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Cake day: July 24th, 2023
  • Nastybutler@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do people that are for the first time moving to a place where is snows need to know?
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    6 days ago

    My addition to your driving comment is to make sure you have the right tires on your vehicle and if you have a rear wheel drive vehicle, get rid of it and get an AWD one. And before someone jumps in and comments about how their Mustang does just fine in the snow, let me remind you that OP has no experience driving in snow, so no, a RWD car is crap for snow/ice compared to FWD or AWD.

    As for the tires, I realize studded tires have their issues, but they are still the best winter tire for both snow and ice. Blizzaks and the like are good, but on glare ice with a thin layer of water on top, they just don’t cut it the way studded tires do.

  • Nastybutler@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Straight men, what's the weirdest thing you've been told you can't do because it's gay?
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    14 days ago

    When I was younger I’ve definitely made fun of friends who order “girly” drinks, and have in turn been made fun of when I do it. It’s pretty standard among males in my generation (X) and older. Usually happens when everyone else in your group is ordering “manly” drinks like beer or hard liquor.

    It doesn’t even have to be something like a cosmopolitan, it could be a gin & tonic, or rum and coke. If they’re all drinking bourbon on the rocks and you order something even slightly less strong, you’re going to hear about it.

    Then there’s the times where the first guy orders a beer, then the next guy has to trump him with a run and coke, then the next guy gets a whiskey on the rocks, so then it gets one upped with a whiskey neat. Next thing you know we’re smoking crack in the alley. Just kidding about that last one, but you get the idea. We thought we were being macho, but we were idiots in our early 20s, so shrug

  • Nastybutler@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in SevilleEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Straight to Godwin, huh? Not to mention it’s hardly a good comparison. Spain and Europe’s empire expansion philosophy as a whole would have led to the same result once the New World was discovered. If you disagree with that, then I don’t know how to talk to you about this topic. It’s obviously a totally different case than what Hitler did.

    Edit: Just to clarify, I’m not saying Columbus wasn’t a terrible human being, just that even if he was a saint, the outcome for indigenous peoples on this continent would have been the same. If you want to focus your hatred on one man as the source of all the suffering and genocide here, I’d probably go with Cortez over Columbus, but it would still be misplaced hatred