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@ TrojanRoomCoffeePot @lemmy.world

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  • Hypothetically, if governments wordwide just suddenly became authoritarian and deleted all records of history, how much history can you recall from memory to re-teach to the next generation?

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  • rotates chair to glance at collection of hard copy encyclopedias & encyclopedic dictionary

  • Would you drive an extra 20 minutes (10 miles) to get the blizzard on the right?

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  • Got to be honest here, I know and patronize a lot of Mom & Pop shops, but it hadn't occurred to me until just now that there were still independent ice cream shops anymore. I'm super jelly that you have one available to you.

  • How does ads generate money for the ones who display it?

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  • Easy, the ones displaying the ads have been paid to do so. Magazines of yesteryear have been replaced by websites, TV still follows the same model, but has probably been outpaced by the scale of ads online. Billboards are probably the only one unaffected, and the people who lease the space to erect the billboard charge their customers for the right to have their ad displayed, just the same as any of the others above. Want your ad in my magazine, on my TV channel, webpage, Youtube? Pay for the privilege.

  • AI Laundromat????

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  • The cost of labour keeps increasing, so prices increase, almost as if the two were intrinsically tied. The “large increased amount” for the same service with no additional benefits is precisely the problem. Companies contrive to rake in massive profits for themselves and their shareholders at the expense of their employees and customers, a state of affairs which I'd argue has become intolerable.

    As for your example of the washing machines, I've got news for you and it's not good - they're both shit, the above cited example isn't an example of the washing machines purchased by our Grandparents which were built like brick shithouses. The unit costing $1000 more isn't on par with the models and designs of yesteryear, not nearly. Add to this the shrinking pool of home appliances which are manufactured without tied-in computerization, another factor which will shorten their service life considerably (replacement chips will be in short supply once the model is discontinued, forcing owners to source a small pool of qualified repairmen who in turn will be unable to source parts or be forced to cannibalize other broken units). I seriously can't believe that your example of high quality appliance is Speed Queen sold at Best Buy, is it the one that you bought, or could you really not think of a better one on the spot?

  • AI Laundromat????

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  • how much more for the product/service would you be willing to pay for a human operator on the other side or conversely, how cheap would the non-human supported product/service have to be for you to choose it over the more expensive human supported option?

    The fucking normal amount. These changes within the corporate world are not advantageous, they cut their overhead and operating costs without furnishing any decreased cost to the end-user (that's you, me, and anyone else giving patronage to the business in question). A similar setup can be observed in the quality of 'consumer goods', where the materials used in manufacture (wood/aluminum/paint/lacquer/finish) were compromised with cheap, flimsy, shitty plastic. Some of it is literally garbage straight out of the box. Despite this, prices have not only not decreased, but normalized at best. Even worse, it's become difficult to source products which aren't worthless pieces of shit which cannot be repaired, at least not without considerable research - some of it also cannot be repaired without cannibalizing copies of the same device because no replacement parts have been manufactured.

    People 'vote with their wallets' inasmuch as people on a raft in the ocean vote for beef instead of fish for supper. There is none available, of course they're going to eat the fucking fish.

  • What is a good way to improve my handwriting?

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  • There's no better way than by rote practice, which is to say, the more that you write, the more it should improve. I've been told that I have nice handwriting, despite seldom using cursive. It seems to be a bit of a bicycle thing, the more you practice, the easier it is, you can get right back on after years but never really forget either... Hand write notes on paper instead of on apps, I'm talking grocery list, reminders, books/movies that you hear about and want to read/watch later, use an actual physical calendar hanging on your wall, etc.

    If you're specifically concerned about some discrepancy in your output where lower & uppercase characters are concerned, I'll recommend going over your writing afterward to adjust your output manually by very conscientiously re-copying it so that it appears as per technical standards (First letter of sentence only capitalized aside from proper nouns, acronyms, etc.). I couldn't speculate as to what specific variant of dyslexia you're experiencing, but you may be able to practice it to death by retraining yourself? The brain has an oddly consistent way of rewiring itself to adapt to input, the same may be true in your case. Best of luck.

  • Radiator smell - cured meats

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  • I remember that one too. Turns out that carbon monoxide is the real brain-fog inducer.

  • Radiator smell - cured meats

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  • You know what? I wouldn't put it past them.

  • Radiator smell - cured meats

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  • Hard pass, I'm not filling my home with any additional gasses beyond the ones I'm farting out.

  • Radiator smell - cured meats

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  • Not fishy or dried fish, we're talking pork sausage kind of a smell. Pure deli vibes RN.

  • Radiator smell - cured meats

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  • Worst case: Someone’s got their heating way too high, they’re literally roasting themselves and you can smell that.

    Oh God, there had better not be. I'm not a bloated corpse expert, but if that's what's been stinking up my place I'm going to have to leave for at least a week just to decompress from having huffed it in all day...

  • Radiator smell - cured meats

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  • You joke but your comment brings to mind the reddit post where some guy was not only positive that stuff was missing from his (shared) apartment, but that one of the closets had become a room (or the opposite, I can't remember exactly). They followed up after a while to tell everyone that they had a brain tumour.

  • Radiator smell - cured meats

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  • lol no way, I'm locked in like a tick. No way I'm switching to someplace with higher rent the way that the market's going.

  • Radiator smell - cured meats

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  • Not any specific one, no, more the variety. It's not BO, so I don't think that it could be the 'dirty sock' syndrome per se. I guess that it couldn't hurt to crack them open and take a look at the evaporator coil, but they're insulated with asbestos so I'll have to be careful to not disturb it.

  • Is the periodic table still getting new additions?

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  • YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position.

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  • Can confirm. Worked nearly a dozen years for the same company straight out of high school, and have not had a single employer since verify my work history or references. This is to say, that my first employer with whom I had a good rapport and good reviews, has not received a single phone call or e-mail in this regard. I still talk with & see them on a semi-regular basis, and asked them - not one, not one single effort has been made to contact them and verify the contents of my resume concerning my time spent in their employ.

    Me @ Human Resources departments everywhere:

  • How did each of the gods die, and what did we get from them?

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  • Never thought about it in terms of a Tim Allen movie, but yes lol

  • How did each of the gods die, and what did we get from them?

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  • You'd better hope that they don't have a Ring of Featherfall/Levitation, or have some other means of teleportation/flight too, because Gods won't help you if you screw it up and they survive lol

  • How did each of the gods die, and what did we get from them?

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  • I have this mental fanfiction that every god has a way to be killed, and when you kill them you can get things from them.

    I'll encourage you to investigate the AD&D-D&D 5th Ed. material concerning the Forgotten Realm setting's Gods, all the way up to Ao. Murdering them imbues their killer with their 'portfolio', specific deity controlled influence over Harvest, War, Music, Healing, etc. See also, the entire plot concerning 'The Time of Troubles' most notably seen in Baldur's Gate (1998).