LOL, we has 2 and have never used them. One is at camp, where we have a gennie, and we sold the other at the flea market.

The only hot drinks we make are coffe and we have 3 machines for that. If we need hot water to cook, we heat it on the stove top. I just can’t see why we would want one. Am I missing out?

Drive through rural Mississippi. The wealth gap is nuts just from what you can see on the highway.

Only place I’ve live where this is taboo is Chicagoland. And that’s to be expected with the muddy snow.

Here in the South we usually don’t have carpets, no reason to take our shoes off.

That’s very surprising. Where have you visited?

Y’all know that’s a flare gun, right?

These surgeons were moving fast, I can see it.

I was sawing wood one night and barely touched my thumb webbing, split open like a mouth. Bet you could take 3 fingers an single forward and back stroke. You can for sure with modern blades.

(If anyone is considering a new saw, get the kind with this sort of edge: https://www.amazon.com/REXBETI-Folding-Camping-Pruning-Quality/dp/B07BLQBN8X/ Those are modern day light sabers.)

That’s not capitalism, that’s human nature. If I don’t quickly take it, someone else will. The Tragedy of the Commons happens no matter the economic system.

My ebpubs are 2,700 files at 1.5GB. And that’s with all the extra crap like JPGs and tons of dupes. I could read forever on 1GB.

Boom! That’s the case. But what YouTuber can stand against Nintendo in court?

Best answer here as it touches on inarguable facts rather than feelings. NOTE: Emotions are mainly a mammal thing, though reptiles and birds have a sort-of amygdala, not the same though.

And an interesting bit for OP: Dogs DO smile! At the least we can that we selected for more expressive facial muscles in dogs. In contrast, my pig has about zero emotional indicators, though he seems smarter than any dog I’ve met.

Dogs were shaped during the course of domestication both in their behavior and in their anatomical features. Here we show that domestication transformed the facial muscle anatomy of dogs specifically for facial communication with humans. A muscle responsible for raising the inner eyebrow intensely is uniformly present in dogs but not in wolves. Behavioral data show that dogs also produce the eyebrow movement significantly more often and with higher intensity than wolves do, with highest-intensity movements produced exclusively by dogs. Interestingly, this movement increases paedomorphism and resembles an expression humans produce when sad, so its production in dogs may trigger a nurturing response. We hypothesize that dogs’ expressive eyebrows are the result of selection based on humans’ preferences.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1820653116

Far more out there if you want less technical resources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/dogs-faces-evolved-improve-connections-people-study-suggests-rcna22362

That’s the definition but not how it’s ever used.

NAILED IT! Yeah, our subconscious is driving and only sends an executive summary up top. And we think, “I did this!” Nah. You didn’t. You are just along for the ride.

People hate this notion because it negates free will. Well, yeah, it kinda does.

Everyone talking about pain so I’ll add this: A person is shitloads more attractive with a straight posture. Shoulders back, head high y’all. Fake it until it’s a habit if you must.

Meh. That’s a straight copycat crime.

It may well be growing faster as you age. Mine certainly did.

I’d suggest figuring out the Windows casting issue. My TV is hardwired to the network, so maybe that helps.

Here’s a script for a mode switcher. Works great using psexe to wrap it in an executable.

Do {
    CLS
    $Mode = Read-Host "`r`n(W)ork, (P)lay, (M)ovie?"
    } until ( 'w', 'p', 'm' -contains $Mode) 

if ($Mode -eq "w"){
# Work Mode
displayswitch.exe /extend
# Display taskbar and restart Explorer
$p='HKCU:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3';$v=(Get-ItemProperty -Path $p).Settings;$v[8]=2;&Set-ItemProperty -Path $p -Name Settings -Value $v;&Stop-Process -f -ProcessName explorer
    }

if ($Mode -eq "p"){
# Play Mode
displayswitch.exe /external
# Display taskbar and restart Explorer
$p='HKCU:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3';$v=(Get-ItemProperty -Path $p).Settings;$v[8]=2;&Set-ItemProperty -Path $p -Name Settings -Value $v;&Stop-Process -f -ProcessName explorer
    }

if ($Mode -eq "m"){
# Movie Mode
displayswitch.exe /internal
#Hide taskbar and restart Explorer
$p='HKCU:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3';$v=(Get-ItemProperty -Path $p).Settings;$v[8]=3;&Set-ItemProperty -Path $p -Name Settings -Value $v;&Stop-Process -f -ProcessName explorer
    }

Been saying that about the internet for 30 years. It’s a damned miracle it works at all and people whine and cry about every little hitch.

Capitalism sucks!

continues purchasing crap

See! I told you!

This is what you get when humans try to work beyond our monkeysphere. It’s not “capitalism” or “greed” or any other such childish ideas. Groups that large cannot be efficient.

https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

The article is so old the formatting is all jacked, but you can get the jist of it easily enough.

LOL, those last three sentences wrap up lemmy’s capitalism hate perfectly.

“We keep spending money on bullshit and kept getting fed worse bullshit!”

“Have you considered not spending money on bullshit?”

“We HAVE to!!!”