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SirSamuel

@ SirSamuel @lemmy.world

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  • Footage from 2020 in Australia shows a firetruck being overrun by a bushfire

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  • Admiral Cloudberg did an amazing write-up of the Paradise fire. She usually duplicates her Reddit articles on Medium, but I don't think she did with this one 😔

  • Why almost none of the homes burned in LA have been rebuilt since last year’s fires | Wildfires destroyed 13,000 homes. In LA County, just 7 have been rebuilt.

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  • Sam Kinison had this bit about world hunger being a problem because aid agencies kept bringing assistance to people that live in a desert. It's, of course an oversimplification and quite frankly inaccurate, but he was a comedian of his time and all of that.

    The point in mentioning it is that I feel the same way about people that lose their homes to floods in a flood plain, or to fire in a forest.

    "Oh. You want another house? In the same place? The place that has burned every ten years for the last TEN MILLENNIA!? Oh, and you want to build it out of matchstick wood AND PLASTIC! You see this? You see this here? It's stone! And this? Concrete! Yeah! A common building material THAT DOESN'T BURN!!!!! "

    Humanity is doomed

  • ICE shoots two people in Portland, ABC sources says

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  • Goodbye, and thanks for all the Space Whales

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  • dalekcaan is 100% right. Sir Pterry's early books are downright Adamsinian, and while his later books trade the silliness for sharp social commentary, the humor and wit never diminish.

    Where are you in your Discworld journey? Which is your favorite so far?

  • Goodbye, and thanks for all the Space Whales

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  • This is a quote from a book called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

    Congratulations, you are one of today's lucky ten thousand, and you are in for a treat! (If you like absurdist British humor

  • Goodbye, and thanks for all the Space Whales

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  • Not again!

  • Biggest Dopamine Hijackers

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  • One of my messages to the group was essentially: "I set aside time today to write dialogue and plot points. Here is a detailed map of the city I made instead"

  • Biggest Dopamine Hijackers

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  • World building for the game I run.

    Instead of, you know, actually preparing enemy NPC stat blocks, or maps, or writing dialogue, or making sure combat will be balanced and not a TPK.

    World building is fun

  • Biggest Dopamine Hijackers

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  • Too much prying, I get it

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  • "There were a large number of ranks in the armies of the Empire and many of them were untranslatable. Three Pink Pig and Five White Fang were, loosely speaking, privates, and not just because they were pale, vulnerable and inclined to curl up and hide when danger threatened."

    Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times

  • YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is one of the bravest person in the world.

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  • InB4 someone talks about how big her balls are

    Cool lady tho, thanks for the post

  • ‘I Shed My Blood for This Country’: U.S. Army Veteran Born In Jamaica, Living In U.S. for 50 Years, Jailed By ICE After Not Using Turn Signal

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  • Gotcha. Around here (also US) it's just an excuse to pull over certain people. It's used very selectively. TBH I wish they would enforce it equitably, there is a ton of people in this area that never use their turn signal

  • ‘I Shed My Blood for This Country’: U.S. Army Veteran Born In Jamaica, Living In U.S. for 50 Years, Jailed By ICE After Not Using Turn Signal

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  • NGL it is a problem, because who tf gets pulled over for failure to signal? It's just an excuse to pull someone over for DWB.

  • I Just Lost The Game Rule

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  • I Just Lost The Game Rule

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  • You are aware that you are breathing

    You are aware that you haven't blinked yet

    That spot is itchy again

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  • A skunk habitat would improve the air quality of NYC. That place is a fetid mire of week old food garbage, stale piss, and rat droppings. Do you know why I hate NYC?

  • Song of the Day: Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

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  • ‘I don’t know who I can trust,’ says Quebec YouTuber harassed by Chinese government

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  • I didn't know .ml made up half of Lemmy 🤔

  • Expensive repairs are making it impossible for people to maintain the vehicles they already own. Simple fixes that used to take minutes now cost thousands or force you back to the dealer.

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  • It really depends on the brand and what you're trying to do. For passenger auto I'd say Mercedes is the worst offender. From personal experience Subaru has been great about self maintenance and repair. The most complicated thing in regular maintenance is spark plugs, and that's because of the boxer engine. A friend's Mercedes, on the other hand, has to have the oil changed at the dealer, because the oil fill is inaccessible without special tools.

    On Ford Transit full sized vans, the rear brakes require special tools and are very involved because of the rear axel design, but the headlights and signals are not LED and still easily replaced. Chevy Express cargo vans effectively haven't changed mechanically since 1995. Some Ford engines have such delicate spark plug inserts that all mechanics have helicoil rebuild kits on hand at all times. If you're not aware and try to change your plugs yourself, you might very well have to pay for a tow to the nearest mechanic to repair what should've been a simple plug change.

    I'm not saying your personal experience is inaccurate, but perhaps limited on scope. Or not. I don't know

    Don't get me started on John Deere tho

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    SirSamuel @lemmy.world

    A chicken pot pie is a quiche with very mature eggs

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    SirSamuel @lemmy.world

    If a politician was very vocal about the evils of Dungeons and Dragons and it was revealed that he regularly played CRPGs, would the media call the resulting scandal Baldursgate?

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
    SirSamuel @lemmy.world

    How do I get testing?