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Bessent has warned that a delayed ruling "could result in a scenario in which $750 billion-$1 trillion in tariffs have already been collected."

"But, Your Honor. I've been running people over in my truck for a good three months now. If you ruled that running people over in my truck is illegal, why....there'd have to be considerable compensation paid!"

It's a novel argument.

Your client will only show the communities that your home instance knows about. Your home instance, reddthat.com, doesn't go out and build a list of everything out there.

Go to lemmyverse.net. They spider the whole Threadiverse to find all communities on all instances.

Click on "Communities" tab. Search or just browse the whole list.

Each community will have a little "copy" icon next to a bit of text like !technology@lemmy.world. Click on that and it'll copy it. Paste that into your client's community search field, and it'll tell your home instance to go talk to the instance where that community is and learn about the community. You can then subscribe to it.

Direct link:

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

EDIT: I'd also add that PieFed's lead dev, @Rimu@piefed.social, said in a comment I read a day or so ago that the next PieFed release is supposed to add some sort of functionality to improve on this community search situation on PieFed home instances. But for people with home instances that are existing PieFed instances, Lemmy instances, and Mbin instances, lemmyverse.net's community list is pretty important.

There are also a few other ways to find communities, like posts on !newcommunities@lemmy.world or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, both of which I recommend as communities to subscribe to themselves. Or check the history of a user that you think is interesting and see where else they hang out

might be they've found some good communities.

On the large home instances, you can check "All" instead of "Subscribed" and that'll show posts from all communities that has at least one user on your home instance subscribed to it. Doesn't work so well on small home instances, as it's more-likely that nobody's yet subscribed to a given community on a remote instance.

I think that right now, lemmyverse.net is still pretty important as a tool for navigating the Threadiverse.

I mean, whatever makes him happy, but alligators don't get super hung up on human conventions about not pooping where they swim.

If Tinkerbell ate her own weight in food every day.

https://phonedb.net/ has a database of smartphones that you can filter by various criteria. Among these are height and width.

Searching for smartphones released in 2023 or later with a maximum width of 68mm and a maximum height of 145mm yields only Asus Zenphone 10 variants, which you've already said that you have ruled out. I'd add that I personally am not a fan of Asus's "years of support" number

if they'd crank that up, some of their (larger) phones would go to the top of my list. That may or may not matter for you.

If you go up to a width of 75mm, the Samsung Galaxy S23 enters the picture. That has a 5.9" screen. I haven't used it, so can't personally recommend it.

EDIT: Another option might be going at this from a different way. If the issue is that your hand is too small to wrap around the thing comfortably, might be options to add a different grip.

kagis

Looks like there are some people who make gizmos aimed at this, changing how the phone is held:

https://www.lazy-hands.com/shop/cell-phone-hand-grips/2-loop-phone-grips/2-loop-phone-grip-lazy-hands-blue-hand-in-circle/

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/popsockets-magsafe-round-popgrip-cell-phone-grip-stand-with-adapter-ring-for-mobile-phones-horchata/6554869/openbox

I was a bit of a holdout for some years, but as they did for what I think is most of society, cell phones pretty much killed watches for me. Carrying a cell phone means that you've already got a timepiece in your pocket which you probably already carry everywhere, which automatically syncs time via the cell network (and GPS; I don't know which actually takes precedence on current phones, actually), handles timezones automatically, handles switching to local time to wherever you are when you move from place to place, handles leap years...it's tough for a watch to compete with that.

A digital watch has very low power requirements, can run for maybe a couple years off a button cell. That compares pretty favorably to a cell phone. But if you're willing to deal with charging a cell phone anyway, the timekeeping function is effectively free.

A wristwatch (or, I suppose, smartwatches, if that's the way you swing) is on one's wrist, rather than in one's pocket, so it's a bit faster to check, and one can do it a bit less unobtrusively. But I just don't check the time anywhere near enough to warrant that.

And it's one more thing to deal with, to catch on things, and so forth.

The horns made me sorely miss the inoffensive chaos of Mexico.

And yet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tD9MouLKB8

Relaxing Life Ambiance

2 Hours of Mumbai Traffic Sounds | ASMR City Noise & Honking Horns for Sleep, Relaxation & Focus

Not sure it’s what you’re looking for but we use a computer screen to watch stuff

While I agree, options for very large computer monitors are quite limited. If you're using a large room, you're going to have a hard time finding a computer monitor that's as large as television displays.

You can use a projector, but that has its own set of drawbacks, like fan noise and limited brightness and contrast, which one typically mitigates by keeping the room darker. Those may or may not matter to you. Flip side is that you can enjoy a very large display area with a projector, if you want.

Third it has network effect going for it. Nobody is going to watch videos on your platform if there’s only a couple dozen of them total. The sheer size and scope of YouTube means no matter what you’re looking for you can find something to watch.

Yeah, though I think that you could avoid some of that with a good cross-video-hosting service search engine, as I don't think that most people are engaging in the social media aspect of YouTube. YouTube doesn't have a monopoly on indexing YouTube videos.

But the scale doesn't hurt them, that's for sure.

I wasn't a regular follower in recent years, so I'm reaching a bit further back, but yeah, I recall a steady flow of people submitting general questions and mods removing them. I'd have probably just treated it like a desire path (!desire_paths@sh.itjust.works, BTW)

if that's how people want to walk, maybe just a sign that it's easier to just build a path there.

thinks

I suppose that there were some changes that could have happened in the move from Reddit.

There was also a collection of people who didn't want to copy the "*porn" convention from Reddit for attractive-but-non-pornographic pictures of things (that one doesn't bother me, but I do understand people who are uncomfortable about it and wanted to shelve it in the move). Like, their workplace may not care about people looking at landscape pictures, but gets twitchy about anything remotely porn-related.

There are also some pretty obscure jokes that came from long-ago Reddit drama or jokes that probably make the Threadiverse more-complicated to navigate for people who weren't in on the joke from years back. Like the "inversion" communities, like trees/MarijuanaEnthusiasists (!trees@lemmy.world and !MarijuanaEnthusiasts@lemmy.world) or worldnews/anime_titties (!worldnews@lemmy.world and !anime_titties@lemmy.world, though it looks like eventually, worldnews went back to being actual world news both on Reddit and here). Or /r/superbowl (!superbowl@lemmy.world), though I think that that one, at least, someone can figure out if they stumble into it. Might have been a good argument that we should have adopted more-conventional naming. But I think that the bigger concern in the big move was getting things up-and-running, rather than trying to rearchitect everything.

IMHO, the real problem is that the community is poorly-named. It should be "ThoughtfulDiscussion" or something. The name suggests a general forum to ask any question. And so, well, people do.

The /r/askreddit subreddit had the same problem as !asklemmy@lemmy.world does, as I recall.

EDIT: I'd add that I think that there's actually a better argument for a general "ask questions" community on the Threadiverse than on Reddit, at least as things stand in 2025, because the userbase is smaller, so it's hard to get many people in a lot of the niche forums. Like, sure, if you want to ask a question about Linux or about a video game, there are more-appropriate communities. But...suppose you want to ask a question about, say, fly-fishing? I haven't looked, but I'll bet that there isn't even a fly-fishing community out there yet.

EDIT2: !casualconversation@piefed.social is sorta-kinda for general posts that are intended to spark conversations, and the content there might be somewhat-closer to what you're looking for, if you want content that people would actually talk about. I don't know if I'd call all of that "thought-provoking", but I think that stuff there is better at starting back-and-forth conversations, rather than just getting a one-off answer.