There’s an aspect of Japanese folklore called “Shirikodama” or (roughly) “small anus ball”, which states that humans have a small ball/organ/jewel in or near the anus where their soul is stored.

This is what inspired the name of “The Dung Eater” in Elden Ring, who would kill people and then “defile their corpse” to ensure their entire bloodline becomes cursed, as well as the Headless from Sekiro, which has a grapple attack where it removes Wolf’s soul via the nearby orifice.

I wish I knew the answer to this. I can’t leave the thick plastic target-style shopping bags sitting out exposed anywhere my cat can find it otherwise the handles will “mysteriously” turn into Swiss cheese within a day.

My mother’s been on the “natural health” train for a while now and claims that pasteurizing milk removes most of the nutrients (verifiably false). No amount of my protesting or pointing her towards sources for the contrary have convinced her to stop consuming that garbage.

My oldest never hit this, but the younger one who is currently 3 basically matches this comic exactly

Every appliance in my house (with a clock anyway) and all of our clocks (2 analog, 2 digital) require manual changing. None of them are connected to the internet, which I would think is the only way they would be able to. Do they really make “smart” analog clocks now?

Edit: my car is somewhere in between. It’ll “automatically” change, but I have to turn it on/off. It’s basically just automated the action of moving the hour forward or back.

It wasn’t world, Lemmy.ml is his home instance which does the censoring

SteamOS is arch based and uses KDE Plasma as the default DE, so you could probably run Endeavour OS and be pretty darn close

My dad’s go to is “Joe’s Bar and Grill, this is Grill speaking”. Sometimes he’ll shake it up and answer as Bar instead

Typically, this is what the cards are themed as, at least the older sets. White and Black are “enemy” colors in Magic: the Gathering after all, same as Red and Blue, Black and Green, etc (based on their position in the MTG color pentagon).

That said, there were some definitely racist cards that got banned and pulled from databases in 2020, Invoke Prejudice being a notable example.

It shows a hooded executioner with a black axe. “If opponent casts a Summon spell that does not match the color of one of the creatures under your control, that spell is countered,” says the card. It effectively kills off creatures that don’t look like the creatures already on the table.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/10/21287154/racist-magic-the-gathering-cards-banned-removed-from-database-wizards-apology

Potatoes you have to keep mounding up with dirt to force the plant to grow more roots (tubers) instead of the leafy tops.

From what I remember, they got bought out by Coke and the quality rapidly declined shortly after. Plastic bottles, basic flavors, no more witty lizard quips in the cap.

Discord is another, goes into effect on the 15th

YES that’s it! Honestly never thought I’d see it again, thank you for the links!

This vividly reminded me of the browser flash game for Bionicle that LEGO had on the Bionicle website when the original run was big. I logged so many hours in that game, I wish I could find an archived version to run through again.

I’ve heard my BIL pronounce it “chew-gee”

They often do articles for Destiny 2 as well, I’ve never understood it. They’re decent articles at least though.

Johnny Sins, a pretty prominent porn actor

Firefox makes it difficult for IT to manage it through Active Directory and Group rules. Where I work, if it weren’t for the fact that we produce a web app as our primary product, we’d be locked down to only Edge.

If this was a recent occurrence, it may have been from the 6.6.5 kernel. There was a WiFi regression in that version that did exactly that, slowed the system to an absolute crawl. I got hit by it on my PC and ended up hosing my whole install (because I panicked and botched things up), but my laptop was fine. I finally got things reinstalled a couple days later when 6.6.6 was released, which fixed the regression anyway.