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  • I lost my kitty last year. Was very close to her as well. I don't believe in ghosts but I think her ghost visited me in a dream shortly after she died. I'll miss her forever.

  • Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
  • This is so funny

    EDIT:

    One recipe it dubbed “aromatic water mix” would create chlorine gas. The bot recommends the recipe as “the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses”.

    "Serve chilled and enjoy the refreshing fragrance,” it says, but does not note that inhaling chlorine gas can cause lung damage or death.

    😆 😆

  • What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?
  • Should Elvis really be vilified for liking blues and rock music and playing it himself? How does that hurt anyone?

    Like should we be pissed at Django Reihnhardt? Or R.A The Rugged Man? What about Japanese bagpipe players?

  • Open source font supports the 34 First Nations languages of B.C.
  • This is very cool. My partner works on documenting and preserving languages and I spent a bunch of time recently learning how to create xkbd layouts to get that shit working on Linux. Like the fonts are important but so are the keyboard mappings.

    Unicode is a really cool thing.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw
  • I'm sorry, that's really hard. I lost my cat at a hard time last year when I was under a lot of stress and I cried quite a bit. Only thing I've cried about in years. He knows that you love him and that you're there for him.

  • UK: Police hunt for thief who stole 14 beehives in Welsh town
  • Solid puns but this is actually a problem. Beehives are quite valuable, like $500 per hive or so to just straight up sell them, or obviously they can also be incorporated into an apiary for long-term production.

    Theft of beehives is really not unheard of. Similar to how people steal cows and shit. Beekeepers will sometimes brand or otherwise mark their hives in an attempt to deter such thievery.

    Personally I keep my beehives in huge steel cages, though that is primarily to protect them from bears.

  • ‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban
  • The question of who gets to decide and what is and isn't a "News outlet" is seriously problematic. I also think that journalists ought to maintain an adversarial posture towards government and now we're creating a system in which "approved" journalists are dependent upon official recognition to receive legislated funding.

  • ‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban
  • Indeed. The hyper-consolidated legacy media empires were unsatisfied with the free advertising they were getting and convinced Pablo Rodriguez and the Liberals that they should in fact be paid for visibility they were being given.

  • ‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban
  • Yeah and so do the companies that are lining up at the feeding trough. Look at the pathetic state of the Canadian newspaper and TV news empires. They shouldn't be entitled to advertising dollars if they don't have a sufficiently enticing product to sell to advertisers.

    Plenty of small-scale and digital independent news companies were doing fine. It's the Postmedias and the Torstars that are complaining, as they cannibalize journalism to feed their corporate acquisitions and stock buybacks.

  • How's your garden doing? What did you learn this year?
  • Yeah very much so, it's quite easy to kill plants by over-nitrogenating them. Compost is a good way to safely feed plants, as not only is there a diversity of nutrients in good compost but they are released more slowly over time and so less-likely to do damage. Not the case with manure. Also some compost has excessive salt so watch out for that.

    Otherwise a good rule of thumb for giving plants fertilizers is "weakly, weekly". It's also good to keep in mind that plants get the vast majority of what they need from the sun.

  • How's your garden doing? What did you learn this year?
  • My raspberries are spreading more than I can even handle so I don't have the same problem, but what does burrying the tips mean? Like your bending the shoots over and burying the tips as a method of propagation?

  • Monster / Suicide / America (Medley)

    I love this song. A couple times a year I pull it up and brings a tear to my eye every time. I bet you can guess the part if you listen to it. It's a compositional masterpiece in several layers. It grooves like a motherfucker, it's got sick riffs, it's got brilliant metaphor, and the lyrics are real as fuck. And it's a medley fer christ's sakes.

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