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Paranormal or explainable.

I will be goign by the name song here … I will not answer questions that will leak my personal information … I will not answer questions about work … I will not answer questions that can link to my real identitiy !!

Which instance is better and why?

“Everything has a name”, if something is made, used, discovered or imagined, there is probably at least one name for it.

The cap at the top of a flagpole (‘truck’). A single primary vein down the middle of typical leaves (‘midrib’). The coating sheath at the end of shoelaces (‘aglet’). The creases across the inside of your wrist (‘rasceta’). The protective enclosure of a radar, including the nose cone of most airliner planes (‘radome’). The square hole in the top of an anvil (‘hardy hole’). The iconic football/soccer ball design, that is, the truncated icosahedron with pentagonal black and hexagonal white panels (Adidas’s ‘Telstar’ design). All those different types of cave mineral deposits like stalactites, flowstone, frostwork and moonmilk (‘speleothem’).

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Have you ever refilled a toner (HP 415A for me), I found a tutorial with the manipulation and it’s ok.

But I’m little bit lost with the powders. Can I use a powder recommanded for Canon in an HP, and if not, can you explain me why.

And do you know if an “HP powder” is it compatible with all HP printers ?

And if you have ever done this, where are you buy yours.

Thanks in advance.

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/19617221

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…and, yes. I know there are actually lemmings there, and they’re cute as hell.

In a romantic relationship or otherwise. I’m being ghosted over a job, so I ask randos on the internet about what they do. WBY?

Sadly I think I’m finally ready to put Sync out to pasture since it isn’t maintained.

My favourite season has gotta be spring, here’s why :

For me in the UK, when spring hits its basically a diet coke version of summer, sure there’s some rain but boy when it’s sunny, then its a great feeling because you’re not too hot and bothered.

Same things for sleeping at night, oh and it’s not so cold that you can comfortably wear almost anything without being absolutely cooked like an egg!

What about you?

Every time somebody sends me a thumb I take it as “whatever you say you fucking dumbass” and it pisses me off.

And ya, I’m aware that that the replies are going to be thumbs, let’s see em ya jerks!!!

Im noticing its harder and harder to find things on google. Searching for a companies quarterly profits, cost of medical care for all per capita, and othet economic details are all getting more and more buried in google. Just asking how other contries do their social programs results in us based opionion articles…like wtf are we even doing.

I understand scrolling and indexing sites is an enormous undertaking. Is there currently a federated open source search engine? If not is their a potential to create one?

Is there a trustworthy private option?

To those from the Western hemisphere, it’s always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of the Mayans.

I’m still searching for a job. On some of these applications they want a 1-3 minute video of me just answering questions to myself and send it in. If feels scammy, but maybe I’m just not doing it right. What do you do?

The worst corp I can think of is Nestlé, these pieces of shit have done a lot of environmental damage and have been known to engage or complicit in slavery.

Erasing Nestlé is like erasing the infectious boil on a human body.

What foul company would you erase for good and why?

I am curious how people find new communities or if there is a list of communities somewhere as they are generated?

I use Jerboa and other then the ones I initially added via the search tool using keywords of my interests, I only seem to find new instances when someone mentions in it in a comment or when I stumble upon one in my Local instance feed.

How do you discover new communities and keep up to date?

True story, by the way. This happened to me earlier tonight.

Mid-size city, 500K people. Suburbia area. Well lit. Good part of town. Next to parks, schools, etc. Nice weather.

9:30 tonight (Sunday), I was in the house putting away some laundry. I heard the doorbell. I didn’t think anything of it, because I have been getting lots of amazon deliveries.

30 seconds or so later, a knock on the door. Wow, delivery guy is def letting me know I guess.

So I finish folding my laundry, go to front porch. Probably 5 to 10 minutes since knock on door. No package. Weird.

I check my porch camera and it shows a teen girl, maybe 15 or so, out of breath ringing the doorbell. She’s wearing pajama bottom pants, shoes, hoodie and a backpack. And she says to herself, “I need help. This is terrible.”

She sets on my front step for a few seconds, gets up, then knocks on door. Looks around. Then leaves.

After I see vid, run to sidewalk… look up and down. Nothing. I run back in, put shoes on, go out and again, looking. Nothing.

I call 911 tell the police what happened, they send someone out, but they don’t get here till about 30 minutes later. So basically police show up a full 45 minutes after the girl knocked on my door.

While waiting for police, I see neighbor, 2 houses down, pulling out of driveway. I run up to him, show him vid, tell him what happened, he says he’ll check his cams, but he didn’t get a knock or doorbell ring.

I’m kicking myself that I didn’t at least check the porch cam right when doorbell rang. I legit can not stop thinking about that girl knocking on a strangers (my) door hoping I would answer.

She was out of breath, but wasn’t banging on the door extra loud or anything. No crying. And I have neighbors all over and across the street. And just a block down is a 7-11.

So it probably wasn’t super serious (I hope!), and maybe she just lost her phone or something (I hope!). But I can’t sleep thinking about it.

I posted the vid to my local nextdoor community webpage, posted on facebook, etc. All in the hopes that someone will recognize her.

What would you guys do in this situation? Anything I could have done differently (other than answer the door)?

tl;dr: I ignored doorbell thinking it was just amazon package. Check porch cam later and realize it was teen girl saying she needed help and that something terrible happened. Police didn’t arrive till 45 minutes later and no sign of girl.

Big list for reference.

The appliance that elicits anger and frustrated at it’s mere sight. The treacherous device that never worked right.