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France’s far-right leader Le Pen guilty of embezzlement in ruling that could end her career in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Is that house arrest?

France’s far-right leader Le Pen guilty of embezzlement in ruling that could end her career in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thank you.

France’s far-right leader Le Pen guilty of embezzlement in ruling that could end her career in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Could someone tell me how she was able to walk out of the court having been sentenced to prison?

Why is Trump suddenly obsessed with rare earths? (00:17:57) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I could only watch that at 1x speed on the website so here's a YouTube link for anyone like me.

Are custom molded earplugs worth the extra cost? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Ah yeah totally fair. To each their own.

I did live in a city centre once a long time ago but I'd definitely be keeping the earplugs in all night if I were you now!

Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33 billion in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago

valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion

Are custom molded earplugs worth the extra cost? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah fair enough. I'm not using them in a work environment. I'm happy if I get an extra 20 minutes of sleep in the morning when all the noise from the teenage grooming starts. Sometimes it's 40.

It sounds ridiculous but it all adds up.

I grew up in the arse end of nowhere so any noise at all wakes me.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

That is really impressive stuff. Well done. The detail on the ears, eyelashes etc. is all superb.

Are custom molded earplugs worth the extra cost? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Those foam ones are really irritating after a while. Your local chemist may sell "mouldable silicone" ones that are cheap, better at sound isolation and way more comfortable. You basically just mash them into your ear and they form a perfect seal.

I use them every night.

You'll really need to look. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Lad I know whose nickname is milk bottle.

Tired of dating apps? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Travelled back in time and the past is shite.

What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Fair enough. Maybe I should stick with it then. Thanks for the alternate viewpoint.

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Magnificent (lemmy.world)
 
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Old memes I found on my phone part 4 (lemmy.world)
 
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Old memes I found on my phone - St Patrick's edition - correct community this time (lemmy.world)
 
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Old memes I found on my phone part 2 (lemmy.world)
 
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Old memes I found on my phone part 1 (lemmy.world)
 
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Need a dad for a minute? (lemmy.world)
 

[email protected] has started (back) up. If you need advice from any dads or just need to get something off your chest, feel free to drop by.

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The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket (lemmy.world)
 

Then picking the exact correct thing

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Looking for 4K bluray recommendations (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was gifted a 4K bluray player for Christmas. Whopper!

I immediately bought my favourite movie of all time - Aliens. I only got around to watching it recently and HOLY COW the detail. I grew up watching it on a VHS that I recorded off the TV.

I'm looking for some recommendations for things to visually blow me away. I was thinking of Interstellar, but I did watch that recently enough.

All suggestions welcome and thank you!

edit: Some absolute bangers of recommendations here, many of which I wouldn't have considered. Thanks folks!

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Don't eat your Christmas tree, warns Belgium food agency (www.rte.ie)
 

Some things may go without saying, but Belgium's food agency issued a public health warning as the festive season wrapped up: don't eat your Christmas tree.

The unusual message came after the city of Ghent, an environmentalist stronghold in the country's northern Flanders region, raised eyebrows by posting tips for recycling the conifers on the dinner table.

Pointing with enthusiasm to examples from Scandinavia, the town website suggested needles could be stripped, blanched and dried - for use in making flavoured butter, for instance.

Asked what they thought of the idea, the reply from Belgium's federal agency for food chain security, AFSCA, was a resounding "No".

"Christmas trees are not destined to enter the food chain," it said in a statement.

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I somehow feel wealthy when my phone and headphones are both at 100% charge together (lemmy.world)
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What do you donate to? (lemmy.world)
 

Coming up to Christmas I generally make some small donations. Some of these I ask for as Christmas gifts because I'm old and basically have very basic wants and needs so I'm hard to buy for.

Curious to hear if / what others do.

I've expanded my annual list to include:

  • Wikipedia
  • Lemmy.world (my home instance)
  • Mozilla (I'm not happy with how they spend their money necessarily but I'm very thankful to have Firefox)
  • Signal messenger
  • A few Ukrainian things (u24.gov.ua is the official site if this is your thing but there's a great lady on Reddit I give to occasionally too)
  • The guardian (I read so many articles from there linked on here that I feel like I should and I really appreciate the lack of paywall and easy cookie rejection but never use the site logged in)
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No! (lemmy.world)
 
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