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rekabis@programming.devto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Roommate refuses to use my body wash cause it's not "manly"English31·vor 1 MonatIt took me until the early 2020s to realize that men even have body washes in the first place.
Keep in mind that I abandoned broadcast TV around 2001 or 2002, so I completely cut all commercials out of my life.
Then when the first adblocker became available for Phoenix (later Firebird, then Firefox) around 2004, I was all over that like white on rice. So since 2004 the only ads I have had to suffer were when I set up a new system whose browsers needed configuring, and later once my browser protections became too strict and I needed a “naked” web browser for user-hostile sites that tied spyware and near-malware into site-critical functionality.
So I have been “out of the advertising loop” for a very long time, and always saw bodywash as a female thing. I quite literally never “got the memo” that body washes came for men.
And I’m not likely to get any, either. And not for any stupidly sexist reasons - after five decades on this rock, I am just habituated on bars of soap. I just don’t like the showering/soaping-up experience without bar soap.
rekabis@programming.devto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Food service workers, what's the strangest kitchen request you ever saw someone order?3·vor 1 MonatWhen I was in my 20s, I would ask for two whole hands of jalapeños on a sub. Well, my catcher’s-mitt-sized hands, that is. Along with all the normal fixin’s. Like, the jalapeños would make up more than half of each sub’s non-bread contents.
And I would frequently eat two of these monstrosities in a single sitting.
I would often have the staff put more and more on because as Filipino ladies, their hands were tiny AF, and they couldn’t imagine eating subs like that. So they were always starting out with 10-20 slices scattered along the entire sub and I was like, “NO. Grab an entire fistful. As much as you can grab. Put that on one end. Then repeat three more times along the sub.”
I mean, I could likely still have that amount of jalapeños on a sub. But I would be stuffed after just one sub, these days. The hollow leg of my youth vanished during my fifth decade, and I’ve been inconsolable ever since.
rekabis@programming.devto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the most dangerous ideology in the world and what makes it dangerous?2·vor 1 MonatI find this so confusing… it’s like the old saying, “if you don’t want to be called a fascist, don’t be a fascist!”
Conservatives have the strangest contradictions. They want to be all these socially and morally odious things, then get upset when we call them out on those very things.
rekabis@programming.devto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the most dangerous ideology in the world and what makes it dangerous?3·vor 1 MonatI see four downvotes.
Would love to know the position those people have. Are they threatened by their own ignorance being called out? Or are they just conservative?
rekabis@programming.devtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Jordan Peterson says he’s left Canada and moved to the U.S.14·vor 2 MonatenOh, thank god, that snake-oil salesman is finally gone.
Something like host over half of all Americans cannot read above a 5th grade level. Almost a third are functionally illiterate.
It’s not that they don’t have critical thinking skills. It’s that the entire lower-90% have been so badly nerfed that it is increasingly difficult for anyone in that cohort to get to a point where they can educate themselves without copious assistance.
And that’s exactly how Republicans prefer the population - uneducated, illiterate, ignorant and gullible. The better with which to scam them for their votes.
rekabis@programming.devto Resist: It's Time@fedia.io•ICE Deploys Armored Convoy to Arrest Flier Distributor in California6·vor 2 MonatenCan we do the same thing, only on a website?
I’m not in America, I could host.
It’s time these NKVD goons understood their own evil.
rekabis@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN BusinessEnglish101·vor 2 MonatenNot after the first snowfall, they won’t.
rekabis@programming.devto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If all your basic needs were met and you didn't have to work to get by, what would you do with your life?3·vor 2 MonatenFind a deserted corner in the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest, likely up near Haida Gawaii, and just… vanish.
I like civilization in general for the benefits it brings. I even like a few people. But humanity in general…
I truly enjoy solitude.
rekabis@programming.devto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What shows/movies are absurdly stupid but fun to watch with friends?61·vor 2 Monaten- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
- Time Bandits (1981)
- The Dark Crystal (1982)
- Krull (1983)
- Brazil (1985)
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
Any one of these are both campy and thought provoking.
