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Cake day: November 29th, 2023

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  • I can imagine a classroom full of them would’ve looked awesome back in the day.

    The G3 mouse wasn’t TOO bad, though I certainly wouldn’t enjoy using one today.

    It had a really nice keyboard though. Which also had its own USB pass through port, so you could plug the mouse into that instead of the iMac itself.

    Fun fact: the G3 iMac was in fact the very first computer to ship with built in USB. In fact, the standard wasn’t really finalised until after it shipped. It actually wasn’t a very popular decision to do that, since serial ports were still the standard at that time, and most people didn’t own anything with USB on it. Wild, right? The decision to put in a CD-ROM drive was equally unpopular, since many folks still used floppy disks…




  • Been there, done that.

    Back in the early 1990’s i went to a grade school for sick and disabled children. I have a visual disability myself. Some of the kids were very, very sick. Leukemia, lung diseases, etc. So we’d usually lose about two, three kids per year.

    The Christmas holiday was always rough. Some would hold on just to celebrate one last Christmas. When we’d return back to school in January, you’d always hope to start with the same number of classmates…


  • I’m always amazed cat owners let them roam. You’re putting a LOT of trust in both the animal as well as your greater environment. Just the other week I read a message from our local animal shelter. They had found a cat which had gotten poisoned. Either intentionally or unintentionally, that couldn’t be determined.

    They had to put it down before the owner was found, it was that sick. I’d feel pretty guilty if that was my cat.

    Cats can get run over, abducted, get hurt, etc. Even ignoring the fact that it’s a living creature, it’s also an expensive piece of property and vet bills aren’t cheap either.




  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldDoing my part
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    Yep. It was pretty wild that some people actually fell for the Palestine argument. That was only really an issue for a very small minority of the left. Most average Americans couldn’t find it on a map, much less a reason to give a shit about it.

    Ultimately, it wasn’t even necessary to try and fracture the left with the Palestine argument. It was already fractured enough that she never stood a chance.

    Even in a fairly normal race, it’s silly to think voters would care more about people half a world away, rather than the issues they’re dealing with themselves like the high cost of living, housing shortages, etc.


  • They also made some mistakes by accidentally including some victims! I read there was at least a few people on there who actually died in a camp.

    It’s also worth pointing out that ‘suspected’ is quite a vague term. If a neighbour didn’t like you and tipped you as a collaborator, you might very well be on that list despite being perfectly clean.

    Still, it’s a good thing they’re at least acknowledging this uncomfortable part of Dutch history. Some families will finally have some closure/answers as to what their (grand)parents did or didn’t do during the war.



  • Vehicles ‘could’ exceed the speed rating? Man, even my fat ass at a brisk walk could topple these things over.

    Frankly I’m shocked they didn’t have proper working barriers. They should’ve just put up some concrete blocks while the existing stuff was being renovated.

    This type of attack is very, very common in Europe and the Middl-East, so this isn’t exactly an unprecedented method. But also: you’d want to have barriers anyway to guard against drunk drivers or drivers not paying attention. They should be high priority.


  • Yeah, so I noticed :D A YouTube video I saw also mentioned T-Square as another one that’s likely to’ve influenced video game music.

    Listening to some of Casiopea’s tracks definitely evokes that feeling of ‘I might’ve heard that in Ridge Racer or Gran Turismo’ without being able to pin down a specific track.

    I’m not seeing a track called Countdown on YT music though, what album is that on?