LovableSidekick

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I...wat in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago

Lesbians would like a word with OP.

What's the weirdest hobby you've heard of? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I read that as "weirdest holiday" and was going to say National Talk Like a Pirate Day - anyway sorry for the interruption, please carry on.

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride [protest] ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Careful, men - those guys are packing!

Totally owned! in c/political_weirdos@lemmy.world
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

When you feel owned and also strangely aroused.

Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Dad said we're getting a sourcebox!

Tell me I'm wrong in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Largely correct I would say.

Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

I don't, I just play the thousands of mp3s I've collected over the years.

Where I'd live in the US as a Canadian in c/ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's how I feel, and I'm American. Wanted to go expat during Trumpfest 1 but the wife wouldn't budge.

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Take your kid to work day (lemmy.world)
 

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What an age we live in! (lemmy.world)
 

They're coming. in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Soon we will rule the Tri-State Area!!!

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I wouldn't call it "Irritable" Bowel Syndrome... (lemmy.world)
 

More like Wildly Enthusiastic

How sad for you in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You can pretend a meme makes you right, or you could switch from dick to cock and from Karen to any other word that isn't 2 million people's first name.

Trump: “Israel Has Total Control Over Congress” – Stunning Admission in c/usa@lemmy.ml
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I wouldn't call it an "admission", more like random crap. He also "admitted" that California had forest fires because they didn't use rakes.

Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

So will these drones be paid for by a gun sales tax or will they just cut more social services?

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"Literally" literally does not mean "similar to". (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by LovableSidekick@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Just found out Tweets are now called Posts (lemmy.world)
 

This seems dumb to me. When people said they saw a tweet you knew it was from Twitter - instant brand recognition. A "post" could be from anywhere. Throwing away that distinctive identification seems stupid to me.

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I don't recognize this door, but the button next to it rings a bell. (lemmy.world)
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Phones are handheld computers now. Why aren't laptops phones? I know you can use VoIP or tether to a phone, but why don't laptops have LTE or 5G modules and SIM card slots as a standard? (lemmy.world)
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Anybody else annoyed by news headlines being predominantly clickbaity now? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by LovableSidekick@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Typical pattern: "Scientists find something strange when they look at a common whatever - and it's not good!"

This kind of crap used to be the style of little blurbs at the side or the bottom of an article, but it's in the headlines now. Until you click the headline you don't even really know what the article is about anymore - just the general topic area, with maybe a fear trigger.

Clicking on the headline is going to display ads, but at that point the goal isn't to get you to buy anything yet, it's just to generate ad impressions, which the content provider gets paid for regardless of whether you even see the ads. It's a weird meta-revenue created by the delivery mechanism, and it has altered the substance of headlines, and our expectations of what "headline" even means.

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People whose cooking videos say like, "These are so good I make them every week! I make this dish twice a week! I make these three times a week!..." must eat like 6 meals a day. (lemmy.world)
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Anybody remember the brief era when kids would steal school computer mouse balls? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by LovableSidekick@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Dunno what made me think of this just now. When I worked for IT in a school district way back in the 90s, a librarian told me she kept a supply of mouse balls in her desk because kids would steal them out of the school computers. What I remember about those balls was they picked up dust and crud off surfaces. Pretty soon optical mice came along and they were history.

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How to find a post labeled "lemmy.world" that was on another instance? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by LovableSidekick@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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No idea how I got there but somehow I saw this post somehow on sh.itjust.works, about a prefab house that was found floating in the Pacific. I wanted to comment but the only login I have is on lemmy.world. Notice the post is from The Picard Maneuver, whose posts I've seen many times, and it says lemmy.world above their name.

Lemmy.world has a whitepeopletwitter community but the newest post is 2 months old. This one is from 10 hours ago. Search on the lemmy.world main page for "Minding" turns up a bunch of posts going back months, but this one isn't there.

I thought I understood how federation works but I'm stumped. Is this really a lemmy.world post? If not, what does the presence of "lemmy.world" on it indicate?

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You'll know Lemmy has really caught on when search results for "Lemmy" are more about it than the Motorhead guy. (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by LovableSidekick@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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