toynbee
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Technology@lemmy.world•Why Personal Websites Are Coming BackEnglish
2·1 month agoI had a GeoCities account, but I got my start on Angelfire. I think.
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Technology@lemmy.world•‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits DramaticallyEnglish
2·1 month agoApparently they were originally supposed to be compute, but someone didn’t think the general audience would understand that, so they changed it to batteries.
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Technology@lemmy.world•There’s Whole Computer Inside This MouseEnglish
1·1 month agoIt probably has a Bluetooth adapter.
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politics @lemmy.world•Election officials say they can’t comply with Trump’s proposed mail ballot rules | CNN PoliticsEnglish
2·1 month agoReader mode is amazing. I don’t recall whether I’ve ever used it for bypassing paywalls, but I used to read Rock, Paper, Shotgun a lot and, when they started getting disgustingly cluttered, reader mode made it a lot easier.
It also helps with navigating tech blogs when troubleshooting something and, on the rare occasion when I search for recipes, finding the only part that matters.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If I wrote a script for a movie and sent it off to a studio or whatever. What prevents the person who recieved it from claiming it as their own?English
7·1 month agoI thought maybe it was an industry term for, like, the route the package took - the recipe for how to deliver it. You clarified things for me.
Where I’ve been, that (or something similar) is called certified mail.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•My BC is very sound sensitive espicially to the turn signal. My brother and I can't get in a disagreement because he'll run. Are all BC's this way, or did I just find a unique one? Any way to fix it?English
3·1 month agoOr just make their own recording.
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Technology@lemmy.world•I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for saleEnglish
40·1 month agoMy local hospital apparently requires their employees to use a “secure” app on their personal phone to transmit data on the patients.
Seems like irresponsible handling of PHI (by the administration, not the staff) to me.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wetEnglish
21·2 months agodeleted by creator
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Does a 'Welcome' mat give vampires permission to enter your house?English
6·2 months agoI used to have one that said “Hi, I’m Mat” because I found it hilarious.
We throw a party for my kid’s birthday every year. My wife keeps taping signs to the front door for the party; they always say “come on in, the party’s in the back!” I keep telling her that someday a vampire is going to take advantage of that, but she seems unconcerned.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpfulEnglish
4·2 months agoI recently ordered a wall adapter and the associated cable.
Amazon emailed me to confirm my order of two wireless items.
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politics @lemmy.world•The internet does not know how to react to Nancy Mace’s arms being covered in tattoosEnglish
4·2 months agoYour use of curly braces reminds me of AOL.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Of the three most popular superheroes, Superman was born with powers, Batman created his powers, and Spiderman had powers thrust upon himEnglish
1·2 months agoIt’s very possible. I’ve never read more than a handful of Batman comics. A while ago I was big into TVTropes and Wikipedia regarding some superheroes; I’m pretty sure I read there that he was the only one to have dodged them.
That’s why I keep providing caveats and prefacing my statements with things like "I read … " My claims are by no means authoritative and I don’t mean to represent them as such.
Actually, the further I type this comment, the more I think my source was the Death Battle research team. I did not follow up with primary sources.
That said, a quick search suggests that maybe whatever I read or watched was referencing the cartoons, rather than the comics. DB, as entertaining as they can be, generally sources whatever favors their desired outcome. If it was TVTropes or Wikipedia, they might not have referenced the source or I might have forgotten.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄English
1·2 months agoMy mistake.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄English
41·2 months agoMy mistake.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Of the three most popular superheroes, Superman was born with powers, Batman created his powers, and Spiderman had powers thrust upon himEnglish
4·2 months agoTrue, but wasn’t he also the only human (or otherwise, I think) to dodge Darkseid’s eyebeams? Admittedly it would take willpower to get to the point of being physically able to do so, but from what I understand of the eyebeams, also quite a bit of luck.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄English
271·2 months agoSupposedly this is why tic tacs, which are almost 100% sugar, can claim to be sugar free.
Nobody poops but you; that’s concentrated evil coming out the back of you.