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[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

What pushed be over the edge was trying to watch some older shows in Prime and getting absolute dogshit quality. When I sail I get guaranteed 1080p, no ads, instant seek.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

“Confessions of an economic hit man” would be a good book to remedy that.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/23409939

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A good boi if I ever saw one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pensive? More like zero thoughts going through 😄

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

And that humiliating students as a teaching method automatically makes you a terrible teacher.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your male calico is likely intersex XXY. very rare.

Sorry, I had indeed misinterpreted your previous comment. Thanks for clarifying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nope. The egg starts dividing before the deactivation of the extra X, and that propagates.

For instance: In cats, a big part of their skin pigmentation is controlled by the X chromosome. Which is why you’ll only find female calico cats. Males only carry the one X and can only manifest one color pattern.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Usually which X chromosome gets deactivated as a Barr body changes depending on where in the female body you are. Or, as Veritasium put it: women are stripey.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

What’s a ramless NVMe? Specifically the ramless part, I know an NVMe is an SSD.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I just watched this movie. It’s so bad! Why? What am I missing?

 

This came from the Fate Discord group. I’m not the author, but Lemmy looks like a better place to share this.

First links:

Okay, now a little bit about the idea:

I am of course fully aware of the existence of another, more official community lists (such as Fate-SRD product list, evilhat.wikidot list or evilhat.wikidot community list) and it is not my intention to create any competition for them. To some extent they are run better (cleaner) and are more well-known and accessible. I simply wanted to try a slightly alternative approach - as I mentioned, the list was created for my personal needs, but I thought it could be valuable for others as well

The priority of the list is the columns of names and links - everything else is secondary and exists solely as a help in searching - there is also a greater chance that it contains errors. I try to remove them from time to time, but at the moment I mainly look for dead links and hidden duplicates

 
 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/18380473

October has long been associated with ghosts – from ancient Celtic festivals to ward off restless spirits after harvest time to the modern standby of using an old sheet to make a last-minute Halloween costume. In the middle of the 19th century, however, popular portrayals of ghosts became a year-round staple, in part because photographers discovered that they could depict them.

The first ghost photographs were accidents. Early cameras required 30 seconds or more to take a photo. If someone wandered briefly into the shot, the resulting picture would contain their ghostly trace superimposed over substantial furniture, buildings or people who had held still for the full exposure.

When shrewd photographers realized that the inconvenience of long exposure time could become an asset, detailed directions for creating these illusions proliferated. Photographers could cut ghost figures from transparent material and place them onto glass negatives or inside camera bodies. Or they could make real people half-transparent through tricks of double exposure.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hi, I had trouble coming up with a title, sorry.

So I met 2 people in an RPG chatroom and we decided to start a game in the near future. We've moved to a separate chatroom to start preparing. This chatroom had been previously used by another player on a similar campaign, but was empty.

Soon after, another persons joins the chat. Reading the chat history, they appear to have been the GM for that previous campaign. I waved at their entry, making my presence known. This was their only text message:

Hi ​__. Good to see you back in the game. I'm interested in playing but I'll let you know straight off; I can only play on . Is that okay for your other players?

This isn't sitting right with me.

  • No introduction.
  • Talking about me like I'm not there.
  • A certain attitude in setting terms to a game they're not organizing.
  • The person they're talking to can't answer the question, and I wasn't addressed, so what now?

Am I reading too much into this? Is this just they trying to communicate efficiently plus a lack of social polish?

Anyway, I'd love some external perspective.

Edit: thanks everyone, I'm glad I took the time to gather your input. I wasn't sure I was reading the situation correctly and it looks like indeed I wasn't.

 

The standard iOS keyboard makes me typo too much, not to mention changing the words after I’ve typed them and moved on.

Can anyone recommend me an iOS keyboard that:

  • has good swipe typing
  • doesn’t connect to the internet
  • doesn’t try to outsmart me
  • has a decent dark mode / is themeable
  • has multi language support

Thank you very much.

 

Does anyone know of a script I could run to import my Flickr data into, say, pixelfed or another federated service?

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23758244

I was inspired by a post in [email protected] so I mixed some lofi with jazzhop and a dash of classical on vinyl and made a playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3RtFmMUo0wA1E6lMTwxdYp

 

This is purely educational.

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