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  • The contents of the article must be consumed in order to discuss them intelligently, to create an informed opinion, and to pose questions that have positive worth within the conversation that ensues from its having been read and ruminated upon?

    Preposterous notion.

  • Oh my eyes!
  • The lions are nude, if that helps...

  • The headquarters of the sudanese navy building is shaped like a ship. The air force headquarters is shaped like a plane
  • Are you replying to/commenting on the OP's title? Did you not read past its first sentence, into its second, mentioning the plane?

  • [1986] Casio Databank Watch
  • Fair rebuttal; we're meant to infer the left-side hand pointing at the watch belongs to the same model of the right-side arm that's wearing the watch. Admittedly, this is an assumption based on insufficient data. It's not impossible that the finger-pointing left hand and the watch-wearing right wrist are owned by two different models.

    That doesn't change the fact that the watch is worn on a right-arm wrist in an orientation that would show it as upside down to a right-arm wrist owner.

  • ‘RANDOM FLUFF #57’ [OC]
  • Struggling to spell, read, or write can all be signs of dyslexia...

    This answered nothing… Could you explicitly state what a mouth has to do with dyslexia?

    The irony. :-|

  • 1 May 2024
  • Placement of the shark's eyes makes me question Larson's qualifications as a marine biologist.

  • Words of Wonder: Emily Dickinson Edition
  • ...our word “diamond” comes from adamant…

    As does our word, "adamant". 🙂

  • Why would anyone want to be a moderator?
  • I hope you have named these forks after Muppets.

    From left to right, they are clear to me as: Robin the Frog, Kermit, Bunsen Honeydew, and Beaker.

  • Is there a way to browse other instances the same way as if I visited them via the browser?
  • If you're registered at those other instances, you can create another profile(s) in Jerboa that connects to them, and then using that profile, browse by Local, I suppose.

    I'm registered at both lemmy.cafe and lemmy.ca, and have profiles for both registrations in Jerboa.

    Otherwise, if you're registered only with Beehaw, I believe the answer is, "no, not in Jerboa, just with your device's normal web browser."

  • 12 Things to Remember Before Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
  • Garbage ad-laden filler puff-piece.

  • Nighttime wedding photo
  • Gorgeous backlighting composition. It's quite striking, congrats!

    Do you plan to clip the blacks for more contrast?

  • How to set "all" and "sort by hot" as default instead of "local" and "sort by active"
  • Additionally, after saving your preferred settings, I found it necessary to close and relaunch Jerboa to see the change. Simply refreshing the home page doesn't apply it.

  • [REPOST] Get rid of my vacation? Have fun replacing me.
  • A reminder to all that the M stands for Master.

    (Yes, I know it's used in the "mastery" sense, but just roll with the analogy!)

  • any way to change the default from "local" to "subscribed"?
  • This is the Jerboa community. Your answer is incorrect, as it refers to the web browser UI, it does not apply to the Jerboa UI.

  • r/steam (maliciously) complies with the call to open again
  • Sounds like that disappointment has you pretty steamed.

  • TIL that a 28 year old Russian man went to the doctor for coughing up blood and having chest pains. The doctors diagnosed it as cancer, but it turned out to be a fir tree growing inside his lungs.
  • Article ends with:

    There was no independent verification of the surgeon's claims.

    The internet tells me that "plant growth requirements" are air, water, nutrients, space, and light.

    Let's imagine. The growing plant was found in a lung. It must have:

    Air. Plants ingest carbon dioxide, exude oxygen. Both gasses are present in our own respiration. So that checks out.

    Water. I guess water was leeched from the lungs' blood supply, since we're all just bags of mostly water.

    Nutrients. See water, above. If the mamallian reproduction system can supply a growing embryo with required nutrients, why not those required by a fir sapling? Sure, they're different requirements, but press on.

    Space. Assuming that no other competing species of plant is growing in the lung, this isn't a problematic issue.

    Light. Ah, well. Photosynthesis requires sunlight, and I am reminded of a joke attributed to Groucho Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Nicola Tesla, and Albert Einstein:

    Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read, or to cultivate horticulture.

    I am as dubious of this fir sapling story as my quoted joke's provenance.

  • Enhancment request: Long-press hyperlink text to reveal destination URI

    On mobile I use(d) Relay for Reddit browsing. The app has a feature that I miss in Jerboa.

    In posts/comments, [hyperlinked text can be long-pressed to reveal the destination](hi there i am a URI to any other website) in a pop-up overlayed on the link (sorry, I don’t know the proper term for this UI tool) without actually opening to the link. Upon tapping off the pop-up, it closes and I tap on the URI to follow through to it, or not, as I wish. In Jerboa, pressing a hyperlink only opens it, site unseen (pun intended).

    This change would be useful because sometimes I don't want to open the linked page, given the target (e.g. youtube, instagram).

    In Jerboa I see no way of discovering the URI of a hyperlink without following to it, which would be convenient to avoid.

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    Jerboa icon gained a white background?

    This morning when I picked up my phone, the Jerboa icon on my phone's homepage had a transparent background, as it had when first installed a week-or-so ago.

    Sometime, mid-day today, I saw the icon had a solid white background.

    Did this change as a result of an update, or maybe my (admittedly old) phone just catching up to 2023?

    I must admit, I kinda liked the transparent-background version.

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    Is there a way to remove threads that you've already read?
  • From the app's Home page:

    • Tap the 3-bars hamburger icon at top left corner.
    • Tap on Settings (currently that's immediately below "Inbox")
    • Tap on [your account name] settings (currently it's immediately below "Look and feel")
    • Scroll down the page to the checkboxes, and uncheck "Show Read Posts"
    • Remember to scroll down to the page bottom to Save Settings (!)
  • Some people pronounce SQL as "sequel", and some as "squeal"
  • I also have heard Squirrel, the first time I ever heard of SQL. It was in a webinar info session for just a very superficial top-level type of understanding, really intended for nothing more than to acquaint first-tier support staff with technical terms and concepts. "SQL stands for Structured Query Language. For short, we can call it 'sequel' or 'squirrel'." (Cue stupid clip-art graphic of a buck-toothed smiling squirrel on a tree branch, holding an acorn, because what's a webinar without insipid mnemonics?) That sort of thing.

    I grokked the use of 'sequel', because the letter sequence S-Q-L is exactly that word, sans vowels, and even if schwas are substituted for the vowels, the pronunciation doesn't change much.

    But for 'squirrel' I had to imagine that they were taking the R from 'queRy' and injecting it to make SQL into SQrL for the sake of a cute memory device that would resonate with people who weren't expected to have any interest or investment deeper than a front-line customer service drone.

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