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- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 2 days ago:
I always nodded and said yes.
inadvertently kickstarts Elizabeth Holmes promotion to CEO a job or two later :p j/k
btw curious what the proper verification work is. Thought calls were standard. Maybe pulling tax records if possible?
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
The time cost, too. Huge hassle to buy, move, sell. Inspections, agents, viewings… big pressure end to end.
purchasing almost always makes more sense.
I remember the San Francisco Bay Area threw this old truism off when purchasing became so expensive, it was just about a wash whether you wanted to rent or buy.
These tiny little homes starting at a million bucks or something…
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
Ah I see your edit now, thanks
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
iOS lets you create “secret chats”
How? Not natively unless I’m mistaken
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 2 weeks ago:
In 2019, The North Face faced consumer backlash and apologized after its marketing agency surreptitiously added photos featuring its apparel to Wikipedia articles on popular outdoor destinations.
The North Face - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Face
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
“Hi I wasn’t paid six dollars on Fiverr to post here” (does increase costs obviously but marginally for high-margin/volume products)
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you. Been thinking about this.
Is there a [soap] product that you use or would use with a dishwasher, or at least a guideline or purchasing process you’d follow?
- Comment on genius 4 weeks ago:
LOL
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t watch but hope to!
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 4 weeks ago:
Very very tempting
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 4 weeks ago:
Fab series (latest here 👇)
I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it — Technology Connections (Nov 4, 2025), ~2.6M views
Now I wanna become the hand dishwashing expert!
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 4 weeks ago:
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Scrub every inch and cranny real good with soapy water
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Even try to leave the soap on for 30 seconds if I can wash other stuff in the meantime
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Rinse very thoroughly so nary a hint of a sud remains
Prioritize dishwasher for everything that won’t be damaged
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- Submitted 4 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 44 comments
- Comment on Unquestionably high class 4 weeks ago:
It looks hand
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 weeks ago:
Most of the edits to try and say turbo is the slow mode were done by the one person, they seem to think they are right when all the evidence points to the contrary. I’m glad they seem to have given up for now.
Heh maybe you inspired them :p
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 weeks ago:
Is that Wikipedia page accurate today?
- Comment on Snitches get switches 5 weeks ago:
Some places in California, can sign up to volunteer with (paid expert) rangers to clear invasives
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 5 weeks ago:
Some may find it fun to nerd out, get a Bluetooth temp sensor, track a handful of places in fridge & freezer to figure it out 🙂
Also good for ongoing alerts of temp escalations (beyond the usual, since refrigerators make themselves really cold until they warm up a bit and make themselves cold again).
- "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo?sh.itjust.works ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on just like nonna used to make 5 weeks ago:
Could be worse?
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 weeks ago:
Ahahahahaha one of the best I’ve seen thanks
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 5 weeks ago:
“Viral: Annie Lööf and the criminal offenses
I have noted that this old image of Annie Lööf from SVT’s Aktuellt is circulating on social media again. “In Sweden, it is forbidden to be criminal,” the caption on the image reads, and comments usually suggest that this proves how utterly imbecilic Annie Lööf is to say such a thing.
Image likely from Aktuellt, February 21, 2012. But is the text authentic or manipulated?
But is the image actually authentic? Admittedly, those who subtitle TV programs are often forced to compress statements quite heavily, so this could possibly be what the subtitler thought was a fair summary of what Annie Lööf said. However, it could also be a Photoshopped image.
The last time this image went around the web, I wrote to Aktuellt to ask, but unfortunately received no reply. The image shows the older Aktuellt logo, so it should be older than March 5, 2012, when Aktuellt launched its new design.
The Swedish Radio program Tankesmedjan i P3 addressed the matter on February 23, 2012, and on the program’s website, they also wrote about it under the headline “It is illegal to commit crimes.” The audio file itself on the website was titled “In Sweden, it is thus criminal to be criminal.” In the program, this causes great amusement, yet they quote Annie Lööf with a longer excerpt than what appears in the TV image, where she says:
“In Sweden, for a very long time, it has been forbidden to conduct activities with a criminal purpose, and it still is and will continue to be so in the future.”
The Social Democratic magazine Tiden’s Facebook page also reproduces the longer quote and cites the source as SVT’s Rapport on February 21, 2012. Political scientist and commentator Ulf Bjereld likely heard the same phrasing in Aktuellt that same day, as he tweeted:
“In Sweden, it has long been forbidden to conduct activities with a criminal purpose.” Annie Lööf just said in SVT Aktuellt.
Bjereld apparently considered any further comment superfluous.
When the TV station did not respond to my email, I wrote instead to Annie Lööf’s department, the Ministry of Enterprise, and received a reply from Joel Kanebjörk (Oct 19, 2012, reg. no. N2012/3636/BREV):
“Minister for Enterprise Annie Lööf has previously pointed out that it is forbidden to conduct activities with a criminal purpose. This was in connection with deliberations regarding Annie’s and the government’s vision to simplify and increase freedom for the country’s entrepreneurs. Part of this vision has been to reduce the number of regulations for entrepreneurs, precisely to increase freedom and profitability. Against this background, an implication has been highlighted suggesting that the government has simplified things so much for businesses that it is now easier for them to resort to criminal acts.”
Well, then the statement perhaps doesn’t sound quite so tautological. If you search through old government bills and legal texts, you also find quite a bit regarding “criminal purpose.” For example, the Trade Names Act (1974:156) prohibits registering a firm that “is contrary to law or other statutes.”
In Government Bill 1973:115, legislation is requested because it can “be suspected that at least part of the significant income provided by sex club and posing activities is utilized for a criminal purpose.”
In a motion to the Parliament (1997/98:L912), it is stated that it is not “justifiable that the Foundation Act is used for a criminal purpose. A review should take place to close the loopholes that make economic crime possible…”
It remains an open question whether the specific image is manipulated or not. But it can be considered established that Annie Lööf was likely referring to these types of ulterior motives within certain activities.”
- Comment on xkcd #3183: Pole Vault Pole 1 month ago:
Training starts now
For one incredible upset, one great outcry, and one bucket-list rule change
- Comment on life hack 1 month ago:
How many would be left if you exclude any religions that don’t necessarily demand adherence, or maybe anything?
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 1 month ago:
Some artists making content are practically their own little PBS stations or something, I’m with ya!
Would it be more palatable if they told us using adblock w/o premium was “robbing creators of one-hundredth of a cent each time” or something? If I’m not mistaken there is a connection between content creator payouts and that.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 1 month ago:
Great points
Hey ya think if the coolest thing ever were rejecting consumerism it’d make it palatable? Like your kids’ friends relish in having only three high-quality outfits or something, and read library books for fun… (like their parents)… then maybe your kid doesn’t beg for the cool new toy.
Pipe dream ya just thinking in that case if commenting about rejecting consumerism helped spur a trend it might be OK. Think TikTok driving Stanley thermos sales but the opposite
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 month ago:
clears throat Don’t you think we should ask for more than a million dollars? A million dollars isn’t exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
ahahaha PSP Fat!!
