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Cake day: September 2nd, 2026

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  • They still have Expo’s but they are nothing like they were in the glory days. Times and technology have changed so much I don’t think we could make one of the old fashion fairs work. Disney built EPCOT to be like a never ending worlds fair, albeit with the usual Disney touch, and that’s probably the best we’ll ever get (and sadly some aspects of EPCOT like the focus on sciences is already giving way to more profitable rides.)

    But this documentary is a great way to experience a slice of it. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is one of the only surviving buildings from the fair so you can in theory dip your toe in the past. And lots of the centerpieces of fairs survive, like the Eiffel tower for example. There’s even a recreation of the Parthenon in Tennessee that was built for a fair.














  • I’m not wasting time sourcing a half dozen research papers on cursive handwriting. Sorry. Read up on the topic yourself instead of knee-jerk hating something you never practiced enough to get good at. Like I said, I was a shitty cursive writer in highschool and years later when I began practicing my cursive I got better and began enjoying it. It is useful. It’s a great excuse to not use your phone (spybot) for everything like making a grocery list. These are just facts.


  • cardboardboxfort@lemmy.worldOPtoReddit@lemmy.worldReddit is now unusable
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    Nah I’m not doing that much work for reddit. It’s going to start slowly dying off like facebook anyways. I’d noticed over the last year or so how much content from Indian subreddits were making the frontpage. Especially on weekends and the mornings of weekdays. I don’t really need that, nor do I need the ads, bots, shills and other junk that has accumulated. Time for reddit to digg itself its own grave.




  • Yeah it feels yucky. But like I said, since google search results still have a decade+ of answers that are often good I’m almost forced to eventually click a reddit link. Before this week that was not usually a problem. I didn’t even convert every link to old reddit before they forced its end.

    But as of this week any reddit link I click jams up my browser when I back-click. Its sticky and extra fucky. They are actively sabotaging reddit.