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  • honeyontoasttoMicroblog MemesWe need new fiction now
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I’m sure someone who doesn’t think much could definitely watch the show and come away thinking vaccines are dangerous, but that’s not the angle it pulls. It relies on there being only one vaccine manufacturer, that everybody takes it, and that nobody outside the scheme actually tests the vaccine.

    Of course in the real world multiple companies manufacture the same vaccine and they’re tested by numerous organisations, so it falls apart pretty quickly.

    Still a good show though.




  • honeyontoasttoMicroblog MemesWe need new fiction now
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    I recently watched Utopia, British show about a super secret group putting naughty stuff in a vaccine.

    Their plan hinged on every person being so afraid of a pandemic that everybody takes the vaccine. This was made pre COVID of course, because we now know that would never work.






  • I like it, but I’m not exactly a power user and the only other distros I’ve used are Ubuntu and mint. I think if you want a Debian based distro that’s not tied to Ubuntu then Mx is a good choice. I know there’s LMDE too but as far as I know that’s only available with cinnamon, so Mx having KDE plasma is nice too.

    There’s the whole sysvinit Vs systemd but I don’t have a dog in that fight and enabled systemd, which Mx makes very easy even though they advise against it.



  • honeyontoasttoBikini Bottom Twitterlet 'er rip
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    I used to eat steak well done until I made it myself for the first time and massively misjudged the timings. Came out medium rare and it was amazing. Do it that way every time now.

    But people acting like well done steak is a crime against nature is so bizarre.




  • Cars have (or had, I don’t know if they’re still included) an electric lighter that you pushed in to heat up. It was basically a little metal ring that got really hot. So I think it probably is the heat.

    I remember my friend also had a plasma lighter, that unsurprisingly used plasma to light things. It made a really scary noise in the wind and hurt like a motherfucker to touch. We were 18 and dumb.


  • I’m assuming you mean big ideas like inventing the television and not two people thinking “hey let’s get pizza!” at the same time.

    The rational: If you consider that at any point in time, the average person was facing the same problems as all the other average people, it is not too unreasonable to think that two people could think of the same solution since they were facing the same problem and likely had similar life experiences and education.

    The cynical: We’re not as unique as we think we are.



  • Netflix and Disney+ are the only two left. I used to also have Amazon Prime and Spotify but I was able to cut out Prime early last year and just within the last few weeks I cut out Spotify after using it continuously since 2009.

    I’m trying to de-stream my media, and I would very much like to own the actual files legitimately instead but I think everything is so reliant on streaming these days it can be really difficult to buy DRM-free movies or TV shows. For music I get it from Bandcamp, so I am very appreciative of that. What can’t be acquired legitimately… cough


  • honeyontoasttoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksAi clone
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    They must have been really desperate to make that jab because “slipping up” has been a common phrase for decades (at least in the UK). So the “up” has been dropped and we’re left with “slipping”, if it takes a native English speaker more than ten seconds to work it out I’d be worried for their cognition.