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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Does 1776 even count as a dog whistle? No one raised in the U.S. is going to see 1776 and not know what it’s a reference to and it’s not even anything controversial.

If they wanted a dog whistle they’d have gone with 1488 (like my HOA’s annual dues this year 😡). I’d be surprised if they didn’t discuss it but decided theycouldn’t stomach the smaller amount.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Calling .ml the “Official” instance is a disservice in my opinion.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This was my beer of choice back before the craft beer scene really got going…

Haven’t had, or even seen it in ages. I also don’t get out much anymore so that may have something to do with it…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

There’s an “official” Lemmy instance?

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 58 points 13 hours ago (65 children)

Single-sex toilets and changing rooms in England, Wales and Scotland must exclude transgender men and women, according to a new code of practice from the equalities watchdog.

But the long-awaited guidance also says that businesses and service providers have to offer practical alternatives such as gender-neutral toilets for people who do not wish to use services for their biological sex.

I guess I’m naive to hope that a business would rather convert existing facilities to two multi-sex bathrooms rather than have to build and give up existing space to a third bathroom.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

…and folks who can admit it but also want that bracelet to be an unnecessarily complex Rube Goldberg machine of gears and springs…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

It’s almost certain the $7 watch keeps far more accurate time…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

this feels like "if this doesn't work we shut down."

Nah - this is just “we don’t actually want to sell this anymore, but hey, if you’re desperate we’ll give you an option”

They’ve long ago moved away from the hobbyist media hoarder to…trying to be a streaming player I guess?…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Don’t believe they’re committed unless they change the name of the company again…

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The NYT article cited in the Wikipedia article only says it was a Tesla. The WSJ article also cited does specify it was a Model X.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“Not gonna get you a diamond ring
That sorta gift don’t mean anything
Not gonna get you a fancy car
Girl, ya gotta know you’re my shinin’ star
Not gonna get you a house in the hills
A girl like you needs somethin’ real
Gonna getcha somethin’ from the heart…”

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Oh my - I like the sound of that structure. Around here managers don’t have to “know enough” to make decisions; they just have to think they do. And boy do they.

We’re still in the process of un-lift-and-shifting their big-brain “lift and shift” cloud plan back on-prem.

 

Seek wasn’t cooperating with an ID.

What’s the best way to deal with them?

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ALT Text: Scene is WAITROSE. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.

BECKY [on phone]: Yeah, hiya...

2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.

3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again?

4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]

PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility

5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…?

PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre.

6

[Vicky pauses, trying to take this in].

VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.

7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name?

BECKY: Becky

PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky -

8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -

TEENAGE BOY: Muuum…

9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!

10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…?

PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky.

12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?

 

"I requested that if Thai ships need to pass through the strait, could they ​assist in ensuring safe passage?" Sihasak told reporters late on Tuesday.

"They responded that ⁠they would take care of it and asked us to provide the names of the vessels that ​would be transiting."

Iran has ​told the United Nations Security Council and the International Maritime Organization that "non-hostile vessels" ​may transit ⁠the strait if they coordinate with Iranian authorities, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

In a post on X, Iran's embassy in Thailand said that passage of the Thai ship reflected the close ties between the ​two countries.

"Friends have a special place," it said.

 

Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota formally announced her campaign for governor on Thursday with a call for unity and decency in her troubled state, which has been roiled by political violence, President Trump’s immigration crackdown and widespread protests after two killings of Minnesotans by federal agents.

Ms. Klobuchar, a popular Democrat with a history of winning by double-digit margins, has spent nearly two decades in the Senate as a common-sense centrist with a folksy demeanor and a carefully cultivated history of bipartisanship.

Now, with her run for governor, the self-proclaimed “senator next door” is gambling that her message of moving past partisan divides can still work even amid one of the most volatile domestic conflicts of the second Trump administration.

 

With Tim Cook’s persistent support of the Trump administration and mealy mouthed finger-wagging regarding ICE, consider joining me and others in voting against TIm’s position on Apple’s board of directors.

 

A federal judge ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” in the state and not to stop drivers who are not “forcibly obstructing” officers.

 

A federal judge ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” in the state and not to stop drivers who are not “forcibly obstructing” officers.

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