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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I don’t know if this counts, but when I was in grad school I had a Tinder date set up at a local pub. I got food poisoning the night before. The “fireworks” ended around 1-2 am and I felt confident enough to go to sleep a couple hours later.

    By the time I woke up the next morning, I felt that I could at least meet up for a couple of beers and chat. Plus, I figured telling her I got food poisoning would sound like an excuse to weasel out of the date.

    I ended up sitting outside the pub to meet up for a half hour. She never showed up, and I finally gave up asking if she’d show up a couple of times.


  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzGravity!
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    19 hours ago

    Technically, this isn’t even a case of religion going crazy. The flat Earth conspiracy actually started out in the German Nazi party and were eventually pushed out because even the Nazis thought they were too crazy.

    Notice how many of them mention a vague “they” as the ones maintaining the conspiracy. That’s them referring to Jewish people. While this is notmal for most conspiracy theories, few directly originated from the Nazis.

    If you want more detail, there’s a couple episodes of Behind the Bastards explaining it. I recommend giving them a listen



  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workstoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldVTT (Virtual Tabletop)?
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    11 days ago

    I don’t want to have to code anything.

    You don’t have to code anything. You just look through the game system browser, pick what you want, and after a few seconds it’s installed.

    We don’t need automation. I want simplicity.

    Then screenshare over Discord while drawing things in MS Paint. It’s simple and it’s not automated, just like you asked







  • I’m going to go a different route with advice.

    Once this all gets worked out, it might be worth considering a new rule with gifts: don’t gift things, gift experiences. Or alternatively, don’t gift permanent things, gift consumables.

    If you gift someone a tool, appliance, dress, etc. then they will need to find space to store it, even if they don’t like it. But if you get them a bottle of wine, or a dinner, or a trip to the Bahamas, then if they don’t like it it won’t be there forever and they’ll likely have a nice story.

    But that might not work with your relationship and I have no way of knowing. Just pitching the idea in case it’s a good fit for you





  • I honestly don’t get all the love for the show. It was the stereotypical sitcom that was super generic and not all that funny. I was always completely bored by it.

    And the salamander didn’t say anything bad about it. It said there’s better shows. Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?