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Asidonhopo Asidonhopo @lemmy.world
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  • If you're always reparking your car you run a risk of a collision with a distracted driver. If someone sees a car going into a spot its not unreasonable to think they'd assume the car is out of play and can be ignored. When you back out to adjust back between the lines eventually one of those times someone won't be paying attention to you.]

  • Trump's memory problems seem to keep growing
  • I mean, which is preferable. Which do you think the country would survive more easily? I also would prefer neither but I find it helpful to imagine worst case scenarios out so I can try to prepare for them.

  • Trump says China respects him because Xi knows he is 'crazy'
  • I suppose it is true that even if much of the world laughs at Trump, it laughs nervously.

  • Trump's memory problems seem to keep growing
  • Assuming this trend continues and isn't media cherrypicking an illusion to start a narratice, or just Trump being under the weather temporarily, would you rather have Trump as president in a diminished and confused state, or Vance as president after Trump leaves office due to the condition?

  • [Opinion] Jews shut down the New York Stock Exchange to protest Israel. Here’s why
  • I'm aware of the current bill before the Senate but was thinking you meant there were laws currently on the books that had punitive measures against antisemitism. Sorry for the confusion!

  • Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions)
  • This is why the Olympics were originally in the nude.

  • [Opinion] Jews shut down the New York Stock Exchange to protest Israel. Here’s why
  • When you say laws, does this mean there are penalties for this kind of speech? I was under the impression it just defined the term antisemitism.

  • Trump family gets 75% of crypto coin revenue, has no liability, new document reveals
  • Polls also only try to measure public opinion and don't quantify the very real effects that the vast toolkit of dirty tricks play in the election process, including whatever October surprises are lurking around the corner.

  • Trump family gets 75% of crypto coin revenue, has no liability, new document reveals
  • I keep seeing posts that polls show it's 50-50 but polymarket has Trump's odds at 60, Harris' at 40 with over $2B in wagers. Terrifying.

  • Retail employees of Lemmy, how has working in a clothing store changed your perspective on clothing sizes and body image?
  • Thanks! I've done office work too but retail always has this appeal where you get to work directly with the random public and provide an actual, immediate service of value. I really wish it paid better but its frankly incredible to get such a broad view of your regional community if you can figure out how to get people to open up. Having good coworkers that support one another in an active environment is so great too.

    Of course, many complaints and concerns about how the industry is changing currently, with AI and election time anxiety, corporate weirdness etc but the site I'm at runs well and has it's own community that serves the larger area. Amazing stuff, I hope I find a job with a thriving wage that has at least some of those qualities someday.

  • Retail employees of Lemmy, how has working in a clothing store changed your perspective on clothing sizes and body image?
  • I've worked retail where clothes were a component and the most frequent returns are for clothes too small, like a large exchanged for an XL or an XXL or the largest available size returned for store credit. There are a lot more of the very small sizes than there are very small people, anyone who fits into an S or M has a lot of options and not much competition. This is also more true of women's clothes than men's.

    Also, clothes aimed more at an older, like 60s 70s years old consumer will have more reasonable size distribution in my experience, but the clothes will be extremely frumpy and odd.

    Also, shop the clearance rack, especially when it's been recently filled with new stuff, there is so much decent cheap clothing out there for like a couple bucks a piece.

    I worked doing returns frequently and a lot of women doing returns clearly had the idea they would get clothes that would be fun and racy and it didn't work out the way they saw it in their mind's eye, which makes me happy they at least tried. Chase that dream!

    I feel like I should mention something about fast fashion and slave labor producing so much clothing today. Also, quite a bit of what is produced doesn't sell and where does it go? They have to make room for the new stuff.

    I dont know if any of that is what you are looking for OP but those are my thoughts on the matter.

  • The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership
  • A less crowded gym because more people cancelled their memberships? Nice!

  • What do you think is the most stable place to root your identity? Hobbies? Family? History? Philosophy? Friends? How do you define yourself to yourself?
  • Stable? Go for biology, you and I are living creatures and that's not going to change any time soon. Appreciate the wonder of being alive, respect your needs and wants. Your mind and body are bafflingly complex but will be your lifelong home and companion. Consider that most/all nonhuman living things just live their life and never ponder things like this. Treat yourself and others around you well and enjoy the life you have.

  • [Solved] Sorry if this not related to this community because I don't know where to ask, but should I buy this laptop? and does it play nice with Linux.
  • I'd tell them to knock 50-70 off for the condition of the surfaces. No idea about the model and specs or if that's worth it but that's an ugly case on it and I would be grossed out using it, would probably have to tape a sheet of paper over the worn out spots to be comfortable touching that surface.

