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mansr

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Bad jokes, good cats.

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mansr, to random
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Rule 34?

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, to random
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mansr,
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Does said bear shit in said woods?

mansr, to random
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Were Greenpeace always twats, or did they gradually turn into promoters of famine and climate change?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/greenpeace-blocks-planting-of-lifesaving-golden-rice-philippines

mansr,
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@flameeyes I do.

mentallyalex, to random
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I am unsure if you have seen this, but I thought you might appreciate it.

Tesla Cybertruck is not the greatest marketing campaign for the brand.

Tesla cybertruck struggles to remove itself from a river due to the embankments. The truck rushes forward to become stuck in position, and then reverses to try and leave the river, but it is unable to. One person can be seen in the river bank.

mansr,
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@stux @mentallyalex The word is schadenfreude.

brooke, to random
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for forty full years of my life i thought the chorus to toto's "africa" was "i miss the rains down in africa" and was about starcrossed lovers who met in the peace corps

pretty sure this is not evidence of parallel universes, though, i'm just bad at hearing lyrics

mansr,
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@brooke That's not the lyrics? Sure sounds like it is.

mansr, to random
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Could it be that people no longer know how to craft good search queries?

mansr,
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@geert @attilakinali What baffles me is when people who really should know better write queries as full sentences ("what is ...?") rather than just a few words likely to single out relevant pages.

mansr, to random
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Amazon is recommending me dog food. I do not have a dog. I do not want a dog. I have never bought anything dog related from them (or anyone else).

mansr, to random
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When I see a mention of someone sending money with Venmo, I picture a group of gangsters loading bags of cash into the boot of a Waymo self-driving car.

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, to random
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Who said prophesies aren't real?

mansr,
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@mike805 @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I couldn't find the original for this, but I found something similar published in December 1913: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/61432129/

mansr, to random
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Instead of banning Tiktok, which is difficult to do legally speaking, why don't they simply ban vertical videos instead? Much easier to enforce, and it would get rid of all the clones too.

mansr, to random
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Schadenfreude

mansr, to random
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If you delete your account on that dating app, do you become unhinged?

mansr, to random
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I have about £100 of Google store credit. Do they sell anything useful other than phones (the credits will expire before I need a new phone)?

mansr,
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@penguin42 I'm pretty sure it's only possible to spend in the Google store.

mansr,
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@penguin42 Like I need more of those. Oh well, maybe something will come up before it expires. If not, I'll just buy something out of spite in the last week.

revk, (edited ) to random
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I think most people want to be good, and will be - unless under much pressure.

Atheists are good because it is the right thing to do. They don't want to "sin".

Theists may want to be good, but they also have some system of ultimate power to punish/reward them, so forcing them to be good. They seem insecure in their desire to be good without a carrot/stick.

But some theists also create a "get of out jail" system of "ask for forgiveness", which means they can be "bad" and "sin" and that is OK!

mansr,
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@revk Most people, regardless of religion, seem to live by similar morals in practice. Religion only becomes dangerous when the reward/punishment system is hijacked by psychopaths. I am, however, not aware of any religion where this has not happened.

ElleGray, to random
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Much like rats leaving a sinking ship, old ghosts abandon a collapsing country 😔

mansr,
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@ElleGray Are there fewer ghosts or simply fewer people who believe in ghosts?

brooke, to random
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when i hear the phrase "bank holiday" i imagine the bank closing for the day and all the bank tellers going to the beach

mansr,
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@brooke You're not far off: https://www.britannica.com/money/bank-holiday

bermudianbrit, to random

hay tech humans: Gigabyte Vs ASUS motherboard, thoughts? I'm not overclocking and both seem to offer the right feature set for me just at £150 premium for the ASUS. Is it worth it?

mansr,
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@bermudianbrit I have a Gigabyte board from 2009 that's been running pretty much continuously since then and is still working flawlessly. If they are still built to that standard, I see no reason to pay more.

clacke, to random

Saw Mad Max: Fury Road this morning.

The direction and scenery is very impressive, and it's cool that so much backstory and context is conveyed with just glimpses and indirect references ... but the main story can be told in five minutes. And it is, at the 1:19:00 mark. The rest is 115 minutes of drive drive drive explosions with some of that world-building weaved in.

mansr,
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@clacke
> the main story can be told in five minutes

That's quite impressive for an action film. Most only have enough story for five seconds.

revk, to random
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This bloody one touch switching stuff has taken me nearly a week now, annoying. But working out how it will impact the ordering process. Essentially it makes it worse! More steps, more info to provide. All to save someone ceasing some other type of service by themselves. But getting there.

What worries me is the ease of “slamming” and I gather we won’t be able to stop slamming from losing side any more, which is worrying.

mansr,
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@ahnlak @revk Last time I switched mobile phone provider, the old one made it nearly impossible to authorise the transfer.

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dr. pepper was the scientist who invented the strangely-flavored beverage, the beverage itself was pepper’s monster

mansr,
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@Cdespinosa Where does Pepper's ghost fit into this?

njion, to random
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Train nerds of fedi: are there benefits to using a diesel-hydrodynamic transmission over a diesel-electric one for freight locomotives? How about railcars and DMUs? I mean you're still gonna need to generate electricity so why not just use electric motors?

mansr,
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@njion Paging @brucknerite

mansr,
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@njion @brucknerite If they are only used in Germany, there is probably some bizarre regulation to blame.

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