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Why are barns in the United States often red? (i.imgur.com)

Is that dangerous? (feddit.de)

(Not mine)

Search engines down? (discuss.tchncs.de)

Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage… All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page…...

Is it illegal to con people into thinking you have a perfect ability to pick football games by emailing out two lists: one picking one team, and the other picking the other team, and only sending... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

…the next pick to the people who saw you pick the “winner”. Now half of those people see one team, the other half see you pick the other team, and whoever saw you pick the winner thinks you’ve got a 100% accuracy rate over two games. You could do that for a while and then offer to sell your pick for the Superbowl....

Why are there loads of unnamed bluetooth devices around me? (feddit.de)

I live in a big city in the center. When i activate “Show bluetooth devices without names” in the developer settings of my android 13 phone, there appear loads of this devices. I have no clue what they are. Does anyone know? Are that the bluetooth nanobots of the vaxxinated people? (/s to last question!)

What is the largest amount of partners you saw in a cookies consent question ? (lemmy.ml)

And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

What happened to the Duolingo icon? (sh.itjust.works)

Is it just me or does the Duolingo bird looks sad/old/tired? What happened to the previous icon?

Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep? (lemmyunchained.net)

Does anyone else find absolute silence difficult to deal with? In particular difficult to sleep in complete silence?...

Old spice Blue vs White stuff (lemmy.world)

While shopping on Amazon for my usual old spice bearglove smelling system, I’ve gotten burned with what I’m getting. I want the blue stuff and I keep getting this white stuff. I don’t care if they took the aluminum off, I’m not willing to try that again. Last time I tried it my armpits got extremely irritated. I’m not...

Is it worth the solar panels I'm getting? (lemmy.world)

I’m sorry for posting this here. There isn’t a solar panel instance, nor did I see anything for electricians. I know there’s been a lot of gripe with certain solar companies (solgen being in litigation, and others) but I didn’t hear much about freedom forever, since they’re new to Seattle area where I’m doing this....

What was the time a pet showed some serious signs of intelligence? (lemmy.world)

I’ll start....

What's the black sticker for? (lemmy.ca)

My cat needed to be euthanised last month, and I just received her ashes. They came with a round black sticker. What’s the purpose of this sticker?...

What's your spirit animal? (sopuli.xyz)

The Tibetan fox for me has a permanent ‘done with this shit’ look that I love.

What is the thing that has surprised you the most about the Fediverse? (lemmy.world)

To me, it was the astounding amount of interactivity between the community....

Remove text on TPE phone case? (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)

Hi. When I got a new phone a couple weeks ago, it came with this really nice, name-brand (not giving names here) phone case. It’s really rugged and feels great on the hands. It’s also one of the most premium phone-case options out there....

Where does Lemmy fit in the life cycle of a meme? (lemy.lol)

So I have always gotten jokes. A friend told me his favorite and i just don't understand it. I did a web search and found variants but no explanation why it's funny or what it means. Can you help? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Cars have windows. Houses have windows. So it can’t be windows that makes the car go....

Velvet paintings of anthropomorphic poker-playing dogs. Is this still a part of public consciousness, or is it an extinct meme? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

I saw a post once over on another site that rhymes with deaddit, listing all the sites for "AI" art, writing, coding, speech, video, music, mimicry, you name it. Does anyone have a graphic, or... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

…care to contribute a link to their favorite site for an AI activity? I’d be really interested in seeing what’s out there, but the field is moving and growing so fast and search engines suck so hard that I know I’m missing out....

how come there is no "appearance" button on the English wikipedia? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

The “appearance” button seen on Dutch wikipedia is able to change the SIZE of the font (text) and the width of the article. This is extremely nice to have, but it’s not there on any English article…

Is there a way to convert radiation from atomic decay into energy directly, the same way we do sunlight with a solar cell? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Couldn’t we have a lead box lined with these radiation to electricity converters with a small amount of radioactive material in the center, and have an energy generating device that would last for thousands or even millions of years? Imagine putting the sun in a box lined with solar cells, but on a much smaller scale....

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