These ones were much better. I still don’t understand the physics of how wiggling the handlebars back and forth made them go forward, but it felt like magic at the time. Much less finger pinching and no Charlie horsing your groin trying to crab walk with wheels under your butt like the other ones.
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I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•30 years ago somebody told me their opinion about "Changes" but I didn't know what Changes was. I just remembered to look it up, and according to Wikipedia it could've been any of about 50 things.61·3 days agoYes, I was referring to the phenomenon where us old people (Millennials) perpetually think that the 70s were 30 years ago, then have a small existential crisis when we realize.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•30 years ago somebody told me their opinion about "Changes" but I didn't know what Changes was. I just remembered to look it up, and according to Wikipedia it could've been any of about 50 things.104·3 days ago“That songs not from 30 years ago, clearly they were talking about Bowie…oh… oh no…”
We can, but I suspect we don’t because the disclosure requirements would hurt sales. Without massive public education campaigns to convince people that it’s not as stupid as letting kids play with Xray machines every time they went to the shoe store up until the 1970s, people will be unsure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
Since ionizing radiation from medical procedures, nuclear weapons and reactors is a known cause of cancer [ www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation ], it would be quite a project to get the entire US public to believe that exposing your food to the process is different than exposing your body to it.
Irradiated foods can be recognized by the presence of the international symbol for irradiation on the packaging along with the words “Treated with Radiation,” or “Treated by Irradiation.”
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•My dearest Lemmy, what is the appliance you have the most beef with?3·4 days agoI keep trying to use my convection toaster oven as an air fryer, because goddamnit an air fryer is just a small convection oven and so is this!
It never turns out well and then I say, see? Air fryers are stupid.
I suspect the 10x larger fan on an actual air fryer makes a difference, but I’m not willing to give up the counter space to try.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone else notice a lack of Cinco de Mayo celebration this year?42·4 days agoI’m in California too. Every year I forget it’s Cinco and think “Damn, Mexicans are feeling super patriotic! There’s two meter Mexican flags attached to half the vehicles on the road today! Oh… it is the 5th of May isn’t it…” Not one this year.
New life goal!
Tomatoes and peppers are fruits.
Onion is a root vegetable.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campaign.651·9 days agoAbout a century, actually. Marketing began in the US after
WWIIWWI when we suddenly had the ability to create more products than people needed. People needed to be convinced to buy shit they didn’t need, and thus marketing was invented.The first notable marketing campaign was cigarettes for ladies in 1929. Cigarette companies were missing a whole section of consumers because women weren’t supposed to smoke, especially in public. A group of beautiful young models were hired to smoke cigarettes at a big important parade that was going to get lots of coverage in the newspaper. A reporter was paid to “report” on their “carefree” and “liberated” manner as they smoked “torches of freedom” out at the festivities. Equality, feminism, yay!
Associating male virility with vehicle choice was next. Both were brain children of Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, who was very interested in his uncle’s ideas about people’s actions being influenced by their subconscious mind, before it was popular in America.
This is a four hour documentary about the social manipulation of the last century, including the above, getting young progressives to vote for Regan in the 80s and much more. Century of the Self (BBC 2002)
Orange blossoms. Everything “Orange blossom” scented just smells like perfumey oranges, nothing like actual orange blossoms. You can only smell them on the tree, this time of year.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your favorite way to Jazz up cheap ramen?3·10 days agoEgg, peanut butter, frozen peas, chopped up deli meats, thin sliced cabbage, sriracha or gochujang.
No jalapeños??
A rebounder/indoor trampoline is fun and easy to use for a few minutes and then go back to what you were doing.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why does antique furniture usually have carved "feet"?292·23 days agoThey are the children of Baba Yaga’s house.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a myth/misconception you heard about the world that's went away as you got older?29·23 days agoCarrots do not improve night vision, radar does.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•[Meta] How do y'all post clips/animations on Lemmy? Only GIF seems to work.2·24 days agoI’m on Mlem (Mobile) through lemmy.world and you post looks like this:
Everyone else’s in this thread looks fine though.
You old enough for this one?