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[–] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

Alchemy! Now this is the out-of-the-box thinking that I like!

In all seriousness, lead is lead because it's made of lead atoms. It can't not be lead. (The reference to alchemy was because before we knew about atoms, many alchemists tried their hand at turning low-value metals like lead into high-value metals like gold).

To answer your question in a silly but scientifically accurate way, there is a temperature to which lead can be heated to become something else, but these are nuclear fusion temperatures, like you get in the Sun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I think this is the key. If the plane's going anyway, the additional environmental impact of you being on it or not is essentially moot.

As for whether the plane should be flying in the first place, well obviously not.

If it helps you rationalise it at all, if anything you're making the plane more efficient by essentially halving your friend's carbon footprint.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The closest English phrase that I can think of is "any port in a storm". I wonder why we don't have a war-based one...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you considered an electric shaver? It doesn't cut as close, but by the same token, it also doesn't scrape across the skin. You'll avoid catching the tops of any spots that you may have, and until your skin becomes happier with wet shaving, it'll keep the whiskers away.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Before you post your request, have a look here:

https://www.sharetribe.com/

It's a platform for setting up your own custom marketplace, which is exactly what you're describing. It's a no-code solution and pretty customisable.

At the best, it might give you an immediate solution to your needs. At worst, it'll give you a starting point to explain to your dev what you want. Win/win.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

As a developer, it looks clear enough to me, but I'd suggest two changes.

"Status updates" - You don't say who you want to be able to view the status of a posting.

"Bonus if you can connect it to my Wave account..." - probably better to phrase it "Ideally it would connect to my Wave account...". You're listing requirements, after all.

Also, you might need to consider adding an admin page where you can manage accounts, see all jobs listed, etc. although the rest of the post is high-level, so maybe it's something to bring up in the discussions.

Finally, I'm sure you realised this already, but the last lines of the AI response are for you, and not part of the text itself.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A return of the concept of "unamerican" art and activities, to support the destruction and suppression of said things.

I'd normally say book burnings first, but those have been an on-off thing in some parts of the states since the 50s.

So I'll go with "officially endorsed" book burnings. Not officially organised, mind, but an actual expression of support shown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Huge thanks for this!

I feel so stupid - I'm a software engineer, so of course I'd need to escape them! I guess I need to brush up on my markdown.

Speaking of marking things down, looks like there aren't too many fans of Garfunkel and Oates from the number of downvotes I've received...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

# Sports go sports! #

# Athletics are number one! #

# Participants are heroes! #

# Go team yeah! #

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Edit: looks like I can't use hash symbols to show that they're lyrics - Lemmy thinks I want them to be headers...

Edit2: fixed the hash sign problem thanks to parlordrolap below.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"You'll be pregabalin' these capsules"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Sorry, but you were beaten to the punch on this one! Someone posted it last week.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm seeing a lot of international messages getting this wrong, so this is how you refer to the Prime Minister of the UK.

First, we normally refer to the PM just by name, like anyone else. So, "Keir Starmer" or "Mr Starmer".

"Prime Minister" is not used as a title like "President" is. He's not "Prime Minister Starmer". He's just "the Prime Minister" or "the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer".

Unusually, this new PM is also a knight. Of course, this has its own rules.

If you want to use this title, it's not quite as simple as replacing "Mr" with "Sir'. The first name is more important than the surname here. He's not "Sir Starmer". He's "Sir Keir Starmer" or "Sir Keir".

Hope it helps!

 

Screenshot actually from the film Chand Par Chadayee (1967)

 
 
 
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