Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 126

Whenever I've been in charge of a community that I've created, it always collapsed because I wanted to take it in a direction that they didn't like. To avoid that, I gave the snabeltann.no instance a board. As it turns out, people won't actually bring things they dislike up for a vote. Instead, they'll try to convince me, and since I'm very stubborn, they'll fail. Yes, insisting on a vote is quite confrontational, but it's designed to override stubborn guys like me, so make use of it.

In discussions with the other board members on snabeltann.no instance about shutting it down . None of the members are keen to maintain it anymore, the users never really came, and it's a bit awkward to be the only high volume tooter on your instance. At one point it became so awkward that I set up news site bots to fill the void. The other guys didn't like that, unfortunately, so that created some animosity. It never succeeded in becoming the community I had wanted.

How To Be A Hipster: https://m.wikihow.com/Be-a-Hipster-%28Teen-Boys%29

I love these WikiHow tutorials.

How To Be A Hipster: https://m.wikihow.com/Be-a-Hipster-(Teen-Boys)

I love these WikiHow tutorials.

PC vs Mac vs Linux users.

I should become a computer game. Everyone loves computer games, except for me.

@rsolva Spoiler warnings? Well, see, this is when it starts to get difficult, because what else might people want to be warned about? That's specifically for people who watch TV shows. Do you really perceive spoiler warnings to be that important? I was sort of trying to keep it to universals in order to avoid too much specificity, because at that point, you're suddenly adding a button for everything.

If that's called a man crush, I think I've also had them for women. I love them, but I don't actually want to sleep with them, because that part of the chemistry is missing.

I've thought that I wanted to sleep with a few women that I've felt that way about, but then it turns out that I didn't.

Has anyone else felt love and admiration, like a crush, toward people belonging to a gender they're generally not sexually attracted to? Like, you don't want to kiss them or sleep with them, but they somehow still give you butterflies?

If so... What's the deal with that? Is that what you call a man crush?

I'm usually cautious about using words like stupid, ugly, greedy, foolish or retarded about other people, no matter how deserving they may be of such labels. If I really do need to criticise a person, I try to find somewhat objective ways of doing so. Objective as in describing their behaviour and hoping that the problem with it will be self-evident to my audience. When I do want to be subjective, I throw in phrases like "I personally think" and "It seems that".

"I'm quite optimistic that in the future there will be less national wrangling, less Brussels-bashing and more unity in EU policy making - even if that is hard to picture today."
— Stefan Wolff, professor of political science, 2005

Oh, how wrong he was...

I tried sriracha sauce on pasta bolognese. It was all right, but I think it's a better fit for foods that originated in Asia, the southern United States and Latin America.

I kind of want there to be more than one kind of content warning, because there are some fairly innocuous things hidden behind a lot of them, but if you set Mastodon to always display sensitive content, your feed is suddenly full of hardcore pornography.

It's hard to make categories that fit everyone, but a good start would be Sex, Violence and Controversial, and I'd want to unblock Controversial.

One time, I overheard my boss talk about someone who had left our startup to open a meeting space for hackers that serves food, and the other guy went:

- A startup? She's not making a startup. She's making hummus!

Then everybody died.

Stop. Hammer time.

*whack whack whack* AAAAAAAAHHHHH! *whack whack* OH GOD *whack whack whack* STOP!

...is what I picture when I hear "hammer time".

Sriracha sauce should be known as ha-cha-cha source, because it's HOT.

@Dragouine I don't think it would work very well on dishes with gravy or white sauce on them, or lamb and cabbage stew, or waffles. Well, okay, it would work for people with weird tastes, but you know what I mean...

@shivvi I bought it after it elevated a few otherwise mediocre Asian restaurant meals for me, so my natural impulse would be to put it on wok food. I'm wondering if it could work with Tex-Mex or Italian.

I bought some shriracha sauce but I don't know what to put it on.

@shivvi Now I want to know what decidedly unchill plants are like...