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Have you ever rekindled a friendship after losing touch? How'd it go?
  • Two friendships that I can think of, one was rekindled, one wasn't and I'm not thinking of renkindling it either.

    The first one was because my friend moved to another country and we just lost touch. I talked to him after about a year, he got angry at me because "why didn't I write before", I just Uno Reversed his ass and asked him the same question and he said "damn bro u right" and started talking again.

    The second friendship, he started using me as his chauffeur, he was invited to my house at 3pm because I had university tests the next day, he showed himself up at 11pm with someone I didn't know and I had to let them in to stay the night because my country wasn't the safest.

    He got drunk that night, made a mess in my house and left the next morning without saying shit and he was supposed to be my best friend. After that I straight up stopped talking to him.

    Nowadays, my "best friend" has moved away from 3 different countries because he's a drug dealer and he's always using the product he has to sell or losing it somwhere and several people are looking for him, he lost 5 kg of cocaine in Argentina. The reason I know is because the first friend I mentioned in this comment is also a friend of his and he actually keeps up with his antics.

  • Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
  • I was working at a small gaming studio and talked on the phone with German Garmendia because we wanted to make a game featuring him and his staff. He's a youtuber, I think he was called "the pewdiepie of latin america" or something like that? He had way too many subscribers, I think about 50M

    He was a nice individual from what I remember, very hard working and friendly. I think he was recently "cancelled" though but idk I don't keep up with those things.

    I didn't meet him per se, we just talked on the phone, and he's not like... A hollywood celebrity or amything but it's the closest I get.

  • Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now
  • How does he get to charge for the original icon? How the fuck does that even happen?

  • How do y'all upload such large collections to services like Soulseek?
  • If I remember correctly, I think under File Sharing there is a limit of how many queued uploads and how many megabytes of queued uploads per user you can put.

    You can reduce both amounts so people can only download a specific number of uploads or s specific number of megabytes at once so your computer doesn't use so many resources.

    The other option is to set your folder to private and let people send you a message and ask you if they could download from you. I know some people set it to 2-3 uploads per user and if your internet just struggles to download things they limit the MB.

    That's all I remember, sorry if what I'm saying is a bit confusing as my primary language is not English and I haven't used Soulseek in a while!

  • I am sick and tired of characters not communicating for the sake of drama
  • My wife has been watching Good Morning Call on Netflix and asked me to watch it with her and this pisses me off so much, makes my blood boil every single time, they can't have a single conversation about their situations.

  • What movie did you rewatch most often?
  • Just one, Interstellar. I don't watch a lot of movies but that one just hits different, I've watched it 7 times, could watch it again.

    I saw Matrix 2-3 times when I was a kid, but no more than that.

  • Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a week
  • I mean, to be honest, I feel like it's the quality of the content in there. I used my old phone (the one I use for apps like threads) to get a threads account and people are using Threads as if they're using instagram.

    For example, you see a pocture of someone or a drawing, you get into the post to see the 45 comments people left and all of them are:

    Comment #1: "Magnificent 🥰😍" #2: "Amazing 🤩" #3: "WOW!! 🔥🔥"

    And so on.

    At least in twitter there is more "discussion" (albeit toxic and usually useless) or at least more people sometimes talking about interesting things.

  • University professors in Texas are suing the state over ‘unconstitutional’ TikTok ban
  • I'm not a US citizen so I'm not sure how this works, so if I say some stupid shit you can call me out on it, but, is it not a ban only in state devices/networks?

    Why is that impeding researches/studies? What is stopping them from just using a personal device on a personal network, or at least a "work" (but still personal) device/network?

    I just don't understand that part.

  • From the long long ago in the before times
  • I once told someone they couldn't park their Ferrari behind the restaurant I was working in because it was the place where the trucks would unload the food and he would get a fine.

    He just replied with "it's ok, the fine is just what the parking lot is charging me to park there then". I said I would call the towing company and he said "ok, I'll just Uber home and pay to get my car back".

    I then thought that I wasn't paid enough on my job to deal with that shit so I gave up. Honestly, having a lot of money in this world is like cheating.

  • What is the craziest thing that's ever happened in your life?
  • It certainly helped me stay away from the family after that! The family told me "your belief was not strong enough, that's why it didn't cure your arthritis". Sure...

  • What is the craziest thing that's ever happened in your life?
  • Venezuela, where I was born (although I don't live there anymore). However, there were way more Santeria small sacrifices (chickens) in Miami, FL when I used to live there, walking by the streets and actually looking at the bushes next to the streets you realize it's really common, every now and then you find a bloody plastic bag with a beheaded chicken/rooster and hanging chicken legs.

  • What is the craziest thing that's ever happened in your life?
  • Backstory: I met my first girlfriend when I was around 17. Then I met her family, and during that time, O developed arthritis.

    The pains were really bad, to the point that some days I couldn't even stand up from my bed. One day, her parents called me and asked me if they could "help" me.

    This is where the story starts, they said they were part of a "religious group" and were called Santeros (so they practiced Santeria).

    The thing is, at the time I was so ignorant that I didn't even know what that was and didn't even make the effort to find out for some reason.

    They told me they could take me to a guy that could pray for my health and whatnot. Since I didn't want to sound rude, I agreed and we went to the place.

    The man (priest? Idk) kept insisting he knew I had noghtmares and I was afraid of someone chasing me, to which I kept insisting that that was not the case. Yhe whole experience was weird.

    But then he told my girlfriend's parents that he wanted to see me again because he meeded to "perform" to be able to help me with his prayers.

    For some reason, I didn't even pay attention to this and just said sure.

    A week goes by and I am going, again, to the same place with priest with my gf's parents. The difference is that, this time, there is a giant box in the back of the car.

    I get there and they take me to the second floor of thr place. The floor is completely messed up woth dirt all over the place and weird artifacts, cockroaches, spiders, and a hole on the rooftop.

    They tell me to take my clothes off (except my underwear) and pray to a god (I think it was called Oshun? I don't remember).

    After chanting and praying, they tell me to lay down on the ground looking up. I do so and they proceed to take a small calf out of the box, decapitate and dismember it next to me, and afterwards putting the body in top of me in the form of a cross, all while chanting, singing, dancing, etc.

    After that they told me to bathe in a specific river using oranges as a sponge.

    The whole experience was fucking surreal, after that, I just reject almost everything that has to do with religion.

  • Android users, What's stopping you from switching to iPhone?
  • No sidelong, easier rooting (sometimes), price, etc

  • DAE Feel the Urge to Connect with an Old Friend Again but at the Same Time Feel Afraid/Relunctant?
  • I'm gonna be honest I've lost friends because of reaching out.

    At least 5 friends I had before I stopped talking because I simply was not in a good mental state to keep using social media/messaging daily, I was in a different country, and none of us had started a conversation.

    I felt overwhelmed about it as well. Sometimes I even felt more nervous about reaching out than going to a job interview.

    As soon as I sent the text asking how they had been, the first text I received was "You think you can just pick up the phone and text again like nothing happened? You never text"

    They didn't even want to know how I was doing. I was taken aback but I immediately asked "I'm sorry I couldn't reach out before, but, why did you never text either?" And they just blocked me.

    The good thing I can take from this is that I think actual friends would be happy that their friends reached out.

  • I made something, it seemed to fit like a glove.
  • As of July 6, the subreddit is chockablock with boobs and cock.

    This sentence is just something else.

  • What is this?
  • Did you search and looked at your profile on the website? It's most likely just both a bug and showing your recent searches, I have the same thing but instead of "Recent communities" I just have "Recent"

  • Anyone else find the English accent hard to understand?
  • Are we talking American? British? Scotish? Australian? Irish? Which one are we talking about?

  • Anyone else find the English accent hard to understand?
  • Are we talking American? British? Scotish? Australian? Irish? Which one are we talking about?

  • Seen on reddit: Ran out of advertisers. Why? Yes.
  • I wonder if advertisers have been leaving Reddit and if so, how many? I've honestly never seen a social media website/company ask for advertisers like this tbh.

    I'm not a lot on social media to begin with, so I'm not sure.

  • The Reddit protest should have been an indefinite protest from the beginning.
    arstechnica.com Reddit CEO assures employees that API pricing protests haven’t hurt revenue

    Furor "will pass," Huffman says in internal memo reportedly viewed by The Verge.

    Reddit CEO assures employees that API pricing protests haven’t hurt revenue

    > We have not seen any significant impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

    > There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well.

    As many thought would happen, they don't really care about what's happening. I don't know why there is an end date to a protest that will kill so many 3rd party apps and affect the free work that moderators do.

    Sorry if this is the wrong uhh.. Instance? Community? (I'm still kind of new to Lemmy so I'm trying to understand) to post this but I didn't know where else to post.

    Edit: accidentally uploaded the post without finishing the text.

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