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7·4 days agoIt’s also great excuse to drink while wallowing in dread. I have a bottle of gin set aside for the occasion.
This comic inspired a different post on that exact topic.
Not me, but an old coworker used a similar trick to see if reviewers were actually reading his documentation. Before sending a large document out for review he would add a sentence to some random paragraph stating, “If you read this, come to my office and I will give you $20.” Surprisingly few people ever came for the money.
33·7 days agoA couple of months ago I wrote a single comment
The modlog shows you were having quite a spat with some mods 5 months ago.
Nothing else
Again, the modlog shows otherwise.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=111123
Why bring this up now, five months later?
86·10 days agoMaking quiche for brunch. Apparently an omelet is fine, but a scrambled omelette is gay.
“What is Beehaw”: https://docs.beehaw.org/docs/core-principles/what-is-beehaw/
TL;DR: Beehaw.org is intentionally curated and moderated to try and maintain a “nice” environment free of aggression and trolling.
The influx of Reddit refugees last year was a bit of a shock to their system. The Beehaw admins have floated the idea of leaving Lemmy entirely.
6·12 days agoIt’s been a long time for me. My peak PC gaming days were spent playing Warcraft II head-to-head with a friend over a modem. That was on a Macintosh Performa 550. I also had a ton of fun playing Myst and Flashback. I stuck to consoles after that.
Now the only gaming in my house is my kids playing Minecraft on a Dell OptiPlex 5040 that I saved from the dumpster at work because I’m a cheapskate. No dedicated GPU, 8GB RAM, but it gets the job done.
It’s a cropped frame from this video, right around the 1:31 timestamp. Here’s a screenshot I took on mobile. Not the best quality, but if you have urgent memes to make it’ll do.
2·14 days agodeleted by creator
5·14 days agosomething as simple as a variety of colors took hundreds of years of technological advancement
If anyone is looking for a rabbit hole to go down, the history of pigments is a great one.
Winter weather on the northeast US coast is a battle between cold, dry air blowing in from the northwest, and (relatively) warm, humid air from the Gulf Stream coming up from the Caribbean. The weather is determined by which of those two forces is “winning” at a given moment, and it can swing abruptly when the balance shifts.
Expect cold, windy, rainy weather. But don’t be surprised to get snow and ice if those Canadians send a strong cold front.
The comment comparing New York to Scotland is a good one. Dress like you are going to Aberdeen and you should be just fine in New York.
Being banned from a remote instance, and/or having your content removed from a remote instance, is a total non-issue for your local instance’s admins. It requires no effort on their part, and causes no problems.
In my mind you have every right to request that your personal content be removed. It isn’t always practical due to federation bugs and the nature of distributed services, but any decent admin should make a good faith attempt to fulfill your request.
Oof, I never knew that.
He deserved better than for Street Fighter to be his last movie.
2·16 days agoThat’s my understanding. Though I have only visited the Kartoffel regions myself.
Some German speakers say “Erdapfel” which is literally “earth apple.”
In some places that is a strategy to satisfy zoning requirements. The builder has to provide a minimum amount of outdoor area per dwelling unit. They could create a large ground-level courtyard, or they can create a bunch of tiny balconies that sum up to the same total area. The
ladderlatter strategy allows a larger building to exist on the same lot.Edit: Stupid voice-to-text always gets me.
The Associated Press seems to have a decent results presentation ready to go:
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/
I wouldn’t bother watching minute-by-minute. There is a decent chance that some swing state will be close enough to trigger a recount, and/or one side files lawsuits challenging the results. This circus is far from over.