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That song gives me a physical revulsion every time I hear it. It's more than just disliking a song. This is something that tries to pretend it's a song, but ultimately isn't. It's unsettling. Like if a monkey skinned a person and dressed in that skin and carried on as if it were a person.

My Pal Foot Foot is a monkey wearing a human skin-suit and trying to be a human.

From an old reddit comment about this song. I don’t think it’s that bad, but maybe time has made it grow on me.

One downside is that Teslas are uncomfortable. I liked them a lot circa 2016, the Model S used to be my favorite vehicle. They simply haven’t held a competitive advantage, or in the case of the 3/Y, are genuinely quite bad. I’d rather pay more for something better, and that was before the CEO became this.

I got my original ones from this unethical company that put them in tiny sealed enclosures. Well, from a gift shop that was selling them. When I realized how unethical it was later that day, I made a quick plan to break them out.

I’d recommend getting them from good breeders. There’s an eBay seller GotSnails who was, when I left reddit, a large contributor. Messaging him on Reddit was cheaper than the eBay store back then since he’ll just send an invoice. There’s also the supershrimp store.

They do breed in tank conditions! My original ones bred after the breakout. It can take a lot of time and some work making sure your conditions are good, but mine didn’t require anything.

All I did was get:

• a tank (well, a jar)
• some algae from supershrimp store. They don’t eat this algae but they eat what grows on it.
• some calcium carbonate pebbles which they need to molt successfully
• substrate for visual variety
• some rocks for them to hide in
• a test kit. Most don’t do this and it’s alright. I was just paranoid. It ended up being totally unnecessary in my case.

They’re a lot of fun and I highly recommend it. Feel free to respond if you have more questions or want specific links to what I’d do if I was starting afresh. You can choose from any ethical seller though.

Oh, I have shrimp. Mine are near zero care opae ula; I top off the tank with distilled water occasionally but that’s it. Well, and I have them on a light cycle so the algae grows.

Still, if anyone is interested or feels like shrimp would improve their lives, feel free to respond and I can help set up a new tank. Mine are truly near zero maintenance though so I don’t know if it would be a profound life change like OP’s.

I haven’t heard that it’s high risk either, merely that it’s usually miserable. Part of me wants to know what that feels like though.

Honestly, hats off to those who enjoy it

I’ve long been interested in this and dph for the large number of “don’t do it” stories. Same with h, but that one tends to be “don’t do it because it’s so good”.

Don’t think I ever will, but stories like yours always give me a tingle.

What? A Model 3 starts at 42k (without the tax credit) or 299/mo for a lease. That’s below average for new cars in America, or significantly below average if you qualify for the tax credit. KBB says the average for a new car in December 2024 was nearly 50k.

And sure, not everyone can afford a new car, but very few Tesla buyers are “that kind of income” wealthy.

One thing I really like about the Lucid Air is that the big screen retracts. Makes it look and feel quite different, almost like an older car without the big screen.

Important controls like seats, temperature, and volume/pause are physical. So you can have the big screen when you want it, and it goes away when you don’t. More cars should do that, though the additional moving part probably isn’t great for longevity.

Yeah like. I want a large community and stuff but. The idea of a new Reddit preferring community is weirdly repellent.

I really don’t want to hate on their preferences but also holy shit.

He dropped like a thousand of them. He was using it regularly until sometime in the 2010s.

Eminem is weird cause he leans left but will use any word— save for n word and now f— as long as it rhymes or fits the scheme, then does nearly nothing else offensive. It’s like words are exempt from his morality.

Very few reasons to get a Tesla when Lucid exists. I can think of three good ones— price, software reliability, and concerns about the company’s health— but these aren’t enough to overcome the icky feeling of funding Musk and his aspirations for me.

I don’t get why anyone would stay on a site they thought reason wasn’t allowed at.

I’ve been frustrated several times at what I perceive as Lemmy bias that borders extremism, but on the whole it’s perfectly reasonable. Essentially every response to the parent comment agreed with it (I have yet to see someone disagree but perhaps I haven’t scrolled enough).

Lemmy isn’t big enough to feel you need to stay, as Reddit was when comments like this were plentiful.