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- Comment on Trick OR Treat 3 weeks ago:
the whole seeds do taste good but its a bit like chewing up some bits of wood
- Comment on The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's secret identity 3 weeks ago:
very thorough!
- Comment on Pineapple pickle 3 weeks ago:
someone made me pickled strawberries one time. amazing condiment
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 3 weeks ago:
otoh a lot of the most useful and enduring software ever made has been made by volunteers in their spare time
- Comment on What's that light? 1 month ago:
first time ive encountered “bolide”
- Comment on Horseshoe crabs be like 2 months ago:
all extant species be like: evolve? whats that. just livin out here.
- Comment on the magic within 2 months ago:
beautiful ill take 14 of em
- Comment on Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of the classic RPG Wizardry, has passed away 2 months ago:
i spent a lot of hours as a kid playing that first wizardry game. never made it far and found it confusing and unsatisfying. later when i found nethack i learned how to be satisfied with the confusion :*)
- Comment on I don't see Threads when I try to block it as an instance. Why? 2 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on I don't see Threads when I try to block it as an instance. Why? 2 months ago:
also: i think blocking threads with your settings may not prevent users on threads from seeing your posts
- Comment on I don't see Threads when I try to block it as an instance. Why? 2 months ago:
can this also happen if nobody on the instance is subscribing to anything on threads?
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
the thing that most grinds my gears is that there are settings that appear in both control panels and settings, appear to be changeable in both, but only one or the other actually changes anything.
- Comment on Inside the historic computer collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen 3 months ago:
that is quite bonkers. this stuff definitely belongs in museums. the computer history museum in Mountain View is definitely worth the trip.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
i havent seen bad results at least. i use one with a good rating/latency listed on searx.space
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
yes i also noticed google search is absolute trash lately. so i switched to searx and life is better. i only go to google for street view and reverse image search now.
- Comment on Physics 6 months ago:
only thing i can figure is maybe technically you could call an ellipsoidal prism a cylinder also? seems like a stretch.
- Comment on Geography is neat 6 months ago:
three nations did not want to lose their soverign rights to equal thirds of this lake. what is in the lake.
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
musculature is not solely masculine, but if that’s the association for you, it makes sense that you feel a woman with muscles “starts looking like a man”. a similar circular reasoning would be arrived at if you simply considered strength itself to be a masculine trait.
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
a woman can be physically strong without “turning into a man”.
strength of character? how about “nomadland” or “meek’s cutoff”?
- Comment on Finally joined the "work was throwing it out" club 8 months ago:
why do these things almost never close properly
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
some states hamstring well-meaning local authorities from excluding predatory businesses with ordinances
- Comment on You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds 10 months ago:
i was wondering what would it take to make a free/open/noncommercial search solution maintained by a collective (like wikipedia or something). search is too important to be ruined for everyone by corporations.
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- Comment on What's with the sudden upgrade to 0.19 1 year ago:
appears broken for mlem as well
- Comment on Technically a fishing license is a license to kill.. Only to a small percentage of the earth's population 1 year ago:
if the fish were writing the licenses… well, i guess the yachts are already sinking…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
i hope i never encounter a fried egg that is visibly squirming irl
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
ratio not high enough
- Comment on What are people using to host blogs on SDF? 1 year ago:
im a minimalist so i just made a gemini page. and i have a mastodon acct. tbf neither probably the right size for what you’re describing though
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
yank
- Comment on Fix leaking kettle 1 year ago:
shrug. homemade seal vs boiling water cycles. maybe you will get lucky.