Have a GOP family member.

I said, “immigrants pick our food. Do you want that job?”

His response? (55 year old fat man) “I picked fruit when I was in my 20s!”

I said two things, 1 then go pick fruit now! 2 ever drive by the fields (very rural area)

His response? 1 nah I’m too fat and lazy 2 well yeah but only because they won’t hire whites 🤣🤣🤣

Trumps significant decrease in work visas (California) did indeed have non immigrants step in… And quit within a few weeks. The jobs are too hard, demanding and difficult.

Our economy functions and always will function simply because we do need immigrants.

PS he’s gotten so much better at not being a GOP these last 3 years!

For me it is this. When I was married he didn’t understand when I would request reminders to go to the bathroom, shower, eat, do laundry. He laughed. He thought I had dementia.

Nope just adhd with a swiss cheese memory.

I wad on a discord with 20 people. After ten minutes I left. How anyone had a conversation is beyond me

This has been my biggest complaint. Wanna read the discussion? Be prepared to dig for it. It’s awful.

The largest thing I’ve noticed right now is there’s almost no new content. Like at all. There was some repeating but not like right now.

I’m a mod and almost none of the small subs I mod for are transitioning off of reddit as yet.

I do need to learn to mod here…

Wait. So this is only if you post a image based comment?

20 years ago these were great. Now? Ye gods I’m too old for that tiny stuff.

I have several subs that I mod that the other mods want to remain open. I get it. I really do. So I keep notifications on and mod as needed but spend my time here.

I had to learn quick. All I kept seeing were a bunch of nakey young women and nakey anime!!

Can I also hide here?

Yup just read that. I’m pretty ticked off. They’ll hit the large subs first then trickle down to where I’m hiding

How is your son? 😁

You can’t actually convince them that the way they think is wrong. They’re programmed at this point. Refusing to give them an echo chamber is the best option.

Mod of small (~26,000 users) sub. We’ll be staying dark indefinitely. Talking to my other mods for other subs and recommending they do the same. We’re tiny but hopefully it sends a message to our users.

Remember secret Santa?

I was talking to my tech kids (programmers for a very well known company) I told them how puzzled I was. The guy that created secret Santa was gung-ho to create a new one the second reddit announced they were closing it down. Then he disappeared.

The kids then explained non-compete and why it’s always included with contracts.

Reddit closed secret Santa down but wouldn’t let him bring a similar thing back.

Why? What is wrong with them?

PS this is conjecture only I haven’t spoken to him as he truly is MIA

I have had long hair my whole life. It was a drastic change and yeah it couldn’t grow fast enough.

I’m glad she’s leaning into it!

Segue into haircut.

I went and got a spiral perm thinking it would be the perfect curly I’ve been looking for… It wasn’t. My hair was over processed. I knew how to deal with that from my kids bleaching their hair. I dealt with it for almost two years.

I went to a beautician and told her to cut the perm out. I was over it and the damage.

I left work with hair that when straightened went to the middle of my back. I returned the next day with hair just below my earlobe.

Turns out that my hair follicles had changed and now… Well I will never need another perm the rest of my life.

Hair grows and changes. She has the chance to rock a Mohawk (if this is no longer what is called I apologize). Or dye it the rainbow! It’s short so it’ll grow out quickly!!

Now if the time to have some fun!

How many subs went dark? The link is not showing that as of 1445 PDT

I know that even after my small (~26,000 users) went dark I STILL received a spam posting!

So dark means nothing to spam bots unfortunately

I have gardeners who visit twice monthly for the front yard and they’ve been instructional and helpful with the garden. They weed it and tell me how much to water it and other care needs.

They cut my frustration and work by 75%. Highly recommend hiring gardeners.