What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?
I bought a piece of 1.5 inch stiff foam to try to fix a sag in a bed. It didn’t work but having that thick piece of solid foam around has been a life saver....
Michigan governor says not voting for Biden over Gaza war ‘supports second Trump term’ (www.theguardian.com)
Gretchen Whitmer responds to calls by some Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday...
A reminder to all you far left and far right nutjobs that think Joe Biden has done nothing significant in office (lemmy.world)
Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on Lemmy than Reddit?
I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it's because I am limited to using the desktop and can't aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself...
Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?
I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason....
Can you drive a manual transmission?
And where are you from? And how old? Not “do you” but just if you know how....
KagroX, to random Total #COVID deaths per 1M/pop., 3/11:
- Arizona 4,534 (+0)
- Mississippi 4,492 (+0)
- West Virginia 4,451 (+0)
- New Mexico 4,322 (+0)
- Arkansas 4,318 (+0)
- Alabama 4,289 (+0)
- Tennessee 4,263 (+0)
- Michigan 4,226 (+0)
- Kentucky 4,058 (+0)
- New Jersey 4,055 (+0)
JK Rowling in ‘arrest me’ challenge over Scottish hate crime law (www.bbc.com)
JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence....
Palestinians plead ‘stop the bombs’ at UN meeting but Israel insists Hamas must be ‘obliterated’ (apnews.com)
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How has ur lemmy experience been so far?
Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it...
What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too...
Why? Are we not doing enough? (file.coffee)
by fedidb.org
gruber, to random Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.
Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.
downey, @gruber Trash talking international human rights protections is not the flex you think it is.
stroughtonsmith, @gruber ah yes, damn those EU lawmakers for… checks notes …creating laws around privacy. How dare they 🙄 Next you'll tell us they trying to protect human rights or something, the fools!
Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates (www.independent.co.uk)
“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”...
Be on the lookout for CIA propaganda! Tankies LOVE dissenters! (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/8181688...
41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! (tech.lgbt)
Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z. (lemm.ee)
Is there a way to block hexbear
I don’t like to see so many political posts in all and so many weird images in comment sections
Lemmy is a worse platform for women than Reddit was
(Content warning, discussions of SA and misogyny, mods I might mention politics a bit but I hope this can be taken outside the context of politics and understood as a discussion of basic human decency)...
Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout (arstechnica.com)
Describe a game in 5 words or less, and see if anyone can guess it.
I'll go first. Deranged Spiderman with guns
Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it? (lemmy.world)
Sam Bankman-Fried living on bread and water because jail won't abide vegan diet, lawyer says (www.nbcnews.com)
The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering....