There was a plan (never successful, not actualy possible to implement) to put a price on email - a fraction of a cent per message, with proof of payment encoded in the headers to make scam spam uneconomical

That could never work with a reddit-like service, for money spam and for ideals trolling wouldn’t care about $50 a year.

That would be good news for AMD

Maybe. We should be attracted to people different to us for the healthiest babies

Make up something quickly stand-up is only 30 minutes after starting time

I think it’s more “embrace MY ideology or else”

No room there for free thinking, Chinese “communism” only

(Will I catch a ban for my quote marks?)

People don’t know how to work with fire and petrol

While on a fishing camp at lake Eucumbene I watched the next camp over on their last night try to burn their remaining 2-stroke fuel

They upended the fuel tank above the fire, setting fire to the fuel tank

The man then dropped the tank and kicked it away, lighting up his shoe

His mates extinguished him

Indeed. This is not like that.

Ed after reading the earlier one

That was about a diet community banning users who were blanket down voting

This is a diet community banning users who were participating in relevant conversation about the subject because they weren’t sufficiently spiteful

That looked like vegan/vegan drama

I didn’t see any anti-vegan comment

Some of us have allergies that limit commercially prepared food in general. In a restaurant the only thing I’d dare order is steak with no sauce

I feel I would not eat in a vegan restaurant.

The article with video:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-09/man-accidentally-lights-himself-on-fire-in/104797980

I just watched the megalag videos on the glasses — the first episode of three — and the claim is they cut out confusing areas of colour that abnormal chromats see.

So if it worked, it only works for people with abnormal versions of one of the three normal colour vision sensors, and only if their deficiency is in green, and then only if it’s the correct degree of deficient

But it doesn’t work anyway.

The glasses help people see the number in some sheets in the colourblindness test, but hide the number in others. Their colour blindness would appear slightly worse than reality.

If they had worked they might have done so by some sort of contrast enhancement or edge detection, but I don’t think either are possible with just optics

Loads of people are suspicious of coupon schemes. They look dodgy. It’s no wonder that people come along after one of these schemes turns out to actually be a scam to say “see, I knew these things were bad” with the only evidence being that they never subscribed to it

Their fault is they claim it was this one specifically

It’s a parody conspiracy theory, in the same way as the flying spaghetti monster was a parody religion. People participated “eyes open” (aware it was parody, doing it as a joke) others adopted it “eyes closed” (believing it)

People equipped with a penis standing to pee should really have the toilet seat raised out of the way

You don’t clean plastic lens spectacles with paper as paper will scratch the lenses, though glass lenses can be wiped with paper. Wood is harder than plastic.

In Australia all the ball style things you hang from the tree are definitely baubles, other hanging things are mostly still baubles, candy canes are candy canes and tree toppers are tree toppers varying between stars, angels, and anything else for the non-religious

Thanks for adding to my list of features to avoid!

For those who don’t know, that wastes the detergent if the dishwasher has a prewash cycle, which most do (eco cycles are the most likely to not have a prewash)

I almost always have two boxes of washing powder, when one goes empty I can replace it while using the other. I usually go shopping more often than I use a box of detergent