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TrueStoryBob

@ TrueStoryBob @lemmy.world

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  • Why do you need, want and/or have a gun/guns?

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  • I'm not straight and my neighborhood is low income. Like my neighbors and I are tight, but everyone has guns... i trust them (and they me), it's folks coming in from outside, especially shit like the Proud Boys who turned up a few years ago during protests.

  • My GF gave me one afternoon to fix this, what do i do

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  • Even if she's not renting, like it's a condo association or co-op situation, do the same thing. Report it. Could be a sign of something worse in the whole system.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • Dude, I just got the post-exposure rabies vaccine. Was four trips to the ER at $125 USD co-pay a pop... however, without insurance, I learned it can be as much as like $15k if you don't qualify for assistance and/or Medicaid.

    We really need to take to the streets.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • Paying off my credit card and sending the rest to my local LGBTQ+ support/advocacy group.

  • Some restaurant chains are sounding the alarm about consumers

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  • I'm so thankful the local halal place around the corner from my house is there... and gyro and fries is only like 9 USD. I commented to the owner about how cheap his food is; he said he's seen a bit of an uptick in business over the summer and he thinks it's because the chain places have gone mad with pricing.

  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • Funny thing is that, while a similar principle, they're safer and more ethical than the Star Trek "suicide booth" transporters.

  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • Oh yeah... the poet's house was dope as fuck.

    I would love a series about an "Interplanetary University" that had its campus setup across several dozen planets using Farcasters. That would be an interesting setting in the Hyperion universe.

  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • It was a bit of "handwave-ium" and sentient AI. Here's the Wiki for the series if you want to compare your concept...

    Here's an article about the Farcasters themselves and here's the article about the World Web that AI and humanity ran with them.

  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • I love the Farcaster network of the World Web from Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos (for anyone who hasnt read the books, they're essentially frameless stargates that are always on). Such a cool concept of being able to build a series of them linking the main commercial streets of the biggest cities on different planets together; thus making one gigantic and near endless market across hundreds of worlds... and anyone can just walk from one planet to another across hundreds or thousands of light years.

    What I really like about that book series though is that the Farcasters are not the only means of FTL... and that there are sound reasons to use another method over them OR even to oppose your planet getting connected to the Farcaster network. Just seriously good world building.

  • What's the first thing you'd do with a Star Trek holodeck?

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  • Computer, show me the warp core!

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  • I'm sure Apple will let everyone know that we're just holding the phone wrong.

  • YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult

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  • (are they still clergy if they aren't Catholic?)

    Yep, it's a catch-all term. You can also refer to an Imam or Rabbi as a member of that religion's clergy.

  • PSA

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  • You're not my real dad, DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!

  • When something still uses micro USB in 2025

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  • Ugh... just bought some new Bluetooth headphones and my god i wish they'd let these little chargers just die already.

  • After 2 years on Lemmy, I finally installed it this weekend.

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  • Me too! Just replaced my eight year old (and beat to crap) Chromebook with a corporate hand-me-down laptop that I stole got when they ordered new laptops! Just played around with both Mint and Ubuntu for a couple weeks and I've seriously loved it.

  • London Transport Museum (August 2025)

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  • Lol. Fixed.

  • London Transport Museum (August 2025)

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  • I just got back to the states, we also went to that museum but didn't get the amount of time I'd have liked for the visit. It was family vacation; I was negotiating with like seven other people for what we saw and for how long. Next year, I'll be back in the UK for about a week (sadly, it'll be mostly just London) and have already carved out plans for a day trip out to York just for the Railway Museum.

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    London Transport Museum (August 2025)

  • Bare Shanked Screech

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  • No body:

    This Owl: "GLORY TO YOUR HOUSE! TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!!!"

  • Andrew Cuomo says he ‘will move to Florida’ if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

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  • Oh god... and Floridians are just dumb enough to vote him into statewide office.

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    2019 Church Fire In Savannah, GA, USA

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Sears From A Joke Being Torn Down