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- Comment on An Arctodus simus that has been affected by the tapeworm parasite, by Hodarinundu 13 hours ago:
Older people around here tell stories of homemade treatments where the person would be fasting for hours while sat on a chair with a hole, with a bucket of milk or white wine. According to them, this would make the tapeworm get out (very slowly) into the bucket.
- Comment on There's nothing stopping an 8 year old child from just taking their parent's ID to do Age Verification... 1 day ago:
I think I will start a site to sell autogenerated id pictures.
- Comment on Split View in Firefox: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them | The Mozilla Blog 3 days ago:
We’re all infuriated by recent mozilla doings regarding firefox, but come on, people, this time it’s a nice feature added.
- Comment on don't worry, be happy 3 days ago:
That’s true :(
- Comment on don't worry, be happy 3 days ago:
True, but on the other hand, if international trade diminishes, we’re on the food production side. The places who depend on imports will be hit much harder.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 4 days ago:
Indeed, I have some trouble with pests, especially with the guava tree, but I’ve been using the technique of covering the young fruits in clothing bags so that pests can’t access them, and it’ has been effective so far. Needs a bit of work, but it’s cheap and doesn’t need using any chemicals. Sometimes, a naughty possum comes and takes something away, but it’s not so frequent, so I let them take their share lol. I once planted a broccoli that was growing so big and nice-looking, but had it suddenly disappear, eaten by a group of caterpillars.
But I simply avoid the things that attracted pests and favor the ones that grow without much need of maintenance, like acerola, cassava, some pumpkins, passion fruits, some wild grape-like fruits, and so on. My backyard looks like an abandoned house with the wilds taking over, i admit, but well, I like it that way…
- Comment on That's how the world works. 4 days ago:
That’s interesting to know. I never paid attention to timing when planting. We can plant most things in any season without much difference. Sometimes, thing grow “spontaneously”, like the papaya tree that appeared last year and is already mature and giving fruits. Looks like I’m playing real-life stardew valley in easy mode >.<
- Comment on don't worry, be happy 4 days ago:
When it comes to climate change I’m not sure. We on the poor side of the world already live in a constant crisis and adaptation and drastically changing our way to live might not hit us as hard as for people in first world countries who are used to a high dependence on industry and globalization. In fact, we’re already slowly adapting without most people even noticing.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 4 days ago:
I grow a lot of stuff in a relatively small space. Sometimes I cave to give stuff away because it’s too much for me. Maybe living in a tropical region helps? or maybe because I grow mostly native stuff that needs near to zero care.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
We’re 0 days since last windows update broke critical functionality
- Comment on Did we win? 1 week ago:
I don’t know how online banking access is around the world, but here in brazil, they made it completely impractical to use from computers by applying artificial restrictions. Some payment institutions doesn’t even support access from computers anymore. Meanwhile, accessing from the phones has been made easier and less restrictive, so basically everyone has to do banking from the phone. It has even become a popular thing to have a separate “banking phone” to use at home, but many people can’t affort that.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Their strategy:
- announce they will make extreme restrictions
- people get crazy over it and backlash
- announce that they’re listening to people and will soften the proposed restrictions
- people relax and accept the restrictions, while the media portray them as the good guys
- Comment on Hard to argue 1 week ago:
7? They told me we’re dozens!
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 1 week ago:
The production of solar panels and mineral can be controlled by groups. It’s not as decentralized as we think, but still better than oil, nonetheless
- Comment on Did we win? 1 week ago:
But what if they starting requiring that you remove the sideloaded apps? We’re getting trapped
- Comment on Did we win? 1 week ago:
So, we will have to enable developer mode for that? How long before banking and government apps refuse to run if you have “sideloaded” apps installed? This will be the same as not allowing the majority of people to sideload. No win in here, just an advanced strategy from google to make us conform
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 1 week ago:
This used ducks
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 week ago:
Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money
- Comment on toxic chad 1 week ago:
But doesn’t that make poisonous plants much easier to spot? Isn’t the apparent safety what makes poisonous mushrooms so dangerous?
- Comment on There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive 1 week ago:
The amount of people not caring anymore for their data is impressive. Sometimes, someone asks me to help factory resetting their phone and I ask about their data and they just tell me that it’s fine if they lose, because they have nothing of importance. I try not to make a weird expression, but I always fail the composure check.
- Comment on Lawn mowers make great but usually impractical fart silencers. 1 week ago:
I learned that strategy while playing sniper elite
- Comment on Rude 2 weeks ago:
Be careful. It may seem that there’s no effect, but there might be long-term consequences
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
Ads from giant corporations aren’t just about selling something to you, but to keep the brand’s name in your head and influence you into having a good psychological image of it. it’s also used as a form of influencing the culture of a population. They do a lot of research into how to more efficiently affect your mind, even if you don’t notice it.
That’s why I recommend blocking ads and/or moving away from those services (the high seas welcome you)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the file instead. Here is a description of the content: failed robocop prototype gif
- Comment on kinky taxonomy 2 weeks ago:
For the same reason hoomans named the siamese cat
- Comment on Some people live their lives afraid of being different than others and afraid of being the same. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The perception of the passage of time can be very different depending on which side of the bathroom door you're on. 2 weeks ago:
Especially in houses with big families and just one bathroom…
- Comment on Cable and movie rentals was probably the optimal amount of digital media for a functional society. Get rid of commercials and that was probably peak. 2 weeks ago:
Deep down, it’s still just a few
- Comment on Assuming an average value of $500k per-house, a millionaire could own two houses and a billionaire could own the entire neighborhood 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I believe there should be a legal limit to how many houses one can own. Even if this could be easily bypassable by registering in the name of family members, it would hardly reach such proportions
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 3 weeks ago:
Better yet. Say that the software isn’t intended for any use at all and they don’t allow you to download it, but then leave an open directory with the images
