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Blizzard locks you out of account if you don't agree to new terms; no ownership, forced arbitration
If I don't own the product after purchase, the button shouldn't say "buy/purchase" it should say "rent".
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Blizzard locks you out of account if you don't agree to new terms; no ownership, forced arbitration
If I don't own the product after purchase, the button shouldn't say "buy/purchase" it should say "rent".
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Helldivers 2 went from one of the most beloved Steam games to one of the most hated pretty quickly
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More like daily now unfortunately.
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in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on
The US doesn't give you a nice little letter, but you can go to https://usafacts.org/visualizations/the-big-picture/ to see something similar.
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New open source GPU is free to all — FuryGPU runs Quake at 60fps, supports modern Windows software
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Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.
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I think the main issue with initial Led bulbs was their color was wrong. Incandescent bulbs emit light at 2700K, a nice warm white. Early LEDs emitted light at more like 5000K or there abouts, which is a really white light. Same with CFLs. Elderly people didn't like that at all. Honestly it wasn't just them, lots of people hated them for their too white of light.
Today you can get LEDs that are 2700K and/or are adjustable to what ever color you want.
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Don't belive big telecom
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Sure, but the glass core is only 8–9 µm wide, it's a minuscule amount of glass compared to copper cables so it's not really worth it to melt it down.
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Palworld Dev Says Massive Profits Are ‘Too Big for a Studio With Our Size to Handle’
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Still doesn't matter if something is "heavily taxed" because regardless of how much tax, you'll never own more in taxes than you made. So if you got a 10,000 bonus and it was heavily taxed at 60 percent, you don't somehow have to pay like 15,000 in taxes or something on it. You pay 60% of 10,000, leaving you with 4,000 left over. This is typically done before you even see the money, if not ensure that you keep funds aside to pay for the tax.
Also looking briefly at Japan, it appears that their income tax is a bracket based system similar to the US. So again, even if you go up a bracket, you'll never own more taxes than you make. Honestly, people need to stop thinking in brackets when it comes to taxes, all you need to worry about is your "effective tax rate." That's it, you don't need to worry that your income pushed you into a 29% tax bracket or whatever. All that matters is your effective tax rate is 24.2% or whatever. You'll never own more money because you "moved" into a higher bracket, because that's not how that works.
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Trump Is Charged in Classified Documents Inquiry
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But no really, I get it may seem crazy to those on the right to indict a former president, but I would say it's a good thing given one of the founding tenets of the United States was that the leaders were specifically NOT to supposed to be Gods.
I mean, could you imagine how fast someone other than Trump, like some pleb intern or something, would be thrown in federal prison if they took all of those documents?
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Bro... It's password mangers all the way down...
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ich🛥iel
I don't know German, but I think I get this one... Haha.
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TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones.
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Could you imagine traveling without time zones? It would be actual hell.
Normally you wake up at 1300, but then you travel to japan, you don't know when they wake up. So maybe you ask the hotel staff or maybe people will start putting signs up "Japan wakes up at 0300". I mean it's cool you don't need to change your watch or wait for your phone time to update when the plane lands, but how do you know when lunch is? When do you go to sleep? If a meeting you're having is at 1000, is that way late in the day meeting? Or is that a super early meeting and maybe you should get to bed early the night before. You would have no clue unless you do it on the regular.
Now, you could just download an app that tells you what time it is where you're at currently relative to what you normally use (so in Japan while they think it's 0300, your phone says 1300) so this would make these way easier for you since all the times are just normal. Every time you move around you just tell the app where you're at and it adjusts the time is displays annnndddd......oh wait I just re-invited time zones.
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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak?
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Maybe I'm pessimistic but I have little to no faith that the blackout, especially if only 2 days for some subreddits, will have any impact at all. Most likely what will happen is everyone will just scroll like normal, get bored with no content and do something else. They'll come back a few days later and everything will be normal. Most people probably really don't even care, unfortunately. :/
For reddit itself, I think they're going with game plan of throwing this shit out there and then going radio silent knowing that nothing is really going to happen. For them, no PR is probably the best move really.
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Chrono Trigger Director Asks What Fans Would Want In A Remake
Preferably don't. But if you had to, perhaps a 3d version using unreal but with the style of the box art.
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Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC
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Hmm, probably not. I think it just has the single 120mm fan that probably doesn't need to spin up that fast under normal load. We'll have to wait for reviews.
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The FAA is tightening oversight of Boeing and will audit production of the 737 Max 9
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FAA and Boeing are basically the same entity at this point.
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Treasury, IRS announce 'major milestone' of $1 billion in past-due taxes collected from millionaires
Let me guess, Congressional Republicans are going to hate this....
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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak?
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The good news is that those of us who move on won’t have to worry about it anymore.
I'll drink to that!
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Tattoo Idea
"I'll show you a gateway to heaven!" punch
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Is it just me?
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It would be awesome if Boost could be re-written to work with Lemmy, but I have doubts that would happen. This is probably a good time for new people to have their work shine though, I'm excited to see new apps made for Lemmy.
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BitLocker encryption broken in less than 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM
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The private key would have to stored in clear text somewhere. Potentially if you had non volatile space on cpu that to store the private key, that might work. But if you’re going to do that, might as well just use an ftpm.