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Aren't you a little young to be reading Moby Dick?
  • Wrong, the primary duty of a story is to make the author money. MD was originally published serially in a magazine, and that's why it goes on for so long.

  • What are some PlayStation games you avoid?
  • <shudder>RE with QWOP controls

  • What lemmy thinks of Iraq?
  • (bart simpson voice) The exports of Libya Iraq are numerous in amount. One thing they export is corn, or as the Indians called it, "maize". Another famous Indian was Crazy Horse. In conclusion, Libya Iraq is a land of contrasts. Thank you.

    joking aside, sorry about America.

  • fish tacos and cannabis - midwest.social
  • wtf how high were you

  • Are far-right groups taking over small-town America?
  • taking over? already happened, bro

  • People who have sleep apnea, what was the biggest sign?
  • having someone sleeping next to me say that I snored a lot and even stopped breathing at times overnight

    Falling asleep while driving to work in the morning, after 'sleeping' for 8-10 hours. (reasonably new properly working car, no reason to suspect CO poisoning)

  • Fried chicken help?
  • I just did some drumsticks last night.

    before you start, make sure you have a tin can or glass jar for oil disposal.

    soak your meat in buttermilk for several hours. shake with heavily seasoned flour. <- this is where your "recipe" will come in. Salt, pepper, whatever kind of herb mix you like. allow to rest for a while so the flour sticks. preheat oven to 350°F in a large frypan put in enough oil for about an inch of depth. don't use olive oil. vegetable oil is fine, others will give a different taste. other common ones are peanut oil and crisco shortening. heat the oil over medium-high until it is around 375°F fry chicken in batches until brown. turning pieces after 3 or 4 minutes when the pieces are brown all over, put each on a rack over a sheet pan (or just a sheet pan with foil or parchment paper) bake chicken until done to 165°F, maybe 20 minutes

    you can also do "oven-fried" which isn't quite the same, but gives good results without the mess of the oil.

  • Anon checks out mobile gaming
  • Golf Peaks was great

  • What to do with an Android spare smartphone (no sim card)?
  • get a controller frame like a GameSir and do some emulated gaming.

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  • Burnout 2 or 3. Because the object is to either crash or cause crashes.

    the soundtrack was killer too.

  • Is there a way to make it so that your devices (sd cards, USBs, phones, laptops) etc can't be copied without knowing the password ?
  • At work, if we want to use a USB drive we are required to use one that has a hardware pin pad and onboard encryption. So those exist

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    I tried to explain ADHD math to someone and they didn't understand at all
  • uhhhh that's not how everyone does it?

  • It's been right in front of us for all these years
  • I think "Rotato" might be an actual brand name.

  • And it just seemed like any other show.
  • "Inspired" by / re-done from the B-movie film "Moonrunners"

  • Granted.
  • nope, just the leaves.

  • welp
  • Rate limiting

  • so computer papers don't fall out i think
  • It allowed you to synchronize files between computers over floppy disk.

  • Granted.
  • Rhubarb: now when you bit the water with hair in it, it tastes sour.

  • A cat entered my tent
  • Lol hopefully they have a home close by!

  • CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
  • Lol.

    A couple years ago someone at work asked me if I had a highlighter, and handed them a sharpie.

  • My Easter Cactus decided to grow as a regular cactus for just one segment.

    Just this one segment is like this. The whole rest of the plant, including segments further down the branch are normal.

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    He spread conspiracies about elections. Now he oversees them
    www.bbc.com He spread conspiracies about elections. Now he oversees them

    Iowa voters will decide if David Whipple. who spread false election fraud rumours, should be in charge of elections.

    He spread conspiracies about elections. Now he oversees them

    Hadn't heard about this guy

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    [solved - clay pidgeon thrower] What is this tool I found at a thrift store?

    The two arms are sprung so that as you push on the handle they separate, and then return to position.

    !

    !

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    Gardening @midwest.social ArgentCorvid [Iowa] @midwest.social
    grape tomatoes!

    cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/1465735

    > Probably all I'm going to get too, the plant isn't looking good 😭

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    grape tomatoes!

    Probably all I'm going to get too, the plant isn't looking good 😭

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    Home Improvement @lemmy.world ArgentCorvid [Iowa] @midwest.social
    Smoke Detector False Alarms?

    My house is pretty new, 5 years old. It has interconnected smoke alarms in every room (11), as required. I believe they are all First Alert brand.

    We have been getting false alarms from them about every 3 months. Most of them are in the middle of the night which isn't fun for me, and really terrifies my kids (6 & 8).

    There is no apparent cause, no cooking is going on, no dust. They go off for a while and stop on their own. Some of these are CO detectors, but we had the Fire Department come out when it happened one time and they tested and everything was fine.

    When they are going off, I can't find the one that is causing it because they are all going off. However, on these the "ready" light blinks red if it has been triggered in the past, and every one of the units has triggered based on that. I actually permanently removed one because it triggered 3 times in one night. I thought it was a bad unit, but it just happened again at 5 this morning with a different one.

    Nobody has died in this house, so I'm pretty confident it's not ghosts (/s)

    Anyone have suggestions?

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    Reconstructed, Searchable Text PDFs of the Commodore 64 User's and Programmer's Guides
    pickledlight.blogspot.com Commodore 64 Guides

    I recently embarked on a personal project a long time in the making. Having recently returned my Breadbin to perfect working order, I also w...

    Commodore 64 Guides
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    Smoking @midwest.social ArgentCorvid [Iowa] @midwest.social
    mmmm chicken...

    Simple brown sugar brine for about 4 hours (forgot to start it before bed), then coated with melted butter with Penzey's Mural of Flavor and Galena Street.

    225&deg; for 45 minutes with Sam's club "Competition Blend" pellets in the box. Then 350-ish (max I could get out of it) for about an hour and a half with no smoke until breast was at 160&deg;

    Used the drippings for gravy for mashed potatoes.

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    Chat @midwest.social ArgentCorvid [Iowa] @midwest.social
    Signs your trip might not be going as planned:

    Large camper in a parking lot, with a ServiceMaster van pulled up to it.

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    Gardening @midwest.social ArgentCorvid [Iowa] @midwest.social
    This year's peppers and tomatoes.

    Someone dumped their extras on us and I don't have a plot dug, so in some buckets they go.

    I have grown Romas and Habaneros in double-bucket self-watering planters before, but I didn't have enough buckets this year. This is only half of the plants we got, I passed the rest on to my parents.

    They are: 2x Serranos, a Jalapeno, a Sweet Black Hungarian, and a Bell pepper. Also 2x "heirloom mix" tomatoes, 1 Roma, 2x Abe Lincoln and a mystery tomato .

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    argentcorvid ArgentCorvid [Iowa] @midwest.social

    I'm argentcorvid most other places (not Instagram though, that person is not me) I hang around on #metafilter and reddit I don't plan on posing much

    American living in Rural Central Iowa. I don't really post much.

    He/Him, 2 kids, no longer catless

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