Christopher

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

UK here, 'year of 2022'. My school which is bulldozed now to make way for a trendy 'academy', was pushing the America style graduation in year 11 (non UK context - the last year of high school. We usually didn't "graduate' at the end of the final school year, you would just get your certificates and go join the workforce at 16, or attend optional further education)

We had a prom, to which I did not go. It was all very cringey to me. Kids in my school were already throwing house parties and getting drunk. Why would they need a soft-drink fuelled school disco? A lot of my year didn't attend. We also had that school's first ever yearbook. Not sure if it continued.

It's probably more ubiquitous now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And if you don't have Premium (or just love audiobooks I'm general, wishlist the item on chirpbooks.com and when it goes on a 30-day sale you'll get notified, where you can then buy it for like 90% off. I love this service and it has changed the way I consume audiobooks. Like audible without the membership.

it's currently US$18.99 down from $20 if you have no Spotify and are unable to wait it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just noticed the middle tines of the fork are snapped off, allowing for easy insertion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say I despise them, but the other negative emotion I have is feeling depressed at having been a burden that they decided they wanted, of their own free will, to help me. I hate it, it's so backward. It becomes a spiral of feeling melancholic for no reason and it just becomes a depression feedback loop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The further down the rabbit hole I go, the more I'm questioning what I thought was 'normal' and what is actually a trait. Who knows, maybe it's dyscalculia. I do mix up the number 9 and letter N, for instance in a reference or ID number I have to remember.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I can I can't??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Boost also had this handy feature where you could tap a button to see the parent comment. It would open a popup/modal window displaying the comment with the usual updoot/downdoot, quote/reply and parent buttons - so you could easily repeat the process and read the parent context up to the root.

That was handy in long complex threads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The definition of a 'risky click'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You're gonna make it really difficult to jump on Boost for Lemmy when it comes out. Maybe I'll use both apps, or use Voyager on a specific device and Boost on another. 🤷‍♂️ I have been impressed from the get-go at how ready wefwef/Voyager has been since migrating from reddit. Not a fan of iOS, so I'm interested in having the in-app switch to change OS 'themes' in the web app framework you use!

Thank you for all your hard work and effort you have put into this app!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

+1 for both displaying on Android, Voyager 0.21.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Block out the Sun!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think silver-haired white guy has been on-brand for professional autocue readers though. That is changing a little bit, but I think it's the majority - at least until the grandfathered contracts run out (the likes of Huw, Eamonn Holmes etc) and the Beeb, Sky and ITV diversify. I don't watch too much rolling news but I think the BBC at least are already doing this with their news output.

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