I’m young enough that the first “computer” I ever owned in my childhood was the first generation iPad. 64 GB felt huge back then and was a pretty big deal for solid state storage for the time.

I then got a junker Windows XP computer mainly because the iPad didn’t let me mess around with the OS nearly as much as I wanted. Learned to program on that old computer using the iPad for online tutorials. But the hard drive was only 40 GB and it blew kid me’s mind the difference in size between the single chip of the iPad and the metal brick of the hard drive, yet the hard drive has less storage.

I mean, Americans unironically think and are taught in school that nuking Japan was best thing that happened in the war and that they’re heroes for killing all those Japs and saving the world. I’m surprised it took this long for one of their politicians to suggest this, actually.

What a terrible day to hear about Fakespot for the first time :(

Remembering past lives means also taking on all the trauma, anger, and heartbreak of your past lives. No thanks, one life worth of those at a time is more than enough.

Also, I imagine death itself is wildly traumatic. Remembering your own death would fuck your psyche over and severely disadvantage you in your next life.

This is why whenever I want to save a news article, I actually save it to my computer as a PDF. Not only can your online bookmark store be shut down, the article itself can be deleted or edited especially if it’s a hot button issue.

DRUM STORAGE

They’re trying to force the workers to strike so they can make their case to the government that the strike is disrupting an essential service and demand that they force the union to accept the terms. Literally the same thing happened a year ago: Postal workers make demands and are willing to negotiate, Canada Post completely refuses to negotiate and locks out the workers, workers strike, postal traffic in Canada grinds to a halt, millions of people and businesses are impacted, Canadian government cites the post office as an “essential service” and uses that to force the union and employer into arbitration even though the employer was the belligerent one and didn’t even attempt to negotiate in the first place.

Also, news outlets scapegoated the union for all the delayed mail the last time they went on strike. “How could they do this to Canada? Can’t they just accept working like slaves? It’s an essential service after all, that means we get to exploit the people doing the job as much as we want and if they strike they’re the problem!” No mention of what the union’s actual demands were or how the post office itself acted.

Also also, Canada Post is NOT tax funded. It’s a government institution that is set up like a normal corporation, but with the government as the shareholder. If that’s not an ass backwards way of providing an essential service I don’t know what is. Literally the worst of both worlds between private and public ownership.

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So is cardio shortening your life?

“The world is wide,” she added. “Africa is big. Canada is big. The world will absorb the people of Gaza. How we do it? We encourage it. Palestinians in Gaza, the good ones, will be enabled. I’m not saying forced, I say enabled because they want to go.”

As a Canadian, you can fuck right off Wess. You’re a disgusting piece of shit and every word of that was fucking evil.

If they were Palestinians, they would have gotten run over if they tried blocking a truck.

A single activation period for the account is honestly way better than what Reddit has where you’re not allowed to post in a ton of large subreddits because you don’t have enough karma when your account is created.

We still pretending the West has free speech or we over that now?

Also, Lemmy has ways of discovering communities. Just browse the all-local or all-federated feeds and you’ll see what communities are popular.

The “can’t sign up” complaints might have something to do with how most instances make you answer questions like “why do you want to sign up” and “what communities will you browse” as a simple way of stopping automated sign-ups, and if they didn’t put anything in the box or just said things like “IDK I’m from Reddit” they might have been rejected due to the admins thinking they’re a bot or spammer or something.

Gonna throw in my personal conspiracy theory (that I don’t have any evidence for): I haven’t been on Reddit Alternatives since I found Lemmy, but based on what i remember, there seem to be quite a few people who have spun up their own projects and are promoting them pretty hard on that subreddit. Who’s to say if one or more of them decided to buy bot comments to smear their competitors?

The water trap that’s in your toilet and sinks.

The only thing stopping your home from smelling like a sewer is a bit of water strategically placed.

Reminder that if you have a sink you don’t use, it’s best to run the tap for a few seconds every month to keep that water trap filled.

Why I’m in this flesh robot to begin with.

Some sites still don’t support PNG lol. Usually it’s places where they specifically expect a photo, where they’ll hard code the validation to only check if it’s a JPEG. I once had to upload a picture of my face for something and the original JPEG was too large, so I took a screenshot and tried uploading that but it wouldn’t work because it only accepted JPEGs. So I had to figure out how to compress the image locally on my phone because I didn’t want to upload a picture of me to one of those online converters.

Later when they find a hidden camera (because god knows they’re not going to check before taking it out for a spin to his favourite golf course):