Verisimilitude

Society if billionaires actually helped the people

Repairing what you have and passing them down as heirlooms.

If you are in a quick conversation with someone, you might feel the pressure to avoid any stretches in silence. Try to not feel pressured. Pausing for 15 seconds isn’t feasible, but one or two seconds helps a lot…

It breaks your train of thought, allows you to catch enough things—doesn’t have to be all—to formulate a measured response. If you want to go one step further, try not creating a response in advance and wait for your turn to speak. Instead, listen to what your conversation partner says and restate a quick summary in your own words before you advance the topic.

“9/11 would not have happened if America kept out of the Middle East” ahh energy

There are techniques to expand your working memory, such as chunking and spaced repetition.

I also follow this in offline interactions.

I’ll engage if two of the three can be answered with a “yes”.

1 - Is it kind?

2 - Is it true?

3 - Is it necessary?

For online-only conversations, assume that everything you say is public.

klapaucius

1. Can be blunt when something’s not right…

2. …but has your back when you need something to be successful

The Inca Chasqui system. Privately-run ones would perform much of the task

The various stick figures I drew during school

History will see the video game preservers as the good guys.

Two alarms, 15 minutes apart

A couple of exceptions to the trend are forums which enforce a barrier of entry and quality control

Resetera

I agree with the boorus. Some of the best tagging systems and implementations in existence

5%. Pray this timeline does not roll a 5 or less in a d100

Don’t use it.

If you have to, it could be as a search result from an engine.

I guessed Reddit’s trajectory would only go (mostly) downhill. I say mostly, because a few new features are useful, like comment searching. Awards are also back. Stayed in Lemmy because the community is more focused

Rice

ur-gir₁₅-re ec₂-dam-ce₃ in-kur₉-ma

nij₂ na-me igi nu-mu-un-du₈

ne-en jal₂ taka₄-en-e-ce

1. Are they useful and/or essential for you/your causes?
2. Is their funding model transparent?
3. Do they need more funds to hit their financial goal for sustaining themselves?

If all answers are “yes”, donate to them.