Off topic shout out: why not Chaco sandals for home and/or for going out?

It’s off topic, but OP mentioned having used sandals, so he can maybe consider them a good option

Well, “Snakes in pants” doesn’t have the same ring to it, but it’s now more real than the movie!

Aren’t these 0.5 seconds the moments we live for?

I know it’s a national sport (which I also practice) to worship Bill Watterson, but I was reading this strip and thinking both how nice and friendly his style is, as well as how realistic his imaginary stories are. Sometimes it’s not just funny and creative, it also feels like he’s drawing from everyone’s childhood.

Maybe we should sue him, how does he know so much about us (lemmings, earthlings, planetary beings, etc)?

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If you only need to look for slang expressions, that is…

I’m blue, da ba dee da ba dam…

That’s truly depressing, but unfortunately in line with how we’re treating the rest of the planet 😔

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This is so deliciously nerdy

Nomen omen?

I finally had a minute to try it out and unfortunately it does not seem to change anything on my 2020 Mac+Intel (the GPU load skyrockets when I watch videos on YouTube)

Well, you’re right in principle, but with my (old, but current) Mac+Intel configuration Firefox is not as sleek as Chrome and also often Firefox turns the fan on while Chrome doesn’t (it may just be that Google is bricking Firefox when you’re on YouTube, for example)

Anyhow, I’m trying to use Firefox as much as I can (I’ve always done so), but it’s always been true it was a better experience to use Chrome on my setup (and I’ve never used Safari)

Edit: why the downvotes? To teach me a lesson? I said he’s right, but I do have an actual problem and cannot yet make the full move (and am going to check out the suggestions below. Thanks!)

“Publish or perish” is an expression that’s been around since forever and it’s well ingrained into every researcher’s mind so…

What did society expect?

(Not so) Fun story: when a friend of mine was doing her PhD she was trying really hard to reproduce an experiment published on Nature by two Harvard postdocs at the time. She was so frustrated because she couldn’t reproduce it, so she approached one of the authors during a conference and he candidly admitted the experiment was utterly wrong, since after publishing it they realized they made a fatal mistake in interpreting the result which invalidated their claims.

They published the original paper honestly, since they were not aware of the mistake at the time, but they willingly decided not to retract it since a paper in Nature is always a paper in Nature and the citations piling up were too important for their career… How about that for the intellectual honesty that scientists project having as an aura?

Anyhow, this nearly killed my friend’s PhD, but luckily she switched to something related she managed to understand and graduated…

This would be an awesome plot for an Alterered Beast sequel (and a satisfying thought to keep while working out)

It would be awesome for those who played the original game and those who have no idea what it is!

Message from the whole Lemmy community: we hate you for having inb4-ed our collective standard joke answer.

Signed: everyone but you 😜

Mom, could you please buy me a Spaceballs™ flamethrower?

They’re so hot right now!

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That hits too close to home…

He’s convinced she’s his wife before he hugged her, so I surmise she’s the 2030 version of the ninja log…

…Just before he could hug her, she replaced herself with a cake. That really is dedication on her part!

Parece-me uma notícia super boa.

O que é que se fala nestes casos?

Boa cadeia!

This is the best news ever!

WTF? He tasted one “for science”! While I understand there wasn’t any other way to know… What if it Hay been a poisonous mixture? I suppose he’d tested it before against common poisons! Still, wow!