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Mostly_Gristle

@ Mostly_Gristle @lemmy.world

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  • You're asked to vote for the food and drink that best fits the region you live in... What would you vote for?

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  • Green Chile, and various food items smothered in green chile, with a craft beer from one of the kajillion small breweries we have around here.

  • I found this while cleaning out some old boxes.

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  • I have a complete set of these, minus the holographic cards, because a friend I had in elementary school gave me his doubles.

  • If someone where to use the term "Adult Playground", what would you think it describes?

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  • I don't know if it's still there, but when I visited the town of Ayr in Scotland about 25-ish years ago, they had a playground very similar to that right off of the beach. Everything was large enough to accommodate adults, and I think it may have actually been castle themed. No ball pit though. They did have a thing like a tilted merry-go-round that was at waist height and had no handles. Not sure what it's called, but it was probably the funnest and most dangerous single piece of playground equipment I think I've ever come across. There were about a dozen of us traveling together, and I don't think a single one of us walked away from that thing without catching a boot to the face at least once.

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  • The Scottish people I've heard say it actually called them "piss-a-beds," which trips off the tongue a lot easier, but that name comes from the fact that as an herbal medicine they are apparently a pretty effective diuretic.

  • Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns

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  • “We were going to win this,” said the former senior ATF official. “These things are not like bump stocks."

    Forced reset devices are actually exactly like bump stocks in that they're legal because they force a distinct action of the trigger for every round fired. The legal definition of a machine gun is a firearm that fires more than one round per single action of the trigger. They haven't bothered to amend or expand that definition, so these types of devices keep skirting by on a technicality.

    I suppose the argument could be made that forced reset devices work in a very similar way to a machine gun's auto sear, the difference being that they act on the trigger of the gun rather than the hammer, but it still doesn't meet the government's own definition of a machine gun.

  • Guess the Episode (Pt 4)

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  • I rewatched What You Leave Behind yesterday and I'm like 99% sure that shot was in the episode.

  • xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object

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  • The fact that the car had brakes to begin with would suggest that it is, by design, a force which stops regularly.

  • Trump blames Biden 'overhang' after GDP shrinks in first quarter, says growth will 'take a while'

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  • Gonna be even more fun when all the empty trucks leaving from the empty west-coast ports I've been reading about for the past few days become empty shelves over the next few weeks. The real pain hasn't even started yet.

  • Trump Blames Biden for Disastrous Q1 Economic News: ‘NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS’

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  • Yes, comrades, Emmanuel Goldstein has struck again. Obviously this is all his doing.

  • Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!

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  • I think that pretty much sums up the entire ethos of Silicon Valley these days.

  • Name a group, band, artist, or track you're really into right now

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  • Chinese Restaurant Chain Apologizes and Offers Thousands of Refunds After 2 Diners Urinated in Soup: Reports

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  • Legend has it they ain't nothin' to fuck with.

  • That'll be three strips please

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  • I read it in the voice of the principal of Sunnydale High School.

  • This Trump Voter Is Having Second Thoughts After ICE Agents Detained Him at Gunpoint

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  • There's going to be a lot of that. I live in the Southwest, and the number of Trump-voting Latinos is shockingly high. There are a lot of conservative Latinos who straight up consider themselves to be white. Gonna be a real shock for them when it finally sinks in what the rest of their party thinks about that.

  • Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again

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  • There needs to be a worker's party. It doesn't have to be the Democrats.

    That there are only going to be two viable parties in this country is a mathematical inevitability of how our voting system works, but there's no reason why the Democrats have to remain one of those parties. If what they're doing right now is the best they've got then they shouldn't be difficult to replace. A damp sandwich could do a better job.

  • A $19 strawberry has caused a stir online. And of course, it's sold at Erewhon.

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  • I saw a cooking or travel show that featured the guy who grows those a while back. Apparently they taste absolutely amazing, but I can't imagine justifying spending that much money on a strawberry.

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  • I think a big problem is a lot of the explainers for new users, at least the ones that were around back when I first joined Mastodon, were or are absolute dog shit. They were all existential explanations rather than practical ones. I was trying to figure out which instance to join, and why one might be better for me than another, and every explainer I saw was basically a variation on, "iT's JuSt LikE EmAiL. wHy Is tHaT hArD? sToP bEiNg So sTuPid, DuMmY." None of them really explained the user experience, and how different instances might affect it, let alone the existence of the local and global feeds and how your instance choice affects those. It was like asking someone how to use chopsticks and them telling you, "It's easy. Just put food in your mouth with them. Works just like a fork."

    Technically true, but it omits some pretty crucial information.

    Once you're into it and have the lay of the land, it seems really simple in retrospect. But if you're coming in cold with no idea how any of it works, and the only help you get is some dickhead shouting, "EmAiL! iT's LiKe EmAiL!" then the learning curve seems a lot steeper than it actually is.

  • What’s the dumbest thing you ever got in trouble at school for?

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  • Got suspended in 8th grade for "smoking on school grounds" because I stood outside the front door finishing my fruit snacks before I walked into the school (we weren't supposed to have snacks outside designated food areas). Some rocket scientist of a teacher saw me standing by the door with my hand occasionally going up to my mouth (I think it may have been cold enough outside to make my breath steam) and said, "AHA! This child is smoking!"

    She literally grabbed me by my collar and dragged me to the assistant principal's office. Multiple other kids, and an adult who must have been someone's mom, told her I wasn't smoking, but she wasn't having any of it. And the assistant principal just believed her out of hand. Wouldn't even let me finish a sentence to say something in my own defense.

    They had the security guard escort me off school grounds. And I just stood there for a while looking back at the school, still holding my fruit snacks, trying to figure out wtf just happened.

    I pretty much checked out mentally after that. That kind of stuff ended up being pretty much par for the course. I hung out with the metal/punk/skater/stoner/goth crowd, and that was some kind of unforgivable sin at that school. My friends and I were constantly being singled out for minor or imagined infractions and never believed or given the benefit of the doubt. I went from a 3.8 gpa to something like 0.6 that year. I'd have to sit through all these meetings about how I was "so smart," and how "I could go so far if only I would apply myself." And I'd straight up tell them what was going on, and they'd be like, "It's just a mystery why you won't apply yourself."

    It's been like 30 years and I'm still mad about that shit.

  • Woke furry hijacks social media of right-wing group that published 'DEI Watch List'

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  • Much like the word "woke," MAGA conservatives have stripped DEI of its original meaning. As conservatives use it now it's basically just a socially acceptable stand-in for the N-word (or the F-word, depending on context). Like just a couple of days ago I was at a burrito place and the guy a couple spots ahead of me in line said, "This DEI cashier better not fuck up my order again." It was very clear what he meant was, "This N-word better not piss me off."

    Any time you hear conservatives say "woke" or "DEI," you can almost always mentally swap it with the N-word or the F-word and what they're saying will make a lot more sense.