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JohnnyCanuck

@ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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    What defines NSFW content?

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  • Yeah, if you had that on your screen at work and someone saw it, you'd likely get talked to by HR. It's not a grey area. I'm not saying it's raunchy or pornographic, it's just not appropriate for a workplace, hence not safe for work.

  • Trump says ‘clean out that whole thing’ as part of his plan for Gaza

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  • Post-penultimate has a nice ring to it.

  • Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, S25+ and S25 hands-on review

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  • Yeah I think the picture quality from Pixel cameras is better than the Galaxy in certain conditions, but the camera app is just way better on the Galaxy. (I'm currently using a Pixel 6 Pro and an S23 Ultra and I hate the Pixel's camera app.)

    Actually there are quite a few things I like better in the Samsung software, and I can't think of anything I like better on the Pixel...

  • Nazis

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  • Yeah. I'm ignoring the strawman part of the argument that the people calling wolf for the past 80 years were always lying, since it doesn't affect red shirt's wrongness.

  • Nazis

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  • No, he's still wrong. Even if he has been conditioned to ignore the term because of overuse of the term, he's still wrong.

    The people who ignored the boy the third time he cried wolf were wrong. The proof they were wrong is that they lost their sheep. The moral of the story isn't "don't listen when little boys cry wolf three times and the first two times turn out to be false." The moral is "don't cry wolf when there is no wolf or people will stop listening to you."

    So you can argue that the people who conditioned red shirt not too look were wrong, i.e. "the boy who cried Nazi", but in this case red shirt is most definitely wrong.

  • No escape

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  • Fuck, I guess I had successfully forgotten about that whole debacle.

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    Is there any cool communites in the Threadverse for Gen-Z?

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  • Which one is Gen-Z again?

  • Non-conformity

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  • If you prefer diet coke your taste buds are broken :-P

  • Non-conformity

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  • Because you don't like the taste?

  • Non-conformity

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  • I don't find Pepsi as bad as Coke with that. Coke leaves my mouth feeling gross.

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  • Diet Pepsi tastes much more like Pepsi compared to Diet Coke/Coke. Pepsi Max could easily be second though depending on my mood.

    I've convinced people with blind taste tests, but not much I can do over the internet.

    Coke is too sweet and makes my teeth feel weird which is why most of the Pepsi products go above the Cokes.

  • Non-conformity

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  • Diet Coke and Coke Zero are both 0 calories but taste very different.

    Pepsi Max was meant to compete with Coke Zero (also uses black in the marketing/logo)

    Edit to add: also Diet Pepsi has been around way longer than Pepsi Max, so the correct question is "what the hell is Pepsi Max!?"

  • Non-conformity

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  • It goes:

    PepsiDiet PepsiPepsi MaxCokeCoke Zero. . . Diet Coke. . . . . Crystal Pepsi 😭

    They're right though, Pepsi is not god damn "okay". Pepsi is great. (though I'll drink any of my top 5 interchangeably, except for the sugar, and I only have any of them as a treat now after years of drinking way too much.)

  • On the internet it's forever

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  • It was just ahead of its time. You know, that time when "Skip Intro" became a thing.

  • Almost 50,000-euro compensation payout for Spanish man whose erection lasted more than 30 hours | Sur in English

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  • Operator: Hotline.Andy: Hi, yes, I'm calling because it's more than four hours and your ad said to call if it's been more than four hours.Operator: How much of the medicine have you taken, sir?Andy: I haven't taken any, but your ad said that if you've had an erection for more than four hours, you call.Operator: You're only supposed to call if you've taken the medicine.Andy: Okay. I'm sorry. I must not have heard that part.Operator: Yes. If you haven't taken the medicine, you don't call.Andy: Right. I'm sorry. Right. So, there's nothing you can do? I just don't wanna--Operator: There's nothing I can do. I'm in Bombay, India.Andy: Okay. No, not you personally. I just don't want--I just don't want to have an erection anymore.Operator: You know, you could have sex.Andy: Okay. Yup.Operator: That's one thing people do when they have an erection.Andy: Yeah, that's not an option. I don't have sex.Operator: Okay, well, then you can masturbate.Andy: I'd rather not masturbate.Operator: If you'd like the erection to go away, you can light a match, blow out the flame and put the hot ember on your wrist. And that will focus the brain elsewhere, and you will lose your erection.Andy: Really? That'd work?Operator: Take your finger and flick your testicle, and if you do that till it hurts, your erection will go away.Andy: Okay, all right. It sounds unpleasant and it is.Operator: It is a trick we use in India.Andy: Okay, those are all good pieces of advice. I really appreciate it.Operator: We appreciate your business--oh, no. We didn't get your business!Andy: No, not this time. I guess I didn't need you this time. Thank you.

  • To what extent is this accurate?

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  • When Epic started hiring every software engineer in video games they flipped that red curve, at least to the right of that blue line.

  • Los Angeles burns: What you need to know | This is terrible. This is climate change.

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  • I think the point a lot of people are missing is that we know forest management as it was done in the past 20/30-100 years ago was a bad idea. Forest management practices have changed significantly: prescribed burns, letting fires burn naturally (when possible), and other mitigation techniques are a part of the practice on a much wider scale now.

    You can scream up and down that they should have done more to clear out the dry vegetation, but it's just not that simple. Remember, we are currently right in the middle of what is the prescribed burn season! You can't just do prescribed burns willy nilly. You need the right conditions of wind, cool weather, etc. If you never get that weather, you can't do them.

    These aren't your typical forests like in NoCal, Oregon, Washington and BC. The area is pretty much desert with dry grasses and low brush. AKA, tinder. Some of the practices that caused forests to be susceptible to fires aren't even a factor here, e.g. clear cutting.

    Dead vegetation needs to be removed with care and takes a lot of time. You have to be careful not to destroy the habitats of wildlife. We're not talking about a small area here. You can't just bulldoze all of southern California.

    So, continuing to say "it's because of bad forest management" is a bit disingenuous. If you look at this particular case, as pointed out in the posted article (and backed up by what you posted), a confluence of factors are creating the current situation: particularly high winds, particularly dry vegetation, and particularly abundant vegetation (due to particularly high amounts of rain early in 2024). All of which are happening more and more often due to the climate changing. This doesn't give a lot of time to do wildfire mitigation, no matter how much you want to spend on it.

  • House Republican threatens to withhold disaster aid from California amid deadly wildfires

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  • Yes, so what's "misleading" is that they're using these talking points to blame current forest management policies on the problem. Also they're doing this so they can ignore/deny that the climate is changing and making the area more susceptible to fires, no matter what your fire management policies are.

  • Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were dropped by their insurers before the Palisades Fire

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