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Cake day: April 10th, 2025

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldLadder [Kamvret]
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    6 hours ago

    (90s movie announcer voice)

    She, was just an innocent girl, trying to get a leg up on household chores…

    … but she never expected, to get tripped up, in a romance, of ethically dubious proportions…

    … coming, this summer…

    … April’s Spring Cleaning.

    (fade to black with movie title, with the sound of a squeaky ladder being folded and unfolded increasingly rapidly)




  • Oh… dear dear dear.

    Nobody … directed harrasment against this whiney and censorious adult pissbaby.

    It was spontaneous.

    db0 themself could have specifically messaged me, telling me something like ‘please remain civil in this trying time’ and i would have replied ‘lol’ and trolled this fucking idiot on his own boards, that he remembered to only secretly shadowban me from, but not actually ban me from… anyway.

    … is Admiral Patrick Star familiar with the phrase ‘become ungovernable’?

    Your idiot rules have no power over me, in this place.

    I obey only rules I find reasonable.

    … Also, how is a total retreat and defeat… not… giving us all the personal satisfaction of having won?

    That… makes 0 sense.

    He also admits this has taken away considerable attention from his IRL responsibilities.

    Actual flawless victory, lemmy, truly: bravo.

    Did…does he realize that he could have just made his own instance, and just not federated with the instances he doesn’t like?

    I… how… did he read the documentation… on lemmy? Does he know how lemmy works?

    I will never comprehend the sheer arrogance.

    Just incredible.






  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.worldThis is reality
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    12 hours ago

    I broadly agree with that, but phrasing it as you originally did… leaves open the potential of many interpretations, and is thus… well in this context, inherently inflammatory.

    Such as the interpretation of basically ‘all women want only money or expensive things/experiences’.

    I would say that love can exist amidst squalor, but certainly the poverty makes it much, much more rare and difficult achieve or maintain.

    I’m not going to tell you gold diggers do not exist, or that many women are not broadly financially illiterate, irresponsible, or that many women are not vain.

    But many of them are none of those things, many men are.

    Qualified statements are probably a better plan with uh, high conflict topics.


  • That… is indeed interesting.

    I was vaguely aware that… there are some known instances where cancer actually is transmissable, but usually only in the context of pregnant mother to child.

    But… this… … well, shit.

    … I guess its not actually possible to 100% rule out ‘my dog gave me colon cancer.’

    Still seems quite unlikely… but maybe not strictly completely impossible?





  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoDIY@slrpnk.netAir Purification
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    17 hours ago

    Variations of this idea are genuienly vital health/survival info, right now, and will continue to be going forward.

    Yes, one particular design may or may not be more effective than the other, but the basic concept of ‘duct tape a HEPA filter onto a box fan’ is absolutely a critical life hack to know if you live near anywhere that does or can experience signifcantly degraded air quality.

    It isn’t perfect, but it immensely better than doing nothing, and most importantly, it is not horrendously cost prohibitive (at least currently, jfc).

    Walking around for 30 minutes in wildfire smoke is roughly equivalent to smoking a couple of packs of cigarrettes.

    You probably do not want to be inhaling that shit all day long, for many days at a time, if you live in a home/building that does not have its own air purification system.

    Chances are you probably don’t have air filtration. Having AC often does not mean you also have filtration.

    So have these things on hand, or ready to assemble, when a wildfire smoke plume or something decides your city is especially beautiful to it.

    Fires and smoke can come fast, suddenly, with relatively little warning.

    Be prepared.


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    19 hours ago

    Fair point, lol.

    I suspect that if we ever do start building housing in a way that makes any actual attempt at being affordable, it’ll be floors of studios with small bathrooms, maybe mininfridges, but communal kitches and washing machines on each floor.

    Basically, college dorms, for everyone, forever, lol.

    … beats being homeless!