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sparky678348, (edited ) in American English slang question

Jay is a person, and the picture that was written on invokes the same feeling that this Jay does, the picture is Jay AF.

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Why is your comment yellow for me? I’m using the browser.

TootSweet, (edited )

Maybe don’t use highlighter markers on your monitor?

(But seriously, it’s no different color than other comments in this thread for me. Maybe it was a “new” post for you when you wrote that and the rest weren’t?)

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You’re probably right. I’ll stop coloring on my monitor.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Because it was a new comment then, so it got highlighted. As of Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.5 it’s orange. Or yellow. I don’t know what it really is.

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Thank you!

OceanSoap,

This is most likely the correct answer. Jay Is probably either a classmate she has a crush on, or a celebrity that she she has a crush on.

Crackhappy,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

I’m going to just assume it’s Jay Mohr. He’s dreamy.

Num10ck, in American English slang question

i would guess theres a boy at her school who fits into that picture for her.

radix, in American English slang question
@radix@lemmy.world avatar

Never heard it myself, but Urban Dictionary says it’s an actually amazing person.

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jay

cheese_greater,

Doesn’t it say that about every name?

FireTower,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Sometimes you see one written by someone who hates a person with that name.

B1naryB0t,

Whenever you look up names on urban dictionary you have to remember it’s mostly middle schoolers trying to boost their own ego or signal to others that they’re hot

QuarterSwede, in Do you disable notifications for all your apps?
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world avatar

It’s on for Messaging apps, email, and specific apps I with want or need notifications for. I don’t have it on for any social media apps, I check those on my own time when I please. All sounds are off thanks to my Apple Watch that vibrates.

livus, in Can anyone else feel sensations in their brain?
@livus@kbin.social avatar

It's most probably feelings from your nerves, that you are re-interpreting as coming from inside your brain. Kind of like how headaches sometimes feel as if they are in the middle of your brain.

Breezy, (edited ) in What companies have made your blacklist?

Burger king.a few years ago i went through the drive through to get my little sister a milkshake. Machine down, okay what about an ice cream? Oh thats down too. " i didnt know I came to McDonald’s" dude over the menu laughed… but then this big ole cunt of a manager comes yelling at me to leave their property! I dont remember what all was said but it ended with me yelling back at her “fuck you, you dont just come screaming at people over a joke. YOU FAT BITCH!” Then i went to a McDonald’s and told their drivethrough lady and got free ice cream while they laughed. And i havent been back since.

Jikiya,

I also won’t be going back to BK, but for a different reason. I last went there around 2015, and waited for 25 minutes for them to make me a whopper. The three previous visits to different locations all had me waiting more than 15 minutes for my order. Having worked at BK before, I know that it doesn’t take 25 minutes if you had put the frozen patty on the broiler 5 minutes after I had ordered it. I could have gone into the building, placed the order, made the order myself, and still have it be under 20, being unfamiliar with the building I was walking into.

It’s a terribly sad thing, as I actually prefer them to McD.

A_Random_Idiot, (edited )

I won’t go back to BK, because BK has gotten brain damage and thinks its fine dinning and that its okay to charge ridiculous sums of money for shitty burgers.

Shitty burgers that I was okay eating when they were 2 bucks, but I aint paying no 7+ dollars for that bullshit. Nah. Fuck you. Pull your heads out of your asses.

Also, in my experience, the ice cream/shake machines are never actually broken… They’re just a PITA to clean so no one wants to run them and have to clean them after shift.

therealjcdenton, (edited ) in What companies have made your blacklist?

I think it’s easier to say which ones haven’t made my blacklist

jeffhykin, (edited ) in How do I stop my cats from eating my plants?

Fill up their water bowl with engine coolant and they’ll never eat a plant again 👌

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Synthead,

To those that didn’t read this as dark humor: coolant tastes sweet, and it’s poisonous. Your animals will want to drink it, and it will kill them.

jeffhykin,

Good disclaimer, maybe I should’ve had one

seaQueue, (edited ) in How many tabs do you have open?
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

I organize my tabs by topic window (small project, chunk of work for a larger project, related idea) then kick them into onetab as a bundle with a short description when I’m done with whatever it is I needed them for.

I typically have 5-30 tabs open in topic windows at any time but I can open onetab and ctrl-f to find anything I’ve saved over the last 7 or 8 years. There must be 5000 tabs in there at this point.

ctag,
@ctag@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You are the tab master. Thank you for describing your workflow!

Kase, in How many tabs do you have open?

Zero. Maybe it’s the OCD, but I never ever leave open a tab I’m not actively using, even if it means I open and close the same few tabs every five minutes for 8 hours every day.

Yeah, probably the ocd lmao.

jeanofthedead, in How do I stop my cats from eating my plants?

I hang all of mine from the walls and the ceiling in pretty macrame hangers.

Kouran,

I worry they will try to jump to anything hanging. Its not a big apartment so they have high furniture everywhere to jump to anything in the ceiling…

jeanofthedead,

Mine would try, too. But I have hung every plant in a spot that they can’t get to no matter how hard they try.

Toes, in Can anyone else feel sensations in their brain?

Maybe check your vitamin levels and make sure you’re drinking enough water. Sugar is dehydrating, a general rule I follow is drinking 2 cups of water for every cup of something else.

gandalf_der_12te,

just like you boil rice

Markimus, in Can anyone else feel sensations in their brain?

