I want to be a Camus but most days I’m a Cioran.

They’re sold for scrap. Just gotta go to a scrapyard and say “There was something wrong with mine, I replaced it, here’s the old one I’m selling for scrap.”

That or extract the previous metals yourself and sell them directly.

Some nicknames do a consonant shift for the first letter, like William > Will > Willy > Billy

Margaret > Meg > Meggy > Peggy

Tech news tells me that this measure ended up getting postponed. Not defeated, just postponed.

I’m sure it’ll end up back on the table when they think it has a better chance of passing.

Some wear crop tops though

This used to be me when I used to work at a grocery store and I would go on break.

Then I learned how much sugar the industrially produced loaves that pass for baguettes in the US contain.

Ignorance is truly bliss. And about 1300 calories.

I am assuming it may be related to a couple prominent news stories.

There was computer scientist Lynn Conway passing away recently, and in the thread for this article, there was some concern about the LA times author opting to use male pronouns to refer to Lynn pre-transition.

Then there was the other recent news of Lia Thomas being barred from participation in the Olympics, and any time there’s a discussion about trans athletes in sports, it invites a whole lot of yikes.

Lemmy.world is the normie instance. Unsurprisingly, a lot of normies have bad opinions. If you run into transphobes, feel free to tell them what every transphobe needs to hear: “Go fuck yourself”. Or block 'em and let them scream at a wall. It’s good to nip bigotry in the bud before it grows, but it’s also not worth letting people with hate in their hearts take up space in your mind’s temple.

Yeah, the cover protects anything that the phone falls on.

“Windows, stop syncing my damn files to OneDrive.”

“Copy that, no more syncing. Just give us a moment to delete the unnecessary copies.”

“Great.”

“Ok, all done. All the local data is gone and now only the OneDrive backup exists.”

“Wait no stop”

Red bean is a staple of many Chinese desserts and it tastes sweet on its own. It makes for a good dairy-free popsicle and is quite common in China.

Vanilla and chocolate are made using beans as well; other than the fact that you can make red bean into paste and eat it as-is or frozen without milk or added sugar, it’s not that crazy a concept.

Holy crap, I took a look at the following passages in the source linked by OP and you weren’t kidding.

“That Jew is a devil; he has stolen away my heart from my breast—he has butchered my only companion, and I presume, too, that he has eaten him. A certain son of the devil, a Jew of French birth, I neither know nor am acquainted with; that Jew gave my comrade letters of his death-warrant to that man. To this city he came, induced, or rather seduced. He often gave attendance upon this Jew, and in his house he was last seen.”

The text accuses the Jewish community of cannibalism during Passover, with the note apparently being a message to kill and eat the bearer. Gotta keep drumming up that religious hysteria or else people might start seeing Jews as humans.

Love the Blahaj, glad it had a friend.

Fuck Oracle though.

Looking at the federated/defederated instances on lemmy.cafe linked higher up in this thread, it looks like lemmy.cafe is defederated from lemmy.ml, but I imagine it is not the other way around.

You can see OP’s content but they can’t see your comment, basically.

The Holodomor was a myth. As if a socialist regime would intentionally starve millions of people!

Disclaimer: famines can and do happen under capitalism, even intentionally (e.g. Ireland) but at least there’s no widespread denialism like you see when they occur under ostensibly socialist regimes. And if they are acknowledged, then the debate switches to whether or not the country is truly socialist, or somehow this is still capitalism’s fault.

Conservative critical thinking skills are low, so the basic logic is that New York, as a reliable blue state, must therefore be under Biden’s control.

Much of the Republican worldview is based on projection, so part of that assumption is that Biden controls an army of loyalists just like Trump does. To Republicans, New York may as well be Mordor.

What up fam? It’s your boy Stovetop here with the latest tea. Get this, Dua Lipa and Amazon are teaming up to throw this lit private party on a Caribbean island, all expenses paid. But if you wanna cop those exclusive tickets, you gotta get yourself a $100 Amazon gift card, sign the back with your name and address, and mail it to PO Box 1234, Scamsville, NY. Only 200 lucky winners will get picked at random, but you can enter as many times as you want. Peace all, don’t forget to likeansubscribe.

Sorry I totally meant fuel efficiency there, brain fart.

Well, milk is still sold by the gallon, butter is still divided into tablespoons, nutrition facts are still defaulted to cups and ounces. Wood is still sold by the foot or yard, cars still measure speed in miles per gallon, people still know their height and weight in feet and inches and pounds.

Could be worse but could be a lot better, too.

The US officially uses the metric system…to define the US customary system of measurements.

E.g. 1 foot is defined as 0.3048 meters.

Is this loss