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  • I’d love to do a fecal swab test on your phone.

    Yep, you’d definitely find some. just like everywhere else.

    I wonder how many times you’ve put it in your mouth to hold it.

    What? WTF? Never. Not in the nearly 30 years I’ve owned a cell phone have I EVER put it in my mouth. Why would you do that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do that.

    I wonder how many times you’ve ate shit.

    Well, let’s not get into details. But it’s ironic that the same world with a profoundly unhealthy obsession with a germ-free environment is the same one that has normalized anal sex, ATM, and analingus.

    I tend to stay away from both extremes, wash my hands well, keep up with my vaccinations, and don’t stress over the fact that literally every single thing I touch is contaminated. The number of people who get sick (particularly with fecal coliform) from their phones is inconsequentially small.

    Yes, your phone is dirty; but if you clean it, you’ll be eliminating a tiny fraction of a percent of the bacteria and viruses you’re exposed to every single day of your life.

    You do you, but cleaning phones is almost entirely the product of fear mongering by the media. I didn’t think anyone actually bothered.








  • Swordgeek@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caBeer
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    Beer (alcohol) production is a huge rabbit hole. Most alcohol on the planet is produced by 4 or 5 companies.

    Moosehead, Original 16, and Big Rock are all (real!) Canadian beers sold in the US. Almost everything else you find will be owned by Molson-Coors, Heineken N.V.,or Anheuser-Bush InBev. That’s true for ALL beer!

    If you can’t find the beers I mentioned, consider supporting local microbreweries. They’re probably hurting pretty badly.




  • A low hum is almost certainly going to be 60Hz (or 50Hz in some parts of the world) line noise.

    As many have said, it’s often a ground loop - but since you have a single device plugging in to unpowered (presumably!) speakers, that’s not the problem. In your case, the stereo itself is producing the hum.

    So if you’re in North America, there’s one thing to check before returning. I’m guessing that a cheap Amazon amp has either a wall-wart or two-prong plug. If possible, try rotating the plug 180 degrees and see if that helps.

    However, there’s a good chance that the plug is polarized (i.e. one prong is larger than the other) in which case you won’t be able to flip it.



  • Swordgeek@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caBan Religion
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    Speaking as a staunch atheist, I’d say you don’t get to dictate other peoples’ beliefs or practices.

    Public schools don’t teach religion, except from a social and historical context. Our laws are not based on any particular religion.

    You do not have to follow a religion. You do not have to attend church. You do not have to “live with god” in any sense.

    The only thing you have to deal with is living in a pluralistic society.

    If everything you seem to want was put into practice, then if proof of god was revealed you would not have the “right” to opt out, by your own logic.

    Just let people live their lives.



  • Decades ago I considered opening a restaurant with my sister.

    We built a business plan. We studied menu design, food waste calculations, dollars per seat per hour, advertising costs, time to profit, and a million other things.

    Our business analyst said that 2/3 of new restaurants went under in their first year, m8ostly because NOBODY THINKS ABOUT THOSE THINGS!

    So every time I hear about how a billion restaurants will be going under, I remember that they are almost all started by people with three great recipes and no clue.