I know that a lot of VPN users have it as a homepage to their browser, that is why I wanted to publish this warning.

You can replace it with:

• WTF is my IP?;
• ip.me by Proton;
• IPinfo.

Heat bursts are rare but I think they warrant being aware of. I’ll link a video below of what people did to survive the ones they experienced.

Non youtube link(attempt):

1. Click https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube+satan%27s+storm+texas+swegle+studios&ia=web

2. Click video tab at top, then the thumbnail with Yellow text. This should give you the watch here option

Youtube link:

https://youtu.be/y5sBhpmTjn0

The good news is that (other than the pain) it is completely harmless.

The way it always felt to me is like someone wrapped a small wire around something tender in my chest, and if I tried to breathe or straighten my posture, they would yank on it. I'd get it anywhere from a couple times a week to once a month. Then one day in my mid-30s it just stopped.

From what I understand this is relatively common. I was so grateful for the person on reddit who dropped this nugget of wisdom several years ago. It was nice to know I wasn't dying or whatever.

Do you ever assume that reality just exists “out there” on its own?

There’s an idea suggesting that reality might actually depend on the state or structure of the observer (like us).

In other words, reality may not be something fixed from the start, but something that forms when certain conditions of observation are met.

This could even be a kind of Copernican shift that overturns some basic assumptions in physics. Probably worth knowing about.

It’s explained in a short video if you’re interested: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/c714dc8c-eb93-4317-b369-8e57fac880fc?artifactId=4b0c43ff-308e-4668-94ec-8289bb14fe79

In these states, control of the governorship and legislature is split between parties. These states are Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Currently, 39 of the 50 states have a trifecta and a triplex of the same party. Of these 39, 23 are Republican, and 16 are Democratic.

If you’re assigned something to read, read it aloud to yourself. This engages not just the internal monologue part of your brain, but speaking and hearing parts, and your brain makes stronger pathways when more senses are engaged and working together.

Don’t buy (eta: or download) flash cards, draw them yourself. This engages sight and abstraction., plus motor skill areas.

Write your own notes, then read them aloud and highlight them yourself. So many parts of your brain make connections by doing this. Don’t just read. That’s not very helpful; you don’t have to study long if you study well.

I think there’s a name for this, but I’m tired and will rely on Cunningham’s whatever.

e: don’t forget about all of your senses – you have way more than 5.

There are other ways it celebrates like the main page (which you should check out), but I think you're less likely to know about the deletion discussions.

NOTE: This is separate from formally nominating an article for deletion. If you wish to participate, do not actually follow the article nomination procedure. Also, Wikipedia operates on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Why YSK: Wikipedia often presents as self-serious, but in reality, the only thing keeping the project from turning into a giant shitpost is collective self-discipline. You might find it funny to see how Wikipedians really act and maybe get involved in the festivities even if you don't normally work on the project.

Seemingly as part of April Fools celebration, lemmy.zip instance hosts a famous game of "The Button"!

The rules are simple: each player has one chance to push a button. If no one presses a button in 15 minutes after you did it, you and your team win!

Just found it out in a random Lemmy corner and I think others might wanna join in on the fun:

https://thebutton.lemmy.zip/

P.S. enter your user and instance names, and a bot will PM you your personal login link

Picture only because I accidentally posted this as media instead of text in Voyager.

The verb run is only conjugated as "ran" in the simple past tense, as in:

• I ran a mile.
• He ran the company.

For literally every other conjugation of that verb, you should use "run."

It baffles me that ran has somehow overtaken the other, much more (historically) common, much more appropriate, conjugation of "run," which applies to most situations where you have a helper verb like to be or to have:

• I did run a mile
• He did run the company
• I have run a mile
• He has run the company
• I would have run..
• I might have run..
• I will have run..

This applies to a lot of other verbs with similar vowel changes like sing/sang/sung, ring/rang/rung, etc. In general, if you're using an irregular/strong verb that has an "a" in it, it is only meant for simple past tense.

Now, all of this is really only appropriate for when you're meaning to sound professional nowadays, since simple past tense is overtaking all those other verb conjugations. But for now, it's still a good YSK.

