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spittingimage

@ spittingimage @lemmy.world

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  • When you make toast with peanut butter do you butter the toast first?

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  • It depends on the peanut butter. The brand I like is so thick it's hard to stir, so it tends to be oiliest at the top of the jar. When it's like that, there's no need to add more oil by buttering. As the PB level gets lower in the jar it also gets drier, so there's eventually a threshold past which butter will make it better.

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  • Given that there's technology baseline for even responding to your question, I think your results are going to be skewed.

  • What's the most "First world problem" you've experienced?

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  • My local supermarket keeps the dark beers in the cooler!

    C'mon guys, the darks are brewed to taste best at room temperature... and I want it now.

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    Infighting

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  • Are you continuing the comic, or making an actual aside?

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    What habits of your cat or cats annoy you?

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  • One of ours will track me down every day two hours before feeding time and start howling at me for food.

    You will wait, you little glutton.

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  • At one point I had a change jar. At the end of my day all my pocket change went in the jar and I forgot about it. This had multiple benefits: any purchase I made during the day took at least five bucks out of my pocket (no $1 or $2 notes in my country), so I had to think about it carefully. I always had money in the house, but in a form that made it inconvenient to spend. And after a couple years of ignoring the jar, I had about $200 that was outside my normal budget. I could spend it how I wanted! If I felt like buying a couple hundred bucks worth of jellybeans, I could do it without guilt.

    Now I'm no longer single. My wife steals my change to buy leftover fabric swatches at car boot sales. That makes it harder but man, I deserve a Lego pirate ship.

  • Obligatory monthly "what's your hot take?" question

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  • I roll with advantage to disbelieve.

  • Obligatory monthly "what's your hot take?" question

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  • He is considered as worst president in 21 century

    I roll to disbelieve.

  • Obligatory monthly "what's your hot take?" question

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  • Armchair activism. The least you could do -- literally.

  • Obligatory monthly "what's your hot take?" question

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  • I don't think pineapple belongs on hamburgers either. It tastes okay, but there's so much extra liquid that it's like holding a bun full of soup.

  • how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?

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  • Yeah, okay, true, but -- it's like all the malice and narcissism of the whole group are concentrated in a very small number of individuals. Like Canada with their geese.

  • how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?

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  • Lemmy is full of dorks, and I love that. Among its other flaws, Reddit could be mean-spirited at times. I haven't seen the same willingness to ignore ordinary human decency in favour of karma-farming here.

  • how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?

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  • I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.

  • Is the internet currently changing teenagers’ behaviours for the worse?

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  • I don't think they're worse overall, but I do think they're more visible when they're being silly and thoughtless.

    A teenager near me got convicted of burglary a few years back because he filmed himself doing it, to show his friends. A young 20-something had his license taken away because he filmed himself driving at 160 KPH.

  • Non-American People: What person from your country do you feel the world should know more about and why?

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  • Richard Pearse, New Zealand aviation pioneer. He was a farmer by trade, and had a reputation for making crooked furrows because he would read technical books while he plowed. He worked on powered flight at the same time as the Wright Brothers and actually achieved his first powered take-off before they did. It wouldn't be fair to call it a success - his plane was built with no tail section, making it difficult to control in the air. The test flight ended by crashing into a thornbush hedge and Pearse received minor injuries.

  • The Heroic Lex Luthor! (Tom the Dancing Bug)

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  • Pre- hair plugs:

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    Would the creation and implementation of a bona fide Dyson sphere megastructure to capture energy more directly from a star ever be feasible or viable were it to succeed? Can the risk be underwritten?

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  • Every argument I've seen against the cool science fiction future boils down to "we couldn't do it this financial quarter, so it'll never be possible at all".

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    Would the creation and implementation of a bona fide Dyson sphere megastructure to capture energy more directly from a star ever be feasible or viable were it to succeed? Can the risk be underwritten?

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  • We'll just keep a window open on that side of the Dyson sphere.

  • How to Defeat a Vampire

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  • It took years to get away from green/orange text on a black background and bring actual colour to computers.

    Now all anyone wants is the black background again.