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CCatMan, in What's something you'd change in men's fashion, given the chance?

Can we get some pants with built in knee pads?

fearout,
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CCatMan,

Nice, looks like something for motorcyclist. šŸ‘ Thanks.

dylanTheDeveloper, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

God gives his silliest battles to his funniest clowns

Akasazh, in Hey Lemmy, what are some good public domain books?
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Tolstoy’s work is all in public domain. Anna Karenina and War and Peace are great. Not the easiest to read, but unparalleled.

RupeThereItIs, in What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?

Not a movie, but a ā€˜feature length music video’. Michael Jackson’s Thriller scared the ever living shit out of 5 or 6 year old me.

slimsalm, in What password manager do you recommend?

Selfhosted or not, you can also make keepassxc portable with a usb drive.

Here is a old thread from redit explaining how to do it:

Dude… KeepassXC has portables for linux, there is no need to mess with wine or mono. As long as you have both portable versions of KeepassXC, you will not have a problem. You can totally have your database sync between OSs.

  • For Linux, just get the AppImage for the portable.
  • For Windows, get the Portable ZIP archive.
  • Shove them both into a USB, you have KeepassXC portable for both OSs on a stick.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/KeePass/comments/10i8joq/…/-

CoderKat, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

Oof, I have quite a lot. One of my favourites is, ā€œthe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.ā€

I find it immensely relatable, as I think a huge number of problems in the world today stem from simply apathy. People who say they dislike the state of the world and even that they want to change it, but refuse to do absolutely anything at all, being perfectly content to just let bad things happen.

arcrust,

This comment reminds me of the Eichmann trial. He wasn’t inherently evil like we want to believe. He was just a man doing his job, sending jews to their death. It’s pretty chilling to think about the evils he carried out when he was just doing what he was told to do.

Another somewhat counterpoint, I think in today’s society it’s harder than it traditionally has been. Specifically, I would love to go to protests and be more active. But for me it’s really hard to do that because I have obligations. Specifically, I can’t take a week off of work to go to DC and hold some signs. It’s not that I’m refusing to do anything, I just don’t have the time when I’m more worried about my mortgage. I do donate to charities but it’s very difficult to do much more because of debt.

FollyDolly,
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Me too! But the other problem I have is if I get hurt at a protest I can’t work. I’m the primary breadwinner for my houshold. So if I go to jail, or get shot with a rubber bullet, my family will starve.

End0fLine, in Hey Lemmy, what are some good public domain books?
@End0fLine@startrek.website avatar

I’m loving the answers to this two year old question!

My suggestion would be 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It was a book that I could not put down.

TheRealKuni,

My suggestion would be 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It was a book that I could not put down.

Well of course not. If you try it would just float up toward the surface.

BlueLineBae, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
@BlueLineBae@midwest.social avatar

A falling knife has no handle.

I literally repeat this out loud anytime a knife falls and I think it’s become my mental stopping mechanism to make sure I don’t try to catch it.

Today,

Same! It’s saved me many fingers!

EtnaAtsume,

Well, let’s not exaggerate here. Surely it’s saved you no more than ten of them.

PorkTaco,

Why y’all dropping so many knives??

jmsw22,

I need a variant of this that stops me trying to catch them with my feet

Brochetudo, in What's something you'd change in men's fashion, given the chance?

No ties, no shirts, nothing in that fashion that is even close to formal

Nikki, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
@Nikki@lemmy.world avatar

ā€œi have d cups grandma, the waitress thinks you have dementiaā€

StrikerMack,

ā€œI understood that reference.ā€

Steve Rogers.

Also, I understood that reference. I quite like that quote and the story behind it.

richneptune, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

It takes a woman nine months to make a baby, nine women cannot make a baby in a month.

Classic (and likely mangled by myself) computer science quote which I always enjoy encountering in the wild!

DevouredChaos,

Ive always heard that one from a Project Management perspective. Ive used it myself once or twice actually!

someguy3,

Classic project management quote.

deadbeef79000,

Nine women can average one baby per month, but only with an extra nine months of pre-planning.

MementoMori, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

You don’t have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.

venusenvy47,

I like the silly related quote:

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

Dressedlikeapenguin, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

ā€œEveryday is somebody’s first day.ā€ I think of it like a more generous Hanlon’s Razor ā€œNever attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.ā€ Especially when an employee is perhaps not doing a good job or is slow. If it was my first day on the job, I’d like a little consideration.

madmaurice, in ActivityPub
@madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Not really a question, is it?

Karlos_Cantana,
@Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz avatar

Maybe op thinks this is Jeopardy.

UnperfectOne, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

Some mountains are scaled, others are slain.

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