RegularJoe
@RegularJoe@lemmy.world
🎲 Role player, Game master.
- Comment on It's 9PM, any word from Iran? 4 days ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
All I said was Taco Tuesday. It is Tuesday. Tuesday, April 7, 2026.
There’s Meatless Monday, Taco Tuesday, Spaghetti Wednesday, Fish on Friday, etc.
When I grew up there was a company that said “Wednesday was Prince Spaghetti day”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_spaghetti
I did not say anything about chicken.
Although I do have fond memories of Sunday fried chicken.
- Comment on Is Oman neutral from the war? 1 week ago:
It appears to be trying to walk the role of mediator.
Iran and Oman are reportedly drafting a protocol to monitor ship transit through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday, citing an official.
wionews.com/…/iran-and-oman-draft-protocol-to-mon…
Oman grapples with its national identity as a neutral mediator after Iran’s attacks
theglobeandmail.com/…/article-oman-neutral-mediat…
For Oman, the Strait of Hormuz is a windfall and a burden
- Comment on Everyone knows hot air rises. So, do we gain or lose weight when we burp or fart? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a quote from that article
Galvin says the facial expression is a subtle cue from a digital-native generation raised on screens, fast content and online communication. “For many Gen Zers, constant eye contact doesn’t always signal attentiveness the way it might for older colleagues,” he explains. “What a Boomer or Gen X manager may perceive as checked-out might actually be Gen Z’s version of active listening.”
Sujay Saha, president of Cortico-X agrees. “Gen Z entered the workforce in an era defined by screens, social distancing and remote communication, and companies must now close the experience gap with empathy-focused onboarding and support, not judgment,” he told me.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 weeks ago:
Forbes has an article from a Ph.D. who claims it’s real.
The ‘Gen Z Stare’: What It Means And Why Employers Can’t Afford To Ignore It
By Bryan Robinson, Ph.D., Senior Contributor. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance.
Jul 16, 2025, 06:43pm EDT Jul 21, 2025, 04:07pm EDT
forbes.com/…/the-gen-z-stare-what-it-means-and-wh…
He was born in 1945 according to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_E._Robinson
That puts him in the Silent Generation, as Boomers don’t start until 1946.
- Comment on SOLIPSISM SATURDAY! 2 weeks ago:
If none of us exist, how are you getting upvotes?
- Comment on What is hubris as an adjective? 2 weeks ago:
“Hubristic”, but “Cocksure” is more fun to say.
- Comment on So, how's it hanging? 2 weeks ago:
A shitposter is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he posts precisely when he means to.
- Comment on So, how's it hanging? 2 weeks ago:
In case you lack context, an I-65 sign near Nashville fell onto a semi-truck on Jan. 26. (Photo: TDOT)
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- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 3 weeks ago:
It starts with libations and food offerings.
Sweets were fed to the gods in ancient Mesopotamia and ancient India[7] and other ancient civilizations.[8] Herodotus mentions that Persian meals featured many desserts, and were more varied in their sweet offerings than the main dishes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert#History
The Romans continued the practice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_cuisine#Desse…
back to the main dessert article:
Europeans began to manufacture sugar in the Middle Ages, and more sweet desserts became available.[14] Even then sugar was so expensive usually only the wealthy could indulge on special occasions. The first apple pie recipe was published in 1381;[15] The earliest documentation of the term cupcake was in “Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats” in 1828 in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.[16]
And then there’s this guy:
Evidence for the domestication of the cacao tree exists as early as 5300 BP in South America, in present-day southeast Ecuador by the Mayo-Chinchipe culture, before it was introduced to Mesoamerica.[8] It is unknown when chocolate was first consumed as opposed to other cacao-based drinks, and there is evidence the Olmecs, the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization, fermented the sweet pulp surrounding the cacao beans into an alcoholic beverage.[9][10]
Chocolate was extremely important to several Mesoamerican societies,[11] and cacao was considered a gift from the gods by the Mayans and the Aztecs.[12][13]
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 20 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
"Obese children grow faster, so they tend to be taller than their healthy-weight peers. "
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- Comment on Ni! 1 month ago:
…and your father smelt of elderberries!
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 1 month ago:
While the image is “Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay in his work station”, he sure looks like Shaggy from Scooby Doo.
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- Comment on Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada? 1 month ago:
So…
- ABC:
abcnews.com/International/…/story?id=130047630
- Associated Press:
apnews.com/…/canada-shooting-british-columbia-66b…
- CBS:
cbsnews.com/…/at-least-10-people-killed-in-a-scho…
- CNBC:
cnbc.com/…/ten-dead-after-a-shooting-in-canadian-…
- CNN:
cnn.com/…/tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-02-11-26
- FOX:
foxnews.com/…/transgender-ex-student-identified-a…
- NBC:
nbcnews.com/…/fatally-shot-british-columbia-schoo…
- PBS:
pbs.org/…/suspect-in-canada-school-shooting-is-id…
- USA Today:
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- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 4 months ago:
'T" is in the first row. A t should be revealed in the second row for that answer.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 4 months ago:
Your pretty polly might cost a pretty penny.
- Comment on Don't act confused. Just say it 4 months ago:
A pretty penny.
- Following Doom & Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D Is The Latest Classic FPS To Get A Voxel Transformationwww.timeextension.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Twin Cities-based ICE employee among 16 arrested in sting operation 4 months ago:
In a post-Miranda statement, Back allegedly said he doesn’t know why he didn’t “bail” after “Bella” told him she was 17 and said, “I don’t really know if there is anything to say. It’s all there in the texts,” the complaint said.
yeah, it’s all there in the texts.
- Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock tradingwww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 154 comments
