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NeatNit

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  • Earworm

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  • if I see "I wanna be", the only song I think of is Pokemon.

  • Ties blindfold, lights cigarette

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  • Valve is in the same position of power, or an even greater position of power, as Sony. But Valve has never (to my knowledge) removed games from customers' libraries without compensation. Valve has the track record of not abusing their position of power to the detriment of gamers.

    Personally, I still don't like the amount of power they do hold, which is why I prefer to get my games from GOG when I can. But historically, Valve is not anti-consumer. Valve/Gaben are no angels, they have their fair share of billionaire behavior, but there is simply no comparison with Sony.

  • Why would there be anything wrong?

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  • Literally reading this on a trolley where everything is fine.

    (by which I mean train, I actually have no idea what a "trolley" actually is)

  • Which national flags would you change?

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  • Which national flags would you change?

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  • Happy to accidentally be of service :)

  • Cat causes a 2-day flight delay

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  • The article doesn't mention a "million-dollar loss", where is the picture from?

    The only mention of money in the article is at the end:

    ... the unauthorised cat posed a serious risk at cruising altitude and could have cost the Irish budget airline thousands of dollars in damages.

  • Who wants some sour cream and onion chips?

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  • There's something much too sweet in that Pringles can.

  • Which national flags would you change?

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  • Note: some flags (like 🇸🇾Syria) were changed recently enough that the emoji could look different depending on your operating system and which app or browser you're using for Lemmy. Gboard shows me the new flag (green on top, 3 red stars), but Voyager/Android 16 shows the old flag (red on top, 2 green stars). It's unavoidable when Unicode is used to encode things that can change, like flags. But it's better than nothing!

    The only way around it is to embed pictures of flags, but that takes more effort. And data.

  • Which national flags would you change?

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  • A reply for one that hits too close to home... Israel's flag, it was our flag long before and I don't think it necessarily represents the atrocities of the past few years. I definitely hope for (and try to work towards) a "regime change", by which I mean more of a regime resuscitation as it is kind of a democracy on its death bed, which has always been flawed to some capacity but isn't unsalvageable. I think. (Honestly though, what do I know about regime change...)

    Getting sidetracked, but back to the flag. Israel has flown this flag basically since its first independence, and while it never actually was at peace (welcome to the middle east...), there have been long periods where it actively sought peace and even made great concessions to try to achieve it. It seems wrong to disregard that history, and only associate the flag with what the state has done in recent years. The flag doesn't need to change for the state's policy to change. If it did, then it would already have been changed.

    As a point of comparison, the flags used by the British Empire are not so tainted by the atrocities of imperialism that they can't be used today. England has changed, but its flag doesn't have to. It carries its history, the good and the bad.

  • Which national flags would you change?

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  • Petition for you to add flag emoji to each country mention, e.g. "🇵🇱 Poland", for those of us (me!) who are vexillologically challenged and don't remember any flags.

    Edit: an attempt, based on gboard's emoji search functionality and with zero verification:

    great post

    Let's make a tierlist sbout how urgent it is for them to change:

    S:

    • 🇵🇱Poland's flag is supposedly derived from a white bird against a setting sun. To me it would make sense to include that imagery on the flag, or a historical coat of arms.
    • I think places like 🇸🇾Syria, 🇪🇬Egypt, 🇱🇾Libya, 🇮🇶Iraq need to agree on a different colour scheme for themselves. At the moment they're confusingly similar

    A:

    • 🇮🇱Israel (changing flag after a hopeful regime change would be prudent because it's like a symbol of genocide now.)

    B:

    • 🇱🇺Luxembourg (too similar to 🇳🇱Netherlands),
    • 🇨🇳China (i find china's flag really dull even if it is iconic. They surely want to invoke their historical longevity rather than just Communism. Stars represent the key chinese regions, which seems like a good feature - the red does not.)

    F:

    • I don't think i'd change it, but 🇨🇦Canada seems as/more close to britain than 🇦🇺Australia so it makes more sense to give a little 🇬🇧Union Jack in the top left corner.

  • courier transform

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  • Not only that, it's its own inverse (besides some constants), so you just need to apply the same transform again to get back the original.

    I don't remember which one it is though, so it could be either. Odds are 50/50, right? So all you have to do is mail yourself the very expensive item that got superficially damaged in transit, and there's a 50% chance you'll get it back good as new!

  • The job search

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  • is .mov acceptable?

  • What if we turned the moon into a black hole?

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  • eye roll

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  • Are you gonna be buying a Steam machine?

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  • After it was announced I was considering it, to replace an old (non-gaming) PC that I still need to use occasionally. But honestly, even if the price was half what it is, I don't think it would really serve much point in my hands.

    The Steam Frame is what I'm really interested in, if I have the cash to splurge on it when it finally releases I'll probably nab it.

  • Think

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  • "Bad lyrics"? They're legendary.

  • Work-Lifecycle

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  • hey chatbot make me a comic whose sole purpose is to enduce rage

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  • Yup, they're lying. As the other person said, these wipes marketed as "flushable" are directly responsible for a lot of blockages.

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  • What about pubes? They do fall in sometimes, you know.

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  • I'm sure there's someone out there who needs to be explicitly told that this is toilet paper, not printer paper or newspaper or graphing paper or any other kind. Just toilet paper.

    And not any kind of wet wipes either. So-called "flushable" wipes are false advertising, do NOT flush them. They WILL clog the pipes.

    I'm probably preaching to the choir, but there's a chance someone learns this for the first time from this comment.