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- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 day ago:
Most of the "microblog" posts I'm seeing are pretty short. I seem to remember the images being way too big, though. I made a custom ublock rule or something to make both the lemmy ones and them equally small thumbnails just big enough to decide if I want to load a full-sized one. It's kept working for a year or something, I had forgotten it was there, but I guess it helps even more now.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 day ago:
I like it. Always wondered why it wasn't like that from the start.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 1 day ago:
https://fedia.io/threads should do it.
- Comment on Your reflection has never blinked at the same time as you. 4 days ago:
Distance from eye to reflective surface unspecified. Capacity to blink twice in the time taken for light to traverse that distance in the relevant frame of reference is unknown.
- Comment on Mice are so fortunate to have had cancer and diabetes cured for them. 1 week ago:
Is that more times than they caused it?
- Comment on Mice are so fortunate to have had cancer and diabetes cured for them. 1 week ago:
They cured mouse cancer!?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Don't worry about it, other than being in the wrong spot it looks like a fine post to me. I'm not sure where, exactly, would've been better — I only subscribe to relatively few lemmy communities.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Youtube videos do not belong here.
- Comment on Why Are There Fourth Notes in Bars That Only Count to Three? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, I've just seen a few weird ones over the years. My search didn't turn up any better place to start than the wikipedia page on musical notation which does cover quite a few of them.
- Comment on Why Are There Fourth Notes in Bars That Only Count to Three? 2 weeks ago:
I don't know what you're proposing exactly that you think would "fix" it, but you might be surprised at how many attempts to reform music notation have come and gone over the years. Perhaps the one you're looking for has already been invented.
- Comment on ‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ 2 weeks ago:
I didn't read a word of it, simply scrolled to the end to verify that yes, there is a link to X down there.
- Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 3 weeks ago:
If that thought seems novel to you, your homework for this weekend is to watch a few Jackie Chan movies.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
"What's up?" It's the direction in space opposite to the local gravitational field, why are you asking me?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 11 comments
- Comment on Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism. 4 weeks ago:
There are some ex-smokers who claim that they never enjoyed it. Then there are some who go on to claim that nobody ever does. The former, I can believe.
- Comment on Our user profiles are little time capsules that your children and descendants can learn about who you are. 4 weeks ago:
Hi future kids! If you tracked down this account you probably either work for the NSA or you're a super-talented hacker. So I'm either very proud of you or very disappointed.
- Comment on Xbox requires age verification now 4 weeks ago:
Yoti, a trusted third-party identity verification provider
Sure they could do it without relying on a third party, but Microsoft knows its users are going to have an easier time trusting "Yoti" rather than trusting Microsoft.
- Comment on There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living: 5 weeks ago:
Sounds pretty good tbh. Peaceful, secure, quiet, lots of trees, low taxes.
- Comment on There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living: 5 weeks ago:
Of course the ideal is to find someplace where you need neither house nor car keys.
- Comment on I feel like all current political debate is basically trying to choose between the three endings in the original Deus Ex. 5 weeks ago:
Hey, I'm from the 20th century. It was a cataclysmic hundred years, not some kind of stable condition that could be restored. The prosperity of its last few decades was fuelled by burning the furniture made by the labour movement, and we're almost out of fuel.
- Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died. 5 weeks ago:
At some point in human history there was only one human, the first one.
*for some definition of "human"
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Interesting news, but I'll just stick with F-Droid.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on xkcd #3153: Hot Water Balloon 5 weeks ago:
It seems possible that there might be better ways to ride a hot waterbed.
- Comment on Pornhub should make its own VPN 5 weeks ago:
No, just one of your data security needs.
- Comment on Pornhub should make its own VPN 5 weeks ago:
Sure, who wouldn't entrust all their data security needs to a porn website? They should start an infosec consulting business while they're at it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Just remove the "S" and it'd be nearer the mark.
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 5 weeks ago:
Automatic removal for repeat URL posting
That seems like the best of these ideas. But it would be better for the originating instance to warn the poster that their url has already been seen and stop them posting it unless they really really want to.
- Comment on Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight 1 month ago:
Let’s assume being a landlord is made illegal overnight. Tenants won’t be made to leave their homes, however, until the landlord has been able to sell up.
I mean obviously we're not going to abolish landlords overnight unless we abolish a whole lot of other things along with them in some kind of incredibly successful revolution, but thinking that we'd keep them around long enough to profit from the sale of their real estate assets is just a failure of imagination. Let's assume that all mortgage debt is cancelled and ownership of every dwelling is granted to whoever's been living in it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That would result in massive protests.
