kite

@kite@lemmy.world
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Just one of those fires is 600 square miles in size. I can't even begin to comprehend what that must be like, and I've been in a wildfire situation before

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It's like they want people to pirate their games.

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Gaetz looks like Jack Nicholson with a chromosomal deletion syndrome.

Why even bother? It's not like anything is ever done about the non-anonymous threats we currently see. Ffs.

None. They aren't funny and clutter up feeds. I block every meme and related community I come across so I can more easily find actual meaningful content.

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I work for a fire marshal. We get complaints about stuff like this allll the time.

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There are a lot of people in this post spouting their opinion on an article they very clearly did not read.

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They did this to me decades ago and I ended up having to get a new card so the old one would no longer work. I haven't used paypal since. Fuck them.

Oh, trust me, you are not alone. Our 2 biggest offenders are also "highly religious, pious men", so there's that, too.

My diehard republican father was all-in on Vivek based solely on my uncle telling him how "smart and forward thinking" he was. After the debate, my father said, "that Indian guy is one slimey, weasely asshole. He's nuts." So even some trumper-level folks can see what he really is.

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That is very, very, very much not the case in general. Your brother works at a unicorn office.

My almost 50 year old officemate watches this shit all day long. It 100% affects her negatively in a multitude of ways, including her attending span. It's not just the kiddos.

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Ohhh. This is the dude who performs the song my coworker was all but having orgasms over yesterday and was trying to make me listen to - "the lyrics are amazing, just listen to them!" She already thinks she's magnetic from a hepatitis vaccine, and this morning informed me that the moon landing was a hoax, so I think I made the right call in utterly ignoring her and her stupid song.

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Work at a fire dept. These fail so often we do not recommend 10 year battery detectors anymore. Just go get a new one with without that "perk", don't warranty replace it.

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I have lots of stomach issues and can't eat a lot of foods, which means I mostly eat the same few things over and over. One of the few things I can have reading out is a particular local restaurant's chicken strips, and I'd get them for lunch a couple times a month. They've raised their prices twice in the last 6 months, and what used to be 6-8 strips for$6 is now 5 chicken strips - just the chicken, no fries or other sides - for $10. If I'm feeling masochistic, I'll get myself and my father each one of their chef salads. Two of those are now $27. They are a very, very popular place and usually crazy busy, but since that last hike I've noticed the parking lot at lunchtime is often half empty. This is not a wealthy area, people can't afford these prices. They are going to greed themselves right out of business.

They've also lost every single long-time employee they had. And when I say long, I mean 15, 20 years working there. I watched most of them grow up, get married and have families. Every. Single. One. is gone, and I've seen most of them at other restaurants now. Their staff is now different every time I go in there, and service sucks and orders are frequently wrong. My work stopped ordering food from there for meetings because of it. Greed, greed, greed, with a healthy dose of apparent staff mistreatment. Story of the world at large nowadays.

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This has never been term meant just for children, where did you even get that from?

I picture the employees playing rock, paper, scissors to determine who was going to have to make that post; I can't imagine any of them didn't know how this was going to play out.

..And the dude that won (lost?) didn't even know how to link his own username. It looks like he did it via an actual hyperlink! Now that is fantastic example out of touch management.

Yep. First thing to do is run a vacuum over them. Even the tiniest bit of dust can make them cranky and chirpy. If that doesn't work and you don't know how old they are, pop them off the ceiling and look at the back for a manufacture date. In general, smoke detectors (even without the ten year battery) have a life span of about 10 years. If they've hit that milestone, it's a good chance they are beeping because they are old and they should be replaced. Next would be a call to the PITA management about them. If you get no love from management, look up what fire department covers your address; many departments will go out to check your detectors if you can't get them to stop beeping and your landlord is being a butt. If your department is a volunteer one, it may be next to impossible to get ahold of them as there will probably not be anyone at the station to answer phones. For volunteer departments in my area, you need to call the county fire marshal / emergency management office in order to get hooked up with the volunteer department as they have the personal contact numbers for the volunteer chiefs, so I would try that (or the equivalent for your area). If it's a career fire department, you should be able to call them directly. Even if they are out of the station, if it's normal business hours and you call their HQ, they likely have a business office that will answer.

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"No one asked for this" should be Microsoft's tag line. Rather than fix problems that have been around for years - decades in some cases - they just keep adding crap that no one wants or asked for.

most republican voters don't even know what tf they're supporting through their votes, other than their personal trigger issue. they just vote for the R.

You are so depressingly right. My father is very pro-choice, but once Trump happened, he stopped giving a shit about anything other than getting Trump back in office and/or making sure no Democrats are elected ever again. He has no idea what is actually going on other than what fox and Newsmax tell him, and he doesn't care.

He's the only family I have, and to see him like this now has just destroyed a part of me.

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CLOSE YOUR DOORS. Closed doors give you a much better chance of survival if your house catches on fire.

CLOSE BEFORE YOU DOZE

My car isn't the best and has refused more than once to start while in a parking lot. Parking so that I can always pull forward to leave means the tow truck also has much easier access to my car when I need it. :(

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If kitty is young, be aware that your girl may actually be a boy! Orange girls are very rare. Unless the jibblies are out, loud and proud, it can be very hard to determine sex, even for a vet.

