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I believe either. In Jerboa (what I’ve got handy at the moment) it’s under Settings, [your account name]'s settings, and then its in the middle of the whole bunch of switches towards the bottom.

There’s an option to hide bot posts in your settings. So far everyone is playing nice and labeling their bots as such, so that’s probably the easiest way at the moment.

It’s how they kept everything from dying when they killed third party apps. They openly banned and replaced mods that were keeping their subreddits locked. It was a shitshow, but unfortunately reddit still exists.

Also in the vein of rock: Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline version) - Ministry

1:30 in, hold onto your ass

Cool, I was wondering what all the stuff about food forests lately were talking about

Not often enough. Been to two Protomen concerts and Weird Al’s first “laid back/retirement” concert. Always buy at least one piece of merch.

So less than one a year. Was going to go to the Flaming Lip’s Yoshimi anniversary concert, but life got in the way and I couldn’t snag tickets.

It’s something my wife and I talk a lot about, but life keeps getting in the way of us getting out to them.

We get out to local opera and classical music stuff a little more often, as my wife is somewhat involved in that scene, but I assume most people don’r think of recitals as concerts.

I enjoy it, it’s a decent twist on “nerd boy meets girl who brings him out of his shell” that mixes japanese occult with aliens, a small bit of high school slice of life, and shounen anime type battles where cleverness wins. Characters are written well, imo. Good humor.

That said, the season ends about an episode and a half past where it probably should have, on a particularly ugly cliffhanger when there were a few better cliffhangers they could have ended it on just slightly earlier. And there are two scenes, one in (I think) the first episode and one in the last episode of the season that are needlessly exploitative (not the best description) of a teen girl.

Girl is moments away from being raped by an alien probe, with alien tech-penis visibly inching towards her in the first episode. In the last episode of the season, same girl who has now regularly been a self sufficient ass kicker gets cornered in a mixed hot springs and for arbitrary reasons suddenly can’t defend herself as she begins to be assaulted. Her head is held under the water as it cuts to black and the season ends. Just yuck. Apparently in the manga it’s not even the end of a chapter, so the anime runners went out of their way to end the season on that.

That said, part of the inciting incidents of the show is a ghost stealing the male mc’s penis. So it’s not entirely one sided in terms of the sexual ick, but it seems to dwell on the shit against the female characters like it wants that to be titilating. There’s no cheesecake/fanservice shots of the male MC mid-sexual assault, but there are of the female characters.

… most places outside of major cities? I’m seeing ~$580k in some of the upper middle class new construction neighborhoods in my area.

The point being made is that it isn’t very different. Focusing on the technicalities ignores the broad strokes of it. Missing the forest for the trees and all that.

The discussion of Bluesky’s flaws, drawbacks, misleading claims of “federation”, etc… has already been done to death.

This also isn’t debate club. “What I’d like OP to address” good god.

But in the interest of good faith, here’s the cliff notes: It’s run by a corporation headed by one of Twitter’s original founders, and there’s not significant evidence it will not fall to the same path to shittiness that Twitter did. It is only technically federated, not actually in practice. It is not fully open source, as key portions of the infrastructure code have not been released. Of the portions that have been released, it is nearly impossible to run your own node due to the major amount of storage space required. Beyond that, all communications must ultimately go through BlueSky’s centralized infrastructure. There’s no point to running your own node because their centralized infrastructure won’t talk with it. No one has actually been able to do anything more than host their own profile in regards to federation. At this point there is no financial incentive for them to invest money in solving the issues preventing it from being able to be truly federated.

Most of all, mastodon already exists as a mature system for federated microblogging without the major drawbacks of bluesky.

Then get a laptop and a phone. No one needs a tablet.

OP said jack shit about the US.

I would have loved AI to fill that need as well, but it’s not an adequate tool for the job.

Pokemon ROWE (Randomized Open World Emerald) is great if you like randomizers. All options are configurable in game.

Realistically, just check the featured hacks amd yearly award winning hacks on PokeCommunity. They’re all great.

Lemmy is small and still somewhat insular, so certain topics tend to get more content than others. You can solve that issue by blocking what you don’t want to see (by community or by user), and most importantly: participate by posting content yourself.

We don’t have anywhere near the amount of users that you can treat this place entirely like reddit and just expect the content to just come to you.

Edit: Also, if you don’t like how a community is run here, there’s most lilely another version of it on another instance with different community mods. There’s a ton of “ask lemmy” communities out there if you don’t like lemmy.ml’s moderation style.

The tradeoff for no ads and no corporate incentives is that you have to put in just a little bit more personal effort to curate the experience you want.

Gender being a construct doesn’t mean you can’t willingly put yourself into that pre constructed idea, you can be whatever you like. It’s prescribing it to others that’s fucked up.

Thank you. That was the point I was trying to make. Anyone can be whatever they want. Categorizing others is the problem, and one that feels especially wrong for me to keep seeing come from the LGBTQIA+ and ally/adjacent communities (please don’t nitpick me on terminology here, my point is that it seems to be coming from the people who I would expect to be better about this than other groups).

As others have said: filter filter filter. Lemmy is small enough still that you can massively curate by blocking communities and even users where you don’t like what they post.

Yeah, this sort of shit has gotten under my skin since identity stuff started exploding into public discourse.

If gender is a construct, why the fuck are we still using traditionally masculine and feminine actions/interests to prescribe identity? What gives anyone the right to prescribe someone else’s identity?

Not the commenter, but Christian as well. Consider myself non-denominational, but attend/worship at an Episcopalian Church. The hobby comment isn’t entirely untrue, but there’s more meaning to it than that for me at least.

Most hobbies don’t have such an outsized influence on my life. The hobbies that could would cost a lot of money.

This is all vague as it’s been years since I played, but grinding is pretty much your main way. There’s no tricks or minigames to max out EVs, IVs, etc at least until postgame when you unlock the Battle Frontier. They didn’t start heavily leaning into those QoL features for another few gens.

Don’t be shy about using legendaries or your starter (or other “OP” Pokemon), and maybe try to build your team for type matchups. It was also assumed by the design that you’d be using healing items and revives at least between battles.

Some HMs are legitimately good moves. If you have money to spare there are also a good amount of powerful TMs you can buy in various places and move tutors.

Also, there are some mons that just suck due to low BST.

This is from before they nerfed difficulty down to be beatable by anyone who picked the game up. It’s not kaizo by any means, but you can’t just mash A either.

Good luck.