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CombatWombatEsq

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  • American politicians are freaking out about homicides on public transit

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  • It depends on what you mean by "on purpose." You didn't mean to hit that light pole, but there was a lot of intentionality around the decision to drive and the decision to build a car-based society that is very much "on purpose" and the effect of that is deaths due to cars.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • Because it's illegal, duh. Once you enshrine your prejudices in law, they're no longer racism, they're just moral purity.

  • How to work out

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  • +1 the best routine is the routine you do. For the first few weeks, even just putting on your gym clothes and going to the gym and just leaving without working out is legitimately worth it.

  • Do you think anyone will be able to remember who any of us are in 600 years?

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  • I mean, I'm sure you can name a half dozen or so people from the 1400s. I highly doubt anyone will remember me personally as one of those half dozen people, but I'm fairly certain that with the advances in technology the average people of the year 2625 will be dimly aware of closer to a dozen people alive today.

  • What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am?

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  • Plus you get to be one of the letters in the acronym! Lots of people disagree on which letters to use, but everyone puts a b for bisexual in there.

  • Which word do you love most?

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  • Erstwhile

  • What do you like/dislike about lemmy?

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  • The thing I dislike the most is that my bot got banned. I made a bot to post carefully categorized articles into their proper communities, but it was banned without warning or explanation. All the communities I was modding dried up shortly thereafter because I didn't manually post in them instead.

  • What do you do with pineapple core?

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  • I haven't made it myself yet, but I've always wanted to make my own tepache, a fermented drink made with the rinds and core of a pineapple. I drink it a lot of the De La Calle tepache and really like it.

  • NSFW

    What does "araffe" mean?

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  • What country are you from and do you call it 1) elementary, junior high, high school 2) elementary, middle school, high school, 3) primary, ???, secondary?

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  • US. In my dialect, all three are different.

    Middle school: 6-8

    Intermediate school: 7-8

    Jr High: 7-9

    I attended an intermediate school that called itself a jr high, so I can understand the confusion.

  • Why are people putting "tho" at the end of sentences now?

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  • It does soften language that could otherwise be mistaken for harshness tho

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    What's the most supernatural thing you've experienced that has no rational explanation?

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  • Growing up, I was Mormon (though I no longer am), and I served my mission in Russia. I was serving in a little town outside Moscow called Lobyna (meaning "the place of the skull"), and it was mid-winter and my companion (that's what the other missionary in a pair is called) and I were sign-boarding, handing out free Books of Mormon. I noticed that there was a man who had walked by our station a couple of times, dressed kinda bedraggled -- I noticed him because he wasn't wearing any shoes -- who seemed interested in talking but shy about starting a conversation. I offered him a copy of the book, and struck up a reasonably pleasant conversation that resulted in my inviting him to take the discussions by meeting with us in the church building.

    Our companionship lived on the second floor of the church building, which was a converted dacha (a Russian summer home), and then the first floor and half of the second floor was reserved for church activities. We scheduled our meeting with this investigator (I don't remember his name, it's been a few years) to be right after morning study, so we didn't have to leave the house and come back.

    Come the day of, and I go downstairs to the kitchen to make breakfast, and lo and behold, our new investigator is sitting in the middle of the biggest room (the chapel/former living room) on a folding chair just waiting. I called down my companion, and we did our discussion earlier than expected, which was fine, and then did morning study afterwards. I don't remember a lot of that first meeting, other than he seemed like a reasonable Russian Orthodox member who was chatting with American missionaries. What I do remember is that when I went to let the investigator out, I had to unbolt both front doors to do it.

