Also really depends on the frequency and reason. Did something go horribly wrong once and does this one-time effort fix it or gives enough time for a decent solution down the road? Sure, I’ll put in some extra work. Don’t look for me though when it’s resolved, I’m on holiday with all the overtime I should’ve gotten. If it’s a structural problem because management wants to squeeze as much money out of their employees and refuses to hire enough people… Fuck that. And yeah, corporate uses the first thing as an excuse, luring you into staying longer “one more time, we really can’t do it without you”.

It’s rather unhygienic if you can’t retract it and wash under it. Dead skin and other stuff tends to build up and form crusts.

Not OP, not from the US and never been in Japan but I travel a lot in general: always assume local currency, at the very least it’s going to be cheaper and quite probably only very touristy places or airport only might accept $$. Here you can pre-order cash at your local bank and return any excess notes after. Exchange booths are usually a rip-off, and withdrawal abroad might cost extra, check with your bank.

Also don’t assume people speak English. They might, but treat that as a bonus.

As a general tip: you usually have to apply for assistance beforehand. Doesn’t mean it isn’t shitty though, and if your train is delayed then and you miss a connection…

Only had ublock active, still happens. For now it still goes away on refresh or if I switch adblockers (so I’m assuming cleaning out the cache daily will work too).

Maybe for short times, but I’ve heard about dogs getting paralyzed at the groomers’ from being put in a harness for too long. Veins get pinched. And that’s with a harness meant for dogs, not something improvised like this.

Well if actual crochet is used, you will have to pay good money. Crochet can’t be properly replicated by machines so it’s allll handmade (unlike knitting, which is quite easy on machines).

That is quite insane. You got sources?

Somebody left the window open, plane fell out.

Flemish here (aka dutch-speaking). We say first June, sixth November etc. English isn’t our native language, so M/D/Y is weird as fuck and completely illogical to us.

Secretly? I thought this was common knowledge. Mine definitely demands worship and pets every day.

Yeah, at the very least scratch the “face to face”. I’d be more willing to accept this if a message or a call is acceptable, but some guys you really, really don’t want to see in person a second time.

I don’t speak Spanish at all, but I really wish more languages would adapt it. It’s so much easier to interpret a sentence knowing it’s meant to be a question or exclamation right from the start.

No. That’s not how this works. You don’t get to put every non-vegetarian at the same level as these fuckers.

I eat meat, but I want the animals up until the moment of slaughter to live a good, stressfree life. And the slaughter itself to be immediate and painless. Not to have their fingers chopped off or them being tortured with screwdrivers, hammers and pliers.

It’s not in effect yet, starting september. Now I know absolutely nothing about US law, but can’t OSHA itself fight this?

Good. Ship the thing off to a museum, slap a label on it and use it to educate people. Lest we forget.

Fuck cancel culture.

I’m more seeing it as tiny villages in the same country. Sometimes there’s a duplicate Starbucks over in the other village, but they might have a different daily special. And some villages have beef with eachother, and then you gotta sneak out if you still want to secretly visit your beloved in the other village. Or move over to your summer house in village #3, where you can both meet up without issues.

I still make about one post a day on reddit in communities I like, in a reply that says “there’s nowhere else to turn to” and make sure to mention the fediverse every time. Which is far less than I post on here, where it’s about 50/50 circlejerk about reddit, and the other half is actually engaging with (or even creating) content.

This is my new home. It’s small, but I like it that way. I mean, you can actually find out all communities on an instance, so I actually find a lot more relevant communities here than on reddit. They still gotta grow though.

I chose a small instance from the start and haven’t gotten that much lag at all. The one thing that does annoy me is the refreshing on the mainpage (and then suddenly an entire communities’ posts are all on top), but pressing refresh fixes that for me. Confusing? At first, but I don’t consider myself knowledgeable about tech and I was able to get it up, running and personalised before even reading a single guide. I curently sort by “all” and “new”, and just keep adding to my subscriptions.

Is there room for improvement? Absolutely. But I wouldn’t call lemmy unusable at all. I actually spend a lot more time on here than at the aforementioned place. And one absolutely major bonus point: we can integrate images in our reply here. And I can copy/paste in the reply without it suddenly completely bugging out and not being able to type at all. It just works as its’ supposed to.

As I go back there now after the protest, I find reddits’ content less and less interesting. I used to be able to lose hours on there, now I get bored after 5 minutes and get back to lemmy. It’ll keep on existing, but here’s hoping many more mainstream and non-techy users like me found the fediverse and know there’s valid alternatives now.