quicklime

@quicklime@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Israel afraid to allow foreign journalists in Gaza? What's it hiding? | Editorial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Forgive me for thinking that instead of keeping them out, Israel had been allowing them in and then murdering them ‘by accident’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Trump will speak from behind bulletproof glass at outdoor rallies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing says “everybody loves me!” better than surrounding oneself with bulletproof materials 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shell quietly backs away from pledge to increase ‘advanced recycling’ of plastics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As it was always unfeasible. The necessary energy input means it’s an economically losing proposition unless the government were to take the (absolutely unlikely) step of forcing all plastics, but especially virgin plastic production, to incorporate a heavy carbon tax and environmental impact tax in its pricing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I read yesterday that they had just filed an application to be released from the legal obligation to maintain and update their landline infrastructure in the state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hamas, federation and legality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There seems to be illegality all around –

  “Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms” (United Nations press release, 2016) press.un.org/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone recommend evaporative cooler here ? I know aircon is much better but I wanted something that makes air a bit humid to help with my severe dry eyes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. It’s just a resource you can save and look into later when you might have more time or find yourself bored. They do have some other pages or sections that discuss helpful treatments but there’s no short summary, I gather, because it’s been so different for different people. Anyway, not my site or anything, just something I came across recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone recommend evaporative cooler here ? I know aircon is much better but I wanted something that makes air a bit humid to help with my severe dry eyes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for chasing a side point, but I wanted to mention this group that provides a ton of information on dry eye syndrome beyond the very limited resources that my optometrist showed me.

  www.notadryeye.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨would it be simpler for people if we said "proxy" instead of "instance"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t been on FB for several years, but ugh there was a while in the late 2010s when so many people over there were referring to FB groups as sites and just arghh arrghh aaarrgghhh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tomb of Ramesses I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool experience! Thanks for sharing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the info! Yeah, it’s going to take the fediverse in general some time to get smoother. I’m excited to watch it improve even if the pace is slow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What motivated you to switch instances? Did your early ones fill up with junk posts etc? I was thinking that since I use a reader app (Boost for Lemmy) and everything is federated it wouldn’t matter much if I joined one of the large and general-purpose instances.

  Or was it more about performance issues… service/instance traffic overload leading to slow response time?