LillyPip

joined 2 years ago
[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Rivers on fire, gay bashing, satanic panic, abortion clinic bombings, acid rain…

Shit was wild, and often not in a good way. 70s fashion was groovy, though.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

The cost of the plane is trivial compared to upkeep, hangar rental, fuel, and myriad other expenses.

Sure, you can buy a plane for cheap, if you plan to keep it at your house somehow and never intend to use it.

 
[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

How many baby chicks must I eat for the achievement?!?

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

I stopped raking years ago, and have started seeing fireflies again.

My neighbours hate it, but honestly, I’ve never understood raking in the first place. It’s autumn, and leaves are natural. What’s with the obsession to make lawns look like artificial carpeted spaces?

The leaves look nice imo. Better than a scalped layer of dying grass.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uh… yeah?

ALL those stories are based on previous stories.

I’m really not sure what your point is.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

Almost. Trump is the franchise. There’s another layer beneath him.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago

I really feel this is the key point that’s getting lost in this.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This doesn’t tell you anything if they were all derived from earlier stories – which, it turns out, is actually the case. We have the earlier stories as proof, in many cases.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

It’s a good thing trump isn’t dumb enough to think US debt is easily solved by printing more money, right?

Wouldn’t that be crazy?

(I really hope this isn’t something he can actually do. It shouldn’t be possible, but neither should a lot of things he’s done.)

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

No, because the existence of some uncontrollable elements doesn’t erase all the controllable elements.

This woman did something very wrong and controllable, which is why she’s in prison.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There’s no way these people are being treated humanely. It takes time to establish the infrastructure, train new staff, and do all the other things necessary to expand this much and still treat people humanely.

The conditions must be breaking so many laws, and most of these people haven’t been charged with a crime, right?

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You sound like a fungi. How are you at subspace travel?

 
 

Sometimes when seafood has fermented or not been salted at all, in street food, it tastes sweet. It shouldn’t, because usually fermented fish tastes bitter, but after a while, it begins to taste sweet.

Why? What’s the chemical change that makes this happen?

Lots of very northern fermentation methods make it taste this way, but why?

 
 

Use case: sometimes I want to see my own comments in context – which is why, I assume, the ‘View parent’ option exists, but sometimes I also want to see it in the context of the whole post, for similar reasons.

In this case, I’ll tap ‘View post’’… and then lose all context, because my comment disappears into a sea of thousands, and I can’t find it again. Having the option to colour my username (like is done with mods and OP) would be very helpful.

Use case 2: sometimes I happen upon a post that I had commented in, and that post exploded after I’ve made a bunch of other comments in other posts, so I don’t want to sort through that post to see how my comment compares to the general consensus. It would be nice if I could easily see my own comments without mentally breaking the conversation flow to read every username (my brain has been trained to mostly ignore them, since that’s largely irrelevant to the conversation). Highlighting my own username would allow me to read a conversation I know I contributed to without subconsciously looking for myself between each comment. Yes, I know my own writing, but my brain still wants to do this, and it’s very slightly distracting.

Cheers, yours is literally my favourite app. Thank you for your hard work!

 

If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?

 

I haven’t seen this with alphabetical characters.

e: here’s the comment:

https://lemmy.ca/post/50654491/18661961

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

That’s not what I mean….

I was just listening to a biologist podcast about tardigrades and learnt we've been subjecting them to all the extremes to see what they can tolerate: super-fast speeds, radiation, you name it we've done it to them...

Think if super-advanced aliens did this to us. Oh. Oh god. 'How much velocity to squish us?' 'How much sound to shake us apart?'

Suddenly anal probing doesn't seem so bad.

e: ‘we’ll stick an appropriately-sized thing into an orifice that seems made for that’ sounds downright friendly by comparison.

 

It’s really good at making us feel like it’s intelligent, but that’s no more real than a good VR headset convincing us to walk into a physical wall.

It’s a meta version of VR.

(Meta meta, if you will.)

 

This may or may not be associated with music stands or equipment. I can’t remember.

I just emptied and re-did my music/video room, and found this bracket in a small box with no labels or anything. I can’t remember what it’s for. I think it’s either audio or video related, but it doesn’t seem to match any of my mic or equipment stands, though it might be. It’s devoid of any branding or part/serial numbers. No markings of any kind.

It folds like this:

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More pics:

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There’s a sliding mount screw on the bottom:

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Thanks!

(Sorry for poor lighting, MacBook Pro 15” for scale)

 

We all know WD-40 works for making things move when they’re seized, but it also works better than anything for getting rid of all traces of adhesive left behind after peeling off stubborn stickers from things you buy.

It works on nearly all surfaces* – even coated paper! (just be sure not to leave it to soak into the paper.)

Instead of peeling slowly for ages with your fingernail or doing that peel-stick-peel-stick thing for half an hour, soak a paper towel in WD-40 and dab it on the offending sticker remains, wait a few minutes, then wipe off. (*if on coated paper, don’t let it soak, just gently rub it.) Clean the item afterwards to remove the oil left behind.

*it’s best to test a small area first if the object is painted or porous, and be careful with items meant to be food safe, because WD-40 is obviously not food safe.

This is something I wish more people knew, because soooo many manufacturers and retailers put stickers in the worst places and with near-permanent adhesive. I hope this helps you!

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
 

Took me a while and an AskLemmy post to figure this out, since I initially thought Lemmy was auto-modding commenters (which kinda made me panic), but this is what I see:

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I am the only mod in this community, and others aren’t seeing this flag everywhere, so commenters aren’t actually modded.

Is this a bug with Voyager or with my instance?

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