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2026-03-12 21:12:30 UTC

Don't even fucking say a word. I like potato chips, and can't eat them very much or I'll get fat.
I tried out these Pringles Fat-Free chips because they were super low-cal. BBQ flavor. the fuck.
The can said they had 70 calories per serving, which meant the whole can had 490 calories inside total. I could munch through a can in a day with my lunch, dinner, etc. So I got several cans, and began enjoying one a day for the past four days. But what they dont fucking tell you...
Except in tiny print you cant read without a fucking electron microscope
...is that the primary ingredient is something called "olean" which I have since learned is Latin for "Unwashable & Indestructible Ass Grease."
Oh Yeah. I'm not even kidding.
So today, while I'm standing in the living room debating whether or not Laundry or Dishes will get done first, I get the urge to fart. I live alone, so sweet. I let the honk loose and its wrong. Something just sounded wrong. I know my own wind, and I have never farted a sound that sounded like a fart wrapped in a pillow.
Oh yes, something was very wrong. I had just shat myself. But this evil olean makes shitting yourself sound almost like a regular fart, and had I not been particularly attentive, it could easily have gone unnoticed, I'm telling you. THAT's how utterly covert and evil this olean stuff is. What the fuck?! What if I'd gone out to hang with friends or gone for a drive, what then?
So I walk carefully to the bathroom and disrobe. before I even sit on the toilet, I wad paper and carefully wipe from the front. Sure enough, it was light brown, and had the texture of soft spackle. You fucking Pringle bastards.
I sat down and pushed a bit, and lo, out came a jet that I didnt even feel an urge for one minute earlier. It piled in the bowl like brown marshmallow fluff.
The problem rose when I tried to wipe. I went through a whole fucking roll of TP and could not get it all off me. So.
I jumped in the shower. Yep, its gross, but it had to be done. There I stood, water pouring down, cheeks spread, and using my own hand to make certain I'm clean.
That was when I discovered that after using my hand to wipe myself (before I soaped the area) my hand came back covered in some sort of transparent grease. It was so fucking foul. The grease made water bead off my hand. It was tacky too, and very difficult to manage.
So I grabbed the bar of saop and went to work.
You fucking Pringle bastards.
The bar of soap came away coated in grease as well, and would no longer wash. I had to turn the water to hot and massage the soap for five minutes to get it to the point where I could use it again. It took me an hour to get the fucking grease off my pucker. I shudder to think of what its doing INSIDE ME right now, but I will damned sure never eat that shit again.
Fucking Pringle bastards.
This is where the joke about "anal leakage" came from. its real. Fuck Pringles.

2026-03-11 18:49:38 UTC

what a name...
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2026-03-11 17:59:43 UTC

> Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel as it fires on merchant ships
uhoh

2026-03-10 22:44:47 UTC

so what do you think it is that Israel has videos of him doing? Diapers, young boys, cross dressing??
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2025-04-29 21:23:50 UTC

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> identity somewhat obfuscated
FYI anonymous LLCs exist, but are getting harder to access as few states still have them. But still. And I mean truly anonymous -- not even the gov knows the identity of who owns the LLC.

2025-04-29 19:39:35 UTC

TAKE IT DOWN bill passed the Senate and mandates encryption backdoors so they can spy on minors, but they continue to exclude email from the scope

2025-03-16 02:40:04 UTC

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Chatrooms

2025-03-14 22:58:14 UTC

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there's something about the fur and focus that makes me think it's AI generated

2025-03-14 22:53:05 UTC

welp this ad is showing up
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2025-03-11 19:51:50 UTC

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ripped it from my copy
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/ce/6d/c2/ce6dc2bedf7616c0475da0f0913e16154b667b7eace24546df4574935d53dba6.mp4

2025-03-09 01:30:04 UTC

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I didn't know of that specific list / forum post and will have to update my blog post to mention it :) thanks

2025-03-08 00:49:25 UTC

you guys missed it but you can still catch up
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2025-03-06 23:08:26 UTC

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agreed but the operational complexity of adding these optional services on the side *and* making them appear transparently integrated into DeltaChat is too much to ask IMO.
Maybe if I send it to a bot, the bot stores it on its webserver, and then the bot sends the target user the file somehow would be reaonable but I cant see the UI/UX here being clean at all.
I don't see a clear path forward at the moment. It will have to stay out of scope for now. If we all had really fast networks and low latency a lot of problems go away because we can just p2p everything

2025-03-06 22:11:59 UTC

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capitalism is an incredible human motivator to solve problems. It can also completely destroy people and cause massive inequality, but it doesn't *have* to.
We can have a healthy society AND still reap the benefits capitalism.

