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popemichael

@ popemichael @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • R Rule

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  • Back during the late 90s era of internet, I got into a MASSIVE amount of troyble over a finger slip in a high school computer lab.

    We were all assigned an African country to write an essay about. We had to only use internet cited sources.

    I was assigned a country with the Namba people. Somehow I fat-fingered an "L" in there in the worst places. (Between the 'b' and the 'a' - don't google it)

    It triggered my school's search filter. Altavista got involved. It was a nightmare.

    The police got in contact with my parents, thinking I was being groomed and in danger of kidnapping.

    It sucked.

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  • In those situations, that is the best class sizes for electricity tomfoolery, sprinkled heavily with bravely, and a side of youth assumed immortality.

    It is also a good class size to swiftly move bodies, of things get too bad.

    I had a similar sized class when I apprenticed as an electrical worker via "future farmers if America" funding.

    I learned so many good ways to fix things correctly, and three times that number in "bad" ways to fix things.

    Guerrilla learning method with pratical daily needed subjects is SORELY missed now-a-days.

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  • I made one of these when I was young, poor, homeless, and imminently dying due to being swiftly being frozen to death (with bone tumors coming in second place in the death race). I was able to get an abandoned metal shead with a small heater working quickly in a sudden ice storm using on hand parts and a pirated "outside" power line.

    Outside of a significant situation like that... it's not a good idea

  • Is anyone else highly concerned with the SCOTUS ruling that the POTUS is immune from criminal liability?

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  • Can the current president hunt the former president for sport now?

  • I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.

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  • Companies even do this if you have a 5g modem.

    There is a 2 hour window at the end of the month in which I am miserable.

    I'm at the tip of the US's Wang and have zero access to wired internet, so I am stuck. 😞

  • Not buying a shaver from Philips again..

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  • Coincidentally, I just got a knock-off Soda Stream from Phillips. It's over $150 cheaper and works 2x-3x times better. I wanted to build something similar for a homemade soda bar concept, and discovered how truly cheap it can be to make soda and carbonated water at home. I was shocked at what a simple concept it is, and how much of a profit these sodas water companies make. Phillips even charging $50 for their system is a total rip-off.

    Truthfully, I think the increase in quality in the Phillips machine is due to fewer parts is an "exception that proves the rule" as these in-bottle carbonators seem to work better with fewer parts. It's just a pressure hose connected to a co2 tank. Literally, all of $6 if you were to build one yourself from parts on Amazon (or $3 if you got he Alibaba route)

    I truly believe that the fewer parts the better in any DIY or commercial product due to the less chance of a failure in a part if there are fewer parts. This works fantastically for the "lower quality" producing companies, like Phillips.

    My inventive and engineering entrepreneur friends and I call this "fewer parts the better" concept, a "Murphy's law compensator" as the fewer parts there are, the fewer parts that can statistically "go wrong"

  • What movie or show you didn't know was THAT good until you watched it?

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  • Dr Who

    Before I watched the "New Who" episodes on the stern recommendation of an obsessed girl friend, I was extremely reluctant.

    I just saw more and more friends and aquatences go into watching the series, normal as one can be.

    Them, they watched the series on Netflix.

    It changed them, giving them an almost unhealthy level obsessed obsession with the show.

    I too had the same change, but on a much less level than some.

  • Google assistant rule

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  • This seems to be a "PEBCAK" situation.

  • What's your go-to lazy meal when you need to eat but don't feel up to cooking?

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  • It's challenging to cook when one lives alone. I came up with a frozen buffet system.

    I make several main dishes, several side dishes, and several desserts. Subsequently, I divide the foods into portions that I would normally eat, then I freeze.

    That way I can grab 2 or 3 items, microwave, and eat whenever I'm hungry.

    Doing this, I only need to cook once or twice every shopping cycle.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    popemichael @lemmy.sdf.org

    Are Instacart tipping reccomendations insane or am I being miserly?

