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- Comment on Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz 2 weeks ago:
Gotcha. I’m used to gold people being a little sketchy. My response is 50/50 money making vs stability, though for the same reasons. I felt it would take something cataclysmic to dethrone the US as the prime market force as a whole in my lifetime, and, well, it seems I may have been right, but I really didn’t want to be. If we’re due for stagflation or inflation, I need to ramp up my savings and growth, so it’s got me looking if now is the time to spread out to ex-US investments. I’m no stock bro, I just got to look out for the future happiness and medical expenses for me and my wife. 😐
- Comment on Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz 2 weeks ago:
YTD for Google and Tesla is down, but Meta is up, so it’s looking too early to see how the current goes with the new oligarchs.
For the big picture, while the US is still killing the rest of the world broadly on returns, the YTD is another story.
Gold doesn’t interest me for my needs, but US vs non-US is going to be worth keeping an eye on. I’ve been 100% US so far and have not regretted it, but this intentional sabotage of trade has me questioning having all my eggs in one basket now that certain people are punching holes in that basket.
- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 2 weeks ago:
I seriously worry about coming off creepy or insincere, or else I would shower you with praise more constantly! Your app has made my experience here so much better, and I’m grateful for the things you’ve added to it, sometimes I’m sure, just for me.
You’ve always been really friendly and helpful and lightning fast fixing any issues, and you obviously put a lot of time and work into developing and maintaining the app, and you don’t ask for money or have ads or anything.
None of the other apps are bad or anything, but I still think yours offers the most and the best for me, and how I don’t see Summit near the top of every best Lemmy app posts is crazy to me.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough reasons. If you’re doing custom ublock filters and such, you’re likely able to tweak a lot to how you want it without any outside help from an app.
I see in you rother comment to someone you haven’t tried Voyager in a year. I haven’t tried that one recently, but I will say even over the last 6-8 months, so many of these apps have really matured from where they were a year or so ago. Very significantly so IMO. I think Summit is really the sleeper champ of the apps for my use case, and the dev is super helpful and responsive.
To each their own though. I love we have such great variety in UI here. At this point, there should be a couple viable options for near anyone.
- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 2 weeks ago:
I’ve tried almost every Android app for Lemmy, and holy heck, do I love Summit the most. It does everything I need it to and more. It looks great. It’s responsive. And the dev is amazing. They respond to bugs, issues, and feature requests lightning fast. No ads. Not FOSS, which is the only thing I’ve seen anyone gripe about.
Been using it almost exclusively for a year or so now, and I can’t praise it enough.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 weeks ago:
What is wrong with apps? I get a lot of great features from the one I use that I don’t get with the web client.
- multi-communities
- user tagging
- drafts
- keyword blocking
- themes
- customizeable ui
- etc
- Comment on Peace Love Unity Respect 1 month ago:
That’s a really great owl!
I looked through your other projects quickly, and you make a lot of interesting and unique things. I’ll have to keep an eye out for more if you’re stuff.
- Comment on What do you consider the saddest anime? 1 month ago:
Other than Grave of the Fireflies, some others I never see mentioned are Saikano and In This Corner of the World.
- Comment on "SPY x FAMILY" Season 3 Announces October 2025 Release with New Illustration 2 months ago:
There is some good stuff coming up. There is a hostage standoff, Loid’s tragic backstory, and I thought the recent backstory of the school’s teachers was very touching.
I enjoy the family stuff as much as the spy/assassin parts and I liked the movie as it had a good amount of both.
If you want something similar but more action focused, Sakamoto Days anime is starting next month. Perhaps check that out then.
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 3 months ago:
A few apps have multi-community support where you can group whatever you want, how you want, in one stream. I’m using Summit, but I feel a few other of the bigger apps support it now. I group the AskLemmys, tv/movie communities and different art communities into groups so I can view by category.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 43] 4 months ago:
I really enjoyed season 2. I was looking forward to the arc that’s the second half since it came out in the manga.
