toynbee @ toynbee @lemmy.world

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Clearly, with this kind of inaccuracy, one can no longer use a banana for scale.

They deliver it at superluminal speeds and the speed keeps everything together.

That's probably an indicator that you spend too much time on Lemmy.

We're talking about meat snacks, not my nightly rituals, but the input is appreciated.

Good to know. Perhaps I'll even mix it with hemlock. Thanks!

What are the words to exclude?

I'll be honest; I was engaging in innuendo regarding the original comment. However, I do appreciate the sincere answer. Does it work with other brands? Outside of my closet, even?

Okay, that's great, but how do you make biltong?

You may be correct about it being personal; I was just theorizing. I've been mini golfing twice but never been on a real golf course so, of the two of us, your theory is certainly the more informed one.

I know nothing of the topic, but my guess would be the owner of a facility where a lot of balls are lost might buy one of these and employ someone to walk around with it, collecting lots of people's balls. Perhaps even selling their own balls back to them, how emasculating.

Years back I was briefly into creepypastas. One I read was a guy who had a habit of chewing his nails and that people around him always made a big deal about it but he thought they were overreacting. At the end it was revealed that he had long ago chewed away his fingernails and was now chewing through his actual fingers without realizing it. As a result he was institutionalized for his delusions, I think.

This picture makes me think of that. Thanks, I guess.

Honestly, I don't remember for sure, but probably approximately then.

Fair enough.

While the precise words were different, I otherwise had this exact exchange with Gemini.

You brought back an old, old memory of reading a Dave Barry novel about computers. In it, he describes going to a Microsoft convention in which they introduced, IIRC, Windows 95; while describing the taskbar, they apparently touted "no more alt+tab!"

It was pretty niche

That's odd to read; during the very early years of my exposure to Linux, a lot of what I learned was learned by going to my local Barnes & Noble and browsing the 2-3 Linux magazines, primarily this one, they had prominently displayed in the periodicals section.

Until I read your comment, I thought it was just a strong wind.