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MurrayL

@ MurrayL @lemmy.world

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  • What is your least favourite song by your favourite band/artist?

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  • I maintain that Cake has never released a bad album, but Race Car Ya-Yas on Fashion Nugget is absolute crap. A festering boil on the face of an otherwise unblemished body of work.

  • What is your least favourite song by your favourite band/artist?

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  • The correct answer for Pink Floyd must surely be Seamus?? How that song ever got made, let alone included on an album, is beyond me.

  • Boo

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  • Not quite. When OED says ‘compare’ it’s just suggesting similarities, not a provable link.

    The actual referenced OED page for boo leads to an older form (‘bo’), which then compares it to the sound of a cow or to a reduplication of the earlier exclamation ‘ho’.

    The most likely explanation seems to be that it’s just a good combination of sounds, and the similar Latin & Greek forms were derived independently for the same reason.

  • We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one

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  • I’m sure his godawful, stilted, overwrought dialogue would’ve fitted right in too

  • Boo

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  • Neat! Almost certainly not the real etymology, but neat.

  • 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation

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  • Børnich admitted that much of the work will be done by teleoperators in the beginning. Owners will have access to an app where they can schedule when the teleoperator can take over NEO and where they can specify the task they want the machine to do.

    Those teleoperators are gonna see a LOT of dicks.

  • 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation

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  • Why would I want this?

    Bold of you to assume there aren’t plenty of folks out there willing to overlook any potential privacy concerns for their very own ‘robot’ butler.

  • Say your partner is gone for around a week, and you're home alone. What are you going to do that you wouldn't normally with someone around?

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  • Based on experience: play video games for too long instead of eating, watch movies they don’t normally enjoy, and forget to go to sleep at a reasonable time.

  • Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App

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  • Good luck searching for nearby cafes on it, which is the kind of use case this is talking about.

  • What went wrong with Pizza Hut?

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  • This is a BBC article about Pizza Hut in the UK, posted on the unitedkingdom community.

  • Is holly associated with Christmas because it's a holly-day?

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  • No, holiday is just a corruption of ‘holy day’.

  • Asmongold thinks he was “beginning to evolve” by not showering for three months - Dexerto

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  • Reminds me of someone here on Lemmy recently who had switched to eating nothing but steak and insisted it was giving them superhuman powers.

  • Mass layoffs in the gaming industry continue - estimated 11k layoffs in 2025 and total 46k in the last 3 years

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  • That post is 2 months old. There’s a more recent update and projection here.

    Amir does a lot of good work tracking the industry!

  • How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?

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  • Even you?

  • What's a completely normal sentence today that would have made no sense 50 years ago?

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  • Only in the specific scenario of being on a phone call. Historically a perfectly normal sentence in other contexts.

  • No Kings Protest

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  • Ah yes, the weird American fascination with prison rape as a form of punishment.

  • What was hacking like in the '80s and '90s?

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  • The connection between Cap’n Crunch, phone system hacking, and Apple is a pretty important part of early hacking history.

  • A (Kind of) Explanation as to Why ‘South Park’ Suddenly Entered Its 28th Season This Week

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  • Between the abrupt declaration of a new season and the long, unexplained gaps between episodes, there definitely seems to be some weirdness going on behind the scenes.

  • Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA?

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  • Interesting! And thanks for actually reading the question properly.

    If that’s true it might suggest Coke Zero tastes the same worldwide? In which case I wonder which original Coca Cola it’s closest to?