Already happened once actually
Like Oreos
“Double Stuf”
Tested it for a project back in the day - they weren’t double 😱
La Quinta: Spanish for “next to Denny’s”
A Mitch Hedberg joke but also a really smart part of their business plan!
Ah hope that’s a rewarding switch one way ($) and/or another
You a freelancer/contractor now?
In office you weren’t salaried I suppose
Is it still one shortcut for every app icon you want to customize? And then you have to deal with a notification every time too?
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Four stitched screenshots of an iOS 18 home screen. The icons are themed in the style of a “NookPhone“ from the video game Animal Crossing.
Translated:
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Reference, apparently: NookPhone
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I’d like to try heavily theming my home screen, paradoxically while keeping icons quite recognizable.
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Taylor Swift on the red carpet with this text superimposed:
As the bulbs flash, I can't help but think of cyberwar - When the arcing death of electric transformers will light the night, leaving our nation in darkness.
- Taylor Swift
Edit: Credit: Swift on Security
We don’t know why someone hit Metcalf and that was over a decade ago.
Reposting a comment from a few months ago:
Was just worrying if we were due for one of these:
Over the course of 19 minutes, about one hundred bullets caused $15 million dollars in damage to our power grid, damaging components that take months to manufacture: 2013’s Metcalf sniper attack near San Jose, California
A second incident, 2022
Moore County, NC: Gunmen shot up two power substations. 40K customers lost power. Took days to fix. FBI had warned about extremist threats to grid. Investigators found shell casings, offered $75K reward. Theories: anti-drag show motive or generic extremism. One lady died when her oxygen machine stopped (homicide). Schools closed, curfew imposed. NC governor pissed. White House "monitoring."
If terrorists were testing our response time or something, they would’ve acted on a large scale by now right? I kinda need to always be able to charge my PC/phone soooo
Illiteracy is far more common in the US than it should be, and the system sidesteps that issue, which I do commend them for. It's amazing though because, for whatever reason, I feel like they'd fire me when I couldn't hang.
Any reason to lump socially toxic in there with other descriptors? 🙂 Also I sure hope that convicts return/go to work instead of returning to the taxpayer-funded three hots and a cot!
Shoutout to the incredible Homebody Industries on the last point!
Probably the least political offer I’ve ever read
Neither politics nor candidates come anywhere close to mind
The way their ordering system works on the staff side is so wild, I thought I was watching a fake video.
The positioning of that condiment packet is a code!
Funny having the opposite realization. Wonder how many times each of us have heard others pronounce GUI. You in the US?
Hard for me to estimate now that I think about it
till (today I learned) some people say G - U - I and not gooey
In fact, the “air” in the name derived from the Latin “airres”, for “cleaning fee”.
Here’s a nuanced take that agrees with the bad actor assessment of yours:
-Wiki
On average, I think something that has an unprecedented social impact probably adds recognizable value.
It’s bothered me but I’m glad you asked.
Shining the best light I can:
Every Lemmy comment as a bad take / disagree button, and it's the reply to box. You can express whatever opinion you want and anyone who has a problem with it will have to use at least 3 or so taps or clicks to express their disapproval. So no drive by downvoting from people who don’t actually care that much about your comment but saw other people downvoted it and succumb to the herd mentality.
When you use an instance which doesn't support downvotes, you'll never visit your profile and see that a bunch of strangers didn't like something you freely put out into the world unless they offered some feedback beyond a singular thumbs down - unless they reply with a thumbs down emoji, of course.
I would hope that on a platform where downvotes are disabled, when you go into a spicy thread, if 3 idiots posted comments sympathizing with Nazis or something, they would all be at the bottom regardless with 1 upvote each and lots of sarcastic and angry replies.
I still am not sold. But it’s making more sense than before you asked the question.
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A tweet from "spence" stating: "pizza tip: always flip a lucky"
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A reply from "Carrier Technician" saying: "Looks awful"
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A follow-up tweet from "spence": "if you died nothing in my life would change"
The timestamps show the follow-up was posted at 4:54 PM on September 5, 2024, and notes it has 99 views.
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A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded in a news article where YouTube is throwing the error “Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community.” Stitched below is a screen grab from Avengers Endgame where Captain America says, “no, I don't think I will.”
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“David Attenborough” (a soundalike voice) explains the Cybertruck's parasitic relationship with flatbed trailers; transcript:
>Here we see the Cybertruck has formed a peculiar symbiotic relationship with the larger flatbed trailer species. Evolutionarily disadvantaged, the Cybertruck has come up with a clever way to transport itself long distances.
>By attaching itself to the flatbed trailer, the Cybertruck can reliably move about without risking injury to its fragile exoskeleton or internal organs. What the flatbed trailer gets in return for this kindness, science has yet to discover.