If you like the show in general, you should enjoy the movie just as much.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 43] 4 months ago:
Watched Spy X Family: Code White the other night, and was very pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t expecting much, and went in mostly blind other than knowing it wasn’t based on manga content.
Animation looked great, and for a plotline that centered around the family going out for dessert, it turned out to be a very compelling story. It fit in perfectly with the regular anime/manga, and you could watch it wherever you’re at in the series without being lost or it feeling out of place. All 3 MCs got a good amount of story time as well, and a lot of side characters had appearances, so it’s not just an Anya story or Loid, etc.
If you haven’t seen it, but enjoy the show, give it a watch. It was a lot of fun!
- Comment on Ranma 1/2 (2024) • Ranma1/2 (2024) - Episode 2 discussion 4 months ago:
I liked them playing a bit with the animation styles in some of the reaction shots. The show feels old and new at the same time, which I’m enjoying.
- Comment on Uzumaki - Episode 3 discussion 4 months ago:
The animation seemed somewhat improved from last week. I still feel this should have gotten 2 or 3 more episodes, as none of the tension has much time to build before we see the climatic moments.
I’ve been reading Ito’s other works, and I feel a lot is predictable in many of the tales, not necessarily that you always know what’s going to happen and certainly not what it will look like, but more a 1) meet nice character(s), 2) meet the obvious creeper, 3) nice characters discuss the creeper and say nah, they can’t be as creepy as they seem, 4) your anxiety rises as you wait for the reveal, 5) Lovecraftian horror is revealed, 6) the end.
Step 4 is the one that sucks you in, even if it’s formulaic. It gets you invested in what’s going to happen. Without that time for the creepiness to bloom, it just feels like you’re working through the checklist.
I feel there’s some old comment about the CSI type shows where it’s always suspect number 3. You get introduced to some possible people, but if they always went to the first guy and they’re all oh yeah, this is the killer, the end, what’s the point? That’s what this adaptation has felt like to me.
I love a lot of Ito’s ideas, and the art style is great for his stories, but I feel most of the narrative is just there to string the creepy drawings together. I’m cool with that. But with the anime, you’re just on to the next scene before you get time to get creeped by what you just saw.
- Comment on Uzumaki - Episode 2 discussion 4 months ago:
This was pretty rough. I was already iffy on the first episode, and this episode felt even more rushed and disjointed. It jumps around so much I feel there’s no building that sense of dread.
- Comment on US ports strike causes first shutdown in 50 years 4 months ago:
Thank you, this is some of what makes me uncertain as someone outside, I have no idea as to which parties are actually receiving new benefits since most sources lump everyone together. It makes it very difficult to tell what has or hasn’t been accomplished and both sides can spin it to what they wish and most will never know the truth.
I do remember reading about the work conditions and just the logistical issues of having the job, and it did sound rather nightmarish and I had no clue why anyone would do it if they had any other choice. Props to those who do it, I’m certain it’s a crucial job, but it is not something I’m cut out for!
- Comment on US ports strike causes first shutdown in 50 years 4 months ago:
You can correct me if I’m mistaken, but even though the strike was shut down, that was not the end of the admin’s efforts on the PTO issues. It took a few months, but they now have a much better deal than what they started off with.
From the IBEW:
“We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”
That pressure, plus the IBEW’s ongoing efforts, is paying off at last. The IBEW and BNSF Railway reached an agreement April 20 to grant members four short-notice, paid sick days, with the ability to also convert up to three personal days to sick days. The union reached similar understandings with CSX and Union Pacific on March 22, and with Norfolk Southern on March 10. Unused sick time at the end of a year can be paid out or rolled into a worker’s 401(k) retirement account.
Under the Railway Labor Act, national railroad labor agreements don’t expire. Instead, the parties enter a “status quo” position: Workers remain on the job with no changes to their pay and benefits until a replacement contract is approved. The current national pact was first reached last summer by negotiators from the railroad unions, the railroads, the Labor Department and the White House.
