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0110010001100010, 1 hour ago

It’s 5P on the east coast, I haven’t been working for the past few hours, lol (though unrelated to this).

0110010001100010, 2 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

“The cost for the ransom is $500,000. Your total ransom amount will be calculated on the next page. Would you like to upgrade to a special souvenir, limited-edition ransom for an extra $40 million?” the note read.

The group also offered Ticketmaster the opportunity to upgrade their ransom to ‘Refundable’ for just an extra $12 million, which would allow the company to request a refund and then have it later denied.

Bwahahahaha. Get fucked Ticketmaster.

0110010001100010, 7 hours ago

lol omg it is!

0110010001100010, 18 hours ago

The signs were soon taken down by Emily’s mother out of safety concerns.

My wife pushes back but this right here is the reason I don’t have certain signs/flags on my property. If it was just me, fuck the fascists I would fly so much shit all the time. I just can’t in good conscious put my wife and kids lives in danger because of the rabid right-wing cultists out there. I understand that’s by design and exactly what they want but their safety is far superior to mine.

0110010001100010, 18 hours ago

I like the judge with the “WTF is this actually happening?” expression. I do have to give him some kudos, I’m not sure I could have held back from saying something snarky like “are you really this stupid?” That’s probably why I’m not a judge, lol.

0110010001100010, 19 hours ago

This is the whole thing that’s ridiculous to me. It’s not the fact that he had sex with her, it’s not even the fact that he paid her to shut the fuck up, it’s the fact that he covered it up and committed fraud. He could have just boasted about it publicly and it’s unlikely anyone would have cared.

0110010001100010, 19 hours ago

It is, but the crux of the felony charges stem from the fact that he “committed fraud with the intent to commit or conceal another crime.”

independent.co.uk/…/trump-trial-guilty-verdict-b2…

0110010001100010, 19 hours ago

I’ll look forward to my $0.50 check and exactly zero consequences for the higher-ups that I’m sure slashed IT/cybersecurity budgets.

0110010001100010, 18 hours ago

heh, you don’t know how true this is. I’ve worked in IT for 2 decades. IT is pretty much always seen as a cost center.

If everything is running smoothly - “what are we paying you for?!”

If everything is on fire - " What are we paying you for!?"

And now with companies getting the tiniest of slaps on the wrists for willful negligence it’s cheaper to cut IT funding, outsource it, whatever.

If the cost of the fine is less than the profits gained by doing “x” then that’s just the cost of doing business. Execs will continue to do this until there are real consequences for the company and them directly.

0110010001100010, 19 hours ago

I see your point, but I’m not sure I would argue gaming is an expensive hobby. You can pick up a second-hand console and a handful of games under $500. PC gaming is a different beast (obviously).

To me this number just makes logical sense. A 55 year old could easily have grown up playing video games and leaning into that towards and into retirement seems like a pretty normal next step.

I would fully expect and hope that when I retire in ~25 years I’ll join the ranks of older gamers.

0110010001100010, 19 hours ago (edited 19 hours ago)

$70 at release. Unless you need a play a game right now that price can easily drop by half or more if you wait a year for sales. There are almost no games I buy on day-one anymore.

This has the added bonus of them usually being patched to be less buggy with more quality of life improvements.

Also, $70 is still pretty cheap in the grand scheme of hobbies. Google tells me the average price of a movie ticket is $11. So rounded up that’s 1 game = 6.5 movies. If a movie is 2 hours long that’s 13 hours of enjoyment. I can easily sink 50+ hours into an AAA title (hell my wife just put 110 hours into FF VII Rebirth). That doesn’t count replayability.

0110010001100010, 20 hours ago

That is correct. Quote from the article:

Florida’s new teaching standards include the same language that scored national blowback last year for requiring middle school students to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

0110010001100010, 1 day ago

Anyone ever actually use this feature?

I didn’t even know it existed…

0110010001100010, 1 day ago

Given he’s a republican it’s equally likely he’s lying and was the one that instructed her to fly them or even did it himself.

0110010001100010, 1 day ago

Every heat pump is an air conditioner, not every air conditioner is a heat pump. They require a reversing valve to function both ways.

The furnace doesn’t need to change. I have a nat gas furnace with an electric heat pump. You can also do electric heat pump with an electric air handler. There are plenty of combos.

That said, every year I run the numbers and despite my heat pump being ~300% efficient my 95% efficient nat gas furnace is still cheaper to operate (based on the cost of each energy source). I’d LOVE to go solar and operate as close to 100% electric as possible but with my old growth trees and shitty house orientation I wouldn’t even break-even in the lifetime of the panels. :(

0110010001100010, 1 day ago

Just curious, so numbers are the deciding factor for heating, not environmental impact?

This is correct. And given the way the grids interconnect it would be hard if not impossible for me to be able to quantify environmental impact. I would assume even though there is still a lot of coal generation in-use it would still be more environmentally friendly for me to run the heat pump but I just don’t know.

For example if your were wealthy would you choose lowest impact option, or would numbers still dictate your choice?

If money was no object I would absolutely choose the lowest impact option. I would even do a solar install even though it would likely end up being a net-loss for my specific case.

0110010001100010, 2 days ago

For these events it’s people not keeping their trees trimmed and away from power lines.

Unless Texas is somehow different than Ohio (possible, I know) people aren’t responsible for this. The power company is the one that should be maintaining proper clearances, installing protective devices to isolate sections, etc.

Source: I worked for a power company for almost 2 decades and now am doing grid mod consulting.

0110010001100010, 2 days ago

I assume you don’t suffer from it. Even with the house closed up, the AC on, multiple air purifiers running 24/7, and regular antihistamines it’s still a fucking bitch during pollen season. Hell even adding a Sudafed while venturing outside doesn’t fully negate the effects.

You learn to deal with it, but it’s still sucky.

0110010001100010, 3 days ago

Seriously, I grew up with my mother telling me “don’t believe everything you see on the internet” and she is now addicted to Facebook and believes every single thing she sees as fact as long as it aligns with her believe (republican and Christian - but you already knew that).

0110010001100010, 3 days ago

Oh wait you can do that? Damn I feel like an idiot now… I have 100% accidentally downvoted without realizing it.

0110010001100010, 3 days ago

I saw a wave of red hats

That’s because you’re in a cult, Tim. I know exactly zero people that are hard-core Biden supporters. Those of us that voted for him picked the “not Trump” option. And, unfortunately, it looks like I’ll have to pick that option again.

0110010001100010, 3 days ago

Same. But that’s out of 200 total so 5.5%. As of 2022 a poll concluded that approximately 7.1% of adult Americans identified as LGBT (source: news.gallup.com/…/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.as…)

When looking at it that way it’s actually a pretty impressive accomplishment. Yes it’s not exactly in-line with the population but that would be damn near impossible to do given the various demographics across the entire US.

0110010001100010, 4 days ago

$$$

0110010001100010, 4 days ago

I’m sad that it’s gotten to the point where I assume people with a dozen+ American flags in their yard are right-wing nationalists…

0110010001100010, 4 days ago

Bold of you to assume she can count…