[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 4 days ago

What kind of awful, shallow people are you approaching? Pre-screen for people who don't talk like that, to start with.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago

It's shallow to be attracted to someone ONLY because of their looks. Which is what is happening when you approach a woman you've never met because you like her looks.

You have a fun circle... and you are going to "PICK ONE" to get involved romantically with?

My brother, that ain't how it works.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 2 weeks ago

Hexbear

Hexbear

Hexbear

I figure it works just like Candyman.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 2 weeks ago

I love this but no way our Democrat leadership thought that far ahead.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Where do I send the beer? Whoever you are, you are the backbone of what makes pirating great

Never before in history has ANY institution done more to enable open and free access to ALL books for ANY person.

BOOKS FOR THE PEOPLE!

OPEN INFORMATION = FREEDOM

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 1 month ago

Why not Federal prison? NOTHING they did was legal and at least the mayor (sic) and city council knew full well they were subverting the Democratic principles of the US.

No fine, no probation. Prison for these manipulative shits

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Tell me why I'm wrong, and if not, repudiate this maudlin, caricatured, two-dimensional, simplistic, cliched, sappy, melodramatic, piece of cinematic legend.

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Only useful against technology really, and that seems so unrealistic. That's where it lost me, the convenience of a creature that can EM machines. So unbelievable.

Plus Kick-Ass saving the world.

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I understand that our local galaxy group is considered "gravitationally bound" and therefore exempt from the expansion from each other ((, but we don't seem to have other galaxies collected into their own "local groups" of gravitationally bound clusters, so are we saying we're somehow unique? Is there a trick of perception taking place?)) <---edit:this is wrong

I found this quote in the Wikipedia article on the Expansion of the universe.

While objects cannot move faster than light, this limitation applies only with respect to local reference frames and does not limit the recession rates of cosmologically distant objects.

It seems to me that if we can perceive at cosmological distance something that cannot exist, perhaps we are falsely observing an expanding universe. Maybe everything IS gravitationally bound and we're just seeing expansion because... Relativity?

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When I found out she used to teach English at Gainesville high School, I asked her if she had ever taught a student named Tom Petty.

"Oh I remember Tommy Petty," she said. "He would never write a paper, but he would write songs. I would let him play one in front of the class instead of writing a paper. He would play the most awful music."

PS. I loved Tom Petty. He seemed to have a career that satisfied his every wish. He played with all his heroes, was actual friends with icons, and was a true treasure.

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His pants fit like a glove!

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As of today many and perhaps even most of those products are still not on the shelves. It's unusual to see this kind of delay, and I wonder if anyone knows...

Have there been any leaks or investigative reporting on the source of the salmonella intrusion, and why it is proving so difficult for Quaker oats to get a handle on?

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Happy Mother's Day! 💐 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Yeah, that's unnecessary. Let's start doing humans without that.

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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Playing stupid phone games. Really mind-numbing, no talent required games. Currently into "Whiteout Survival". I am over 60 y.o.

It scratches an itch.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 90 points 8 months ago

Cops don't have to serve and protect or abide by the law. Power companies don't have to supply power. People who sell you things can deny you access to them.

Hey this is fun, let's do more!

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 143 points 8 months ago

Piggybacking for-profit prisons.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 9 months ago

That's a damn good stick

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 198 points 11 months ago

The loss of the actual internet + The loss of actual search engines.

Let me explain. The internet used to be an open playground where anyone could post a website dedicated to their interests, and did so. There were websites about octopuses and electomagnets and all sorts of obscure niche interests. Free website space with plentiful, and everybody used it. You could see 50 pages of information about someone's dog Fifi, just because they wanted to put it out there. Or hand loading ammunition if that was their bag. Or why the Communist manifesto was a better document than the declaration of Independence. Anything went on your own web page.

And it became massive; so big that we needed search engines to find the exact thing we were looking for. When we wanted to find information about octopuses, we needed to search through all those obscure websites and find what we needed to find about octopuses.

So the search engine wars began.

We also had things like stumble upon, where you could be surprised by some interesting site, and there were rings, where interesting sites of the same genre linked together so you could follow a threat of interest through a bunch of obscure sites.

None of this was forced on you.

Now we have possibly 20 to 30 large websites that account for 95% of all the traffic on the internet? We have search engines that show us what they think we meant by our question, but not the exact answer to our question.

It's gone. We wondered how they were possibly going to tame the internet how they were going to close Pandora's box.

It's all gone.

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