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For the dads that exercise, what’s your preferred time? in c/dadvice

[–] footprint 2 points 1 year ago

I talked to my therapist about this exact thing last month, and I came away with two things:

Schedules will always eventually fail once you're trying to account for 2 kids
It gets better (eventually)

If the morning works for you, treat that like your default. But, if you have a rough/unexpected morning, give them (and yourself) some grace and see if you can squeeze it in after bedtime.

If you're losing motivation because of the disruptions to your schedule, I feel that too; I've tried to zoom out a bit and focus on my numbers for the week / month instead of day-by-day to take myself out of that mindset as much. Hang in there dude 👍

What's a good song to play on a bar's jukebox if you wanted to annoy everyone? in c/asklemmy

[–] footprint 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sweet Caroline - play it 4-5 times on repeat, then give someone false hope by throwing something in the middle before you hit them with another 4x repeat. We did this at a local ice cream shop in high school and it convinced the staff the machine was defective. They unplugged it for a few months afterward.

California governor signs law raising taxes on guns and ammunition to pay for school safety in c/politics

[–] footprint 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This seems like a really cool thing to put onto law, but I wonder 1.) If it'll actually survive federal review, and 2.) If it'll make a meaningful difference in the amounts of gun violence in the state. I feel cynical for saying this, but I just feel like the central role guns play in the American mythos makes it really hard to solve this cultural problem with taxation and educational campaigns.

Do you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts? in c/nostupidquestions

[–] footprint 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First lemmy post!

Speaking solely wrt Lemmy, I think what's going to happen is we won't get the "brand recognition" of the technology like what Reddit has had. But, we'll probably see instances get closer to that sort of broader familiarity. So someone might not exactly identify as a lemmy user, but maybe as a Beehaw user.

Anecdotally, I had to try a couple of times to fully "get in" to a Lemmy instance because I didn't know that the hell I was doing. I had tried using gerboa as my client but couldn't understand why I couldn't log in or register on an instance. Then I tried again using liftoff, and it kind of clicked more easily.

Maybe email felt like this in the early 00's? I knew what I could do with an email address (e.g. sign up for MSN and AIM), but I had no idea how to get an email address until I had my siblings walk me through it. I think if any instance can pull off a killer onboarding experience, they'll become the Bandaid, Jello, Kleenex, etc of Lemmy.