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Surp, in Mickey Mouse is now public domain (Steamboat Willie specifically). What do you think we will see this year?
@Surp@lemmy.world avatar

Nothing mickey mouse is boring as fuck

someguy3,

Might become interesting now.

devious, in What are your best air fryer/oven recipes?

Brussels sprouts in the airfryer are amazing - but pretty much any vegetables go well, are quick, easy and healthy. If healthy is not your thing, anything in the frozen aisle (chips, hash browns, onion rings, chicken nuggets and fish fingers, etc) are also incredibly easy and always work.

Deconceptualist,

I’ll second this. Try veggies, esp. brussels sprouts for sure. A little salt and pepper is all you need when they’re roasted properly.

Then if you think you can safely live with the knowledge that you can make fast food restaurant onion rings at home, try that next. It’s kinda amazing.

henfredemars, (edited ) in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?

Met my partner who shares the same mental disorder, the only person I know who could teach me to cope and become a functional adult when I had almost lost all hope.

morphballganon,

What disorder?

henfredemars,

Autism spectrum issues. I was getting incredibly lonely because I don’t work well with in person conversations.

criticon, in what are your fun, low stakes new year resolutions?

365 days streak in duolingo. You can do a single lesson in about three minutes and it will extend the streak

JJROKCZ,

As someone with almost 500 day streak, don’t expect to really learn conversational speaking on there. I’ve reached the point I can mostly read and make out French sentences, even with words I don’t know explicitly, but to have a spoken conversation at this point I believe would be impossible

Resol, in what are your fun, low stakes new year resolutions?
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Move to the European Union, specifically Belgium

Because life = ??

cashews_best_nut,

Of all the fucking countries you choose Belgium?! Do you have brain damage?

Daxtron2,

non-eu here, why do we hate Belgium

JJROKCZ,

They’re probably anti-EU and Brussels (Belgium) contains one of the EU headquarters

ridethisbike,

He must not like waffles

ridethisbike,

Yea dude you’re gonna have to elaborate on that one… And you’re gonna need more than “because Belgium sucks”… Cuz like… Their waffles slap…

catsdoingcatstuff, in what are your fun, low stakes new year resolutions?

I’m planning to walk 1000 km in 2024. Nowhere fancy, just around my neighborhood.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That’s just around 2.74km (rounded up) per day. So around 30 minutes of walking per day. Are you sure you’re not doing more than that already?

catsdoingcatstuff,

Ah… Sadly no. That’s why is my low stakes resolution. :) I work from home and I’ve gotten very lazy. I just roll from my bedroom to the office, down to the kitchen, and repeat.

JJROKCZ,

American workers have a lot of struggle getting walking in as their jobs don’t require hardly any. Walk to car, drive to work to park in garage and walk a few hundred feet to elevator, from elevator a few hundred feet to desk, repeat that trip home, make dinner, go to bed, repeat the next day. It’s even worse for remote workers as they walk from a bed to a desk at most, many remote people I know work from their bed (I could never…)

forty2, (edited ) in What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?
@forty2@lemmy.world avatar

Can confirm. That sparkly styrofoam stuff became a huge mess approximately 5min after opening.

Kudos to your foresight, and congratulations for the free time you saved by not cleaning up this pink and purple bullshit

aard,
@aard@kyu.de avatar

Do you happen to have pictures/videos? I can’t imagine what you’re talking about.

forty2,
@forty2@lemmy.world avatar

Of the mess, no. But here’s a pic of Satan’s abomination…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/99d383bc-4f66-49e2-bdae-f98f013cec7c.jpeg

It’s basically tiny styrofoam balls that stick together, I think it’s mostly static electricity holding it together. Once you open the package, and start manipulating the biodiversity hazard, it leaves little pieces of itself everywhere.

Much like herpes, and just as welcome. In my case, Satan was feeling extra cute so there was glitter mixed into the packaged santorum.

It’s now day 6 after opening and I guarantee I’ll find little purple and pink assholes around my house

aard,
@aard@kyu.de avatar

Wow. Do you have a product name so I can gift that to people I hate?

Also, who exactly did you piss off to get that as present?

shyguyblue,

It’s called floam and it’s an unholy mix of polystyrene beads and slime…

aard,
@aard@kyu.de avatar

Thank you, the search result for that is glorious.

I’ll probably need to look into setting up a dead man switch now to let everyone know if I get murdered by disgruntled parents.

shyguyblue,

Set it to order as much floam as it can and send it to your enemies, before the credit card gets cut off.

forty2,
@forty2@lemmy.world avatar

I refuse to utter the word and summon more to my home (also shyguyblue got you covered)

My baby sister bought this for my kids, she’s awesome and they love their aunt. She’s fully entitled to the comeuppance she’s dishing out 😅

Usernameblankface,
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

I believe we got Play Dough Foam, but idk.

sentient_loom, in Court documents naming Epstein associates are to be made public this week? Who do you think will come out the worst?
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

I bet it’s heavily redacted. Somehow the big names will avoid being discovered.

ShepherdPie,

That’s my theory for why they’ve waited so long to release it.

jordanlund, in Thoughts on reddit reposter bots?
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Useless. It separates the content from OP so they never see replies. Worse than spam, spam at least has a point to it.

givesomefucks,

An actual bot can be coded to post every few hours, or even only post if a non bot hasn’t posted in x amount of time

What’s worse is when a real human takes posts from reddit and spams them for a couple hours all over Lemmy.

