Thx a lot for sharing. I don't know the guy but he sure is very talented. It's also one of the greatest love declaration I've seen in a while. And he is quite spot on on so many points!
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Most certainly, but I would also not call that a fast food, not one that serves handmade burgers. Those are true restaurants.
We had one a few block block from us, it was real excellent. When they bring the plates to our table (we don't have to queue, and the place was nice and quiet, and comfy) it's almost like looking at a wonderful mix of poetry and painting that's made out of bread, with those little sesame seeds, overflowing salad, the pickles, onions, juicy and thick meat (they have true vegan alternatives) and fries that don't look like fat squishy toothpicks. Their burgers tasted good just by looking at them, and they're even better when you would take a bite :)
But they're also not that fast to prepare the burger, and a tad more expensive than the nearby McDo or whatever.
Idolizing the past (and long gone) 'grandeur' of some European countries is not the best way to prepare for the future.
edit: as a disclaimer, I'm European from one of those once important countries.
We have not gone to a fast food in the last fifteen or twenty years, if not more. Why would we? It's not welcoming, the food taste like... cardboard, it's rarely a pleasant place to eat, and people are often noisy. When we want to eat a burger, we cook it ourselves with fresh food. Yep, when we want to have some, even the fries are handmade. There is just no comparison.
this, or maybe take it to a repair shop to replace it’s battery and maybe the USB port as well.
yep, if at all possible that would be a better idea.
I would not keep any device with a fully exhausted battery just because a battery in a good working condition can already be a fire hazard. So, a depleted one who knows how it can reacts? I would properly dispose of it by recycling it.
a few days ago I tried browsing the All feed from my alt account and was... quickly back to my 'Subscribed' only mode ;)
There was so much porn/erotic and bizarre stuff, not even mentioning low effort content. I did not remember there had been that much porn last time I checked. Don't get me wrong, people are more than welcome to share and enjoy whatever they fancy but now even more than before I still think the 'All' timeline should come with an explicit and very visible warning saying that unlike with more centralized social media there is almost no filtering and no control of the type of content that is shared and that one will be exposed to stuff they don't like.
A few people have posted in !journaling@sh.itjust.works. So, it's not just me posting new content anymore, and that's a huge step in the right direction. Yeah! (edit: and it's great content, btw ;))
The subscriber count is also slowly growing (we've reached 280, I have not noted the base numbers but I would say we're 50 more subscribers if not more), which is great too.
I still would love to see more activities going on. I mean more comments and new posts non-authored by me. Obviously, that would be easy for me to write more posts but I really don't want to give people the false impression I 'own' the community—I don't, I try to encourage more activities that's all. I know Lemmy is much smaller than Reddit; in their s/journaling they have around 2 millions subscribers which is a little more than our grand-total of 282 subscribers ;) but I would say one new post a week or every couple week would be great.
A few days ago, like I announced, I replaced the old banner/icon with new ones to celebrate the beginning of a new year. Beside one person that commented on my first proposal a couple weeks ago (after which I almost completely changed said proposition) there has been no reaction beside very few likes. I even mentioned I kept the old set so I could easily put it back in case they preferred it to the new one. I'm no designer, so maybe it's just trash and people are too kind to let me know, or they simply don't care? It's hard to tell without feedback.
Happy New Year !
Happy New Year to you, and everyone here :)
I really need something fun to do that I enjoy.
You won't know if something is fun if you don't give it a chance. Have you tried anything already and how did it went?
so please recommend something inside my comfort zone
I don't think you told us what was your comfort zone?
As an alternative, I can tell you what I enjoy or have enjoyed doing. For years, I was into making scale models. That was fun... because I liked that a lot (always was into war planes since I was a child). I'm very much interested in playing chess and DIY (fixing stuff, even electronics, woodworking,...). I'm also much into taking long walks (a few years ago I was barely able to walk at all. So, yeah, some activities can have life-changing effects). Learning foreign languages too (that's how I learn(ed) English).
Above all, I'm a reader. I have been one most my life and will be one till the day I die. Do you like reading? Have you tried reading?
To put that question into perspective, I don't think I ever really experienced real boredom in my life. It's just alien to me. As a reader, I always have something interesting, exciting, or at the very least something fun to read with me. Like I told you, I love to take long walks but even when I go out for a walk you will never see me without a pocket book, just in case I need to wait and have time to waste. I also carry a notebook (I write) and often, I will also carry a sketchbook (I'm no artist, I just enjoy sketching stuff).
Have you checked where is located your closest public library and got your card to start borrowing books? In my country, France, they're free for book borrowing (one needs to pay for borrowing movies and music only).
What books could you read? Well, are there some kind of stories or type of content you're more interested in? Say, science-fiction or fantasy? Love stories? Historical or war novels maybe? Or would you find more interest in reading essays, history, sociology, or reading biographies? Whatever. If you really have no idea what light interest you, well, that's one reason more to get your library card: most librarians are nice people who will welcome you and help you make your first reading steps, no matter if you're a little kid that just started to read or an older dude like I'm ;)
Don't want to go to the library and meet real people? No big deal, use their ebook borrowing service instead, you just need an account and a computer.
It certainly is not, and that's my whole point. You don't need to go to a fast food to eat a burger. That said, it's not that long and it can also be a lot of fun doing it with your spouse, like we do, our with friends. A lot more fun ;)
And if's because of time constraints one goes fast food, one can easily prepare something (much better) at home for their next day lunch. My mom used to that for me when I was a kid, like most moms would do back then, and I have done that countless times when I used to work normal office hours and had a very busy job.