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I mean, you’ll find people using PEDs in any sport, despite the risk of bans and everything. Steroid use is also rampant among bodybuilders....

I noticed that my mouse wheel when scrolling up would sometimes scroll down instead (and vice versa). I figured it’s probably because there is some dirt and grime inside the mouse wheel casing that’s somehow interfering with the sensor....

Dating is odd to me. I do not really know what my motivations are. If I actually find someone. What then? What will we do? How different will our relationship be from a regular friendship (besides you know what). And should it be?...

EDIT: Thanks for the answers

Like… is there any law against it?

I finished pooping and realised my liquid hand soap had run out, so I used a body soap bar to wash them. I had to go outside and use the hand soap in another bathroom to make sure my hands were clean....

…despite the fact that, for example, Flash was proprietary and they, especially now, provide all their products by subscription?

The notebook (A6) would always bend when I tried to bring it with me unless I put it in my bag, which is tedious to bring out in short notice

Don’t want to endorse Christianity necessarily but hard to get around saying the word Christmas or Xmas, so is Xmas more rebellious? Is there an even more rebellious or irreverent name for it?...

I’m not like a super political person, and from my understanding its the idea that if I make a $10 thing for the bossman, but only get $1 that is wage theft?...

I don’t have my own instance or server, so I don’t know, but it would be interesting to know.

Assuming copyright laws don’t change by then, otherwise there is no way to know....

We all know the story, so many passion projects are taken down by companies and most commonly not even for reasons that make much sense....

I originally signed up for lemmy about six months ago due to becoming outraged over reddit’s continual coddling of hard right and fascist powermods that use their authority to harass....

As a kid, I bruised all the time, very easily. Nowadays, I don’t bruise at all, with some exceptions....

It doesn’t freeze here too often, but when it’s going to we’ll go outside and set our faucets to drip to prevent freezing. I just have to remember to do this, and I worry that I’ll forget. Do those faucet covers work? Any other options?

When I was young, I played a lot of air-combat games. If I remember well I learned the Ukrainian geography while Bombing Russian troops in Odessa playing USNF Video for the kids . Another game had a campaign in Yemen. If my memory isn’t too rusty, there was also Egypt and Korea campaign....

Almost every jar of pickles claims a serving of pickles has zero calories. Now clearly, this is incorrect and the result of exploiting some ridiculous FDA loophole, since anyone knows that cucumbers provide calories....

I came to lemmy months ago to get away from the rising reddit infection of hard right activist powermods that use their authority to harass their ideological enemies. For a while it was really nice, to be able to engage with a likeminded community without getting banned for saying things like ‘cheetolini is a seditionist’...

Some article websites (I’m looking at msn.com right now, as an example) show the first page or so of article content and then have a “Continue Reading” button, which you must click to see the rest of the article. This seems so ridiculous, from a UX perspective–I know how to scroll down to continue reading, so why hide...