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Alien Surfer

@ JoeClu @lemmy.world

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Each and every one of the creatures we descended from, stretching all the way back to the beginning of life on Earth, has survived by killing before being killed. We are the final product of a string of millions of killers.

  • Deserts - A place for all things arid

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  • Sonoron Desert checking in here.

  • What's something you'd change in men's fashion, given the chance?

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  • Make thawbs and surongs fashionable in the hot deserts of the USA.

  • WHO says soda sweetener aspartame may cause cancer, but it's safe within limits

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  • Nine to fourteen cans of cola a day is the limit. Eek, I've probably done that when I was a young programmer! Hope it doesn't catch up to me. :(

  • What RSS readers do you use?

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  • I still use gReader. It's hard to find but I still keep a copy of the pro version apk (version 4.3.1_pro_beta) for Android. It just works really well and has the best UI that works the way I like it on both my phone and tablet. The latest version (which is not the one I have) was last updated April 2021. The developer was 'noinnion'.

  • NASA's Perseverance rover finds diverse organic material in ancient Martian lake basin

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  • Man I wish NASA (or some private pioneer) would send an archeology team (human or robot) to find evidence of previous life. Like dinosaurs or something. If you discovered that, you'd be immortal.

  • What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?

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  • You know I understand you. That was the way with me too. It took me a long time into adulthood to tone that down as I wasn't making friends and people seemed to think I was an asshole. It really sucked cause I seriously didn't mean any harm or disrespect, but most took it that way for some reason.

    Now, after endless questioning of myself, I've learned to adapt to my audience.

  • What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?

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  • Mmmmm... stollen. Can't go without my stollen on Christmas and I'm American too.

  • What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?

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  • When you indicate the number 3 with your hand, which fingers do you hold up?

    Thumb, index, middle fingers?

    Middle, ring, pinky (small finger) fingers?

    Index, middle, ring fingers?

    I heard Germans do it one of these ways, English does it another, and Americans does it yet another way. Don't know if it's true, but I think I saw that in some movie. Maybe Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino?

  • What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?

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  • Sounds perfect for a desert climate. Another custom/fashion I wish would catch on in the hot desert of the USA.

  • What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?

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  • In the SW USA in summer it can get 117F (47C) and let me tell you, my dude, 100% cotton is still hot as hell.

    I don't know this for sure, but to me it seems like the whole suit and tie and jacket thing was a northern European tradition and eventually an eastern USA tradition where it's cold. That shit don't work in the desert, and those who continue to claim "professionalism" and maintain such stupid customs are fools, in my opinion.

    I'm not middle eastern but those dudes have the correct answer to the desert. I really wish the thawb would catch on in the Sonoran Desert of the southwest USA.

  • What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?

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  • What culture says "no worries"? I've heard it so much I thought it universal by now.

  • What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?

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  • I would LOVE the house slipper bit. I've suggested it so many times. Wife and kids just won't go for it. Wife says it's rude to ask a guest to take off their shoes. I disagree but she just can't see my point or view. If you want to enter my house, show respect and take off your shoes to keep my house clean.

  • Severed finger mailed to French President Emmanuel Macron as protests raged

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  • Ah. I remember that. Good show.

  • Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

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  • Hahaha, SO TRUE!!

  • Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

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  • This is entirely valid and unfortunate.

  • What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

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  • "Molten wounds still glow where the two nuclear bombs detonated. And I wonder, in my last moments, if the planet does not mind that we wound her surface or pillage her bounty, because she knows we silly warm things are not even a breath in her cosmic life. We have grown and spread, and will rage and die. And when all that remains of us is our steel monuments and plastic idols, her winds will whisper, her sands will shift, and she will spin on and on, forgetting about the bold, hairless apes who thought they deserved immortality."

    -- Pierce Brown, Morning Star Novel (P. 166)

  • What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

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  • If you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest way to have guards is to have the slaves pay taxes to finance their own guards. To fool the slaves, you tell them that they are not slaves and that they have Freedom. You tell them they need Law and Order to protect them against bad slaves. Then you tell them to elect a Government. Give them Freedom to vote and they will vote for their own guards and pay their salary. They will then believe they are Free persons. Then give them money to earn, count, and spend and they will be too busy to notice the slavery they are in.” - Alexander Warbucks

  • What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

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  • "No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away..." - Terry Pratchet

  • What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

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  • Vincit qui se vincit - He conquers who conquers himself