I wasn’t alive in the 70s, but I remember seeing them a bunch when I was a kid in the 80s. A lot of the time they were in cans labeled “peanut brittle,” which I always thought was weird because to this day I have never once seen actual peanut brittle packaged in a can.

Boy, that’s a weird article. A lot of that reads like the author has never actually heard music first hand, and only ever had it described to them.

I listened to the album. It’s not bad, but it’s not what I would have described as metal. Most of the tracks are solo electric guitar with a heavy Mediterranean/Middle Eastern style influence. Only a few of the tracks have any percussion, of which only one has any dub step elements (though I don’t think I’d call it a proper dub step track). I don’t speak the language they’re singing in, so I can’t really comment on the rap elements or the lyrical content.

It sounds to me like the home studio recordings of a fairly competent musician who is dabbling in some genres they’re not especially familiar with. Like I said, it’s not bad, but it would definitely benefit from some more professional production. I enjoyed listening to it, but I think if you’re expecting what the author of this article is promising, you’re going to be pretty disappointed.

It’ll always be the Taco Bell water cup to me.

Yeah. There are a bunch of different brands that make them, and they come in a lot more colors than red, but that type of disposable plastic cup has been pretty ubiquitous since the 1990s. There are also clear plastic disposable cups that are just as common, but you tend to see those at more adult functions because they give off less of a high school kegger/kids birthday party vibe.

I think Hollywood uses the red ones so much because it’s an easy visual shorthand to express to the viewer exactly what kind of party is going on. They’re also are opaque, so they can just hand everyone an empty cup and not have to worry about liquid levels and visual continuity, which probably makes things a lot easier on set.

I think that all suburban street layouts are designed by a secret society of men whose sole unifying principle is a fierce all-consuming hatred of pizza delivery drivers.

It’s kind of hilarious hearing Jones’ story about “sneaking” into Bohemian Grove told from the point of view of the other people who went there with him. It’s such a great insight into how absolutely contrived all his content is.

The real thing was that at one point there was so much plastic pollution in certain parts of the environment that some of the endocrine disrupting chemicals in it, like BPA (which mimics estrogen) and certain pthalates, were leaching into to water in large enough concentrations to make noticeable changes in the bodies and sex organs of animals that are extra sensitive to those things, like frogs and other amphibians. Mutations in male frogs where they displayed female traits, etc. It’s a big part of the reason that 15 or 20 years ago everyone started switching to metal water bottles, and the plastic ones all advertise that they’re BPA-free now. Alex Jones took that and spun it up into some grand conspiracy about the government intentionally putting chemicals in your water to feminize you and make you docile so, I dunno, you won’t put up a fight when they come to round you up and put you in FEMA camps or whatever, I guess. At least that’s the basic gist as I remember it. I never really paid an enormous amount of attention to Jones, so I might not be 100% on the details.

If it makes you feel any better, a lot of the time those posts aren’t even made by real people. They’re made by bots who are designed to post something completely wrong or wildly contrary for the sole purpose of pissing you off so that you’ll engage and add to the post count.

Or sometimes they’re more malicious like the shit-disturber bots that BlueSky was (or maybe still is) plagued with that inject what-about-isms and negativity into otherwise healthy and productive conversations just to poison the discourse and inject conservative bullshit into leftist spaces. Not that BlueSky is particularly leftist, but you’d see the bots appear more frequently in threads where people were talking positively about leftist ideas, or where the conversation was otherwise becoming too “woke.”

So you might not actually be missing out on anything except arguing with a clanker who only cares about its prompt.

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.