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• 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
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lifeprotip⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I keep my front door key in my foreskin. Either I evade the pickpocket, or I make a new friend. I cannot lose.

  As a younger man, I was able to unlock the door hands-free. These days, I need to fish the key out of my floppy beige KKK hood like a sock trapped in a duvet cover on laundry day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can laugh, but the drywall installers of the UK ain’t laughing. Patching up the headbutt dents in the homes of these angry potatoes is their bread and butter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important information⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just use two forks, with the prongs on one fork filling in the slots of the other. They call this practice ‘spooking’.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lose the ‘infinite growth’ promise to shareholders (in fact, lose the whole shareholder thing entirely). That’s the root of all evil right there. It’s the cause of all woes suffered by gamers, devs and even the very sociopathic CEOs who think Epic exclusivity is a sound financial strategy. We all suffer for it, and all to benefit shareholders who, in 2024, still believe the lie that next year’s profits will exceed this year’s. It’s delusional, and even if it weren’t, it would quite literally be cancerous. Cancer is just a board of shareholders in a biological system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit… 😬

• With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually played a wee bit of 1983’s Crystal Castles (Atari 2600 version) earlier this year when I was trying out emulators 🤣 I loved that game when I was a kid, I get a major nostalgia hit when I play it. I’m sure some of the other games I tested were older still, but that’s the one I remember because I was born in that same year.

  I remembered it being one of the first games I ever played. As I fumbled my way through those first few sessions, I could physically feel my neurons flowering and blooming and creaking to life like a bunch of microscopic mind-rhubarb. It was the beginning of a life-long love of gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We keep running into LLMs that are pretending to be people, but I bet there are a handful of people out there pretending to be LLMs.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would make a great comedy movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s depressing that bleating “free speech” has become a shibboleth, betraying the speaker’s tedious far right contrarianism and a wish to express it without consequence. Racists, Nazis, x-phobes, bigots of all stripes; these are your target audience when your primary objective for your platform is supposedly “free speech”, especially when it’s in opposition to the censorship of your users’ bigotry on other platforms. I wish it weren’t so, but it fucking is, 100% of the time.

  It’s like on reddit, when you discover a splinter sub called r/FunSubReborn or something, where they post the same content as r/FunSub, but in this “reborn” sub you can also be an unmitigated cunt in the comments and make racist or phobic remarks without getting banned.

  Tedious, tiresome, clueless wankers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Krimes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their fingerprints would be about the size of a toddler’s, maybe smaller. I doubt there’s much confusion.

• The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?
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• Why do many search engines seem to ignore operators (e.g. exact phrases, term exclusions, OR, etc.)? Is there a good reason for having a dumb 1997-level search logic that I'm not seeing?
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• Is there a standard/preferred list order for non-alphanumeric characters?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations, completing a game and getting it out the door is no mean feat!

• Has there ever been an attempt to do a modern "novelisation" of Shakespeare's plays?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I enjoy the combination of two flavours if they arrive separately, but hate them when they arrive pre-combined?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense, maybe if the oniony flavour was in little clots floating within the Coke it would work better (just realised how profoundly gross that sounds).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I enjoy the combination of two flavours if they arrive separately, but hate them when they arrive pre-combined?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Great answer, makes sense! Cheers.

• Why do I enjoy the combination of two flavours if they arrive separately, but hate them when they arrive pre-combined?
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• Why is there often a huge gap between a person being found guilty of a crime and their sentencing hearing?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather appropriately, allowing Elon Musk’s crew to operate on your brain is proof that you do indeed need brain surgery.

• Since the invention of the printing press and mass-produced books in the 15th century, silent letters/syllables in written texts have unnecessarily hastened deforestation
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• Using radiotherapy to cure cancer which was caused by exposure to radioactive materials sounds a lot like homeopathy (except in this case it actually works)
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