[Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation

Without fail the class would end a few minutes early. As soon as I started making the sounds it was like dominoes. Ten minutes left in the lecture but everyone has all their stuff put away and are putting their coats on. I think of this often. May this knowledge set you free a few minutes early.

Been transitioning from Reddit, and Lemmy is such a godsend.

No more subreddit hoarding and mod abuse (mostly). The decentralization makes it nearly impossible to exploit and abuse.

I finally get to create a community that isn't a bunch of subreddits controlled by the same mod network. Working hard to build it up from scratch (and unapologetically taking inspiration from the good posts in each subreddit).

Is there a convenient way to find communities related to the subreddits I'm subscribed to, without manually searching for them? Looking for some kind of smart pseudo-import/export feature.

To discover communities: !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

I haven't used a clock in years that I need to manually reset. Older people don't seem to realize clocks on phones and other devices reset automatically.

What is a sub/community that you wish existed (actively) on Lemmy?

Maybe there are others like you and we can actually get it running, or maybe to already exists but you just don't know!

I posted a few weeks ago about how I didn't feel like quitting reddit just yet. and, honestly, I still have a hard time not opening my phone every five minutes to check it.

but I decided to quit because I realized how much of a negative echo chamber it was. I couldn't even mute certain words on the reddit app so I had to keep seeing the same shit over and over again in the popular feed.

it'll be a long road moving from one platform to another, but I'm pretty satisfied not being strangled by reddit's overwhelming snark and negativity.

dunno if anyone here feels a similar way, but felt like sharing my thoughts.

Feel free to have a look at

• !movies@lemm.ee
• !showsandmovies@lemm.ee
• !animation@lemm.ee
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From sundown March 7th to sundown March 8th

I know, that's already here for most everyone.

That song or sound that refuses to leave your head?

I've been out of my apartment for a couple of months while it's under renovation, and basically living out of a suitcase in a furnished apartment.

Now I'm moving back in and need to unpack all my furniture, etc. It just feels like so much stuff that I don't even remember having!

How do you deal with that in your own lives?

The Roman dodecahedron is an item that has turned up in a lot of sites where people do archaeology. While most items, given time, have their purpose easily or at least approximately deduced by researchers, the Roman dodecahedron's purpose is largely baffling to even the most studied of archaeologists, who have no idea on where to start with it. This in turn would probably baffle the Romans, who would have seen it as a common household item, no different from a spoon or a comb.

Suppose a few thousand years from now, archaeologists were excavating our remains and had varying degrees of success deducing what different things were for. If you had to guess what common household item of ours would stump them the most, what item would you guess it would be?

One of my goals for this year is to fly more, and fly further. I've got Mauritius, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea at the top of my list.

I know some people find airports to be stressful or a chore, but there's something about just sitting in an airport cafe in the early hours of a sunny morning that gives this vibe I can't really articulate. I just love it. I'm still like a little kid whenever the plane is taking off, and even in cruise I just can't get over the fact that we're travelling in a metal tube so high above the Earth at incredible speeds, and we could be on the other side of the world in less than a day! Getting a window seat is a must!

It makes me feel really proud to live in an era where it's possible for us to fly to one continent to the next within hours...

Its starting to warm up a little. I used to go metal detecting a lot when I was younger but fell off the hobby. I figured my toddler nephew would love digging holes in the dirt and playing with the tools as we hunt for some ~~scrap metal~~ artifacts in the back yard. We had such a great time and I got some good exercise in.

Metal detecting is a finicky hobby, honestly one not really suited for hyperactive children with short attention spans and addictions to instant gratification. There are no gaurentees you will be finding anything in the ground. If you do get a hit you need to get lucky with the plug/hole placement, get lucky its not too deep into rock soil, and just plain old get lucky its even an object you can take out and not some ghost blip in the soil. I'm lucky my nephew is the right age to just enjoy playing with dirt and the rolly-polly pill bugs we dig up.

Given time, effort, experience, and statistical diceroll you'll eventually find something interesting. Always a great time pulling out an object encrusted in dirt and cleaning it away to find something youve never seen before. He was so excited to pull this out of the ground! We made a racket over it as we raced in to Clean it off and the neighbors dogs were real interested lol. Very nostalgic and special experience that I am grateful to have.

We found a old stake too but that's not as exciting as this thing. My mom thinks its like a gas valve cover. My dad thinks its a large vehicle fuel cover. I don't know. Thinking of submitting it o a what-is-this community.

I think were gonna be making lots of holes in the back yard this year! It would be cool get a display case for all our findings even the tabs and aluminum can scraps.