My old boss used to die of cringe any time I started humming this song at the office.

Seems like you have perfectly valid concerns regarding the logistics of making such a move. Have you brought up these concerns with him? If so, does he acknowledge them or ignore them?

Ah, well that’s not ideal. I’m surprised just disabling the “Quick fixes” list resulted in ads appearing again; that didn’t happen for me. Have you tried updating the filter lists after disabling the “Quick fixes” one?

If uBlock Origin was working fine until recently, you can try this workaround (it worked for me when YouTube suddenly started showing me “Ad blockers are against YouTube TOS” messages):

Open uBlock settings in Firefox, go to “Filter Lists” and uncheck “uBlock Filters - Quick fixes” under “Built-in”.

Then click “Apply changes” and restart Firefox. Hope this helps.

Is it as interactive as Lemmy or is everyone kinda shouting into the void?

I’d say it’s a somewhat different kind of interactivity than Lemmy. Your typical Mastodon user won’t have many followers, but that doesn’t mean you’re “shouting into the void”. Similar to Lemmy, you can comment on (reply to) others’ posts and lots of other people can join in the discussion that way.

Is there an equivalent to communities?

Not really, but you can follow hashtags for whatever topics you’re interested in. Or follow an account for something you’re interested in (e.g.: organizations, weather, hobby news, content creators, etc)

If not, how do you find stuff you care about?

Follow people/organizations/tags that you find interesting and their posts will populate your feed.

And is reblogging the equivalent to upvoting? Is it like a like and share in one?

Not necessarily. Reblogging (“boosting” on Mastodon) is just putting more eyes on someone else’s post by sharing it; it isn’t equivalent to an endorsement per se. You can favorite posts on Mastodon, but I don’t think there’s really an equivalent to a “like” or “upvote” button.

Do they have memes there or what’s the range of content?

The range of content is as wide as anywhere else, memes and all. Can vary from instance to instance, though. (e.g.: code of conduct on mastodon.social may be different from fosstodon.org’s)

How does it compare to bluesky? I have used bluesky but the tone there is kinda shallow imo, rarely any meaningful interactions.

I haven’t used bluesky, so I can’t comment on this one.

IMO most of the songs on their first album, “Songs About Jane” (2002) are good. “Harder to Breathe”, “Sweetest Goodbye”, “The Sun”, “Shiver”, and “This Love” are all bangers as far as I’m concerned.

I dunno what I’d consider the most “technically accomplished” song on the album, but it’s definitely one of those. (“Sunday Morning” and “She Will Be Loved” from the same album are also good songs, but I wouldn’t consider them in the running for their most “technically accomplished” tune).

Howdy

One time when I was much younger, I borrowed a trailer from a buddy to haul around some stuff that wouldn’t fit in my Jeep.

When I initially borrowed it, my friend set up the hitch and locked it in place. I figured I’d be able to do the same when it came time to return it.

Well, I didn’t do it right. I got on the road to return the trailer to my friend, and about 1000ft down the road, the trailer popped right off the hitch and started barreling down the road behind me toward a car.

The car stopped before the trailer hit it. A guy got out, grabbed the trailer, pulled it up to my Jeep before I could even say anything, and hitched it properly while I was apologizing.

He just said, “No worries” and went on his way. What a cool guy.

This happened to me one time like 15 years ago. I was sitting on a bench and a pay phone next to me started ringing. I picked it up and the local police department was on the other end.

They said they’d gotten a 911 call from this number. I said this was a pay phone and they were like, “Oh. Are there like, any kids or teenagers around?”

I looked around. There was a big group of teenagers maybe 30ft from where I was sitting. “Yep, there’s a few nearby.”

They said, “It was probably them. But we’re gonna send someone by just to make sure everything’s okay.”

A few minutes later a cop came by and asked if I was the person they spoke to on the phone. “Yep.” He looked around and verified there was no emergency and then left.

Yep, lol. “Hack the planet!”

Probably “The Core” (2003). I saw it in science class in 8th grade and immediately thought it was the coolest movie ever. Years later, I saw people online ripping it to shreds over its inaccuracies, but I still enjoyed it for being a fun disaster film with an enjoyable ensemble cast of characters.

Not quite. You understood that the blue character was correct. You just missed that the joke was that yellow was wrong.

I think the point of the joke is that the yellow character has fundamentally misunderstood the statement provided by the blue character. They erroneously interpret, “All squares have four sides” as “Squares are the only shape with four sides” because they are not good at parsing rigid, scientific statements (since most people are not particularly scientifically literate).

I think OP’s comics are meant to reflect the frustrations of conversing with people who simply don’t understand what science/research/studies/etc actually say.

Enjoy!

Oh boy, I’ve been collecting these for years. Finally my time to shine!

DM or reply if you want more stupid pictures.

I think I was fairly slow before learning home row typing. I just hunt-and-pecked whenever using a keyboard. We got our first computer some time around 1998, so I was introduced to computers a few years prior to taking the typing class.

Just a standard QWERTY layout. Nothing fancy.

I took one typing class in 8th grade and became faster than 99% of typists. Can sustain about 145wpm for a typical paragraph of text, but can burst up to 200wpm for shorter, simple bits of text.

Not a particularly marketable superpower in this day and age, but is a fun flex once in a while at the office.

I was being sarcastic, lol. It’s a play on the “you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty” gag.

Episodes of Rick and Morty really hit close to home in a way that normies couldn’t possibly fathom. It’s a blessing and a curse.