On the multiple mods thing. It’s also worth having multiple mods in multiple time zones so there is overlap.

This is like telling your neighbor that you like pie, and after work, and after the kids are put to bed, they spend the night baking you a pie using the apples that grow in their yard.

When they come over with the warm pie that they went out of their way to bake, you say that you prefer cherry pie, then complain about having to go to the same old bakery to get a cherry pie.

Just say thank you, take the pie, and give it to someone who will appreciate it. And if you want cherry pie, offer to help out when they bake next and bring some damn cherries.

How exactly does one refund time spent shit posting on the toilet?

Yeah, I saw that and followed his advice. My rice is great, but cleaning the cooker is a pain.

Yeah, I’m not super into teflon. This is the only piece of teflon cookware that I have left. Makes me think that I might want to try something like a ceramic or stainless rice cooker.

Yeah, that’s easy to pop out and clean. The most annoying part is the black plastic channel with the latch and hinge. They collect rice water and have lots of small spaces that you can’t easily hit with a sponge. You need a chopstick or toothpick.

I feel ya. That’s the trade off. Less time paying attention to the rice, but more time cleaning the stupid thing.

Yeah, that’s what I have as well. An Aroma with the plastic seals. They’re super annoying to clean. I’ve been considering one of those simple glass top versions simply because they don’t have a ton of tight spaces that collect rice water crust.

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Interesting that thing looks like it has a pretty tight seal around the interior pot. How is it with getting rice water crust around the hinge the plastic channel around the lid? Mine is always getting nasty, and it’s hard to get into those tight spaces to clean.

The non-stick interior isn’t my biggest complaint, it’s all the groves around the seals gaskets that icky with rice water.

I find that, to clean it, I need to wrap a paper towel around a sharp chopstick or toothpick to get in to all the little corners. And when I look at all of my friend’s rice cookers, they have the same problem. Rice water crustys all around the seals that are hard to hit with a disk sponge.

Edit: mine is pretty clean right now, but I just spent a good amount to time getting into all the little crevices. Of all then stuff in my kitchen, its one of the more annoying things to clean.

OP has removed all signs of hope from Rhode Island.

Yeah, there might be a way to make it work by fiddling with color values. Green next to blue can be tough, but it’s not impossible. The trick will be finding a green and blue that are also complimentary and don’t create a pallet that looks like a McDonald’s ball pit.

If you’re new to color theory, do a Google search for color theory / color pallet tools. There are a lot of good ones out there. Adobe has a nice free one.

You might also be able to represent land another way. Like using a shape or illustration instead or color.

That said, as someone who’s been doing this for few decades now and directs some design teams, my advice is to keep symbolism to like 2 or 3 things. One you go over that, it can really be easy to get messy harder to pull off. Just my 2¢.

That said, I like where you’re going with this. Will this be officially adopted by the area?

Quick tweak

Green and blue are pretty close to each other on the color spectrum, and they blend together at a distance. I would simplify and remove either the land or the water. They won’t blend into each other, and you still have more than enough symbolism.

The stoke on the wine glass is super smart. I like it. But I agree with the other commenter who recommended unifying the semi circle fill sizes. It simplifies the layout.

I would also pump up the stroke on the wine glass so that is reads a bit better from a distance. Also, that stroke is clever, so play that element up.

IMHO, the other part of the problem is that spicy hot-takes quickly get engagement from other users and bubble up to the top. And a lot of those spicy comments are trash, but not in violation of rules, so mods leave them up.

For those who want Lemmy to feel like Slack at work.

I ended up finally beating this damn thing by flying super far out so I wouldn’t get shredded by 8 ships at once.

I’d take out a ship, get to safety, save, blow up several times, repeat.

Flags on flags

mastodon.social dominates for one simple reason. The Mastodon gGmbH app now defaults to mastodon.social sign ups.

Selecting instances was confusing the shit out of people, so they relented and simplified the signup process.

The amount of people in these comments asking the mods not to cave is bonkers.

This isn’t Reddit. These are hobbyists without legal teams to a) fend off false allegations or b) comply with laws that they don’t have any deep understanding of.

Fact of the matter is that these mods are not lawyers, and even if they were not liable, they would not have the means to fight this in court if someone falsely, or legitimately, claimed they were liable. They’re hobbits with day jobs.

I also mod a few large communities here, and if I’m ever in that boat, I would also jump. I have other shit to do, and I don’t have the time or energy to fight trolls like that.

If this was Reddit, I’d let all the paid admins, legal, PR, SysOps, engineers and UX folks figure it out. But this isn’t Reddit. It’s all on the hobbyist mods to figure it out. Many are not going to have the energy to put up with it.