LovableSidekick

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

I'm completely sure that this would absolutely sort out the overheating problem, unless it makes it even worse.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't things catch fire in Australia? I mean I've never had a house fire myself but would always have an extinguisher in the house no matter where I lived.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

For some reason this reminds me that I need to check the pressure in my tires. Got a used car a couple weeks ago and haven't done it yet.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Is this gonna be on the test?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Exactly my thinking. Could have been born and raised in much worse circumstances, considering everything going on in the world.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is like a condensed movie! Jump scare, epic battle, moments of stark terror, problem resolved - or was it? Clearly open for a sequel. And also a better love story than Twilight!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Look like meat off menu again, boyz.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

You'd think they would at least offer some beautiful rakes.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Suddenly he got down on one knee, and I was blown away!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

All bets are off when the Attorney General says anyone who thinks the Justice Department's strength is justice is "sadly mistaken."

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Putin's living organism status needs a downgrade.

 

This seems dumb to me. When people said they saw a tweet you knew it was from Twitter - instant brand recognition. A "post" could be from anywhere. Throwing away that distinctive identification seems stupid to me.

 

Typical pattern: "Scientists find something strange when they look at a common whatever - and it's not good!"

This kind of crap used to be the style of little blurbs at the side or the bottom of an article, but it's in the headlines now. Until you click the headline you don't even really know what the article is about anymore - just the general topic area, with maybe a fear trigger.

Clicking on the headline is going to display ads, but at that point the goal isn't to get you to buy anything yet, it's just to generate ad impressions, which the content provider gets paid for regardless of whether you even see the ads. It's a weird meta-revenue created by the delivery mechanism, and it has altered the substance of headlines, and our expectations of what "headline" even means.

 

Dunno what made me think of this just now. When I worked for IT in a school district way back in the 90s, a librarian told me she kept a supply of mouse balls in her desk because kids would steal them out of the school computers. What I remember about those balls was they picked up dust and crud off surfaces. Pretty soon optical mice came along and they were history.

 

No idea how I got there but somehow I saw this post somehow on sh.itjust.works, about a prefab house that was found floating in the Pacific. I wanted to comment but the only login I have is on lemmy.world. Notice the post is from The Picard Maneuver, whose posts I've seen many times, and it says lemmy.world above their name.

Lemmy.world has a whitepeopletwitter community but the newest post is 2 months old. This one is from 10 hours ago. Search on the lemmy.world main page for "Minding" turns up a bunch of posts going back months, but this one isn't there.

I thought I understood how federation works but I'm stumped. Is this really a lemmy.world post? If not, what does the presence of "lemmy.world" on it indicate?

 

Seems to go way back to the B&W movie era - men in tuxedos, women in evening gowns and boas - glamorous socialites dressed to the nines, watching a couple buys beat each other up. Sometimes the MC is in a tux. I don't get how that whole package goes together.

 

American here. Granted, the tea stands on its own merit. But if not for TNG I probably would still be drinking standard Lipton like my parents did.

 

[SOLVED] - thanks to !DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com

When I was using Windows, by holding down the Alt key I could highlight words in the text of a link the same way as in normal text, and then press Ctrl-C to copy.

On Mint, holding down the Alt key puts the cursor in a repositioning mode (a cross made of arrows) that drags the current window around. This happens identically in Chrome and Firefox.

How do you copy some words from link text?

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