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fireweed

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  • What are some of the craziest censorship instances on TV shows you have seen?

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  • That they were. I was so confused as a kid, because I was a big fan of donuts but had never seen one with a rectangular hole coming out the side (how would that even work?)

  • Oh boy, surely a cheerful and not at all terrifying tale!

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  • How has no one in the comments mentioned The Secret of NIMH yet?

    Even worse, The Brave Frog (showa-era kids anime was seriously fucked up).

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  • c/SocialScienceMemes

    (Does this exist? It deserves to exist, if for no other reason than to encourage heated debates over where psychology memes should go)

  • Measles has spread to where I am at. Other than a mask/Vaccine, what else can help protect against it?

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  • What are your recommendations for people with small faces? Because I've never encountered an N95 that felt like it fit.

  • Tease

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  • "Just chewing on plastic, what's going on with you?"

    Yes, most chewing gum is literally made of plastic, because of course it is.

  • I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.

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  • Log was absolutely a part of my American high school math curriculum, and while it may not make its way to everyone, many if not most Americans were exposed to it in school. But people have terrible memories when it comes to what they leaned in school, doubly so regarding math, quadruply so regarding higher-level math. Regardless of their level of educational exposure to math concepts, I certainly don't expect the average American adult to be able to reliably do any math they learned outside of elementary school, myself included, because after a few decades of not practicing, not even thinking about those concepts, that knowledge is almost certainly gone or at least covered in a very heavy mat of mental cobwebs.

  • A quarter of US shoppers have dumped favorite stores over political stances

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  • Even worse is when you try to "support local" and discover that, sure, the local hardware store sponsors the town's little league team, but the owner also reposts racist memes on his personal social media page. You can't win.

  • What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab.

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  • Step one: live in a country the size of Kentucky with the population of Texas + Florida, half of whom live in the capital's metro region while the other half live within half-a-day's drive.

    The US's geography makes comparisons with successful protests in much smaller countries basically moot.

  • blocklist for AI music on youtube.

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  • While I appreciate the effort, how is this not an inevitable losing game of whack-a-mole?

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  • At no point has Gmail ever said "we're no longer allowing you to send/receive emails to/from Hotmail" or has Yahoo said "we're maintained by a single volunteer who because of real life stuff can no longer continue so we're discontinuing our email service."

    But this literally happens with instances all the time.

  • A Request to the Fediverse Community

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  • I'm a fediverse supporter (obviously, that's why I'm here), however what you're looking for requires a critical mass of users that the fediverse (at least the Lemmy side of it) will never achieve as long as two very critical problems persist:

    1. sign up is confusing. People are used to clicking "create an account," inputting a user name, password, and maybe an email, and then BAM they're a user. I realize the whole instance thing is the entire point, but no one wants nor expects to have to do significant research and make a decision about how they want to interact with a social media site before they've even started using it.
    2. the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of "click the image then do something else while it loads," which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I've stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won't.

    And no, these aren't "features not bugs" unless you want to keep the site small and homogenous.

  • What's your Star Trek hot take?

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  • Well then, my hot take is going to be that she was miscast and it was to the show's benefit that Worf took over as security chief.

  • why so much Star Trek?

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  • Star Trek is a franchise about a bunch of nerds striving to find a "better way" to run society

    Lemmy is a platform populated by a bunch of nerds striving to find a "better way" to run social media

    Not surprising that there's overlap

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    If you're in New y'all must love your porn

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  • Apparently I've just trained myself to click around them.

    Don't want to disable NSFW in case I miss a spicy meme

  • What's your Star Trek hot take?

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  • The 90s aesthetic doesn't make the second gen series unwatchable, but damn if it isn't hella distracting. (It's the hair. And the wardrobe. But mostly the hair.)

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  • Someone didn't watch the Star Wars prequels

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  • Wear a face mask at the airport, and you'll never get a surprise facial recognition photo again.

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  • Magnolias have entered the chat

  • One long-term cost of Trump’s mass deportation plan: The economy could contract between 2.6% and 6%

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