Enemies should think twice before “pissing off” (hehe) someone who has access to a crapulence cannon!

Oh man how did I never hear of the great wide-open world of Star Trek pharts? :-P

- source

It might be information overload but like… it seems hard to imagine people finding out that their wells were bad to drink from, and then simply deciding not to care. Though, that’s probably naive and it’s likely always been this way.

Oh wow, gross, but therefore thanks for sharing!:-)

Man, even if you boil the water… that sounds no bueno… People act like humans live “better” lives than those from 100 years ago, as if well water wasn’t fresher and cleaner than what crap we get out of our tap. Tbf, vaccines exist now and that’s HUGE (well… for those that choose to take them), but in other ways we’ve gone backwards or at least sidewise rather than forward.

Oh, thanks for the correction!:-)

That does not benefit specifically Alphabet though…

It has to run out of all the water that was sitting still between the output hole and the input source where it’s heated. If your apartment has a central water tank, that has its advantages - e.g. a whole family inside your place could take successive showers without ever running out of hot water - but this is the primary disadvantage to that, the wait to go through that cold water, which gets worse the further/higher up you are away from it.

Maybe try to find a way to not entirely waste it - like put some of that into a water kettle to be boiled for a hot drink? I enjoy such thoughts but do as you please ofc.

I am no plumber, just thought this might be interesting to know:-). I am 10,001% certain that someone will correct me here if I have said anything inaccurate. 😂

Interesting… thank you for sharing!

It seems caching doesn’t do much, even while also being a big pain for instance admins - so much so that it is explicitly made voluntary.

Perhaps that is why PieFed is going so hard on integration with PixelFed and now Loops.

Fwiw, lemmy.cafe defederated from lemmy.ml, and is even running a 0.19.6 beta codebase so even if there’s only a single admin they seem really on the ball.

Tesseract also has implemented a way to ban all users from lemmy.ml.

And PieFed allows personal bans on any custom instance you choose. Plus it has “categories” of communities so that you don’t have to keep searching on All, though you can do that too if you want. It seems really polished these days! Not 100% - e.g. you can’t easily search for a user in the same form as a keyword - but it looks extremely usable, so I am switching to it today.

Meanwhile, on Lemmy we were promised that 0.19.3 would allow user blocking of instances, which turned out to be not quite true, and when your instance upgrades from that to 0.19.6 when it comes out (most other instances, like mine, are already running 0.19.5), the protections that it offers will be further rolled back - e.g. on 0.19.3 I did not receive notifications from those users, whereas now on 0.19.5 I do.

And maybe some apps allow blocking of an instance, I dunno about that aspect.

Lemmy.ml was one of the first instances in the Fediverse… but that doesn’t mean that we should be forced to listen to the stuff spewing forth from it unless we choose that for ourselves, especially in the next few months as the trolls go into overdrive due to the ongoing USA election (and likely subsequent “constitutional crisis” event).

Anyway, I just wanted you to know that there are options! Not many, but they do exist!:-)

I did not make this, but it halfway almost seems to fit…

Oh, does image caching not apply to remotely hosted content? Well, then yeah, that sounds good.

But doesn’t the instance it is delicious (edit: FUCK AUTOCORRECT!) delivered to do that, and then if the image changes later, it wouldn’t update? And then I thought further that people from other instances likewise pull from the host instance, rather than the original source.

Except maybe Lemmy.world, if the image caching was added in a more recent update, which I thought was the case?

Anyway, I’m not saying that any of this happens, only that I thought it might.

(Wouldn’t work anyway, due to Lemmy’s caching approach iirc)

Randomization subroutine…

If anyone wants to actually hear it, here it is: https://youtu.be/YGdEagfFZ08 :-)

Okay fr fr, but…

Twovix (dammit! now I’m stuck with that spelling!?) isn’t even the only pair of beings that she murdered this week:-).

Are we so sure about that ordering?