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  • Duck Wearing Bow-Tie Walks Into Pub, Drinks Pint, Fights Dog, Loses

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  • "Got any gwapes?"

  • Is Backblaze a reliable provider?

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  • Delta flight diverts to New York after passengers are served spoiled food

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  • AI-Powered Ammo Vending Machine Selling Bullets at Tuscaloosa Grocery Store

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  • Just give me a grumpy guy behind the counter at an Ammu-Nation.

    I bet that AI machine gets capped soon.

  • Is there a way to hide posts that take you to another site?

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  • Welcome to the fediverse!

    Definitely search for the communities you are interested in and click subscribe. There may be several similar communities on different Lemmy instances with different rules or vibes. Also, if the subscribe button says subscribe pending, you can ignore that.

    Lemmy is amazing to be a "knight of new" as it were because the cross-talk, noise, bots, etc are just not there like they are in reddit. I've found communities I never would have known about.

    Keep in mind Lemmy is very actively developed. If you do end up staying with Lemmy consider tossing a few dollars to the devs. I've always found the devs courteous and approachable when I've encountered a bug.

  • Loaded up and truckin'...on the water? Portage co. man builds semi-truck pontoon boat

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  • Posting due to site not being EU-accessible:

    CUSTER, Wis. -Summer's here, and that means a lot of Wisconsinites are getting their boats out on the water. But don't feel intimidated if you're pushing off from the dock and see a semi-truck making waves on the open water.

    John Yach of Custer spent the winter building a pontoon out of a Peterbilt cab he calls the "Semi-Conscious".

    "My wife came up with that one day we couldn't figure out a name thought about it for weeks had all kinds of ideas and sitting on the couch she came up with Semi-Conscious," Yach said.

    Each year for the past few Yach has had a project: one year a 1966 C10 Chevy pickup, the next, a tri-toon you can drive from the bar.

    But why build the semi-pontoon?

    "To see if I could," he replied with a grin.

    No engineering degree needed: Yach used to be a welding fabrication machine operator.

    He spent 700 hours on the semi pontoon, made with real truck parts from across the country friends, family, Google and Facebook helped him find.

    "Every piece has been modified, cut, re-welded, lightened up, gutted out all interiors," Yach said. "Everybody pitched in. (My) wife, she kind of left me alone, so I could get it done."

    The chassis is 250 pounds of real aluminum Peterbilt, with a keg that Yach is looking to get working soon too. "The front I've got all hinged. So that can be used for storage, so the grill opens up."

    The pontoon has a top speed of about 25 miles per hour.

    "It pulls up out of the water, really nice, feels good, it steers and you actually feel like you're sitting in a semi," Yach said.

    Inside, it's almost all Bentley pontoon from the steering wheel to the fuel gauges.

    The Semi-Conscious blew up on Tik-Tok, and it even made one person blink twice when the horn broke through the calm scene where they were camping once.

    "A guy pulled in and thought that the semi had backed right into the water because they had it up onshore at our site, and the site is lower than the road. So he could just see the top half of the semi sticking out of the water," Yach said.

    Yach is not looking in the rearview mirror -- he's already thinking of his next creation. "An all-terrain machine that floats so I can go from my house, hit the water, go fishing on it."

    Despite the passion project, the whole Yach family will be the first to offer you the semi-pontoon for a trip on their private lake.

    Because that's the load this semi's always lugging -- smiles.

    "Usually wherever we go they got to stop at the sandbar everybody wants to take pictures and look inside, and talk about basically how it was buiIt," Yach said. "I think it was worth it."

  • small penis rule

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  • The small penis rule was referenced in a 2006 dispute between Michael Crowley and Michael Crichton. Crowley alleged that after he wrote an unflattering review of Crichton's novel State of Fear, Crichton included a character named "Mick Crowley" in the novel Next. The character is a child rapist, described as being a Washington, D.C.–based journalist and Yale graduate with a small penis.

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  • Is 0.3 quarts extra too much oil in a car?

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  • You're good. Being a smaller engine though, I wouldn't go much past that.

  • Linux Mint help

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  • Authorities in Wisconsin respond to cheese-related throwing incident, police say it’s ‘un-brie-lievable’

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  • Dumb ad blocker, article below:

    EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WFRV) – Authorities in Eau Claire responded to what they called, “The most Wisconsin complaint ever,” around 9:46 p.m. on Monday.

    According to a Facebook post by the Eau Claire Police Department, officers were sent to check on a report from a driver that somebody was chasing them down and throwing cheese at their car.

    “Not gouda,” the post said. “It’s un-brie-lievable that someone would do that.” The viral post on Facebook has over 200 comments filled with cheese puns and more than 1,000 shares.

    Police did not mention if any citations were handed out or if there was an arrest made.

    No additional information was provided. Local 5 will update the story if more details are released.

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    Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session

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  • Locking this post. Pretty sure everything that's needed to be said has been said so threads are devolving.

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    Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session

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  • Meanwhile no one considers whatever happened to DenverCoder9

  • Runner finds check blown nearly 100 miles by tornado in Wisconsin

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  • Wisconsin bias I suppose. It received minimal votes so you were right, Luke, you were right. (burned throat gagging noises).

  • rule

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  • Before you throw me at a wall, may I talk you into throwing cheap condiments instead?

  • Dairy farmer, 95, is reunited with treasured watch he lost to a hungry cow 50 years ago

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  • How is this international news?

    You're in Weird News, bud. Weird News knows no borders. If a Hungarian Hippo Hikes to Haiti, we're covering it.

    Plus, it's fun. It's a brain break from life. Enjoy or not.

  • Backflipping fan on field brought down by stun gun at Cincinnati Reds game

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  • Singer sues hospital, says staff thought he was mentally ill and wasn't member of Four Tops

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    The Cloudflare Poison

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  • Gonna do some research/reading about this and I'm being objective.

    Thanks for sharing and replying so quickly.

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    The Cloudflare Poison

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  • Would you mind posting a link where I can read more about this?