Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: July 7th, 2023
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  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Which do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship?
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    4 days ago

    @DominatorX1@thelemmy.club

    To build off this. Part of why people, who come off as reasonable and decent in person, can get so…very…VERY unhinged online is that

    Tap for personal opinion

    you don’t have to see the reaction of the people who read/hear what you’re putting out there. Even in places where you don’t actually have any real anonymity, there’s an assumption that because no one is in the room with you while you madly smash away at your keyboard…well… People used to say there’s no girls on the internet…I feel like most people just type whatever like there’s no PEOPLE on the internet…

    TL;DR - can’t see people being disgusted with what you just said.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•/mu/ Anon listens to the radio
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    4 days ago

    HA! MAY CAR IS WAAAAAAAY NEWER THAN YOURS!

    …2006.

    When I bought it, it had an even cheaper android stereo in it. When I was looking for a interim replacement before I spent over £100, I found the one that was installed when I bought it…for £12.
    Ended up with an ~£80 deck that came with a half decent reverse camera, which was almost the only requirement for me other than Bluetooth.
    I honestly kinda wish it had come with a tape deck, being on the edge of old I still have a bunch of tapes. Used to have a load of CDRs, but rot got them. 🤷
    I have about 60Gb of music on my phone, I’ll occasionally switch some of it out for new stuff. I had Google Play Music back in what is now considered “The Day” and now I pretty much refuse to use any streaming service.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol
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    5 days ago

    TBF, I absolutely should have used them, but I was cooking for 25 people, and honestly totally forgot about them. I was rushing about with the BBQ, into the kitchen switching out cooked pizza for uncooked and trying to catch a sip of beer in between all that… As a result the salmon came out amazing, slow smoked at 60° for 3 hours because I totally forgot about it until the wife would occasionally say: the smoker’s not smoking!

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•meeting people on my solo vacation through canada
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    7 days ago

    See, I grew up in Vancouver, and I always thought exactly the same. Then I moved to the UK and realised that it’s only cold for Canada. There’s loads of situations where I’d normally have a chat with someone, in line to buy groceries or a coffee, but try that here and people look at you like you’ve grown a third arm.
    Another thing that still trips me up after 5 years here is internalising the fact that when someone you see often but don’t really know isn’t actually trying to start a conversation when they say “you alright?” it’s just the same as saying hello. And good luck getting directions if you’re lost.