JoelJ

@JoelJ@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, I just installed Thunderbird and am giving it a go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for getting into old school tech, I even like to browse neocities.org on occasion just for the hit of nostalgia for the old web rings. I never got into newsgroups though, and I’m wondering what reasons you might use that instead of something like Lemmy, Mastodon etc?

  Apart from the piracy side, I know all about that already lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bald people save a lot of money on shampoo.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly! Although I find dishwashing detergent dries out your skin a lot more, so I wouldn’t try using that lol. Shampoo has a pH closer to your skin than a bar of soap, so is really quite well suited for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it dumb to create a wiki in this day and age?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What it seems to me that you’re suggesting is essentially crowd sourcing a mix of investigative journalism and data analysis, which is not a skill I think that just anybody can pick up and do properly. To be fair I’ve never tried my hand at investigative journalism, but I have done a few units of data analysis and trust me there’s a hundred different ways to do it wrong. Even among the experts, there’s a lot of disagreements to what the best approaches are. I had a teacher even say that if you give a set of data to 10 data analysts, you’ll get back 12 different ways of interpreting it.

  That is all to say that I’m not sure how much you’d be solving by providing another forum for people to post their takes on public policy issues, but then again if you manage to attract the right crowd of critical thinkers, who also happen to be open minded enough not to insert their own agendas into matters, perhaps people might hold each other accountable?

  BTW have you checked that something similar doesn’t already exist? Insert obligatory xkcd comic:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why shouldn't electric plugs screw in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess to the biggest reason not to do this is safety - if somebody is being electrocuted, you want to be able to pull the cord out of the wall as quickly as possible to maximise their chance of survival.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bald people save a lot of money on shampoo.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just buy cheap $2 bottles of shampoo and use it for my whole body. Cheaper than shower gel, and I’ve been doing it for over 5 years with no problems. It’s all soap, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I built my first shed! So proud of myself!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  doing the Lord’s work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you think about it, Africans are the real "pure blooded" people, because they didn't interbreed with the Neanderthals like Europeans did after migrating out of Africa.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry? I don’t understand why you’d think I think that? This was like hundreds of thousands of years ago, so whatever their skin colour there would have been plenty of time for melanin levels to change since then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you think about it, Africans are the real "pure blooded" people, because they didn't interbreed with the Neanderthals like Europeans did after migrating out of Africa.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but studies have shown that Africans don’t have any Neanderthal DNA.

• If you think about it, Africans are the real "pure blooded" people, because they didn't interbreed with the Neanderthals like Europeans did after migrating out of Africa.
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨4⁩ ⁨comments⁩