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Corkyskog Corkyskog @sh.itjust.works
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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
  • If you can't meaningfully curate your feed then Reddit has lost all value.

  • YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.
  • Jokes on them, I have a Gen1 Kindle that won't even connect to wifi.

  • CBS moderators won’t fact-check the VP debate
  • Well at least Walz can be prepared. It would have been worse if they said there would be fact checking, and then just didn't do it, or dropped the ball on it

  • Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Family for Weird Photo Shoot
  • What? No, that requires self reflection

  • Anon is God
  • If you have hand of creation itself... making something made in your image, not immune to viruses that you also created is kind of worse.

  • What candy flavors are always cast but are never the star?
  • Save them and ferment then into wine.

  • The Meat Lobby Outspent Animal Rights Groups, Climate Groups, and Scientists, spending around $200 million in 2023
  • Lol... it's not just veggie bros, just a lot of normal folk with more than just a few brain cells kicking around.

    (I would like a really good argument to going complete vegan, rather than vegetarian though) Are the hens harmed by the eggs they lay?

    If you don't have some complete moral issue against eating meat, the most rational choice is to eat much less meat. That causes the maximum discomfort to the industry, while the least discomfort to the individual.

  • The Meat Lobby Outspent Animal Rights Groups, Climate Groups, and Scientists, spending around $200 million in 2023
  • I love eating beef and whatnot, but my body seems to respond better to eating less of that in a given sitting. As someone growing up in the 80s, it seemed like that diet should be a 50/50 mix of beef and spinach...

    I think they are going to have a hard time convincing people to feel crummier... it's much healthier and cheaper to stick to that old "pack of playing card portion"

  • Why are Bernedoodles so popular in the US?
  • Dogs just love people. If some rich asshole has the money to spoil their dog... the dog ain't going to care what wages their current care taker is being paid. I fail to see how this is a negative for the dogs life, on average a dogs life will be significantly worse in the hands of someone with much less money.

  • Germany: Hamburg police seize 2 tons of cocaine worth €100M
  • What percentage of illicit imports is this bust? Does it even make a dent? Not to sound like a party pooper... but why do we even still care about this?

  • Sweeping Bill Introduced by Ron Wyden (D) Would Completely Overhaul Supreme Court as We Know It
  • Why not just rotate the judges out periodically from court below?

  • "Just another mouth to feed"
  • Depends if you want your cat to get chronic kidney disease and or diabetes. If you don't care about that, then dry food is exceptionally inexpensive... Although if you end up caring about them in the end, the special food you will need once they have kidney problems will far out way the savings.

    Cats should be eating almost all wet food.

  • Your stupid decal finally makes sense!
  • Took me a long time to realize it wasn't slut life.

  • Is driving a car this awful all the time?
  • I think the roads would be safer everybody drove a manual. It makes it harder for drivers to do other things and be distracted.

  • 2nd-ever nitrogen gas execution in US set to take place in Alabama
  • How does it make dosing tricky? Just give everybody a mega dose... what's the worst that can happen, they die before you kill them?

  • Proof that humans can get used to pretty much anything
  • And clothes are restrictive anyway

  • Trump tells women he ‘will be your protector’ as GOP struggles with outreach to female voters
  • Right. It's about whether they will take the 20 minute plus detour to go to the polls or not.

  • What Happened to the Biden Impeachment?
  • The ones who aren't self hating gays at least

  • Woman sues Sean Combs, alleging he drugged and 'viciously' raped her in 2001
  • Preferably before he gets out, then victims get their money and his hopes are denied.

  • Trump-supported activist put on leave from employer after gay porn reports
  • At this point I feel like there is this small subset that has a kink for it.

  • Do deaf people play media with sound on?

    I was wondering if deaf people commonly watch movies or TV with the sound on to feel the sound/music? Or is there not a sense of enjoyment if it can't be heard?

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    How is it possible that praline pecans have less calories than regular pecans?

    Google and various websites says 28g of pecans is between 185 and 195 calories, how in the world are praline pecans much less calories?

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    What happens if I never activate Windows?

    I am going to eventually use Linux (although need help with a good option for gaming and video library use), but I was curious how long I could use Windows unregistered for? What are the limitations of it not registered?

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    What do I need to trouble shoot second hand desktop computer? And how?

    [Resolved!]

    I traded my cousin some really expensive RAM that I happened accross for his old desktop, that he put his graphics card into that he swapped from his newer computer. If I plug the desktop into the wall and try to turn it on nothing happens. If I open it up I can see that the where the wire from the power supply plugs into the graphics card there Is a little light on. So clearly some power is getting somewhere...

    How do I go about trouble shooting this, and what tools do I need? I assume at minimum a multi meter? Not really sure what to do, it's been decades the last time I built a computer.

    Board says "Asrock H110M-HDS"

    Edit: Attached a Pic and noticed the light is actually on the graphics card, not motherboard. Added addtl info.

