FarFarAway
@FarFarAway@startrek.website
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 1 week ago:
Idk, maybe they get all the analytics, like someone else mentioned.
I just know there are “ads” on government websites I’ve seen that don’t necessarily follow the traditional concept of what we’ve come to know as advertisements, but are adverstments none the less. How they’re set up, and what function they serve beyond directing people to a different place, is beyond me.
Maybe I should have phrased it differently… Adverstments aren’t always from sketchy companies stealing your info, sometimes they’re from sketchy governments too…
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 1 week ago:
Maybe they’re ads for their own government services? Technically, an adverstment doesn’t have to just be for skeezy companies trying to steal your info or money.
Like your on the drivers license pages and you see a space on the side that “advertises” getting your license renewed. It’s more flashy and draws attention more than just a link to help people find what they’re looking for easier.
Not in the UK, but my official city page has 3 advertments prior to getting to the body of the page (which is the offical link tree). One for reporting a concern, one for the recreation department, and a rotating one for more receration stuff and the transparency department.
- Comment on Most obscure movies you've ever seen? 2 weeks ago:
My dad loved Clan of the Cavebear. Daryl Hannah was a kick ass. But that’s as much as I remember.
To bad the vcr eats all the old tapes, or I would totally go back and watch it.
- Comment on if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out?? 5 weeks ago:
Not this time.
- Comment on if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out?? 5 weeks ago:
That’s pretty cool! I knew we didn’t really have a flu season, but I didn’t realize we actually killed off a while strain. Not for nothing, I guess.
You do have a point though, we have an existing vaccine and we are more knowledgeable about the flu in general. Maybe there would be more surviviors than one would anticipate. As long as the scientists didn’t dont get infected and die before they could get the vaccine out.
When birds catch the bird flu, there can be up to 100% mortality rate. So, I suppose I’m more refering to a catastrophic, civilization altering illness. More akin the what a zombie virus would do, without the added potential of reanimation.
- Comment on if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out?? 5 weeks ago:
But in the situation in imagining, they would all be dead. I’d be stuck there indefinitely!
But you do have a point. Im sure the public health officials in my area would tell everyone that there’s nothing to worry about and to go get infected for fun. :/ guess I’d be the only one left, granted I stay inside long enough to outlive all the infected.
- Comment on if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out?? 5 weeks ago:
No, definitely people wouldnt quarantine like that. But, H5N1 has a really high mortality rate. From what I can tell, a near 100%.
Not to be macabre, but I don’t mean how long would people have to quarantine to beat back the virus. Im asking how long would an individual have to hide from everyone else, before everyone else, who refused to believe it was real, and whatnot, caught the virus and just…died.
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- Comment on Biomimicry 1 month ago:
If you’re into books, it’s also the first book in the Southern Reach Trilogy. The movie was good, but the books really flesh out the situation. I was sad they didn’t continue the movies with the rest of the books.
- Comment on I didn't need to login this badly anyway 2 months ago:
Pretty sad when I’m relieved, instead of annoyed.
- Comment on I didn't need to login this badly anyway 2 months ago:
Thank God there are others who have found these stupid captchas. I thought i was being flagged as a boarderline bot when nobody knew what I was talking about and assumed something completely different.
- Comment on Get the ketchup. 2 months ago:
From the company that brought you Earl Grey Tea and Buttermilk Berry Cornbread ice cream flavors. Why am I not suprised.
The Marionberry Cheesecake is slammin though.
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 3 months ago:
Wait yalls had that many windows? These look nice. Ours looked like someone gutted a corrugated metal double wide and put a divider wall in the middle to make 2 “classrooms.” There was 1 larger window on the backside, and 1 door in the front of each room.
- Comment on This is way too expensive for a drink. 4 months ago:
Your right, not for rushed workday mornings.
There is definitely time and patience involved to get it right on a consistent basis.
Never tried it camping before. Great idea!
- Comment on This is way too expensive for a drink. 4 months ago:
Moka pot all the way!