Source
>I wondered who had made the video and found myself on Reddit, in r/CyberStuck, where the video was originally posted. The creator of the fake Attenborough video, who has since deleted the post, explains in the comments that they wrote the script and edited the video, and for source material, they used "a bunch of Cybertruck fanboys on YouTube, Whistlindiesel, and also the lovely people on this fair subreddit."
Source: @royalarmouriesmuseum on that ByteDance-owned site
Edit 2: OK it’s not this guy but I’ll leave it as it was; original edit below:
>Jonathan Steven Ferguson is a British firearm historian and author who is currently the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, England.
Thanks @ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone :)
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A hand holding a blue dotted bingo dauber over a red bingo card with numbers arranged in a grid. The text above the image says "Transgender Illegal Aliens in Prison #Debate2024".
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Horizontally stitched screenshots showing a Google Meet call on the iPhone where the microphone mute icon is highlighted in active mute status while the lock screen displays a mute icon which is not selected and inactive.
Always been this way for months. IIRC, the lock screen mute button is nonfunctional. Mute functionality detailed here.
Latest Versions: iOS 17.6.1, Google Meet 260.0
I should report this bug to Google and not Apple, right?
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Four-panel comic featuring characters from the popular comic "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson, and a cow from “The Far Side” by Gary Larson.
Panel 1: "WHAT JOKE WOULD YOU LIKE TONIGHT? WE CAN READ ANYTHING EXCEPT..." "COW TOOLS?"
Panel 2: "NO! NO COW TOOLS TONIGHT! WE'VE READ THAT JOKE A MILLION TIMES!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"
Panel 3: "LOOK, YOU KNOW HOW THE JOKE GOES! YOU'VE MEMORIZED THE WHOLE THING! IT'S THE SAME JOKE EVERY DAY!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"
Panel 4: (No text, just an image showing the characters and a cow)
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A seating chart for an "8 HOUR FLIGHT" with the text "PICK YOUR SEAT" at the top. The chart is composed of 10 numbered seats, each occupied by a different famous Republican politician or public figure, or the devil. Each number represents a seat, and each seat is either adjacent to or between one or two different individuals.
WSJ article (paywall-free MSN syndication)
Edit: y’all see the alt-text above? 🤔 Tried the Voyager feature for the first time. Will copy below the old way for now:
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WSJ Elon Musk's Walk With Jesus The billionaire has been invoking Christianity as he discusses core beliefs By Tim Higgins Aug. 17, 2024 5:30 am ET Elon Musk is publicly offering his own interpretation of Jesus' teachings with an Old Testament twist.
Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky[…] "You have got to be kidding me..."
Anil Dash @anildash.com "I heard there's an institution that doesn't have to pay any taxes and repeatedly systematically abuses children, and I decided I wanted to talk to the growth hacker who founded it."
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Social media post above an image of a t-shirt:
“Guess you could call this shirt...
...a crop top”
“T-shirt that reads "I [heart] local corn" with the heart shape printed with yellow corn kernels”
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“traditional full english breakfast comprising beans, beans, more beans, massive bowl of beans, beans in a mug, beans in a glass”
It’s claimed (Axios) the interview started late due to a dispute over fact checking, but I can’t find any source for the false pretense allegation.
Source: Donald Trump Speaks At Black Journalists Convention (Full Transcript)
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Tom Zohar @TomZohar • 2h I love watching old episodes of Supermarket Sweep because these two just said they're "business partners" who "design sets for plays" and I'm like oh I'm sure
Tim Leach Here we are! Just celebrated our 41st anniversary. Married in 2008 on our 25th anniversary as soon as it was legal in California. We ran a business together designing and painting backdrops and sets for 27 years.
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Screenshot of YouTube video (paused at 1:28) showing a young woman in pigtails, dressed in a yellow top with a wide neckline and blue jeans, sits cross-legged atop a cooler on a rooftop, with other rooftops visible in the distance. She wears a red pendant with a glowing white light at its center and is smiling at a young man opposite her. The man is wearing an open blue button-down shirt and green pants, gazing downwards with a slight smile.
A compilation of selected comments trashing the microphone-enabled pendant follows, reading:
>amazing. at 1:28 you can see the guy decide there won't be any further dates
>The creepy music is doing the exact opposite of what you want this ad to do. You want this to be a normal thing that isn't weird at all and your music says "black mirror".
>The day you call a listening device "Friend" is the day you lose your humanity
>Here comes the next MKBHD worst reviewed product 😂
>so basically a bluetooth microphone that listens everything that you say, and that sends it to a chatGPT wrapper.
>Don't need this if you're schizo already 🥰
To be fair, lots of us have wanted to wear a microphone that sends us lowercase text messages pretending to be our very human friend.
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A post from @paminski “It was the becestershire of times, it was the worcestershire of times.”