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rouxdoo

@ rouxdoo @lemmy.world

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  • Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown

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  • It's a fucking bug! Boil it and eat the shit already.

    I worked at Red Lobster for a number of years as a young'un. A large part of my work in the prep kitchen initially (after I graduated from the dish ring) was to slice live Maine lobs in half to make "princess lobsters" (half a lobster with body cavity stuffed with yummy). These stupid bugs are no more sentient than a cockroach that you smash with a shoe.

    Why would anyone spend even a second considering the feelings of a fucking bug?!

  • China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate

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  • "A woman is only fertile during about 5 days each lunar cycle. Unfortunately those days are the most fun but the other 24 are safer."

    Can confirm that these are the best days to get wiggy with it - ask me how I know...kids.

  • The US gained 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October; unemployment rate at 4.6%

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  • The immigrants are not taking our jobs, we are shedding job roles because the immigrants are no longer around to fill them. This is a self-imposed recession attributable to one orange baboon.

  • What's you favourite movie with big plot-holes?

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  • Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users?

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  • Fair enough, I knew my take wouldn't be a popular one here. In all fairness if you are using Apple products the iCloud sync brings all of the metadata with the data on every device that accesses it.

    While I don't have any illusions that Apple has my back they do have a lot invested in keeping people's trust in their ecosystem. The automated on-device CSAM scanning kerfuffle that they backed away from shows that they are sensitive to the threat of people leaving their walled garden.

    Another fairly easy to implement local solution that wouldn't be an admin headache is to put a Mac mini with a bunch of attached storage on the network and use it as a file server. I do that for my PleX.

  • Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users?

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  • This will be an unpopular suggestion here but why not just go all in on iCloud? It's reasonably inexpensive for not data-hoarding amounts of data, reasonably secure and E2E encrypted. Given the low cost, zero setup if they're already Apple people and lack of admin I think it is ideal for them.

    I pay for iCloud storage because I want HomeKit Secure Video cloud storage (I also have a local copy on disk).

  • I bought an electric kettle

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  • I got a really good one years ago, my wife used it to heat up chicken stock to make gumbo. Never again.

  • Home Assistant vs. HomeKit Questions

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  • Regarding your myQ, get away if you can. You can find an inexpensive HK device from Meross that will likely work for you.

    If you want to use HA then you will end up migrating all of your HK devices to be paired with HA and then you can bridge them all (and more) back to HK so your family does not have to learn anything new.

  • US airstrike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour before second deadly attack, video shows

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  • An hour...long enough to consult the UCMJ and seek legal counsel before acting.

  • Hegseth reportedly ousted admiral who expressed concerns about legality of boat bombings

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  • No, it was this officer's greatest joy to be relieved of command by a puny puke who will soon be rung up on charges by the ICC. He spoke truth to power as was his duty and now he is free of the consequences of his commander's choices. I'm sure he will drink a toast to the incarceration and eventual firing squad awaiting Hegseth and subordinates for war crimes.

  • How do I get invited to a top-shelf private general- or tv- or books- focused torrent tracker?

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  • Turn away from torrents and embrace usenet for visual media. Regarding books you need to go with IRC. PM for deets if unclear.

  • Any books like Ready Player One?

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  • A lot of his work can get draggy and slow (Cryptonomicon, Seveneves). While I liked Snow Crash I bailed out of Anathem and some others. I have returned to Readme a couple of times for a re-read though.

  • Any books like Ready Player One?

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  • Check out REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.

  • How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.

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  • These are documents pulled in an investigation and are probably mostly paper (digital was less prevalent during the heyday of his abusive stage). Digital comms were likely less used in commitment of crimes for obvious reasons. Paper documents are rarely digitized unless someone has a reason to disseminate them to others.

  • Michelle Obama says the country is ‘not ready for a woman’ president | CNN Politics

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  • I think you nailed it here. Give the people a choice to vote for AOC and I think it will happen.

  • Got a tiny phone.

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  • Sweet!! Love tiny phones. A few years ago I finally recycled my Nokia 8210 which was the best phone I ever owned (obviously until I got my first iPhone). I was always afraid I would inhale it if conversation got heated.

  • what everyday technology do you think future generations will find completely baffling?

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  • Holding a thing to your face to talk to another human will seem like cave-men aping for a mate in the future. If I forget my bluetooth headset in the morning my day is shot - I'm sure the future is much brighter.

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    what's the most mundane hill you're willing to die on?

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  • It't tomato no tomato. Sheesh, do you English much?

  • ‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

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  • If Maxwell gets a pardon it will cause her more harm than being in prison. Someone who read that will fill with rage and make and end of her.