Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....
I pushed carts at a big box store for a year in my 20’s. Fucking sucked. In an 8 hour shift you could easily walk 20,000+ steps and walk over 10 miles (GPS verified). And you do it no matter the weather. Pouring rain? Out there. Sweltering heat? Out there. -5F and 6" of snow? Out there.
This work can be brutal, even for a young healthy person, let alone a 90 year old vet.
The worst part? I was paid the exact same wage as the cashiers who stayed inside the entire time. About $10/hr on average in 2017.
There was a video he did on a startup taxi service using self driving cars. Basically the entire thing was an advertisement for that company.
Then another Youtuber, Tom Nicholas, released a video about that a few months later and how it’s an issue. I’ll have to watch it again as I don’t remember what he specifically talks about.
Something to keep in mind: Official support for the PS2 was only 12 years. The PS4 is now at 11 years.
It will most likely have a longer officially supported life than the PS2.
You should. I’ve sunk over 200 hours into it. And those are rookie numbers.
Just know that it’s buggy, even with the stability mods. RTGame’s experience with the crashes in his playthrough is pretty on point.
Who could have forseen this? 🤦♂️ From our friends over at BridgeMichigan, journalist Gabrielle Nelson reports on the pants-around-the-ankles situation in EV land…...
We’ve had logging tariffs on them for a bit, especially at the start of the pandemic when lumber prices were insane and getting rid of them would’ve helped lower prices a bit.
Wouldn’t/Shouldn’t you be worried about your live meal shitting itself in the pot once it finally dies? Or did the witch make sure they went to the bathroom before putting them in the pot?
This morning, Finnish game developer Remedy Entertainment announced a couple of key changes to its core management team. First and foremost, Chief Operations Officer Christopher Schmitz has resigned and will leave the company on May 31....
I can kind of answer this question. For a year, I worked at a big box store where you can “save big money”. They had periodic training and one of the modules was on their store card.
The question was, “Why do we want people to have our card?”
I replied, “Because we don’t have to pay the standard processing fees.”
“No, it’s because of loyalty. If they have a [big box store] card, then they’re much more likely to spend their money here instead of [competitor].”
Almost completely blind. It seems he can still see some shapes or shadows, but only during the day.
He used to be a stray, but he lost a few too many fights with other strays.
I was able stop drinking pop fairly easily as a teen, but I still had problems with drinking other super sugary drinks like V8’s “fruit” juice or Simply Lemonade.
One thing I did was start drinking tea, particularly fruity flavors. Those are rather flavorful for teas and helped wean me off those other sugary drinks.
Plus with tea basically being flavored water, it made the jump to drinking straight up water even easier. I still drink tea, mind you, but I also drink a lot of straight water.
I loved this game back in the day. I put so many hours into the assault campaigns as well as online play; I remember playing several community levels where you’d have to drive a vehicle across maps akin to Trackmania (but without the insane speed) and the other team would do what they could to stop you.
Really wish Epic would make a modernized one; while UT3 was fun, it just wasn’t the same as UT04. But I don’t see Epic making that style of game ever again.
I’m a 3 monitor person as well. 34" ultrawide as my main with two 24" widescreens side-to-side immediately above it. I use it for work and personal use.
Ultrawide has my main programs for work: internet browsers and job specific programs get about 60% of the real estate on the left, while pdf’s, and other less essential programs go to the right 40% of the screen.
The top left monitor gets Teams, Excel docs, or auxiliary browsers.
Top right gets email and media (YouTube, Spotify, etc) or any overfill if I’m dealing with a particularly cluttered job.
For personal, ultrawide is obviously used for games, movies, etc, while top left has task manager, MSI Afterburner, and Throttlestop (I run a laptop). And the top right has Discord.
I have that and also MC:LA for the PS3. I recently learned that Rockstar never officially ported MC:LA to the PC so the only official ways to play it are on the PS3 and 360. And sadly RPCS3 still needs more optimization before it’s playable. I get about 15-30 fps whenever I try it.
Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....
Veritasium's new video on Jumping Spiders is having its sponsor Better Help on blast in the top comments. Should we hold content creators to account?
Should we stop supporting them with our eyes for taking sponsorships from shady companies?...
11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5 (arstechnica.com)
Give bland academic papers a little flair (lemmy.world)
Update From LTT On The Madison Situation (www.youtube.com)
From the link:...
Arthur Was Climbing The Ladder To The Loft (lemmy.world)
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater...
qt π (mander.xyz)
The game was rule from the start (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Day Late, Dollar Short: Copper shortage could imperil Michigan’s EV future (www.bridgemi.com)
Who could have forseen this? 🤦♂️ From our friends over at BridgeMichigan, journalist Gabrielle Nelson reports on the pants-around-the-ankles situation in EV land…...
Biden Is Trying to Buy EVs Time With New Tariffs on China. It Might Not Work (www.wired.com)
Das Kartoffeln ist gut. (lemmy.world)
Remedy Makes Changes to Core Management Team, Wants to Grow Alan Wake and Control into Larger Franchises (wccftech.com)
This morning, Finnish game developer Remedy Entertainment announced a couple of key changes to its core management team. First and foremost, Chief Operations Officer Christopher Schmitz has resigned and will leave the company on May 31....
What do companies get out of rewards programs
Like why does Kroger want me to get a Kroger’s card so bad...
Apollo With A Little Blep (lemmy.world)
Gwen Saw A Squirrel Outside (lemmy.world)
Arthur Was Curious About My Camera (lemmy.world)
Every generation has different challenges (lemmy.world)
Showing Off His Danger Mitten (lemmy.world)
Loving the Shoe (lemmy.world)
Unreal Tournament 2004 20 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8404225
To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity? (lemmy.world)
I’m mainly curious about software developers here, or anyone else whose computer is somewhat central to their life, be it professional or hobbyist....
midnight club: the unsung hero of arcade racing.
This is an appreciation thread. All 4 games are iconic to me. Way underrated....