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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 37 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I don't want to defend England's housing building, but the Y axis not starting at 0 is visually misleading. Here's a very rough correction:

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

...to relocate to one of our finest remaining canine centers. I thought so much of Doggy Daycare that I elected to establish my Pack here, in the Play Room so thoughtfully provided by Our Benefactors. I have been proud to call Doggy Daycare my home.

And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to Doggy Daycare. It's safer here.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

The eraser is as long as [ 0.01 ] giraffes.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I've seen people dismiss this as purely praise for Slater (about whom I know nothing), but it's very hard not to read these statements from the tweet:

Great pick by @realDonaldTrump.

He likes that Gail Slater was given a prominent role. Fair enough – the ping of Trump's account seems pandering, but it's not exactly a million-dollar donation to his inauguration.

10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.

Implies Republicans look to promote small businesses against tech monopolies. Demonstrably not the case.

People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

Suggests the Trump Admin are the bastions against Silicon Valley giants. Completely laughable.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Not to mention that they were happily selling Kanye West's Nazi clothing until the press and social media called them out for it.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Late response, but nope, that's mentioned explicitly on the "What to Test" page in TestFlight.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

You spelled it right.

For those who don't know -- which included me until a moment ago -- Heydrich was a key figure in the planning of the Holocaust, in the planning and execution of Kristallnacht, in the formation and running of the Gestapo, in the Einsatzgruppen SS death squads that operated on foreign soil, in the false flag operation that was used as a pretext for the invasion of Poland. He was about to be deployed to combat the French resistance when he was assassinated by Czech resistance soldiers.

He's right up there with Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Goebbels, etc.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 94 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

I can't think of a single company worse at naming products and services than Microsoft. They have an abysmal track record. Some examples off the top of my head, all of which make web searches near-impossible:

  • They renamed Office 365 to just "365" (and then "365 Copilot"). The mind boggles.
  • They named their light extensible code editor "Visual Studio Code", despite the fact that they had a long-established IDE (for code) called "Visual Studio".
  • They called their application framework "the .NET framework".
  • They called the replacement framework ".NET Core", and after a few major versions, changed to calling it ".NET", but it's totally distinct from the .NET framework.
  • They called their ninth major desktop operating system "Windows 7", then followed up with "Windows 8" and... "Windows 10".
  • Their native web app replacement for Outlook is called "New Outlook".
  • They recently renamed their Remote Desktop app "Windows App". I have no words.
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

INTRODUCING THE ALL-NEW SOLID ORAL™ SPORTS HYDRATION ~~SOLUTION~~ ~~DRINK~~ THING!

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

E N H A N C E

It's Tse yaa Kin ("house under the rock"), known as Mummy Cave, in Canyon del Muerto. The most recent ruins are ~700 years old; the oldest archeological traces could be ~1700 years old.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Wyrd bið ful aræd, grēne, and blawe.

 

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The Crabtree effect is where Saccharomyces and Brettanomyces yeasts digest carbohydrates both anaerobically – producing ethanol, an antiseptic – and aerobically. Most yeasts in the presence of both sugar and oxygen prefer to only convert these to carbon dioxide and water, which is considerably more efficient but doesn't deter competitors for that sweet, sweet sugar.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/08/03/why-isnt-bread-alcoholic/

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by egrets@lemmy.world to c/eyebleach@lemmy.world
 

Who knew botflies could be cute?

Description: an adult deer botfly (Cephenemyia stimulator) on a rock. Its body is covered with fur-like cetae, yellow and black, resembling a bumblebee a little. Its eyes are large and black.

 
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