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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I’ve heard that basically all new clothing is treated in formaldehyde, so regardless of the source or the price, it’s best to wash all new clothing before wearing, especially for underwear.

    Side note: I would sometimes get discount clothes at Dirt Cheap (sadly they’re going out of business), and I’d usually notice some sort of harmless defect, like the pattern on the shirt would be off center or something, not like I care all that much.



  • Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general, is an open source social media made by people that have evolved past the corporate overlords.

    The user base might be smaller than big social media sites, but the users tend to be more intelligent, far fewer bots, and no advertisements.

    That’s my take on it so far, I’ve been here over a year now.











  • Well, a few months ago, before I learned of the onion and garlic sensitivity thing, a friend of ours fed our dog a few bites of some awesome home cooked meat with garlic and onions in it.

    It wasn’t a whole lot, just a few bites really, and our dog weighs right around 20 pounds. Anyways, after he had some time to digest it, around noon the next day he had an all out seizure for around 30 seconds, and then spent the next few hours shivering and obviously a bit scared and confused.

    Luckily it wasn’t worse, and thankfully he hasn’t had any other seizures since. That was when I went ahead and looked up that much more complete list of foods dogs shouldn’t eat, to prevent any future episodes or worse…






  • Ask a quantum chip how to cure a disease? Sure, let’s accept that as a possible future…

    You really think the chips actually understand diseases? We’re gonna end up with a whole new generation of people that have no clue how the shit works to begin with.

    Eventually it’ll be like “How do I trim my toenails?”, while the ‘intelligent’ system responds to cut your appendages off.

    Granted that AI and quantum computing aren’t quite the same thing. Does it matter? Future generations will have the ability to just ask a computer how to generate cure a disease…

    The machine gives no fucks about us, it’ll just as easily destroy us if someone asks the wrong question or enters the wrong formula.