I have no idea how many accounts I’ve blocked for spamming “memes” like that, but it’s safely in the double digits.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

The NSFW subs are horrible about it. Someone makes a new one and then posts dozens of pictures that all show up at once.

givesomefucks,

Even worse is the “sfw” ones.

There was one account that made like 5 general ones for celebrities, and then a specific sub for every celebrity. So if he posted once, he posted 5 times in a row.

When I blocked him, there was like 100+ subs. It made browsing /all unbearable.

otter,

Worse than spam, spam at least has a point to it.

Ehh, it’s very clearly labeled for what the purpose is and it’s also easy to block (if someone is using the NEW feed and is affected by the volume of posts).

Some people want the functionality of the bot and a big part of the Fediverse is to bring control of a platform back to the user. Lemmit is providing that functionality the right way

morgunkorn, in Does anyone else feel like every year is like the movie 'Groundhog Day'? Same holidays, same birthdays, same work week, etc
@morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

The solution for this is in the movie itself: take up a new hobby, improve on it as far as you can, make each same-y day worth being lived, add to your routine and your skill set

TIMMAY,

but that sounds like a lot of work

elbarto777,

It doesn’t have to be. Every morning do one push up, and one push up only. After 20 days, up it to two push ups.

themeatbridge,

Even better, do 50 wall pushups. A lot of people can’t do 1 proper pushup. Start on the wall, and go until your muscles feel it. Move your feet further from the wall every day. Then move to a set of stairs or a counter. Do sets of 50, and you’ll feel your muscles aching, which means they are growing. With steps, you can go down one step every day, or every week. You don’t want to hurt yourself. But if you keep doing sets of 50, you’ll work out the joints and tendons and supporting structures that keep you from hurting yourself doing one regular push up.

sbv,

That’s where I get stuck.

Tbf Bill Murray’s character had infinite iterations. Like, there are probably a bunch where he was just lying in bed, a few where he murdered the entire town, a few where he rolled around in his own feces.

Bishma,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Been doing that for a few years now. Pretty soon all those hobbies just become more of the same background noise. I have nothing more to show for life, but I do have a lot of expensive clutter and knowledge that no one wants me to share.

SkepticalButOpenMinded,

I think hobbies by itself isn’t the right advice. Practicing chess, photography, or guitar alone in your house isn’t going to feel less monotonous. The next step is to join a chess club, organize a photo walk, find some people to jam on the guitar with. There’s always new things to explore within hobbies when other people are involved.

londos, in Mickey Mouse is now public domain (Steamboat Willie specifically). What do you think we will see this year?
remotedev,

I love the finger guns

Catoblepas, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

My <1 year old nephew nearly choked to death on a nerf dart. He briefly went unresponsive before the ambulance got there and would probably be dead if both his parents didn’t have medical training.

So I guess it’s not ruined in that he’s still alive and probably okay (still waiting to see if he aspirated anything), but it’s not how you want to spend Christmas! Especially the older siblings watching all this happen.

Track_Shovel,
@Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net avatar

Wow I’m super glad he’s ok. That could have been so so so much worse

HerbalGamer,
@HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

Imagine killing someone with a nerf gun. That’s gotta be a record!

sock,

im cpr certified and technically have the knowledge to “save” a choking person as i work a “safety job”. i often wonder if id actually be able to do it in a real situation. shits scary i hope kiddos ok.

Catoblepas,

The doctors gave him the all clear!

AtariDump,

You would.

Instincts kick in and you just do without thinking.

SeedyOne,

Whew, glad they saved him! Reminds me I used to tell friends with children or that live alone they should have a LifeVac in their home medical kit. Under 100 bucks.

Hobart_the_GoKart,

Thanks! I didn’t know this existed.

cobysev, in What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?
@cobysev@lemmy.world avatar

I’m actually just about to celebrate Christmas in the next hour or so. My dad’s health went downhill over the holidays and he needed to be moved to assisted living, so we had to delay Christmas for a bit.

I asked my family to get me gift cards because I don’t like receiving a bunch of trinkets/cheap toys. And the non-cheap “toys” I want are too expensive for my family to afford. So I’d rather they contribute cash toward something I really want.

Usernameblankface,
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like a good plan! I hope the event is a fun time, despite the hardships

Lightsong, in What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?

As a Deaf person, anything that gives good vibration/bass: Drum and Bass Guitar, make or break the music for me.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m curious if you’ve ever held a guitar, or touched one as it was played? Acoustic guitars, especially when playing on the lower strings, vibrate quite a lot, sometimes it feels like a purring cat.

Lightsong,

Yeah, all instruments pretty much vibrates. It’s just that I like certain ones.

MonsterMonster, in Why does America say 'merry christmas'?

UK here… Merry Christmas, yes. Happy Christmas, yes. Happy Holidays, no, no, no and just for effect no.

GarrulousBrevity,

What if you don’t intend to see someone before New Year’s and want to wish them a happy New Year as well, while being lazy?

I really don’t get this hatred for “Happy Holidays”, because even if you want to discredit the non Christian holidays in December/January, there are still two…

donuts,
@donuts@kbin.social avatar

I think some people (usually right wing Americans who watched too much Fox News back in the 2000s) are opposed to "happy holidays" because they don't want to acknowledge other religions.

And then there are snobby Europeans who hate and avoid the phrase because it sounds "too American".

TheGalacticVoid,

Is everybody Christian to you?

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