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shalafi @ shalafi @lemmy.world
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Today I learned spinster originally meant a woman who was amazing at weaving

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  • The Seamstress Guild would like a word.

    • Accurate

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  • What?! That's how I hike! (and no joke, though sometimes it's a rifle/shotgun instead)

    • A skill or knowledge that you have that is typically associated with people of the opposite gender but that you think is odd or stupid that people of your own gender don't have?

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  • Men and woman have different mental and physical strengths and weaknesses.

    • Regrets

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  • Not like they can eat any way. No mouth.

    • What's something you immediately judge a person for when you see them wearing or have?

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  • My wife's Filipino and that's just their style, like they're stuck in the 80s.

    • What's something you immediately judge a person for when you see them wearing or have?

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  • Had a lot of those come through when I worked at Lowe's. Many were indeed working trucks, but they were towing monster loads, not throwing shit in the back.

    • Does your language have animal slangs?

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  • "Bird" is old-time slang for a woman, usually understood to be pretty.

    • 988 (the crisis line) does nothing to actually help anyone, and mostly exists so people can feel good about themselves without doing anything

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  • OP's dyslexia really threw me for a minute!

    • Ads on YouTube

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  • Know what I don't understand? My wife watches YouTube in bed and I hardly notice ads. Granted, I have my ear plugs in while I read, but I'm not completely tuned out. Ads are rare enough that I'm a bit surprised to notice one.

    When I watch YouTube on my PC, without a condom so to speak, fuck me it's unusable. I simply refuse to engage until uBlock catches up.

    All I got is that her content isn't easily monetized? One one hand, she watching a lot of political news from the Philippines. OTOH, she's mostly on those dumb crime shows where it's all white trash confessing to the pigs.

    As of this week, I can no longer watch in Firefox and have to go to Edge. Anyone?

    • Ads on YouTube

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  • YouTube was working at a massive deficit to capture video streaming. I didn't mind them trying to "catch up", but they've gone way, way too far.

    • Data security

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  • Loved my last CEO. He was plenty tech literate, but when something new came up, "I don't want access to that." When auditing accounts, "Nope. Delete my account."

    • All bodies should be automatically given to science and organ donation upon death.

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  • Fair enough, but the person you're replying to is simply giving good arguments to present the survivors.

    • All bodies should be automatically given to science and organ donation upon death.

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  • It's not like they pull the corneas and liver and run the corpse through a wood chipper.

    • All bodies should be automatically given to science and organ donation upon death.

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  • You can't just pick someone off the street and hope their organ works.

    • All bodies should be automatically given to science and organ donation upon death.

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  • Pretty certain that's not true in the US. Where are you?

    • Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?

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  • 94 was when it really took off and the hoi polloi started tuning in.

    https://ourworldindata.org/internet

    Be easy to make an argument for a few years later, but 1994 has always stuck in my mind as the take off point. By then there were "information superhighway" items all over the news, everybody got AOL disks, Windows 95 was right around the corner to take the pain out of PCs, stuff like that. That's the year I'd point to and say the internet was no longer a nerd thing.

    1994: I was still fiddling with a 286 (WITH a math coproccesor I installed!), way beyond my skills at the time. LOL, my gf and I had to drive across town a beg a local IBM guy to give us a copy of the BIOS on a floopy when ours crash. He acted like Neo giving Choi the disk, "Yeah, I know. This never happened. You don’t exist."

    • What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative?

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  • Have a look at swarm theory. Absolutely fascinating and explains much animal behavior.

    Reminds me of the original Battlestar Galactica in the end. They're watching LA freeways and marveling over the incredible coordination on display. Nope. Swarm theory.

    • Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1%

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    • Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1%

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  • Botox doesn't have to be expensive and ridiculous. Last gf was cute as shit at 50-yo. She'd just get a few pokes every 3-6 months. Her face wasn't plastic or unnatural, you'd never know. Maybe a bad example as she hadn't had shots for months after I met her and she didn't have wrinkles to speak off.

    • Data security

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  • Used this as a slide in a security talk I used to give! Says a lot.