I am very typical earthling. I like earth food and earth drink and earth sports and earth media. Im all about earth things because I am so typical and earthling. so typical as to be very boring and not worth investigating or looking into because I am definately from earth.
Here’s how much the average American has in their retirement savings by age [Ashleigh Jackson | 05/05/24 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
Why do people say 'queer folk' instead of 'queer people'?
I see this phrase used a lot on blahaj lemmy. I’m actually bi but I don’t really like using the word ‘folk’ over ‘people’… it just kinda sounds pretentious, I don’t want to be described like a mythical creature
All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why?
All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Is it because of security concerns or spacing reasons?
Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session (www.tomshardware.com)
[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by...
Was music really better "back in the days"?
Tell me all the trash music/artists you know from around the 50s to 70s.
Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity
Love to see the night sky on Mars? This is what it would be like to stargaze on the Red Planet (www.skyatnightmagazine.com)
Dungeons and Dragons may improve mental health (www.jcu.edu.au)
E-bike incentives prove to be worth the investment (news.ubc.ca)
UBC study finds rebate program significantly reduced car travel and carbon emissions
How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?
Does the pronoun "sir/madam/maam" bring discomfort to you?
It really does bring discomfort to me… like I’m somehow above the person speaking to me....
What would be your last words?
The Boys – Season 4 Official Trailer | Prime Video (m.youtube.com)
In Season Four, the world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power. Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son and his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes...
More Than 50% Of Fortune 100 Companies Are Already Using Apple Vision Pro (www.uploadvr.com)
Enterprises including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, SAP, Porsche, Lowe’s, and EnBW have publicly confirmed using Apple Vision Pro with custom visionOS software....
Possibly stupid question: is automated testing actually a common practice?
Referring more to smaller places like my own - few hundred employees with ~20 person IT team (~10 developers)....
Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years (www.pcmag.com)
A proposed experiment could bring scientists closer to answering the long-standing question of whether gravity is a classical or a quantum phenomenon. (physics.aps.org)