Mildly Interesting

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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

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

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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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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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Don’t miss your chance this time around to… well… push the button!

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Learn about the feelings that different colours evoke.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45111116

Author: Open Reel Ensemble

CC BY-SA 4.0

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45077014

Author: Antonio J. Osuna-Mascaró, Alice M. I. Auersperg

Source

CC BY-SA 4.0

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Not sure how long it had been there! It had no smell 🤔

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