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At first I thought it was another safe with even more money, and I was wondering if I should get a magnet.

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What's the collective noun for a group of politicians?

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Its IMDb page is a bit sus: the reviews are an almost unbroken stream of gushing 10 star reviews, but there's plenty of people voting it 1 star too. Astroturfing or just polarising?

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DIY store Waitrose

I don't get this joke - why is this (decidedly non-budget) supermarket a DIY store?

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I think a lot of sci-fi is a warning, e.g. almost every distopian setting - I don't think that's hopeful, unless you argue that we're sensible enough to heed said warnings.

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banging the feeder with their hands

Where I'm from, cats have paws. (Also, I opt out of AI images showing human-handed cats, don't you dare)

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I thought Jurassic World Dominion was the final one? Wasn't that why they brought back so many of the original cast? And it was pretty terrible, and dragged heavily towards the end.

Hollywood is addicted to established IPs, find some courage and be inventive again, please.

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It is possible to die from eating spicy food, like this 14 year old in the US:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-chip-challenge-pulled-shelves-teen-death-rcna103906

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But occasionally you find $100000.

“You Got This” Assures Father Who Doesn’t Know How To Help with His Son’s Algebra Homework ( lemmy.world )

In a scene not too uncommon in today’s world, local dad Alan Devlin reassured his high school son, Keith, with an enthusiastic “You got this!” to cover for having absolutely no idea how to help him with his Algebra homework....

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When Khan Academy was a big thing, there was talk of flipping teaching - having the homework be watching instructional videos (when you can pause, rewind and rewatch without embarrassment) and doing homework in school hours. It sounded quite good (at least for motivated kids (wasn't me)), but I guess it died on the vine.

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I guess my argument would be that you can choose/configure Linux to use many of the Windows conventions, whereas Mac has its own way of doing things that need learning.

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It was a choice of posting to there or here (I assume most people who are in one are also in the other).

I imagine they're fairly dialect-dependant as well, at least at times.

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Ha, in my original reply I'd started to contrast my SSB accent with American - I wouldn't go as far as the final panel, although I feel I'd understand it easily enough.

Also, even in SSB (as opposed to the more London Estuary type English), we use glottal stops a lot more than over the pond: /h ɔ́ ʔ p ə t ɛ́j t əw/

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You pronounce the t in hot and then pronounce the p of potato?

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I'm sitting here trying to replicate what that sounds like from your description and I've only succeeding in sounding like a madman.

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VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now

Article includes screenshot from The Mummy Returns which is from 2001 and is therefore old enough to watch any of the other films mentioned.

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@Yondoza this is good advice

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/d513d56d-eb34-4349-b5fb-d1f9e8d7b028.jpeg

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One place I worked had a small park, so sometimes I'd go for a lap or two to think something through - the fresh air, mild exercise, change of scenery and lack of distractions wroked wonders.

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Don't downvote stuff just because you're not interested in it! There's no algorithm you're training, you're just being rude to people.

Downvotes should be for worthless content and people being dicks.

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I'd assumed it was servers running on renewable power, although I'm not sure how they measure that. I know some hosting companies and CDNs have that as an option, but I don't see how you'd know if each server chose that option so I guess it's more like "servers with green hosting companies".

Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to "ruin" sleep if there's light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine....

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There's some evidence that the bacteria in the air are different at day vs. at night

This is really interesting, do you have more info on this to share?

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Plenty to read, thanks.

I see that first paper is for tropical environments, is this also found in other parts of the world?

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gamergate (/ˈɡæmərˌɡeɪt/ GAMM-ər-gayt)

Ah, so nothing to do with incels harassing women. Do incels have a queen?

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Ah, the major system. I have a slightly different version: 1 is L, 5 is f/v (FiVe) and 8 is ch/J. Sun, sci-fi, lichee maybe.

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I love fungi facts.

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The link includes the short story, so don't read the AI summary in these comments since it's mixed the article and the story!

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I found v1: https://cohost.org/roguecache/post/185658-logo-designs-from-th

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That blog's such a treasure! I've ended up on there several times over the years for completely disparate reasons like solving Countdown numbers games, etymology and explaining mathematical paradoxes.

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What's this kind of thing called in linguistics? Where you parse the sentence wrong (for comedic effect in this case), something about dangling modifiers, maybe?

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The country

Which country?

aluminum

Never mind.

actually...

I've just checked fact-checked myself and apparently Canada also says aluminum but 🤷

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My absolute favourite is when the examples say something like "production code should not be written like this, this is just for clarity" with no indication of what's wrong with the code.

Is it just normal Rust stuff like there's unwraps everywhere and it's one big file? Does the example have security or performance problems? Is the example unidiomatic or over-verbose or is it ignoring features real-world code would use? EXPLAIN YOURSELF!

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Study after study has shown that trees in cities offer huge benefits: offering shade and cooling (reducing energy consumption), draining storm/flood water (very useful in our more extreme climate), cleaning the air and emitting oxygen, homing wildlife, improving mental health by reducing anxiety and depression, being nice to look at.

Every city tree should be treasured and protected.

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Those photos really sell the value of those satellites. It seems ridiculous that we don't have replacements up there given how many launches there's been in recent years.

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Why? Unless you like breaking into other people's devices, this is good news.

An update regarding the future of m/AskKbin (where we are headed towards) - AskKbin - kbin.social ( kbin.social )

Hello everyone, check out my announcement post linked above and if you don't know who I am, check out my past post to learn more about me and It would mean a lot of you show your support for my future iniatives inside the fediverse!...

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Mbin seems like a healthy project, and the only sensible move from kbin.

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I think it's been cropped into a square at some point (maybe for a preview image) and here we are.

You know which XKCD this is.

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And surely being a Site of Special Scientific Interest must give it extra protection?

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I think all of the communities would rather have something more than just a bare link. I'm not sure why you're responding with such indignation, to be honest, it was a perfectly reasonable suggestion, politely made.

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So you think it's too unreasonable for you to cope with?

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I just now noticed it was gone. Did it just vanish one day, or did its users at least have some hint?

edit: looks like it was a surprise: https://lemmyverse.link/mander.xyz/post/12163154

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Imagine how poor Pluto would feel if we decided this new entry counted as a proper planet.

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I definitely had to check the date it was posted as the whole article is quite odd.

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They've kept YouTube monetisation enabled, of course.

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A wise man.

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Errr, you're losing me a bit there - are we still in sandwich territory with this version? It's like a weird sausage roll now.

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