[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"After approaching the coelacanth to encourage it to move between two cameras positioned on a custom-made stand, the team turned on the lights. "At this depth, some think that there is no light," says Ballesta. "There is [very] nice light. It's tiny, it's soft, but there is still light. So, it's important to not use too much artificial light. It's like driving in a car at night. If you put your lights on full, you see just in front of the car, and all the rest is dark. If you switch off your lights – and there is a little bit of moon – suddenly you see everything: the road, the mountains, the forest. It's the same when you're deep.""

For anyone else wondering.

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

King size heating blanket. Wrap myself up like a burrito after work and I'm in heaven. Just wish I'd done it sooner, my last place didn't keep heat in well, but I felt like spending $100~ on a blanket was crazy and was stacking multiple cheap ones to not freeze in my own home.

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
  • Boardwalk Empire - 1920s-30s period drama about mobsters, prohibition, etc set in New Jersey/Atlantic City
  • Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - 1920's period detective show set in Melbourne
  • Peaky Blinders - haven't watched it myself, but my understanding is it was pretty popular, 1920s period drama about a gang set in 1920s Birmingham
  • Fargo (season 4) - haven't watched it again, but I've heard good things and season 4 (it's an anthology series, each season is a different cast/story so you don't have to have watched the previous seasons) is 1950s Missouri with gangs
[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

From playing d&d with a few definitely... Never had another group try to convince me it's simple math to work out the dynamics of a fireball and how far it would really go in a tunnel system because they wanted to get enemies around a corner too lmfao.

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I love how fed up Damar gets by the end of the war lol

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

US, 30s, yep. When I needed a new car decided to get one cause I was driving an hour to work and thought it would help me with driver's trance (cue sad laugh track...). Ended up having to order a new car cause I couldn't find one I wanted that was manual within a reasonable driving distance that wasn't complete junk. Didn't really help my problem, but I do love driving it lol.

Kind of weird because automatics make me uncomfortable to drive now, they accelerate so easy I feel like I have less control (though I'm sure this is just a skill issue on my part).

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

We've got a lot of reposts though I am working on a write-up of that time a Japanese romance comic had a black heroine's reward be "you turn white".....

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Fyre Festival, the history of World of Warcraft expansion controversies, Facebook groups fighting over the right way to make clam chowder. This is the community for all the drama big and small!

Please join our weekly discussions on current hobby news and maybe submit a few write-ups of your own about your favorite hobby controversies.

!hobbydrama@lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/c/hobbydrama@lemmy.world

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by PassingDuchy@lemmy.world to c/hobbydrama@lemmy.world

Hello! Your friendly mod PassingDuchy again with a few community updates!

Reddit and Discord Hobby Drama communities

I did reach out to both communities. The response from both is that they're not interested in affiliating. As such we won't be linking to either community in the sidebar to respect their wishes. Going forward please don't send either community messages about partnering with this community (though I appreciate everyone who did! It was a big help).

Reposting

Based on the previous discussion post we will be encouraging an opt-out request be sent to authors, but not requiring. The only requirement currently is that the full text is reposted and a link to the original post is included at the top or bottom of the repost.

14 Day Rule

The 14 day rule for all drama being concluded (outside of Round Up) will remain instituted.

Post Titles

As Lemmy doesn't currently have flairs/tags, we will be requiring a little extra work on post titles to help community searchability. Your title must include:

  • [Repost] for reposts from another community (reddit or otherwise). Reposts must include the full text and a link to the original post at the top or bottom of the repost. At this time non-text posts (podcasts, YouTube videos, etc) are not allowed. If you want to link those you may link them in the weekly Hobby Round Up.
  • A [History] tag if your post is a professional history related to a hobby. History is for only professionals having drama with no hobbyists involved (industry drama). This is a little extra work, but a compromise for people who are solely here to read about hobbyists and not industry drama. Ex. A post about the history of F1 would be [History], but a post about fan efforts to have a specific racer removed would be hobbyist drama.
  • [Hobby] please keep this to the general hobby eg video games, knitting, board games, TV shows, music, apparel, etc.
  • OPTIONAL [Specific Hobby] this is mostly useful for designating a specific fandom, band, brand, platform, etc (eg if your write-up general hobby is music, you might put Taylor Swift here to note the drama is about her specific fandom).
  • We will not be requiring markers for post length. If your post exceeds the character count and needs to be continued in the comments, please link to the continued comment chain in your main post (currently mods can't pin other users' comments so we can't assist here).
  • A full title should look something like: [Video Games][Old School Runescape] The hat scandal OR [Repost][History][Music] Fyre Festival controversies.

Hobby Round Up/Scuffles

A general megapost for all breaking hobby drama (14 day rule will not apply), news, chat, posts that don't fit the rules, links to articles/podcasts/videos, etc will go up on Mondays (I'm currently looking into figuring out an automod bot to do this to ensure regularity). I've changed the name to Round Up in the hope that users who use both the Lemmy and Reddit communities will see the different title in their tabs and have less confusion when posting between both.

Hobby Town Hall/Community Discussion

Hobby Community Discussion will be like the subreddit's Town Hall and go up on the first of the month. As we are a smaller community this will go up on the monthly first to be used for a four month period and be pinned for the duration. Community suggestions, improvements and concerns should be posted to Community Discussion. If possible please use reports for any immediate concerns as the mod team can coordinate best for immediate response via the modlog. Our first Community Discussion will go up on September 1st 2023 and last until the next one on January 1st 2024.

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Hello!

I take care of a few hospice individuals and am looking for breakfast ideas! Dietary requirements are as follows:

  • low carb
  • low sugar
  • low dairy

Since most of them have no teeth they need ground/pureed soft food as well (though I can always blender hard foods so I'm not listing it as a dietary requirement, but things like curries or soups are a big time saver for me since I can skip the blender step).

Currently my recipe list is as follows:

  • Shakshuka
  • Frittata
  • Miso Soup
  • Gazpacho
  • Vegetable/Fruit salads (I don't have a specific recipe for this so if anyone has one I'd love one!)

I'm not really a breakfast person so I'm looking for some recipe ideas since right now they mostly just get cereal or yogurt every morning which doesn't really fit the doctors' orders and has to be pretty boring for them.

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Thought the time honored tradition was switching to another channel to watch another show's opener so you'd know what was going on when you switched there during commercial breaks. Just my family?

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I kind of assume if they have plans for him it's a young Kirk spinoff. If they wanted him to stick around I feel like they wouldn't have closed down the relationship with La'an so forcibly if that makes sense.

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

If there's going to be more voyager characters I really hope Neelix gets a cameo for an episode. I'd love to see him back in the kitchen with Jankom taste testing lol

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Not sure how to break it, but my cat developed the same thing after I started wfh. Seems to be some kind of clinginess? He ate independently before, but after starting wfh he always needed some attention first. Now that I've gone back to going in he's mostly better about it, but we had some rough few months of him having separation anxiety before he got more independent again.

[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I also thought no one used facetime until I worked retail recently... The amount of people I saw come in on a facetime calls where they both just had their cameras pointed at the ceiling was bizarre and boggling.

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