It seems obvious to me too, but the internet is full of people missing simple information like this who don’t realize it until someone points it out to them.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?English
3·2 years agoYes, but only in a legal environment where showing that this CEO made decisions for their own profit that would reasonably predictably lead to some number of deaths (10, 100, 1000?) would validate a defense of defense of others.
It will reduce their durability, but… Turn them inside out and tumble them with something small and hard.
As in, you wear a different pair each day and wash them all once a week? Or you have one pair that you wear for seven days between washings?
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel.English
51·2 years agoThe Learning Channel changed their name to TLC when they stopped carrying educational content.
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Games@lemmy.world•Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of beforeEnglish
1·2 years agoRequisite downvote, but also mention that the devs of Tin Can are about to start alpha testing of their multiplayer sequel named Space Chaos.
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Games@lemmy.world•Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of beforeEnglish
1·2 years agoIt’s a Block Pushing Game is a sokobanlike from the creator of Baba Is You. It’s relatively short but has multiple novel mechanics. I enjoyed it enough to create a curses client for it.
PS: If you like Baba Is You, Hempuli publishes multiple new games per month, mostly clever sokoban-likes, at https://hempuli.itch.io/
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Battle for Wesnoth OpenTTD Doom
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integrationEnglish
1·3 years agoAnd, since we don’t own or use any Haier appliances, we aren’t subject to their TOS.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.English
6·3 years agoThey can’t afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.
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politics @lemmy.world•Judge in New York fraud trial threatens to jail Trump for violating gag orderEnglish
12·3 years agoThere are many other countries, including some with some shared legal history with the US, where civil fines are proportional to the income and/or wealth of the person. Rich people get four or five or six figure traffic tickets, etc.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Americans, how would you feel about making student loans completely illegal?English
185·3 years agoNo. I predict we would revert to the status quo of 20-100 years ago, with very affordable state-run schools providing excellent education, and high price private schools catering to the rich. Cheap schools got expensive because we allowed the for-profit student loan industry to run wild.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home?English
152·3 years agoMost people who “self host” things are still doing it on a server somewhere outside their home. Could be a VPS, a cloud instance, colocated bare metal, …
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?English
2·3 years agoIf something is not for sale, I have no qualms about pirating it. Disney vault, abandonware, obsolete versions, etc.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Probably a stupid question, but will we ever have something like a microwave to make things cold? Is there a reason this can't exist?English
3·3 years agoThere are cheap household gadgets that rotate a can or bottle in a [salt] ice water bath to chill it rapidly. https://www.amazon.com/Chill-Matic-Automatic-Beverage-Chiller/dp/B0148K37K2?th=1 etc
Also more expensive ones with better temperature control for wine bottles.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What's your preference for a text chat server (e.g. IRC/XMPP/Matrix/Zulip/etc.)?English
3·3 years agoI used Mattermost for a community project, but had trouble getting people to install/use/learn yet another client.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Isn't it ironic, don't you think?English
2·3 years agoIt’s a legal complaint. Someone is going to get fined, likely thousands of dollars, if the complaint is substantiated. I strongly suspect a human will be reading the whole thing more than once, before proceeding to gather much more info.
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News@lemmy.world•Texas drunk drivers will now have to pay child support if they kill a parent, guardianEnglish
1·3 years agoWhy would that be the spirit of the law? If the parent suddenly started making more money, the kid would (probably) have more spent on raising them. Why would that same outcome not apply to the parent’s responsibility being suddenly replaced by person who makes more money?
Sure, and taking photos makes it a camera, and doing arithmetic makes it a calculator. But we don’t call it those things.


Maybe this is what it will finally take to get some of the bigger game communities off Nexus. It’s a decade overdue.