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radix, to asklemmy in We've already started this year off with crazy shit. What else do you guys think will happen this year and why?
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If recent history is any indication (it’s not, but it’s fun to think about), the craziness won’t even start for a few weeks/months:

March 2014: MH370 disappeared.
March 2015: Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 is intentionally crashed in the Alps.
April 2016: The Panama Papers are leaked/published.
February 2017: The Oscars’ presenters forget how to read.
February 2018: Parkland, Florida school shooting.
March 2019: The Boeing 737 Max is effectively banned from flights after a string of crashes.
March 2020: Covid doesn’t start, but finally comes to a breaking point and restrictions are implemented across the US.
March 2021: The container ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal.
February 2022: Russia invades Ukraine.
February 2023: US Air Force shot down a Chinese spy balloon.

radix, to risa in Dukat is upset they still haven't built a statue of him in the parking lot for pushing a cart into traffic
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O’Brien returned his cart, and yours, and was mumbling complaints about lazy people while gathering two more when somebody drove a motorized cart into him and broke his ankle.

radix, to asklemmy in Have you ever seen coal burn? If yes, why?
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I did an hour of a metalworking class at scout camp in the 80s.

radix, to asklemmy in Does "Rock music is evil / of the devil" have racist roots?
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Tangential to the question, but Elvis was famously censored from the waist down in an early TV appearance for being too sexy. Then, of course, lots and lots of rock in the ‘free love’ 60s and 70s was explicitly about drugs.

Going from ‘sex and drugs’ to ‘of the devil’ is a pretty short line to draw for some people.

radix, to asklemmy in What salary do you think would make you happy?
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Yep. One’s lifestyle (almost) always expands to fit their means.

As soon as you make what feels “comfortable,” you’ll want another 10-20k.

radix, to piracy in Anyone know a good source for woodworking plans?
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Internet Archive has tons of relevant magazines. This Old House, ShopNotes, etc.

radix, to asklemmy in Donald Trump May 'Turn Off the Internet'. How even? A thought experiment.
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He’d have his man-servant turn off the wifi on his phone. As long as the little symbol is gone, that means the internet no longer exists. Object Permanence isn’t his strong suit.

radix, to piracy in Sail...
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Plex desperately wants to be more then just a self-hosted library solution, as that’s often (though not exclusively) associated with piracy. They also have a free streaming service, similar to Tubi and Pluto, that can integrate with your own library.

radix, to asklemmy in If you got COVID and lost the ability to taste things, did it ever come back? Otherwise, did you experience any other long term consequences from the pandemic in general?
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I had OG covid just after Xmas 2020. Didn’t eat for 3-4 days, and was so excited for the first time I felt up to eating. That’s when I discovered I had no sense of smell. The basic tastes were there, salty, sweet, etc, but no nuance to it. With just the texture to go off, my basic white-bread-and-ham sandwich was like eating a wet sponge. It stayed that way for about 2 weeks, I think (the brain fog was real, too, don’t remember much of January 2021).

Started to come back slowly, and was normal by the end of March. Nothing much long term to report. Smell might be a little more sensitive now, if anything. We have cats, and I’m always the first to know when the box needs cleaning.

radix, to selfhosted in AppleTV complete replacement opinions
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I like my Roku, but it would be much more annoying without a pihole to block the ads.

radix, to risa in Egg-nog-stic
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radix, to risa in Directed by JJ Abrams
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Must go faster? She can’t take much more of this, Captain. I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

radix, to asklemmy in Does "Rock music is evil / of the devil" have racist roots?
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I’ve been Runnin’ with the Devil since 1978.

radix, to mildlyinteresting in This 9v battery contained six cells stacked like a layer cake
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I had an old 12v power tool battery die, so I took it apart to find 8 generic AA rechargeables wired together. I suspect lots of batteries are multiples of 1.5v (9/12/18) because they’re just stacked smaller cells that are already mass produced.

radix, to asklemmy in American English slang question
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Never heard it myself, but Urban Dictionary says it’s an actually amazing person.

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

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