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- Comment on A common nasal decongestant lacks evidence but is still sold in the UK 23 hours ago:
I had a dive instructor who recommended snorting a bit of seawater if your nose was blocked and you couldn’t equalise. I’m not sure that’s good advice given the general contents of the sea, but it certainly worked :)
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 day ago:
Poll reveals surprising number of editors don’t know how to use the word ‘amount’.
- Comment on dream job 1 month ago:
No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.
- Comment on dream job 1 month ago:
I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.
- Comment on Science fact 1 month ago:
I wandered in here from computer science, and I’m going back to solving parallel cache coherency for a bit of light relief.
- Comment on Damn right I'm a silly goose 1 month ago:
Big employer in the uk back in the day would fine your boss if you parked outside the lines. People were pretty attentive to how they parked…
- Comment on Flute 1 month ago:
Lelete dater.
- Comment on Wildlife Photography 1 month ago:
That one is … far away.
- Comment on Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm 2 months ago:
Saddameurysm.
- Comment on lolirl 2 months ago:
It probably had quite a lot to do with whether the unknown man in front could possibly be the senator. If he didn’t have white skin, it’s very unlikely to have been who she thought it was.
- Comment on Stained Glass 2 months ago:
They are super cool and super territorial by all accounts. We were in a pop-up pub in a field and this guy kept coming to sit on our hands. I guess we were in his spot…Common Darter
- Comment on Geohydtotypography 3 months ago:
I do not like the sound of pickass finger nails. But it could explain the fungus.
- Comment on I can whistle at the speed of sound 3 months ago:
It would also still be the speed of light. Always is, unless you specify ‘in a vacuum’ every time.
- Comment on Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs 3 months ago:
Anything’s a regex if you’re brave enough.
- Comment on Linguistics 3 months ago:
Tomomorrow?
Yestesterday?
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
I’m pretty sure ‘Declump pocket flaps’ is in section 1 of the Apollo Launch Configuration checklist, right before Lint Valve Override.
- Comment on Which side are you on? 5 months ago:
Downvoted because it didn’t end with /s.
- Comment on particles 5 months ago:
Physicists:
This is just Occam’s razor again: a hypothetical particle that can’t interact with anything, and therefore can’t be detected, doesn’t exist.
Also Physicists: *85% of the universe’ mass is missing!!! *
- Comment on Praise Sheezus 6 months ago:
“All female shark tank” is my new band name.
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 6 months ago:
This is a few years old, but I loved this one from London.
- Comment on kissies 6 months ago:
Let me say… I work in healthcare. I clean human waste. I’m not easily grossed out.
Come on Jo, we’ve talked about this. You’re supposed to call them patients.
- Comment on evangelism 6 months ago:
I can still hear the penny dropping in my mind when I went from ‘How can anyone fall for that—it’s so obviously a scam…’ to ‘Oh, right…’ It sounded too Machiavellian to be true. I wonder if it was so carefully designed from the start, or a process of natural selection?
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 6 months ago:
The thing with football is that there is a specific goal (pun very much intended). It’s ok to have a mindset that you’re going to play in a way that makes it unlikely (in the beginning) you’ll achieve that goal (eg play left footed), but if that player never improved, would you still think it’s ‘working’)?
I worked in an industry for many years that was obsessed with goal-setting, and that mindset never appealed to me. I eventually found a book called Goal Free Living by Stephen M. Shapiro. It was a bit of an eye-opener for me, and the phrase “Carry a compass not a map” stayed with me until today. I’ve done several different things since then but I’ll never be famous for any of them as I still keep changing direction.
- Comment on Trust exercise 7 months ago:
Seems harsh—lots of people make coffee these days.
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- Comment on Conan O'Brien Must Go 8 months ago:
- Comment on Conan O'Brien Must Go 8 months ago:
Does this have anything to do with Conan O’Brien? There’s a clue there in that URL…
- Comment on What do fractions in demographic stats (such as birthrates, fertility rates, life expectancy, death rates, etc.) mean? 10 months ago:
And more than one skeleton.
- Comment on UK environment secretary took donation from funder of climate sceptic thinktank 11 months ago:
Also married to Karen Barclay, Head of Major Infrastructure Planning & Stakeholder Engagement at Anglian Water, one of the organisations being investigated for illegal dumping of sewage.
But nothing to see here. Move along.
- Comment on sixty and ninety are often confused due to their similarity. If you mean both of them, then simply say 'sinety'! 1 year ago:
How much is nixty?
