toynbee

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I had the same experience with the ice cream.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I can't explain, no, because I don't understand the motivation behind it.

But someone (likely a bot) has been spamming messages, allegedly from the person depicted, as "the Fediverse chick." I got my first one this morning. It arrived within sixty seconds of me making a post, so I have to guess it's targeting more active users. If you're a frequent commenter, you'll probably get one eventually, too.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I recently had to submit some PII to my employer. The person requesting that information invited me to a video meeting so that the information wouldn't easily be accessible on record.

I've been working in this field for around fifteen years. This was the first time someone in charge of handling my information has even pretended to care about it.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried to buy an external 20TB drive from Amazon twice. First one that came, I bought refurbished; the drive had been shucked and replaced with a 146GB drive.

Second one I bought was 20TB, but was clicking and grinding from the moment I turned it on. When I tried to initiate a return saying "drive is clicking and grinding, indicating that it's failing," their support bot helpful informed me that a clicking and grinding drive usually indicated drive failure.

They did accept the return for the latter. They also accepted a return for the former, but it took literal months and several support interactions where the (seemingly real) agents actively lied to me.

I've had okay luck with smaller Amazon drives in the past, but will have trouble recommending them for this kind of purchase in the future.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Made a website with no real info, because what could i tell the world als a 12-15 year old.

I'm in the same situation at almost forty.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Valid, but shouldn't be necessary.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I've also heard that honey helps to confer resistance to allergies to things that were in the area where the honey was made. As such, OP might be missing out on environmental defense by not diversifying.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It's surprising that Bender has yet to say "I'm 40% plastic!"

collapsed inline mediaI'm forty percent whatever it is you needed

 

My 5-year-old has set up a selection of large rocks on the railing of my back porch, which my kitchen faces.

In the kitchen, there is a small TV with a red status LED, which due to the window construction reflects twice.

As I naively walked into my kitchen, the only person in my house awake in the early morning, the rocks and lights lined up in an alarming way. I got quite a start.

(I know the picture isn't great quality ... I think the phone camera didn't want to focus on reflections. Also I zoomed in to hide my kitchen clutter.)

edit: Clarifications.

 

Do you want to live in the city or country? Either way, why? Is there a specific place you'd like to live?

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