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  • Ben@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlYo are fireworks that fun?
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    1 year ago

    Fireworks are brilliant. I think you live somewhere with cultural issues… people reserve the right to party and annoy everyone else…

    They have their time and place - and 2am sounds more like problms with arseholes, not Fireworks.

    They should be banned after 9pm (except for New Year - extend until 00:20 for that).

    I’ve been witness to some amazing displays that bring tears to my eyes they were so awesome. The most memorable being ones that I’m close enough to feel the pressure wave, a truly trouser flapping experience.


  • I think ‘soul’ is not something which exists in itself - it is the idea of the essence of a thing, the thing which causes an individual life.

    So theories go around that there are spiritual beings separate from the physical (debatable) and I personally think that it extends to all life, such that trees can have awareness which can also extend beyond their physical bodies.

    As such, they obviously exist - but their exact definition and nature is quite hard to grasp. I don’t think they can survive physical death.







  • Over obsessing with puns is a recognised psychological issue…

    At school, I remember the time I was jealous of our ‘class clown’ who was genuinely pretty hilarious every time he opened his mouth and extremely popular (especially with the girls). The worst thing to do is to try to emulate that (go home, study a ton of jokes… I’m sure everyone did that at some stage).

    I think one of the lessons I worked hard to teach my son is that you shouldn’t make an effort to be funny, because that’s mostly just four-king annoying. Since then, his jokes come less frequently - but with higher hit-rates.

    But for sure, Reddit seems to have an average mentality of 6 to 12.

    The worst trap to get into is to try to make jokes about unemployed people - because they never work.


  • Haha I cannot say for sure. I certainly started to duplicate my credentials… so now I’m more likely to be logged in as BendyLemmy.

    So initially it was Lemmy.ml (which wasn’t working too well) and it got annoying that I wasn’t logged in when opening links - so BeeHaw, Lemmy.world, https://fosstodon.org/ is BendyToy,…

    One thing I’m finding useful now in Bitwarden is that I can autofill and copy (so just refresh for a new password) to get the same username for each one… but it’s kind of getting out of hand.

    It’s a little frustrated that we can’t use a kind of centralised profile - like the way an ‘opendesktop’ account can be used to log in to various instances of websites. If I log in the Opendesktop website, and then go to Mastodon, I find my Opendesktop account gets logged in there - so there’s more fragmentation.

    Overal it is just very confusing.







  • This is crazy - for sure, in many countries it can be taken straight from the tap depending on the reliability of infrastructure… but to waste energy boiling it??? No thanks.

    In England, I moved a few times - some places have great tasting water - others not so great - meaning it’s always safe (and ok for brewing or cooking) but not so good for drinking from the tap.

    In Scotland (a couple of places I stayed and worked) it’s a toss up whether you should drink the tapwater, or go to your local and take another dram from the top row… those Single Malt Whiskeys made with water from Scotland are amazing… but both are safe in moderation.

    In Bangkok, if I don’t clean my shower out monthly, it ends up with brown gunge building up, so I certainly don’t drink the stuff… and it’s hard to know how clean it is (though we’re told it’s certainly drinkable at source, it has a long way to come to my house - and the pressure of the system is low… another red flag). Visiting tropical islands, you see some resorts are connected via long plastic pipes which are often on the surface (in the sun) and so definitely not the best candidate for anything more than a shower.

    In Bangkok too, unless you can test it yourself you shouldn’t drink it - but I fail to see why you’d decide to boil dirty water and drink it, seeing as most countries with inadequate tap water have drinking water.

    I wouldn’t use ‘boiled tap water’ to make my pasta either.

    I have six large bottles which gets topped up each week, to make sure I have plenty of water to cook and drink with… If I didn’t, then I’d invest in a good water filtration system.


  • I actually added a custom search engine to Firefox… so I can search something on Lemmy. I have the keyword ‘LW’ for Lemmy.World search right now (because Lemmy.ml was offline a while).

    Basically, do the Lemmy search (search term ssss) then edit/replace ssss > %s and copy the entire link. https://lemmy.world/search/q/%s/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

    Then using ‘add custom search engine’ extension on Firefox, you add it.