Since then [the blocking of the December strike], several other railroad-related unions have also seen success in negotiating for similar sick-day benefits. These 12 unions represent more than 105,000 railroad workers.
“Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us,” Russo said. “He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave.”
Russo said talks are continuing toward reaching a sick-days agreements with Canadian Pacific and Kansas City, recently designated a Class I rail carrier by the Surface Transportation Board.
I saw in the other comments that @the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works is IBEW, so maybe they can confirm.
I still see this story popping up, but though it is true Biden blocked the strike, that things were handled satisfactorily a few months afterward.
- Comment on US ports strike causes first shutdown in 50 years 5 months ago:
What the union asking for sounds fair, given the circumstances.
I feel it’s more important to support the workers in this case, as it usually seems to be. They’ll be impacted by their own actions as much as the rest of us, so I’m willing to deal with some modest disruption potentially if it ends up with them getting fair treatment.
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 39] 5 months ago:
Not too much up my alley this season, so I watched Shikanoko and Plus Sized Elf.
I have one episode left of Shikanoko. It was unique, and fun for what it is. The songs were great. I enjoyed the antagonism of the whole thing. Would I watch another season? Not sure, but I don’t regret watching this one.
Two episodes of Plus Sized Elf left, but I’ve read the manga. Read it and watched it mainly to see what they’d do with it. At first, it seemed like they were going to actually put more health and fitness stuff in it, but it really fell back to drawn out scenes of slapstick nudity. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but I feel they could have done more with it. Also, many potato puns weren’t translated, so most will miss out on half the jokes. The translation I read had them all, and they were one of my favorite parts.
I will say, I really enjoyed the cast though. They all made the characters as likeable as they were in my head reading the manga. If you’re checking it out more for the curiosity than the nudity, it really isn’t terrible.
Somewhat off topic, but this season being light for me had me repeatedly going back to Delicious in Dungeon even though I was not really enjoying it. The characters were likeable again, but it felt pointless to me watching people eat fake food, though some monsters were really creative. I kept hearing wait until they get back to the red dragon, so I persisted.
Holy heck, did this show flip a switch to awesomeness! The back half of the season was great and I was left wanting more. The plot twists and the surprising backgrounds of the characters and new characters really made things come alive and give a much deeper sense of urgency and delivered much more than the episodic snack of the week format was doing for me.
If I had anything else even remotely exciting, I would not have stuck it out that long.
Looking forward to see what they do with Uzumaki and Ranma. Also see they have a Gintama special movie thing of the Kintama arc coming out, so that should be fun as well.
- Comment on What have your favorite underrated anime of the 2020's been so far? 5 months ago:
I haven’t read the manga, which my understanding is what the reboot was following. I watched it now out of curiosity, due to the original anime being one of my main gateways to anime as a whole.
If I hadn’t seen the original multiple times, I probably would have been lost at multiple points in the reboot. Characters seemed to pop up out of nowhere for unknown reasons.
My girlfriend had never seen the original, and she originally wasn’t paying attention as I watched this on my own, but after a few episodes she got pulled into it as well, so it seemed to make enough sense to someone unfamiliar that they’d at least be curious.
I enjoyed it mainly because it got me to think so many new things about one of my early favorite anime universes. It filled in a few gaps I had, such as I liked how we got to spend more time with Project Seeds and learned more about the Plants species and Knives’ overall goals.
It made my list because it exceeded my expectations as I was not looking forward to CGI animation and I was concerned about them “ruining” the story I had in my head, but the animation was beautiful, VA was great, and I think about the universe of the story more than I have in years.
It’s totally subjective what anyone else will take away, but everything else on the list I went into blind, with no expectations. Trigun I came into very biased due to my love for the original, and expected eww to meh, but as a whole, it gave me a great time.
- Comment on What have your favorite underrated anime of the 2020's been so far? 5 months ago:
Supercub Cestvs Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated Aharen Is Indecipherable The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting Do It Yourself Tomo-chan Is a Girl Trigun Stampede Insomniacs After School (read it but havent watched the anime)
Love/Hate: Farming Life in Another World
If we’re counting continued in the 20s: Golden Kamuy Ancient Magus Bride
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 36] 5 months ago:
I saw you had all the Trigun stuff, but not the recent reboot, Trigun Stampede.
