It’s a common test for concussion. Voice of experience.

A king won’t though. That’s why they’re gone. Another dodge.

You can make nearly all images small enough to upload and still look good without dropping colour depth. There are 3 ways to achieve it basically:

• Resize it to a lower resolution (1280 x whatever looks just fine on a screen)
• Reduce the quality
• Change to lossy (JPG) from non-lossy (PNG)

The resizing is usually enough.

The quality reduction is something that google pagespeed focuses on too. For most apps that means choosing a lower “quality” when converting to jpg or saving as a new jpg. 85% of original is good.

If you happen to have imagemagick installed, I have a little script that I use called “resize_to_pagespeed.sh”. The jist of it is this:

convert inputfile.jpg -filter Lanczos -resize 1280x1280 -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 85 outputfile.jpg

I just ran this on a 2.4MB photo (below) and it came out at 186KB. That’s a 13x reduction. Right click -> open in new tab to see it full size.

If the image isn’t square, imagemagick is smart enough to figure out correct dimensions.

Excoriate was a new one for me so for anyone else: In this context if means to censure scathingly.

As long as they’re not squashed!

The problem is the previous alternative was popping them in the green bin which our household was already doing. We are doing no more recycling but it’s now a lot of space consumption (squashed bottles or cans are rejected) and more hassle.

No we recycled them and recycle rates were really high. They just went in the green wheelie bin and were picked up every week or two.

I would be fine with the deposit scheme but the plastic bottles and aluminium cans all need to be in perfect condition / no squashing them down so they quickly start taking up a lot of space in our (busy) house then need a trip to the store followed by putting them in a scanning machine one by one where before we could just squish them and pop them in the green bin.

I’m not doing any more recycling but now I have a lot more effort unfortunately.

Also no glass in the scheme.

I’m honestly not a fan as someone who was recycling everything already.

There are about two people on here who wouldn’t say “fuck Henry Kissinger”.

What a massive load of shite. The fucking smell of boot polish off your breath is disgusting.

Jog on.

Lol. It is, in fact, the bootstraps. You were right all along.

Edit: I know we’re having a laugh here but that whole bootstraps thing does seem very harsh from the outside. Like I’ve spent a lot of time in the US (more than 6 months over the course of my life over various trips) and I’m genuinely very fond of the place, but the whole lack of social support structure does seem kinda ruthless from the outside looking in.

You jest, but the average Irish junkie just isn’t as enterprising as the average American one. :D

I’ve no history degree but this all smells very similar to the late Roman Republic to me. The cult of personality, purges of those not loyal to the right person etc etc.

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He doesn’t need money

No but as I said in another comment he’s a money hungry cunt. We all are to an extent but there comes a point of wealth for a small subset of humans beyond which adding zeros to your bank balance is what’s fuelling you. They can’t stop themselves.

He is one of that small subset IMO.

Seriously though, the truth is that trump is 80 and he will statistically die relatively soon

I can’t recommend Mike Duncan’s “The History of Rome” podcast enough. The cult of personality is what led to the fall of the republic and the similarities to our current predicament are more than a bit disconcerting.

MAGA and the idea of challenging elections by force will never go away.

Mmmmmm. He’s a money hungry cunt so I don’t think so.

I feel like if Harris paid him enough he’d turn on a dime.

Yeah we had something similar here for a while. “Head shops” were selling bath salts and spice and what not.

The government struggled to catch up because the next analogue was ready to go the second any ban came in.

Eventually they brought out what was essentially a “fuck this shit” piece of legislation. Was a good few years ago now. More than ten if memory serves. It all shut down overnight.

Things are way more regulated here though in general (Ireland). I can’t even buy melatonin over the counter which honestly is both stupid and annoying.

Edit: We do still have the good sudafed though. One with two paracetamol is great for a hangover. :)

Thanks.

Crazy stuff.

The drug’s true identity emerged after researchers figured out it’s a type of opioid — one that does, in fact, work in a way that’s similar to heroin

Aptly named at least. Honestly was not expecting actual opiates for sale with petrol.

What is gas station heroin if you wouldn’t mind filling me in?

Same. Have mine about 18 months. Never once connected to the internet. Great device.

Very. US troops obviously have lots of experience fighting insurgency style and ridiculously good hardware, logistics etc. but Ukraine have very hard earned experience in near peer conflict with drones and so on.

Soldier for soldier, Ukraine probably has the best troops in the world right now for the kind of conflicts that are unfortunately looming.

I think this is a bug in Lemmy. Saw someone else mention it recently. I believe a fix is coming.