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Scott Mumford (Dad Mod from r/paulthomasanderson)

wilberfan 115 points 3 years ago

Many seem to have the attitude that if you never use them, the bulbs will never burn out. Problem solved.

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wilberfan 79 points 3 years ago

I've been spending so much time in the Fediverse for the last week, I had no idea there were so many apps that were going to adapt to the new API rules and keep going.

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wilberfan 76 points 3 years ago

I read that as "...asshole migration plan". 😂

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wilberfan 74 points 3 years ago

It's obviously not a competition, but this kind of reminds me of back in the day when you had to choose between Betamax or VHS. One seemed superior (kBin)--but "everyone" was adopting VHS (Lemmy).

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wilberfan 43 points 3 years ago

I'm walking every street in my (very large) suburb (think Southern California) and picking up litter while doing so. I track my progress with an app and map it to a website (citystrides.com) that fills in each neighborhood as I go.

It started as something to do during Covid--although I took a year off in there, somewhere. I listen to podcasts while I go. So I'm out of the house (I'm retired now--that helps), get some "fresh" air (🤷‍♂️ )--all while listening to and from and about interesting people. As a bonus, the space I've passed thru that day is a little "better" for me having been there.

I apparently have a dose of "completeism"--a compulsion to 'complete' something thoroughly. There's something psychologically very satisfying about watching that map get filled in.

https://i.imgur.com/GoNzZgP.png

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wilberfan 42 points 3 years ago

I'm loving the transparency around here. 👍

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wilberfan 41 points 3 years ago

I totally believe this. Exactly zero of the 11K subscribers of the sub I mod have followed me over to the fediverse--despite a third of them 'supporting' the idea of keeping the sub dark.

Still deciding if I should just be an 'absentee mod' (not post anything personally, but keep things reasonably orderly) or let someone else mod it and move on. I just cant, in good conscience, 'return to normal'.

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wilberfan 40 points 3 years ago

The end is nigh...

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wilberfan 40 points 3 years ago

We talk about what's important to us in the moment... It's part of how we mourn the loss we've just experienced.

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wilberfan 36 points 3 years ago

No more calls; we have our winner.

Glasses frame is usually made of a type of copper called monel. Monel is a table metal and unreactive towards a lot of chemical. It is also skin friendly. The only downside is that it turns greenish when it gets rusty.

[edit] It's interesting that that article suggests a way to clean them--but the Costco optician just now said you can't really clean them. (They replaced them for no charge.)

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wilberfan 36 points 3 years ago

It's not a competition tho, right?

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wilberfan 35 points 3 years ago

Better than the really expensive cut of meat left in the detergent aisle. #HumansSuck

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wilberfan 33 points 3 years ago

Unfortunately, no new LWT episodes until the Writer's Strike is settled...

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wilberfan 33 points 3 years ago

The Colbert link seems to have been copyright blocked.

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wilberfan 29 points 3 years ago

Been using RSS for 15, 20 years? 150-ish feeds? Feedly.com is my reader of choice.

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wilberfan 27 points 3 years ago

I didn't know this either.

"Google launched the WebP format as part of its mission to make loading times faster across the internet. WebP allows websites to display high-quality images — but with much smaller file sizes than traditional formats such as PNG and JPEG."

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wilberfan 27 points 3 years ago

The older I get, the more I want to be honest with people (without being a dick about it) and have them be more honest with me (ditto, non-dickishness).

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wilberfan 27 points 3 years ago

This is genuinely exciting news.

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wilberfan 26 points 3 years ago

Clean the touchable surfaces on your devices and device keyboards.

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wilberfan 25 points 3 years ago

I think about the "zero consequences" thing a lot. I help run the local farmers' market, and recently our city has stepped up parking enforcement. (As a "rule-follower", I celebrated the change.) Our customers are howling at the parking tickets they're getting. They come to the market Info Booth to complain to us--as if it were our responsibility somehow.

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