Wait, so they dusted it with cocoa powder and then put those frosting dollops on top of that? The lid might have been the only thing holding those in place.

Absolutely! Maybe even mid-December.

Might be an unpopular opinion, but I have no problem with stores selling holiday stuff way in advance of the holiday. Some people want to get their decorations all lined up, be working on crafts, or whatever. What I object to is when stores decorate for the holiday way in advance. I don’t want to see Christmas trees and snow men in October or pumpkins and witches in July.

Yeah, I hear you - I have an intense sugar addiction, and eat an absolutely disgusting amount of chocolate (see username). At least otherwise I eat pretty healthy.

By the way, the reason milk is in so much is because of how much cheese we eat. When they make cheese, they separate out the whey, which they used to throw away, but now they use in stuff. It has a lot of names: whey, lactose, milk solids, and others. If you’re lactose intolerant, you have to watch for that for the same reason you don’t have to worry much about hard cheeses: the lactose is mostly in the whey, which comes out of the cheese.

Yeah, came to say the same. I’m different though, I know I’m addicted to it.

I assume I’d need to do that on a desktop, correct? I’ve been exclusively mobile, but could give it a try.

Outdoor cats have a shorter average life span in cities, too. One big cause is cars. Also, it’s worth noting that house cats are essentially an invasive species and do a lot of damage to bird populations.

It’s pretty widely recommended to keep cats indoors.

On that score, there’s not much use trying to reason it out. The 4chan types seem to like kicking down other people’s sandcastles. It doesn’t buy them anything, they just seem to get off on increasing unhappiness.

As you can see, I posted this from a different instance, so I get that, but I’ve spent a lot of time subscribing to things from my .world account and it works take a long time to duplicate that on an alt, so my preference would be to stay there as my default.

I agree completely, and posted this question from an alternate account. The admins have been so transparent, the silence on this issue seems really weird. Even the posts on the instance status site are relatively cryptic. I posted this question because it’s frustrating not knowing what’s going on.

It’s been going on since well before that, and they’ve been pretty good at transparency generally, so that seems unlikely to me.

It’s really getting old. But if it’s DDoS attacks, I’m not giving up. I might if it was just repeated resource issues, but I refused to be pushed by assholes.

Okay, so how do we get this fixed? Any way to get admin attention? I think @Spaltovic@lemmy.world is probably correct about the cause.

That won’t fix it, it’s server side on .world.

Yeah, it’s a server issue. See this post.

Yeah, and this PSA doesn’t work - at least it didn’t for me. I think this comment is the actual cause, and why clearing cookies doesn’t help.