Do conservative places have higher crime rates than non-conservative ones? Why?
What would happen if I put sandpaper in my printer?
This is a late night intrusive thought I had. I feel like it would depend on the printer and type of printer but I’m wondering how messed up it would get....
How do I "ls -R | cat | grep print" ?
Hi friends! 🤓 I am on a gnulinux and trying to list all files in the active directory and it’s subdirectories. I then want to pipe the output to “cat”. I want to pipe the output from cat into grep....
If your instance is defederated from another instance, would it be sockpuppeting to create another account to view posts from that instance?
I get that AMP sites are supposed to load faster. But why do they have to be so ugly?
Or why do they need to change the appearance from the original version of the page at all? It just looks unaesthetic
Is there a way to make an interface or to use an app like Signal so your texts can't get "legally intercepted" via bluetooth from all car manufacturers?
They deemed it legal for all car manufacturers that any text you send through their system are free for them to read.
Would life be significantly different if no light were detectable when closing our eyes?
Currently, if your eyes are closed you can still get a sense of the light around you, and moving your head around you can tell if you’re moving it toward or away from a light source (barring maybe if you’re outdoors and it’s bright out all around you)....
I am keep losing my computer mouse (wireless) and feel anxiety to purchase more mouse. How should I help myself ?
I buy 2-3 wireless mouse online once a while. Then when I lose 1-2 mouse, I feel the ‘need’ to buy more mouse, and I do place order online waiting days, weeks for mouses to ship to me....
My elderly parents' car broke down a couple hundred miles away. How can I get them and their car home (or fixed) with a minimum of cost and hassle?
My parents were driving to the beach for vacation. Their car broke down in a small city just under 100 miles from their destination and about 250 miles from home. It’s under warranty, but the nearest dealership is 50 miles away (in a completely different direction than either home or the beach), and of course neither a...
For folks who write for Medium.com, what's your engagement like, and how much do you make?
I’m wondering if it’s financially worth it to cover the $5/mo membership....
What's with ~employers~ scammers using secure messengers for hiring these days?
My GF has two nibbles on her resume, and both want her to communicate through either Signal or Telegram....
Where does the forehead end for bald people?
Any strategies for guessing a passphrase that I am missing one word of?
I forgot my Bitwarden password and I know most of the words, I am missing one word and I know the starting letter of of the word. Is there like a strategy to guessing passwords? Is there a program to assist in guessing passwords? I feel like guessing manually would take months.
Trans-people who had surgery: Afterwards did your ability to do the center of gravity type posture challenges switch?
Like, did your actual center of gravity or muscular attributes change over time to make you pass or fail where previously you had the other outcome of one of these alleged “men can’t do this but women can” type challenges?
Is "Figure it out yourself" pretty much a tactical retreat?
Weird question, maybe pointless, and yeah, kinda petty I will admit, but eh, there’s no stupid questions and I kinda got curious after an interaction (see after the dots if your curious)....
When Humans Use Water for Something, Is it Gone For Good or Does It Return To the Water Cycle?
It is common to hear things like it takes one gallon of water to create a single almond, or watering a lawn can take X gallons per month/year, or it takes X gallons to make one pound of beef or yield X pounds of alfalfa....
Why don't more men wear crop top ?
The question started by a joke about t*he hell for tall guys to find fitting T-shirts, like size L shows your navel every time you raise the hands, and size XL expect you to have some beer belly so you end-up floating on the clothes. Somehow at that poing better get a navel piercing and wear a crop tops like ladies do. *...
How to successfully find a weather related community on Lemmy?
Am I doing something wrong? I search communities with key word weather and find no communities with over a few to maybe a dozen subscribers....
How does car insurance on multiple vehicles work (USA) (kbin.run)
there's so many people that own 5+ shitboxes, but there's no way they're paying over a grand a year to insure all of them. is there something where you pay less to add on a car? obviously you can't drive all 5 at once, so is there something where like only one at a time is covered for collisions, and the rest only if like a tree...
How do you know what a streaming service have available if all of them need you to subscribe before showing you.
I know piracy will be 90% of the answer here and I agree but I am watching with people that insist on legal viewing.
If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use?
So, say I get a set of chromosomes from my Mum which contains the X chromosome and the same from my Dad, but with the Y chromosome. I now have two sets of the same 22 chromosomes, plus an X and a Y....
If TikTok in the US is spun off as a separate entity, how hard would it be for the current company to put in a back door to still access the data.
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what the heck is a pensioner in the UK and why are they the butt of so many jokes ?
How is the US able to instantly stop an attack from Iran but powerless when Israel attacks hospitals?
I’m missing something here. Admittedly, I’m making the assumption that blowing up hospitals is a bad thing to do.