Why do dentists always recommend to brush 2 times for 2-3 minutes?
I almost always read in the news/press that dentists recommend to brush teeth two times a day for 2-3 minutes....
Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?
like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
Why does a proper concept of a glass floor not apply both economically/demographically?
This question will require some explaining, so bear with me (I phrased it how I did because I wanted to emphasize one of the connections). I ask this here because economics seem to be a huge topic here, especially when it comes to certain schools of thought (not that I’m judging, you have your reasons)....
Did Taylor Swift Attend a New York Jets Game to Detract From Her Private Jets? (www.vulture.com)
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Do you think Taylor Swift's life inspired the Hanna Montana show, or the show gave Taylor Swift a template to follow, or is it a Jungian archetype that inevitably occurred because history was ready? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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While half-asleep, I heard and saw my door creak and open wide. Then when I woke up later, it was fully closed. Is it possible I hallucinated it?
What's an easy yet useful skill that everyone should learn?
whats your most self-incriminating story?
Preferably with your primary address so we know where to send the van.
Have you ever done something for yourself on your (job) company's infrastructure?
Like hosted a website or a server for your personal needs, or taken a smartphone given to you for work or something like that.
Why cant I upload pictures from my Camera?
Ive tried uploading multiple pictures I’ve taken with my phone’s camera and havent been able to upload them to multiple different instances. Are they too large a file or too high res to upload? Really wanted to share pics to some of the smaller craft instances, but so far I’ve been limited to posting memes since I cant...
I have a spare lithium phone battery that got wet a couple months back- will it go boom if I try to use or charge it?
So at the beginning of summer I repurposed an old Android phone into a dedicated emulator. The phone’s old enough it has an honest to god user replaceable battery so I decided to get another one and keep it in my backpack to double my gaming time....
Is Lemmy a good place to share personal projects and art?
I noticed that a lot of the posts on Lemmy are news, memes, and interesting discussions. I like the regular flow of content we have, and I find a lot of it engaging....
What are you looking forward to in 2024?
You are now a duck, what do you do first??
You are still you, you can speak human language that you already know, and you know how to speak duck....
Who went "full fedi" yet?
Bit of a simple question: Some people on lemmy are still posting stuff from youtube, xitter and the like....
What are some dying and dead niche lemmings?
have any niche lemmings taken off in the 6 months since the API scandal?
What's the best question to ask someone who you don't know very well?
How do you know if your server (e.g. lemmy.world) is federated with another server?
I want to see a list for each popular server (e.g. the top 10 lemmy instances) and I want to see - for each instance - with whom they federate. How can I do this? Any sure-fire way to know if a instance like HexBear.net is being federated with lemmy.world? How do you know?
if you had to use 1 technology for music and video what would it be?
tbh I’d use digital like piracy and music streaming or yt odysee peertube...
What do you think the difference is between living, and dying?
I’ve always considered the nature of living to be to grow, to become more – and the nature of dying to be reduced, to become less. Sort of like taking the derivative of what you are, the rate of change…...
7zip how to extract zip file and the output file must use current date time
please help. it is difficult to find the extracted file when it keep its original date creation. i use sort by date creation in explorer. TIA
What is the weirdest/strangest thing you find comfort in?
For me its opening the apple weather app and the map in it and watching the temperatures and wind patterns all around the world...
Critics of capitalism, what concrete economic policies do you support?
Capitalism is criticized a lot on here (especially by American users, it seems to me). Most of that seems well-founded, but I also have the feeling that most of these complaints are simply venting and not the first step to improvement....
Hey, it's Thanksgiving today in the USA and Brazil, and also kind of in Japan, so maybe it's a good day for me to ask, WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR? (a-z-animals.com)
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