They used a napkin, not an actual towel. The French word for napkin is serviette, which is also the word for towel.
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Well ortolan was typically eaten with a napkin covering one’s head, to hide one’s shame from God for eating it.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•why don't chips come in cereal bags?
10·21 days agoWhat heat does cereal go through that chips don’t? And how would it contribute to condensation in one case but not the other?
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Games@lemmy.world•The Blood of Dawnwalker lets you complete areas in any order, kill any NPCs you like, and still complete the game after failing every quest: 'We're giving even more freedom to players'English
42·21 days agoThey didn’t say it’s meaningless, just suggested that failing every quest leads to some type of conclusion to the game’s plot. It might not be a good conclusion, but the story ends.
To me, this just sounds like failing a quest doesn’t mean the game is over or that you need to reload a previous checkpoint or save to keep playing.
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News@lemmy.world•Democrats Introduce Bill To More Than Triple The Minimum Wage
12·22 days agoAccording to the far right, it’s a far left issue. According to everyone else, it’s a center to center-right issue. There is no far-left in the US.
Nobody’s selling debt to collectors after a couple months, especially not large debts like to a contractor. They want the thousands owed, not pennies on the dollar from a collection agency.
Your phone company will send your debt to collections almost immediately because it’s not worth the hassle of fighting to collect $200 from you when they can get $50 from a collection agency instead.
Ironic, isn’t it?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Whats a good etiquette to show you are doing a U turn in a left turn, so the cars behind you know?
11·1 month agoI think that’s fair, but lots of people can’t navigate without Google Maps, and it’s notorious for directing people to u-turn.
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United States | News & Politics@midwest.social•New York City’s super-rich complain about Mamdani’s tax on second homes
11·1 month agoCut down on the avocado toast
That’s a long ride
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World News@lemmy.world•US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secretEnglish
3·1 month agoLobbying on its own is not the issue. Nurses’ lobbies and teachers’ lobbies, for example, work for a good cause.
The issue is that lobbying is done in private, and citizens don’t hear about anything until laws are proposed, by which time they already have momentum and are very hard to fight. And once laws are enacted, it’s even harder to reverse them.
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World News@lemmy.world•US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secretEnglish
3·1 month agoLobbyists are people working on behalf of companies whose job is to meet up with politicians to discuss their issues. Typically that involves some back and forth that may or may not be considered bribery.
You want a law to protect your business? You go talk to lawmakers behind closed doors about how some laws are needed to better protect children and also data centers, and subtly let them know that maybe your company might have a job for them in the future.
Those lawmakers then go out and propose these laws and they sell the idea to other lawmakers who approve them for the children and datacenters.
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•can somebody help me figure out what the hell is going on with my petg prints?English
6·1 month agoOP says they have a tool changer, so filament mixing isn’t an issue.
A bear that’s not hungry isn’t going to eat you if you play dead, but could attack you if it feels threatened.
On the other hand, if the bear is hungry, it won’t hesitate to munch on you.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•RFK Jr cut off dead raccoon's penis on family vacation 'to study later'English
29·1 month agoOr the dead bear he casually dropped in Central Park
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Political Memes@lemmy.world•Another day, another horror beyond our comprehension
6·1 month agoThese sellers post the same items on every marketplace and use their Amazon marketplace to fulfill it. It’s easier to manage inventory and deal with shipping. So you never really know who’s just shipping from Amazon.
The only way to avoid it is to buy from businesses directly, and not from the marketplaces they run.
Or mascarpone cheese cake
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Super slow old Samsung laptop, needs Light weight distro, for SNES games mebbe?
4·2 months agoA 386 is probably underpowered, but a 486 could do it for sure. I used to play all the SNES games at 33mHz back in the day.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Super slow old Samsung laptop, needs Light weight distro, for SNES games mebbe?
8·2 months agoSNES emulators ran just fine on <100 mHz CPUs three decades ago. You’d have to try pretty hard to find a PC that couldn’t do that nowadays.












At least on the Steam Deck, the touchpads are pretty effective as a mouse replacement in games. You wouldn’t play soulslikes with touchpads instead of joysticks, but RTS or 4X games gain a lot from having them.
They also make typing way better compared to selecting letters with a joystick.