2025-03-06 22:07:01 UTC

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they also destroy a lot of good stuff by taking it to the grave with them. It's sad but this is the cost of business.
You want investment into groundbreaking technologies you have to accept that they're going to patent them and squeeze as much as they can from them. If nobody wants to pay they just disappear forever.

2025-03-05 17:01:31 UTC

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The federal government never defaults. Never has, never will. Even if it takes years they always pay their debtors.

2025-03-05 16:51:20 UTC

I don't really understand this logic here. If the ruling is that the funds could not be frozen then obviously they must be released so they can be disbursed as Congress had already approved, right?
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2025-02-22 19:45:47 UTC

Wait, how does the Social Security database express spousal benefits? Was this taken into consideration?
My dad is dead but his social security is still being paid out to my mom. Because the law was that you can receive theirs if it's higher than your own. But you can't collect your own anymore.
So are these some of the "dead people" that are being paid?

2025-02-21 23:10:45 UTC

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the other day I heard a woman say she wanted to order a "double ham and cheese burger"
what the fuck is a ham and cheese burger?
Isn't that a grilled ham and cheese?

2025-02-21 23:03:31 UTC

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you were the guy who kept ordering the cheeseburger without cheese weren't you?

2025-02-19 20:25:05 UTC

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that's obviously not the correct cost for the BoM + assembly

2025-02-19 20:21:00 UTC

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where did you find the figure that it was $24,000 to produce?

2025-02-12 20:26:24 UTC

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just look at this -- green screens suck, CGI can't do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

2025-02-12 20:24:16 UTC

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I think in the long run these tools will complement and not replace. Much like how photo editing tools didn't completely displace people from the creative process.
Hollywood already went through a lot of this same stuff once already. We all noticed how bad and obvious CGI can be (90s and early 00s were BAD because it was forced upon every movie) and also how poorly those movies age. Practical effects are coming back in vogue because they just look better. "Agatha All Along" was lauded for this.
We're going through another phase. People are experimenting and trying to figure out what works. AI acting performances are not going to capture the hearts and minds of audiences. AI girlfriends are just going to be porn 2.0.
People just don't like change but we need to figure out how to adapt.

2025-02-06 18:58:28 UTC

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Americans need to chill the fuck out with every meal having meat in it, that's for sure

2025-02-06 18:56:00 UTC

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right in the the abstract it says that "Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements." so it sounds to me like you can't just "eat plants", but now you need to add vitamins/supplements because your food is not wholesome enough.
Just because the nutrient is in the plant doesn't mean it's bioavailable.

2025-02-06 18:43:37 UTC

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Let's take this conversation down a different avenue.
@ambiguous_yelp@social.coop, what is your opinion on e.g., deer hunting? Kangaroo in Australia?? If we are to stop killing them to control their populations, we have a rather large problem on our hands.
In the USA the insurance companies in cooperation with the DNR (Department of Natural Resources -- our gov pals involved in nature) share data on herd sizes and are a major driver behind deer hunting in the midwest. Bag/tag limits (number you're allowed to kill) are calculated every year by estimating how successful hunters will be and how many we need to kill. Insurance companies pay to ensure more get killed.
"Need" is the key word here.
If we don't deal with them they do massive destruction to crops and they cause a lot of damage when they're hit by cars. Sometimes killing people.
Most of these deer are processed into food but that's not relevant. What's important to understand is that we cannot peacefully coexist with many different wild animals because they spread disease and cause destruction. I wish we could, but we just can't. There's too many of us and we've invaded and destroyed their homes. There's nowhere for them to go.
So what do we do about this? Depopulate the planet? A massive restructuring and migration of society unlike anything ever seen before?
Killing animals just to kill animals is bad. This is why I don't hunt anymore. I don't need the meat, so I don't hunt. This was passed down to me from my dad. I was not allowed to hunt what I wasn't willing to eat (and pay for processing of the meat, in the case of deer, which can be a few hundred dollars at the butcher).
There is no clear solution to this problem. The world is complex. We need nuance when discussing these things. You can't look at the world as being binary black & white / right & wrong.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/25/sport/australia-kangaroo-culling-program-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
https://news.cals.wisc.edu/2000/09/01/2000-will-be-a-make-or-break-deer-hunting-season-according-to-uw-madison-wildlife-ecologist/

2025-02-05 22:32:39 UTC

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certain types of animals will go extinct because we bred them so they grow beyond normal proportions and will die on their own if not slaughtered. There's no way around it.

