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Are the Jedi assholes?
  • this is exactly my argument.

    I completely agree with everything you've written and I even suspect George does, despite his disinclination to discuss it.

    a complacent aristocracy hoisted by their own failing traditions and impotent bureaucracy.

  • Are the Jedi assholes?
  • yea, the jedi were ideological conservatives.

    and that meme where Qui-Gon jinn brings back both Anakin and his mom instead of just Anakin?

    is a very legitimate point.

    the Jedi council chose to keep a jedi's mother in slavery instead of reuniting their family, freedom which would have come at a truly insignificant cost to the council.

  • I'm paralyzed from the waist down, AMA
  • woo ghibli for days, me too.

    k-pop hasn't hooked me, and I even lived in Korea for a while, can you understand Korean?

    or I guess more to the point, what is the quality of K-Pop that hooked you?

    The music itself, or the idol culture or what?

    I don't play a lot of sim games, and I'm actually a little concerned that if I start playing stardew valley I'm going to get crazy into it and become addicted Just because I don't know anything about it and I know the community is so obsessed with the series.

    also, that's super cool of your family.

  • I'm paralyzed from the waist down, AMA
  • living the life.

    any particular music, video games or movies that stick out to you as worth recommending or then you especially vibe with?

    do you receive SSI payments (If you're American) or any government assistance, or does your family support you on their own?

  • I'm paralyzed from the waist down, AMA
  • rad, I'm big on mountains myself.

    that's great to hear overall, I'm very glad you're living the life you want to, especially with what sounds like. such a compassionate support system like your family.

    do you have a lot of solo hobbies to keep you occupied?

    how do you fill your time?

  • I'm paralyzed from the waist down, AMA
  • you sound pretty chill, is that a result of your accident or were you pretty chill before the accident is well?

    do you have any goals you want to reach like traveling or starting a business or anything at all?

  • Forgot about the bank stacks, surprise achievement depositing my finds from panning for gold!

    I'm regularly very organized, so actually having all of this stuff in the bank is causing me anxiety and I'm going to be very happy to clear it all out.

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    How the Fuck did Trump Actually Win - F.D Singifier
  • when people ask me how Trump won, I explain that Americans care so little about women as a group that they're letting them die in front of hospitals rather than allowing them to have health care.

    "allowing" them.

    so the party hoping to elect a woman president is at an extreme disadvantage.

    I also think domestic and international election interference election interference plays a much more significant role in American elections than people think and in hindsight and future history textbooks, people will be shaking their heads, not just at the electoral college, but at direct election interference securing Republican victories.

    people don't think election interference is important because we hear the word gerrymander or social media bias or "Russian troll farms" and since they're omnipresent, they're dismissed, although they have direct practical influence on campaigns and election processes.

  • Woooo! Nnnext achievement please...
  • haha, thanks. 28 so far.

    I really like podcasts and eating large dinners and then walking or bicycling after that, so I'll spend spend 3 or 4 hours a day learning something from a podcast and idly burning off all the great food I ate!

    If you like walking games, the only other one I've really enjoyed is called "the walk", and it's sort of a serialized radio show, and every 10 miles or so you walk you'll unlock another chapter so you can hear the next part of the story.

    it's a pretty cool story and very professionally done with a bunch of different voice actors.

  • Woooo! Nnnext achievement please...
  • a thousand gold ores.

    that I'm determined to do through gold panning.

    I actually really want to do gold panning in real life, and I aim to soon, so walkscape will be its proxy until I get the opportunity.

  • Woooo! Nnnext achievement please...

    looks like they need an "s" on "appraiser" there. or an "a" before "true".

    does not lessen my appreciatiom for this achievement.

    fun.

    worth it.

    healthy.

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    micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    does anyone have experience with any solid wheel electric scooters?

    hiboy looks good, but I see a lot of disparaging reviews concerning its build quality.

    any firsthand experience with a solid-wheel scooter is what I'm looking for, thanks!

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    Cyber-Security Experts Warn in Open Letter to Harris Election Was Hacked; Elon Musk is "guilty as fuck"

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    do any of you recommend a particular credit card that benefits travelers?

