sell certain things for cash that normally require legal hurdles. But if you show up, cash in hand, he’ll backdate things on his end. One phone call, I could buy out his stock in fifteen minutes because I’m a regular customer he trusts. He’s usually got a few hundred thousand of goods in place.

    Barring that, I’m kinda screwed at this time of night.

    I know a couple of farmers that would let me buy livestock in cash like this, but that’s only going to be a few thousand bucks.

    I know a weed dealer that would be able to give me a few pounds if he’s got it in, but I would have to call and ask how much he has.

    Do services count? If so, I’ve got an idea for a cheat lol. Hire my wife for a back rub.

    So, I just took a second and sent a text to an acquaintance and explained the scenario. Turns out you can buy a car in an hour or less. It’s just a matter of paperwork to make the sale official. So, if you know a car dealer, and they have enough on their lot, you could easily get rid of most of that million in time. Most of the time wasted isn’t really necessary. If the dealer and the buyer are already on the same page with the price, you could get as many cars as you have time to sign for.


  • Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow do you name your pets?
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    As bat shit crazy as it sounds, I don’t. I let the name “come to me”, or wait for the critter to pick its name.

    It isn’t literal woowoo hippy bullshit, but it looks like or when I try to explain it lol.

    But it’s a matter of letting the subconscious mind have a chance to percolate with the personality and “nature” of the pet.

    But it just kind of pops into my head at some point. Might be the second I meet the animal, might be weeks later. And it never fails me because when I let that happen, the animal immediately recognizes the name as theirs. That’s held true for anything but invertebrates and most fish, even a pissy iguana and an unusually smart oscar.

    What sucks is that sometimes the name isn’t very cool lol. For every shaitan and samson, there’s a sugarplum and a cricket.


  • Eh, if it were easier to block an instance as a user, I’d be 100% with you instead of 95%.

    There are instances that are batshit crazy. Since blocking an instance as a user just ain’t possible yet, I can see why defederation before trouble gets going is useful. Once the nasty side of the internet gets snowballing, it’s much harder to manage.

    Troll, or serious extremist, some things are just cancerous.




  • Eh, mostly sms and telegram.

    The only people I care about use sms, and I’ve convinced them to use telegram for thighs sms can’t do, like file sharing.

    I have and use matrix for specific tasks, and I got suckered into discord for gaming and reddit. But neither get used much nowadays. There’s one discord server I stay vaguely active on because internet friends use it. Post reddit implosion, the matrix isn’t very useful since they were for mod chats and I’m only modding one sub until the end of the month, and that’s mostly solo (no need for chats lol)



  • Worst, up until the current fiasco, was having told a very deeply personal and unique story, but being torn to shreds because I wrote it pretty. That meant it had to be fake.

    It taught me the lesson to never waste effort on reddit.

    But the best was kinda the flip side of it. Similar thing, talking about death and dying, which was a large part of professional life, and despite writing it pretty, it resonated with people and I got some really nice conversations commiserating about the way that can change you.








  • You gotta embrace it.

    Federated space is not like reddit in that there is no single domain.

    But it is like reddit in that there can be multiple communities covering the same topics within the fediverse, with different moderators, rules, subculture, and focus.

    A perfect example from reddit is r/knives and r/knifeclub. They’re the same thing, often with the same users, and very similar rules. But the vibe has always been different. Discussions go a different way nerdiest because the users aren’t exactly the same. Both are wonderful.

    Look at it like this, using another knife example because that’s a hobby of mine. Bladeforums exists. Allaboutpocketknives exists. They’re both knife forums. One existing does not mean the other isn’t useful (though you might find arguments about either one lol). Neither of those takes away from r/knives existing. None of those invalidates YouTube knife channels (though most of those are crap tbh).

    You’ll also find that none of those places does anything significant in the way of connecting to each other.

    That is where the fediverse shines. Everything here is inherently connected once discovered. There’s places to find communities that have already been created. If you go to the “all” tab within your home instance, chances are that you’ll run across them by accident in a similar way to reddit’s r/all.

    So, there’s no need to connect communities on different instances by default. If /c/s decide to do so, that’s awesome, but it’s no more necessary then subreddits having a “similar subs” section in their sidebar.