Searching for a single Discord alternative may be asking the wrong question however. Discord itself is an extensive bundle of functions smashed together: real-time chat, persistent forums and documentation, voice chats, events and even games.

I think this is the important part that’s missing from a lot of these discussions, including from users themselves looking for a new place to go. Some people use discord as an IRC chatroom replacement. Some use it was a small group text, essentially, between friends or co-workers. Some people use it as a Patreon perk to get access to a community around an artist and interact with that artist and their other fans.

And I’m in some “servers” of all of those. So anywhere that’s using it as IRC can be replaced with XMPP or Matrix no problem. Or IRC, but with gifs. Cool. But my other group that hangs out in there async every day and the occasionally jumps onto an ad-hoc voice chat when people are available to game, or sometimes shares my screen so someone else can watch what I’m doing? None of those things do that. But mumble kinda does, but not in a persistent or integrated way. Mumble is a great way to talk, but an awful place to hang out. Jitsi does screen share, but is not casual and also isn’t a good hangout.

And we could limp by with an XMPP room for chat and then a link to a Jitsi or Mumble or something when it’s time to do something. But there’s something tight about having the “just call” button right there, tied to the chat you’re already in, and in being able to see “huh Alice and Bob are playing GAME right now. I should pop in!”

But if you’ve never been in a discord server like that, you make a recommendation of IRC or something, and a gaming friend group user checks it out and is like “this is even close to doing any of the things I need it to…”

I’m not saying I disagree… but I would be curious how this chart compared with a chart of “number of cyclists” or “distance covered by cyclists” over the same period…

Is it?

Not the same as any of these, but I always felt Spyro had a beauty to it, even if it is a bright and colourful one.

I switched from Strava to OpenTracks, which does all of the recording but none of the social parts, and keeps the data all on device as far as I know. This looks cool! But for me I probably wouldn’t have enough use of it to set it up, so I’m not going to ask you to support OpenTracks just for me, but I mention this in case it’s exciting for you. If other people use OpenTracks and would benefit from this, they can mention that too I guess!

But it looks great!

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He was teaching her to count O’s, and she was learning the big numbers that day. Luckily her toes were close at hand.

Newfoundland

Isn’t that hotly debated? Don’t come in here presenting your opinions as facts!

Right, but I don’t wear shoes in my own home. I’m not asking them to do anything I’m not doing. I’d also like them to not piss in my plants, despite them being a guest.

Ugh, sometimes we’ll be in the grocery store, and my wife will look at something that clearly says $7.99 and she’ll say “oh it’s only seven dollars”. Every time. I can’t believe how well that works on her. If I didn’t like her so much, I don’t know if I could handle it…

He was pretty expensive then too. He’d already done the Star Treks.

Okay, so you’re saying the reason is because chunks of the evidence already exist in other places, so if they didn’t publish the documents “properly”, there actually might be another source that can be shown to contradict them? I can accept that.

Right but like, we don’t know how many documents there were. Why wouldn’t they release less and tell us that’s all of them? Is it just that they put their collective foot in their mouth by telling us about how many great documents they had before they realized they were going to have to give them to us?

I have a question, and maybe this isn’t the right place for it, but why do the files name the bad guys so often? Like, they had these files themselves for so long, why release the bad files? Why not just release clean ones and claim that’s all of them? Why not release files with Obama, Bob Ross, Mr Rogers, and Geordi from Star Trek in them? Not LeVar but the character himself.

Is there some, like, published hash or something? Some set of receipts that tell us that these are even the files, or how many there might have been at one point or another? I’m not saying the ones we’ve seen are forged… I think I’m asking why aren’t they?

Hey! Don’t forget about other cyclists, we hate you too! 😜

Goodness Gracious, shit balls of fire!

And in a roundabout, indirect, sense, Darth Vader did kill Uncle Owen. He just might not even know it…

This seems sensible, but does have some edges…

Like, if I use my phone at home, and out and about on cell, and at work, and at my in-laws, and at the library, then that’s at least 5 “users” from one user as I change IPs.

And if I’m on Tor, who knows how many users I count as, but definitely a lot more than 1.

So I get what they’re trying to do… but I don’t think it’ll work out fairly…

He was removed, not because he was bad, but because he was bad and unnecessary.

If the monster world went into a blackout, he’d have been out and operating the child-reactor with full government support. Only because Sully found a new, compatible, source of power was the ethics of the old system finally up for debate. Slavery is only allowed to be abolished after it stops being “necessary” for the economics of the system.

And yeah, it’s a movie, so he got taken away in cuffs before the new power source was operationalized, but that’s just a bit of movie magic 😉