Aharen is Indecipherable and Tomo-chan is a Girl are fun RomCom shows.
Golden Kamuy isn’t on your list, but it’s one of my all time favorites that I’ll always recommend.
- Comment on Pirate Streaming Giants Fboxz, AniWave, Zoroxtv & Others Dead in Major Collapse 6 months ago:
Goodbye 9anime. We’ve had a lot of great times together.
I await the coming of 10anime.
This year feels especially brutal for media liberation. 😮💨
- Comment on Cherimoya Fruit! 6 months ago:
I have some plants that have gone through similar phases of love too. Most of the ones I had been really excited to buy have turned out to be very particular and short lived, but then I have some plain janes that have been so drama free they’ve become my favorites since I got plants to have fun enjoying them, not to continuously nurse a bunch of sickly patients!
- Comment on Cherimoya Fruit! 6 months ago:
No problem, I was mainly curious if it was a tree, shrub, etc.
I looked it up and it seems to be a lowish tree.
Is it a difficult plant or does it need anything special?
- Comment on Cherimoya Fruit! 6 months ago:
That is amazing about the pollination!
I had a cherimoya once and it was tasty. I saved the seeds somewhere but never did anything with them, it is neat to hear it is an interesting plant. Any picks of the full plant?
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 6 months ago:
Totally agree with you. I feel bad for the young people that didn’t get to experience the Internet before business started to take it seriously. The Fediverse is a nice taste of those days though!
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 6 months ago:
I’m not sure what to make of your “helped me get through feeling much like OP”.
I’ve talked extensively with Blaze and others on the Fedigrow community about pretty much your exact set of bullet points over the past few months and the shine started to wear off Lemmy for a bit. You’re far from alone in feeling how you described in your post, as can be seen in most of the replies here.
I think it’s just taking a step back and being able to appreciate what we do have. We haven’t turned into some complete right/left hellhole, the top posts everyday add up to thousands of comments, we have some quality content providers, and some really fun commenters. I certainly wouldn’t be ashamed to show someone my Lemmy feed.
It’s good that you still have the drive to want to keep improving things around here in the ways you feel comfortable contributing to. Many initial hurdles to getting on Lemmy feel resolved, and so many in apps are equal to the Reddit apps for most use cases. Many initial accounts were probably from people trying to figure things out. I know I had like 5 accounts and only really use 1 now.
I think we’ve just hit a plateau for now. My personal feeling is working on the culture is our best way forward to be different than Reddit and to pick up more people looking to escape the toxicity. The time to set our tolerance levels for certain behaviors is now before we get too big to reign it in. We’re a pretty good group now, and I hope it stays this way or gets a little better like last summer.
I’m glad when I see people speak up like this though. It makes us all reflect on the guys and bad we see here and to think about where we stand ourselves in all of it.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 6 months ago:
You and the Fedigrow crew helped me get through feeling much like OP a while back. I think that was a really good idea, because it is tough and emotional at times doing what we do. It can be easy to feel alone when you put yourself out there every day and feel like nobody is around or like you’re doing something wrong and people are falling off.
I never set out to be anybody here, but I was done with Reddit, and wanted to keep something that made me smile continue on, so I just sucked it up and did what needed to be done. You guys make it worth it, and as long as the people that do show up are having a good time, I’ll do my part to keep the party going. I get old, pre commercialized web vibes from Lemmy, so I’m gonna stick it out here as long as I can, because this is the kind of thing you don’t just get anywhere anymore.
- Comment on How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow 6 months ago:
Appreciate the shout out as always! We have a great set of people here, and we should all be happy with this place we’ve built together, even if it’s still a humble, cozy place. I feel we have organic growth, and it will come in waves as Lemmy builds and improves. Just keep doing what we’re doing and we’ll be good!