  • Me talking to my rodents.
  • I'd try a few, maybe I'm not getting enough dormice in my diet.

  • What 250 songs were on the George W Bush ipod playlist that were leaked in 2005?

    I've read ten articles and tried a couple different searches but have only found a dozen or so songs listed anywhere online. Is the entire 250 song playlist recorded somewhere?

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    Academic publishing - pfft
  • Googled it and:

    Gut microbiota: PAs can improve the diversity of gut microbes, and can increase the abundance of beneficial bacteria while decreasing the abundance of harmful bacteria.

    Fecal odor: PAs can reduce the level of putrefactive substances in the feces, which can reduce fecal odor.

    Fecal pH: PAs can decrease fecal pH.

    Antimicrobial activity: PAs can have an antimicrobial effect on potentially pathogenic bacteria.

    Prebiotic effect: PAs can have a prebiotic effect on beneficial bacteria.

    Looks like I'm buying some seeded grapes for science!

  • Element in water heater died; less than two months old.
  • Another casualty of the auroral storm. Darn those cosmic rays!

  • Almost nine gigabytes in size: Windows update 24H2 creates an undeletable cache file
  • People used 3.1 and 3.1.1 for years even though it was running on top of MSDOS but show me someone who used 3.0? Or 1.x, 2.x? Unheard of. Version 3 started off with some problems that needed a more or less immediate large update.

  • It's apparently impossible to order something from the Belgian Amazon site to have it shipped to the US. Is this true, and is it true for every non-US Amazon site?

    I found this aftershave I'd been looking for on Belgian Amazon (amazon.com.be) - they dont sell the same kind in the US anymore but it's apparently still available overseas. I was going to see about having some shipped to me in the US and couldn't figure out any way to do so. I know the US Amazon site has this AmazonGlobal program where people from dozens of countries can order from the US site and have it shipped to them but apparently the non-US sites dont have a similar service available. Am I missing something?

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    "It was one of those perfect summer days which, in a world where everything was on track and on the beam, you would never forget."

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    Stocks @lemmy.finance Asidonhopo @lemmy.world

    How far back can we accurately plot the value of US stocks?

    Like, if I wanted to see the price fluctuations over time of Wright Company of Orville and Wilbur Wright fame is there a website I could view it on? A 10 minute google didnt provide me any answers so I'm curious if anyone has looked into things like this or if I'll need to contact the Library of Congress to see something over 100 years old because it isn't digitized? Or does that data not exist any more for some reason? Did it not even get recorded?

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    Feral megacats taking over Astralia and New Zeland, can Antartica be next?? (FIXED youtube link)

    Feral fuckin' megacats

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    Beck - Loser

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    Cake - Italian Leather Sofa

    Frank Sinatra by them is good too https://youtu.be/7xw49Y-bYYk

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    YouTube update breaks fullscreen on my Android 9 phone

    Breaking things that worked flawlessly for years, nice. Hopefully fixed soon. It's not just me is it?

    Screen rotates when I click the fullscreen button but video doesn't fill the screen, rotates back to vertical after a second. I was able to get it to work properly by turning on rotate screen in the pull down menu and then turning the phone. It still remained in the squashed format shown above but when I pull the video down and then tap on the minimized video it pops out into full screen finally. So it's still usable but the 5 step fix is pretty frustrating.

    No I haven't filed a bug report, youtube is a grownup company and do it's own rudimentary beta testing. Sad to see unforced errors like this more and more common in longstanding industry standard apps.

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    American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) passes House, headed to Senate. Overshadowed by TikTok ban but arguably much more important.

    www.whitecase.com Proposed American Privacy Rights Act seeks to establish a comprehensive national framework for data privacy | White & Case LLP

    Proposed American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 seeks to establish national consumer data privacy rights, govern Artificial Intelligence and automated decision-making, impose additional obligations on high-impact social media companies and large data holders, supersede state privacy laws, and allow pri...

    Proposed American Privacy Rights Act seeks to establish a comprehensive national framework for data privacy | White & Case LLP

    What others are saying about the APRA https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/4/what-others-are-saying#:~:text=This%20comprehensive%20draft%20legislation%20sets,right%20of%20action%20for%20individuals

    Compares to EU GDPR rights https://tuta.com/blog/apra-is-americas-gdpr

    EFF favorable on bill but say it should go further https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/americans-deserve-more-current-american-privacy-rights-act

    Some opposition to bill but largely bipartisan https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/insights/blogs/wilmerhale-privacy-and-cybersecurity-law/20240418-new-federal-privacy-bill-draft-hits-congress

    Full pdf text of bill https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/E7D2864C-64C3-49D3-BC1E-6AB41DE863F5

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