One about killed a woman by not identifying her pregnancy is ectopic. Many anti abortion folks are convinced that even ectopic pregnancies can be viable.

These places promise things like free pregnancy tests and medical advice to get people in the door.

They really just exist to pressure women into not getting abortions. They will lie through their teeth - all the classics, like suggesting that an abortion makes it impossible to get pregnant again, or that abortion causes cancer - they’ll say anything to prevent an abortion.

They are pretty much completely unregulated, and present themselves as secular non profits.

I think after Artemis 3 they are supposed to have regular annual trips or something happening to the moon. Their window opens on April first but it could be later if they have issues. Here are some NASA livestream links

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NaJklsJonD4

If you go to uBlock Origin's settings and then select 'Filter lists', there's a list maintained by EasyList and another by AdGuard that both block cookie notices. To my understanding, this isn't enabled by default (at least it wasn't when I installed uBO).

Apologies if this is common knowledge; I didn't know about it until recently.

Why YSK: Cookie consent pop-ups are annoyances full of dark patterns designed to frustrate you into affirmatively opting into superfluous data collection and letting companies profit off your information. Saving just a few seconds on pages you browse adds up, and this is especially true if you use something like Cookie AutoDelete that makes your answers to these pop-ups transient.

I am sure a lot of us Lemmings have known about SomaFM forever. But i always like to show new people !

https://somafm.com/

If you have assets in a bank, stock market, investment platform, 401(k) or other pension then there are a number of risks that threaten not only the existence of those funds but your access to them.

First of all, don't expect to hold onto them unless you go along with the government's game of Simon says. For example, there is a good chance that you will be forced to get digital ID to access these in the future.

Vietnam is an example of what is likely to come soon, where biometrics were made mandatory to access all bank accounts. The 86 million accounts which weren't biometrically verified were frozen and are now being closed. Transfers equivalent to around $390 or more also require biometric verification.

Many in the western world have also had their bank accounts frozen or closed for perfectly legal political views. And now when you move or withdraw money you may be asked what the purpose is and the bank may deny your request if they don't like your answer (just one example). Banks are also required to report anything deemed suspicious to the government.

If such restrictions can be applied to bank accounts, there's no reason why they can't be applied to accounts at stock exchanges and accounts with 401(k) and pension providers.

In Hungary and Poland, all private pensions were seized by the government and nationalized, leading many to accuse the government of stealing their pensions. Existing state pensions aren't safe either, as they are often considered unsustainable due to unchecked government spending and aging populations.

Banks and pension providers can also fail, as we saw in 2023, and US banks have continued to fail every year since then. While on paper there are often guarantees to cover such events, these usually only cover up to a certain amount, and these may not be honored during a financial crisis.

In 1993, Loyd Jowers was interviewed on the ABC News program PrimeTime Live. He said he had been paid $100,000 by the alleged Memphis mobster Frank Liberto to help organize the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

Jowers owned a restaurant, Jim's Grill, very near the Lorraine Motel, where King often stayed while in Memphis and where the assassination took place.

Jowers claimed that besides Liberto, a man named "Raoul" and several Memphis Police Department officers were also involved in the assassination planning and execution. Jowers identified Memphis Police Lieutenant Earl Clark as the shooter.

Martin Luther King Jr's wife and children saw the interview, and sued Loyd Jowers... for $100. The trial occurred in late 1999.

William Pepper represented the King family. The three-and-one-half-week trial, referred to in U.S. government records as simply King v. Jowers, was conducted in Memphis in Shelby County Circuit Court with presiding Judge James E. Swearengen.

Thousands of documents were presented; over 70 witnesses took the stand or were cited by deposition, audiotape, videotape, or by other witnesses.

Some observers commented on what they perceived as a surprising lack of American media interest in the trial. Bárbara Reis was a correspondent for the Lisbon daily Público who attended several days of the proceedings. She was quoted as saying, "Everything in the U.S. is the trial of the century. O.J. Simpson's trial was the trial of the century. Clinton's trial was the trial of the century. But this is the trial of the century, and who's here?"

