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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023
  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Hunting for Jade Coochie Eggs
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    1 month ago

    I saw Crispin Glover at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?English
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    1 month ago

    I’m late, game recommendations are covered, but I can give you advice for healing your thumb. I’ve had the tips of my thumb and a finger glued back on as well as stitches on my fingers several times.

    Blood flow to the tip is important. Squeezing a stress ball or something helps. It’ll also keep the skin from healing too… tightly? If that makes sense.

    Keep it dry. If you need to bandage it, do it loosely and change it often. Cotton balls work really well to keep it dry as well as protect it from accidental impacts.

    If the doctor didn’t do a good job, trim the stitches so they don’t catch on anything. If you’re in America, take the stitches out yourself after 10-14 days or as soon as you can wiggle them freely. Nail clippers work really well to cut the stitch and pull it out.

    If you rip a stitch, you can use a careful dab of super glue to close it. Just make sure it’s clean and dry first.

    If you cut through the nail, it’ll grow back kinda fucked up. My nail healed in an M shape and dirt would get trapped in the middle so I put some Vaseline or something under it to keep it clean.

    Last but not least, you have a small window in which fingerprint evidence may be inadmissable in a court of law. Do with this information as you will.

  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•Today I learned that dinosaur secondary brains are not actually a thingEnglish
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    3 months ago

    What the fuck is that article? It’s absolute nonsense. Like a first gen AI was trained on a single biology textbook.

    The mosquito brain has three main parts: the antennae, the maxillary palps, and the proboscis.

    Octopuses don’t have any real social structure like mammals do. Instead, they communicate through chemical signals. But these chemicals can transmit emotions just as effectively as words and they have two eyes.

    Animals with multiple brains include octopuses, cephalopods (squid), and even humans.

    The brain of a cuttlefish is located in the head, which is made up of two parts: the upper part contains the eyes, and the lower part contains the mouth.

    Cuttlefish is one of the smartest animals in the world. They are able to solve complex mathematical equations

  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Petty pedantryEnglish
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    9 months ago

    That’s kind of a myth. Musa and the Mali empire were certainly wealthy for the time but you can’t really compare an emperor in the 14th century with a modern oligarch.

    Musa liked to boast about his wealth at every opportunity. Like, he would tell people that gold grows like a plant in Mali while he threw gold bars at them. And all the reports of his immense wealth come from the people he encountered on his pilgrimage.

    The amount of gold he brought (18 tons!) would be worth about $1.5B today. That was likely all of the gold the empire had collected during his reign. And it wasn’t technically his, it belonged to the empire.

    The price of gold in Egypt dropped by about 15%, which was a lot but well within normal fluctuations. He also ran out of gold on the return trip and had to beg for loans which he never repaid.