We had a mini CD adaptor in the house when I was a child (basically a plastic ring with clips in the cutout so it'd hold a mini CD and make it the same size as a regular CD), but everything that took CDs that we owned had an indentation for a mini CD already or had you put the disk on the spindle yourself. The two exceptions were later on, a Nintendo Wii, which would have worked as it played Gamecube disks and they were the same size, and a slot-loading car stereo, but we didn't have any audio mini CDs, so I've no idea if that would have worked better or worse with the adapter.

Do you not know how dangerous guinea pigs are, they can turn on you like that. In the wild they can turn it into guinea boars and grow tusks 10 cm long.

They certainly are used for meat, not so much in the USA though.

https://travelfoodatlas.com/peruvian-guinea-pig-cuy-recipe

I’m sure that sign refers to another type of meat or is a spelling mistake… like come and meet the guinea pigs! They’re lovely little creatures.

First they came for the atomic Boy Scout and I did not speak out because the little brat had stolen the Americium out of my fire alarm.

Then they came for the CRISPR looksmaxxing teen and I did not speak out because I was intimidated by his massive jawline anyway.

Honestly? A perfectly reasonable response to the creeping rise of surveyelance capitaleyesem. The only downside is if everybody wants one.

He’s probably a Lemmy user, too.

Another 3d printer used to do crimes, sigh. A dangerous technology that has no place in our small town. Won’t somebody in this administration think of the children???

At least this brave soul was equipped to stop a bad guy in soda can armour.

I wonder if they’ll do moon crimes?

The child is probably building a bomb to freeze the entire planet. Sadly normal childhood behaviour these days because of smart phones, tick tock, neopets, tamagotchas, net flicks, unleaded petrol, and not being soundly and repeatedly thrashed by their parents from ages 0 to 35. And the lack of youth facilities. I might have the write to my local council about this before a child freezes the entire planet in my small town as well. I wonder what this child’s Target for their bomb was?

Councillor, I live at 124 Creative Fiction Boulevard. What are you doing about the rabid monkey situation??? Specifically, we don’t have any. I pay my taxes, councillor, and am frustrated at the councils lack of due haste in this matter.

Downvote for fake bs wasting everyone's time

Small suggestion: you can add a small section/spoiler with a disclaimer at the bottom of each post introducing the community and explaining how this isn’t real news, since at that point, the reader would have had the full experience.

This will both promote the community to those of us visiting organically and also immediately validate the premise on the spot if the reader fell for it.

our concern is customer safety and overall experience

The first part is absolute bullshit, and the latter part is only true in the sense that Walmart wants the customer to have a horrible overall experience.

Source: Worked for Walmart once.

I'm not trying to start an argument with a stranger over the internet about what is acceptable and what isn't, but I draw the line here.

I'm not entirely sure where you got this picture, or how, but what I do behind closed doors is none of your business. I am going to have to take something up with the folks over at www.animalsintheflesh.com because clearly my data has been compromised. How else would somebody I've never interacted with before get a picture of the custom order silicone sleeve that I purchased? You internet freaks need to crawl back into your caves and leave us self respecting people to our own personal lives.

"read the sidebar" is not a great solution when I'm using Connect for Lemmy from my phone, and there is no sidebar.

I suppose you're right about people knowing The Onion is fake because of its popularity. But saying people are losing their sense of edgy satire might be a sign of how crazy things are these days. Like with what is happening in the world right now, a headline and article like this is absolutely plausable. Ice agent kills Good. Nintendo sues Bowser for piracy... Half of the real shit happening out there headlines like an onion article. There's a whole "NotTheOnion" community based on this.

Like I said, I like the creativity. I read the whole article and enjoyed it. But I hate the idea that I need to fact check every little thing that I read, especially in a community that prides themselves on separating from mainstream news media garbage.

Yeah this needs to be flagged as satire or something. Like... I love TheOnion, but I also know TheOnion is fake. I appreciate the creativity, but you can't just post it as is. If I didn't stop and visit the comments section, it would have gotten me.

I love your idea for a community and I love your writing. Let the idiots pout because they want to be able to read and trust without evaluating sources.

Hey idiots! Always take time to evaluate if what you are reading is real and check sources! The sidebar for the community point blank says that it's all fake and you guys are still mad because you fell for it???

I fell for it at first! I think that's hilarious. It made me double back and read the comments and check out the community sidebar.

Fake. The discs appear to have the same proportions as regular CDs, so the spindle hole is too small.

(In case it is unclear to anyone, this post is a tongue-in-cheek response to my criticism of the OP's practices in creating a community devoted solely to creative writing exercises to produce fake news. Those news articles are, I contend, harmful to the Lemmy community, as they are too-easily misconstrued as real by any user who was directed to them by their feed. Additionally, I criticised the glib, flippant nature of their responses to criticism.

As such, I wholeheartedly stand by "Robert Wolfram's" take. Except the leash thing. For some reason they made that up, but I do stand by the comments I've made here, even if they are similarly tongue-in-cheek responses.)

Oh shit, you're right. God, that's fucking annoying, no wonder they've been flooding my feed

his guinea pig breeding business, which he operates on a limited scale.

Guinea pigs are quite limited in scale, yes. It’s a good job he’s not trying to breed the somewhat larger Piggus Invictus.