Me too. I found unilem who’s policy is explicitly not to defederate from any instance. I prefer to be treated like an adult and allowed to decide for myself who I block.

These are the movies I can always watch again.

• Gladiator.
• Casablanca.
• In the Mood for Love.
• Lord of the Rings.
• Matrix (first one only).
• Sin City.

If I’m on a plane scrolling to find a movie to watch and I see any of those I stop right there.

Just be very careful if you do this. If you leave your local SIM card active and someone calls your local number your phone will ring and if you answer it you can pay huge roaming charges.

The exception to your rule may be the boomers who grew up learning how to program without OOP or a modern IDE, who could manually correct an error in a punch card with sellotape and who could write a complete accounting system to run on a machine with 32K RAM and no hard disk. Now get off my lawn.

This person gave a cogent and reasoned reply to the question and allowed us to see the reasoning of people on the other side, an opportunity rarely afforded to us here. And your response is an ad-hominim attack? Really?

Sad to see that our voting here is just as messed up as it was on Reddit. People will downvote a sensible cogent reply because they don’t like the politics of the poster. Then they’ll go and upvote a braindead 2 word comment like “fuck Trump”. Lemmings indeed.

57 million users a day

A lot of the things mentioned here are enjoyable, (caffeine, sugar, social media and yes, masturbation), but most people are not addicted to them. They simply do a cost-benefit analysis. Take smoking. I used to smoke 3 packs a day and it was very enjoyable, but the risk of getting a serious illness (or giving one to someone else) outweighed the attraction, so I stopped. Across the US smoking rates declined massively over the last few decades, so it seems many others had the same idea as me. I would do the same if anything I really enjoyed turned out likely to do me great harm.

Now I drink coffee every single day. I eat lots of sugar, (but I also do bucketloads of exercise… I run 50 miles a week for instance). So the probability of harm is small. I also drink a beer or two most days. Sometimes for work I have to travel to remote camps and spend a couple of weeks without a drink. Doesn’t bother me. But I do enjoy the first beer when I return home just that little bit more.

Maybe I wouldn’t be as happy as I am now. My wife and I started a small business 20 years ago which became moderately successful. We managed to save and invest enough to have a very comfortable retirement … I don’t know if it counts as “rich” but we certainly feel rich. And the best thing is we earned it and we we earned it together. And we had a lot of fun along the way.

Sticky toffee pudding. Unfortunately a diet of only sticky toffee pudding would result in “forever” not in fact lasting very long.

Except when you have a boner. Your only option then is standing and using the trajectory method.

As someone who grew up in the sixties, “groovy”

Unilem has a policy of not defederating from other instances. As a user you are expected to block things you don’t want to see.

I moved from lemmy.ml to unilemmy who specifically don’t defederate from anyone. So they treat people as adults who can decide for themselves what they want to see. If you don’t like something just block it … simple.