You realise Gen Xers are all in the 40-65 age bracket now, right? Nearly all way beyond the deciding-on-children age. And heaps of them own property (at least where I live).

I like how this comment would work regardless of the instance they’re on

I liked the old aibnb one.

Microsoft went from “boring with a bit of attitude” to just plain boring

Except eBay, that was always trash.

JaGUar

The conversation here is about mastodon

The vast majority of users are on general instances without demands like that. If you don’t want to join an exclusive club, just pick a sever that is not intended to be an exclusive club (I.e. nearly any of the big ones).

If bluesky ever becomes actually federated, won’t it have the same problem?

How do you come with an opinion like that from a domain like yours??

Yeah, it’s the bloody-mindedness that keeps you going

20 year Linux user here. Definitely more depressed than autistic (but not claiming to be 100% NT).

Also I just got given a macbook for a new job. Feels weird.

No please

It’s America

Wat

Wednesday. I’ve been doing that for years. It’s nice because it feels relaxing and still part of the work week, so still productive.

I can usually swap it for a Monday or Friday with a week or so’s notice, if I want to take a long weekend some time.

Also I get more public holidays than if I took Monday off.

I say “good luck” in a non-sarcastic tone to people whenever they head off on some banal errand. It gets some confused looks sometimes, laughs others.

Spotted the Radiohead fan

That’s a lot of people, I doubt you have the stamina

This is my favourite too. I have a very sesquipedalian friend, and I had the honour of introducing him to the word.

Lolwut? Didn’t realise they were serving ads on maps too, that’s hectic