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[–] m_f@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

I wish that were true. I know too many people IRL that believe that and are old enough that they should know better.

 

Loops is seeing a surge in activity with all the recent drama around other platforms. It'd be great to have other people contributing and/or modding here. Mod duties are pretty light (i.e. practically nonexistent), it'd just be nice to have extra hands in case I'm AFK.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kagi's pretty good and has a Fediverse search feature, but it's paid. I don't mind paying, but there's also no way to do private searches that way, so I'm not going to use it as my main search engine. It's been good at hunting down memes on Lemmy that I want to find again though.

 

Not OP, found on Loops

 

Transcript:

Charlie Brown stands on the snow-covered walk talking to Patty, who is in her doorway. He asks,"Hi, Patty! May I come in?"

He looks down at his coat as she points at it and says,"Shake all that snow off first..."

She points to his feet and continues,"And wipe your feet real good"

He walks off saying,"I've changed my mind..it's not worth it!"

 
[–] m_f@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

I'd recognize those chins anywhere! This is from Jungle Comics #004. Fletcher Hanks has a very distinctive style, now that I've read his stuff due to this community, I can spot it a mile away.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I mostly care about how much caffeine I get, which I understand to be the same regardless of how much ice there is. Generally, small or medium is 2 shots of espresso, and a large is 3 shots.

 

Coming from this post:

https://lemmy.world/post/24352555

Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me

I went to dunkin’ the other day and asked for an iced latte with less ice because it’s winter and I wanted less ice. They gave me a cup that was halfway full of coffee. So I asked why and they told me they press a button on a machine, it fills it halfway full with coffee and then they add ice. So when you get a medium iced latte, you’re not actually getting a medium latte, you’re getting a small or a kids size nowadays of coffee, and then they just fill the rest of it with ice. If you ask for less ice, no screw you, you’re not getting the full amount of coffee that you paid for…

I have never heard of this in any other country. What the hell?

[–] m_f@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Loops is a little federated, @dansup@loops.video is federated atm. I'm not worried about federation getting implemented full though. I'd like it to happen more quickly, but this is the same guy behind Pixelfed, which is taking up a lot of his time atm. He said all the Loops stuff will be published on Github this weekend, so hopefully the community will be able to help with that

 

Transcript:

Charlie Brown stands on the snow-covered walk, shovel in hand, talking to Patty, who is standing in her doorway. He asks,"Shovel, your walk?"

She asks,"How much will you charge to do it?"

He replies, "Oh, I don't do it myself..."

He concludes, "I just rent out my shovel!"

[–] m_f@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like it's skeleton code atm, but the rest is coming soon:

The repos are here, the app and web app will be open sourced this weekend https://github.com/joinloops

 

Kind of weird to not use Matrix for a federated service like Loops TBH, but maybe it'll help attract interest

[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And just replying here to verify that it's me 👋

 

Transcript:

Charlie Brown sits in an armchair reading. He says,"Hey, Patty, bring me a glass of water!"

Patty walks up to him and says,"Say, 'Please'.." He asks,"'Please' what?"

She replies,"Please bring me a glass of water"

She frowns as he smiles and says,"I asked you first!"

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Scabbard 2 (midwest.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by m_f@midwest.social to c/oglaf@midwest.social
 

https://www.oglaf.com/scabbard/2/

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Title textit's an analogy for something, but I forget what.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lucy will get introduced next year, in the March 3rd, 1952 strip. We'll see more characters soon, starting with Violet in a little less than a month

[–] m_f@midwest.social 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That is a fun fact! Looks like sheath in English is a cognate with the same etymology

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Scabbard 1 (midwest.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by m_f@midwest.social to c/oglaf@midwest.social
 

https://www.oglaf.com/scabbard/

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Title textmarvels at a price you can afford

 

Transcript:

Charlie Brown is standing talking to Patty as she sits on the curb. He asks,"You know what I'd like to be?"

He exclaims,"A roughneck!

He shakes his fist, looks at the reader, and continues,"Yes, sir! A regular lil ol' roughneck!"

He sits next to her and concludes,"The only trouble is I'm not strong enough!"

[–] m_f@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks, will reach out if I've got questions!

[–] m_f@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

It's a demonstration of the ability that companies have for tracking you across the internet. Try clearing your cookies / using private browsing / etc, and you'll probably see the "FP ID" at the top be unchanged, because it can tell that it's still you.

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