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@ kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

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  • I need a savoury, summery drink as an alternative to beer

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  • I have been enjoying sparkling water flavored with hops. It's distinctly different from non-alcoholic beer, and much better IMO.

    Unsweetened iced tea and cold brew coffee are also standards in my kitchen during summer. My significant other likes kombucha enough to make it at home sometimes, but I never liked the stuff myself.

  • good under-appreciated podcasts?

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  • Articles of Interest. It's nominally a fashion podcast, but they tie it into lots of other topics: history, culture, identity, religion...

  • Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?

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  • Tall data centers do exist in cities where land is expensive. It's the same reason everyone builds up in cities. Where land is cheap and available it's usually easier and less expensive to build things low and wide.

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    Untitled

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    Oh yeah

  • Why do you need, want and/or have a gun/guns?

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  • clubs here are filled with MAGAs and plastered with Republican propaganda so I don't feel as welcome as I used to.

    As a kid, my dad and I occasionally went to the local gun show just to look around at interesting stuff. The collectors selling antiques, fancy custom pieces, and guns with historical interest were always fun to chat with. But at some point it turned into crazy town. I don't go to those events anymore.

  • How did the authors write Asterix Puns?

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  • I always assumed the translators were simply doing a heroic job. Getting puns and wordplay to work across languages is hard. I would not be surprised if some jokes had to be significantly changed for different languages or countries.

  • I joined a dating app for pyromaniacs

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  • Hot!

  • How do you build your snow forts?

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  • Thanks! This has become a January tradition with my kids. We are trying a different winter camp location in 2026, and I really hope there will be enough snow to do this again!

  • How do you build your snow forts?

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  • Pile the snow into a big mound, pack it down, then hollow out the middle. Camping overnight is optional.

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    Smooth operator

  • The biggest problems with Lemmy right now

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  • 1: @[email protected] is right.

    2, 7, 8: What's the goal here? Is Reddit the gold standard we're aiming for? I'm not convinced Lemmy needs millions of daily active users to keep a plethora of niche communities active, and to store a massive backlog for posterity. It's fine if Lemmy is smaller and narrower in scope.

    3: Reddit has duplicate/overlapping communities, too. I'm not sure how to avoid this without either (a) top-down control of community creation by admins, or (b) constant pruning of communities by admins. Neither are desirable, IMO.

    4, 5, somewhat 7: Adjust expectations to reality, and appreciate what we have. Lemmy isn't Reddit 2.0 and it never will be. There isn't big venture capital money sloshing around. But Lemmy has come along way without it. Hundreds of instances hum along reliably, day-in and day-out. There are surprisingly good browser UI's (look at Photon/Tesseract/Alexandrite) mobile apps. Not bad for an open-source project that runs on volunteer time and user donations!

    6: The complaint about moderation tools is legit. I really want a better reports queue, among other things. But I don't have the time and energy to contribute code, so I wait patiently.

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    Nice

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    Perhaps some questions shouldn't be asked

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    Trying hard to get some attention and belly rubs

  • Should I go back to college/university?

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  • Getting an engineering degree is generally a good thing. Demand and pay tend to be above average. A certificate can be helpful, but I have watched people hit a "paper ceiling" in their careers; people stuck with the title of "designer" doing an engineer's work without an engineering degree, and never getting an engineer's salary for it.

    Whether a bachelor's degree is beneficial for you personally will depend on a lot of things, not all of which are within your control. 20 years ago a BS in computer science was a golden ticket. Now the industry has shifted and the job placement rates for new CS grads are awful. It's hard to predict the future.

    I agree with the other commenter that going to university is good for the whole self. I was exposed to people, ideas, and experiences that I would never have encountered elsewhere. That alone made the effort worthwhile.

  • Where is modern Punk?

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  • Hell yeah. There's an unassuming restaurant in my town that hosts local all-ages punk and metal shows after the kitchen closes. The underground scene is alive and well. I'm looking forward to having your experience myself as my kids grow up.

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    perchance ai text to image gen error

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  • What careers did the genuinely nicest people you know personally get into?

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  • Maybe related to the Sunshine Act? The intent of the law is to prevent companies from bribing doctors to use their products or drugs. I have seen companies extend it to other employees to be extra cautious.

  • What careers did the genuinely nicest people you know personally get into?

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  • They are all in medical or medical-adjacent careers: nursing, radiology, pharmaceutical R&D, medical device R&D, etc. These fields seem to attract empathetic people who want to do good.

  • The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible

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  • Don't let Java try hallucinogens. It will get lost in the public static void.

  • Seeking a Comprehensive List of ActivityPub Platforms Sorted by Total Monthly Active Users

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  • https://fedidb.com/software

    "By platform" is a fuzzy request given the interoperable nature of the fediverse. This list is broken up by software, so Lemmy/PieFed/mbin are listed separately even though their users share and interact as if they were all on one platform.

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • I have many times, and I agree that travel is a good thing. But don't be so quick to scoff at Americans who don't travel overseas. Traveling is expensive. The flight alone from my house to Frankfurt or Tokyo (for example) is at least $1,500 per person, and a day of travel each way. That's out of reach for a lot of people. Hell, it's out of reach for me now that I have a family to bring with me. The most basic, banal holiday overseas would easily exceed $10,000. Nevermind the luxury of being able to spend enough time there to understand local takes on geopolitics.

  • Another reason to love Dick

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  • Oooh, you should make a community and bring it to life. I would not be disappointed if my feed had a steady stream of 3rd Rock memes.

    A number of our Lemmy neighbors are in this one:

  • Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?

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  • Borders have existed as long as humans have claimed territory. Borders are only meaningful to the extent they are enforced, so border control has existed in some form or another for all that time.

    Borders have been a bit fuzzy at many times and places. The farther one travels from a seat of power, the harder it is for that power to patrol and control the area. Thus we get borderlands, places at the fringes of a government's authority.

    In addition to borders, documents analogous to passports have existed for millennia. If you wanted to travel from your kingdom to another kingdom, your monarch might send you off with an official letter requesting your safe passage through whatever kingdoms you need to cross. Without papers you might be deemed a vagrant or worse, and wind up in a cell.

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    Okay, little one

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    If you need me, I'll be over here screaming into a pillow

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    Sniper dad

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    Shirtless Burt Reynolds because why not

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    Now put the marshmallows in the mug of cheese sauce

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    Sundance Rule

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    Funny cups

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    Fortunately, they were unrelated events

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Horrible kerning

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Product packaging pandering to conservative Americans

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Sixt wants to store a scan of my face

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    Stop dreaming, start living

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    Highlight of my day, really