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Much lighter than the other comments, but waking up to the Luka Doncic trade was nuts

The biggest reason I started reading more (went from 2-3 books a year to 2 a month) is just to avoid using tech in my free time. I noticed I get way more relaxed in general and have a better attitude towards life if I’m reading more

Forums are still alive in ultra niche communities. My favorites: Badger and Blade for wet shaving, Snuffhouse for snuff tobacco, Quantnet for quantitative finance. All of these gather way better content and users than their Reddit counterpart, which usually devolves into memes and pic of the day stuff

Idk, I’m on lemm.ee because I tried sh.itjust.works and just never got an email. It is frustrating when it happens

Is it, though? You aren’t contributing anything to the local economy or culture while simultaneously stimulating gentrification…

Europe is not a country and historically the internal cooperation we see today is the extreme exception. Any of the countries could flip at any time for a multitude of reasons, and then what? France just dominates?

Yeah, “EU” solutions to security just seem so naive. Do we really expect a German national to put their country’s security on the line if need be? Long term, what would prevent French, German, Spanish, whatever exceptionalism from rising and infecting EU leadership?

Breaded, deep fried cheese. It’s just fat on fat on fat, and for some reason it’s spammed in every burger where I live

I just stumble upon them using Kagi search and phind.com

Forgot about BGG! That one is amazing, too