I don’t think it’s going to make much, if any, difference with synthetic fibers. It won’t hurt anything to try it and see what happens, but I’m pretty sure the idea of wearing wet clothes until they dry to get a better fit is a holdover from the days before pre-shrunk jeans were the norm. You used to have to buy jeans in a larger size with the expectation that they would shrink down to your size over the course of several washes. People used to put them on wet and wear them until they dried so that when that shrinkage happened it would conform to their body shape.

If you want your leggings to remain as stretchy as possible for as long as possible probably the best thing would be to hang-dry them rather than putting them in the dryer. The heat from the dryer can cause elastic to wear out prematurely.

Don’t listen to this guy. Over-processing the lava ruins it. You have to drink raw lava straight from the source to get the full benefit, otherwise you might as well just go chew on a chunk of pumice like a chump.

They were a feature on typewriter keyboards back before personal computers were even a thing, so I think it’s probably just that Sony didn’t bother to put them on that specific keyboard.

I think you should go with something strong, like Powers, Kingslayer, or Grimaxe. Your enemies aren’t going to strike fear into themselves.

Saying you don’t like podcasts is like saying you don’t like music. There’s so many, made by so many people, in so many different ways, on so many subjects, that there’s bound to be at least a couple you think are amazing. I mean, if all podcasts were just a bunch of dude-bros having a verbal wank into a microphone once or twice a week, then yeah, miss me with that shit. But a lot of them put a lot of effort into producing a high quality professional sounding show. Some of my favorites are 99% Invisible, which is a very well made show about not so obvious features of architecture and design; One Song, where they break popular songs down into all the isolated tracks and talk about how it was all put together; This Podcast Will Kill You, where they do well researched histories of diseases and toxins, their discovery, treatment, social impacts, etc; and You Are Not So Smart, which is a podcast about psychology and sociology. Other people already mentioned Behind the Bastards and Darknet Diaries, which I also listen to regularly. Chances are that no matter what subjects or hobbies you have a deep interest in there’s at least one or two really well made podcasts about it.

I think I would have been a lot happier if I’d never learned that.

Also, fix the damn calendar

13 months, 28 days per month = 364 days. New Year’s Day can be its own holiday separate from the rest of the year, and every fourth year it can be 2 days long.

Now we just need to get Big Calendar on board.

There really isn’t a trend of warehouse fires. The It Could Happen Here podcast did an episode on it the other day. Warehouse fires are just really common. They happen on average of four times a day in the US. But now you have a ton of content creators trying to paint every new one as a WaLuigi copycat to get those social media clicks. And since these fires are a daily occurrence, there are tons to choose from. They’re conflating events that are almost certainly not connected at all.

While I’m sure we’re going to get a WaLuigi copycat at some point in the future, there is no evidence that’s happening right now. A lot of people desperately want to believe that it is, though. I would like to believe that it is. But there just isn’t any actual evidence that it’s true.

Not that that’s going to stop lawmakers from clutching their pearls and passing some new draconian laws that further put the screws to the working class. I’ve been paying attention to politics for over 30 years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen Congress pass up a chance to screw over poor people when the opportunity arises.

The three original milks are evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and half and half (or heavy cream if you’re feeling nasty), so the fourth milk could be just plain ol’ regular milk.

The Internet K Hole . A rotating collection of old snapshots (occasionally nsfw) presented without context. It’s weirdly enthralling. You can lose hours and hours on that site.

Neat. Will it work on tinnitus?

Lemmy isn’t really the platform for that. If I were trying to sell a phone I’d probably list it on Swappa, eBay, or Facebook Marketplace. It wouldn’t even occur to me to try and sell it here. And if I were buying a second hand phone, of those three I’d be most inclined to buy off of Swappa.

One of the really great things about the USA is our national parks, so if you’re in the US you should go see as many of them as you can before MAGA starts selling them off to oil/mining companies and real estate developers.

On top of the two movies and the AMC+ show, HBO also put out a reboot series of Interview With the Vampire fairly recently as well.

Even if your entire family came from Norway it actually wouldn’t be that surprising that you’d get some DNA from other cultures popping up in there somewhere. The Viking Age, which spanned several hundred years, was pretty wild. The Vikings developed a type of boat that could sail the open ocean, but still had a shallow enough draft that it could navigate most of the major networks of Europe, and which was light enough that they could be carried overland from one river to another. It was an absolutely devastating technology for the time. They could often sail up a river, sack an entire city, and be gone before the surrounding area was able to raise an army to fight them off. As you can probably imagine the Vikings got all over the damned place. They got all the way to North America to the west, and pushed into Asia and founded Russia to the east. Some sold their mercenary services to the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople and served in his Varangian Guard. They got around Europe so much and sacked so many European cities so often that at one point Europe straight up completely ran out of silver.

The Viking Age also overlapped with the Muslim expansion throughout the Mediterranean coast of Europe and North Africa. The Muslim conquest of the Iberian region of Spain, and the famous Viking raid on Lindisfarne in England only happened about 70 years apart. So the Vikings were also bumping into them as well. Most people have this idea of the Middle Ages where everyone pretty much stayed put, and nobody traveled more than 20 miles from where they were born. And while that was probably true enough for some people, lots other people moved around a ton, and there was actually quite a bit of cultural cross-pollination and trade. It’s not hard to imagine that somewhere in all of that one of your Scandiwegian ancestors might have gotten a piece of some Spanish hotness.

Also, when the Vikings went raiding, they didn’t just take silver, they also took slaves and brought many of them back to Scandinavia. And sometimes they had sex with those slaves. So there’s also that possibility.

This + some kind of chile powder. I put it on damned near everything.

Given that the whole point of science is to methodically work your way to results that are reliable and reproducible, and AI is notorious for producing results that range from dubious to fully made up, you’d think AI would actually be on track to create more science jobs

Yup, I can type about 90-100 wpm on a QWERTY keyboard if it’s normal conversational English. Probably half that if it’s something that contains a lot of long technical words. The thing that got me over the hump with getting good at typing was a game called QWERTY Warriors. It was a Flash-based web game that I was playing like 20 years ago, so I don’t know if it’s around anymore, but it was a tower defense game where you had to defeat enemies by typing the word underneath them. It was a pretty painless way to practice touch-typing.

I just make my own. It’s really easy. It’s just a can of chickpeas (drained), a couple/three tablespoons of tahini, a couple/three tablespoons of olive oil, a few cloves of garlic, and a tablespoon or two of lemon juice. Add some cumin and paprika if you want it to taste like store bought. Throw all that in a blender or food processor for a couple minutes and you’ve got hummus. Then you can add as much red pepper as you want. Personally I like to make it with roasted and peeled Hatch or Pueblo chiles.

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