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FourPacketsOfPeanuts

@ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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    Which lemmy apps have keyword filtering?

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  • Boost for android

  • JD Vance stuns Munich conference with blistering attack on Europe’s leaders

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  • mishandling migration, and ignoring populist concerns.

    I think Vance is a tool, but can someone explain how these two points aren't objectively true?

  • doge.gov got hacked

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  • Oh it won't end

  • Ask my guinea pig anything, and I will let her crawl on the keyboard to answer.

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  • What are the top signs someone's having a stroke?

  • Netflix raises subscription prices in the UK - BBC News

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  • Trying telling an artist you're not stealing something when you use their work without permission..

  • Can someone change my mind about CRT and DEI?

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  • I suppose they're both highly charged and make specific points with the goal of providing illuminated information

  • What's the UK's worst accent? #accent #uk #british #debate - YouTube

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  • It's traditional to crap on the brummies, but I've come round to the melodic innocence of a good brummie accent.

    The actual worst is the unremarkable and boring middle class thames estuary accent, esp out the mouths of strivers in London who think they're something special.

  • I have been permanently banned for staying on topic!?

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  • Reddit makes perfect sense: having you there is no longer profitable.

    Fuck them to be honest..

  • Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery

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  • Have you considered putting your gaming pc in one of the storage freezers? /s

  • Arab countries flatly reject Trump's Gaza takeover proposal

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  • If that were true then why agree a ceasefire at all? If hostages were disposable then it would serve his purposes better to sabotage negotiations, blame Hamas, and continue destroying Rafah.

    As it stands there appears to be at least some elements in Israel that count retrieving the hostages to be more important.

  • Arab countries flatly reject Trump's Gaza takeover proposal

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  • Surprised this got announced while there are still hostages to release tbh..

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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  • I listed it because it's one of the things I would sworn by too having seen it first hand. However when you conduct a double blind experiment, kids still get excited at parties / treats / days out / when their friends are over when there's no sugar in the treats.

    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/medical-myths-does-sugar-make-children-hyperactive

    In otherwords as parents we massively underestimate how excited or crazy kids can get just because they're excited and not because of something in their bloodstream..

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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    • that putting the thermostat up higher will heat the house up quicker (edit: I have in mind a bog standard UK home thermostat)

    • that sugary sweets make kids act "hyper"

    • that the moon's apparent size is due to how close it is to earth (same for seasons and the sun)

    • that your base metabolic rate slows as you age and is primarily responsible for you putting weight on in middle age

  • Hey! I may be grumpy, and bitter, and lash out at children, and trick people into neglecting God's Word but... What was that other thing you said?

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  • It's very well written satire. As someone who's previously been part of evangelical house churches I can tell it's been written by someone who was part of church life for years.

    It's so very well done I wasn't sure myself of it was real or not. Believe it or not I've known many genuine Christians who could crank out earnest content that was this cheesy and insane.

    The clincher for me if that it neither asks for money nor gives an address. => Satire

    (On the kids ministry page, the music track listings are particular genius)

  • How much of an asshole is your washing machine/dryer?

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  • I had a washing machine that made audible chirps as you dialed through the programs and an irritating ditty whenever you engaged a program. It couldn't be turned off. That was on a physical dial. But it also had flat touch buttons with no bevel or edge or tactile feedback - and these were always silent - so most of the time you didn't know if you'd really pressed it or not. God. The first time I used it I was like.. "what the fuck". It was brand new in 2023. I cannot comprehend how someone can design, make, and program something so stupid.

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it's not yet associated with vlc

    "Hey.. it looks like your going to have to buy a codec..."

    manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly

  • Ask UK @feddit.uk
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    Is there a decent paperback encyclopedia (compact) still available in the UK?

  • I've never been more jealous of a watch

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  • Same as all the muppets in the city dressed up to the nines in their new beemer than you know is on monthly payments.

    On the other hand; being debt free, now there's a status symbol..

  • Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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  • There isn't a solution. People don't want to pay for something that costs huge resources. So their attention becoming the product that's sold is inevitable. They also want to doomscroll slop; it's mindless and mildly entertaining. The same way tabloid newspapers were massively popular before the internet and gossip mags exist despite being utter horseshite. It's what people want. Truly fighting it would requires huge benevolent resources, a group willing to finance a manipulative and compelling experience and then not exploit it for ad dollars, push educational things instead or something. Facebook, twitter etc are enshitified but they still cost huge amounts to run. And for all their faults at least they're a single point where illegal material can be tackled. There isn't a proper corollary for this in decentralised solutions once things scale up. It's better that free, decentralised services stay small so they can stay under the radar of bots and bad actors. When things do get bigger then gated communities probably are the way to go. Perhaps until there's a social media not-for-profit that's trusted to manage identity, that people don't mind contributing costs to. But that's a huge undertaking. One day hopefully...

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Are the 'doors' on the ISS locked?

  • Some poor soul earning his stripes at Spotify today.

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  • My first week at a major fund company I was assigned to an internal business tool used by thousands. I noticed all the company email addresses in the sandbox weren't correct, so I ran a script to correct them. Cue a call from C-level to my boss asking why he got a "email changed notification". Followed by another.. And another.. And another...

    I went out to lunch

  • Casual UK @feddit.uk
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    Radio Times Christmas cryptic crossword

  • Casual UK @feddit.uk
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    I had a hazy memory of The Ten Commandments seeming to be on all day long when I was a child. I've just seen it's on Channel 4 for 4 and a half hours(!) I feel vindicated.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    For the first time in what might literally be decades, I looked up what's on in the Christmas RadioTimes (UK) and watched it on live TV

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I had need for two batteries earlier today and mulled the need to walk down to the village. My mum however had recently cleaned an old drawer and had two of the exact right batteries in her pocket.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I was unable to join the library's WiFi today

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Found out today Sam Lloyd (lawyer in Scrubs) is Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)'s nephew. What are some other surprising and lesser known actor connections?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Which celebrity were you sure had already passed away but has not?

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    In principle, could gravity be used to send a information from within a black hole's event horizon?

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I sneezed funny and now my left ribcage aches. I'm going to bed early.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Who popularised the 1980s ballad upward key change?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    In the liftoff app on Android, how do you get from replies in your inbox to the conversation thread?