- Comment on have you been doing crime? 4 months ago:
And the nice compainon blog explanation.
the whole situation makes more sense.
- Comment on Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money? 4 months ago:
We had the litter maid. It was good. You can put a grocery bag (or similar) into the litter scoop tray and reuse it for a while, but if it gets too gross, you’ll have to buy the trays and the potpourri packets…
- Comment on Good....buddy.... 5 months ago:
Just a bit
- Comment on PEACHES COME FROM A CAN 6 months ago:
He might be dead.
- Comment on PEACHES COME FROM A CAN 6 months ago:
“They were put there by a man, in a factory downtown…”
- Comment on Not seeing all comments unless I click the "Chat" button 6 months ago:
While I didn’t have the exact same problem, I did have issues seeing all the comments on any given post. If I was signed out I could see them all.
I went to the instance setting in my browsers (not an app) and changed the language settings to include both the default (unsure of that’s what it’s called exactly) and English settings. I haven’t had an issue since.
Hope that helps!
- Comment on Simple, right? 7 months ago:
Looked into moving there close to after everything opened up. Yeah…those prices are astronomical.
- Comment on An admin deleted all my uploads and I have no clue why 7 months ago:
ahh. guess I missed the part where the images were deleted by a lemmy.world admin…whoops
I was missing a bunch of comments up until recently … the must check English language box in a brower on instance site, not in app, issue…
- Comment on An admin deleted all my uploads and I have no clue why 7 months ago:
I saw this last night while searching for an answer to a totally different question
I know this post was a month ago, but maybe this still applies.
- Comment on I'm trying to find a story about a dog 8 months ago:
This is completely unhelpful to you, but…
It sounds like you found the lost, last book, from the Hank the Cowdog series. But, you lost it again :(
- Comment on Here we go again 8 months ago:
Yesterday, I got some pop up when I opened chrome about blah blah Google…ads…blah blah, and promptly downloaded Firefox.
Yes it’s lame it wasn’t already on there, but it’s a shared / work computer and I try to keep new downloads to a minimum, but that was the last straw.
- Comment on engineers gotta get their money up 8 months ago:
Bahaha! You think an engineer even knows how to work autocad?
Maybe 10 or 20 years ago, this mighy apply. At this point they leave the hard work for everyone else to figure out and draw up.
They just grab thier stamp.
(This, at least, applies to one’s in the US. I apologize to any one who actually applies their degree to their field)
- Comment on 100, here I cum 9 months ago:
Dude. Sciatica is the worst. Every once in a while I injure myself and can barely stand for days.
The only thing that helped was this old, Hispanic “healer man”, that massaged the nerve back into place. It’s not like woo woo healing and its not an actual massage. This man just knew anatomy really well and could feel everything out by touch alone. It took 15 mins and I was pain-free, although I had to go back a few times until it set. Hiking helped the muscles get strong enough to keep it in place.
I’ve gone to several other people that say they do similar things, including ones near the boarder, but they’ve never been able to fix it. Western Doctors were completely useless, they couldn’t even diagnose me properly. The next closest thing would probably be a sports massage therapist.
This man was apparently known far and wide, with people comming from other states to see him. Any one in my local hispanic community i mentioned it to, was familiar with him.
Sadly, he was old and stopped working his magic around the time covid started, due to him and his wife’s, unrelated, ailing health. I’ve been searching for someone else ever since. I’m sure there are others like him, there are definitely imitations. I have to assume someone else has excelled at this practice, and this old man wasnt just a one off.
If you have any contacts in the hispanic community, that may know of someone like him, I’d say it’s definitely worth a shot to at least ask around.
- Comment on 100, here I cum 9 months ago:
This. No one realizes that your probably not gonna make it to 100 in perfect health. If your body doesn’t go, it will be your mind. Either way, it does not sound appealing.
If nothing else, the arthritis has gotten so bad, you wanna off yourself anyways.
Hard pass.
- Comment on Sweet tea 9 months ago:
Or when you order unsweetened, but you still get sweet anyways…