    I've never had a credit card, but I travel often and have always heard rumblings about rewards and cash back or whatever, so I'm wondering if there is a card I would benefit from since I regularly purchase plane tickets.

    I'm looking for personal experiences, primarily.

    thank you!

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    got to say, this is the most fun I've ever had with an exercise game.

    I'm looting trying to find " fine trash" right now, and I enjoyed checking my loot every few minutes and seeing what I've picked up, I'm enjoying the game more and more with the increase in complexity and achievements and interconnected activities that come with every new release.

    and I really like that I'm exercising.

    Just a thumbs up post and I'm excited to keep playing.

    and for the rest of the world to become accessible.

    and like a thousand other things that are hinted at coming.

    also, I really like panning for gold. haha

    bonus question: has anyone else played a walking game they like anywhere near as much?

    aside from a hybrid exercise podcast radio show called The Walk, I have a distant second I can't even remember the name of, but nothing else really comes close for me.

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    I just listened to David bowie's 1997 "Earthling" album, is this where dubstep came from?

    or was there iconic scratchy rapid frenetic drum electronic scraping noises before Bowie?

    listening to these songs. I kept thinking about Skrillex, but that wasn't for another 13 years.

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    etymology of "juggernaut"

    I'm in India and I just found out the etymology of the word juggernaut.

    it comes from the Sanskrit jagganath, which means " lord of the world", and is the name of one of the major Hindu gods.

    but what's awesome is he's basically their giant buff God.

    so all his temples are like super squat and beefy, sort of brutalist architecture.

    so the X-Men iteration is pretty close to what you can imagine the lord of the world looking like.

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    YSK that if Americans live outside of the US for more than 330 days a year, they don't have to pay taxes on $125,000 of their income that year

    why: so the government won't be able to use your money for whatever the fuck they're planning for the next 4 years.

    as a traveler, none of my money has been funding Israel, for example.

    one-step method: you basically fill out one extra tax form called FEIE while you're doing your taxes, write down the dates you were outside of the country, and then since you aren't in the country and are not receiving any services from the US, you don't have to pay income tax up to a certain amount (it's a little over 125k this year).

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    for US voters who didn't, why didn't you vote early through the mail?

    Just curious since it seems so much easier and less stressful during any election cycle to fill out a form and mail it in during your free time.

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    is there a way to block posts by keyword, like I can block any post containing the word "musk"?

    there are certain things I want to be out of the loop of, anything to do with him seems good.

    I'm looking for mobile solutions specifically.

    thank you very much

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    Stovetop/shower/tub/ countertop/toilet stains? Toothpaste!

    I wanted my security deposit back but the tub was already orange and stained when we moved in.

    luckily, I knew the toothpaste trick.

    1. while whatever your cleaning is bone dry, squeeze a little toothpaste on the discolored area.

    2. spread it out with a disposable plastic glove or whatever, make sure that the toothpaste is rubbed in and touching all the discolored parts.

    3. wait an hour or four. waiting is optional, it just makes it easier to clean off later.

    4. use a damp cloth to clean off the toothpaste and the orange, yellow whatever stains from your tub, shower, countertop or toilet.

    5. repeat as needed, it won't take many applications to have your fixture looking new.

    any tile or anything with a glossy finish is fine to use toothpaste on, and the plastic shower and tubs are made out of is fine and won't be damaged.

    get that deposit back for the price of a tube of toothpaste.

    honorable mention:

    are you in 1999 and your CD keeps skipping?

    toothpaste!

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    local question for Indians, where are all the premixed curries in the supermarket?

    Hello, I'm traveling in orissa right now and I'm looking for premixed curries i can buy to throw in a pot with water and make dinner with.

    I've met plenty of locals and asked a few about instant or pre-mixed curries, but they all say that there's no such thing as premixed curries in india.

    The strikes me as odd since instant curry is very common in every country with any sort of curry tradition I've been to and it seems like some company would have taken advantage of the market.

    am I asking the wrong question?

