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  • lobut@lemmy.catoCyanide and Happiness@lemm.ee4 June 2024
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    26 days ago

    Most people know now, but for those that don’t:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn

    It says it’s attributed to Ernest Hemingway but that claim seems unlikely.

    The claim of Hemingway’s authorship originates in an unsubstantiated anecdote about a wager among him and other writers. Hemingway is said to have claimed he could write a short story only six words short. In a 1991 letter to Canadian humorist John Robert Colombo, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke recounts: “He’s [Hemingway] supposed to have won a $10 bet (no small sum in the '20s) from his fellow writers. They paid up without a word. … Here it is. I still can’t think of it without crying— FOR SALE. BABY SHOES. NEVER WORN.”[1]














  • lobut@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldPls pls pls....
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    2 months ago

    Saw a random YouTuber I thought I liked do a livestream. He usually does reactionary or random updates content.

    I go in and he’s ragging on Biden and I see people doing SuperChats with pro-Trump messages and just casual racism. Apparently, Biden’s PR person probably should have been white according to these guys. I ducked out, was quite sad.




  • YUP! I’m sorry, Apple earned more money than Spotify purely based on their airpod market. I refuse to believe otherwise.

    If they truly cared about repairability/maintainability they’d give me a headphone jack phone with a replaceable module in case it wears down.

    I freaking hate dongles, I always have one when I don’t need one and can never find one when I don’t. They randomly don’t work or I don’t know if this AliExpress one I bought is actually stealing my data. Just give a built-in jack, please!