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Mostly_Gristle

@ Mostly_Gristle @lemmy.world

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  • Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE

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  • Thanks for linking to an actual journalistic news outlet. All the other posts I've seen relating to this were for trash rags like TMZ, the NY Post, and the Daily Mail.

  • My childhood right here

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  • I feel like there should be a picture of Gir in between the hair dye and the Pick of Destiny.

  • Liquid Death is asking people to mail their pee to AI data centers

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  • Alcohol companies have had that figured out for quite some time.

  • Gay Republican Sues Members of His Own Party Over Homophobic Slurs

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  • Not just the Republican Party, the Wyoming Republican Party. The state who got famous for beating and torturing a gay kid to death, and was perfectly happy to keep that reputation.

    This guy could be the poster child for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

  • 90s

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  • I wasn't alive in the 70s, but I remember seeing them a bunch when I was a kid in the 80s. A lot of the time they were in cans labeled "peanut brittle," which I always thought was weird because to this day I have never once seen actual peanut brittle packaged in a can.

  • Ken Paxton Candidate Caught With Latest Mistress

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  • Is he still married? Then yes.

    It's the still being married that's the defining factor, not the amount of time elapsed.

  • Reddit's auto-moderation

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  • If it makes you feel any better, a lot of the time those posts aren't even made by real people. They're made by bots who are designed to post something completely wrong or wildly contrary for the sole purpose of pissing you off so that you'll engage and add to the post count.

    Or sometimes they're more malicious like the shit-disturber bots that BlueSky was (or maybe still is) plagued with that inject what-about-isms and negativity into otherwise healthy and productive conversations just to poison the discourse and inject conservative bullshit into leftist spaces. Not that BlueSky is particularly leftist, but you'd see the bots appear more frequently in threads where people were talking positively about leftist ideas, or where the conversation was otherwise becoming too "woke."

    So you might not actually be missing out on anything except arguing with a clanker who only cares about its prompt.

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  • Am I the only one who read "lattice" and "lattices" as "lettuce" and "lettuces?"

  • does it really work to wear brand new leggings wet for the first time so they mold better to your figure and last longer?

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  • I don't think it's going to make much, if any, difference with synthetic fibers. It won't hurt anything to try it and see what happens, but I'm pretty sure the idea of wearing wet clothes until they dry to get a better fit is a holdover from the days before pre-shrunk jeans were the norm. You used to have to buy jeans in a larger size with the expectation that they would shrink down to your size over the course of several washes. People used to put them on wet and wear them until they dried so that when that shrinkage happened it would conform to their body shape.

    If you want your leggings to remain as stretchy as possible for as long as possible probably the best thing would be to hang-dry them rather than putting them in the dryer. The heat from the dryer can cause elastic to wear out prematurely.

  • ‘Backrooms’ Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas

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  • Mining Reddit for movie ideas... I guess we can all look forward to a high-budget adaptation of Swamps of Dagobah.

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  • I also remember punks resorting to egg whites and Elmer’s

    Punks actually just did that anyway, even back when the good hairspray was still plentiful. Everyone just had their own "best" method that they swore by: egg whites, school glue, Knox gelatin, I even knew a couple of gutter punks who put their mohawks up with spray paint. I used to use an extra thick hair gel that you could only find in places where they sold hair care products for black people. I think most people probably preferred the hairdryer and AquaNet method though. It was cheap, relatively easy, and it worked.

  • Say it ain't so

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  • They were a feature on typewriter keyboards back before personal computers were even a thing, so I think it's probably just that Sony didn't bother to put them on that specific keyboard.

  • Artists vs “Creators”

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  • Saying you don't like podcasts is like saying you don't like music. There's so many, made by so many people, in so many different ways, on so many subjects, that there's bound to be at least a couple you think are amazing. I mean, if all podcasts were just a bunch of dude-bros having a verbal wank into a microphone once or twice a week, then yeah, miss me with that shit. But a lot of them put a lot of effort into producing a high quality professional sounding show. Some of my favorites are 99% Invisible, which is a very well made show about not so obvious features of architecture and design; One Song, where they break popular songs down into all the isolated tracks and talk about how it was all put together; This Podcast Will Kill You, where they do well researched histories of diseases and toxins, their discovery, treatment, social impacts, etc; and You Are Not So Smart, which is a podcast about psychology and sociology. Other people already mentioned Behind the Bastards and Darknet Diaries, which I also listen to regularly. Chances are that no matter what subjects or hobbies you have a deep interest in there's at least one or two really well made podcasts about it.

  • Colorado governor grants election denier Tina Peters clemency, reduces sentence

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  • “She got a sentence that was harsh. It was a 9 year sentence,” Polis said in March.

    It actually wasn't harsh though. MAGA is just pretending like it was because they're pissed that one of them had to face any kind of consequences for their criminal behavior. The maximum penalty allowed by statute for each count she was convicted on was double what she actually got. Despite her showing absolutely zero remorse or contrition, the judge still gave her half the sentence they could have.

    I can't imagine why Polis would ever think pardoning her was a good idea, but I suspect he's looking ahead to when he leaves office next year, and this is the beginning of his heel turn into becoming a right-wing grifter.

  • Being thirsty was baseline

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  • W Celsius

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  • Also, fix the damn calendar

    13 months, 28 days per month = 364 days. New Year's Day can be its own holiday separate from the rest of the year, and every fourth year it can be 2 days long.

    Now we just need to get Big Calendar on board.

  • An employee who allegedly burned down a California warehouse compared himself to Luigi Mangione in a message to co-workers after setting the fire.

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  • The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that commerce and capitalism are the same thing.

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  • One of the really great things about the USA is our national parks, so if you're in the US you should go see as many of them as you can before MAGA starts selling them off to oil/mining companies and real estate developers.

  • Can you touch type?

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  • Yup, I can type about 90-100 wpm on a QWERTY keyboard if it's normal conversational English. Probably half that if it's something that contains a lot of long technical words. The thing that got me over the hump with getting good at typing was a game called QWERTY Warriors. It was a Flash-based web game that I was playing like 20 years ago, so I don't know if it's around anymore, but it was a tower defense game where you had to defeat enemies by typing the word underneath them. It was a pretty painless way to practice touch-typing.