asking lemmy to 'Draw a duck and share your art'
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    Maybe this thread will be the start of something! What I liked about this challenge was the starter beak and feet, made it a little easier for those of us who are artistically challenged

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    The salesman and the utterly unusable search feature
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    My experience of sales is that it is mostly full of people who:

    1. love the sound of their own voice
    2. firmly believe that speaking without being interrupted is the equivalent of deep thought; and
    3. are stupendously bad at admin and detail tasks

    This makes the kind of situation that you were in both their natural playground and a complete nightmare. The c-suite tends to fetishize sales as the engine of the business, which also leads to an over inflated sense of importance.

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  • Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to say Democrats can "control the weather"
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    2w ago 100%

    There is a giant ball there. And evil apes. And the evil apes are dukin' it out on the ball. You're one of them. It's basically all just evil apes dukin' it out on a giant ball.

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  • Nancy Pelosi’s husband sold Visa shares 2 months before a DOJ lawsuit — some say the trade shouldn't have been allowed
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    Interesting, thanks! I'd only ever seen it as amusing (UK based so couldn't buy it anyway), but good to know how it actually stacks up. I wonder if that also means that Nancy herself would have been better to just buy an index tracker and avoid all the negative stories!

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  • Nancy Pelosi’s husband sold Visa shares 2 months before a DOJ lawsuit — some say the trade shouldn't have been allowed
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    For those of you in the US, the are a couple of funds which track politician's holdings and invest/digest with them. NANC is the democrat tracking one and KRUZ is the republican tracking one.

    This way, you too can stick your snout in the trough.

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    Two men arrested one month after $230 million of cryptocurrency stolen from a single victim.
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    4w ago 100%

    Living the high life, spending $500,000 on a night out in LA and Miami clubs, and giving away designer handbags to random girls appears to be no guarantee that you'll actually be able to get a girlfriend.

    Ouch

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  • Words for the End of Summer [INCIDENTAL COMICS]
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    4w ago 100%

    Slugabed I've used before, usually to describe me!

    To paraphrase a shower thoughts post from a few weeks back though (not mine), why is going to bed early seen as pious but staying in bed late seen as slothful when the net result is the same amount of time spent in bed?

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  • Okay so I totally failed to put the dough in the fridge overnight, these might not quite be as intended but they're okay!

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    How low on avocado do you need to be to not be allowed to say that it's guac? 3.5% will certainly do it.

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    I'm not 5G enabled yet so theoretically 4G+ should be my fastest connection speed. However, on O2 I find that it's effectively the same as having no connection at all, and often end up shifting down to 3G just to get some connection. This can't be right, I feel like I've forgotten a setting or something! Has anyone managed to figure it out, or maybe first does anyone else have the same issue?

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    **Having trouble phrasing this, so in case it's not clear I'm not looking for casual misogyny thanks** Having a debate with a friend about whether men shopping with women can be fun and I'm wondering how coloured my view of this is by me and my ex. I'd love to hear what makes a great shopping experience for you with your friends or significant others!

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    I was driving round the M25 and there was an accident in front of me, I could still get round so I slowed down, put hazards on but drove past and carried on my way. What's the actual protocol in those situations? I could see all the airbags were deployed, there's nothing I could do for the people inside and for sure getting out on a motorway is a bad idea. But I feel like I should have done _something_ different. Can anyone with knowledge enlighten me?

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    gaming
    Gaming TIN 11mo ago 97%
    LOL? lol

    My son asked me if I would play league of legends with him, so tried it for the first time. So much going on! Firstly, how does anyone zero in on what hero they want to play, there are so many of them! I feel like it would take a year just to play enough to decide. Secondly, the purchase UI seems to have been designed to ensure that a new player can never understand it. I'm sure like all things it becomes clear over time but jeez, did a professional team really work on that thing? Anyway, 2 defeats from 2 games so far, I write to you from the lobby waiting for the third!

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    Music Mashups TIN 11mo ago 94%
    Sweet Dreams/7 nation army by Pomplamoose
    https://youtu.be/hmLBSCiEoas?si=PWxcaVdUx0_0rFzz

    Love this one, it all fits so well together!

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    ![](https://Feddit.uk/pictrs/image/b0e46278-95b2-4f50-b838-6091972daee2.jpeg) Don't tell me that's going to parse in a CLI

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    Seeing as this conversation is going on everywhere right now, what's the approach to Meta going to be here on UK? Personally I'm all for defederation as soon as possible, what does everyone else think?

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    I started playing at the weekend with my teenagers, we've agreed to only play DRG when we're together so no-one goes off ranking up too fast which is what happened when we played Valorant. We've selected classes somewhat randomly, I'm playing engineer, they are driller and gunner. After about 3 or 4 missions they've got to rank 4 and I'm still on 3. I feel like they're getting more kills because they have more killy weapons (waaagh), is that what the rank system is based on? If so, have I chosen a class which is slower going or gets better late game? Or, does it not really matter as much as I think? I can see that ranking up means better upgrades, presumably therefore more kills so it could be a feedback loop. Overall we've found it to be great fun as well as a kind of chaotic, screaming mess!

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    Fed yesterday, 2 hours at room temp and then in the fridge. She's actually got a bit bigger than I would like already so maybe straight in the fridge next time?

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    When I go on to Steam there's a heap of different versions of DRG: vanilla, Dwarven Legacy, Master Edition, Deluxe Edition. I don't want to over buy a new game but at the same time, dislike not being able to do stuff because it's in a DLC. What does the hive mind recommend?

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    So, hear me out. I'm a 47 year old guy and I'm not ashamed to say that I enjoy video games. I always have, from playing Head over Heels on a Speccy +2 to ESO and Valorant on my self built PC. Due to various life circumstances, I'm also on the dating scene and to most women I meet, around my age, video games are anathema. When I say that I like them it's usually meet with an "oh dear" or a "my son would probably love to talk to you about them, I find them really boring" I have two boys, both teenagers, both play all the time and sometimes we all play together (although they are better as they have more time to apply to games). Their friends are amazed that I will talk about games with them, that I know someone about games and that I play games. None of their parents want to talk with them about what is effectively their main hobby that they do all the time (big sad). So the question, there must be some sort of cut off age at which video games are no longer an acceptable pastime. Is it absolute age based (nothing after 35) or is it something to do with the progression of games into popular culture and people born after, say, 1986 will not see it as unacceptable? I don't have an answer, I just think it's an interesting question. Thanks for reading, let me know what you think! Edit to add: I'm not planning on stopping through peer pressure, just wondering about the phenomenon!

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    Why would I want my tea to taste like toast and jam?

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    Not sure how much the seller understands about the process!

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