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Albbi

@ Albbi @lemmy.ca

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  • Which celebrity were you sure had already passed away but has not?

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  • He came to my small town and did a show there. Huge highlight of my childhood. My sister got an autograph for me, but I lost it somewhere. Such a great show.

  • Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering

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  • Now playing in Canada

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  • It's been pretty awesome here in Calgary. Was getting worried there that ski season was going to be delayed. But I love a good snow dump to start winter. It sucks when it's cold and icy but no snow to cover things up.

    Probably sucks for anyone that has to commute right now though.

  • I really want to like Lemmy

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  • Would you rather have cats or beans?

  • Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.

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  • I see you talked about using scaled, but not scaled in conjunction with subscribed. I reread your post and still don't see it. Sorry.

  • At least it is ISO 8601

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  • Love your spoiler.

  • Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.

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  • Oh, you can also select to see only subscribed communities, and then apply scaled sort. This is my go-to sort after exploring top-6h for a while.

  • Time Machine

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  • Driving Lesson

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  • Hrm, so the driver's face should be projected onto the back and sides of the vehicle. This would allow other drivers to see which direction the driver is looking and if facial expressions were shown the alertness or distractedness of the driver would also be evident. Would probably help a lot when you're trying to figure out what another car is likely to do.

  • Driving Lesson

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  • I was thinking about this the other day and came up with a theory. When you first learn to drive you are worried because you are driving a large vehicle that can really hurt or kill people if you make a mistake. There's an element of fear when you get behind the wheel for the first time, and learning the rules of the road help mitigate that fear.

    As you gain experience with driving, that fear becomes masked by driving becoming a more or less muscle memory task, but doesn't go away. It's always just below the surface. Then when you witness someone who breaks the rules of the road (yourself excludes because you're a good driver now) the fear can't come out (again because you're a good driver) but gets transferred to rage very quickly.

    I thought this when riding my bike in an area where cars aren't allowed, which thankfully is a large part of my commute. People along that stretch are polite with each other and smile when going by each other. That doesn't happen in a car and I think the riding of bikes doesn't have that same basis in fear that allows this to happen. It's only when cars get involved that bike commuting becomes extremely stressful.

  • Microsoft Teams is dog shit

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  • Ah so your issue is, let me see here... Ah, actually using Outlook like a normal user.

    I've tried switching to Thunderbird myself but it doesn't support Office 365 without a third party service. So I feel stuck with Outlook.

  • US Senate To Revive Software Patents With PERA Bill Vote On Thursday

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  • Ah, but you my friend are at risk of infringing on my patent. I've patented the alphabet.

  • If you have been bitten by an animal badly enough to have to go to the emergency room, what bit you?

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  • Oh God, I can't imagine needing to use a needle right where you were stung already. I'd blanche if I were told that too.

  • Sounds to help you sleep

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  • I listen to audiobooks, usually of a book I've already read so that I'm not too interested in what happens next.

    I have a timer set to turn off after an hour. But I often have to rewind about 55 minutes the next day to find what I can remember before I fell asleep.

  • What's the grimmest job you ever had?

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  • cosmonaut

    Found the Russian. Do any other cultures use that word instead of astronaut?

  • I mean, I'm glad we're growing here, but...

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  • this

    Shit! Still happening to me.

  • Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds

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  • Article about monkeys not being able to complete the works of Shakespeare has this line in it:

    Despite its name, the so-called heat death would actually be slow and cold.

    Science reporting is such a weird job.

  • Airplane seatbelts

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  • Wow, talking about NES Monopoly on a post about airplane seatbelts.

    I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on NES Monopoly because I used to play the game and wanted to see if I held the B button. Probably did, but I'm not sure.

    Anyway, the world record speedrun of Monopoly takes advantage of the trade mechanics. Trade the CPU mortgaged properties for all of their money and they'll lose the game because you have to pay a 10% fee on any properties traded that were mortgaged. And if you take all their money in the trade they don't have any to pay the penalty.

  • Google why?

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  • Got Android 15 recently. The volume bar is twice as big now! I thought it was just a visual difference but volume is now more finely tuned, as in it goes from 0 to 20 instead of 0 to 10 and steps by 1. (Not sure of the real numbers)