[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

This would be a nice upgrade for my wife and I. We've been using a knockoff Rubbermaid for ages. Putting it on the future project list.

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Hmmm okay, but it has to be difficult to opt-out, kind of like how conscientious objectors have to go through a whole process to get out of military service.

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

It was Eva Saxl. She had fled the Nazis from Czechoslovakia only to find herself under Japanese occupation in Shanghai. From the Wikipedia article, it seems like she extracted the insulin from water buffalo pancreas. I'm not sure if that counts as homebrewing. When I think of homebrew insulin, I think of actually manufacturing it by fermenting specialized yeast as opposed to harvesting it from animals. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but it isn't really the same.

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

There's not really a problem with meat either. You don't have to eat it and if you do, you don't have to feel bad about eating animals.

That said, there is kind of a problem with insulin manufacturing in that it's kind of centralized and distribution can be difficult, especially in remote areas with unreliable electricity. If insulin manufacturing could be done at the garage or shipping container scale in the places where it's needed, it would help a lot of people.

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

It was just easier to get Pixelfed up and running compared to Lemmy. I'm using Yunohost, which has applications for both, but the one for Lemmy isn't working properly (uploading images is broken, for example). In order to install a fully functional version, I have have to go through this whole process of setting up Docker, which I haven't figured out yet. The Yunohost application for Pixelfed almost just works. I had to do some klugey stuff, but nothing major. I'll get Lemmy running eventually, but this was just a small win for me.

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cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/583823734820089872

A fawn waiting for its mother, curled up in a garden bed under a bush, behind a fence. You can see the mother out of focus in the background.

#deer #newjersey #fawn

@pics@lemmy.world

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Because you look delicious probably.

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I hadn't seen that one.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kurt@lemmy.one to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a symbolic move, because we all hate Meta? Or is the idea to just maintain a barrier (albeit a porous one) between us and the part of the Internet inhabited by our chuddy relatives?

(For my part, I'm working on setting up my own Lemmy and/or Pixelfed instance(s) and I do not currently intend to defederate.)

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Wow that's beautiful!

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Nothing. The admins giveth and the admins taketh away.

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I've been wanting to try out a mechanical keyboard for a while and I think I finally have the opportunity. The control keys on my old Alienware keyboard stopped working after I spilled some coffee on it, so I need a replacement. Also, I have an Amazon gift card. I see lots of mechanical keyboards on there with good reviews, but I was hoping to find some more guidance here. As far as what I'm looking for, I really just want something nicer to type with, but hopefully not too loud. A number pad and arrow keys would be nice, but maybe the smaller versions have some type of quick way to get that functionality when I need it. Any advice?

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

I really don't feel that bad about the crew/tourists. They trained for months and paid lots of money. Consent doesn't get more informed than that.

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They wouldn't let me in with my pocket knife so I had to hide it outside lol.

(Not sure where else to post this on here.)

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Mine was mostly pretty low-key, which is how I like it. I got some small gifts from my wife and daughter, including a 7oz hammer with a colorfully painted handle. I actually really liked that. For dinner my mother-in-law took us out to an expensive steakhouse, where I had a wonderful ribeye, but I don't think it was worth the price. I'm grateful and appreciative, but I think it was a little too much. I think that she and/or my father-in-law had a gift card, so it made sense for them. Besides all that, I somehow hardly had to put up with any complaints, even from my ever opinionated four-year-old.

I would have enjoyed the day a lot more if I didn't have to worry about work today.

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Crossposted from https://lemmy.one/comment/283051:

Does anyone else think it’s a little backwards that the large denominations are fragile paper bills, but the small ones are metal coins sometimes worth less than the metal in the coin? Shouldn’t the large denominations be coins, which last longer, and the small denominations be bills, which are easier to carry in large quantities?

[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s fine, but if you’re going to advocate for an alternative product, you should believe in it enough not to pretend it’s the thing it’s supposed to replace or that the people you're trying to convince are too stupid to notice the difference.

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submitted 1 year ago by Kurt@lemmy.one to c/dadsplain@lemmy.ca

If we really cared about mothers and fathers then their respective Days would be paid holidays; three-day weekends. Enough with this commemorative Sunday bs.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kurt@lemmy.one to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

What's the best way to run Lemmy on Yunohost? The Yunohost application is out of date (16.3), and I read somewhere that the image handling part of it is disabled. I also saw somewhere that it's possible to install it with the help of Docker, but I'm pretty unfamiliar with that. I'm already using Yunohost successfully for other reasons, so I figured I would just put a personal Lemmy instance on there. Any advice?

I wonder if I could use the old Yunohost application and then update it manually as well as install pict-rs.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kurt@lemmy.one to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/123693

So, a robin built several nests in my carport, but only laid eggs in one of them, the middle one in the photo. They hatched about nine days ago. As you can see, the mother is not roosting in the middle nest, but that's still where her hatchlings are. You can't see them in the photo, but I saw them moving around in there. Is this normal? Does the mother just need her space or is she confused somehow, perhaps by the repeating joists? Is that why she built multiple nests to begin with?

If there's another community where you think people might know better, please suggest it.

Update: all is well, apparently.

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My kid just ran into the corner of the bed and gave herself a charlie horse. She started screaming and shouting "why!?" like Nancy Kerrigan and my wife and I just had to laugh. Anyone else ever think it's kind of funny when your kid does something like that?

Our daughter is fine, btw.

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