Whoever said that socialism meant “No healthcare” or “Unaffordable food and housing” was lying BIG time.
It was quite the opposite.

Hostile? Yes, in the sense of purity spirals spiralling. Sometimes.
Insular? Maybe, but I already know I live in a bubble.
And then there are communities on Lemmy which feel both hostile and insular to me, like the one with “cars” in its name…

Dickbutt? Loss? Come on, there must be something hiding in there…

Meanwile MorphOS booting up and shutting down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIgybl6LfqU
The jingle at the start is the Mac’s own. The shutdown is so fast, you’ll miss it if you blink. No services, no demons or whatever.
(That was 2013. I’d argue it starts up even faster now.)

Didn’t Trump want to devalue the dollar to make exports easier? Here’s his chance. He could just tank the entire US economy like he tanked his casinos, making a select few filthy rich in the process. Then buy the dip and when the economy rebounds, him and his cronies will have another payday.

It’s probably been mentioned many times already, but here it goes anyway:
“If you put a clown onto the throne, the clown will not turn into a king. The palace will turn into a circus.”

I haven’t found proper grammar check in my native Danish yet

LanguageTool has it, but I cannot vouch for its accuracy.

Captain Planet

So this is how I find out that Ted Turner has died this May.

The Amiga.
The latest update of AmigaOS was October 2025. MorphOS (which I’m using): January 2025.
The latest “complete” new hardware I’m aware of is Apollo Accelerator’s A6000 from September 2025.

You can also see where the Baltic Sea meets the North Sea. Waves are rolling in from two directions.

EDIT: Looking further into this, the Kiel Canal which connects Baltic and North Sea is by some metric the world’s busiest canal. TIL!

Looking this up, I just realized that Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon were different people.

I guess some people really like giant roosters… and eggs.

Job ads.
To hell with all the bullshitting.

Its central location means you share borders with eight neighbouring countries, making it effortless to cross into new cultures within just a few hours.

Oh, you are right. I never even noticed. Germany has 9, and I used to think that’s a lot.
So I guess both AT and DE play in the same league as MUCH larger countries, like BR, CN or RU, in terms of connectivity.

Hmm, I don’t know. Vatican?
Come on, give us a clue, please.

People sometimes focus on the bad things way too much. At my company, we just had elections for our work council*. Not many other countries, especially outside of Europe, make it possible for you to regularly elect a part of your management, let alone enshrine this right in their constitutions. And the council finished a LOT of projects to improve working conditions in the past few years, and more is to come.
Anything else? I’m about to leave and go to the park, so in short: The weather is splendid today, and despite living in a very dense and exciting area right in the heart of Europe, the good and continuously improving environmental regulations - including noise management - make me not even mind the busy highway nearby too much.

* Betriebsrat

So… how much fabric is in these chain-mail bikinis, exactly?
Because without any, they’re basically going to be see-through, right? Not that I would complain.

Working only from memory here: Maine is the US state with the least intense sunshine, as measured in W/m². And it is STILL above the European country with the most intense sunshine, Spain.

American defaultism

Concidentally, as of lately, Reddit has seemed more “dead” to me than usual.
And that’s not even counting the egregious “cloned threats” where, within the span of one or a few days, the exact same comments, but with all-different user names, are being copied underneath two headlines with similar topics; or the weird, LLM-written and machine-translated comments that very badly match the topic at hand or the OP they’re replying to, something that’s especially obvious if you visit non-English-language subs.