That’s completely normal; the sensations are caused by some energy you’ve stored inside of you being re-activated. If you can follow those sensations to the root, the thorn, and then gradually work at that thorn, you can do some serious mental cleansing. If you’re able to remove all of the thorns, you will experience this zen-like peace for anything and everything that comes your direction.

This Michael Singer guy did a whole bunch of that kind of introspection, figured it all out, then wrote three different books on the process.

NeuronautML, (edited ) in If many extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby but trying to keep quiet, how would you suggest drawing them out?

I think we’re the North Sentinelese of the Milky Way and we’re being purposefully insulated so we develop technologically and sociologically up to a certain point where we’ll be able to join everyone else. I doubt they’ll say anything. That’s the point. In fact i think we’re being shielded as a kindness, possibly protected too. We, as a species, can’t even leave the solar system and return. I’m guessing an advanced enough civilization could create a believable enough reproduction of the universe for us to study.

I think the difference between the alien UN and our global organization is probably the same level as the difference between our UN and the North Sentinel Island tribal elders.

It just doesn’t make sense that the galaxy is empty. But my theory is just my best guess. I have no concrete evidence. I do think there are some mighty coincidences around here. For instance, a solar system stocked with several planets and minerals and a long life stable star, almost ideal from all the various star types available. A random meteorite hitting the earth after millions of years of dinosaurs not developing intelligent life. A very logical progression of bodies for a space faring civilization to grow. First the moon, then mars, then venus, etc. A lot of asteroids that seem to zip by Earth but always near miss at an alarming common rate. Jupiter strategically placed to keep Earth safe from a large number of meteors and other celestial bodies.

I think humans are a benevolent, non intrusive biological experiment by an advanced species or at the very least a protected species in some nature reserve. Them interacting with us could potentially hamper our development. It could be that religions were their previous attempts but didn’t work out so well.

TheActualDevil,

Have you heard of the puddle analogy?

A small amount of water sits there, it this hole in the ground it finds itself in. It looks at this cavity, observes how perfectly it fits the contours of their liquid body. It’s perfect! Every nook and cranny seems to be formed to fit the puddle perfectly.

“This hole must have been made for me! It’s too much of a coincidence that, with all the ways a hole could form, this one formed perfectly to fit me!”

You’re doing that. You’re saying it’s a crazy coincidence that all the right things were in place here for life to exist that led to us being here… but if it wasn’t, then we just wouldn’t have developed as life-forms. Or if the environs were different, life would have developed to fit into that kind of solar system. I think you just like the idea, so you believe it, but I think it’s better to believe things we have evidence for.

NeuronautML, (edited )

Maybe the hole was made for the puddle, who’s to say it wasn’t? Perhaps a large number of coincidental occurrences made it, but there sits the water in a hole that perfectly accommodates it. Something that the people who built the road expected. How can one say it wasn’t the intention of the organization of the universe in a series of probabilities that one day that water would be right on that puddle, in a specific moment in time? Wouldn’t that arguably make the hole made for the water at that point in time ?

I guess that’s more of a philosophy debate, but honestly until we get more data, it could be anything. All we know is that our long range scanners have not detected advanced civilizations and that doesn’t match our expectations. It could be because they don’t exist, it could be because they’re hiding themselves from us.

We know very little about alien life at this point and until we have more information, every explanation is possible. Some scientific explanations of the universe or life that were eventually discovered were certainly more wild and vivid than we previously thought before. I’m not saying this is what is necessary happening, just something that could be happening.

TheActualDevil,

Jesus fucking christ. You know how water works, right? It fits the form of the container it’s in. It’s an simplified analogy to explain what that other guy linked to. We (well, you) see a universe fit to our kind of life, but the reality is that we developed to fit the universe.

You remind me of this guy I saw the other day claiming that a whole bunch of rocks that are vaguely shaped like body parts might be fossilized body parts.

He just kept saying “I’m not saying it definitely is, but imagine if we don’t understand the world, and it’s maybe this way? Crazy right?!”

It’s such cowardly bullshit. If you want to believe a thing because it sounds nice to you, don’t half-ass it and throw qualifiers on it. You brought it up, and then when challenged the tiniest bit, backed down with a “I’m not saying that’s definitely true… but maybe…?”

and that doesn’t match our expectations.

What expectations? Actual scientist, using facts, don’t have expectations of alien life. We don’t know the probability of life existing anywhere but here because we have nothing to compare it to. We have the one universe with the one data set available to us. Until we discover alien life, we should have no expectation for it. Do I think it’s likely there is life elsewhere? Yes. Does that mean I expect it? No. We don’t have enough information about the cosmos to even start to calculate whether it should happen.

I had a roommate once who believed that the stuff from the Alvin the Maker book series was real. The magic and shit. I asked if he had anything that led him to believe that or if he just really liked the books and wanted it to be. OF course he didn’t have any evidence or real reason for it. He just wanted it to be so, so he decided that he was going to believe that thing.

You’re doing that. Stop it. Be a grown-up here and stop believing in make-believe and believe things only when we have sufficient (or in your case, I’ll take any) evidence.

NeuronautML, (edited )

I see. Thank you for your reply and for the stories of your friends. It’s an interesting way to see things. I have nothing further to reply.

pantyhosewimp,
supercriticalcheese,

Might be or might not be, another option is that space travel is nearly impossible except for one way generation trips.

sbv, in How many tabs do you have open?

I use a browser extension that closes the least recently used tab after 15 minutes. It stops closing when it reaches five for the current window.

I don’t think I’m missing anything.

Kase,

That sounds cool! Do you have the name?

sbv,

Tab Wrangler

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