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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Fun fact about owls: they appear to be intelligent with their large eyes and calm(ish) demeanour, but the ironic thing is that those eyes are so large that they don’t leave much room in the owl’s skull for their brain - owls are unusually stupid for their size.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

So… the entire election was stolen by Republicans? That it was a fraud?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Can confirm… it’s brutal.

And I’m a guy that cannot take heat. Whatever temp you find comfortable, that’s the level of comfort I likely feel ten degrees colder. My own office typically sits between 15-18℃, and that’s with me in shorts and shirtsleeves. Pants and dress shirt? Think 12-15℃. RIP electrical bill.

Anthropogenic Climate Change is going to be fun. /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have to praise Stephanie Meyer

Except the Twilight series glorified toxic relationships, normalized abuse and underage grooming, and hit an uncomfortable number of red flags in DSM-5.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Hey nice, journalism with a backbone!

If only more news orgs in America could import that.

But then, it would probably be blocked by TACO tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I never had it done for two main reasons:

  1. Actual cutting of the cornea.
  2. A cripplingly negative response to anything that surgically impacts my body. Even giving blood triggers an overwhelming need to inject it right back into me.

Knowing what I do about CC and the astronomically high likelihood of global civilizational collapse before mid-century, I should really have something like that done so I can do without glasses if absolutely necessary. Assuming I live that long, that is. Which, judging from the current advanced age of my own parents, is a decent “likely”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Right? This is an absolutely awesome autocorrect fail.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Punishing the poor for the crime of poverty.

How typically conservative.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Imagine if a carmaker sold a premium vehicle with a polished metal and glass exterior that you had to protect under a vinyl wrap to keep it from rusting and chipping under normal use... they'd be a laughing stock!

tesla cybertruck wanders into chat, spots comment, slinks quietly back out with a red face

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I would likely go case-less if it wasn’t for my dry hands, and the occasional need to have my phone sit on my leg (while I am driving) so I can go hands-free with it.

My problem is that any phone without a case (and about 99.999% of cases out there) has the phone being as slippery as an enraged hagfish. It literally leaps out of my hands with most operations, which is why I need a case -- to grip it effectively.

And now with my iPhone 15 pro max, I have been in a desperate search for any case which is sticky enough. As in: with the phone in the case, place it face-up on your open palm without gripping it and tilt your palm 30-45°. If it slides off, the case is too slippery. I’ve had sticky cases before, but it seems that everyone suddenly stopped making them some time after the iPhone X.

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