Iliveonsaturdays

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[–] Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also a lot of legally blind people use the internet both privately and professionally and are independent people who don't rely on their partners for everything.

[–] Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It's 2023/2024 and Steve Buscemi is now more attractive than Mickey Rourke

 

The bathroom is a mysterious place. What goes on inside varies for everyone, or maybe it doesn’t; we simply do not know. The question has prompted some discussion in the past, and I suspect it will continue to do so until we are all under 24-hour government surveillance, at which point the answers will be known by those with access to the government’s live feed. But for now, with the door closed, we can only suspect and ask questions. Here’s one: Do men enter the bathtub on their hands and knees in order to ensure their balls hit the water last?

 

...the Mbabaram word for "dog" was in fact dúg, pronounced almost identically to the Australian English word...

 

And he's always happy to see me, so I think we are hitting it off

 

A man’s death revealed his secret masterpiece—his rented home, illegally transformed into a classical villa. What happened next questions how we define art.

[–] Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't see the whole plant and I could be wrong, but you could have a variegated Monstera on your hands.

https://thursd.com/articles/monstera-deliciosa-albo-variegata-the-most-expensive-plants-in-the-world

My own Monstera is doing well, and I don't water it too often. Usually once a week and limited. But I have the feeling that all plants are a little different. It could also lack nourishment.

 

Was the death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert, an elaborate suicide or a murder?

[–] Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes I understand that, but the article was being downvoted when I wrote that, and when I first glanced at it, I thought it was propaganda as too.

NK-news also took a moment to research, because their approach seem to be a non-aggressive one (with North Korea) and the only articles that aren't completely negative about NK, are usually propaganda in some form. What you can read from the link about them is, that they are in fact mostly neutral.

So, I might not have been too clear in my comment, and I admit I only skimmed the article on my way to work, but I was actually trying to defend the article being there and giving it some background.

I know it's a joke and I appreciate the meaning of the original comment, but I don't think you need to constantly challenge yourself to enjoy life. Sometimes it's ok to sit back and enjoy what you have and what you know. Just as long as you don't settle and forget to be open to new things that could enrich that life.

Oh this is a great one. I was once in a job, where we were introduced to a new system that was designed to count successes. The problem was, that it was a job where we worked with people and everything we did couldn't be quantified. The new system only put value on what could be counted so 80% of our work became invisible and "worthless". Great times.

[–] Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As a Moderator, I was considering deleting this post as I don't encourage the spread of propaganda and especially not North Korean propaganda. North Korea is a terrible totalitarian dictatorship, that treats its own citizens as prisoners and has no respect for human life and autonomy.

The reason I haven't deleted it is because I find it interesting how North Korea frames propaganda and tries to affect people outside NK, and in doing so, so helplessly misses the mark so often. Also because the aim of NKnews seems to aim to report from NK in a neutral way.

Resources:

Media check for NKnews: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/nk-news/

Interesting article from insider on modern NK propaganda: https://www.insider.com/north-korea-youtubers-propaganda-sogwang-kim-jong-un-2023-2?amp

/ILOS

 

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

 

After seven years at Snapchat, I finally learned the truth about why our most important apps seem destined to disappoint us

Yeah, I mean, I'm not the most active, but I made a sublemmy (I'm still not sure about the naming convention here lol) and that's something I never did on Reddit, because everything was usually already there in some form. I also did it to contribute, because I know that us being active actually counts for something. On Reddit I could go months without posting or commenting. So yes, I'm definitely more active and it feels like you are actually engaging with other people and not just consuming content.

 

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

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An article about the Titan from 2021 History was made on July 10, 2021, when Stockton Rush and his team at OceanGate reached the Titanic, at a depth of approximately 4,000 metres, in Titan, the only submersible of its kind

 

When Ben Leyland’s mum said she was in trouble, he had no idea she was about to be exposed for sending hundreds of abusive tweets about Madeleine McCann’s parents – or of the tragic end to her story

 

A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney

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Hi folks,

In a world where quick content and fast information is king, a community like LongReads is a place that lets you learn about and discover new sides of life and society in a more indepth way.

But we need content and activity to survive!

I believe that this could be a really nice corner of Lemmy. That's why I need your help!

Have you read any interesting articles or stories lately? Ones that you think others would like to know about? Then post it to LongReads, join the discussion and let's keep the community alive!

Thanks to everyone that has already posted!

All the best ILOS

Haha, yes that's better!

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