Your data is still there for Reddit to monetize.
Overwrite all your old posts with a protest message. Wait a day. Repeat. Wait a week. Repeat. A month, repeat. Then delete shit. Going back to undelete a random post managed in this manner will be too costly for them.
Downside is that I have yet to find a script that actually catches everything. All the well-known scripts miss a lot, likely on account of their limitations.
rekabis@programming.devto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course materialEnglish9·vor 2 MonatenHaiku OS stumbles into the room, gags at the PearsonVue stench, beats a hasty retreat
Sounds a lot like Canada, where most people’s exposure to “Mexican food” is Taco Bell. Welcome to the club.
My distaste for Tacos comes down to the fact I don’t like crunchy foods that shatter, and especially so when they run the risk of being messy. I mean, I can handle a gooey messy burger just fine, but that’s because it doesn’t shatter when I bite into it. Tacos hit both those pain points. Give me Arroz con Pollo any day, I absolutely love it. And yes, the only place I can get this is from Rancho Chico south of the border in Washington state.
Which means it’s a no-go until America overthrows the current authoritarian ChristoFascist administration. Because they won’t allow themselves to be legitimately voted out of power. Soooo… possibly a decade or more until I can eat there again, assuming America doesn’t invade Canada in the meantime.
rekabis@programming.devto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Keep Tabs On Your Vehicle’s Needs With LubeLoggerEnglish43·vor 4 MonatenLubeLogger
For anyone whose first thought does not reach for vehicles, this is a most unfortunate name. Extremely appropriate, but unfortunate.
rekabis@programming.devto World News@lemmy.world•Bloomberg: Trump tariffs on Canada lumber risk pinching toilet paper supplyEnglish7·vor 4 MonatenThat’s funny, but watch out - somewhere, some conservative is reading that and taking it to be exactly as you wrote it. Before long Republicans will be passing laws banning bidets and even forcing them to be ripped out of homes because of “bidet wokeness”.
I would add a /s, but with the way America is crumbling ever-further into ridiculousness, satire is becoming real at ever-increasing rates. Even The Onion is constantly getting upstaged by reality these days.
rekabis@programming.devto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying73·vor 4 Monatenrun an install script for either Mac or Linux (we do not support Windows as an installation platform at this time.)
I always find it deeply ironic that valuable tools that are meant to protect people are released in forms that exclude an overwhelming proportion of the people who could use it.
It was the same issue with Ladybird browser up until a month or so ago - they were projecting Windows support only some time in 2027 to 2029. Like, how the hell are you supposed to achieve a critical mass of eyeballs when the vast majority of people who would love to test the product just don’t have the platform to run it on? It’s ideological shortsightedness at its kindest characterization. And I wouldn’t be kind.
Plus, DotNet is almost trivially cross-platform these days and almost ridiculously easy to develop with… for something like an install script you really don’t have an excuse to not hit all three platforms anymore.
rekabis@programming.devtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Don't need therapy? Got money for sympathy?English2·vor 4 MonatenI would say that, conditional to the man having a partner, intimacy is a hell of a lot more accessible than therapy. Provided that intimacy is not rationed or made conditional, this could provide more lasting and more timely healing than therapy as well.
With that said, we really need to normalize men seeking therapy. There are far too many men where the conditions above are not met, and so could and would benefit more from therapy than intimacy.
rekabis@programming.devto Fediverse memes@feddit.uk•Bluesky already doing enshittificationEnglish488·vor 4 MonatenThere is a legitimate reason for this: it’s the only way to provide content creators with evidence of how many people actually clicked on the link.
The downside is that there is so many ways that a feature like this can be abused by BlueSky in ways that can hurt users.
Really? And here I thought it was still in those really confusing Florida ounces. Even up here in Canada, where we do have millilitres marked on our cans, I still see “Fl oz” on many products.