Tikiporch

@Tikiporch@lemmy.world

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The world's bad six inches, or the world's bad? 🤔

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Tangential to the topic, these photos choices are wild. The out of focus grammy photo bomb, and what does tobacco farming have to do with the problem?

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Imagine non sexual genital touching.

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I can only accept your resignation in writing, but this includes email. It's all speculation until then.

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If you have private health insurance (not medicaid/Medicare), and the drug is a brand name or a generic with one manufacturer, then you likely qualify for a rebate card from the manufacturer. This is often in addition to any patient support programs from the manufacturer that involve you sharing your personal financial situation with them.

The pharmacy nor providers usually have time, and certainly not the incentive, to share this information with their patients. If they were concerned with patient care they would, but that's part of the problem with privatized Healthcare.

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Back on early ChatGPT I asked it to write me instructions on how to change a tire in the style of a Trump speech. Output was pretty good.

Look, folks, I'm gonna tell you how to change a tire, and nobody knows how to change a tire better than me, believe me! First, find a great spot, a tremendous spot, a spot where winners change their tires. You're gonna need a jack, a beautiful jack, the best jack, okay? You put that jack under the car, right near the flat tire, and you pump it up, you pump it up bigly! We're gonna raise that car, just like we're raising this country, folks!

Now, get yourself a lug wrench, a fantastic wrench, a winner's wrench. You're gonna loosen those nuts, those lousy nuts, lefty loosey, righty tighty, that's how it goes, okay? Unscrew 'em all, but don't let 'em get away, folks. Keep 'em close, keep 'em close to you, just like we keep our jobs close to America! Take off that flat tire, a pathetic tire, a loser tire, and put on the spare. You gotta have a spare, a magnificent spare, a spare that's gonna make your car great again!

Now, screw those nuts back on, folks. Screw 'em on tight, tight like our borders, okay? We don't want 'em coming off, we don't want 'em running away like crooked politicians. Lower that car with the jack, easy, easy, just like we're lowering taxes, lowering 'em for the hardworking people! Finally, tighten those nuts again, extra tight, tighter than anyone has ever tightened nuts before. That tire is gonna stay put, folks, it's gonna stay put like I'm gonna stay put in the hearts of the American people!

That's it, folks, you've changed that tire, and you've changed it beautifully, believe me. Nobody changes tires like we do, nobody! Now, get out there, drive with pride, and remember, we're gonna keep winning, winning like never before!

Visitors to Greece appear ill informed about heatwave risk, warn rescuers ( www.theguardian.com )

Over the past week, three search and rescue operations have been started for tourists who have gone missing during treks on far-flung islands, including one for the popular TV presenter Michael Mosley, who was found dead on the island of Symi....

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No, but they live in LA where it is still hotter than it was in Greece.

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Only if Danny Devito plays Stitch, but is voiced by Andy Serkis.

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Wrong, they will always lie to you.

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Potomac?

Well I hope the seeds can grow through this. ( lemmy.world )

So long story short, I’ve been thinking about doing this anyways, but the city had to put its worst water restrictions into place with an unprecedented water main break. The cities Largest main break which is a 2m pipe (6 foot 6 inches for the neighbours). This means zero outside watering, it’s a great thing I recently...

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If the barrels aren't enough, could you install a cistern? It may only be subject to regulation if you're collecting rainwater in it.

Is Craigslist Dying?

I went to Craigslist in my local area for the first time in awhile. I used to like “best of” Craigslist because some of them were great, there still are some, but its just not the same. A community I used to visit had about half the number of posts as I remember, and of jobs and things for sale, I would say roughly half the...

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You have to pay to sell things on there now as well. Might as well use ebay or letgo or something like that.

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Might just be for cars and farm equipment? Went to sell a lawn mower and it asked me for money.

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Man, it's always felt like that to me as well. Even the little guys make no sense sometimes.

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I'll only try poly-employment I can quiet quit one or all my jobs.

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No, thanks.

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Whether you broke or rich, you gotta get...that.

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What the fuck is rocket?

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Domino's is a pizza box folding factory that happens to make pizza.

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Just pay a human a reasonable salary to do the job?

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Letting your grass get tall is great for all the birds your cat will absolutely murder this spring.

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You misunderstand. I hate birds.

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All good. Don't take it personally, my comment was a bad joke.

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Can't we just ball it up and stick it under our desk?

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George likes his chicken spicy.

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One, or both, of them may be a corpse. Photos were very expensive back then, and often only made after someone died.

John Fetterman Staff Confirm Senator Has Successfully Respeced Entire Character ( hard-drive.net )

WASHINGTON – Members of John Fetterman’s staff confirmed today that the Pennsylvania senator has successfully completed a total re-speccing of his entire character, including his personality, policies, and collection of ill-fitted gym shorts....

