[-] boraca@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

From a Microsoft employee: with all the conspiracy theories people have about Microsoft secretly planning to control th world, the most surprising thing is them assuming MS are this organized to attemp it.

Edit: I'm not the employee, it was Scott Hanselman from MS who said it.

[-] boraca@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That's really ironic, since the word barista was popularized by fascists in 1938 and throughout WW2, because Mussolini wanted to replace the word barman which wasn't Italian enough.

[-] boraca@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I meant the purposeful spread by agriculture, not the natural way.

[-] boraca@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Peppers are that way because birds don't taste the hotness and they spread seeds further than other animals. I guess humans spread seeds even further as you can get them shipped from another continent really easily. Although birds also fly those distances, they poop more frequently.

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

We also have fistaszki in Polish, but it doesn't mean pistachios - it's what we call peanuts sometimes.

[-] boraca@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Could be too muche rinse aid being dosed by your dishwasher. White spots - not enough rinse aid, rainbows - too much rinse aid.

[-] boraca@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

And you shouldn't buy elderly people dumb phones, if they can read, they can use a smartphone and just getting them a feature phone, so they won't break anything will just make them more digitally excluded.

[-] boraca@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Also lost a ton of weight, went from 43 to 41 (EU size). (About 10 to 8 US).

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

Ask in /c/buyitforlife /s

boraca

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