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@ anon6789 @lemmy.world

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  • What are your favourite non-political Lemmy communities?

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  • Well the offer still stands if you need it. I'm just another person over here on my end, not some content farm. I've really enjoyed your participation in our group and want you to be happy.

    I know you're not too far away from where I live or work as well, and while I don't have a huge social network since I'm more introverted in real life, if you're looking for work or some type of community resource or something, I can look around.

    Regardless, I am wishing you all the best! You have always been really nice talking with me.

    ♥️🦉

  • What are your favourite non-political Lemmy communities?

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  • No pressure or anything there! 😅

    I'm glad I serve a wide range of functions with my owl stories, but you can just talk to me about non-owl stuff if you ever need to.

  • What are your favourite non-political Lemmy communities?

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  • Yes, there is an owl picture to fit any style or decor.

    If God made owls, I would consider that an endorsement of owls.

    We just voted the Buffy Fish Owl as our Owl of the Year, so that could be a good place to start looking.

    It means you have a house located near owl food and owl shelter.

  • Please Don’t Be a Lurker!

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  • I get most of my stuff from Facebook. Since most of you refuse to go there, it really keeps my content fresh 😁

    More seriously, since most of my stuff is from non-profits and photographers, it's still the number one place these people share their stuff since it's free, easy, and has a built in wide audience.

    Other than that, I look for owls in the Google news page once a week, I look up old research papers or read books, I volunteered at a rehab clinic to learn more and get photos and stories, and I go to events and talk with people that work with owls.

    I think the most important thing is that I'm genuinely interested in the subject, so even if social media vanished tomorrow, I would've stop doing anything I do to source content, I just wouldn't be posting. I just post because I think you guys will like it and hopefully donate or volunteer yourselves.

  • Please Don’t Be a Lurker!

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  • This is the main resistance I see. I thought I'd be boring in the beginning. I didn't know much about the subject I began to post about. But from continuing to interact, I learned more about the subject, and I learned what the people I was talking to liked more or liked less.

    If you're just being yourself and talking about things you're interested in, you're gonna be fine. People here are pretty chill, so if you're not spouting outright lies or antagonizing people, there isn't anything to worry about.

  • Please Don’t Be a Lurker!

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  • I don't know how those people do it. Putting out stuff every day for one community keeps me as busy as I'd want to be.

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • Huh now that you say that, I had felt they seemed "rushed" but I thought maybe he was just testing more brands at once and trying to keep the videos the same length.

    My wife absolutely hates his voice, even at standard speed, to the point she leaves the room. 😄

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • Not only is he semi-local so I get to see landmarks I recognize, but he's so calming when many creators try to be 90s levels of extreeeeeme these days. Also lots of his repair/resto/DIY stuff is affordable, he gave us Decent Sampler, and the weird and homemade instruments he often uses are actually musical, not the weird ambient beeps, boops, and screeches many channels feature.

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  • That's a very good way to compensate! Some of the products and testing things he buys aren't cheap, and he often tests to failure, so helping recoup that money is likely very beneficial.

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • Starsky Carr, Woody's Piano Shack, and David Hilowitz are great as well!

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • My feelings on Ian himself have become a little strained, but he is doing the same or better quality than ever now that he gets invited around the world to show off so many rare items. I could not name a better source anywhere for weapons history and being able to see the actual weapons and often their entire disassembly.

    While modern life has made me less interested in gun culture, their mechanics, development, and how they have shaped history and society I still find very interesting.

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  • Honestly I have begun to question whether Project Farm staying exactly the same is good or not for me as a viewer.

    I used to watch every video, even if it was for a tool I'd never need myself. Now on a lot of them, I just tend to watch just the beginning to see the initial assessment of the competing products and the final summary, since I know what the whole middle is going to be.

    I'm sure that's not the healthiest thing for the channel, as it cuts "engagement time" and I'd like to see a heat map to see if I'm not the only one doing this.

    I just trust the guy maybe too much at this point, plus since most products I don't need, I'm not that invested in the minutia show by the main segment of the videos.

    None of this is a knock on the channel or his videos, but as the question was about what has stayed good and you are still watching, that made me think how PF was still as good as ever, but that has somewhat reduced my watching of it.

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  • I could visualize a commercial 55 gallon drum ok, but a barrel for volume measurements is 42 gallons. I'd never even heard of that before today.

    Give me metric already. I've worked in pharma related fields for 20 years, all anyone cares about there is metric. I can visualize something I never actually seen like a deciliter easier than I can a "barrel."

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  • I had never heard of it myself, but looking at the definition instantly reminded me of board feet for measuring lumber, but that makes sense as wood is a solid and has a fixed length, width, and height.

    For water, especially water you would be moving, I'd think gallons to some per of ten. Moving up from gallons looks to get into barrels it pipes which are also very not-picturable units.

    Looking up how ocean volunteers are displayed, cubic miles or cubic km, still seems unimaginable, as what else do we picture on that scale?

    I have the Wembley Stadium unit as a spoof of the banana for scale, but even never having seen that in person, picturing a generic stadium of water feels more relatable than whatever acre-feet or cubic miles are.

  • Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

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  • Any time, compadre.

  • Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

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  • 1 Acre = 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet

    Britannica:

    The Anglo-Saxon acre was defined as a strip of land 1 × 1/10 furlong, or 40 × 4 rods (660 × 66 feet). One acre gradually came to denote a piece of land of any shape measuring the present 4,840 square yards.

    An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre with one foot of water.

    200,000 acre-feet = 246696 megaliters or 0.246696 cubic kilometeres

    This is about 64 and a half Webley Stadiums of water.

  • People who don't have much friends: Do you think you would've have a better social life if the internet didn't exist?

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  • Oh heavens, I don't even want to think about me without the net!

    I was a nerdy introvert raised in a moderately abusive house, in a small town with hardly any other kids. I had zero social skills.

    Got internet at 16, and now I could talk to anybody with no real barrier to entry. I spent a lot of years being oblivious and a borderline incel before learning to get my act together, but I can only imagine I'd be much more socially awkward and probably still be a jerk and much more conservative if I hadn't been able to talk to so many other people and especially with people of the opposite sex.

    I still keep a small friend group, but I like to think it's more by choice now 😅

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  • I Chromecast most of my YouTube and I've never gotten it to work once it's cast, but SponsorBlock is an amazing thing when I've played with it in apps.

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  • Eh, we still get the sponsor ads in the videos. They're skippable but still tick me off for something I pay for to still hit me up every video.