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This isn't real news, but it isn't The Onion either.

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The Boys is good, but I don't form opinions based on the narrative.

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No one insults me, so these aren't field tested.

"Oh yeah? Well, the jerk store called and they're running out of you."

"I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"

"Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man."

"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

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I feel like this may be one of the less egregious uses of the word.

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Is monoculture the word of the week on Lemmy? Let's be clear, carbon dioxide doesn't care what kind of tree converts it to oxygen.

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How much CO2 does a solar panel convert?

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Bugs don't care what type of green you have in your lawn. You can even mow.

Just don't spray insecticide on your lawn.

Edit: also, why the fuck would you remove existing lawn to replace it with new growth? That's like indiscriminately bulldozing every home in a city to rebuild them with whatever is the current trend in sustainable housing. Where do people live in the mean time? Please don't let this person, or me for that matter, inform your opinion.

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I've seen a lot of opinion pieces about the matter, but they never cite any research that definitely pins substantive loss of biodiversity on lawns. It's an issue globally, but as usual the individual is the scape goat instead of the exponentially greater impact of corporations.

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We knew dinosaurs were scaly, too. Everything deserves further study, and it's foolhardy to advise everyone to rip up their lawns and plant...what, exactly? White clover, another invasive species.

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Oh, you didn't need to do that. You won't find a study supporting your argument, I've looked thoroughly before. Case in point, the study you shared. It actually opposes your argument, by finding suburban lawns support a diverse and abundant bee community. Of the three mowing frequencies they studied (one, two, and three week intervals), they actually found every two weeks was optimal for the bees.

Like I said to begin with, I just don't think what species of green you plant in your lawn matters nearly as much as not using insecticide.

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It would be easier to just admit you didn't read the whole thing before you shared it. It's a shit study, like I said, and you're wasting your time trying to make it support your opinion.

You can throw more copy pasta at me, if you want, but their results are what they are. I'll reiterate...

Suburban lawns support a diverse bee population: "4.1. Diverse and abundant suburban bee communities. For this study, we documented 93 species of bees collected from the lawn-dominated yards (Appendix A1). These 93 species represent roughly a quarter of bee species recorded in Massachusetts, include 14 Massachusetts county records, and featured the highly abundant Lasioglossum illinoense, a species not recorded in Massachusetts since 1920 (Lerman and Milam, 2016). Other urban bee studies have also amassed impressive species lists (e.g., Baldock et al., 2015; Fetridge et al., 2008; Matteson et al., 2008; Pardee and Philpott, 2014; Tommasi et al., 2004), dispelling the notion that cities are “biological deserts” and support findings that bees can be abundant and diverse in urban settings (Hall et al., 2017). In addition to being primarily native species and soil-nesters, the majority of the Springfield bees were small-bodied (Appendix A1), suggesting that these short-distance fliers took advantage of the floral resources in the study lawns, especially yards mowed every two weeks."

Mowing more frequently was better for the bees: "Mowing frequency altered the evenness of bees within suburban yards, though the patterns we observed did not fully support our hypothesis, in that lawns mowed every week and every three-weeks had higher evenness (Fig. 4d) and richness (Rarefaction curves; Fig. 2) when compared with the two-week treatment."

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Sure, about $785,000 each should do the trick.

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Oh, I get it. It's because they don't have any phones on their heads.

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

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Must be your eyesight, my friend. Looks normal to me...

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More like Great Horny Owl, am I right people?

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Can we avoid this by giving Gen X offhanded advice about their personal finances?

Get a roommate, stop buying lattes, learn to cook, etc.

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My peer was let go last year, and they received their full benefit package for a year, two weeks pay for each year of service (he had 28 years of service, so 14 months pay) and a "lump sum" of $15,000. He was in management, but everyone who was laid off got the same deal which included many individual contributors.

From what I have seen and heard there are many American companies that do this, the problem is that there is no law or other regulation that says they must. It should be this way for everyone, no matter who your employer is.

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Go on...

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Good question. I don't think ionizing radiation from a CME can reach the surface of Earth.

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He made bail, which is easier when your friends are rich.

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I like his short hair and whiskers. I think I'll go shave my cat entirely so he matches and see if YouTube has instructions how to declaw cats at home while I'm at it.

Just kidding, only trying to provoke the concern trolls in here.

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Funny story about Hershey Kisses. When they were hand wrapped, they paid their workers by-the-Kiss, so there were all kinds of techniques to increase output. The most efficient way to get the chocolate kiss to stick to the wrapper was to lick the bottom so it held tight when you twisted it closed. There's a good chance your parents and definitely grandparents ate prelicked chocolate kisses.

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