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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is working on new Thunderbird "Pro" email offerings and Thundermail⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I support the general idea, but I hope they don’t go the MuseScore route and start adding popup ads in the free program for pro/paid elements. MuseScore literally has popup ads now. Insanity.

• Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later?
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨20⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• Pets hate the vet clinic and groomer because they smell the combined terror/anger of a thousand other animals who've been poked and prodded in that room
  Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨16⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• Is there some special process by which musicians/producers arrive at an agreed-upon tempo for a song recording?
  Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨6⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• YSK that if you hover your mouse over each segment of Wikipedia's IPA pronunciation key (typically found at the beginning of an article), it will let you know how it sounds in the tooltiplemmy.world ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨youshouldknow@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨27⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This will be my first experience of Morrowind, the original is just way too old for me to try getting into now. I’m a Philistine, I know, but I need a modern UI and interface and UX and all that jazz. Skyrim is pretty old at this point too, but it still holds up in all the important ways. So, I shall wait for the release of Skywind! (Could probably have phrased that in a slightly less flatulent way…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  pls to meke stem controller 2 🥲 😻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just another person I let down in life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got caught in a scam last year, but luckily I realised what was happening before any damage could be done. But during the scam, the guy (who was pretending to be my bank) heard me tell him how much was in my account. It was like £100, give or take. No savings, no other accounts. He knew I was on disability benefits. He had this info at the beginning of the conversation, and he was talking to me for 45 minutes before he gave up. For £100. I wanted so badly to say to him “you saw that I had 100 quid to my name, and you still tried to steal it from me?” 😆 These people have gotta be sociopaths.

• Is there really a difference between my understanding the phrase "go for a walk" and my dog understanding the phrase "go for a walk"?
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨11⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come Dev Believes Unreal Is Ill-Suited For Open World Games, And Is Slowing Down Work On Witcher 4⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard nothing but negative things about Unreal. Why is it used so widely? Is Epic basically paying devs to do so with lenient royalty fees or whatever?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be cool if the official Wikipedia mobile app integrated this functionality! It does have a ‘random articles’ card, but it’s nothing like this.

  Not sure ‘addiction’ is being defeated here, though 😆 Like if I’m addicted to sausages, giving me bacon instead isn’t really solving the root of the issue. The issue being those sexy, sexy pigs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Organising to do what exactly? A majority of the US population wants this nightmare. The Trump administration is expected to destroy norms and institutions to bring about their bigot’s utopia, they ran on that promise.

  It’s really that dire. It’s beyond the reach of the checks and balances that have kept things somewhat on-track up until just after 9/11. Checks and balances are precisely what the voters want to delete from the courts.

  If Trump wants a 3rd term, he will get it, and his voters will not be moved by marches or sit-ins or AOC exquisitely calling out the scum and villainy from the floor of the senate. Either talk Luigification, or let the people post their fucking memes in peace.

• Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏
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• It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking
  Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨102⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the path of least resistance to achieve Musklessness. The second two of the positives you listed are actually negatives to the average Joe. Choice paralysis, overwhelming number of apps and servers, these are things that put people off even trying, especially if there are easier-to-use alternatives that are familiar and instant.

  Mastodon is great, but it’s not quite there yet in terms of convenience. Too much copying and pasting and clicking through to different instances in order to read old posts etc. It needs to be more cohesive in a way that doesn’t require constantly leaving your timeline or going into the settings.

  It’s also the case that the Twitter diaspora who are famous tend to choose BlueSky, and that brings a lot of people along with them.

  And it’s also the case that Mastodon doesn’t have much of a marketing campaign outside of word-of-mouth, whereas BlueSky does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jazz hands⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believed this was real until I searched for it 😂 To be fair to my own credulity, Plutonium Jazz would not be the most insane thing people did with radioactive materials back then. The “medicines” alone make Plutonium Jazz sound pretty tame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, really interesting!

  On a side note, I always through Stack Exchange was just for computery stuff. Didn’t know it covered everything!

• When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less?
  Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨22⁩ ⁨comments⁩