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https://archive.is/20240701171319/https://www.ft.com/content/ac9fcdd9-a320-403c-b482-ef636312e3cf

Hopefully this works for you, too -- The original article on Financial Times contains a little more info than the Daily Beast version.

You can say that again. Growing up in Florida, I've been in a lot of swimming pools and water parks, and I have never seen anything like what is shown in the video attached to this article. That opening is huge. user224's link says the pipe is 30cm (almost a foot) in diameter. Even in giant public pools I've been in, I can't recall seeing an opening or fixture that size. That, coupled with a lack of any cover on it, seems so obviously dangerous. God, what an awful way to go.

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I loved that show growing up.

Really? It made me- WANNA FART

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One study showed that at least 72% of remote workers in the area did in fact own a "nasty cat blanket."

Dunno if it changes anything, but user224 posted this link elsewhere in this discussion, and it says the pipe was 30cm (almost a foot) in diameter -- I'm no expert, but the photos in this and OP's article seem to show an opening about that size to me. I only mention it because that seemed uncommonly large to me.

Dunno if this helps you at all, but I've been using BitWarden to manage my passwords since I made the switch from Chrome to Firefox (both on PC and my Android phone). It doesn't fill passwords automatically in either case, but it's not much extra work to invoke BitWarden to fill those fields as-needed on either device, and it works very consistently. It's also (I'm told) much more secure. Just thought I'd share that here!

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Abraham Lincoln said something very similar (though the exact nature of the threat he was talking about is the subject of some debates). Those familiar with "Great Moments with Mister Lincoln," the predecessor to Disney's Hall of Presidents, will recognize it. Regardless, it has always stood out to me as very profound and your post reminded me of it:

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

These last few years have continuously provoked the memory of this quote for me as well.

This feels like it could be a new indicator for the relationship between economy and education... The Pizza Party Slice Index?

The agreement will allow Disney to build a fifth theme park—possibly a water park—in the state on the condition the monolith donates just 100 of its expansive 24,000 acres to infrastructure projects controlled by the state. Disney will also need to hire Florida-based construction companies for “at least half” of its projects, as well as make a generous $10 million dollar donation to affordable housing in the area.

That last bit is particularly interesting, wonder how that will work.

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GENER A L GR ANT

Indiana Jones and The Just-Okay Circle

Going by her own example, they don't seem to be very effective at preventing unchristlike behavior.

No rea$on at all, except for that one little rea$on that we alway$ $eem to keep coming back to...

For what it's worth, I agree with you about Lemmy (and Reddit) not really qualifying as "social media." I think of it more as a spectrum than a binary value...

  • Old school forums were very specific to a single topic (though most forums I used did have an "Off Topic" board), and only lightly social -- I never knew any forum user outside of their respective forum, and certainly not in real life.
  • On the opposite end, Facebook/Insta/TikTok are very social -- there's a lot of expectation that you'll be interacting with people that you know personally -- and they are more "agnostic" (?) of any one particular topic.
  • Reddit and Lemmy land somewhere in between those two extremes, in terms of both the social and topical aspects. But neither cross the line into "social media," at least not for me and my personal definition of the term.

And just to split hairs even a little more, I think Lemmy is more palettable than Reddit for me, by virtue of the smaller (and generally more tech-savvy) user base.

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Of course he doesn't smell, his mask completely covers up his nose.

assuming they could get it to stay in place to begin with.

Perhaps the mouthpiece would serve as a "flared base," as it were.

🎵 Another boner in the night 🎵

Possibly because it's an overused, hyperbolic and mostly meaningless word, that really only serves to amplify the rage-bait component of a click-bait headline.

That's why it bothers me, anyway.

About ten years ago now, a new sports bar/grill opened in my neighborhood, and they had tons of brand new smart TVs all on the same unsecured wifi network. Tunak Tunak Tun was the first classic Internet video we played for the people there that evening.

I saw a lot of my own experience in your comment, and wanted to add a bit of my story. I work in web development, and years ago I was tasked with learning Google Ads so we could start offering it as a service to clients. So exciting at first, learning the ins and outs of such a powerful platform -- But in practice, it was a cynical and dehumanizing experience. Dissecting thousands of real human beings' search phrases for some untapped keyword, in an effort to cash in on their weakest moments. Not what I got into this field to do, either.

You'll still go to jail, but the president says he personally feels like you don't deserve to.

I live real close to the house he lived in when he was a kid. There's even a "Riders on the Storm Inn" here in town... 😌 I don't know a lot about the man that he was and I'm too young to have seen The Doors play, though I really enjoy "People Are Strange," and a few other songs of theirs. I'm glad he found a way out of this place, though, even if it was only for a short time.

Huh, I just assumed it was from rolling in feces

This, except I hope the pitcher is full of crocodile piss.

Graphic designer here, my guess would be a Photoshop job. I'm mostly going by the visual qualities of the edge of the thumb, comparing where it appears over the graphic, versus where it appears over the rest of the hand. There's a slight but discernible difference in the sharpness, that usually indicates masking.

I did a reverse image search with TinEye, and found a "Colgate Whitening Dogs" version of the same original photo, which supports the Photoshop theory (at least in one of the two images): https://i.imgur.com/IB6rn9E.jpeg . That makes me think the original photo was of a pack of hotdogs where the label was blank / white -- That'd let you distort the fake label graphic to roughly match the size and placement of where the real label art would go, and preserve the shadows, highlights and reflections of the packaging using layer styles.

EDIT: Also, here's the Insta account for the originator of both of these images, Adam Padilla / adam.the.creator: https://www.instagram.com/adam.the.creator

I'm not sure. Realizing I had no idea how much wealth the truly wealthy possess has been a reoccurring theme from the past few years. I think I'd rather see some hard limitations on who can own what.

Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman

She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me == a weasel-woman to me

Not there person you're replying to, but my partner and I have been using Medisafe for a month now, and it's been perfect for our needs.

Man, I loved A Dark Room, thanks for the reminder. Psyched to see they have mobile apps now.

As well as L.A. Beast, if that's more your flavor (and not just once, but twice).

Yeah, this revelation didn't get so much as a raised eyebrow from me.