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FBJimmy

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  • How U.S. adults describe their sexuality, by generation (2026)

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  • I don't think there's a hard definition, but the idea is it's people who 'came of age' 'around' the turn of the millennium. So turning 18 in 1998 fits that definition I think.

    It's including people born in the mid-90s that I don't understand from that definition. But I guess it's more about what the world was like when growing up - specifically growing up with the advent of Internet -> Mobile Internet -> Smart Phones.

  • Loaghtan sheep

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  • Sideshow Baaaab?

  • Pub Drinks for Non Drinkers

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  • Not OP, but two big issues for me having actually been a fan of them and an 'Equity Punk' (just one share) back in 2020:

    • CEO accused of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power.

    • Despite huge popularity and their drinks taking over every supermarket, somehow managed to fall into administration leaving suppliers and original investors out of pocket.

    I think the takeover deal stinks - the worst kind of capitalism - leave all the small guys short changed and hand a massive multinational brand to another company with no obligations to make it right.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59957485

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70dv0eg9yko

  • Pub Drinks for Non Drinkers

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  • Yeah I am also boycotting Brewdog after the takeover farce. Finding alcoholic alternatives is no problem, but they are very good at the AF stuff.

    And we're also trying to avoid all Coke/Pepsi owned products, which is almost everything sugary in a pub - fine for me as I'm not into sweet drinks, but leaves my wife on lime and soda often.

  • Pub Drinks for Non Drinkers

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  • Non-alcoholic gin and tonic can be pretty good, but is often a rip-off.

    Guiness 0% or the Brewdog AFs are pretty good. My favourite was Nanny State, but it's hard to find.

  • What's a song where you like a remix or cover better than the original?

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  • Boys of Summer by The Ataris.

    Or if you prefer EDM, maybe Boys of Summer by DJ Sammy

  • What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?

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  • What? I completely get discarding things and living a life without the burden of clutter, but having a game in your Steam library is essentially zero cost/burden right?

  • What's the earliest number of this you remember seeing in real life?

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  • 37 to about 45 was my era.

    However, the first ones Insaw were 8 and 11 in my parents vinyl collection. I may have them at my house now, not sure.

  • Men have fewer children than women

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  • Has anyone dug into this enough to work out what exactly is the difference in measuring fertility rate vs gender compared to just measuring population percentage per gender? It's got to be a very subtle difference, if anything.

  • My pasta isn't cooked?

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  • Sometimes if you don't use enough water or don't stir it at the right time, pasta can stick to itself in the pan and the bits in the middle aren't able to rehydrate/cook properly.

  • You after wiping your ass for the 27th time and still see shit

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  • Sure, BUT, don't just connect it to the cold water supply - they need proper isolation - I've heard of cases where households have gotten really sick and they found that bacteria from the bum gun had made it back to the drinking water.

  • The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Fortune

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  • Not saying that the US isn't in fiscal crisis, I'm not at all qualified to say either way, but: Comparing government balance sheets to household finances is a age-old conservative folly designed to encourage the working class to support smaller government in order to reduce taxes on the rich - in other words, encourage the turkeys to vote for Christmas (or in this case maybe Thanksgiving?).

    The fact is that government finances and household finances are not at all the same thing, for many reasons I'm not qualified to explain, but a couple of obvious ones:

    • Households can't choose to tax the rich to increase income.
    • Households can't print money.
    • Households can't secure low-interest loans that extend beyond their lifetimes (i.e. issue bonds).
    • Households don't typically find spending increases income (i.e. Government workers pay taxes, infrastructure investment drives growth which increases tax revenue, etc etc).

    The UK Conservatives used this line of reasoning around 2010 and it's led to 15 years of growth stagnation with no real improvement in the debt situation.

  • What’s a “life hack” that actually made your life worse?

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  • I don't usually take scissors to the bar with me

  • 2026 Chinese Grand Prix - [SPRINT QUALIFYING] discussion thread

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  • The schedule times above are off by an hour in some cases - this from the official app:

    • SQ Fri 07:30 UTC
    • S Sat 03:00 UTC
    • Q Sat 07:00 UTC
    • R Sun 07:00 UTC

    UTC isn't adjusted for daylight savings, so maybe that's the source of the error?

    It's also not daylight savings in Europe (CET/BST) until 29th March and China doesn't do daylight savings...

  • Corned Beef Wellington - Am I crazy?

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  • I feel like over-salting the tenderloin would spoil the flavour. And you don't want to slow cook it, it will dry out.

    But as a possible Irish twist: Replace the mushroom duxelle with white or black pudding? Should such a thing be available where you are

  • Corned beef and cabbage

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  • After being very confused by this picture, I just went down a rabbit hole researching the use of "corned beef" across the English speaking world..

    As far as I can tell:

    • US/Canada call this corned beef, and it's made from brisket.
    • UK/ex-Commonwealth call this salt beef, again made from brisket, and corned beef is very different mushy canned meat product
    • In Ireland it seems, from looking at the website for one of their supermarkets, they just call everything corned beef? The canned mush, raw brisket, this - all "corned beef"?

  • Stoat self-hosting: Instance invites?

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  • I think I've figured it out somewhat.

    Handling instance invite codes is definitely missing from the official stoatchat-for-web repo I built my frontend from - see: https://github.com/stoatchat/for-web/issues/639

    But I think what confuses things when you ask around for help is that AFAIK a lot of people are using various forks and pre-made docker images that patch things like this.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Stoat self-hosting: Instance invites?

  • Audio cable measurements are driving me crazy — why can’t I get them to null?!?

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  • (speaker calbles almost warrant a debate due to the currents and the reactive load, but the smartest people I knew in the field would just use domestic mains cable for this as it ticked all the boxes that mattered at a low price. They'd literally connect £10k speakers.up with it!)

  • Audio cable measurements are driving me crazy — why can’t I get them to null?!?

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  • I suspect you haven't missed anything and the audio tracks provided have been either inadvertently or deliberately manipulated by some other factor unrelated to the RCA cables.

    For context, I'm an Elecronics Engineer with a Masters Degree and 17 years industry experience in a mix of RF and Pro Audio product design, including designing high spec audio converters for both studio and test and measurement use.

    Apart from something extraordinarily badly designed, broken or dirty, there is no plausible reason why a cable carrying a signal with no significant current and no high frequency components can have any effect on that signal - high frequency audio is approximately DC in the wider scope of Electronics Engineering.

    That answer doesn't suite people trying to get rich selling ridiculous cables though.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Trying to activate a new BT account

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Meta supported phishing?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Karen who did not get leaving card loses UK employment claim

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2024/oct/12/woman-leaving-card-employment-claim-tribunal
  • FoodPorn @lemmy.world
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    Oo, if we're doing Sushi pics...