[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

Bark Antony would never hurt anyone.

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submitted 1 month ago by Technus@lemmy.zip to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

The order of the person ahead of me was still on screen when I pulled up to order. I took the picture in a bit of a hurry cause I didn't know when the screen was gonna reset.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 142 points 1 month ago

Jfc, having the girl in the room at all is a liability, let alone letting her touch the patient.

I hope this guy's malpractice lawyer has good heart meds.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 209 points 1 month ago

As a guy who's trying dating again, there's something that keeps coming up that kinda bugs me: talking to women who just put in the bare minimum of effort, expect me to carry the conversation and make all the first moves.

I don't give two shits about traditional gender roles and I'm all about subverting them. However, I think if you're in the same boat but still wanna call yourself a "passenger princess" and expect the guy to do everything, you're kind of a hypocrite.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 181 points 2 months ago

The only reason we know the right answers are because people like this weren't afraid to try new things and find out what doesn't work.

If you're gonna dunk on the man, do it because he was a Confederate.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 201 points 2 months ago

No validation, in the driver or the updater software.

No validation or automated testing on publish.

No staged rollouts.

Just utterly irresponsible all around.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 218 points 3 months ago

Not once have I encountered a trans person on a dating app who wasn't 100% transparent about it. Some even asked me after matching, "you're aware that I'm trans, right?" just to be sure.

There's no logical reason to falsely pretend to be cis on a dating app to get matches. If someone's cool about it then it's better to know up front, right? And if they're not, then you probably don't want to waste your time on them.

The "justification" for this app is just bigotry, plain and simple. Fuck TERFs.

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submitted 4 months ago by Technus@lemmy.zip to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

http://web.archive.org/web/20240512204543/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

(Archive link in case it's changed.)

This article is a surprisingly entertaining read for a few reasons:

  • one or more people who wrote it clearly have very strong opinions about how nuclear weapons should be built
  • the article contains a surprising amount of detail, including stuff that seems like it'd be classified or at least censored
  • due to both of the above, there's a ton of [citation needed] that I doubt will ever be resolved
[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 156 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can apply this same logic to basically all of chemistry:

H: explosive, the main ingredient in stars

O: literally the reason fire is a thing, causes rust and kills cells via free radicals

H2O: I'm so wet, UwU

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 163 points 4 months ago

My friends and I still use TS3. The audio quality and voice activation is better than Discord's, and the desktop app doesn't take ten fucking gigabytes of RAM to run.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 215 points 4 months ago

Being exposed to queer culture doesn't turn you gay, it just tells you that it's an option. That's why conservatives see it as so dangerous.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 215 points 5 months ago

The children yearn for the mines.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 149 points 5 months ago

For those unfamiliar, each month, Valve randomly picks a subset of Steam users and offers them anonymous participation in the survey. ... According to Valve, in March 2024, Windows 11 went down from 41.96% to 41.61%. On the other hand, Windows 10 gained what Windows 11 lost—its market share increased from 54.19% to 54.40%.

Eesh, I dunno. Those are quite small changes and could just be a result of statistical noise, especially given the random sampling.

Not exactly headline worthy, IMO, but it must be a slow news day.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 174 points 6 months ago

Worst part is, now you can't find a dumb TV anymore. The closest thing out there are "commercial signage displays" which are just dumb TVs with limited inputs and usually without remotes, but 25-50% more expensive because "commercial" (and because they won't be able to continue making money by showing you ads and selling your data) and a lot of retailers won't let you order one without a business account, or force you to order in bulk.

And every Neanderthal I complain to is like "but smart TVs have so many more features," like, bro, I can make any TV the smartest fucking TV in the world by plugging it into the desktop PC I'm gonna keep right next to it anyway. All the "smart" bullshit just gets in the way. I've yet to encounter a smart TV UI that didn't require a dozen button presses to change inputs and spend two seconds or more re-drawing the UI with EVERY INPUT because they put the cheapest processors they can find in these pieces of shit.

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submitted 7 months ago by Technus@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Over the past couple weeks I've gotten emails from both Senators and a House Rep from the State of Minnesota. All three emails have been concerning the Israel/Palestine conflict, and are worded as replies to a some message I sent them.

I've never set foot in the state, let alone lived there (I'm on the other side of the country). I've never sent messages to any of those members of Congress, and I've never signed any petition giving any group the right to contact Congress about this matter.

I suspect my name and email address might have been used in some sort of astroturfing campaign targeting Congress. Or these might be spam emails impersonating the members of Congress for some reason. I noticed the House rep and one of the Senators is up for re-election this year.

Has anyone else gotten emails like this?

I've tried to send messages back to these people but the forms on their websites require submitting an address in their state/district, so I'm not sure what to do. The From: addresses seem like they might have been faked, or they're no-reply addresses, so I wasn't sure about just replying to the emails.

I also thought about calling their offices but I wasn't sure if this was something important enough to bother their staff about, and they're two hours ahead of me so their offices are closed by the time I get off work anyway.

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submitted 11 months ago by Technus@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.ml

This meme has become a running joke in my friend group: https://lemmy.world/post/7405623

We were fucking around with the Meta AI in WhatsApp and I got it to say this

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