Mildly Interesting

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MildlyInteresting Community Mission Statement (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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TL;DR: Let’s try to be less interesting!

Hello from your mod team (seems like just me, if you’re interested in being a mod ping me)!

I’ve noticed that things have been getting pretty interesting around here lately and we need to tone that back a little. The goal of this community is to share things that aren’t particularly interesting that you come across.

Yes, “interesting” is very subjective, but I think we need to go back to our roots and consider what brought us all here… we wanted to be mildly interested.

Also, this isn’t a place for politics. There are many other communities for that, let’s keep it there.

Here are a couple great examples of what I feel we should strive for:

https://lemmy.world/post/34363323

https://lemmy.world/post/34336673

That’s all for now, thanks for your support and understanding.

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Real-Time 3D Flight Tracker (flight-viz.com)

submitted 10 hours ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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How to break bad news with cake. (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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An animal I didn't see took the acorn that it buried in my 5th floor balcony flower pot in October (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by lurch@sh.itjust.works to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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This is a followup of: https://sh.itjust.works/post/48867881

Photo description: The acorn is missing now in the hole the animal made in the remnants of the Edelweiss that died last year in the flower pot with red houseleek and some grass coming out. The grass has flowers now and the housleek grew bigger, as the winter is over.

Another, darker shot of the hole in the flower pot

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Five child soldiers of WW2 (www.mentalfloss.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Bitten by snakes 200 times – on purpose: US man’s quest to help deliver new antivenom (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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How KFC, AKA Korean fried chicken, took over the world (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Shed exploration (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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This is an organic situation like, im just posting. Let's talk Disasters

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Local hospital wants to make it really sure nobody is taking the shortcut to the morgue in the basement... (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 days ago by Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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I found a patch of hundreds of lace lichen bigger than Bob Ross's afro (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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It was a rainy day and I took a small broken off piece home for some macro-photography. This lichen, also called coral lichen or Cladia retipora has a slow-growing, highly absorbent lattice-like structure. The colonies expand at only a few millimeters a year, and normally I find little buds about the size of a golf ball, so to find a granite outcrop with 100+ domes each about the size of a basketball hemisphere was pretty rare. It had just rained too, so they have absorbed a ton of water. In the close-up you can see how the structure interacts with the surface tension of water to hold water droplets within the lattice itself, not just absorbed into the body of the lichen.

This species are unique to my part of the world so its pretty exciting to find such a huge undisturbed colony.

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Visualizing the Length of the Fine Print, for 14 Popular Apps (and books) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/terms-of-service-visualizing-the-length-of-internet-agreements/

Terms of Service: The Length of Common Digital Contracts Do you take the time to read the terms of service before you agree to when downloading the latest app or software?

Of course you do…

The world is awash with apps and internet services that ask potential users to agree to a service agreement. Most people click on ‘agree’ and move on, knowing that reading the service agreements could put them to sleep and defer their favorite internet fix.

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Three planes over my garden this afternoon (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by PaulieDied@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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