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Hypervigilant supertaster and bibliophile. I am not a bot! I am a human being!

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I don’t care as long as they don’t take away NotePad. NotePad has useful features I’d hate to lose - such as stripping out all formatting, and being able to search/replace wildcard characters as themselves, rather than as wildcards.

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Wouldn't e-bikes be a relatively stopgap measure? They still require a relatively advanced and carbon-wasteful technological base, after all: maintenance and repair for the bikes themselves (including regular replacement batteries, which are definitely NOT environmentally friendly), plus paved roads in good repair (again, requiring a lot of fossil fuel expenditure).

There's also the likelihood that as the Earth's environment becomes increasingly hazardous we'll require protection from the elements more and more often - protection which would be difficult to add to a bike of any sort.

The US military has projected that basic infrastructure in the USA will be collapsing throughout much of the country in less than twenty years. It's hard to see how ebikes will be practical under those conditions. Gearing towards long-term lower-tech solutions would seem to be a wiser choice.

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Yes, a LOT.

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I'm in the same place without having read that piece you mentioned. And I'm not going to be looking it up.

As I see it, climate change is the greatest threat the human race has ever faced. It makes World War II look like a squabble in a kindergarten playground. We should all be INCREDIBLY impacted by this, and yet everyone keeps going on as if nothing is happening.

But I think 50 years is a little bit of a narrow time frame. More likely we'll all die within 100 to 150 years. I mean, our species will go extinct.

Lately I've been thinking about what a sane society would do to try to mitigate the worst effect of climate change, while preparing society for the world that's coming. A world without fossil fuels or basic infrastructure.

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Those sociopaths have weighed down this sorry planet for far too long.

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I'm using Jerboa for Lemmy, version 0.0.35.

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Jerboa is crashing more and more frequently. I'm getting maybe five minutes between crashes now.

BobQuasit,
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Imgur is heading for an IPO too. And they're going to be purging all NSFW content. In other words, they're busy committing suicide.

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I was part of a group that left Goodreads when they sold us out to Amazon and Amazon started censoring reviews they didn't like. We set up a community on Google Plus to research alternatives to Goodreads and secondarily, to Amazon itself.

I set up the spreadsheet we used to track our discoveries. It's WAY out of date, but it's still there - unlike Google Plus.

It didn't exist back then, but BookWyrm would by far have been the best choice. It still needs some improvements, but it's already outstanding.

I'm BobQuasit@bookwyrm.social there, by the way.

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I want to abolish work, not reform it. Reforms always end up getting rolled back by the plutocrats.

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Kbin?

Loren, (edited ) to RedditMigration
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Well I finally deleted my reddit account, and all of my subreddits, so I guess an introduction is in order!

Hi everybody! I'm an artist, and occasionally a writer. I wrote for a progressive publication for about 6 years, and learned a lot in the process, but haven't written much since. Here's an article I wrote in 2017 about decentralized social media. Please be kind, I had only been writing for a little over a year at that point! But let's focus on THIS point in time right now, the one where we are actually seeing what I wrote about come to pass. It is wonderful to see!

I went back to painting full-time 2-3 years ago, and never looked back, although I did pen an article about AI art during that time, and a blog post about the painting style I developed in 1993.

Here is an example of one of my paintings, it's called "The Lovers". I am loving being here!
[EDIT] Kbin is not letting me link an image, but the one I was going to link is the stickied post on my mastodon profile.

Here's my mastodon ID: @lorenhall
Here I am on Lemmy: https://mander.xyz/u/Loren

Thank you!

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Welcome to the free world!

YolkBrushWork402, to literature
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What is your favourite book?

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Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling is the story of a boy coming of age in colonial India. Kipling grew up in India himself, and the sheer richness of the many cultures that Kim experiences as he travels across India and up into the lower Himalayas with a Tibetan llama is mind-blowing. Meanwhile Kim is drawn into the "Great Game" of spying between the European powers. It's a deeply moving and beautiful book. Best of all, you can download it for free in all the major ebook formats!

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I find it strangely hard to care about the fate of a handful of multimillionaire tourists when hundreds of refugees died last week due to the indifference of the Greek authorities - and the media barely noticed.

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He's finally part of the "in" crowd. Notice that both Republicans and Democrats are pretty much eager to avoid looking at his crimes; instead both parties are just fundraising off of him.

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My 10" cast iron Lodge skillet. It's great! And don't believe all the people who claim that you have to devote most of your life to taking care of your cast iron. They're cast iron for God's sake! Pioneers took them all the way across America in their Conestoga wagons. Just don't leave them wet or stick them in a dishwashing machine, and you're fine!

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I can't imagine how a smaller person could cook with one of those things. It's all I can do to lift it to dump out whatever I've been cooking.

I saw a much bigger Lodge skillet in a department store; maybe it was 15 in, maybe more. Anyway, I couldn't even shift it with one hand. It took two hands just to move it, and it wasn't easy!

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"Good content"? You mean like the stuff that's on Facebook now?

The Weekly Radio Address of President George W. Bush (parody from The Onion) (archive.org)

I downloaded these every week from The Onion. They're incredibly funny. There are 40 files available. These are generally unavailable online, apart from some which can still be found on the Internet Archive. As far as I know, this is the most complete archive available anywhere.

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Yes, Infinity. Actually I used the official Reddit app until all of this hit the news. Then I deleted that app and switched to Infinity. When infinity goes, I'll delete it and I'm done with Reddit except on an alt account on my desktop. And that will just be for correspondence.

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That seems unnecessarily complicated! But I appreciate the info.

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