That’s very negative, however I must concur that it’s a fact the correlative conjunctions were incorrectly placed to negate the possibilities.

Whether that fact is true or not is up to you.

up/down voting is simply a way to help comments you think are good, or agree with, become more/less dominant in the thread.

In some cases, comments are useful to explain why - but often that’s just not the case.

Fireworks are brilliant. I think you live somewhere with cultural issues… people reserve the right to party and annoy everyone else…

They have their time and place - and 2am sounds more like problms with arseholes, not Fireworks.

They should be banned after 9pm (except for New Year - extend until 00:20 for that).

I’ve been witness to some amazing displays that bring tears to my eyes they were so awesome. The most memorable being ones that I’m close enough to feel the pressure wave, a truly trouser flapping experience.

I think ‘soul’ is not something which exists in itself - it is the idea of the essence of a thing, the thing which causes an individual life.

So theories go around that there are spiritual beings separate from the physical (debatable) and I personally think that it extends to all life, such that trees can have awareness which can also extend beyond their physical bodies.

As such, they obviously exist - but their exact definition and nature is quite hard to grasp. I don’t think they can survive physical death.

Swastika/fasist tattoos and memorabilia are often simply anti-authority expression and not really fascist ideology (as witnessed recently with ex-cons, UKR and Russian soldiers being caught out and branded as being ‘fascist’).

‘true fact’.

• Facts cannot be anything except for true.
• Anyone who uses the two words ‘true fact’ together cannot be trusted because they know neither the meaning of the word ‘true’ or the word ‘fact’.

https://digg.com/ still fun. https://cat-gpt.com/chat - the BEST instance of GPT by far. https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/home https://window-swap.com/

Over obsessing with puns is a recognised psychological issue…

At school, I remember the time I was jealous of our ‘class clown’ who was genuinely pretty hilarious every time he opened his mouth and extremely popular (especially with the girls). The worst thing to do is to try to emulate that (go home, study a ton of jokes… I’m sure everyone did that at some stage).

I think one of the lessons I worked hard to teach my son is that you shouldn’t make an effort to be funny, because that’s mostly just four-king annoying. Since then, his jokes come less frequently - but with higher hit-rates.

But for sure, Reddit seems to have an average mentality of 6 to 12.

The worst trap to get into is to try to make jokes about unemployed people - because they never work.

Haha I cannot say for sure. I certainly started to duplicate my credentials… so now I’m more likely to be logged in as BendyLemmy.

So initially it was Lemmy.ml (which wasn’t working too well) and it got annoying that I wasn’t logged in when opening links - so BeeHaw, Lemmy.world, https://fosstodon.org/ is BendyToy,…

One thing I’m finding useful now in Bitwarden is that I can autofill and copy (so just refresh for a new password) to get the same username for each one… but it’s kind of getting out of hand.

It’s a little frustrated that we can’t use a kind of centralised profile - like the way an ‘opendesktop’ account can be used to log in to various instances of websites. If I log in the Opendesktop website, and then go to Mastodon, I find my Opendesktop account gets logged in there - so there’s more fragmentation.

Overal it is just very confusing.

I can’t see this post, I am just replying to let you know that.

Don’t ever join the infantry, I imagine you in camouflage approaching the enemy - and you stand up and shout “Please, I need to stay hidden - so let me know if you can see me so that I can hide more effectively”.

Some of the jokes were nice - with the best laughs coming from the replies and the bad puns.

Almost all of them when I had read the book first.

The Hobbit

The latest (The Hobbit) I got my son to read the book, then watch the movies and he’s like ‘Whaaaaaa???’ because they tried to amplify it into a blockbuster.

So yes, Great movie - but sucked after reading the book.

So you’ve all see videos from the likes of Emkay and Updoot Studios or the like right?

No. Never.

When I studied to become a Radio Officer (Marine, not Navy) I joined a Radar Maintenance class with six guys from various parts of India.

They added a new page to my ‘technique’. I visited them and saw all their notes plastered on their walls. They didn’t sit and revise - they walked around and stared at the walls… it was amazing.

So first of all, we’d do a class - maybe a couple of hours - where I’d mark diagrams (using colours) and take notes (also using highlighters to mark important sections of printed notes).