The jury required only one hour of deliberations to reach a unanimous verdict that King was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. They found Jowers responsible, and also found that "government agencies" were among the co-conspirators.

The King family was granted the $100 they requested in damages, and they saw the verdict as vindication.

The day prior to his death, Martin Luther King Jr. seemed to prophetically refer to the threats on his life, in what would be his last speech:

We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! And so I'm happy, tonight; I'm not worried about anything; I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

You should know this because those who do not learn from their history are doomed to repeat it. You may have reason to be suspicious of high profile assassinations.

Just search for “’your state’ unclaimed property” and make sure it’s a .gov site (usually comes up first).

Search by your name (it could be last name and just the first initial), check the boxes, and claim the money.

You will get an email with instructions on what to include – it is usually the claim form itself with your signature, a picture of your driver’s license, and your social security number (often just the last four digits).

Occasionally, they will ask for proof of an old address. If that happens, and you don’t have one – check your credit report from https://www.annualcreditreport.com/ (it is a legitimate government site despite the .com domain, and you can get a free credit report from every agency one a year). Your old address should be listed there.

I just got myself a little under $1,000 in unclaimed funds. Some refund from my old college in one state, and unclaimed shares I forgot about in another. Even my teenage son had $350 sitting there as an old insurance/hospital refund – so check your kids and spouses, too!

At least 347 and up to 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, were murdered by U.S. Army soldiers. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children as young as 12.

only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., the leader of 1st Platoon in C Company, was convicted. He was found guilty of murdering 22 villagers and originally given a life sentence, but served three-and-a-half years under house arrest after his sentence was commuted.

Research has highlighted that the My Lai Massacre was not an isolated war crime. Nick Turse places it within a larger pattern of American atrocities enabled by deliberate policies from commanders, such as "free-fire zones" and "body counts", as well as widespread racism amongst American military personnel. Many other atrocities were also covered up by commanders.

Why you should know about this: It is important to know about history so that we can learn from it, avoid the mistakes and atrocities of the past, and know which institutions have a history of performing atrocities, trying to cover them up, etc. and what that looks like.

Be it a deadbeat parent with more than enough funds to help their children or spouses making use of their significant other's dependency on them, economic abuse pervades life and remains a blindspot.

Very soon after the program started, due to the emergence of the Cold War, the western powers and the United States in particular began to lose interest in the program, somewhat mirroring the Reverse Course in American-occupied Japan. Denazification was carried out in an increasingly lenient and lukewarm way until being officially abolished in 1951. The American government soon came to view the program as ineffective and counterproductive. Additionally, the program was highly unpopular in West Germany, where many Nazis maintained positions of power. Denazification was opposed by the new West German government of Konrad Adenauer, who declared that ending the process was necessary for West German rearmament.

Many are complaining about fuel prices going up because of the war on Iran, but prices were already high because of high taxes:

• US fuel taxes make up 20+% of the price
• European fuel taxes make up half of the price
• It appears 7.6% of the German government's revenue comes from fuel taxes.

You can avoid these taxes by making your own diesel at home, potentially saving money while reducing waste and being less dependent on geopolitical affairs.

Biodiesel is easy to make from new or used vegetable oil and can be used instead of diesel in 21st century cars.

• Short version: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Bio-Diesel
• Long version: https://www.dudadiesel.com/biodiesel.php

If you want to save a lot of money, ask restaurants for their old cooking oil cheap or for free. Biodiesel can also be made from animal fat, which is cheaper than vegetable oil, but there are fewer guides on the process.

Diesel can also be made from used motor oil if you have a centrifuge and a still for distillation: https://carobjective.com/how-to-make-diesel-fuel-from-used-motor-oil/

How to make a simple still from a pressure cooker, copper tubing and bucket: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-a-still/

Making a fractional distillation column isn't that much harder: https://www.instructables.com/Build-a-Lab-Quality-Distillation-Apparatus/

With this you could potentially separate crude oil into various components and use them for both gas and diesel cars, stoves, heating, oil lamps or sell them. Small sellers may be exempt from taxes depending on where you live.

For gasoline you could also try the ideas here, although they seem to be expensive or impractical for road users: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Synthetic-Gasoline