toast

@toast@retrolemmy.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The perfect gift. Just remember to look at reviews before you buy and test the ones you have. They do vary a lot in how well they actually work (to the point that some are so useless it would almost have to be intentional)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably wouldn’t want to bring a phone to some types of events, but as the number of these events increase, the odds of you just happening to be close to such an event during the course of a normal day might increase. Maybe it’s best if we turn off 2g reception on our phones. No reason to be swept up in warrantless sweeps if not necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3113: Fix This Sign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the spirit of the comic,

  *companies’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how time travel works. I mean, within the next 24 hours I plan to travel to tomorrow. I’m not going to be taking any of that into account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you wash a weighted blanket, is it just the outside you wash after removing it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine says no machine wash. I threw it in the bathtub with some detergent and “hand washed” it. Took some effort, but wasn’t as bad as you might think. Let it hang from the shower curtain rod until dry (pointed a fan at it the hasten drying). Nothing I’d do too often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Google Search Emoji Answer Feature to Replace All Those Copy and Paste Emoji Websites; You Will be Able to Copy the Code for Emojis With a Click.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, great…just what we need - more fucking emojis everwhere. How have we all survived so long without something like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture literally changes how we see the world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Page 3 of the PDF linked to in the article has a diagram that made it easy for me to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re suggesting a daring heist at the Smithsonian, I’m in!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I realise that many people, on reading that first sentence, will suspect I’ve finally flipped. Where, pray, are those rolling sand dunes or sere stony wastes? But there are many kinds of desert, and not all of them are dry.

  No, being dry is really what makes a desert. Deserts can be hot, cold, even seasonally wet, but overall they must have low yearly precipitation.

  In fact, those spreading across Britain are clustered in the wettest places.

  Obviously, no.

  Yet they harbour fewer species than some dry deserts do, and are just as hostile to humans.

  Few species and hostile, sure, but these are not defining attributes of desert.

  Another useful term is terrestrial dead zones.

  Well, it is closer to accuracy.

  This twat is using desert figuratively in an article on ecology while chastising readers for thinking that deserts are dry.

  Idiot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No case, no problems so far. I’ve had numerous phones over the last 20 years, never had a case, and never had an issue. Don’t drop your phones.

  I did buy a case for my son’s first phones, but I wouldn’t suggest he need one now. He is certainly old enough to take care with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The inventor of shoes must of argued a lot with his customers about the importance of wearing socks with them.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be “must’ve”, not “must of”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! Got to keep that old Bondi Blue going

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Villains or heroes isn’t the issue. It’s the argument that we need a group that doesn’t play by the rules that apply to the rest of society that I find problematic.

  Shouldn’t we strive for a world in which the rules really do apply to all? Can’t we hope to conceive of a set of laws standards by which we should all be judged? Isn’t the world of Star Trek meant in some way to be aspirational, rather than just a reflection of what we have now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Reading the article, Section 31 seems great if you just want to just shit on everything else in the franchise. Nope, not for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We should all right now go to the leadership pages of all the major insurers. If there were a sudden spike in traffic on these pages it would be noticed. Nothing wrong with putting a little worry in their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another offensive pub name⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently, Ms Allen is neither sly nor clever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While a tool that extends your reach is useful, when dealing with a difficult to reach spider, your best asset is the element of surprise!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your argument sounds convincing, but given an infinite number of monkeys I could refute it