Lumisal

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The site or?...

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Elevators are pretty heavy.

But idk, maybe you're like, extremely buff

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Damn, it must be bad if they're paying in dollars instead of Swedish Krona

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This has big XKCD Energy. It almost feels like an exact recreation of the comic but with tech:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1d19dc6c-c42c-4c61-a8e6-3e9a6253272c.png

Seriously, Why GIMP Dev(s), Why??

Honest to gods, this conversation happened today, and it may have cost me a job opportunity. The customer was super impressed with my menu design and animation, and wanted to know who we got it from. When I said I did it, their face lit up! Too bad as soon as i said GIMP, they weren't interested anymore. Has anyone else ...

Picture of post from my Bluesky of a convo between me and a customer... {Convo between me and a customer today: "neat menu, i really like it." "thanks, I made it." -me "Really? How?" "I used Gim... and an online program, Canva to animate it." "Im sorry, Gim?" "Umm, GIMP. It stand for GNU Image Manip..." "GIMP?? Like the suit?" "No, not like the suit." why, gimp dev!? }
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Lumisal ,

I'm sorry but if Pepsi was called Cripple-Juice I doubt it would be as big as it is today.

A name matters.

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Except in Japan

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Let's start with this - where do you think the heat goes?

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And when the heat is the same amount as a power plant or more? Do you know how those work?

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Not if the older generation stops them from doing so

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I'm pretty sure it's Switzerland that doesn't want to join the EU and not the other way around

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Don't know if it helps, but having had cancer, it's not the worst thing out there.

I'd rank years of dialysis higher, for example.

Death of a loved one too, easily.

With the cancer, you either know you'll die fast and even get an estimate. But other stuff just slowly kills you and robs you of years of opportunity you can never get back, and you don't know if you might die next month, next week, or next year.

Getting a chance to know you're dying is a luxury, by few realize it. Heck even the foresight of it the possibility is. But the long term stuff? The slow, unsure deaths? That's... Well, like I said, I don't know if it helps, but I'll say it could be much, much, much worse. Consider you'll have time to prepare at least. It's not much, it's still a shit situation. Don't know if you had the chemo yet and yeah, that's pretty shit. But maybe realizing you have preparation time and a pretty black and white outcome can raise that 0 to a 1 or 2.

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You should ask if maybe it's best to do a round or two anyway as a preventative measure of they think it's possible for it to hang around after the surgery. Better than waiting around for it to get worse, and while chemo is shitty 2 rounds max should be extremely tolerable.

Only thing though, is that if you do plan on having kids at any point in the future, you should look into reproductive freezing before starting chemo; especially if you're already in your late 20s or beyond. They don't necessarily tell you that - I luckily found out that's important the night before my first chemo was planned.

Then again, you might also be in the USA where that might not be an affordable option.

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We need a bone cracked club shirt too lol

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That pool seems to be shrinking rapidly these days...

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Metal, but make sure it's textured.

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Bluetooth still can't use HiFi audio either.

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It's the last sentence, where they're implying giving a three year old something, combined with the whole previous part.

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I'm sorry y'all... I'm the one who convinced and helped out the owner of raycons to advertise on YouTube and podcasts before they launched there business, and I did so for free 😭

They're just rebranded Ali express Chinese stuff with better packaging btw. At least back then they were, I don't know about now

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Ah, but what if you live in a non English speaking country?

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How strongly would you believe that if all your housemates were MAGA, AI Startup CEO, and an ICE member?

If you say they wouldn't be, then you've identified the limitation of the proposed solution.

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Well I the CE agent by default is probably Maga, but I was talking about 3 separate people.

As for not understanding how their political beliefs would apply... You must either be a white American or incredibly naive.

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Well I guess soda is safe to classify then.

Don't know why traditional home cooked sodas.

Guess Spam too. You can't really really get that text or taste by making it at home.

Hmmm definitely a lot of candies too.

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Concoctions involving naturally occurring carbonated spring water were/are definitely a thing.

And none of them were really what we would call "soda". Heck the closest to that would be modern root beer. But considering the lack of other "medicinal" herbs, they definitely don't count.

Have been around as long as sugar, which is longer than industrialisation.

A lot of candies, not all of them. Certain candies have emulsifiers and other ingredients that didn't exist historically, so you couldn't get that texture or such. And a lot of modern chewing gum is plastic, so I think I don't have to explain why that's not possible in the kitchen.

Not sure about spam, but isn't that just canned ham?

I actually read a book all about Spam once that they had in my school library, because I thought it was funny they had such a book. The name purportedly comes from the parts used: shoulder of pork and ham. It was therefore considered fancier than just ham.

But to make it, you're not just canning the meats. You also need those preservatives for one thing - they're part of the taste. I'm not sure celery powder would work as a substitute like it does for ham and bacon though.

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Traditional home cooked soda? You mean like the Native Americans did with pine needles before the settlers showed up?

No, because that was entirely different. You might as well say beer and everclear are the same thing. Or tea and coffee.

Spam is just jellied mince,

It's not. That's why the knock offs and alternatives tend to taste off as well - that's what they make. Because jellied mince is easier to make.

Candy is mostly just cooked sugar

I didn't say all candies. Obviously a honey ball isn't the same as bubblegum.

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Obviously nobody was making regulation Coca-Cola, but the dividing line is getting a lot less clear already. Why is a distillate of some cursed local herb fine, but fresh-squeezed cochineal dye not?

