indepndnt

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[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Until the literature and media ran out.

Man, I easily completely forget shit from 10 or 20 years ago, I bet if you just keep creating you could entertain yourself for a lot longer!

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

In addition to what the other person said, (in the US) if the connection was made between sockets on different circuits, the voltage potential between the two hots could be 240v, making the hot wire a huge heating element, thus the fires.

As I understand it, one typical use case for these things is Christmas lights, and getting confused by a big tangle of light strings makes plugging in both ends in very different places an easy mistake to make.

Also I wouldn't take for granted that your outlets are wired correctly.

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Can confirm, I remember the pastor explaining that during a sermon one Sunday morning when I was a kid.

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Ohh, Trump is the antichrist. End times confirmed?

Growing up Bible-literalist religious and reading Revelations, I always had trouble with the idea that so many people would follow the antichrist, but that part seems so much more believable now.

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Just a note on the "toxic" thing - when folks talk about "toxic masculinity" they're generally not talking about men being toxic or claiming that masculinity is always toxic. Toxic masculinity refers to the perversions of masculinity; things like "I must commit violence to defend my honor" or "I must never express 'soft' emotions". Men and masculinity are good things that can and should be celebrated as much as all other identities.

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

That was exactly my reasoning when I switched to sitting every time. Sometimes the stream just decides to pick some unpredictable direction to start, if I sit down I've got a hemisphere of protection and no need to clean my piss off the floor (or worse, leave that for someone else).

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I am amazed at how often that gets considered an invalid email.

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I didn't remember that. 🤬

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Why would we even listen to this Ross Gellar-looking ass about masculinity anyway?

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

One time I got a mass email from the director's assistant telling us to send them our cell phone numbers. I was quite irritated, so I ignored it initially to calm down and think of a rational response. Anyway, the following week the director was dead, I'm sure there was no connection.

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I found a picture of a taco bell menu from late 2023 showing the beefy 5-layer for $2.19.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tacobell/comments/180gjxn/whats_your_favorite_menu_item/

Is this how I embed this pic??

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

(Pam meme) they're the same picture

 

I read most of this article trying to determine if I was impacted, so to save you the trouble:

The researchers traced the keys they compromised to devices that used custom, closed-source SSH implementations that didn’t implement the countermeasures found in OpenSSH and other widely used open source code libraries.

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