    Update: So now all of the sudden the fan spins. I am at a loss as to why it spins now, as I haven't actually really done anything. I ordered a speaker for the mobo, so waiting for that.

    Final update: It works! I apparently had either a bad monitor or bad display port cable. But using another monitor with DVI I was able to finally get it to fully boot!

    I am not sure what got the fans to eventually work, maybe just a cable was jostled.

    I really appreciate all the advice! I definitely know a lot more and feel better equipped to do things with it now.

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    Looking for friends to play with

    Looking for friends to add who use a mic. Sick of playing solo or getting teamed up with people who can't or won't talk.

    If this belongs elsewhere, let me know where to post.

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    www.bbc.com Vladimir Putin set to transfer Sergei Shoigu from Russian defence ministry

    Sergei Shoigu, a long-standing ally of the president, has played a key role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

    Vladimir Putin set to transfer Sergei Shoigu from Russian defence ministry
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    Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such?

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    United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml Corkyskog @sh.itjust.works
    www.dailykos.com LAPD fires riot munitions, makes mass arrests at USC pro-Palestine protest

    As Israel’s genocide against Palestine continues to escalate, students from universities across the United States are leading campus protests en masse and demanding their respective schools divest from corporations and institutions linked to Israel’s...

    LAPD fires riot munitions, makes mass arrests at USC pro-Palestine protest
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    United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml Corkyskog @sh.itjust.works
    emorywheel.com Emory community ‘ashamed’ after police detain students at pro-Palestine encampment | The Emory Wheel

    A young woman cried into a cell phone camera as a police officer dragged her off of Emory University’s Quadrangle around 10:15 a.m. this morning, stating her birthday and her mother’s phone number. Ten minutes later, a young man yelled as another officer walked him off the Quad in handcuffs, shoutin...

    Emory community ‘ashamed’ after police detain students at pro-Palestine encampment | The Emory Wheel
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    United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml Corkyskog @sh.itjust.works
    sg.news.yahoo.com Texas deploys mounted police as pro-Palestinian student protests spread

    Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Texas were in a tense standoff with mounted state troopers Wednesday, the latest in a series of confrontations rocking campuses across the United States.More than 130 people were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest at New York University ...

    Texas deploys mounted police as pro-Palestinian student protests spread
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    Who decides when the US goes to "war"

    I know Congress needs to be involved to actually declare war, but there have been a number of times where something was kicked off by presidential authority alone.

    If Biden wanted to, could he start a conflict against Russia without congressional approval. If not, what approval would he need? If so, what would be the theoretical limitations to his power and military authority?

    I am already assuming people would want some definition of what "conflict" would mean in this hypothetical scenario. So let's say it means Biden authorized US troops at the Ukrainian border and had them launching shells into Russia.

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    What's the vaporization temperature of mouse urine?

    Let's say I hypothetically had some mice pee in some plastic components that cannot be properly cleaned in any realistic way. Is it possible to heat it up to "cook off" the mouse pee nastiness without actually melting the plastic?

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    Everyone should be a cop

    It's simple math.

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    Does mucus have calories?

    There must be some caloric input required to produce mucus, however my question is what happens when you swallow your own mucus vs spitting. Do you retain calories by swallowing mucus?

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    Are we absolutely positive that Gerard Butler and Russell Crowe aren't the same person?

    Celebrity theories?

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    How fast can you theoretically run on the moon?

    How fast could the average person whose in peak physical shape run on the moon, without the limits of current technology? I mean suit, but like a wetsuit with only a small helmet, and athletic shoes.

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    Ancient Mysteries Explained: Coleslaw

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    how to find notes, Journals, spellbooks, Grimoires, etc. from those with mental issues

    I guess my title kind of puts it all out there. I am looking to collect spellbooks, Journals and the likes from those who are insane, or have mental health issues. What's the easiest way to purchase them, and how do you even find them?

    Fame or notoriety do not matter to me. I am just looking for scripts/texts written by neural atypical people that are related to the occult..

    At first I thought estate sales would be a good way to find this... but heirs tend to destroy/hide or sell that stuff on the secondary market as to not taint the value of the other property.

    Edit: I wondering if some internet archiving could help find threads to look for.

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    Why does juicy juice not have sediment, and exactly how do they do it?

    Juicy Juice among other brands touts "100% juice" however if you leave it undisturbed for months on the shelf it never seems to develop any sediment. How can they be 100% juice and not have any solids? What exact process are they using to remove all the sediment and or perfectly homogenize the liquid? You will notice other shelf stable 100% juice brands tend to have a sediment, how do the large brands get around that, while still being pure juice? Is there an FDA definition of "Juice"?

    Sorry, this seemed to turn into many questions.

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    how come links won't open in browser anymore

    For whatever reason about a week ago, the Jerboa app stopped opening links. It used to open up in Chrome, but now it just opens Chrome to the last page I was on and doesn't load the link.

    I am not sure what to do, I don't even want it to use Chrome as the default browser launcher, but I see no place to change it. Anyone know how I can fix this?

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