LynneOfFlowers

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I was in grad school I would split the difference with 25 slides and 57 backup slides clicked together frantically 15 minutes earlier

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Things got a bit weird before the invention of the pencil sharpener

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Horses evolved this way so they could forever be giving you “the finger”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Deep underground, near the earth’s core where it’s still warm

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Fun fact: soccer has no official rule against manipulating the ball with your eye lasers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It’s definitely not always done with general anesthesia in the US, unless standards have changed in the last couple decades? I had all mine taken out in the 2000s with just local.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For me (I use Kavita) it’s because I want to be able to just pick up whatever device is in front of me at the moment and pick up the book where I last left off even if it was on another device

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're charging how much for 10^-12^ sq ft?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

“Hostage negotiations now entering their fourth week between the U.S. and Hamas over the release of hostage Elon Musk, however in spite of intense diplomatic overtures and offers of significant concessions the U.S. still refuses to take him back”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I also use SponsorBlock for YouTube, which skips sponsor segments in YouTube videos (and optionally other kinds of segments like intros, self promos, etc.) it's crowd-sourced for identifying the segments but for almost all the videos I watch someone has already marked at least the sponsor segments

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's all I can do not to nest them 🙃

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely, at least in the modern day. I was surprised to see Jane Austen do it a few times in Pride and Prejudice but I don't think it had quite the same connotation back then 😆

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