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viralJ

@ viralJ @lemmy.world

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  • To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you.

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  • What made you unable to look in a different direction?

  • Google's AI is using past tense to describe a sporting event that takes place in 3 days. And it knows who won too.

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  • Is that mildly infuriating or just mildly amusing?

  • As an English language pedant, I find this text message mildly infuriating.

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  • I don't know, the MW defines unstop as "free from obstruction" or "remove a stopper". You could say that the "stop" text functions as an obstruction or stopper, which you can remove in order to receive texts again.

  • MS new captcha: Why did it have to be that hard!?!?

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  • They should just make a captcha that asks how many 'r's in 'strawberry'.

  • YSK "honey", the discount coupon finding browser extensions (owned by PayPal), is a scam stealing commissions from people who actually should get it.

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  • I didn't Google it. I just figured, if it found me a 10% discount, the vendor would also send Honey some % of what I paid for the product.

  • YSK "honey", the discount coupon finding browser extensions (owned by PayPal), is a scam stealing commissions from people who actually should get it.

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  • Same here. Newer found a single coupon for me. I uninstalled it a few months ago, not because I thought it was sketchy, but because I figured it must be better at finding discounts for things that I don't shop for online, like shoes and pizzas or something.

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    viralJ @lemmy.world

    YSK "honey", the discount coupon finding browser extensions (owned by PayPal), is a scam stealing commissions from people who actually should get it.

  • Grocery prices set to rise as soil becomes "unproductive"

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  • Why is "unproductive" in quotes?

  • What's your purpose of life?

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  • I think you need a new keyboard lol. Did you mean ataraxia?

    Another word I haven't heard until now, but yes, I do support this attitude to life. I think I've learnt it from my ex. Sometimes bad things happen that are beyond your control and lamenting them is a waste of time, which can be much better spent on trying to figure if there is anything that can be done about the loss or adversity. And if nothing can be done, move on to enjoying other things in life.

    I was interested to read that in ancient times, ataraxia was the ideal state for soldiers heading for battle. You can be sure as hell that if I was about to face the prospect of killing others or being killed, ataraxia would be the last mental state I'd be in!

  • What's your purpose of life?

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  • No. I came up with this myself as I was pondering the world, the universe, how there is no evidence of any god existing, and how the best science we have tells us that we are just matter and energy inhabiting spacetime. But matter arranged in such fantastically improbable way that we can feel happiness. Why waste the precious moments we've been given on doing anything other than striving to feel happiness? Which of course can come in different forms for every one of us.

    I've just had a quick search, I guess your message has a typo and you meant Epicureanism? It is similar to how I feel about life, but it seems to say that lack of pain and fear is enough to consider oneself happy. I'd go a bit further and postulate active pursuit of things that positively make you or fellow sentient beings feel pleasure.

  • What's your purpose of life?

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  • Spend your life enjoying it and helping others enjoy theirs. As the universe unfolds, we've only got this one brief moment of consciousness before we disappear, we have to make our life filled with as much happiness as we can. And help others fill theirs.

  • UK introduces a bill that would eventually make the purchase of cigarettes illegal

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  • I guess the difference between the prohibition in the US and this bill, is that the alcohol prohibition banned it to everyone at once. People who were used to drinking or down right alcoholics had a strong incentive to obtain alcohol from somewhere, so there was a market for the underground moonshine producers. This bill isn't targeting people who are already addicted to nicotine, but rather aims at preventing people developing the addiction in the first place, so I can imagine the market for underground tobacco growers or smugglers will be much smaller and less profitable. I am optimistic that this approach will be more successful than the 20s in America, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

  • What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?

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  • I think it's a modern word, as for example it doesn't figure in Merriam-Webster. But it was created in a classical way, i.e. from Greek words meaning "stumble" and "talking".

  • What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?

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  • Something I learnt recently and which is rampant on gay social apps: sphallolalia - flirting that doesn't lead to meeting irl.

  • I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend.

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  • You can pretreat flour to make it safe but obviously the question is, did the cookie maker bothered. And raw eggs can be a concern, apparently 1 in 20,000 eggs contains salmonella (inside, not on the shell).

  • What small tiny app have you found that not many people know about

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  • If you travel a lot, Toilet finder.

    Edit: and not an app, but a website: Pairdrop - really useful for cross-platform file sharing, especially when you just need to email to colleagues something you snapped with your personal phone, but yoe have overly tight IT systems in place at work that stop you from connecting your personal phone to your email or OneDrive.

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  • 2009? It will expire in 5 years and we'll be inundated with devices that require you to get up from your seat and yell out the name of the brand to end an ad ☹️

  • The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates

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  • I've just asked Gemini about cheese that slides off pizza, it didn't recommend glue.

  • Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

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  • What does 'rolling encryption' mean (if it's possible to ELI15).

  • Clarence Thomas failed to disclose another trip on a GOP megadonor's private jet, senator says

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  • Question to lawyers: if you impeach a federal judge - who runs the trial? And if found guilty - who sentences them?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    viralJ @lemmy.world

    When people use "minimum" or "maximum" and then follow that with a range.