Flying Squid
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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I am getting inundated with calls from some sort of tax scam and it's driving me nuts.English
1·2 years agoIf so, it’s a long-term frienemy if they know my phone number.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that in January 2014, a seven-year-old girl named Charlotte Benjamin wrote a letter to Lego, pointing out the lack of female characters compared to male ones.English
0·2 years agoThat wasn’t an issue when I was a kid and they all looked like this:

Is that a man chef? A lady chef? Who knows? They all have the vacant smiley face. Even the astronaut one after you throw his (or her) space ship against the wall.
That said, they weren’t “minifigures” at the time, they were Lego men. Even the obvious female ones were Lego men. This is a lady Lego Man:

…although it could be a hippy man Lego man.
Lots of poor people used Redbox.
At least poor people still have the public library.
For now.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Americans would you consider wearing a Guy Fawks mask on election day?
0·2 years agoConsidering voter ID is required in most states now, you have to show your face in order to vote.
Also, this really wouldn’t work in Oregon since it’s all vote by mail there.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Adult daughter. Should I disown her!?English
2·2 years agoAh, your wife has discovered the system at our house- let the dishes pile up in the sink until someone can’t take it anymore.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Adult daughter. Should I disown her!?English
1·2 years agoI don’t think you need to parent an adult child.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Adult daughter. Should I disown her!?English
0·2 years agoMy daughter is not an adult, she’s a teenager. But it’s her job to put away the dishes. And no matter what I do, she can’t understand that, in the silverware drawer, THE BIG SPOONS GO IN THE BIG SPOON SLOT AND THE LITTLE SPOONS GO IN THE LITTLE SPOON SLOT!
And she thinks this is acceptable.
I understand the compulsion to disown.
Another cool thing about the plant from that page:
In a paper written by Ds Davidson, published in 1947, it was noted that the Warnman people, an Aboriginal Australian group, used Crotalaria cunninghamii to make canvas shoes. The Warnman people primarily lived in the Gibson Desert and used Crotalaria cunninghamii fibre shoes to protect their feet from the hot sand and rugged stony desert ground. The way the fibre was constructed was by peeling off the soft bark and then tying the smaller fibres together and tying them around your feet.[11] The Indigenous people of the Little Sandy Desert also used the plant in this way, as well as for belts to hang food, such as goanna, from.[12]
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**English
0·3 years agoYou go ahead and destroy something that cost you hundreds of dollars. Be it a TV or cans of Bud Light, I’m not going to destroy something I already got out of some need for a moral victory.
I hate ‘smart’ TVs. I wish they didn’t exist. But telling someone to destroy the one they already had- meaning that if they want to watch TV, they’ll just have to buy another- doesn’t really make much sense to me.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in TechEnglish
0·3 years agoJesus. The CEO of Grindr is a supporter of homophobes. We truly are in the worst timeline.
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Technology@lemmy.world•SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game CompaniesEnglish
1·3 years agoSure they would have. And worked 10 hour days 7 days a week with no overtime or safety protections or health insurance.
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Technology@lemmy.world•SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game CompaniesEnglish
0·3 years agoYes, blame your co-workers for everything. It must be their faults. They’re all “deadbeats” and “abusers.”
Also, your job is supposed to provide for you when you’re injured.
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Technology@lemmy.world•SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game CompaniesEnglish
0·3 years agoDo you like weekends? Thank unions. Do you like sick pay? Thank unions. Do you like overtime pay? Thank unions.
Unions make your job better even if you’re not in one by fighting for your rights as much as theirs. They want your pay to be as good as their pay.
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Technology@lemmy.world•SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game CompaniesEnglish
0·3 years agoCool. I hope it gets other areas of the game industry to unionize. They deserve it.
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Technology@lemmy.world•motorized velomobile VM45 can cruise without pedaling using electric-assist functionEnglish
0·3 years agoI can’t quite put my finger on what makes that look so unsafe to me, but I would be really nervous while in it.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy
01·3 years agoDoes Lemmy even need any more features? Can we please avoid feature bloat and don’t break what doesn’t need fixing?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
1·3 years agoAre you kidding? Like all of them.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
1·3 years agoUsing autism as an insult. And the r-word. I’m sure I’ll see both, but I wish there were a corner of the internet free of mocking people with disabilities.










Gender is real, it’s just a human construct. But that doesn’t make it any less real than, say, Italian is real despite it being a human construct.