spittingimage

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, okay, true, but -- it's like all the malice and narcissism of the whole group are concentrated in a very small number of individuals. Like Canada with their geese.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I propose a new rule: if you're American and wealthy, you don't get to talk about communism. At all.

I might make an exception for wealthy Americans with an education in politics or economics, or both.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Lemmy is full of dorks, and I love that. Among its other flaws, Reddit could be mean-spirited at times. I haven't seen the same willingness to ignore ordinary human decency in favour of karma-farming here.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I don't think they're worse overall, but I do think they're more visible when they're being silly and thoughtless.

A teenager near me got convicted of burglary a few years back because he filmed himself doing it, to show his friends. A young 20-something had his license taken away because he filmed himself driving at 160 KPH.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

BRB, launching a disabled person across the carpark.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

I have a feeling it's about copyrighting content. If you don't show your own face/voice, you're just streaming game footage which belongs to the publisher.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Richard Pearse, New Zealand aviation pioneer. He was a farmer by trade, and had a reputation for making crooked furrows because he would read technical books while he plowed. He worked on powered flight at the same time as the Wright Brothers and actually achieved his first powered take-off before they did. It wouldn't be fair to call it a success - his plane was built with no tail section, making it difficult to control in the air. The test flight ended by crashing into a thornbush hedge and Pearse received minor injuries.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Did you close the shower door on your dick again?

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Every argument I've seen against the cool science fiction future boils down to "we couldn't do it this financial quarter, so it'll never be possible at all".

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

We'll just keep a window open on that side of the Dyson sphere.

 

Especially if the sinners still need their punishment?

 

Either all at once, or over a lifetime?

 

My position is that it's a snack and husband tax must be paid. My wife is arguing that it's a meal or occupies some third food space and it's entirely hers. Who's right, court of Lemmy?

 

To explain what I mean, I think you can level up a cooking style. For example, pasta. At level 1, you're boiling dried pasta and adding sauce out of a jar. At level 1, you add your own spices. Level 3, switch to fresh pasta. Level 4, make your own sauce. And finally at level 5, make the pasta from scratch.

So with BBQ, I guess level 1 would be cooking the meat so it's neither burnt nor underdone. Maybe level 2 is mixing different meats/cuts that have different heat/time requirements and cooking well. Further levels = ?

 

Picture this: you're working in a large open-plan office and you need to send a message to Steve at the other end of the room. You pull out your messenger handgun, dictate your message (because you paid for the voice recognition feature) and let it engrave your words on a bullet. Then you simply fire it at the target mounted above Steve's cube!

Fast, attention-getting and simple. It's the perfect system.

 

I'm sharing this because any reduction in unnecessary packaging waste is good for the planet - and because I think laser-etching avocados is funny. 🙂

 

I followed a Jaime Oliver recipe for curry, which started with grating onion, ginger and garlic. I liked the curry, but grating an onion is a miserable job. He said that technique unlocked the onion's 'sweetness'. How much difference do you think I'd notice if I used a food processor?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13601128

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8027175

'Reef stars' restored Indonesia's blast-damaged corals in just 4 years

 

I noticed that one of the monitors in the loom control room had "SKIN?" written on it in the dust that covered it. It seemed pretty mysterious and I was sure it was a detail that was going to be important, but it never came up as far as I noticed. Any theories as to what it's about?

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