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What's your read on Milchick and Kier's comedy routine in the S2 finale?
  • That's an interesting observation about the Board. The Kier voice seems similar to the Board voice we briefly heard from the intercom in S1.

  • Saturn has 128 new moons – more than the rest of the planets combined
  • Moons vs. dwarf moons? (Sounds like a fantasy novel series.)

  • Feature request: disable haptics
  • I have been using it and it works well.

  • [Article] The forgotten street found behind a hidden library door
  • Discovered in the 1990s. It’s been known/used for decades now.

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  • The repost bots often use oddly-phrased headlines -- often commenters will even talk about how weird the headline is. I can’t tell if the posters are actually bots, or if they are content farmers from certain countries. (The odd phrasing may sound natural in their language.)

    Another tactic is to post an obviously incorrect headline to draw engagement, like mis-identifying a picture of the Empire State Building as Chicago.

    Both of these happen frequently with image posts.

  • If you are an American, how are you preparing for the upcoming tariffs and possible trade war?
  • The CPI is a key economic indicator. It’s unlikely that banks and markets would tolerate that kind of meddling.

    But, if the CPI was changed for political reasons, there are other similar stats.

    In plain language: Wall Street can make or lose billions of dollars based on correctly/incorrectly forecasting this stat, so you can bet your ass they have accurate data. Some of it is private; some is available to paying customers. Even if the data is not public, it is often publicly characterized, for example, in economic forecasts and in publications like The Economist.

    Some examples of alternative CPI sources are: PriceStats and The Economist’s Intelligence Unit. Both require paid access.

    Be aware that freely-available stats may be published with political agendas, by Fox News conspiracy theorists, etc.

  • If you are an American, how are you preparing for the upcoming tariffs and possible trade war?
  • That’s the Consumer Price Index.

    There’s also the related Producer Price Index which unfortunately does not include tariffs but will be interesting to watch.

  • If you are an American, how are you preparing for the upcoming tariffs and possible trade war?

    What impact do you think it will have on you?

    Are there critical items to purchase now that will be too expensive to afford next year?

    Are you changing your savings or investments?

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  • Palm trees, roofed area in the parking lot. Southern California. Giant sign base on the right side of the picture: next to a freeway.

  • iOS animated app icons
  • Apple has not made the necessary APIs available. Only those two apps have animated icons. They’re made by Apple and so they are able to use the private APIs needed to do it.

  • Just a totally normal ad from 1971
  • It’s real. House & Garden Magazine, December 1971, page 127.

    Also see the ad for “Lady Alsons Personal Shower” on page 28, and the Insta-Jet Propane Flame Gun, only $9.99, on page 113!

    https://usmodernist.org/HG/HG-1971-12.pdf

  • House of the Future built by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Arizona (1979)
  • I’m picturing a vast apple pie desert with an ice cream oasis.

  • Rocket Lab confirms plan to bid for Pentagon launch contracts with new medium rocket
  • Wow, it’s impressive that by this time next year they expect to be flying customer payloads on Neutron.

  • Apple put the Magic Mouse’s charging port on the bottom again
  • Is this true? I don’t use a Magic Mouse but my Magic Trackpad and Apple wireless keyboard both give low battery warnings.

  • Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says
  • Or they changed the headline and due to caches CDNs or other reasons you didn’t get the newer one.

    archive.today has your original headline cached.

    Thanks for posting. While it’s a needlessly provocative headline, if that’s what the article headline was, then that is what the Lemmy one should be.

  • Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says
  • A very poor Lemmy article headline. The linked article says “alleged” and clearly there were multiple factors involved.

  • Aerial view of Centuripe, Italy
  • I had to look up other images to confirm this is real. It looks very much like AI.

  • Feature request: disable haptics

    Is there a way to turn off haptics when a server error happens?

    Various Lemmy servers that Arctic connects to are sometimes down. Even my host, lemm.ee, one of the more reliable ones, was down for a few minutes this morning. During this time I was trying to read an article but got an error message with haptics every few seconds. I would like to turn off the haptics when this happens.

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    I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

    About 3 or 4 years ago PayPal added the option to buy cryptocurrency, which I thought I’d try. (Dumb idea 🙄)

    Part of the sign up process was glitched. I retried and clicked submit one too many times, I guess. Now I’ve been unable to use PayPal for years. They blocked me because THEIR SITE was broken, but the web page essentially accuses me of being a criminal and asks for my bank records. No way in hell.

    This was just for me to pay others. I can only imagine how awful PayPal is if you are a vendor.

    Fuck PayPal.

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    Does lemm.ee support the “mark post as read” feature?

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/34248154

    > “Failed to mark post as read” errors > > I see this error almost every time I open the comments on a post. > > My server is lemm.ee. Does it not support the “mark as read” feature?

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    “Failed to mark post as read” errors

    I see this error almost every time I open the comments on a post.

    My server is lemm.ee. Does it not support the “mark as read” feature?

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    Spoiler tags

    I don’t know when they were added, but I just noticed that spoiler tags are supported.

    spoiler

    +。:.゚THANKヽ(*´∀)ノ゚YOU.:。+゚

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    Apple Store across the street from an Apple Store -- are there any closer than this?

    Comedian Lewis Black has a routine about “a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks”. Apple Stores aren’t nearly as common.

    Unless you’re in Glendale, California -- where Apple Glendale Galleria is across the street from Apple The Americana at Brand.

    Are there any other Apple Stores this close together?

    The stores are less than 150 meters apart, but unfortunately they aren’t within sight of each other. As you exit Apple The Americana at Brand, you won’t see the other Apple Store — only a notably uncrowded Samsung Experience Store.

    !map of Glendale Apple Stores

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    How reliable are EV chargers?

    New EV owner here. We charge at home so I don’t need to use them, but stores nearby have chargers. I tried them to see how they work. They are often broken.

    One store has a Volta charger (free!). It worked great the first time; the next time I went it was broken.

    Walmart has an Electrify America fast charger. The first time I went, 1 of 3 was not working. The next time I went, 1 of 3 was not working, but it was a different one.

    Was I unlucky, or are these charging networks unreliable? Has it been getting better or worse over time?

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    Spoiler tags

    We need ‘em!

    spoiler

    This is a spoiler. It should be hidden until you tap or click on it.

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    In space…

    Credit: https://aus.social/@dgar/110927118673886707

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    How can I block a user from my timeline?

    On the “all” timeline I see posts by bots that I want to filter out. I have tried blocking the “lemmit bot” in Memmy, but I still see its posts.

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    Link posts are missing links

    Some posts that are just a link to an article have no link. For example, this post has a link to an article which doesn‘t show up in Memmy.

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