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Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Anythings a UFO if you're dumb enough.English
5·9 hours agoNot anything. No one could confuse a lake or the Whitehouse or a stick of spaghetti as a UFO. It needs to be flying first and foremost.
Yes, but wasps generally buzz when flying only. These guys vibrate their thoracic flight muscles but keep the wings flat.
I would wager they were either surplus mice or part of control groups.
That’s specifically for the purpose of studying the body and brain as part of the experiment though.
It’s a migrant hawker aka scarce hawker, I think. They’re a bugger to capture in flight, so well done.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you still do the "L" thing with your hands to check left and right?English
9·5 days agoNo. I’m not sure I ever did. I’ve never thought about it, but don’t most people (adults) generally just remember and/or know intuitively? I don’t think it’s something I need to think about. Just something my brain knows.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Where you live, Combination-Head Screws are widely used?English
10·5 days agoI do a lot of DIY and have all manner of screws in my shed gathered across the years. These ones are a rarity.
Also, I hate flatheads.
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Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What item would help you be more productive right now if you had it?English
5·9 days agoA random one, I’m sure, but a Skinner moth trap. It would encourage me to get up earlier every day to see what moths I caught overnight, and as a result I’d get more done. I was going to buy this month, but my water main has just burst, so there goes the moth trap money.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do avid weed users get a hit whilst traveling if it's illegal in certain countries?English
59·10 days agoWe don’t. It’s not like heroin. I don’t need it and can manage fine without it
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•They say beauty is only skin deep, because below that we're just a mess of sinew, bone and slippery sloopy organsEnglish
7·11 days agoI think the original adage was beauty is only skin deep but ugliness goes to the bone.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What spelling, grammar or semantics rules have been lost in your lifetime?English
11·12 days agoWe were taught single space in the mid 90s, so that can’t be too recent.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What spelling, grammar or semantics rules have been lost in your lifetime?English
6·12 days agoPeople using then instead of than. I never saw that 30 years ago.
Trial and error. I just follow them around my garden and end up with lots of bad shots before a good one comes along.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What’s fuelling the rise of the far right?English
7·15 days agoMillionaires didn’t have enough clout to control the media or didn’t need to, billionaires do and do need to.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What’s fuelling the rise of the far right?English
61·15 days agoHe writes like he has just discovered a thesaurus and would like you to know he is verbose. His writing is convoluted and grandiloquent, and often wilfully ambiguous. Its difficult to tell if he has a point, much like George Galloway. I think he thinks a grandiose tone is what is most important.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What’s fuelling the rise of the far right?English
52·15 days agoPredominantly a media which is on the right, and politicians who blame migrants for everything.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If Q-Tips are not for ears what are they for? I use them to clean each individual key on my laptop from time to time.English
7·15 days agoI use a corkscrew to clean my ears like a real man. Or a cactus if I can’t find my corkscrew.
Diddlydee@feddit.ukto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Can our entertainment ever really allow for escapism, when it is created within and for the society we wish to escape from?English
7·15 days agoEscapism is just distracting yourself from life and worries, so yes, it can. I can read a book or listen to a song and become untethered from this world and part of a new one that only exists for me.

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