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Proofreading and editing is a necessary part of writing. And there's never enough.

... noticied ...

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First shot fired in the Water Wars.

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That's dedication.

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Not the best path, but ... eventually.

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Conservatives, they don't send their best and brightest.

Oh god, maybe they do.

Exclusive: Putin wants Ukraine ceasefire on current frontlines ( www.reuters.com )

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is prepared to fight on if Kyiv and the West do not respond....

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Putin is welcome to cease firing any time he likes.

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God-given Constitutional rights and freedoms

They're trying to co-opt the US Constitution as a religious text.

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The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, a deist, who also produced the Jefferson Bible, created by literally cutting out all the mystical woo from the New Testament and pasting the remainder onto pages.

I can say with some confidence that nobody considered either the Declaration or Constitution as "religious" at the time.

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Sounds like these are the kinds of incidents that police should take care of. But the odds are probably better that you'd end up with two problems.

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He’ll ultimately invent the Joo Janta 2000 Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.

Sticky trick: new glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals ( www.theguardian.com )

The insect glue, produced from edible oils, was inspired by plants such as sundews that use the strategy to capture their prey. A key advantage of physical pesticides over toxic pesticides is that pests are highly unlikely to evolve resistance, as this would require them to develop much larger and stronger bodies, while bigger...

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Everything is chemicals.

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Beware of dihydrogen monoxide.

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How about Uber Feet, where you pay to walk somewhere?

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Uber Feet XL

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Then they will learn that Spez doesn’t get to profit from me anymore.

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Hell, DOS is open source now. Run it in a Hyper-V on Windows 10.

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

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My vacuum cleaner. You know how the roller brush gets all tangled up with hair and threads and whatnot, and the way you fix that is to remove the roller and cut it all out?

The external screws are torx security bits. The internal screws are Phillips. The only reason is to get someone who isn't persistent to go buy a new vacuum cleaner when their roller gets tangled

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"I don't want to talk about that" is perfectly honest and neutral.

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Thick hair bros unite

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Unexpected null factorial?

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Every exchange between people requires an exchange of value. If we both agree on a common "thing" as a representation of value, we can be more accurate and flexible in our transactions.

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I refuse to believe that this isn't a "hidden item" mobile game.

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None, because I don't use lemmy.

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Welp.

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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are free to use with the web interface.

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Oh, I totally agree, but for this situation where it appears to be for personal use, the Office Online applications would probably do just fine.

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PAINTBALL ARENA APARTMENTS

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It's an analog fingerprint sensor.

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...

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It's a first world hill to die on, and many of the people who espouse veganism are only able to do so because of their own privilege.

It's a combination of smugness and "I'm better than you" and the lack of awareness that everyone had and continues to benefit from a world that has always used animal products. The Industrial Revolution basically ran on steam engines and leather belts, for example.

I have absolutely no problem with the idea that using fewer animal products and eating less meat is a good idea. I also recognize that feeding the world's growing population is probably going to involve insects being more widely used as a food source.

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Vegan: no animal products. No butter, no eggs, having to be well-informed (as others have stated) and know about the content of every bit of everything you buy, and making choices on that basis instead of on cost.

Even then, how many of the products you buy and use every day have depended on animal products for their manufacture? I'm willing to bet that a fair amount of human labor consumes and uses animal products to sustain themselves, even if there are no animal products in the thing you're buying. I don't think it's fair to compartmentalize that away from purchasing decisions. The people who put your flat pack MDF furniture in a box, did they have a chicken sandwich on their lunch break? The people who are paving the roads and maintain the rails on which the products you ultimately buy, are they wearing leather boots?

Everyone depends, to some degree or another, on the use of animal products, either as food or for some other purpose. Even vegans.

Edit: Like I said above, reducing dependence on animal products is probably a good idea, but people who believe they have eliminated their dependence on animal products are patting themselves on the back for something they simply cannot accomplish.

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"Meat from herd mammals" is not at all the sum total of use of animal products. Should we all be eating less beef? Sure, I can get behind that. None? I'm okay with that, too. What about eggs, cheese, butter - and that's only referring to things we eat, not things we use for other purposes.

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If you're okay with compartmentalizing that out of the production of goods and services you use, that's a you thing.

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Thank you for saying this in a way I was unable to muster.

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Before anyone complains about energy density of these being less than lithium, the applications where these are used would reduce the demand for lithium, making lithium cheaper and/or more available for other purposes where sodium-ion wouldn't work.

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And the Enormous Lower Case T.

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I once TPed the statue of former president Ronald Reagan at his boyhood home in Dixon, IL.

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That's a commute.

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Ha, I'm still alive. CHECKMATE

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I mean, he's only able to manage an uncomfortable grimace, so that tracks.

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I have done this multiple times on servers. It's beyond simple and doesn't take but a few minutes. Follow the instuctions and you're gold.

Edit: In short, you use diskpart to resize the boot partition down, then use diskpart again to resize the recovery partition up with the space you created in step one.

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I bought a year's subscription to Timex Sinclair User, which folded like four months later.

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Libraries also make a ton of copies and give them out for free.

This is just wrong.

If a library has purchased two copies of a piece of digital media - an ebook, for example - which patrons can check out online, only two people can have it checked out at once, and when the checkout period expires, the content is no longer available to the patron. Now a copy is freed up for the next person to check out.

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Lower part of the image is incorrect. All the data would pool in the trough, leaving free space at either end.

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You had one chance to use 420 and you squandered it.

How do I setup my own FOSS shopping website for my business?

Hello, I don't have much experience in self-hosting, I'm buying a ProtonVPN subscription and would like to port forward. I have like no experience in self-hosting but a good amount in Linux. I'm planning on using Proxmox VE with a YunoHost VM. I already have a domain name from Njalla. I'm setting up a website for my computer...

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If you are accepting payments, you absolutely want to offload that to a third party payment processor, so that you don't have to go through the hassle of doing PCI compliance.

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The problem is "who decides." In a perfect world, the patient would always be of sound mind, and the patient would always decide. But then who decides if the patient is of sound mind?

There should be barrier to entry, but not a complete ban.

This is absolutely true, but that barrier to entry is always going to exclude some people who arguably should not be excluded. There will always be dissatisfaction, and there will always be complaints like yours.

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Say execs. You know, the people who view labor as a cost center.

They say that because that’s what they want to happen, not because it’s a good idea.

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Short term is all that matters. Business fails? Start another one, and now you have a bunch of people that you made unemployed creating downward pressure on labor prices.

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