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khannie

@ khannie @lemmy.world

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  • TIL about the Nikon F

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  • Holy cow that first camera is just so full of genius engineering.

  • When other countries say Americans are loud, what does this mean?

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  • Another thing after talking to my wife is that there are a lot of large American families and children vie for the attention of others, which means having to speak up and over their siblings which sort of trains us to be that way.

    Mmmm, it's a theory I suppose but I have a large family. Our dinner table is busy but not loud (except with raucous laughter which is semi frequently in fairness). Cross conversations go on all the time, it's just the nature of lots of people at a table.

    My own experience with American tourists is that it's a volume thing. Interestingly I don't recall noticing it as much while visiting the states but definitely slightly louder than other cultures.

    Sounds like you won't have any issue anyway.

    Good luck with the move! I've never heard anyone come back from Australia with a bad word to say about it and lots of my fellow countryfolk do a year there (including my sister and bestie).

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  • What client are you using?

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  • Had to look this one up. Hitchhiker's guide character for others like me...

    Slartibartfast is a Magrathean and a designer of planets.[2] His favourite part of the job is creating coastlines, the most notable of which are the fjords found on the coast of Norway on planet Earth,[3] for which he won an award.

  • What are the most important things to teach a child that they're not going to get in school?

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  • I teach all of my kids that "no" is a complete sentence. I want them to be very conscious of consent, but I also want them all to respect their own wishes.

    Unrelated, I also teach them all how to throw a good punch and keep their god damned hands up and chin down as soon as I think they have enough self control not to abuse it.

  • Am I broken, or am I saying the quiet part out loud?

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  • Married 23 years. Not interested in other women but I find women generally to be beautiful. It's like looking at art to me. Every painting has It's own beauty. It's just nice to look and appreciate then move on with my day.

  • TIL that it was the English that burned Joan of Arc

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  • That's not what I learned, it was that she was wearing male clothing (for safety) then renounced that, then later ended up in male clothing (probably through coercion) and that was considered a renunciation, ergo murder.

    She was fucked anyway from the get go after being caught by the English who had declared her a heretic early.

    I just finished listening to the episode on her on half arsed history...

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aZ4UHNYzApJUOxoSdObzZ

  • Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'

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  • He is sorry. Sorry he got caught.

  • Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs

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  • I can't think of a single job it can replace.

    Me either and I don't think it ever will reach that. We're already seeing diminishing returns.

    The thing is it doesn't need to replace a full job. If it improves productivity by 10% then that's the number that will either lose their job or just not get hired in the first place.

    I'm sure these are very worrying times for folks in college, especially computer science and the arts.

    UBI seems like the only long term solution to me.

  • What's your favorite movie?

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  • Great movie. Emma Stone is on fire at the moment and Jessie Plemons needs to be in more movies.

  • Who Wants Kamala Harris to Run?

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  • Agreed. He should have stepped out of the race long before then. Hubris.

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    A Tennessee Man Jailed for 37 Days Because of an Anti-Trump Meme Will Get $835,000 for His Trouble

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  • I'll do it for $599,999.

  • Have you ever camped out or queued up for the launch of a game, console, or other media?

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  • Twice. Once for the launch of the GameCube which had a midnight launch. There was essentially no queue for that

    Second was in the run up to Christmas. We do one big present for each kid at some point and I had to queue for a very limited number of PS3's in the country from about 3am. We knew there were some coming to a local store but it was very limited.

    Nearly got in a fisticuffs with an attempted queue skipper. Prick. He was behind me so it didn't directly affect me and he kept saying as much and telling me to relax but fuck that for a game of soldiers. I wasn't going to let him steal someone else's further back.

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    Peter Thiel is leading investment in an ocean data center powered by waves—and the startup is reportedly worth $1 billion

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  • Definitely wasteful to convert. I'm guessing the hydrogen is a store for when waves aren't wavey.

  • TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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  • Yeah, and I know this sounds trivial by comparison, but we had something similar here recently and it was a proposed ban on fox hunting that the government scooched away that the populous were wildly in favour of.

    I have to say that if 25% of my city's money was being spent on police I'd be making them earn their fucking money and you may infer from that what you will.

    Imagine the opportunity cost. And guess who lost the most in that trade? The most vulnerable.

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    Honor and Duty

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  • It doesn't look like it. The original source and the linked one on Reddit aren't signed.

  • What's the coolest performance you've ever seen?

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  • Nirvana at the point theatre in Dublin. I was about four people back from the stage and 17. Incredible gig.

    Second would be Sylvan Esso at Vicar Street.

    Michael Jackson was also a great show.

    Cats and Les Miserables were fantastic too.

  • What's the coolest performance you've ever seen?

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  • so is Sylvan Esso

    Hell yes. I've seen them three times. Absolutely love them live.

    Sounds like a cool job!

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • The Irish for hello translates as "God be with you". The response is "God and Mary be with you".