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shalafi

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  • What was it like to live through the downfall of authoritarianism in the 70s-80s?

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  • You forgot ozone layer depletion. :)

  • The Turing test has been inverted.

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  • What all would you pack into a mini portable first aid kit?

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  • Ever used hydrocolloid bandaids? They are the best! Yeah, they're more expensive, and as usual, Band-Aid brand is by far the best. I've used them in the field dozens of times.

    Would not use them on puncture wounds and they seal the bacteria in quite nicely. But for surface wounds they're antibacterial and a bandaid all in one.

  • Why do people hate on cosmetic surgeries so much?

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  • I had a gf who lived in a camper in an RV park. She could afford a touch of botox a couple of times a year. She was 50 and looked 40, if not younger. You would have never guessed she did that.

  • Why do people hate on cosmetic surgeries so much?

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  • How would you know if you can't discern the cases that look natural?

  • YSK: the abolitionist history of pumpkin pie

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  • Wait till you hear where ice cream truck music comes from.

  • Lemmy users who created a profile with an actual picture of yourself (and maybe even use your real name), why did you decide to do that?

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  • Didn't use a profile pic but I've posted several pics of myself. With very little effort you could end up on my front porch.

    I figured I've commented enough on here that anyone that cares could track my down even without the more obvious clues. I simply don't care.

  • No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers

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  • Been beat up on here, twice, for suggesting people just roll their own. Took me a couple of hours of carefully following directions, never touched it again, been 6 years. LOL, don't think I can even log into it anymore, key's lost.

  • No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers

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  • Verizon was always the best for me. Moved to T-Mobile because Verizon wouldn't activate my funky new phone. Promptly lost the phone and wish I had never changed. T-Mobile isn't awful, but they are compared to Verizon.

  • What's a good job thats easy to get?

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  • I know a guy with monster certs and degrees in plumbing, plus practical experience. He designs the gas and water for military bases and hospitals. Makes bank.

  • Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?

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  • Ah! But you're not accounting for radio, then television and now the internet. Mass communication is squashing languages and dialects and accents flat, while at the same time working for archival purposes.

  • Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?

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  • Spoken, live languages? Very damned few. Archived languages? We might do pretty well.

    In my lifetime I've seen accents disappearing in America. Doing tech support in the early 90s, I played a game of guessing what state a person was from. Did quite well! I could almost always match their accent. (Midwestern was my kryptonite, very generic.)

    We're seeing regional accents and dialects disappearing very quickly due to the internet, and formerly, TV in general.

    For example; I haven't heard a deep Cajun accent in ages, unless I look for it on YouTube, and even then it's mostly intelligible. I talked to people 25-30 years ago I could not comprehend, and I'm good at languages!

    Another example; Go watch Steel Magnolias from 1989. (Great movie BTW!) That deep, propuh, Mississippi female accent is all but gone except for the oldest, and those women only use it amongst each other.

    In any case, English seems to rule the internet, a modern lingua franca, don't see that changing any time soon.

  • We live in an alien zoo

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  • "No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”

  • Would you pay for online services like search and email if they offered a better experience than Google?

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  • a time where search engines were useful and e-mail was perfected

    And YouTube was friendlier! Google was losing money on all that in order to corner the market. Now they want paid back. Kinda like reddit losing money every quarter for 19-years. They just turned a profit for the first time.

    We got a lot of free shit, got used it, and are now bitching about paying, or watching ads. Ultimately, enshittification was always in the cards. Not sure how we get around that without paying for microservices, kinda like OP is asking about.

  • Would you pay for online services like search and email if they offered a better experience than Google?

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  • How is your email not flagged as spam? Last time I ran my own email/domain, I could hardly deliver anything. Been 10-years though and I've learned more about best practices. Can it be done now?

  • Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair!

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  • “Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”

    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight

  • Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts?

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  • between yourself and God knows where

    Kinda gathered that bit. 🙁 I may install it and try to track exactly how that flow works. Anyway, seems an easy way to bypass the UK's block without hassling with a VPN.

    I'm in Florida. Fire up my VPN to surf porn. But that's not a thing I want running 24/7, let alone just to browse lemmy.

  • What is the difference between a managed switch and an unmanaged switch?

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  • If OP is asking such a question, y'all are probably making your answers too complicated.

    Unmanaged switch: All the ports are equal. Plug anything in anywhere, it works, done.

    Managed switch: There is a world of options to control how data moves in and out of those ports. You can really go nuts!

    Your basic home or business user only needs an unmanaged switch, good enough.

    A home user that wants to learn, build a home lab, managed switch. A business with more complex networking and security needs, managed switch.

    As to the expense, managed switches are stupid cheap on eBay. If you want to experiment with networking, that's the way to go.

    One more funny note, if you end up with a managed switch, but don't need or care about the options, reset to factory and it's now an unmanaged switch! (You can still program it of course, but you don't have to in order to make it fly. Just plug stuff in.)

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    Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts?

  • How did bittorrent fail to become essential technology?

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  • Totally off topic, but I read a classic author's murder mystery as a kid, Doyle or Agatha or whoever, and a clue was a mistyped B for N, because they're together on the keyboard. For 40 years I've been noting such errors. "Ah! OP meant to type 'U'." :)

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
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    Maybe I'm simple, but this gets me crying.

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    Help figuring out my pressure washer?

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    Why do so many put their resources in AWS us-east-1 when that's the only one (that I'm aware of) that has ever gone down?

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    Nowhere more appropriate to ask this as I'm apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy. WTF is wrong with this revolver?!

    imgur.com /eAqBxoG
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    American cops think they're what American firemen ARE.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How do you perceive wild animals? Do you think they will hunt or attack you? Utterly harmless? In between?

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    Why is everyone posting the Steven Harper "Change My Mind" meme as if it's Charlie Kirk?

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    How do I beat the roaches in this house?

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    Wife has COVID and I've had a lung infection for almost 2-weeks. Should I worry? (background in post, mods read the first bit!)

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    Why is the spellchecker in Firefox so abysmal?

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    There has to be a passive way to catch mosquitoes, right?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Why can't I edit my posts any longer? Weird.

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    Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them?

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    My combat boots lasted 4-years. Is that reasonable given hard use?

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    How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads?

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    Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree?

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    Will using an additional trolling motor significantly speed me up?

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    Do the sub-$150 night vision binoculars actually work?

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    How do I pronounce "slava Ukraini"?