2025-02-05 22:11:58 UTC

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while I agree that humans consume too much meat and the modern factory farming practices that raise our livestocks are inhumane, it is an absolutely ridiculous idea that you can erase centuries of human culture around food and expect people to change their world views on this.
It's also a privilege for people to be able to live on a vegan diet. In many parts of the world the ingredients are not available at all or it is prohibitively expensive to only consume it. There are other arguments like convenience which is highly valued when you live in a society that works you to death.
We could probably start by lifting the subsidies that make animal byproducts so cheap so we can better achieve a price parity between animal and plant based diets, but entire production an distribution networks need to be revamped as well.
This also doesn't consider that we have entire species that would go extinct if we weren't raising them to eat them. Like the turkeys we farm. You know what happens when the President pardons the turkey for Thanksgiving? Uhhh well it goes to a farm and keeps growing and growing and then dies because it can't walk anymore. Not so different from our broiler chickens which cannot survive because we bred them selectively for food. So what do we do about that? Is it more horrific to completely eliminate them from the planet?
We can eat animals and still respect them. Buying local and from smaller farms is a great first step.
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2025-02-05 20:38:51 UTC

Love fishing with @npub1gn0…f63e
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2025-01-31 20:43:59 UTC

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Delta Chat is never mentioned in any privacy or alternative secure messenger guides. I see Threema mentioned as a Signal alternative, but never Delta Chat. It's kinda mind boggling how the entire internet is wearing blinders.
My only guess is that the security minded folks see "email" and "PGP inside" and immediately says NO, this is not good because we've been trained to think emails can never be secured without looking at the actual implementation details.
It can indeed be secured if everyone is using the same implementation.

2025-01-31 20:25:47 UTC

Every service here prevents you from being held hostage by a company that may turn on you and give you no recourse EXCEPT Signal
Why does Signal get a free pass? Because they're a "non-profit" and they "promise" they won't do anything to betray you?
Has that ever really worked in the last 30 years? Does anyone really believe it?
Anyone?
*Crickets*
#note1knv…vpl2

2025-01-08 18:36:41 UTC

The Cybertruck has a 55lb higher payload capacity than a 2024 F150 so yes I'd rather see people driving these than a Ford
At least they won't give your kids asthma

2024-10-02 15:57:42 UTC

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hello, chiming in on this as a former Wisconsinite which is so deep into drinking culture it's hard to explain rationally -- nobody believes it, they have to experience it themselves.
I love beer. Almost any style (pass on browns, tho). I've been privileged to participate (as both vendor and lucky patron) in some of the largest and most exclusive beer festivals in the world.
I love whiskey... and whisky.
The culture drove me away. It just got to be too much.
It's not normal for every other billboard to be about alcohol.
It's not normal for every gas station and coffee shop to be selling hard liquor.
It's not normal for you to be drinking *at* work (ISP/datacenter)
It's not normal for you to be drinking with coworkers or customers 4 nights a week. (I started keeping a log of this, and it was ... eye-opening)
Every family gathering: drinking. Every meetup with friends: drinking.
Church events? Drinking.
It's just... normal. But it's awful.
So I just stopped, cold turkey. Part of it was I have some IBS issues and alcohol would really exacerbate it, so it was exhausting. And I had to keep explaining to friends and family I didn't want to drink anymore. For years they kept asking about it...
So that's over. Gut is in a better place these days. I *can* drink a beer with friends and not get sick over it anyway, but I so dread the next day anyway because alcohol always makes you feel like shit regardless.
Weed has none of that, so I'd much rather smoke/vape/edibles. And I do. Life is so much better.
If you don't want to drink because you think it sucks, just don't. Tell them no. If they don't want to be your friends anymore they're not friends worth having.

2024-09-22 01:34:55 UTC

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here's an older story about the problems they have near Virginia where all the datacenters like AWS us-east-1 are at
https://archive.is/u37wR

2024-09-19 18:42:14 UTC

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I've been there, barely bumped a customer's power cord and taken out their servers before. Made me so mad...

2024-09-09 21:08:06 UTC

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my only guess is they think the firehose needs to be sent to every server on the network simultaneously

2024-09-09 20:58:12 UTC

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e-mail can't scale. If 2.6 million users decided to join Hotmail it would have fallen over dead.

2024-09-08 17:32:43 UTC

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black people don't say "what the hell?" or is it just a cliche if they don't speak with a white midwestern accent