That question is called moving the goal posts. We were talking about soda, not something else.

I actually have emusifiers in my kitchen, and I didn't have to buy them anywhere weird.

That you bought an ingredient produced via industrial processes doesn't negate that the ingredient was made with industrial processes. It's not really a "traditional home cooked meal" if you're still using something that requires extensive machinery or chemical processes to create - even if you didn't create them in your kitchen.

Your argument on using the additives in your kitchen as a point that it's not ultra processed anymore is equivalent to me buying chemistry supply and making some paracetamol and saying it's not a pharmaceutical drug but more akin to a herbal remedy because I made it myself.

Just stopping to point out that's not food, you aren't supposed to swallow it. It's about equally as close to candy as to a teething ring.

And yet it's sold in the candy section and has calories via sugar. Weird that this is the one you were able to easily identify as ultra processed.

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You don't remember much from what you read about Spam did you.

Spam was developed for the US Army during WW2

I'm going to just stop you right there.

I don't understand how someone can go on a fucking tirade so ignorantly wrong these days when SEARCH ENGINES AND WIKIPEDIA EXIST. It takes less than a giving damn minute to fucking check yourself damn it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)

Spam literally existed before WW2.

PS: what you make is still not spam, nor will have the consistency of spam, although it will be similarish. I've cured my own meats too, except without the phosphates or nitrates, because I had dialysis.

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I like how you say months instead of years to make it seem shorter, and ignore the actual date of entry into the war for the USA.

Just admit you're wrong, geez. Spam wasn't developed for WW2, since it existed years before the war even started in Europe.

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Like by having such a sophisticated username as "slurpingpus"?

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I'm pretty sure those are valuable just because I thought they didn't make DDR4 in such a low configuration.

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I originally marked it because there was just too much raw pure Linux power exuded from the video.

I forgot for a moment Epilepsy existed in my daze.

I added the written epilepsy warning after 😅

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What's funny is your experience is similar to mine except my family was Hispanic and living in the USA. I went to work with my mom or dad s lot too, both before and after school, even up to my preteens.

We didn't boil the tap but we didn't really drink it either - it smelled weird (later testing showed it had some heavy metals and other hazardous chemicals - likely from the nearby refineries) - instead we went to this water well thing where we would out 5 gallon jugs of water (like the one in water coolers) and got water they're for drinking.

We did get the internet sooner, at least I suppose. But for awhile my experience with the internet were those "free trial" discs the companies gave because internet was (and I hear still is) expensive.

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Some of us here think it's no coincidence the move was considered just as a right wing government happens to be in power. Especially since there was no significant cost savings from the proposed move.

It was already unpopular, but the USA going full Putin now has the average Finn also seeing it as suspicious, instead of just the left wing.

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But how does one switch from Lemmy to Piefed?

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If you want Firefox minus the AI fluff, also Waterfox. I've been using it on Linux.

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That article is pretty outdated by now (about 5 years old), and a lot of the concerns have since been addressed.

It also was written before the security and memory leak issues Matrix has were widely revealed .

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Unfortunately that's (currently) most of the internet. Hopefully that changes over time.

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For underwear, I've had one main issue so far with every European brand I've tried (Finnish, German, Italian, Spanish); they're, umm, too "tight" down there. Like it feels like they want to keep it so tight that they suffocate your potential progeny out of existence 😅

So assuming you're a dude and maybe on the bigger side in that region, although it's not European and is Japanese, Muji has a specific line of underwear that has an extra big pouch like space sown that's more comfortable to wear. They're also pretty breathable and last a good while.

I don't remember what they're called though, since I get them from my local Muji store in Finland.

As for pants - that's just luck based. I've resorted to either pants that are too big and using suspenders or having a tailor modify used pants when I can afford to. Sweatpants when possible otherwise. I'm considering looking into Scottish Kilts for the summer though. I don't care what people might think at this point - I just want room down there.

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Well, a lot of downer comments here in a way, so even though you probably don't need it maybe, here's a half glass full ego boost for you:

Apparently you're such an amazing guy, you made a lesbian think she's bi so strongly she went as far as marrying you. Like, you must be charismatic, kind, and charming as heck for it to have gone that far, if you think about it. An asshole dude on the other hand would have caused her to doubt she was ever bi.

So yeah, at least I think it's safe to say if you ever do get in another relationship with someone more hetero, it should be very likely to be a great success. And, you still come out of this with potentially a best friend too while at it.

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Neither is the South American continent but part of it is in the EU too.

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That she's a manananggal makes it even funnier 🤣🤣🤣

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It's a folk monster from the Philippines. A person who at night splits their torso in half in search of people to eat (or was it the one that eats fetuses from pregnant women?).

You kill it by burning the lower half before the upper half can return to it.

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And the Swedish political shit is floating over to Finland too.

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Where do you think they got the curriculum from?

Probably from that Noah's Ark museum that has a T-Rex eating a pineapple in the USA

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I don't know if the polar vortex would go that far south so commonly in the past though. Climate change has made it wobble like crazy I'm recent years. It's why we end up with warmer days in Finland now with no snow when it moves that way.

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Is she?...

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I'm back! I use Vesktop

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I remember binds working on it after a big update though 🤔 but I'll double check. I haven't used binding in awhile.

I can say the Blue Yeti X mic works well on Bazzite though, and it has easy toggle deafen options as well as a one press mute button, if that's any help in the meantime.