• After the class, during break, I’d spend the first five minutes just scanning over the whole class one time.

• When I got home later, I’d go over it again for about 15 minutes and basically blu-tac them onto the walls. Then I’d scan across the older notes.

Within a week of scanning them, I could basically scan from further away until I could remember most of what was on them without being close enough to read them.

• Only tidy away what you know - but be sure you know it before you move it to longer term storage. I could basically recite the contents of an A4 sheet by just scanning down the headings at this stage.

When I was sure I’d internalised a sheet, I could take it down and stick it in my folder.

The hardest subjects are the most boring, and often least relevant, parts of the course. I think I must have put in 80% of my efforts into less than 10% of the actual coursework.

• Flashcards are awesome. You should have them in your pocket - Question one side, Answer on the back. You should have them in your pocket always, in the toilet, on a bus, wherever you go. If you do just 5 minute sessions multiple times every day then you’ll know them all at the end of the week.

As a testament to how well this worked, I remember learning hundreds of ‘Q’ codes. If you randomly throw one up at me, I’ll remember every detail…

Stuff I remember learning iin 1984, like QRA - Q: What is the name of your vessel/station? or QRK for 'What is the readability of my signals?` with answers rated from 1 to 5.

I never went to sea - so I never used this stuff after I finished College (Margarette Thatcher put the plug on that) but it’s all there.

I’m not sure it matters more TBH… but I basically stopped Reddit for 2 days, and now just get drawn back to read the occasional post - but don’t bother commenting.

With the downtick in Reddit, I remembered that I hadn’t read a book for a month or two, so I headed over to Annies Archive and grabbed a bunch to add to my Kindle…

So I now downloaded 3 versions of ‘Great Expectations’ and am reading that book before watching them - but also have “Welcome to the MonkeyHouse” by Kurt Vonnegut and “The Book Thief” grabbed from Annie’s Archive.

Basically now I’m spending less than half the time on net than I was before.

• Levar Burton Reads - good short stories (today “D.P.” by Kurt Vonnegut)
• Behind the Bastards this week: Stockton Rush, inventor of the Deathsub
• The Infinite Monkey Cage
• Evil Genius with Russell Kane (BBC) - last week, David Bowie… was he a genius, or simply evil?
• Something Rhymes with Purple - Fascinating look at English language.
• Drama of the Week (BBC) - occasionally brilliant plays.
• Desert Island Disks - Good when doing chores.

This is crazy - for sure, in many countries it can be taken straight from the tap depending on the reliability of infrastructure… but to waste energy boiling it??? No thanks.

In England, I moved a few times - some places have great tasting water - others not so great - meaning it’s always safe (and ok for brewing or cooking) but not so good for drinking from the tap.

In Scotland (a couple of places I stayed and worked) it’s a toss up whether you should drink the tapwater, or go to your local and take another dram from the top row… those Single Malt Whiskeys made with water from Scotland are amazing… but both are safe in moderation.

In Bangkok, if I don’t clean my shower out monthly, it ends up with brown gunge building up, so I certainly don’t drink the stuff… and it’s hard to know how clean it is (though we’re told it’s certainly drinkable at source, it has a long way to come to my house - and the pressure of the system is low… another red flag). Visiting tropical islands, you see some resorts are connected via long plastic pipes which are often on the surface (in the sun) and so definitely not the best candidate for anything more than a shower.

In Bangkok too, unless you can test it yourself you shouldn’t drink it - but I fail to see why you’d decide to boil dirty water and drink it, seeing as most countries with inadequate tap water have drinking water.

I wouldn’t use ‘boiled tap water’ to make my pasta either.

I have six large bottles which gets topped up each week, to make sure I have plenty of water to cook and drink with… If I didn’t, then I’d invest in a good water filtration system.

I actually added a custom search engine to Firefox… so I can search something on Lemmy. I have the keyword ‘LW’ for Lemmy.World search right now (because Lemmy.ml was offline a while).

Basically, do the Lemmy search (search term ssss) then edit/replace ssss > %s and copy the entire link. https://lemmy.world/search/q/%s/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

Then using ‘add custom search engine’ extension on Firefox, you add it.