MrsDoyle @ MrsDoyle @lemmy.world

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Not just America - my home town in New Zealand had a Carnegie library. I live in Scotland now, where his birthplace is a museum. https://www.carnegiebirthplace.com/ His money is still funding various trusts in the UK.

It says most of the deaths are in the mountains, epicentre was Imlil. If the damage is that bad in Marrakesh I can't imagine how devastated the mountain towns and villages will be. I did a trek in that area of the Atlas range some years back and the valleys were amazing. Groves of cherry and walnut trees, terraced fields with an ingenious irrigation system, clusters of simple mudbrick houses.

Good bot.

Huia is the one I'd bring back.

It's me! I've been a very naughty lady.

I live in Scotland and yes, you don't want to be damp in cold weather. It feels miserable. You douse yourself in water to cool down on a hot day, don't you? In winter you do your best to keep snug and dry.

Re the static issue, give the dog a treat every time you shock it, train it to enjoy being shocked. 👹

Agreed. My Miele also has a very long cord compared with my previous vacuum. (Which was a bagless Dyson I grew to hate. Heavy, cumbersome, awkward to keep clean.)

Shhhhh, I think maybe they’ve forgotten about it….

I don't see recalls as a problem - they find an issue, they fix it for everyone, for free. The three times my Toyota hybrid was recalled it was back to me the next day, not only washed, but with the interior cleaned as well. They were mainly software fixes I think. The car's now 12 years old and still bowling along just fine.

I have loads of hobbies, two main ones are coastal rowing (big fun, plus I’ve learned a lot about nautical stuff like tides, navigation, knots) and beekeeping (big fun and honey). Also photography, knitting, computer tinkering, websites, reading, gardening, baking… basically I’m never bored. I used to add travel to that list, but I haven’t been outside the country since before Covid.

I found the important thing was to keep it dry and well-aired. If you lay the futon directly on the floor, even wooden and/or carpeted, the heat from your body will cause condensation, and if you don't let the futon air out by rolling it up, it will go mouldy. In Japan, futons are laid on tatami mats, which I imagine would cause the least condensation, and rolled up every day as a matter of course. I found it increasingly annoying having to deal with the futon every morning, especially in the winter when there was more condensation and it was harder to keep the futon completely dry. I like a firm mattress, but no more futons for lazy me.

I couldn't get past the Captcha, so I guess I'm fuckt. I tried a dozen times - does a tiny corner of a wheel count as "bicycles" or not? Is that a car or a van? OK, I will definitely pass this one.... nope.

My 90-yo stepfather skyped me recently to introduce me to his new girlfriend. She's 69, younger than me! It's never too late. And you are really young, lol.

Aspiring artists will find work correcting the fingers and toes in AI illustrations.

I kept hand-written journals for decades. One day I dug out some from the early 80s and thought, this is all just me whining at myself. I gathered them all up and burnt them. It was quite cathartic! I kept a couple of travel journals and I still have a notebook I whine into once in a very long while. I'll burn it when it's full. It's just not interesting.

They started out in late summer. In an area with very cold winters. I'm no brainiac, but even to me this seems like poor planning.

A litre of water weighs a kilogram. When asked for 300ml of water, I can add 300g instead.

Zorin too - it's rescued two old machines for me and is even more grandma-friendly than Mint imo. And I'm an actual old lady.

I have a friend with two daughters in their late teens, early 20s. I asked him the other day how they felt about climate change. He said they believed it was happening, but they don't think it's nearly as bad as "the media makes out". He added, "You know, we went through the Cold War and fear of nuclear annihilation and that didn't happen, so..." We were interrupted then so I didn't get to yell at him. But I think a lot of people think that way. Pffft, probably won't happen, news orgs exaggerating for clicks, someone will fix it etc etc. While shrugging at all the floods and fires and storms happening around the globe, and booking a cheap flight to Malaga. It's exasperating!

I had to go there to see what you mean - and I see what you mean! How very annoying.