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spookex

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  • Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

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  • I mean if Turkey can just decide to change it's name and everyone has to respect it (not me Turkey it is), I don't see why this is different

  • PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

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  • The problem is that Lemmy isn't at the point where I can browse it like I do on Reddit.

    After the API thing killed my main reddit app, I just lurk on like 4 1 million+ user sports/video game/military meme subreddits and check on them every 1h/30min to see 10 new posts or any important news that happened. I check r/all maybe like once every few months.

    The relevant lemmys just aren't that active or don't have low-effort post rules, so I'm kind of stuck browsing the front page of Lemmy if I want to see more than 10 posts per day

  • "Works for me"

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  • AFAIK the built-in translator doesn't support Japanese, which is 99% of translation I need and the extension (which is what is was trying to use before) either requires you to select the text that you want to translate one-by-one or run the whole page through translate.google.com, which doesn't work with any page that requires an account to access or triggers ddos protection on some others.

  • "Works for me"

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  • The problem for me is that the built-in translator is too convenient

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  • I got some for free because my brother found a store that actually imports them (they aren't available in regular supermarkets) and bought some.

    Tastes like a generic sugar-free drink, I'd just go with a regular energy drink since it tastes better

  • Guns

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  • At the same time, sometimes driving license requirements feel like they are too high and a racket.

    I got my scooter license by answering 48/50 questions right and doing a 4 hour practical course at the driving center to get it on the same day. I paid $50 to do it.

    This license allows me to drive a 50cc bike like an Aprilia RS50, which can hit the speed limit when I drive it on the same roads as everyone else.

    First aid is fair enough, but why do I have to pay $1500 to attend a driving school and answer 100 questions or pay $80 to take the 2% chance of passing it at the license test center (because the test is graded by cops and one of the cushy jobs for them before retirement is as advisors at driving schools) to be able to ride something that is marginally faster and heavier?

  • Who is excited?

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  • I think that a lot of people are missing this, my first Windows was Windows XP, so I'm pretty much used to doing everything through a GUI

  • Who is excited?

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  • I ignored Windows 8, and even 10 for a while, but that was because Windows 7 was still working and supported and still kinda is my favorite version of Windows.

    Then at some point I just switched to 10 and been using it ever since while installing the occasional distro to see if I can move off of Windows (Answer is still no) or as an emergency desktop bootable USB

  • China’s EV Boom Threatens to Push Gasoline Demand Off a Cliff

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  • Ah, so just whataboutism

  • I wonder why people litter in the USA?

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  • Funnily enough that's where I find most of the litter in Japan, like, if you go to any non-main road that goes through a bit of forest, you will see signs threatening fines for littering, with a bunch of trash tossed in that exact area.

    I have seen cans, bottles, ACs, TVs, baby car seats, bags, and general household trash. Also found a golf club once that I actually brought home because I thought that it was neat. And this is only along a single stretch of road that is only like 1km long.

    So Japan isn't some miracle society that doesn't litter, it's just that they do it someplace that is somewhat out of sight.

  • lewd noodles

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  • That thing looks hilariously confused. Like, it's just there and looking at you like o_o

  • Control

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  • I forgot where that button is because when I need a tab, I just open a random link on the page that I am on in a new tab and go where I need from there

  • Control

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  • You don't even have to do it on the start button, any empty spot in the taskbar works

  • FedEx

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  • Can confirm the semi thing, worked for a national post carrier for few months and sometimes had to help load and unload trucks for international shipments.

    It would basically be us playing Tetris with the packages until about chest level, then someone would have to climb on top of that stack to fill it up to the ceiling. The smaller stuff and mail bags just get yeeted into whatever gap that exists.

    Even after all that, there wouldn't be much space left, so package your stuff well I guess

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  • Speak for yourself, I always enjoyed eating chicken nuggets even knowing that they are made from pink goop or whatever

  • So beautiful

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  • Me somewhere Japan yesterday

  • Windows is actually pretty good OS

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  • It really is amazing how I can mess up Linux installs for the weirdest of reasons.

    Install arch from scratch on a laptop? Now it either doesn't go to sleep when you close the laptop or a kernel panick.

    Manjaro? Edited the config for the touchpad (of course it's a random config file that you have to change line by line and read 3 wiki pages for, because Linux) because it doesn't feel like windows and ran updates from the built in manager within the os. Now it doesn't boot at all and causes the boot logo to ghost while using windows 10 installed on another partition.

    Pop_os? Worked mostly fine, used it for months, broke it only once when using the built in package manager somehow fixed it, but stopped using that laptop and now I can't boot into it at all.

    Not to mention all of the software that partially doesn't work or work at all. Like, my personal choice for image editing is paint.net, it's not a useless meme like MS Paint, but also isn't the equivalent of using a bucket wheel excavator for digging a hole in your backyard like Gimp. It also doesn't work on Linux at all

  • A step too far

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  • My local pizza place (in Japan) puts corn on pineapple pizza.

    I might be a degenerate that enjoys pineapple on pizza, but corn is a strong no

  • TIL a useless structure preserved as part of a building or environment, becoming a piece of art itself, is called a Thomasson.

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  • I feel the same about my apartment door (my apartment was built in the 1970s), it has a mailbox attached to the inside of it and there is a slot in the door to put mail in it from the outside, it gets rarely used since most of the mail is delivered to the newer mailboxes installed by the stairs on the first floor, but If I'm not home, the delivery driver usually drops the slip in there.

    However, below the mailbox is another, smaller, door that is intended specifically for newspapers. I tried to open it out of curiosity, but the latch was quite stiff and was painted over at some point, so probably the previous tenant also didn't use it. That means that small door has probably been closed for at least a decade, if not more, and probably will remain closed forever.