You just broke the first two rules of Fight Club.

It kills me how much more of it there’d be, and how much better off we’d be in general, if we weren’t forced to spend so much of our lives working for other people.

This one simple trick will get you any product for free! Retailers hate it!

I used to work in CS for a cell phone provider. The most memorable call I had from that experience was a woman who spent over an hour yelling at me because her daughter had ordered a $1200 phone upgrade without permission. She was absolutely sure that it was illegal for us to charge her for that, because her daughter was not authorized to use her card, and because her daughter was under 18.

She didn’t want to return the phone, because she didn’t want her daughter to hate her. She just didn’t want us to charge her for it.

“Yeah… they really lived.”

-Secondhand Lions

Anything you submit is public. If you delete a comment, you’re only deleting it on your local instance, and it’s still saved in the database / visible to admins. Private messages are visible to admins.

Treat it like a public phpbb forum from 2001, not like a secure, encrypted means of communication. If you wouldn’t want other people seeing what you post, don’t post it, plain and simple.

(It’s just as “safe” as any other social media, which is to say, it’s not. Use discretion, be intelligent, and think before you post - this goes for the internet as a whole, not just Lemmy.)

At least he’d be able to afford really good therapists.

I’d give my kid a gun and tell him to collect and feel no regret about it. Fuck it, I’m dead anyway, might as well leave a legacy.

a little more expensive

This is a gross understatement. Companies usually pay 50% or more of the insurance their employees get.

None of my business, but maybe you should focus on what’s causing you to fail in school first. I get that it’s the summer, now, and there’s no classes, but if there’s certain subjects you’re falling behind in, there’s resources online to get caught up in those subjects before the fall. What’s your situation? Maybe I can offer some advice.

You could hold a yard sale and try to sell your stuff, but you should talk to your parents first, because… they might not appreciate that.

Depending on how old you are, there might be businesses offering part time work over the summer. What the age limit for that is, and what additional requirements there are, will vary based on where you live.

Do you have any potentially marketable skills? For example, web development for small businesses is something you could potentially offer that would pay better than yard work and generally be less tiring.

I use “Bang”, too, if I’m trying to verbally say it, though… that very rarely comes up. If I’m reading it, I don’t internally “pronounce” the symbol at all. If it was verbal, though, the above link would be bang tech at pawb dot social.

That is very useful! Installed!

If you link directly to the full URL (including the instance), you’ll take anyone who clicks it to that instance, and they won’t be logged in. This is usually not what you want. Example: https://pawb.social/c/tech - This link will take you to my instance.

If you remove the instance URL, and just leave /c/communityname@instance - for example, /c/tech@pawb.social - the link will still take you to the community, but you’ll still be on your instance. This is usually desirable.

Basically, instance -> community = link to that instance. Community -> instance = link to the community in whatever instance the user clicks it in.

You can also use ! instead of /c/ - I think this might work better for Kbin users (since they use /m/ instead of /c/ - can’t verify this). In that case, it’d be: !tech@pawb.social

If you go to the lemmynsfw instance and just pre-emptively block all of the communities, it mostly disappears. Folks are (at least on my feed) being pretty good about keeping it all there.

If you’re navigating to another community on their instance, you won’t be logged in. When you’re seeing that, check the URL. If you’re on lemmy.ml, you’re still on your instance; if not, you’ve navigated to that instance.

There’s multiple ways to structure links, some of which will take you to that community via your instance, some not.

Could it be phishing? Sure. But far more likely, you’re just on another instance where you don’t have an account (or at least an active login).

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, who claimed in 1980 that a dingo killed her baby while she was camping. It was ruled as a murder, but after many years, a coroner’s report confirmed that, actually, a dingo had killed her baby. The phrase ‘A dingo ate my baby’ became a very, very early equivalent of a meme at the time, and continues to show up in media occasionally.

Mushroom and swiss burger and a large curly fry.

I don’t know where this is but I really want to; it’s hard to find a decent mushroom swiss burger around here that doesn’t cost $18.

This is great, too - this or something like it should really just be stickied on every instance. This answers so many questions that get asked.

This is great - I wish I’d known about this sooner.

The awkward thing about this is that as soon as someone does subscribe to that community, it’s visible to everyone in the community browser. So if you suddenly see some weird shit start appearing, you’ve got to look around and wonder who it was that caused that to appear…