    I'm either not recognizing or haven't found any curry mixes yet.

    are they not called curry?

    should I be looking for something else?

    thanks

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    Burrow Fuck

    Metaaallllllll!

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    I like a lot about the Marvels(2023), but does this movie have the worst CGI/set pieces of any Marvel movie?

    does anyone have any insight into this? actual behind the scenes knowledge?

    the sets either look like cheap plastic or ps3 graphics.

    It's very distracting and making it almost impossible for me to immerse myself in the story.

    It's very frustrating because I like the movie and the story and I think the actors are mostly doing a good job, kamala and her family are hilarious, but I can't get over how dog shit the CGI , editing and set pieces are.

    did anyone else notice this?

    and the budget was 220 million. it was huge, I can't understand why the effects and set pieces are so terrible.

    a small example: when captain Marvel "changes" her clothes in the singing Palace, her entire wardrobe is clearly changed off screen, she's already wearing her new costume when the camera switches back to her and there are literal like 1970s cartoon Disney sparkles floating around her for a second to imply that she morphed her costume?

    have Marvel movies always looked this ridiculous? I feel like 10 years ago the effects and settings were more believable, or at the very least more immersive.

    All of these effects look like they were made in one frantic week.

    oh, and the costumes?

    Why are all the costumes baggy?

    like professor Marvel's costume is baggy, everyone on Nick Fury ship is wearing baggy jumpsuits.

    and it's not like cool baggy, they just didn't make costumes that fit for everybody on set?

    professor's Marvel's mom's hair looks crazy, it looks like they sprayed white spray paint on her head and was like okay, she's old now.

    the kittens are rough, their textures, movements and physics are absurd.

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    great VA clip from S1

    I tried to find one with Ashley burch since I think she was the voice of computer bot lady in the pilot episode?

    but it was a lot of work, relatively, for the internet, so I didn't.

    Tempbot! right?

    oh, I think the borders of my B+P memory are just hazy enough that I can justify watching the show again.

    That's very exciting.

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    explaining to your friends how you go to the bathroom like nobody else(hopefully)

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    double bird morph

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    Xi and Mao replace Jesus and Mary in Chinese churches

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    Updated garlic peeling lifehack for garlic dip after testing

    Thank you !lifehacks@sh.itjust.works community!

    tldr: baking/steaming garlic in the peel is the clear winner for volume clove peeling.

    Crushing is the winner for a couple cloves in a stir-fry, root end cut is obviously better for garlic chips.

    The last garlic peeling post had so many good suggestions that I decided to trial each of them at least a few times with fresh/older bulbs of different shapes and sizes.

    One method worked in any situation.

    For peeling as many cloves as you want, each technique had some major cons except for the final, winning method put forward by @TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone !

    The results were:

    Smashing -

    pros: easy, classic technique. usually works.

    cons: peel can get stuck inside a smash, you still have to pull off the peel, occasionally the peel is still stuck to the skin, cloves are damaged.

    Slicing off root end and peeling -

    pros: easy, faster

    cons: still have to manually peel it, much faster but not fast.

    Garlic roller -

    pros: I cannot find one. Sometimes works?

    cons: can only roll a couple of cloves at a time, much more effort than other methods, have to either cut off the ends first or later, so you're doing all the work without any benefit. These are a no for me, dawg.

    Shaking -

    pros: fun to do, does work for more than half the cloves of large batches using two aluminum popcorn bowls for a minute of shaking.

    cons: a LOT of effort, bruises the cloves before cooking, very messy, juice everywhere, inevitably doesn't peel every clove, so you have to spend time hand peeling the leftovers, even with prep work of slicing off top and root end.

    WINNER is root end cut and steaming or roasting in peel as suggested by @TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone:

    pros: least effort, safest, cooking is already done, fastest and simplest clove peeling, no bruising beforehand, least messy

    Method:

    Cut off root end.

    Steam(~10 minutes) or bake(400 degrees ~30 min) as much garlic as you want.

    Let garlic sit for a few minutes to cool down.

    Pinch the top end of each peel and the clove will pop out easily, discard peel.

    Mash the garlic together and season however you like for a garlic dip.

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