Dull Men's Club

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An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.

https://dullmensclub.com/

1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.

2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.

3. Avoid repetitive topics.

4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.

There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.

Some other communities to consider before posting:

5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.

6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.

7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.

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The community voted on Wjrii@lemmy.world suggestion of

!dullsters@dullsters.net

The current community here on world will stay open. I have no plans of shutting it down unless the community decides it should.

Thank you all again for creating such a wondetful place,I look forward to seeing the community continue to grow.

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I've created a new Lemmy instance at dullsters.net

When I created this community several months ago I had no aspirations of it becoming much of anything. In a short amount of time it has grown to over 1500 subscribers and is one of the top recommended non-political communities. I am always looking forward to the posts that are shared here, and the unique culture being developed.

I see the importance of the decentralized aspect of the Fediverse. We frequently see drama surrounding moderation and federation policies. None of that applies to the content in this community.

I have no qualms with admins running their site the way they want to and they are often placed in difficult positions. However, this is one of the true places of neutrality on the Fediverse and it should remain that way.

In the few months this community has existed there have been maybe a half dozen moderation actions taken. You have remained, for the most part, very dull, and I thank you for that.

The name of the community should be changed, I hadn't realized that dull men's club was the result of someone else's ideas and work. The new name should represent this community that you all have created and the place it exists, The Fediverse.

The new instance won't have any users except for the purpose of moderation, you will still use your account from a federated instance. I'm still ironing out a few wrinkles with the site, it should be done whenever I get around to it.

In the meantime suggestions for the new name should be made in a top level comment so that they can be voted on.

Thank you all once again for making this community what it is.

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This is a tad embarrassing. You see, I thought that I was merely copying a popular Facebook group. I was unaware that Dull Men's Club was an official club. Please give the site a peruse as it is quite a delight!

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Stuff we should get? Or features on some items?

Things to you wish you knew or had done before the baby arrived?

Any and all advice is welcome :)

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It tastes really bad

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Small victory, I finally have more followers on pixelfed than Instagram.

Don't really have many people to celebrate this with. Thought y'all would appreciate it.

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I buy exactly what I will eat for the week, and eat it all. I don't waste any food. At the end of seven days, my refrigerator is nearly empty, except for things that last me more than one week, like milk.

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Contents packed in an old Q-Tip container:

  • 1 Sterile pad, 2 inches by 2 inches
  • About 2 feet of medical tape, flattened out to fit
  • 1 large bandage
  • 2 average size bandages
  • 2 mini bandages
  • 1 Antiseptic towelette
  • 3 Alcohol prep pads
  • 1 packet of triple antibiotic ointment
  • 1 dose packet of aspirin
  • 1 dose packet of acetaminophen
  • 1 dose packet of benadryl
  • 2 chewable pepto bismol tablets
  • 1 packet of BC powder

I think that's everything I put in there anyways, hopefully nobody ever needs to use it, but it's destined to go in our glove box.

Edited because I just added 2 sealed pepto bismol tablets, because why not, they fit neatly in there too.

Edit 2: I added a packet of BC powder. Aside from the typical headache or body pain, they're also good as a fever reducer.

Edit 3: I added 2 additional alcohol prep pads for a total of 3, easy fit.

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I was investigating the leak of the tank of an Chinese diesel heater and at one point started measuring the cap and the tank. Turns out they just got a too tall cap and the seal was not under pressure. Sad that it's fixed AFTER it spilled a liter of diesel in the living part of a friend's van.

Overall very pleased with the heater. One day one might heat my garage.

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It drains very well now.

Using as a snake tool worked way better than trying to hook the mess with a screwdriver and pliers.

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See title. I also double checked the breaks are working. No picture because its just so dull.

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Do yours have sat comms?

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Basically nothing worth noting has changed, just a bit different layout.

These big companies prolly just got nothing to do but they have to give their people some work I guess. This is not something that's happening at normal companies, it's just pointless to burn money changing ordinary aesthetics to a bit different ordinary aesthetics.

And it's not a small change either, the whole app now follows that slightly tweaked design, a lot of time and effort must've been put just to provide something that provides absolutely nothing of value.

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To restore the balance, I now exchanged the yellowed sensor from the sun-exposed south side balcony with the one from the shadowy north side garden.
Should keep it more even in the long run.

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It’s coming down to the final deadline. I’m running out of time and need to decide ….

Kids are at college so buying in bulk is less important but I love Costco. My membership expired in May, but I’m down to three rolls of toilet paper, LoL

Do I renew Costco and continue to buy in bulk at the potential of wasting money, or do I give up on Costco and buy all supplies from the grocery?

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My mechanic sold it to me through some cousin he barely knows. Guy was fixing it for his nephew after the last hurricane chunked some trees through it, gave up. For $3,500, PERFECT!

Ugly as hell*, no worries anyone will try the door handles for goodies. "Meh. This guy's poor." Mechanically? Solid as granite.

Pro tip: Went for new plugs and wires to Advanced Auto, $145. Nope. Amazon, $46. Rear pads? AutoZone: $48. Amazon: $18 for Bendix pads (which reviewers outside of Amazon like?)

Anyway, it's my own, personal YT-1300 light freighter. "Don't worry. She'll hold together… Hear me, baby? Hold together."

* Funny pic. That was the end of a record snowstorm, in NW Florida. My town got the all-time high score at 10"! See what happens when global warming beats the polar vortex into loops? Yeah.

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I can't remember exactly when I created the community but the oldest post is a year old and recently it passed 3k subscribers. Thanks for keeping it dull lads.

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The other end of the spectrum, both weather and colour from the other day

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It's for mounting a DFrobot SIM7600-H modern on standoffs from a raspberry pi 4 model B

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In my full life I brew my self mead

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