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@ 58008 @lemmy.world

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  • It’s the little things

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  • What if each H2O molecule was coated in a hydrophobic substance?

  • Why do people switch from chrome to Brave browser and not to Firefox?

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  • I wanted to try Brave a couple of years ago. I ran the installer, and it was one of those pieces of shit installers that just goes ahead and installs without any input from the user, dumping god knows what onto your system, and it puts everything in some obscure AppData subdirectory that can't be deduced without right-clicking the desktop shortcut. I uninstalled it without even launching it once.

    If a user is 50/50 on whether or not they just installed malware, you might wanna check your programming practices.

  • True

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  • If you say it in the same tone of voice that Muhammad Ali used to tell Joe Frazier to sit down during that television chat show altercation, and while slowly unzipping your trousers in a manner similar to when a cop places his hand on his holstered Glock, it works pretty well.

  • Can reading assholes be considered science?

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  • I can tell by the flavour that a new love interest will come into your life imminently.

  • The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed)

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  • Say what you will about Musk, but you gotta hand it to the man; for someone who has sired so many bastards with so many different women, he has somehow remained the world's biggest virgin.

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

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  • Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise loving the white race and wanting a secure future for white children makes me a BIGOT.

    /s

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  • Believers: God exists, look at the wondrous complexity and beauty of life!

    Snails:

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    TIL that the first victims of The Holocaust were murdered at the Dachau concentration camp in 1933, and the Bavarian Justice Ministry tried to prosecute the SS for the murders.

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  • I've been reading about the Holocaust a fair bit of late, and it's interesting to see the debate around the functionalist/intentionalist view of how it happened. OP's story seems to lend credence to the former version, in that the Nazi state was a patchwork of warring factions that were each trying to take power for themselves and in an effort to do so, tried a little too hard to do what they imagined Hitler wanted of them, namely more and more murder and ruthlessness and general mayhem, eventually culminating in plans for wholesale extermination. This is the functionalist view, where things happened almost in a bottom-up fashion, whereas the intentionalist idea is one where Hitler planned the Holocaust from day one in a top-down approach. I personally think it's more likely to be the former though, at least from what I've read about it anyway.

    Growing up in the '80s and '90s, I never really learned much about the Holocaust aspect of WWII. I knew the broad strokes, of course, but the finer details of the Nazi state's operations are where the true horror lies. Even without WWII or the Holocaust, it was one of the purest examples of a nightmarish dystopia run by corrupt, amoral, incompetent, petty, narcissistic lunatics and sociopaths. The parallels with certain modern governments is terrifying...

  • Tell me a must see movie/series I have not seen!

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  • The film and its follow-up set of miniseries:

    From the same writer/director (Shane Meadows), I also recommend The Virtues (2019) miniseries.

    Both projects are semiautobiographical. They can be a tough watch in certain episodes, so check doesthedogdie.com for possible triggers.

    One of Shane Meadows' earlier films is often recommended, so it's probably one you've already seen, but Dead Man's Shoes (2004) is worth a look if it's new to you.

  • What do you think is the biggest issue with Lemmy?

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  • Not just Lemmy, but all Fediverse frontends: it's confusing and cumbersome. I've been here for 2 years and I still find that it's very much lacking in the "user experience" department. I have add-ons and scripts to 'patch' things that ought not to need patching. I don't know if it's possible for this to happen given the nature of Fedi, but it should be the case that a new user would find it works more or less the same as non-Fedi software and not have to juggle instances and type hideous and long URLs into the search bar. Instance names and stuff like that should be available to people who want to see them, but by default there's little reason to frighten new users with it. Make it be under-the-hood type stuff. One follow button that works for your home instance regardless of where you are on the Fediverse would be a nice start.

    Also, privacy needs to be handled better. Again, not sure if that's possible because of the nature of Fedi, but Lemmy should make users feel more secure than reddit or Twitter, not less. Like, it's bizarre that reddit protects my privacy more than Lemmy does, given that reddit doesn't really protect my privacy much at all.

