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The fact that people this stupid exist
  • There IS the HPV vaccine, which is basically a cancer vaccine for one set of cancers.

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    Governments...
  • Chances are your tires actually DO have radio emitters in them - tire pressure sensors are wireless and send their measurements out on the 433 MHz band.

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    Does anyone have any good recommendations for a good, open-source weather app on android?
  • I use an iPhone at the moment, so I don't have direct experience with the Android version, but I very much like Yr. It is free, I think open-source (they at least have a github page), gives you a good amount of info (hourly, 3-day, and long-term forecasts, graphs of temperature, pressure, wind, and rain UV index, maybe a few other things), gathers basically no data about users, has no ads, and has a reasonably good UI. It's maintained by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, so it probably works better in Norway - but I am in the US and it's honestly been fine for anything that doesn't need minute-by-minute updates (per their website it updates every 6 hours outside of Norway).

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    happy wild weasel noises
  • Imagine the home automation setup an S-300 battery would need. That's a lot of Raspberry Pis.

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    Easy DIY pasta sauce?
  • I’ve made this plenty of times. Whole canned tomatoes are usually better than diced - just break them up a bit by squishing them with a spoon when you put them in the pan. Needs to cook for a good while - 45 minutes out so. And add salt at the end to taste! But a super reliable sauce and requires very little equipment out prep.

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    This dog food label
  • This very much reads like Burt Ward himself eats this dog food (and, presumably as a result, has remained 26 years old since 1971).

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    [I ate] steak and potatoes
  • … I thought it was a sliced hard-boiled egg

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    I'm tired of the inequality
  • People have been able to “afford to question this” since antiquity - it’s not some modern affectation. You see plenty of instances of people arguing for or outright mandating vegetarian or vegan diets dating back thousands of years. I am not sure if PETA’s specific reasoning (“you shouldn’t eat a fish because the fish would prefer you not do that”) is represented, but you definitely see scholars and rulers in the ancient world arguing for a variety of reasons that people should not kill or eat animals.

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    What we really mean
  • Because you meant to open ed: the standard text editor.

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    ysk - your account doesn't exist on other instances and communities don't overlap
  • I think that’s it! I just checked and local communities don’t show the instance on my end either.

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    What are must-have games in the current Steam Sale?
  • +100 to Sleeping Dogs! Seconding everything you say - plus it has the pork bun vendor.

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    ysk - your account doesn't exist on other instances and communities don't overlap
  • Is this an app-specific issue? I’m using wefwef on iOS and it shows “youshouldknow@lemmy.world” as the community. It doesn’t show it for the user, though, which is another worthwhile piece of information.

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    Why do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it.
  • Love the modified Julian date. You’ll also find some satellite-based astronomers measuring their observations in kiloseconds (I think Hubble does it in orbits but most of the X-ray satellites use kiloseconds).

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