Good luck to you both!

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I had this once, it was awesome! And then my next flight was the worst one I've ever had. So prepare yourself just in case life is currently snickering behind its hand at you because it plans to fuck your shit up next go-around :(

Would not recommend. That's how you end up with lopsided shoulders and a bad back.

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Life goes on, regardless of what the politicians say or do.

I think that app choice makes a difference, too. I would guess that most people on mobile picked one or two apps to try, and if their picks weren't great (or the user was too impatient to wait for improvements) they called the whole experience shitty and bailed. Those of us committed to the move hung on and waited for our apps to get better.

In my case, I grabbed every ios app I could find and tried them all. Some were not so good, some were good and improving at a lightning rate. Living through those growing pains is worth it to me, especially when the improvements are crazy fast. I'm mostly using Memmy now, and I'm really happy with it. I only have one tiny, unimportant issue with it involving text selection, but it's nothing compared to how good they've made this app so quickly. Memmy is a large part of why I stick around.

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pancake games

I've never heard of non-vr games referred to as this before. It's clever!

Somewhat relatedly, I also learned just yesterday that some flat tumors are called pancake tumors. I didn't really enjoy learning that one, though. :(

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Quitting because I don't want to deal with an unpleasant ending I can see coming, and sometimes just because the end is coming at all, is a huge problem for me. Games, anime, manga, books (when I still had the ability to concentrate enough to read books, anyway).. I have some kind of deep-seated issue with endings. It's ridiculous.

That looks like it was so satisfying to click.

OP, check out the websites about grants ISPs are getting to put fiber in rural areas and see if your area is on the list somewhere (I would try and link you to some, but I'm on mobile and for some reason I have a hell of a time finding those sites while on mobile). You can see below what I've had to deal with for about 20 years, until my area finally got covered by one of those grants a few months ago. I am super rural - like, I am literally surrounded by nationally protected forest and nothing else; it'snot a place I thought would ever be included in those grant locations. It was, though, and I now have Gigabyte internet with no cap, with VOIP, for $74.98 a month. If I'm not using WiFi, I get an actual gig of download speed. If I'm on wifi, it's usually between 600-900MB.

Up until recently, we paid Centurylink about $150 a month for two lines into the house. Each line maxed out at 0.75MB download speed and 0.23 MB upload speed. We needed two lines to even be able to function. Almost 20 years of this, with no other options besides Hughesnet. We tried them for a little while; their equipment cost a fortune, it was about$150 a month, the speed was nearly as bad and they had a 200MB A MONTH CAP. We had to turn off images for websites in order to not go over the cap. Previous to 2004, I lived in a very rural part of NY. We had high speed internet for $69 a month, no cap. I can't remember the speed, but I remember that it took 3 minutes to download a full sized movie. 20 YEARS AGO the internet was better, and cheaper!

The first fall is nearly always the first obvious sign it is the beginning of the end for the elderly. :(

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As people have said, check your settings and make sure you've turned off nsfw. I see zero porn anywhere, including when searching All. If you aren't using one of the Lemmy apps, too, I would look into those - that might make a difference as well since you can kinds of fine tune settings on some.

I don't know what in the world my officemate would do with herself if she couldn't watch TikTok all day. Besides her actual fucking work for a change, that is.

I am so goddamn sick of hearing the same "hehe hehe" and the same fake-sounding scream-laugh that those videos all use for backgrounds/overlays that I am ready to shove an ice pick in my ears. Ban this garbage, please!

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YES. It's so frustrating now. And Gboard suddenly keeps trying to turn every word I type that starts with a "p" into "poo apper". Wtf.

... And at the very end, as he's being taken out of the store (by a remarkably level-headed and seemingly quite caring dude) - "hey man can I get a soda?" The fuck is wrong with these people

That article is so much worse than I thought it would be. Holy shit.

Lucky you. I got told by our IT that I'm going to be their windows 11 sacrificial lamb and will be getting it before everyone else to bang out the quirks. It doesn't pay to be known as the office nerd :(

My elderly father's win 10 computer has been absolutely shoving the upgrade down his throat, and I'm about ready to give in and just do it. Telling it to stop notifying him does no good, it just comes right back the next day. Then he won't touch the computer because the full screen upgrade ad freaks him out and he's afraid something is wrong. Screw Microsoft.

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Sniper Elite 5. That series is like my sneaky sniper comfort food. I also just got a sonos arc soundbar and subwoofer and tried it out for the first time with the game. In the sonos app, they are now under the media group named, "Boom!Headshot". lol

We may not see many repercussions from this now, but when the unvaccinated grow up and the viruses have had a generation's worth of time to spread - just wait till a pregnant woman gets mumps and has a profoundly deaf baby. Or their toddler gets polio and ends up spending potentially years in a hospital, only to be released with lifetime disabilities. I know 2 people with polio, and one who is deaf due their mother having mumps (pre-vaccine days). Their lives, and the lives of their families, was/is hard. I wonder what grandma and grampa, safely vaccinated, will say when their grandkids start falling ill.