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POLL - Will you stay on lemmy?
I can't say I will stay on Lemmy. But I won't return to Reddit.
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POLL - Will you stay on lemmy?
I can't say I will stay on Lemmy. But I won't return to Reddit.
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Man reviews Whiskey while his wife is packing her stuff and leaving him in the background
That video has a rich, complex undertone of depression. Mmmm that depression is smooth. You know, I find this video to be a real go-to for when I want that bouquet of isolation and denial. I just keep coming back to watch it again and again.
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Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up.
Maybe they need to tell theaters to calm the fuck down with their pricing and ads. Do one or the other. If I'm paying $15+/ticket to see a show, then don't lie to me about the showtime and include half an hour of commercials.
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Should Lemmy have Karma?
Personally, I like that the individual posts and comments have up/down votes. That allows the community to self moderate to some extent. That lightens the load on moderators to police bad content, while simultaneously promoting good content. It also means that the community rules do not need to be so heavy handed as to suppress dialog - take /r/conservative as an example.
But I do not believe that those votes should carry over to any kind of metric that affects users or communities in other ways. Perhaps a hidden metric available for moderators is useful for identifying problematic posters. But any kind of publicly visible metrics turn into some obnoxious internet point scoring game that invites shitposters and spammers and bot farmers.
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5 nurses who work on the same floor at Massachusetts hospital have brain tumors
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It's a hospital. They have sources of ionizing radiation in many locations for medical purposes.
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Why did Mojang make a whole new edition instead of just rewriting Minecraft in C++?
I suspect the real answer is because Microsoft wanted to monetize Minecraft in a way which was not possible with legacy sales. I bought minecraft back in alpha with the promise that I would get any and all updates and future editions for free with purchase. Microsoft legal saw that agreement and knew it was incompatible with their business goals. They knew that incorporating a microtransaction store would basically require unlimited currency for players like me who had purchased it long ago. So the "simple" answer was to re-implement the entire game without the legal encumbrance of the legacy purchases.
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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor
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The user interface to display what is granted by using the app is... so sanitary. It disguises the ultimate goal of these insidious apps in such a clean and sterile list that it really seems innocuous. I wish that A$pple would start to display an intensity of how much data is collected by these apps. Green for good, red for bad, gradient for in-between. Or something... I suppose that accessibility for colorblind is important oto. Then it would be a bit more obvious to users when an app is really out to get them vs trying to improve performance.
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It literally means freedom from consequences by the government. Not from society. Sure he could've been a social pariah and people would've been within their rights to ostracize him. But it is unconstitutional for our government to threaten him with legal action as a result of his politics.
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Compare american vs japanese craftsmen-cars
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You're mostly right. The main problem is that manufacturers chose to ignore the spirit of the US CAFE fuel economy regulations, and instead build everything bigger and bigger. That's why quarter-ton trucks grew to the size of the F150 in the year 2000 when they were quite a bit smaller before.
It's not the fault of the regulation. It is the fault of the manufacturers and to an equal extent, of consumers for preferring gigantic vehicles.
And let's not let GM off the hook for the 1990s Suburban, which began to, quite literally, dominate the roads. Those fuckers were the original huge grocery getter, and they had truly awful turning radius and blind spots. You just couldn't drive them safely or courteously if you tried. So of course everyone wanted more powerful and bigger vehicles to compete.
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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?
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"That busted wheel bearing isn't so bad." -Rail inspector in Ohio
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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?
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JFC dude take a picture with your phone, erase the metadata, and submit it to your government. That's so unbelievably wrong.
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That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Hey copilot - what was that website I found with the sweet ass interracial stepsibling fuckin? You know the one where that sis's ass popped just the right way? Not the one with the first-cousins. I gotta draw the line somewhere. I mean, that was ALSO great porn but I have pre-postnut clarity here and that kind of shit just aint what I need right now.
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POLL - Will you stay on lemmy?
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Reddit has been going downhill for a decade. The problem was that there were no viable alternatives. Now that /u/Spez has pushed the issue, he forced enough people into Lemmy that it is suddenly a viable alternative. I call that a win!
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6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
I just gave up on windows gaming. If the game cant be played on my steamdeck, I just find something else. Otherwise its macos and linux for anything non-professional that requires windows. And even then I fucking hate it. Oh look at that... all my documents say "Auto-recover (version 1)" because it forcibly rebooted on me.
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Florida man caught on camera pinning down 11-year-old girl he thought was egging his home
He should've stood his ground and shot her. /s
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Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up.
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My local cinema now plays older movies too. I got shocked by walking in a few minutes late to the opening of LOTR: The Fellowship of The Ring because it started at the listed showtime! So I'll support them by going to their older movie showings now. It's nice to not get ramrodded with ads and movie spoilers.
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Tesla Cybertruck is in crisis: new discounts and throttling down production
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And they float!
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Freedom of speech laws...
"I'm 1.4 inches and this is deep" -OP
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Biden says damage Trump has done to Social Security is 'breathtaking'
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Don't forget the hundreds of bomb threats against voting locations in blue districts. Or the hundreds of thousands of voters that were de-registered without their knowledge. Or the fact that getting an ID can take up to 6 months, even for a renewal. Or that voting locations were redistributed out of blue cities and into red suburbs.
I'm not sure I buy that teh election was stolen with rigged tabulation. But millions of votes were suppressed, especially in swing states.
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First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
Wait... is this the USA's first Gen III+ reactor?