what is the procedure of buying a ship load of any cargo? ex; corn or paraffin wax?
You need 100 metric tons of paraffin wax. How do you aquire it?
How many calories does a standard whole blood donation burn?
So I just went and donated blood again and durring the recovery period it occured to me that it takes quite a bit of work for your body to regenerate that lost blood volume and the actual blood cells. Regrowing that many cells seems like it would be fairly energetically intensive. So how many calories does producing all those...
Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam?
Had an exchange of emails with someone, around 4-5 back and forth emails. He then told me that my last reply never arrived. When I forwarded that email again to him, he told me that actually the original reply arrived but landed in spam… he checked it after I forwarded the initial reply....
Are there any lemmy instances that work as a single "subreddit"?
And which of them are a better alternative than subscribing to a specific community here at lemmy.world?
Post to Comment Ratio
What sort of Post to Comment Ratio would you say is a good range for Lemmy / KBin?...
How do you decide if you should call in sick for the day?
I always struggle trying to decide whether or not to stay home when I’m feeling under the weather. How do you decide?
How to get rid of a cold fast?
I am going on holiday in 3 days and of course my body decided a couple days ago to catch a cold…right before my long awaited holiday!!...
If these were your only choices, what would you do?
You are serving yourself pasta and you have zero access to tomato sauce. All you have in your pantry is ketchup (catsup.) Would you eat the plain pasta, or add ketchup for flavor?...
Why does smoked salmon look 'raw'? And why does it taste so different from a cooked fillet?
I don’t tend to eat much fish, but in the supermarket earlier I saw some smoked salmon which didn’t need cooking, and some salmon fillets which did. They looked the same really - both ‘raw’. I decided to buy some of the fillet. It was nice, but a very different flavour from when I’ve tried smoked salmon in the past....
How does an app like Threads get access to financial, political, health, religious or browsing info through your phone's OS. What is the actual source of that data?
I’m trying to understand how an app would even get that info in the first place, how that’s classified and why a mobile operating system even has a way to provide that data....
How would Threads federate with Lemmy in the first place since they’re a microblogging thing and we’re not?
I don’t understand how ActivityPub works that well and I haven’t used Threads so maybe I just doing get it....
Why is it called Lemmy?
Sorry if someone has already asked this. This is my first post on Lemmy. I mean, I guess you could ask the same question about Reddit but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be Read-It. But what does Lemmy mean? Is it a cute word for a small lemon?
Do you think that Lemmy will last or will it die in a few weeks?
[Solved] How do I get rid of my dead name in iPadOS settings? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I have set my new name everywhere I can in the AppleID settings but the old name is still showing up in this place, and maybe in other places which I haven’t seen yet. But how can I get my chosen name to show up here?...
Is there a website that collects Donald Trump's most incoherent speeches and tweets?
Sorry if this is the wrong community for this. I’m looking for a compilation of Trump’s most rambling moments (e.g., “Look, having nuclear”; Gettysburg being beautiful; etc.). Does anyone know of any sites that would have something like this? Thank you!
Is there a "canvas" of the universe? Do we even know? Would a canvas follow the same laws as the paint?
Think of the universe as a painting. There’s the image made in paint, and the surface it was painted on. The canvas....
With public key cryptography, why can't someone decrypt a message using the public key?
I’ve been trying to get my head around this and I’ve watched a few videos but they don’t seem to specifically answer my question....
If you've been fooled, does that make you "a fool"?
For example, if you said that someone had been fooled by something, would they take offense and think you’re calling them a fool or foolish?...
Why do so few Industrial product come with Linux support ?
I was thinking about the recent story about the DB looking for windows 3.1 administrator....
What happens when you soak a hard boiled egg in alcohol?
I tried searching online but I’ve mostly gotten results about cocktails that have raw egg in them or science experiments that use uncooked eggs....
What caused the change in electronic terminology?
What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?...
i think im diabetic?? i dont want to be but its most likely
im having a panic attack right now because yesterday i ate high sugar food and honestly im scared for my bloog pressure and im diabetic now and i dont want to pass away, i really dont. ive had blood tests and it comes out “ok” but im still scared and angry because of high sugar food poisoning people and i failed my diet and...
Is eating potato chips better than nothing in terms of pure nutrition and wholesomeness?
v v ill w 2 colds back to back wanna die miserable 90% of my last 3 weeks of waking hours, little appetite
Are there capture cards with such low latency you can use them to game through a computer?
I have a few consoles setup on my desk and I think it would be neat to be able forgo switching inputs on my monitor....
How does dog pee ownership work?
The cliche understanding is that dogs mark their territory with pee. At times I’ve been on walks with family and friends with half a dozen dogs. There have been occasions where they form a line just to pee in the same spot....