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They have the whole world at their fingertips... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 41 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

I think the one in the hat is The Edge (the guitarist in U2), so I assume the other one is Bono?

I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 217 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The web. It was good while it lasted.

Sovcit got their fake plates. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And are they all being driven on private roads?

Hawaii elects Kim Coco Iwamoto as its first-ever out trans state lawmaker in c/[email protected]
Where can I get a PSU for an Apple IIc in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I swear on my Commodore 64 I looked and found nothing.

You are clearly better at this than me, and thank you!

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Where can I get a PSU for an Apple IIc (lemmy.world)
 

I was recently gifted an immaculate Apple IIc, but it came without a power supply. I wasn’t able to find a replacement online, and so I am hoping someone with more knowledge than me knows where I may be able to find one?

TIL that the Christian portrayal of the fruit that Eve ate as an apple may come down to a Latin pun. Eve ate a “mālum” (apple) and also took in “malum” (evil). There’s no Biblical evidence. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Given that the entire Christian faith was possibly created by the Romans to “control the Jews” this checks out.

I have no evidence for the above statement either.

The Borderlands Movie Is Seemingly Struggling To Sell Tickets in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis would have made this a maybe, but Kevin Hart as Roland?

Hard pass.

Thoughts on the Beetle? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it was the one I drove - I found myself pushing the steering wheel in a bid to get up a relatively modest incline. I was also quite alarmed by how quickly things were passing me.

Then again, my daily at the time was an RX-8.

Thoughts on the Beetle? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The original? An absolute classic to look at and horrible to drive. The new one? Looks like the original was stung by bees and forgot it’s EpiPen

These Canadians want the ‘right to repair’ their stuff: ‘We can’t continue on the same way of consuming’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Older white male here, and I fully endorse this. We just need to find one first…

Do you think the world would have been a better place if there were no religions? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

The answer (to me) is a resounding yes. I firmly believe that belief in the Supernatural is in-built into all of us. It’s an off-shoot of us being incredibly good at pattern matching combined with our need for parental guidance for so long and a fear of death -

To get past this, we need two things: A personal willingness to ask questions and follow the answers (which is a basic description of science) and we need a society that is willing to embrace these individuals.

That we aren’t quite there yet means we end up with leaders embracing religion, which is reinforced by the masses accepting their dogma. The whole thing about “religion creating morality” is BS and just another form of dogma.

It may be entirely simplistic, and it probably puts too much faith in human capacity, but I think we could move in that direction if we just prioritized learning and inquisitiveness. Note, this is not the same as making people go to college. Learning is a life skill…

These Canadians want the ‘right to repair’ their stuff: ‘We can’t continue on the same way of consuming’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Agreed with that. Two years is the norm in most of the G7, so why Canada is lagging is surprising.

Then again, where doesn’t Canada lag…?

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