[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 26 points 4 days ago

Would the "celebrity" have a security detail?

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 1 points 6 days ago

Well, the walk did finally happen, so there were adequate suits, although one of the astronauts had trouble with the suit she was initially assigned.

You have to remember that of the 18 original suits, only 11 still exist, and something like as few as 4 might be on the station at a time. Also, the suits were originally intended to return to Earth often (shuttle days), but now are kept on the ISS longer and are maintained by the astronauts themselves. Given the losses of some suits, the limited nature of the maintenance, and the limit on how many are kept in orbit at a time, it isn't scandalous that sometimes astronauts find themselves to be either too large or too small for the suits at hand.

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 78 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Unethical and counterproductive. Having a prosthetic limb would almost invariably lead to a less sedentary lifestyle, which is strongly correlated with better health. Paying for a prosthetic today has to be cheaper than paying for a heart attack or diabeties later.

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 109 points 4 months ago

Situated several hundred feet above sea level, routes through the caves pass along steep cliff edges and over deep ravines like the one Andic tragically fell down.

Several areas include tricky terrain, like rocky pathways without proper fencing or support.

Might make a great location for a corporate retreat

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 61 points 5 months ago

While a tool that extends your reach is useful, when dealing with a difficult to reach spider, your best asset is the element of surprise!

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 66 points 8 months ago
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Trump has been overcharging the secret service for years. Why wouldn't efforts to limit his grifting be in place?

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh, yeah, his home life is a bit rough. Everett's wife was pretty big on domestic violence, at least over the course of the years of the comic that I have seen. Typically, Everett would make some remark that offended her, then BAM!

She was at least as violent as Maggie was with Jiggs in Bringing Up Father, and her self-righteousness made it all the worse

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 229 points 11 months ago

And, frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president.

Yes, we do. We really, really do.

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 83 points 1 year ago

Don't worry. The good folks at Boeing have assured us that it is all perfectly safe.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by toast@retrolemmy.com to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

I use Jerboa in list view, which gives me a nice, compact presentation of a number of posts on my phone screen. This is great, except now the list is full of left-right scrolling text whenever a community name is too long to display in the allotted space. This is very distracting, and I would love to turn off this scrolling

I looked through the settings, but I don't see a way to turn this off, or a way to simply not display the community name at all (not my preference, but I'd take it over the scrolling)

Can anyone help? My post listings look like they are on a web page from 1998

Edit: Now I see that the scrolling is also applied to long user names as well, and is used in areas other than post listings. This seems to have just started with the latest release. I really hope this can be turned off in settings. It feels like geo-cities in here

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 185 points 1 year ago

So, wait a minute. This kid makes a private joke among friends, and his message is intercepted by security services and obviously taken out of context (in that they failed to realize he was privately joking among friends).

Seems to me that the security forces should eat the cost of this. This is the price you pay for spying on everyone and overreacting.

The kid didn't say this publicly

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 47 points 1 year ago

You can too often see the same thing in LED car headlights and tail lights. The most obnoxious of these flicker noticeably all the time. Not much better are the ones that seem to be on continuously when viewed in the center of your vision, but flicker in your peripheral vision. The later I find really distracting

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