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What do your daily meals look like each day?
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the bowel mover diet
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What do your daily meals look like each day?
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the bowel mover diet
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Transgender players banned from international women’s cricket by ICC
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that not many users on Lemmy follow Cricket or understand it fully. My comment isn’t going to cover if the decision by the ICC is correct (or otherwise) but to provide a little insight into the men and women’s games
Speed / pace is a noticeable difference between the sexes. I don’t believe there are any current female players that consistently bowl pace over 120km/h. In contrast, male pace bowlers generally try to meet a consistent speed of 135km/h for the same role. The upper bounds for men is roughly 160km/h and maybe only one or two pro players globally can do this.
There are enough men’s bowlers who can bowl at 150km/h. At this speed an average batter would find it difficult to see the ball. Arguably batters in baseball receive faster pitches but at 150km/h+ including the ball bouncing makes it incredibly difficult to face.
The batting is also different but it might be harder to explain to a non-cricketing audience why this is.
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Anyone else feel like ~99% of their life was kind of wasted?
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one of my psychologist friends said a long time ago “if you don’t keep improving yourself, then what’s the point in living”.
you’re clearly already taking steps on self-improvement and personal introspection, which is probably one of the hardest things a human can do.
honestly you’re already kicking goals if you try and be a better person each day. No one can ask more of you.
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No take backs?
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and also an allegory for transitioning
edit: there’s a reason why the wachowski brothers are no longer brothers
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Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon
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I often think this. I use a mix of reeder, feedly, vore, instapaper to see what I like.
However I look at my parents and they’ll use Apple News or whatever news source they trust in a browser.
Flipboard is used because it makes it easy for people to find aggregated information. What’s easier than something that already does the aggregation for you?
Often we take for granted things we consider to be normal. I would think everyone has uBlock Origin installed (i’ve used it for years) or something similar, but this is clearly not the case.
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Nvidia's Huang calls AI job fears 'nonsense'
literally said at the conference last week that we don’t need people we need more agents to get rid of the people.
this cunt is high off his own supply and is barely held accountable for the contradictions he makes
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What are some cool niche applications you use and recommend?
raycast as an alternative to alfred
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Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon
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i can see how that sounded! it’s a lightweight, browser-based rss reader.
i made a short script that scrapes my own feed and sends an email.
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More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user
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same here. nuked my lastpass account and switched everything over to bitwarden. their paid offering was worse from the competition and now i’m very glad i moved from them
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Netflix adds 13.1 million subscribers, tops revenue estimates
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At some point they made a decision to change from something else to Netflix, so perhaps they’re not afraid of change but might need a compelling reason to use a different service?
Could be an opportunity for you to educate them on what options are available and why that will benefit them long term.
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Anyone else feel like ~99% of their life was kind of wasted?
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it depends on what you consider self-improvement to be
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Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works
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you might be referring to the CSI Effect
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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free
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👨🏻🦲🫳🏻💰
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Manifest V2 phase-out begins
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for those who come and read through these comments, on top of considering not using a chromium-based browser, you could also:
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Youtube for iOS without ads
iOS doesn’t give many options to remove ads from YouTube videos. You can’t really circumvent the native YT app (at least in my experience). What’s worked for me for the past few years is:
I have not seen a single ad on iOS on YouTube this way. I’m pretty sure Vinegar is doing the heavy lifting specifically on YouTube but Wipr picks up the slack on every other website.
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This is what the official Reddit app looks like, by the way
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i think it might equally show how challenging it is to design an app that provides the user with an optimal experience.
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Can licking an iron bar get you the daily recommended amount of iron?
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referring to this: https://luckyironlife.com/pages/lucky-iron-story
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How often do you brush your teeth?
pretty sure brazilians brush 3 times a day.
i just brush twice a day and floss + mouthwash at night on top.
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Days of Darkness: How one woman escaped the conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions
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conspiracy theories are perfect for certain types of people to latch on to because the narrative presented is malleable. If the theory is wrong it can be re-shaped into something new to explain the new unknown.
if you scrutinised a conspiracy then yes they would generally fall flat, but if someone were the dispenser of that knowledge who imbued themselves with the self-importance of knowing secret details, they could always shift the goalposts and weave a new version of the story to maintain the reality they want to revel in.
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Manifest V2 phase-out begins
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many people here parrot the same things relentlessly. there is no issue with choosing firefox as your primary driver. every user here can decide on what they want for themselves.
i am offering other options as the suggestions in this thread (and threads like these) are homogenous.
Firefox has telemetry settings built-in which you can switch off. LibreWolf strips the telemetry options away and focuses on obfuscating your browser fingerprint.