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So, obviously, if you go to a brick-n-mortar store and buy something there, it counts as a sale for the store, with stores that don’t get enough sales often closing. But if I order something online from, say, Best Buy and pick it up in store, how is that tracked? Does it count as a sale for the store, even though I didn’t...

I just learned about “Salt (NaCl) is actually a combination of a highly poisonous gas (Cl) and a hazardous metal (Na)”....

Personnaly I like some gore videos or r/figthporn on reddit but it seems like this hasn’t transferred. So just wandering if I’m kinda on my own here which doesnt matter either I don’t miss it that much

I bought a piece of 1.5 inch stiff foam to try to fix a sag in a bed. It didn’t work but having that thick piece of solid foam around has been a life saver....

Greetings fellow Lemmings,...

I love watches and I am looking for an active community on the fediverse similar to r/Watches. Thank you for the orientation

I would like to create a bot account for a community to warn about duplicate images. First thing that i tried is to create a new account and mark it as a bot, but i couldn’t use mail address i used to create my main account. is there a way to create bot accounts without creating separate mail addresses for them? i would avoid...

Surprisingly often I see guys in the gym, which have a totally jacked/trained upper body but untrained legs....

We are currently looking for mods to help moderate Ask Lemmy on lemmy.world....

Can commodity products detect which pixel you’re looking at on a screen?...

I have an actual cold for the first time in about four years. What are some of your favorite remedies?

Like the title says, share something about your daily commute :)...

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I’m looking for a good idea that should be easy, but unique, and never existed, or maybe not. The web application ought to resemble the GitHub project, however, it should incorporate a distinct concept. Using Next.js and MongoDB....

I saw this music video years ago where it starts with a very zoomed out drone shot of this island, and as it zooms in on the island, you see a lake, with another island in it, that has a lake on it, with another island, another lake, then ANOTHER island, eventually zooming in on this guys mansion where he is rapping the song. I...

I have been finding a way to get video/audio call working on Linux for some time. however whatsapp doesn’t have an “official” client for Linux so I am kinda stuck in the web version of whatsapp but the web version doesn’t have calling functionality which is bummer since all of my friends uses whatsapp and I want to be...

I gotta ask, am I the only one here who’s absolutely fucking salivating at the thought of North Korea unleashing a legion of AI-powered Terminators on the world stage? I mean, think about it: North Korea creating a fucking army of Skynet-level robots that could march into Seoul or Tokyo or even Washington DC and just start...

Does anyone know any Chinese speaking Lemmy instances?...

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I’m always on the lookout for materials that help me understand different things that up to now I’ve been otherwise stumped by or had trouble wrapping my mind around. Any subject/topic that’s interested you that whatever you’ve found has helped you gain a greater understanding and appreciation of are welcome!

My apologies if my search skills missed this....

So a few years ago I got a set of stickers from Jet.com that had funny sayings on them. For example: “Open quickly (might be a puppy)” and “Shake thoroughly. (But seriously, don’t shake)”. I couldn’t find any online, so I figured maybe I’ll make my own. What are good things I could put on them?