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- Comment on Leaving Earth 1 week ago:
Footage is from the MESSENGER spacecraft as it did an Earth flyby in 2005 on its way to Mercury.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
We talking, like, O Brother, Where Art Thou? being based on Homer’s Odyssey?
- Comment on How many crts yall have? 2 weeks ago:
None anymore. I’d like to get my hands on a CRT HDTV if I can find one. I saw a listing on Nextdoor a decade ago but it was old and the guy had wound up trashing it before I messaged him.
- Comment on Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June 2 weeks ago:
It’s probably been even longer since I used mine, which is a shame because it is fun; I just don’t have a good space for the more active games right now, or even Walkabout Mini Golf
- Comment on Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I guess they weren’t even working on those games anymore:
However, while Red Storm is best known for its association with Tom Clancy games, for the past decade, it’s been focused on VR games, such as Werewolves Within (2016), Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017), and Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR (2023).
Modern stewardship of Tom Clancy titles has been handled by Massive Entertainment (The Division), Ubisoft Montreal (Rainbow Six Siege), Ubisoft Paris (Ghost Recon Wildlands), and Ubisoft Toronto (Splinter Cell remake).
- Comment on Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I think a friend from middle school worked there; not sure if he’s still there, though
- Comment on Do most comedians invite heclers to their shows? And they go over the bit so it seems sporadic? And get them more views or clicks or whatever? Kind of like a magician does with a plant? 2 weeks ago:
Adding to this, if someone gets a reputation for sparring with hecklers, more hecklers are likely to show up and take their shot. Releasing videos of yourself taking on hecklers is probably going to encourage them.
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 2 weeks ago:
It seems significantly better now. A lot of topics, I just go straight to Wikipedia now.
- Comment on Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June 2 weeks ago:
Reading the article, Horizon Worlds is not shutting down, just the VR access. Apparently they’ve moved it to apps you access on iPhone and Android. I see the appeal even less; that seems like Second Life mobile.
- Comment on The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it took almost 13 years and the product itself was discontinued six years ago
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 2 weeks ago:
Google started bringing fiber to neighboring towns and all of a sudden the cable company started offering speeds 3x faster for less money and AT&T built out a fiber network including in our town, which didn’t get Google for another ten years, and then only a franchise that was paying for the Google name.
- Comment on Every single time. 3 weeks ago:
I remember seeing a stunningly beautiful woman at the grocery store, and I looked in my cart and saw lactose-free milk, lactose-free probiotic yogurt, and ultra-soothing toilet paper.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 4 weeks ago:
I only recently learned that in the US not every state has annual inspection requirements. In fact it’s a minority of states, only 14, and it looks like the inspection requirements have been reduced in recent years, such as some states exempting new vehicles for a certain amount of time or only requiring inspections for commercial vehicles. Both states I’ve lived in had annual inspections and I just assumed it was a thing everywhere.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 4 weeks ago:
I remember similar guidelines being taught when I was in driver’s ed in the US, but I don’t know if there were strict laws around it. If there are laws I would guess it is a state-by-state thing.
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 4 weeks ago:
Where else would it go? The veins are blue!
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 4 weeks ago:
This was something I realized when we drive to my wife’s parents. It’s 2,000 km each way from our house in the US to where they are in rural Quebec, Canada and we usually drive it twice a year. The charging times sound long, but even with our petrol car most of our stops end up being between 15 to 30 minutes anyways between fueling the car, taking the dog to grass, taking turns going to the toilet so the dog isn’t alone in the car, getting food and giving me a chance to eat so I’m not trying to drive and eat at the same time.
I think the real challenge of electric range anxiety is that it still takes planning, at least in some parts of the US. There are areas on our route where it might be 100 kilometers to the next fast charger, and there’s no guarantee that all of them will be working or compatible with a car’s fastest charging speeds. We don’t really have to think about where we’ll get gasoline; there’s pretty much always a station, often several, within the next few miles. Usually if we’re waiting to stop for fuel it’s because we’re looking for the best price, looking for a place that might have decent toilets, and/or might have an appealing food option along with the gasoline. That’s all manageable in electric but might need some advanced planning, and many American drivers aren’t used to doing that kind of route planning in advance anymore.
How many cars in Europe can drive 1,000 km without stopping anyways? The only ones I can think of offhand are large American pickup trucks intended for towing large trailers long distances. I wouldn’t expect to see them in Europe.
- Comment on A product of his environment 4 weeks ago:
You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I feel like it would need to be some relatively early show that has maintained a degree of popularity. Maybe an early cartoon that was seen as appropriate kid’s programming, like The Flintstones or The Jetsons.
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 5 weeks ago:
So this is the strategy of putting 4 houses on your properties in Monopoly and never upgrading them to hotels because that way there are no houses for your opponents to buy
- Comment on 0mg 5 weeks ago:
!youdontsurf@lemmy.world
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Iceberg or wave for me, thanks
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 5 weeks ago:
So in Germany one often has to move out of Harms’s way?
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 5 weeks ago:
!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 5 weeks ago:
I know it varies from state to state, but where I’ve lived it’s an “elective” in that you got to pick which language to take of the available options (some schools might only have two choices, others four or even five), but taking a certain number of foreign language credits was required for graduation. If you wanted to go beyond the minimum and had room in your schedule you could.
- Comment on 😋🔫 1 month ago:
I think I only ever needed a white shirt and tie. My younger brother was in band but when they performed with the string orchestra to give more of a symphony I think they actually did have some sort of suit, maybe tuxedo-like. That was all arranged by the school at the very start, of course.
- Comment on misleading cover 1 month ago:
This seems to be garnering a lot of attention. Maybe he knew exactly what he was doing.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 1 month ago:
A swallow, carrying a coconut?
- Comment on 😋🔫 1 month ago:
Orchestra
- Comment on Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement 1 month ago:
IIRC when it was implemented in the first place, it seemed like lemmy.world had actually been contacted by some stakeholder with a DMCA-style request, even though the community was not actually originating on lemmy.world. Explaining how federation worked to lawyers didn’t matter much and with .world at the time becoming one of the larger and more visible instances that seemed like the best way to avoid the headaches. Initially they defederated with dbzer0 entirely before developing a way to block just the community.
- Comment on Now hit mute and you are all set 1 month ago:
