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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’ll give you mine from an old ass copy of the Joy of Cooking. Been making it for years and it’s a big hit around the holidays. When Granny is begging for my recipe you know it’s good.

    2 1/2 lbs of cream cheese

    1 3/4 cups of sugar

    1 teaspoon of lemon zest

    1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract

    5 large eggs

    2 egg yolks

    1/2 cup of heavy cream

    The crust is up to you but I usually do graham crackers and melted butter spread out over a spring form pan. That’s another important part. Make sure you’re doing this in a spring form pan. This is a thick cake.

    It’s as simple as mixing all the ingredients together until you get a smooth and creamy mix. Use a mixer. Start with the cream cheese and sugar. Then the eggs. Then the cream. Then the zest and extract. Cook at 500 degrees for 15 minutes, then reduce to 200 for an hour. When done cooking let it cool to the touch then put it in the fridge for at least 8 hours. The cake will come out looking burnt and jiggly like jello. Trust me that’s just the first layer. The liquidity is from it being hot. Once it cools down you should have a fluffy and creamy cheesecake.


  • I’ve been thinking about this for a while. We really are at a point where taxation without representation should be examined. There’s always the suggestion of a general strike to force them to function, but I think the easier and more destructive method would be to not pay taxes en masse. It would take organization to get the whole country to do it but there’s already a set date and way to disrupt the system that involves you doing nothing. Simply don’t file. What happens if nobody files their taxes? What happens if the system grinds to a halt because they chose to collect the most money from the lower tax brackets and let the big corpos run free? On the flip side what happens if everybody doesn’t file taxes and the system grinds on anyway? Then what’s the point of taxes? Wouldn’t that really expose the lack of representation?


  • I’m the oldest of three. My younger brother is an abusive drug addict currently serving time. I never want to see him or talk to him again. Any time we are in a room together, there’s a real risk of a physical fight breaking out. Years of constant fighting both verbally and physically have taken a huge mental toll on me. The day he dies will be one of my happiest.

    My baby brother is alright. He straddled the same line drug wise but was nowhere near abusive like the other one. Hes got a reputation for being a sneaky lying thief, but he’s turned himself around. He’s more of a joy to be around.

    One good. One that’s a blood screaming hatred that’s only gonna be resolved through death. No hyperbole either.




  • I’ve lost all of my grandparents. Most of them I lost at an age where I could comprehend what was going on. Death is the slowest process on earth. The actual passing is quick. It’s emotional and hard but it lasts for the blink of an eye. The decline can take years. To watch somebody age in those final 5-10 of their life is excruciating. It’s a drip feed of watching somebody act in ways where you can tell they’re just not themselves anymore.

    Now with all that said I’m not saying Biden is knocking on deaths door, or that the process even started. What’s clear to everybody though is that he’s not the same guy as when he started his presidency. He’s studders a lot more. He’s lost a lot of hair. And he’s clearly slower than he was just three years ago.

    Hes doing the most stressful job in the world. A job that accelerates the aging process. He’s already of an advanced age more so than any president in the history of this country. He’s approaching the line of being too old to non functional. So if you’re against him you’re gonna take that to the extreme and cry he’s dying right at this moment. But to everybody else he’s past the “he’s old” stage to “ehhh he’s really fucking old, should he be doing that stage?” That’s a decline.




  • Ideally it would be a discoverability tool for Lemmy’s side to broadcast to the whole fediverse. So if you post a title like “Hey #nfl fans. !nfl@lemmy.world is hosting an #ama with @tombrady@tb12.7rings at 2pm EST.” The hashtags show up on Mastodon. The !nfl@lemmy.world would take you to the sub. Or if you wanna see just Tom Brady’s answers you can click his name and find his answers. From our side on Lemmy we have the thread structure down. So that’s all you have to do is title that and put whatever you want in the body. From Mastodon’s perspective they could turn their content warning system into titles. So that title would be the content warning. When you click on it, it opens the body of the post, including all comments and replies. That way you have discoverability. You have a way to interact with the post from anywhere. You complete the triad of person, place, and thing so everybody has full context of what’s going on. Lemmy users would get full functionality of Mastodon in Lemmy fashion and vice versa.





  • What people like is having one unified account access different platforms and communities. As far as I understand Lemmy right now, it provides the opposite – a bunch of somewhat unified communities where you have to create different accounts in order to interact with each individual instance.

    I think what’s confusing people is they think they can use lemmy with mastodon with pixelfed with one account. That’s not necessarily the case. Lemmy is your reddit replacement. Mastodon is Twitter. Pixelfed is instagram. You sign up for lemmy.world and you can use every lemmy connected server. Within each server is it’s own version of reddit. It’s really just adding a server choice on top of reddit/twitter/instagram. You gotta hope the server you’re on doesn’t fail and go away, because you could potentially lose everything on that server. But the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down like a centralized service like Reddit just did. There’s a risk associated with trusting a random server host as opposed to a big corp like reddit, but that’s the fun part of trying to get away from big corp owned internet services.

    We’re in the wild west phase of testing new technology so there’s gonna be hiccups and failures. But the bones seem solid so far. We gotta give it time to improve. Much like Reddit was built by the community, moving over to the fedirverse means the same thing and we’re essentially starting over.


  • What people like is having one unified account access different platforms and communities. As far as I understand Lemmy right now, it provides the opposite – a bunch of somewhat unified communities where you have to create different accounts in order to interact with each individual instance.

    I think what’s confusing people is they think they can use lemmy with mastodon with pixelfed with one account. That’s not necessarily the case. Lemmy is your reddit replacement. Mastodon is Twitter. Pixelfed is instagram. You sign up for lemmy.world and you can use every lemmy connected server. Within each server is it’s own version of reddit. It’s really just adding a server choice on top of reddit/twitter/instagram. You gotta hope the server you’re on doesn’t fail and go away, because you could potentially lose everything on that server. But the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down like a centralized service like Reddit just did. There’s a risk associated with trusting a random server host as opposed to a big corp like reddit, but that’s the fun part of trying to get away from big corp owned internet services.

    We’re in the wild west phase of testing new technology so there’s gonna be hiccups and failures. But the bones seem solid so far. We gotta give it time to improve. Much like Reddit was built by the community, moving over to the fedirverse means the same thing and we’re essentially starting over.