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- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 4 days ago:
I’d love to see legislation that if a game requires servers to play any portion of it, and those servers get taken offline, the source code must be released. Like, they’re already demonstrating that the game doesn’t hold enough value for them by shutting down the servers, so let the community take over.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
What’s funnier than 24?
25
- Comment on A billion dollars and a Ferrari doesn't matter if all you have are bumpy torn up roads with potholes to drive on 2 weeks ago:
Down the block is “send someone” territory. Hell, with that money just about anything that you don’t have to, or want to, attend to personally is “send someone” territory
- Comment on Oh yes daddy credit please 2 weeks ago:
What’s with the wedding ring?
Helps strangers think I’m trustworthy.
Sean Bean, The Hitcher, 2007 (he’s a serial killer)
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
Work for a Fortune 500, ~$100b company. Still understaffed. The greed never ceases.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 5 weeks ago:
Ah, I can see how shelving limits could cause problems. Most libraries I’ve gone to only fill each shelf about 3/4 full to account for that. Thanks for the insights!
- Comment on Libraries are cool 5 weeks ago:
This is essentially the same as in the US. But one question
When you bring it back, you scan the book again and leave it on the shelf by the returns scanner. Because the book was removed from the inventory, it wont have a place on a shelf yet.
Do you not have a classification system that determines where a book should reside? US libraries (and others, I presume) use the Dewey Decimal System, which groups books into categories and such, and then finally alphabetically by author. So every book would have a general place to go, and then the specific place would be determined by the author’s last name.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 month ago:
Anytime this topic comes up, I reshare this blog post. With things being “that bad” over a decade ago, I can’t imagine how much worse it’s gotten.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 2 months ago:
Vague recollection of Rodney King & the LA Riots. After that would be the Northridge earthquake, because it woke me up.
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 2 months ago:
Yeah, I typically use 1996 (unlikely to remember 9/11) to 2015 (in school for the pandemic).
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 2 months ago:
Eh, I think that his 2nd term kind of helps validate that view of his 1st. Because he was a political newbie, he allowed those around him to help make staffing decisions, so you got mostly run of the mill Republicans. Terrible, certainly, but not sycophants. That’s all out the window this time. Key positions are filled based solely on either fealty to the mad king or ✨campaign contributions✨ (bribes). Anyone who dares speak out gets the axe, and at least for now it’s a metaphorical one.
- Comment on (Controversial) Political parties are like bundled sales. 3 months ago:
“Broad listening” sounds like a system ripe to be exploited by very loud but minority voices…
- Comment on Trump signs proclamation imposing $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications 3 months ago:
Of course the companies will still prefer to take the H1B workers - they’re much easier to exploit thanks to the visa requirements.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 months ago:
Great scene:
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 3 months ago:
“Once they’re old enough,
I’d give themI’ll teach them what I did to disable things so they learn how to gain internet access, and eventually a phone so they can keep in touch with their friends.”FTFY
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 4 months ago:
I’d be worried about vulnerabilities.
- Comment on Big things happening in the 3D print community 4 months ago:
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 5 months ago:
!fakebandnames@lemmy.world
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 5 months ago:
The last line hits the nail on the head: the capitalists expect that the workers would try to fuck them over because it’s exactly what they’d do to the workers if given the chance.
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 5 months ago:
Which is even more bullshit than the obvious because there are liability protection laws in place to prevent that kind of litigation.
- Comment on Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein? 5 months ago:
To provide additional context about “artist interpretation”, this is from the WSJ archive link:
The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly “Donald” below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 5 months ago:
You know, I’m surprised by how much green is on here. I would have expected much more red and purple.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 5 months ago:
Mullvad is the best $5 and change I spend each month.
- Comment on Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack? 6 months ago:
Unless there’s another beeper attack I missed, the one last September was directed at Hezbollah, across Lebanon and Syria.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 6 months ago:
Not quite, but relatively close.
- Comment on The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs 6 months ago:
This accounts for some portion of it, but the other part is the rise in interest rates. With borrowing money no longer being nearly free, companies tightened their budgets.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Completely agree. Falls into the “some people have more money than sense” category.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Eh, it definitely seems excessive, but it’s likely just a matter of scale. If they’re really that well off, then spending 2 grand on a phone would be similar to buying concert tickets, or bringing a friend along to a theme park, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Good rule.
- Comment on Welcome to Lemmy.zip 6 months ago:
Another lemm.eefuge here. Thanks for the warm welcome.