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  • A little over 3 months is my record. Mental health issues, naturally! 🥳 🎂 🎉

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    Why am I having back pain nowadays after peeing??

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  • The pee-secreting gland that moves the pee into the kidney to be washed and warmed up before being passed into the bladder - a little dime-sized gland call the "Penguinal Class Action Monitor" - can sometimes become overactive and try to secrete too much urea at once, faster than the kidney can accept it. This causes something of a backlog, the medical term being "St. Bartholomew's Lump Reversal". It causes the gland to swell up with pee, something it's not really equipped for given that it's a gland and not a hollow chamber like the bladder, all while the kidney simply refuses to take even the normal a mount of pee because it's guarding against possible infection upstream. The term for this is the "Immune Raster Verifier Cadence", and this is likely the cause of the back pain you mentioned.

    I am, in fact, a doctor. I have a degree in Major Arterial Anaphylaxis from the University of Chechetchistserster in England. The professor who taught me said I was the best student he'd ever had. Keep in mind, though, that he also once taught a little-known scientist by the name of Isaac Newton. Sooooooo....... 🤷‍

    Treatment: drink lots of alcohol and eat lots of cheese while watching copious amounts of pornography. It's important you don't move around too much by, say, going to work or doing chores, because the alcohol needs to be able to settle around your glands to cure them.

    Either that or kidney stones.

  • Who is an actor you can't stand, but everyone likes?

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  • Leonardo DiCaprio. I get huge, cringy 'imposter syndrome' vibes from him, like he knows he shouldn't be doing this for a living but soldiers on regardless. I've never bought into a single one of his performances. He always seems like he's 'acting', and never really embodies the characters or reacts 'in the moment'. It's all a poor imitation of what he has seen other actors do.

    I hate that he became Scorsese's new De Niro, and so when I hear of a new Scorsese film I get excited and then immediately lose interest knowing that DiCaprio is probably gonna be leading it. Literally every film he has done would have been better with a different actor.

    Also Nicolas Cage. I get the memey antifan sort of thing that bolsters his career, but let's be honest, there's no hint of talent in the man. He has ruined what might have been great films. Bringing Out the Dead could have been a legit classic if not for his involvement.

  • Perfect date

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  • When talking about the date with another human, DD/MM (+YYYY if required); when doing anything related to the sorting of files by date, YYYY/MM/DD.

  • Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads

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  • RIP Discord.

  • 250.000.000 BC

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  • What exactly happens to salt that makes it "expired"? Some sort of mould from the air growing on it or something?

  • How to make friends; part 1

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    1. Always turn up to social gatherings with pocketfuls of Babybel cheeses
    2. If 1 doesn't clinch it, it was never meant to be

  • The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women

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  • I agree with the outrage, but I don't know that using race science to combat race science is the way to attack this horseshit. Futurism essentially says "the NYT says Asians have small hands, but what the race science actually says is that hand size is yada yada etc. etc."

    Like, is race science silly or is it not? 🤷‍ If science said that, yes, Asian women have unusually small and "nimble" fingers, it wouldn't make a bit of difference; the entire concept is stupid and racist, not just the inaccuracy of the hand measurements. Needling over the microdifferences in index finger girth between Asians and Americans (who may well be of Asian descent themselves) is missing the whole-ass point.

  • TIL Jack O'Lantern was sentenced to walk the earth for eternity. He carried a carved out turnip with coal inside to light his way.

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  • As a kid trick-or-treating in 1980s' N. Ireland, we used turnips. Carving those fuckers was an insanely dangerous and difficult thing for a child to do. They're rock solid all the way through. Brutal. And ugly as fuck, which is at least in keeping with the spirit of things!

    If you don't wanna read Irish Central and have 20TB of cookies stored on your system, the Wikipedia article is better:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-o%27-lantern