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  • Well yes, but 'second cousin' with no qualifiers implies we're talking about zero times removed. The more salient point I was trying to make was that yes, second cousins share blood

  • What item you use frequently would you be least surprised to learn is secretly bad for you?
  • Like, an organic banana vs a original banana. What the fuck am I missing out on here?

    Mostly I've noticed the organic ones have more flavour. If there's nutritional differences, I'd mostly expect it to just be more of the same nutrients in the organic version.

  • Most Canadians would avoid buying U.S. products post-Trump tariff: Nanos survey
  • We actually do grow flax in Canada...and then don't make linen out of it -_-

    EDIT: Ah, apparently you can get either fibres or oil from any particular flax crop, but not both, because you harvest at different times

  • Donald Trump announces plan to change elections
  • We also have a non-partisal federal elections agency. With individual US states in charge of running their own federal elections, there's more room for Republican state-level government to cheat on the federal election

  • They're afraid!
  • Thank you, now that I hear it, yeah. I forgot it was a translation that I was remembering, and thus more easily misremembering.

    Edit: Though I think the first version I read was "stem" rather than "barrel". That was probably just the translator being...flowery...though.

  • They're afraid!
  • "Power comes from the end of a rifle" is the version that I've heard that comes to mind. But the point stands, it's a metaphor, and the metaphor is about when the use of violence is acceptable, not what type of violence is used.

    And I suppose pistols are rifled.

  • Is this for feature requests/suggested changes, or just bugs?

    Currently the 'Parent' button takes you to the top-level comment of the thread. Could it be split into two buttons, one of which takes you to the immediate parent comment?

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    Live Linux distro list?

    Does anybody know of a list of usb live-bootable distros, with links to the download pages?

    I have a coworker who wants to switch his gaming computer over to Linux, he has Linux experience but from like a decade ago.

    He's not partial to any particular distro, so I was hoping to just put together a multiboot flash drive with a bunch of live images he could try. But I'm not sure what I should include, and what has live images, vs. install only images.

    I'm most comfortable in an environment with apt, so Debian and Mint are of course already covered, but if the gaming-specific distros have live usb images, that would probably be the best thing for him to try.

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    [Request] Long press on links to open them externally

    When reading a web page within Connect, it would be nice if long-pressing on links in the webpage would give a popup with the option to open the link in an external browser (and probably also an option to just copy the link). I frequently find myself linked to Wikipedia from a Lemmy comment, and then want to open other links from that wiki page, so then I have to open the page I'm on externally and refind my spot in the article.

    Having the same options when long-pressing a link in a comment/post would be nice as well.

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    [Request] Seperate block lists for seperate accounts

    Edit: there's already a setting for it, another user pointed it out. Ignore me :)

    Currently, when you block an instance or community, it's blocked app-wide. I had blocked various NSFW communities and instances on my main account so that they don't show up in my All feed, but now I can't access them from my NSFW account unless I use a different app to do so, or repeatedly unblock and reblock them as needed.

    Can we instead make block lists on a per-account basis (or have the option of account-associated or global blocking)?

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    How can I change the text colour in my comment box?

    The text when I try to type comments (but not the text in the search bar or, as I'm just now learning, here in the 'post body' text box) is white, and I can't find the setting to change it. Obviously I could change my background back to the default blue that it was, but that's the opposite of a solution.

    Anybody know?

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