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ArtieShaw , to lemmyshitpost in Bee is stored in the walls

I knew someone this happened to. Several months after moving into their new house they started working on a neglected secondary bathroom on the 2nd floor. They didn't go back there too frequently because it wasn't a priority, but it was a really cool space connected to their bedroom via a small dressing room/closet.

One day she noticed a low, humming drone and checked the wall of that closet. She claimed that the whole wall was warm to the touch and vibrating. That was not an easy or cheap job, but we got to make jokes about bees for a couple of months.

ArtieShaw , to news in Donald Trump faces travel ban to 37 countries

Exactly. After the American revolution started, England needed a new place to send convicts.

ArtieShaw , to memes in Dunes vs Star Wars

If you watch enough old scifi and adventure movies, you'll learn to welcome the "so that's where Lucas took that idea from" feeling as an old friend. He lifted a lot.

ArtieShaw , to funny in Norway has some surprising stats

You're right, of course. But I think it's equally plausible that the original writer didn't really grasp the difference and mixed some things up.

ArtieShaw , to news in Dobbs had the opposite effect conservatives intended

Did you read even the first paragraph of that article?

ArtieShaw , to linuxmemes in you don't need more 4GB of RAM

Exactly. That kitty encompasses and rules over aaaalllll that couch. Surfaces and interior volume (as soon as he discovers it). No room for anybody else. Just ask him.

ArtieShaw , to science_memes in The Force should be plural

The One Grand Unified Force to Bind Them All.... no, it's a Star Wars joke.

ArtieShaw , to asklemmy in Why are many men growing beards again ?

In the US they were definitely out of fashion in the '80s and '90s. They were fashion statement that said "I'm a gross hippie" or worse, a BeeGee.

I was a teen at the time and the consensus among teen girls was that a beard was the ultimate dealbreaker of a physical attribute. Makes sense, really, because most guys our age couldn't grow a nice one if they wanted to. (And also - hippies are gross). I always respectfully disagreed, and would point to our classmate, Murad. He had pretty well grown facial hair by junior year and he looked fiiiinne.

The exception that proved the rule? Luckily (for Murad) my classmates generally agreed, but refused to back down from their opinion in general.

That attitude persisted, with the occasional appearance of a goatee or soul patch in the late '90s, both of which proved to be a gateway drug that led to the appearance of proper beards. I think a lot of guys would have liked to have beards, but realized that they were driving away potential partners. But they were pretty normal by 2010.

I'll drop this line from wikipedia, which should illustrate just how boringly mainstream beards have become in the US.

Since 2015 a growing number of male political figures have worn beards in office, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Senators Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton.

Damn hippies.

ArtieShaw , to world in Bird flu outbreak in Jharkhand; 2 doctors, 6 others quarantined in Ranchi | Ranchi News - Times of India

That's an interesting but grim point. Ebola, for example, is both very deadly and very infectious, but that combination means that outbreaks tend to burn out before spreading widely. One of the early things that scared me about COVID in late 2019 was the rumors of "asymptomatic spreading" that were coming out of China.

That wasn't the only "oh shit" thing about COVID and the way things were handled early on, but it was a bad one.

ArtieShaw , to startrek in [TNG] What did you think of the Dixon Hill stuff?

Well thanks for reminding me that Captain Proton existed. /s

I disliked all of the mid-century nostalgia episodes. Not that I dislike mid-century nostalgia, but I thought they were poorly done.

ArtieShaw , to startrek in [TNG] What did you think of the Dixon Hill stuff?

I know a guy who is a literature snob and is probably the last person I would have expected to really get into Raymond Chandler novels. Anyway, he was raving about those books so I read a few. It turns out that Chandler was a phenomenally weird wordsmith. Inventive, funny, and unexpected. If you're looking at midcentury American writers, Chandler is hugely underrated. Maybe in a few centuries he'll get his due.

Sure, it's detective pulp. But it's detective pulp that's been given a strong hallucinogen and whacked over the head a few times before waking up in the desert.

ArtieShaw , to world in Tornado in China's Guangzhou kills five and injures 33

I am against earthquakes on principle.

Oddly enough, I just read something today about newly emerging earthquake detection tech. It involved small variations in movement tracked by GPS transmitters, and would give 2 hours (+/-?) before the quake hit. I like the idea of that.

ArtieShaw , to world in Tornado in China's Guangzhou kills five and injures 33

In recent years we've been seeing a scary trend of tornadoes hitting the area overnight. Like at 11:00pm or later. That suuuuccks.

When I was a kid they were almost always a late afternoon or early evening event. Official forecasts were crap, but at least you could look outside and think, "this looks like tornado weather, better check the radio." Now we're woken out of sleep in the middle of the night by the simultaneous klaxon of our phone alerts.

They're also hitting us earlier in the year. My calendar has a repeating reminder for early April: "peak tornado season starts in a few months - start drilling the cats now." We had one in fucking February this year that took out a barn a few miles down the road.

ArtieShaw , to mildlyinfuriating in I shaved for the first time in a while so I could update a profile picture and my chin looks like this.

I have an at-home laser hair removal gun. It works best on dark hair and very pale skin because it uses the absorption of UV light to heat and kill the hair. It has a safety feature that makes you validate that "my skin is pale enough to use this" before it will turn on because it will burn anything dark. Hair, skin, whatever.

It won't work on blond or white hair, and there's no real workaround to that. Electrolysis is an option for light colored hair, but I think that's more invasive. Not an option for me, so I haven't looked into it.

ArtieShaw , to world in Total solar eclipse to sweep across Mexico, the US and Canada

I wouldn't blame you. We live in the path, but early spring is a 50/50 chance for rain and clouds vs clear weather.

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