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Reddit refugee. I'm glad there's an ActivityPub alternative. I hope to become a part of this community.

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I think I have photographed a Royal Tern. These 5 images in a collage are all of the same bird. Seen at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware, USA in July 2023.

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Also, say why. I would prefer to see subscriptions because I come here to see what's popped up in those magazines, not what's in some other magazines.

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You may have missed the "Save" button at the bottom of the settings page. I missed it the first try. :-(

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That's perfect, Arth. Thank you.

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Would you want to be responsible for checking IDs over the internet? No sane company would want to be responsible for getting it wrong.

Also, would you be willing to send a scan of your drivers license to a porn website? Any website?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
"Oreo was created in 1912 as an imitation of Hydrox."

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This would work, but it would be better if you had to pay for by the miles on your vehicle rather than tolls on any particular road.

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Adding mass transit, incentives for work-from-home, etc. are all good. Taxing miles driven will reduce miles driven. Just taxing EV miles to make up for lost gas tax revenue probably won't affect miles driven, except for EV drivers. It provides no new reason for GVs to drive less.

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I have to enter data into payroll for when a teacher covers a class for an absent teacher. Usually, there are 5 teachers who I pay for one hour each. Each teacher has an ID number.

To pay one teacher I have to enter their ID number. Select their job code from a drop down list, tell the database I am adding to it by choosing or entering A in a box. Then I have to pull the date from a drop down list. Then I enter the digit 1 (to pay 1 hour). Then I enter the ID number of the absent teacher. Then I enter the sub request number created by the absent teacher. Then I click "change."

I have to do this for all 5 teachers that covered the class. One-at-an-effing-time.

If I had a "dev" handy, I would say, let me enter the ID, date, and job number for the absent teacher. Let me list the 5 substituting teacher id numbers, and the 1 hour should be the default.

Of course there will never be a 'dev' around because my county purchased the payroll software and no one who is anywhere near using it gets to make the purchasing decisions.

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I will look at that, but I am not sure it would work smoothly. The interface requires me to "Inquire" after two of the steps.

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I'm not a baseball park expert, but I have been to 4 major league parks and I have to say, Fenway Park is painful. I believe a cabal of chiropractors has been preventing a modern park from being built in Boston. They talk up the historic nature of the place and convince people that singing "Sweet Caroline" has anything to do with Boston. This way, all the people that sit in the grandstand, twisted and bent by the impossibly cramped seats, will spend months recuperating at the hands of the very same chiropractors.

I went to Fenway many times as a kid in junior high and high school. I remember how much worse it was then (piss trench, anyone?) and I do love the spirit of the fans that filled the park tonight. But my back is mad at me and is going to make me pay. I'm not even six feet tall and my knees bump against the row in front of me in a $60 grandstand seat.

When I get back to Maryland I'll have two high quality parks to choose between (Camden Yards and Nats Park). Sure, you only see really rabid fans at these parks when the Phillies are in town (or the Mets. Or the Dodgers, ffs), but at least the hometown fans in DC and Baltimore can be drowned out by "Let's go Phillies" in relative comfort.

Boston, you're a great sports loving city and you deserve a modern ballpark. You can have nostalgia (memories that evoke wistful emotional pain) for the famous days gone by at Fenway, or you can keep the park and have physical pain.

As for me, if I can't afford at least Loge seats, I won't be going to Fenway Park. I know Boston won't miss me, but at least I'll be able to stand up straight after the game.

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I've been on Mastodon for little more than a year. People here have been generally polite and give each other the benefit of the doubt. I have yet to see a "flame war" as we used to call it on USENET. But Mastodon (and Kbin and Lemmy) instances will have to decide if they will federate with Meta's new platform. I'm pretty vehemently opposed, but my Mastodon admin seems to think we should wait and see. So here we have Meta, which hasn't joined the fediverse, has already begun fragmenting us. Is that our fault? Maybe. But I don't think we're the problem.

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I have been writing to my county school board to ask them to abandon twitter. It is used by principals, coaches, and others in the county system all the time. I explain that the values of the school system do not align with the values demonstrated by the platform. So far I've heard crickets back. :-(

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I'm sorry, but I CANNOT agree. Coffee smells MUCH BETTER than weed. In fact, I think weed smells terrible. It reminds me of skunks. I would much rather smell coffee.

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But, Brawndo has what plants crave. It has electrolytes.

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What? Haven't you heard about trickle-down economics? Are you saying trickle-down doesn't work?!?!

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I can't stand searching for a product on Amazon anymore. If I really want to use Amazon, it's much more efficient to find the amazon link using duck duck go.

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I don't know what's best, but I have been following the hashtag via Mastodon.

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I also like Tusky for Mastodon because you can also use it to open up your Pixelfed account.

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I don't care for Karma-farming, but I liked having some way to tell if someone was a real community member or a throw-away account. I liked that there were some subreddits that wouldn't let you post if you had low karma because it helped hold back the trolls.

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Yes, that's true, too. It's hard to strike a balance I guess.

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Can you click the link in the OP? I can't seem to figure out how to just add the picture. Sorry.

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That mutt wearing the sign is fine with dogs. It's people that make him anxious. He's lived with me for two years now, and will kiss my hands to greet me but STILL flinches if I reach out to pet him.

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As comic Stephen Wright once, said, everywhere is walking distance if you've got the time.

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