Raw in a salad. I find cooked spinach to be very unappealing, but raw is delicious.

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YES to Reaper. No surprise that the original developer of Winamp makes an amazing DAW.

Maybe you don’t like his music, but there’s plenty of us that do. “United Health”, for example, was the best piece of art on that subject, bar none.

It’s 100% about being on topic. It’s especially important when most people see the content in the context of a mixed feed where they might upvote a news story that they like without noticing which community it was posted in.

This comment from yesterday’s thread was perfect, I think: https://tkohhh.social/post/289633/1295767

To quote: “War is not uplifting. Fascism is not uplifting. Pollution is not uplifting. Murder is not uplifting. Famine is not uplifting. Bigotry is not uplifting. Genocide in particular is not uplifting.”

Any of those things ENDING is uplifting news, but celebrating because a despot stubbed his toe is not uplifting.

Also, I don’t think “catharsis” and “schadenfreude” are interchangeable. When people talk about schadenfreude they are specifically talking about feeling good because something bad happened. Catharsis is a much broader term that would likely be too restrictive for this type of community.

It loads fine for me, and apparently for 72 other people. If there are rules about what domains are acceptable, that information should be posted on the sidebar. Until then, votes will have to be a sufficient measure of what the community thinks about it.

I love the idea of a “Migration Museum”… we need more of that in the world!

Federation is a tool to connect instances together. If one instance isn’t being run in a way that you like, you can and should create an account on a different instance that better aligns with your ideals. Or, if you can’t find any such instance, then you can create your own instance. This is the beauty of federation!

Sure… stop by, I’ll give it to you!

If I have a $10 bill in my wallet, I would give it to literally anybody who asked me.

These are good! On my instance, my sidebar says “You can stay as long as you’re not being a jerk.”

“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” by Propellerheads has an amazing bass drop in the middle of the song.

I’m also partial to “Empire Ants” by Gorillaz.

Yes! It sets the tone for the show so perfectly. Just to satisfy my curiosity, I pulled up the first episode on Hulu… the new music gives a completely different tone. It’s terrible!

House. I feel bad for anybody who’s not seen it with the original intro music.

Interesting… if that’s true, then you can know what temperature each setting on the knob is.

I wonder if this is true for all electric ranges?

Is this true?? I always assumed that electric ranges simply had a variable duty cycle controlled by the knob. That would mean that if you want to get a pot up to a specific temperature, the fastest way is to set the knob to high until you reach the temperature, then reduce the knob to the desired temperature.

This is different from how an HVAC works, where you set an actual temperature and the HVAC runs until that temperature is reached.

But I could be totally wrong about how electric ranges work.

Parker, specifically the Jotter. I still have and use a stainless steel one that I bought in 1999 because I kept losing pens, and I thought that if I spent a little more on one I might take better care of it. It’s my favorite by far.

Gotcha… as you can see, it probably depends on who you ask!

“Echo chamber” definitely has a negative connotation, which is why I don’t think the specific-purpose group is acting as an echo chamber at least not insofar as they are keeping the group on-topic.

I’m assuming this is meant to be an example of a real-world scenario, and I suspect it would be helpful to hear the actual scenario so that we can comment on the nuances of the specifics rather than wondering if the nuances of the example are relevant or not.

But, to take your example at face value: no, I don’t believe the expelled rose-lover is correct about the tulip lover’s club being an echo chamber. The tulip lover’s club is about tulips… it’s in the name, and that’s why it’s members gather there. The rose-lover is coming in talking off-topic to the point that the members of the tulip lover’s club have found it distracting. It’s nothing to do with an echo chamber. I would probably expel someone from my chess club if they showed up and constantly tried to get everyone to play monopoly instead.