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  • A super bright flashlight is also a top pick for a bugout bag. It punches WAY above its weight, space wise.

    Some of them can even be used to start fires.

  • Most poodle mixed are called something Doodle except for the Cockapoo

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  • I parents owned a cockapoo while growing up, and my siblings and I didn't like it because it was aggressive as hell and my mother treated it like an actual factual babby.

    Once my sister was eating a hot pocket, and the dog wanted it, so it mauled her badly. It jumped up on the table randomly and mauled her face. It took several surgeries to get her face back to normal. My mother lied and told the police she had it destroyed.

    About 3 years later, it became paralyzed from the waist down after it attacked me. It jumped for my face and landed wrong. It didn't die, and my mother blames me for the incident to this day, 30 or so years later.

    It would piss and shit all over everything until it died of old age about a decade later. All the while, my mother treated it more and more like a baby because it couldn't get away, and it wore diapers when my mother wasn't too lazy.

    I'm sure most of my issues with the dog were due to the owner being a shitty person.

    Though after it ate part of my sister's face, I'm convinced that it saw everyone but my mother as "meat," which is why I couldn't get along with the dog. I mostly tolerated it until I emancipated myself early.

  • Matpat is leaving Game Theory

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  • Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

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  • Explosions&Fire and its sister channel ExtractionsAndIre

    The person who makes these science videos does it in such an entertaining and funny way that you forget that it's a science channel. He uses homemade tools and chemicals to make explosions and fire and SO much more…

    The best part is that he puts his videos up, no matter if he fails or not. In fact, he fails more times than not on ExtractionsAndIre. I've been watching him for years and years, and any day that he posts a new video is a wonderful day.

    Undoubtedly, he's been my inspiration to muddle through chemistry experiments without the proper background nor proper safety equipment.

  • How many tabs do you have open?

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  • I just closed 47. All of them Amazon...

    My best friend is having a babby...

    Xmas...

    Starting a small business and tools are needed...

    I just moved to south Florida, and the bugs are the size of house cats, so I require a salt shotgun...

    SO. MANY. HOLIDAY. DEALS.

    Like I've never been a shopping addict, but I had a budget of about $1000 for all of that, and I blew through it QUICK.

    I could see how it could be addictive, but I do know when to walk away.

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    Have anyone actually had any success with dating apps?

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  • My second and third marriages and 3 serious relationships were born from date sites

    Its not for everyone, though.

    Be upfront and communicate clearly for best results.

  • Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.

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  • Everyone should be using the Facebook addon "Facebook Purity" if they are still using the platform. I've been using it for over a decade and I can't stand using Facebook without it…

    They are always a few steps ahead of Facebook and work well with other blockers.

    Not only that, you can block specific parts of Facebook, not just the adverts. You can block the shorts, people you know, groups, keywords, and even whole topics.

    You can change settings, like how you see your feed and it will stay changed.

    Changing the font size, type, spacing in addition a bunch of color and night mode options are just icing on the cake.

    In my professional opinion, it's the only way of working with that platform is not harmful to one's sanity.

  • Rulefox

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  • The only thing that's stopping me from swapping fully to Firefox is finding a good password manager that will keep the passwords up-to-date between several machines.

    Double points if it will let me import the passes from chrome.

  • Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

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  • Those are the only times when it's appropriate to insert a 3 1/2 inch floppy.

  • I won’t download your stupid app

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  • I'd never go back to Reddit again if the several game projects I beta test for in my spare time would migrate over to lemmy.

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  • Jordan, the YouTuber, is a really great follow.

    https://www.youtube.com/@jordan_the_stallion8

    He's the president of the "fast food secrets club" and has taught the world a lot about everything secret in fast food recipes.

    His non food content is great too.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    popemichael @lemmy.sdf.org

    My dad just died a few minutes ago, and the paramedics left a mess hidden under his bed.