People who can control their dreams - what is it like? (kbin.social)
Epic tales, mastering the universe, or just reading a good book next to a fireplace?
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Eli5 why socialist countries don't have recessions
Which inedible substances/objects do you think might otherwise make for a delicious blended drink/smoothie?
You know they never would as they are, but you can’t help wishing they might....
Just thinking about Christmas
If Joseph has 4 sons and 2 daughters (form a previous marriage before Mary [ref Catholicism), and in that age men usually married at about 18 and girls at 14-15 in that age. Was Joseph twice Mary’s age at the birth of Christ?
Best way to digitize thousands of photos? (kbin.social)
I've got thousands of photos in photo albums that i'd like to make digital copies of if they dont already exist somewhere. whats the best method of going about this? an app on my phone? the scanner on my printer? is there a program that i can use to scan many photos at once on my printer? i could definetly fit a few pics into...
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Are certain typos/grammar errors harder to read than others?
I was watching a twitch streamer play the game pogostuck (A game similar in frustration and difficulty to Getting over it with Bennett Foddy — Don’t Fall!)....
In the USA, can you lose your home even after it is 100% paid off?
Let’s say that you buy a home in cash and have 100% paid off. Could you still lose it somehow?
If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how would you use it? (kbin.social)
Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history....
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You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose?
You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.
A term for lack of perspective on your own contextual knowledge?
Is there a term for that phenomenon where someone gets so far into a topic that they become unaware of how much contextual knowledge they have about it?...
Do you have a preferred artist or band that isn't widely recognized in the mainstream?
What's a low-stakes, achieveable goal on your bucket list?
Could be outstanding, could be something you’ve already completed....
How do you justify continually using take out delivery services?
For those that continually use services like Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash, etc., how does justify using the cost?...
Which song are you currently obsessed with?
I will start. Lovely by Billie Eilish. I have already played it 34 times and can’t get enough it. I feel like i could hear it all day.
Make Lemmy thrive, Privacy & Censorship.
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6788379...
How did Lemmy World become the default instance?
World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....
Do you ever come up with genius ("genius") ideas for joke domains to unsettle/embarrass people when you tell them your email?
like, GiantHairyNipplemonsters.com…...
Any trick to read large Wikipedia "Comparison of..." tables?
I really like comparison tables on wikipedia but find them hard to navigate....
What’s the least amount of money that would significantly improve your life?
Who's winning the war in Ukraine?
The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...
THANK YOU LEMMINGS!!! Update (lemmy.world)
Merry Happy! I posted a few days ago asking for help with a prelit tree that had entire portions not lighting up, or flickering like crazy. It was a crack tree situation and I could not find anything helpful on my own and you wonderful people came together and saved Christmas/ yamainwitch-mas. I was literally ready to just throw...
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Who's the next artist that should get a biopic?
Cash grabs aside, I really enjoy a good biopic. I’m between David Bowie and Michael Jackson
Does anyone actually use bathroom bluetooth speakers?
Seems pointless and inconvenient for me as they usually seem to be poor quality, and can you really listen to music in the shower, and are you showering long enough to benefit from it?...
Can I get UberEats to stop recommending to "bundle" alcohol from a liquor store to your order?
It just annoys me because I’m not going to order it and I’m abstaining from alcohol. But there’s always some “special deals” being advertised by UberEats on alcohol, as well as meat, dairy and eggs. It’s like they’re really sleazy and desperate to hawk these products.