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I learned to touch-type QWERTY in late 90s chat rooms. By 2006, I was bragging about my 100 WPM speed in my online dating profile. I met one girl who challenged me to a typing contest. She won, then I won, and then we called it a draw. We’ve been married for 13 years and had our third child last month.
When I was learning to touch type, I found it helpful to practice in my head even when I was away from the keyboard. Like whatever I’m thinking about, I’m picturing a keyboard in my head and where each letter of each word is. It slows my thoughts down a little, but that’s not always a bad thing.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•One of the most interesting things that happens when you are oldEnglish
4·3 days agoI remember bringing a Polaroid picture of my 10" television screen into my English class just to prove to my best friend that the Hylian loach existed.
Shitposts can be funny. These ones never are.
As of a month or two ago, any time I see a post that’s so thoroughly unfunny that it brings down the average quality of all Lemmy posts, I don’t even need to check the community. It’s always this one. Why is that? What happened here? It didn’t used to be like this.
There’s a couple of cyber trucks in my neighborhood, and one of them drops his kid off at my daughter’s school in the morning.
Still drives a cyber truck though.
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politics @lemmy.world•Senate Democrats block DHS funding over immigration tacticsEnglish
17·7 days ago“Immigration tactics” again being a euphemism for “shooting innocent people in the face in broad daylight.”
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politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going NextEnglish
3·8 days agoThe Woodlands is just outside of Houston and is very white, very affluent, and very Republican.
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News@lemmy.world•British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'English
5·9 days agoThere’s also Houston, the largest city in the state. Houston is alright, mostly.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?English
2·11 days agoPeanut butter, jelly, bread.
But if I’m doing it healthy, then add eggs, spinach, blueberries, yogurt.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump's harsh immigration tactics are taking a political hitEnglish
26·13 days agoI really hate that masked men murdering innocent people in the streets is referred to as “harsh immigration tactics”.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.English
49·14 days agoI think we just need to revise the laws to say that a cop’s testimony doesn’t have any more weight than anyone else’s testimony unless it’s backed up by their bodycam.
Taking cops at their word made sense when we didn’t have this technology. It doesn’t make sense anymore.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Yet everyone swears they existedEnglish
29·14 days agoIt’s been almost 25 years, and 9/11 jokes still aren’t funny.
The Circle of Life is the core tenet of an environmentalist death cult that rules the Pridelands. The hyenas are exiled to the outlands because they won’t conform to the Lions’ religious dogma.
Depends on how strict we’re being with “version of Tetris”. If we’re talking loosely about falling block puzzle games, then my favorite one is Attactics. It’s part of UFO50.
Instead of four-block clusters, Attactics uses individual blocks that represent different types of troops, each one with a unique ability. And instead of falling from the top of the screen towards the bottom, they move from the left of the screen towards the right. And instead of forming complete lines in order to score points, they clash against the enemy’s troops and attempt to make it to their fortress on the other side of the map.
Looking at Attactics on its own, it looks like a fast-paced simplified strategy game. But when you get your hands on the game, it becomes clear that it shares a lot in common with Tetris.
Why can’t it be both? Too many people think that nuanced movies can’t be fun. It’s even dumber when they think a movie must not be nuanced just because it is fun. (Like anyone who talks about super hero movies like the entire genre is one bad movie.)
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Billionaire Ehud Laniado dies during penis enlargement surgery, surgeons bannedEnglish
12·18 days agoMaybe it’s a dick the size of a gorilla, not the size of a gorilla’s dick.
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendationsEnglish
37·19 days agoMy wife and I just had a baby on Friday. When we were asked about vaccines we made it clear where we stood and basically summed it up as: “we want him to have all the vaccines he’d have gotten three years ago.” The nurse seemed to appreciate that sentiment.
I just hope that hospitals choose to follow the science. Maybe they don’t need a government mandate. Obviously these changes aren’t helping anyone and are only harmful, but hopefully the harm isn’t as bad as it could be.
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politics @lemmy.world•Man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Ilhan Omar is charged with assaulting and intimidating herEnglish
51·21 days agoNo that’s Cysco. You’re thinking of the captain from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.




It’s 2026, and you are literally eleven 're’s short of the current number of rereleases.