Yeah I don’t like putting things in on very hot washes because firstly I think it’s unnecessary for the water to be that hot and it’s just a waste of power and secondly because I think it bleaches my jeans. Colours seem to stick around longer on cooler washers and then they also don’t have to fiddle around with those squares of colour protector pad things, which don’t work anyway.
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I ones accidentally washed jellybean, it melted in the machine and completely glued the pocket shut. I don’t think I’ve eaten jelly beans in about 15 years so who knows where it came from.
Although the absolute worst one I had was when I accidentally washed some catnip. It absolutely did not wash away and just cause the complete mess.
I just washed stuff like that out by hand.
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World News@lemmy.world•Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter deliveryEnglish
9·7 hours agoThey’re trying to implement something like this in the UK but they haven’t been able to explain how they plan to accommodate people that don’t have smartphones. Because they exist and need to be accommodated for.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Tony Perkins Calls For Boycotting "Woke" Chick-fil-A - Joe.My.God.English
3·7 hours agoStrangely I didn’t actually think it was him to begin with, but I suppose it’s good to be thorough.
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News@lemmy.world•Trump tells WSJ he takes a higher daily dose of aspirin than his doctors advise in lengthy interview on his health
3·7 hours agoImmediately followed by an advertisement to buy the Donald Trump commemorative plate.
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News@lemmy.world•Trump tells WSJ he takes a higher daily dose of aspirin than his doctors advise in lengthy interview on his health
3·7 hours agoYeah but the cult doesn’t like him do they. They still blame him for not supporting the insurrection.
He’s not good at the mad hatter routine that Trump pulls off but also not competent enough to actually be an effective president. I was watching a video the other day and it randomly had a clip of George Bush Jr in it. It was weird watching it because he sounded entirely intelligent, perfectly coherent and totally competent. That’s what comparison does for you I guess.
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News@lemmy.world•Trump tells WSJ he takes a higher daily dose of aspirin than his doctors advise in lengthy interview on his health
128·7 hours agoAspirin is a blood thinner I have no idea why Americans seem to think it’s a painkiller, because it isn’t.
If you overdose on them your blood turns to water this is not a good thing for so many reasons but it’s extra bad for the elderly since their veins are kind of leaky anyway. Fortunately it’s Trump we’re talking about so no one cares.
The most annoying email to receive, the one that shouldn’t exist.
“That’s not how approvals work Karen, you need to open a ticket. Like the last time I told you this.”
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Cyberpunk 2077@lemmy.world•No, Cyberpunk 2077's elevators aren't just loading screens in disguise, says lead: "The engine is a miracle. I will not accept slander."
1·14 hours agoIt’s a bit of a misnomer really. They are not loading screens in the traditional sense. They’re just doing level streaming and the elevator ride is needed to delay things to give the engine time to actually load stuff in, so they are loading screens in a very real sense.
A bunch of the bugs that the game had when it first came out was due to mishandling of level streaming and a broken version of viewport culling.
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Cyberpunk 2077@lemmy.world•No, Cyberpunk 2077's elevators aren't just loading screens in disguise, says lead: "The engine is a miracle. I will not accept slander."
11·15 hours agoI’ve seen no clip videos of the train stations in 2077 and the elevators top and bottom do not line up. Also the platforms themselves are incredibly small.
It’s a shame they didn’t bother to make the train network really work. Especially when GTA IV had functional trains a decade earlier.
Last names can come from occupations but they don’t have to. It can also be down to where the family originally came from (a lot of Scottish ancestry names are like that) or they are anglicized versions of names in other languages. Also words change over time, less than 100 years ago no one would have found it funny to be called cockler, it just meant someone that looked after chickens.
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news@lemmings.world•CIA rejects Putin's claim of Ukrainian attack on his residence, CNN reportsEnglish
3·1 day agoWhy would that be bad?
Complaining about it makes Russia look pathetic.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easilyEnglish
1·1 day agoYou know what you are absolutely right — Organisations are indeed falling for what is known as the doorman fallacy: reducing rich and complex human roles to a single task and replacing people with AI. This overlooks the nuanced interactions and adaptability humans bring to their work.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Keir Starmer supporter asks why he's so 'unpopular' - there was no shortage of answersEnglish
3·1 day agoIt’s not the American spelling of labour it’s the incorrect spelling of the party name.
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Keir Starmer supporter asks why he's so 'unpopular' - there was no shortage of answersEnglish
2·1 day agoThese numbers are a bit daft to consider in isolation.
Badenoch is completely useless, and way to far the right of traditional conservative values. But she’s also not got a snowball’s chance in hell of ever becoming PM so people aren’t as bothered by her as they would be if she was actually in charge doing these things.
In much the same way that no one would really care about starmer if he wasn’t prime minister. The trouble is he is prime minister.
If it worked the way that it does in sci-fi I’d have no problem with it. If it could give us cures for cancer and reactionless drives everyone would be happy.
But it doesn’t work like that and if they keep going along the lines of Large Language Models it’ll never work like that. AI as it is right now is a barely functional toy that is being misused by virtually everyone and major businesses alike.
I am perfectly happy for AI research to continue but they need to be realistic about its capabilities and be honest about their valuations of companies. AI research should still be at the level of “in the lab”, it is definitely not a product that should be commercially available yet.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Things ChatGPT told a mentally ill man before he murdered his mother
511·1 day agoIt’s the CEO that’s claiming the technology is ready for prime time. Remember the board fired him at one point, presumably because he was suppressing information. The problem was they went about it in as stupid a way as possible, and ended up becoming pariahs because they were not public about what they were doing, and making it look like a power grab. But still they were probably right to fire him.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to realityEnglish
5·1 day agoThe thing is if space-based manufacturing became the norm then it would cease to be impractical to implement regulations and oversight. The reason it’s difficult to do now is because getting to spaces difficult, but for space-based manufacturing to be feasible that problem already has to be solved.




I’m definitely putting that on my dating profile. Sluter than a sheep