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In case anyone was in the market to buy a Ruger mini-14, be warned they beat themselves up to the point of buffer breakage in 1 000 rounds give or take.
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Yesterday I was using single use nitrile gloves to prune my tomato plants because the juices are very smelly and sticky. 30 minutes of use and they were full of water. I love summer.
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Set up my new microphone today. Rode NT1 5th Gen, my first XLR (previously I had been using a ten year old Blue Yeti). Haven’t even fully treated the room yet but already I can hear a world of difference.
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In which I suddenly remember Project Gutenberg and thusly may pass my time engaged in literary pursuits
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I could swear on my life 40 was spelled fourty and not forty. I have known English for the majority of my life and for some reason I Mandela-effected myself into believing that it was written with a *u*. It made more sense because of the *u* in fo*u*r. Without the *u* it looks like an adjective to the word "fort", like "Your forty house is well-secured against a horde of zombies."
about 3 days ago from web-
@awl The way we spell "forty" is stupid. Like it's "Four" and "Fourteen" so it really should be "fourteen"
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@elli It's really so common and obvious that we could probably stand to officially change it, I mean it's not like Webster's is making the rules, nothing but convention and mental inertia behind it
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@elli no we don’t let foreigners dictate how we spell words. English is to never change ever.
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Bad news: I am out of the project.
Good news: I have more time to prepare my D&D campaign.
Bad news: I have to look for a new project with my manager.
Good news: I am still being paid.about 2 days ago from web -
I only use Uber when I’m out of the country so my Uber Eats emails all list deals in pounds instead of dollars
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Last week I was near a comic store and saw that Final Fantasy MTG boosters cost 7€ per pack. WTF! This is the cost of a ESP32 micro controller!
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Gorramit I think I'm going to have to get a hold of the lost media Internet to find this old Metallica/Henry Rollins mashup because Google is vibrantly useless:c
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Maybe I wasn't very observant in the past decades but I've seen this year a greenfinch for the first time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfinch and it is visiting my garden often. Usually I get to see bluetits, blackbirds, house sparrows, red robins, the common crows and doves, magpies, sometimes geese on a flyover and swans at the lake, storks on the odd chimney.... What I want to say is: Most of the common birds I haven't seen. On this overview I have barely seen a fifth of birds in Germany https://www.nabu.de/tiere-und-pflanzen/voegel/portraets/
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WTF. A month has passed and my ordered smartphone still hasn't arrived.
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I’m not proud of this but I’ve been playing the Gex Trilogy for most of the night
about 10 days ago from web-
@zeldatra GEX 3D: Enter The Gecko was awesome. I had to guy a 3DFX Voodoo graphics card to get the game to work back in the day. It was the best Mario 64 replacement a PC gamer could have without owning a N64.
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It's a shame that plastic explosives aren't called **blastic**.
about 10 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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just voted. Tactically, both of the men I supported are black, which removes the possibility of me having accidentally platformed a guy who did blackface… again…
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I don't like what I was seeing the the Naked Gun trailer.
about 10 days ago from web-
@adiwan I laughed exactly once at the OJ joke in the first trailer but I have been unimpressed otherwise.
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@zeldatra I got a slight chuckle at max out of this. I feel like the stuff in the trailer was off-putting serious in tone while being off-putting outlandish in the next. I don't remember the originals being like that. Also I don't like that he is so trigger happy for a comedy film. I guess, according to the Youtube comments, it will be a moderate success, as I have seen a ton of positive comments. Cinema is dead, I guess.
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Aw man... Rick & Morty... That's not how the Harz mountains look like... To be fair: Places in the show are always f-ed up.
Fun fact: A small village in the Harz mountains is called "Elend" which can be translated to misery.about 11 days ago from web -
about 11 days ago from web
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The mystery of the mysterious poop in my garden has been solved. A few weeks ago I was cleaning up some poop from behind my grill. Before that I had some poop on my lawn. Today I found the culprit: A hedgehog. Somehow there is a hole somewhere in the fencing and a hedgehog found its way in my garden. I encountered it when I was checking for rain to collect in buckets. While that I found the hedgehog standing absolutely still on my lawn. I grabbed a few sticks and pushed it gently out of my gate since I don't know where it could exit otherwise and I am certain that it wouldn't survive in my garden.
about 12 days ago from web-
@scribus Words like "go away" and "idiot" were uttered. That stupid stubborn little piece of poop and spiky bristles either didn't move at all or it moved quickly back to under the bush to make the whole process comically on repeat. 10 minutes for a distance of 1.5 meters.
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@adiwan I spent half an hour yesterday chasing a duck around the yard, also on account of poop. I warned it for months that the pool wasn't going to keep me out forever, and yesterday was the point where I finally said "Oh ho, it's Speedo time," stripped down to my underwear, and cannonballed on about a meter away from it.
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