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This devout man believes in being kind to all God's creatures. However, if they try to invade his vegetable garden then he's quite happy to hand out advice on how to destroy the pests! His job is to watch lovingly over the simple folk of his parish, although some say he prefers to keep an eye on his beloved vegetables, especially the carrots.

I posted yesterday about this but even as friends, the guy I like, "Kieran", said he'd love to hang out with me sometime when we're both not busy!!!

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I have been trying to be more intentional and analog with the way I communicate, among many other things.

I like sending postcards filled with notes and observations about the place I'm in when I travel, but don't plan on traveling a lot in the near future to save some money (hopefully to buy a house), and it doesn't feel right to send friends/family postcards from my hometown... And nobody ever sends reply postcards, anyway.

I think it would be fun to try the penpal thing, break out some lined paper and see how bad my handwriting has gotten over the years of constant digital communication...

Anywhere on earth is fine, international postage for a standard letter isn't that expensive, and it'd actually be kind of cool to know our little papers are traversing the globe and crossing oceans like the good ol' days. All I ask is that you actually want to try and keep it up for a while! I have no idea what a good cadence would be, maybe every-other week? ~once a month? We'll figure it out as we go, I'm sure.

I just think it would be fun and exciting to try and get to know someone the long, slow way, completely separate from the barrage of light-speed communication afforded these days.

I don't want to commit to more than 2 people, I know myself and feel like I'd get overwhelmed with more than 2.

I've been told I don't but my dad snores quite loud. I haven't met a dad who didn't.

like i want to answer but i also just feel like staring and peeking through the little door window because people…

I would sleep through my pillow being shifted or taken, my phone buzzing next to my ear/face, or being poked/slightly shaken, but I would wake up to loud laughing, yelling, smells, and ringtones.

I just went to get a sandwich. The ordering is (optionally) done via kiosk. This time, the kiosk started suggesting items for me based on what I'd purchased before. I was initially puzzled as to how it could recognize me prior to any identifying information being input, then realized that there was a small camera embedded in the kiosk, and that it must have done facial recognition.

Identifying customers isn't new; I understand that facial recognition has been used by grocery stores for loss prevention, to help flag people likely to steal things. But I wasn't aware that it'd reached the point of sticking all purchases into a database, regardless of the usual methods to obtain a unique identifier, like loyalty cards or obtaining a phone number.

Assuming that this becomes the norm, short of wearing a mask

which is a pain, and runs into anti-masking laws in some areas

I don't see how one can realistically avoid having all of one's purchasing being placed into a store's database for data-mining. That kind of bugs me

I'd like to be able to do stuff like purchase a sandwich without having the store profile me.

Thoughts? Ways to counter it? Okay with this/not okay?

How are you all doing? Anything fun with your kids if you have any?

Today is my second cake day on lemmy!

There are exciting things on the horizon the rapid innovation of piefed, the addition of lemvotes, the amazing tesseract, the useful lemmy-federate, the comfort of voyager... lemmy has lots of promise.

Over these two years I've found some recurring characters here that I enjoy seeing, kinda a small town vibe - I like that.

This is a great place to be!

What do you like about lemmy?

• Manga is usually better than TV series, and TV series are usually better than movies
• Too many internal struggles that drag on and on
• Frequent flashbacks. Things that happened in the same episode they would have to remind you with flashbacks

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Could be any piece of trivia, scientific or historical fact, etc.