    After he'd left, I asked my companion if next time he'd please tell me when he lets people into our house, to which he replied that he didn't let the investigator in, he just assumed I'd done it. This was when I started to get concerned. You see, Russian doors aren't like American doors. Generally speaking, there are two doors -- a wooden door with a lock like I'm used to, and then a "fire door", which is like an inch and a half thick steel with five deadbolts into the frame (three into the wall, and one into each of the floor and ceiling). This isn't a "tee-hee" kinda situation to open up the door to get in, you would have to do major structural damage to enter through a door. And it was mid-winter (like -30 - -40 degrees mid-winter), so it wasn't like we forgot and left a window open or something. We resolved to be extra certain to lock up the house next time.

    Which is why it was so surprising when, a few days later, he was sitting in the middle of the chapel-living-room waiting for our appointment an hour early again. We had checked all the bolts and windows and everything, yet there he was. And this time, the discussion went thoroughly off the rails. He was telling us about how the spirits of the dead congregate behind a comet that circles the solar system, and that they're awaiting the confluence of some celestial bodies and would get free and so on. We wrapped up the conversation and did not invite him back, and never saw him again.

    And sure as shootin', when we checked the doors and windows when he left, they were all still locked and barred. It's been 15 years and I still don't know how he got into our house.

  • Looking For Crossword Packs For Use With Shortyz/Forkyz

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  • British crosswords are MORE cryptic than American ones? I can’t consistently solve the LA Times or NYT crossword after Wednesday; I probably wouldn’t be able to do any British puzzles.

  • Looking For Crossword Packs For Use With Shortyz/Forkyz

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  • I get access to the NYT puzzles app through my library card, which has a very long backlog and lots of packs, so that may be an avenue worth pursuing.

  • Why do companies love chrome so much?

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  • Not really, unfortunately. Firefox has only like 85% of the spec implemented, iirc. It is the browser I develop in most, personally, though, fwiw.

  • Why do companies love chrome so much?

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  • 64.7% of all web traffic was from Google Chrome in 12/23. Companies like it because you can develop for one browser and support most people.

  • If it's not bad for the lungs, we should fluoridate vape juice.

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  • Interesting. Do aerosolized fluoridates adhere to teeth?

  • Psychology @lemmy.world
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    Perceptions of Falling Behind “Most White People”: Within-Group Status Comparisons Predict Fewer Positive Emotions and Worse Health Over Time Among White (but Not Black) Americans

    journals.sagepub.com /doi/abs/10.1177/09567976231221546

  • Best android app for news aggregation?

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  • I use Boost and subscribe to a bunch of news communities 🤣

    More seriously, I also use Feedly to aggregate RSS feeds from trusted news sources.

  • What really popular movie or TV show have you never seen?

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  • Breaking Bad. I tried it and it's just... too much.

  • Psychology @lemmy.world
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    Social Miracles As Hostage Exchange

    www.overcomingbias.com /p/social-miracles-as-hostage-exchange
  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Stop trying to make capitalism happen

  • childfree @lemmy.world
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    I actually don't know how to cross-post but this meme belongs here

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Piper Perri probably watched this movie growing up

  • Bakersfield, CA @lemmy.world
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    People drive from across California to visit this Bakersfield liquor store

    www.sfgate.com /centralcoast/article/panorama-liquors-bakersfield-viral-cocktail-kits-18275093.php
  • Bakersfield, CA @lemmy.world
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    Drivers: Kern County's first metered highway ramps will activate Monday

    www.bakersfield.com /news/drivers-kern-countys-first-metered-highway-ramps-will-activate-monday/article_afe17888-2d6e-11ee-bb99-cf0a0e9e927c.html
  • The memes of the climate @lemmy.world
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    Climate change: a timeline

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Live look at me and SuperSoftAbby observing this community

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    $700,000 per household!!!!

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Why does working class not simply eat the rich?

  • x-men @lemmy.world
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    Madrox's first appearance

  • x-men @lemmy.world
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    Ms. Marvel the New Mutant #1

  • x-men @lemmy.world
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    the morally corrupt selene gallio

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    What's in the box????

  • x-men @lemmy.world
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    Immortal XMen 13 out today

  • x-men @lemmy.world
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    Say three nice things about Magma