[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Mine used to do this with roaches. Not even kidding.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Baby

Take off

Your coooool

I want to

Get to

Know yoooooooou

If that's what they were singing about, I'd guess this isn't all that weird.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fair point, I actually mainly wore flip flops and preferred Reef and now ~~Ulukai~~ Olukai. Those checked almost all my boxes, though none of those give a firm enough platform compared to good walking shoes, so I shouldn't hold that point against Crocs.

Edit: I mixed up Olukai shoes with ~~Ukla~~ Uukha archery gear, oops.

Edit 2: I mixed up Uukha with Ookla. /facepalm

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I had some and couldn't stand them. The material would pull my foot hair, and they reminded me of orange peanut candy. And the squishiness didn't feel foot-shaped, to me. It just felt like mush. I need arch support and a firm platform. So I hate on them because they strike me as foam toys rather than shoes.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Source code escrow is a thing, too. I've only seen it in the context of (as I understood it) protection against going out of business, but perhaps it could apply to discontinued products, as well?

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

the product

If it's free, we're the product.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

I feel so sorry for the kids that get abused by dumbass families with this. They're truly stuck with morons who should be extinct.

“My grand daughter does not get to spend very much time online so we have paid over 300$ for a little history pamphlet,” a woman named “Renee Y” wrote in January on the Better Business Bureau website.

“Our terms and conditions clearly state that the customer would continue to receive shipments monthly that would be charged to the credit or debit card that we have on file,” eSpired responded, before agreeing to process “a refund for charges in the last 90 days.”

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

We're two of today's ten thousand!

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This faceted structure that I think is sound baffling always catches my eye when I go to concerts there. The angles catch the stage light in different ways. I wonder how many others stare at this stuff.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 165 points 5 months ago

"Flipper Zero can't be used to hijack any car, specifically the ones produced after the 1990s, since their security systems have rolling codes," Flipper Devices COO Alex Kulagin told BleepingComputer.

"Also, it'd require actively blocking the signal from the owner to catch the original signal, which Flipper Zero's hardware is incapable of doing.

Just politicians trying to appear to be doing something so they can keep their jobs.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 129 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This interpretation is valid. But I recently learned to see it a different way.

If you'll humor me, please consider this. Since Santa knows if you've been "bad or good," he knows the other reindeer have been bullies to poor Rudolph. And, while a red glowing nose is cool, it's not a useful fog light. It's just not.

So Santa "uh oh!" had an emergency where, for the first time ever, the fog was going to be too thick all over the world to deliver presents?

Nope, he set up Rudolph in a position to "lead" his peers in a situation that maybe needed a little help but was not, in any way, a true, worldwide magic-assed Santa emergency. Santa knew how to guide his reindeer to accept each other. The story of Rudolph was not about Rudolph doing something to prove himself. It was about recognizing a Rudolph in need and helping him rise to the occasion to bring him closer to his peers in a way that could heal division.

Rudolph isn't about how to triumph as a Rudolph. It's about how to be a good Santa.

(Edit: For everyone who already thought this was obvious in the story, thanks for letting this Rudolph have his epiphany anyway.)

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 92 points 9 months ago

"Lake Drunkies and Junkies" would've been more fun.

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 161 points 9 months ago

Have we given up pointing out that a billionaire's legal troubles are not technology?

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I've got a community of white-tail acei, mixed peacocks (mostly dragon/strawberry and o.b.), and yellow labs. The acei and labs are running families, and the peacocks seem to be trying. (I didn't heed the all-male recommendation. I hoped I could give a more natural environment.)

These two blue dolphin cichlids tend to get pulled into the peacocks' aggressive bouts. One has developed and sustained unilateral pop-eye, coming and going, for what seems like at least a few months. I'm finally isolating those two and starting with a mild salt treatment in hopes that eye just needed peace, time, and water params to heal on its own.

I've got them both isolated because I just intend to re-home them once Mr. Popeye is healthy. The other three families are populating the tank with their lookalikes, while these two might be getting singled out more and more.

tldr: I'm wondering if this looks like a possible pair I should try to keep together or whether they might do just fine going to a community tank at my LFS. If there's a chance they've bonded, I'll try to re-home them directly to keep them together.

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