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sthetic

@ sthetic @lemmy.ca

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  • Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds

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  • Yes, as long as the bottle is hermetically sealed.

  • Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds

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  • I bet there are hermit influencers who post videos where they hold the latest chamberpot up to the camera and extol its virtues. Then they post a shelfie that shows their latest book haul about transcendental meditation and bushcrafting.

  • One Angry Man

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  • The Crow Has An Eye

  • $83B Wasted: Showing Up at the Airport 3 Hours Before Your Flight

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  • We’ve turned airports into shopping malls, because airline passengers aren’t an airport customer they’re the product to be sold to. Longer dwell times to fill with shopping, therefore, have become a feature not a bug.

    Restaurants, too!

    Even if you resist the urge to buy books and souvenirs at the airport, arriving 3 hours early will probably mean you need to eat a meal that you would have otherwise eaten at home or at a cheaper restaurant.

    And even if you're not hungry, you might choose to sit in a comfy seat at one of the airport bars, having a few drinks and appetizers.

  • The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement

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  • I agree. I hate Trump as much as anyone else, but if a President I liked did this, it wouldn't be the end of the world.

    In principle, I don't mind if a space mainly used for events, with chairs placed there often, should be hardscape. It's not as if lawn can't be put back there in the future. Lawn isn't a heritage tree or rose shrub.

    To be fair though, the photo makes it look pretty huge as an expanse of paved area.

  • Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery

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  • You put your finger on it. Most of the ads say, "this is not for you," to a young girl.

    Old ads for cars, alcohol, cigarettes etc. were like that as well. They're aimed at the hotshot guy who has a chick he's treating poorly, or more accurately, the guy who wants to have chicks throwing themselves at him. They have nothing to offer a woman or girl, because why would she want to be ignored arm candy?

    I guess the one with the woman holding a controller in the bathtub may be an exception.

    I'm sure a lot of boys and men were weirded out by these ads too.

  • Emma Watson speaking about feminism

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  • I agree. I hate this meme because it seems to say: "Emma Watson thinks women should have rights, and yet, she has a butt. Curious!"

    Or, more generously, it says, "These men believe in feminism, and yet, they enjoy looking at attractive women. Hypocrites!" which is also unreasonable.

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  • Seconds after the last human being dies, the Wikipedia page is updated to read:

    Humans (Homo sapiens) or modern humans were the most common and widespread species of primate

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  • "Unwomen" rings a bell for me.

    I looked it up, and in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid 's Tale, Unwomen were infertile women sent to clean up toxic waste in the colonies.

    :(

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  • Yeah, that's what I like about the joke - you don't even realize what his hand was doing under the table, until the last panel

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  • Oh look, it's the guy from this comic:

  • Sunday blep

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  • CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell function

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  • I agree. Eugenics is about harming the rights of the would-be parents. It means telling them, "You have traits we consider undesirable, so we will forcibly prevent you from having any child whatsoever."

    To me, that's different from parents choosing to avoid having a child with certain traits. Or not having children at all.

    If parents decide to cure a disorder in their future child, or decide to abort a pregnancy, nobody is stopping those parents from trying again. The parents themselves have not been deemed undesirable and unworthy to pass on their genes.

  • Bottoms up

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  • I'm only in that category because I don't drink coffee every day.

    When I used to drink it daily, it did nothing for me except remove my irritability and prevent a headache.

    Now, I take at least two non-coffee days between coffees. I don't depend on coffee on any given day; I can wake up with energy and go about my life without it.

    But when I do have coffee, it has a huge effect on me. I get super caffeinated. And it tastes delicious.

    It's Saturday morning and I still feel energized from the coffee I had at noon yesterday. I could hardly sleep. It's kind of a problem.

  • The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete

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  • I agree. I despise Trump. But removing a lawn and putting in hardscape, in a spot where people often gather for events, is not an insult to heritage or anything like that.

    If a president that I otherwise liked did this, I wouldn't have a problem with it.

    It's not as if a lawn is super environmentally valuable. And I doubt people spread picnic blankets and play Frisbee on this lawn - they put chairs on it and walk on it with heels and hold events and stuff. A hard surface is the right thing for that type of use.

    And if a future president decides to put lawn back in, they can! It's not as blades of grass and sandy growing medium are irreplaceable.

  • What's the oldest thing you enjoy on a daily basis?

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  • To put joking aside, I have been trying to make a sort of quilt pattern to add to one of my sweatshirts, but I'm not good at sewing and don't have a sewing machine. So I would probably listen to her talk about quilts and how to make the edges look good.

  • What's the oldest thing you enjoy on a daily basis?

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  • Your mom.

  • I'm gonna mute this one

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  • "Welcome! What brings you to the homeless shelter today?"

    "Well, it's that bench. You see, I was choosing the unhoused lifestyle, and I was fine with all the other stigma and physical discomforts, until I realized that the city wants to discourage my presence in public spaces. Fuck these armrests, I decided I'd just come to this shelter, get treatment for my addiction, get counseling for my traumatic past that fed the addiction, get an education, get a job, rent a house, save money, then buy a home instead. It's just not worth trying to get comfy on that bench."

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  • in all nine species of female snakes they examined

    I'm sure they actually did the study in an organized way, but I imagined them checking the snake species one by one. "Okay guys, that's eight out of eight so far. If the next snake also has a clit, we're calling it - all snakes have clits."