I mean, in the era of VHS this won't work because ultimately you're fast forwarding and rewinding. So you're gonna watch it anyway. but in the digital era I thought this would be what any Police officer did?
Like... they're not even gonna spend 10 minutes on a theft?
Admittedly, there is no government housing for politicians, which means either buying renting in washington DC (not cheap) in addition to your home in your own state, or moving entirely to Washington DC for a position you may lose in 4 years.
The entire job seems to be closed out to everyone but millionaires.
Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I’d like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that’ll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that...
Honestly they seem out of fashion nowadays. It's one more thing to move when you move, it cost a lot for very little, most people lack a tool set to attach it to the bedframe.
If you imagine the old timey beds the 7 dwarves slept in in snow white, they had their names on the foot board of the bed and the headboard of the bed was on the other side of the bed by their head.
Hydrogen power is an exciting form of clean energy. But hydrogen typically needed to be produced in a lab using energy-intensive methods. White hydrogen, a newly identified hydrogen source, could eliminate the need for lab production.
"at scale" it could be just as bad. C02 isn't poisonous the big problem we're dealing with is we're putting C02 from the ground in oil and coal and putting it into the air. We've been adding C02 that was NOT in the environment into the environment.
Yeah some water isn't a bad thing, but if all of a sudden we're adding from sources outside of the water cycle a LOT more water into the atmosphere you've got increased clouds, increased weather patterns, All of a sudden the inland portions of continents can start dumping as much water into the air as a warm ocean, that can DEFINITELY be a problem.
I remember starting to read Isekai Vending Machine solely because I thought it was going to be garbage but they fully commit to "nah this guy is a vending machine". It was way better than anticipated. I hate it when the protagonist is never in danger and just has to sneeze to get out of things, but a protagonist that can't move and uses the only thing keeping him alive to upgrade and output a shield? That's how you make something interesting.
... He barely used the smartphone, he just scrolls with it in the credits and occasionally uses it and his OP protagonist powers to just melt things. I was really hoping it wasn't just a "I am a god" power trip anime but it was one of the worst ones I ever saw.
Honestly they only gave him a smartphone so that they could give it a unique title. Then they proceed to forget they gave it to him.
I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?...
I always use edge whenever I'm making a public presentation with a computer I use. Simply because I never use it. Then autocomplete won't embarrass me if we look something up.
You know, there's genuinely a LOT less butterflies in my life nowadays.
A good chunk of that is probably the fact that I moved from the country to the cities, but man, I see much fewer butterflies. I could easily understand if you end up not seeing a butterfly in person until you're 17, I can see that being spooky. They're spiders with wings, they're moths but skinnier, like the Nightmare before Christmas.
If your kids grow up with an ipad, they try to touch every screen. I've seen multiple kids pantomime a phone not with a pinky and thumb, but a flat hand like a smartphone. Sheep aren't scary but if you've never seen one in your entire life and get the chance to pet one you're gonna be apprehensive, and you're gonna be scared if one runs towards you without a fence between you and it.
Right in the very movie moment when they heard it, the words completely freaked out the sinister skin-walking aliens of John Carpenter’s action-horror classic They Live.
I’ve been experimenting with putting headphones on (not playing music, just blocking noise) in situations where there is a lot of noise and it kinda helps! Although, apparently it’s not considered “socially acceptable” to wear headphones while singing along with a group of people at a youth event lol. (I did explain it...
Earplugs can handle it even better. I originally bought them because I work in AV but it's really nice to be able to just crank down all the audio in the world. A decent set of acoustic earplugs can be bought for 8 bucks at a guitar center. I highly recommend acoustic because they don't make everything sound muffled, just quieter. If you find it helpful then you can shell out for something a bit nicer.
Even if you're not autistic, it helps drown out the noise to hear people in a bar, it protects your hearing, and really does help with feelings of being overwhelmed. Doesn't FIX it, but it does help.
A house
-- Just purchased, closing is closing in soon.
two cars
-- completely mandatory. We couldn't possibly bus, we have two used cars approaching two decades old and we're dreading the day they croak.
a healthy relationship
-- married in July
a career
-- For me, finally started the career I wanted two years ago, after a decade of trying to become a programmer I finally am. Wife might be in a career now, she's not quite sure. She's happier where she is than Target, but that's a low bar.
livable wage
-- livable with the ability to go on vacations (mostly anime and comic conventions)
2.5 kids
-- don't want them at the moment.
a dog
-- ... two cats
I do NOT in any way feel like I've earned this. I have been saving to buy a house EVER SINCE I paid off my student loans. I dumped all my money for YEARS to get that debt off of my books and after I did, I immediately started saving. Didn't even change my living habits because they were habits at that point. I didn't even have a GF at the time. I just knew that I wanted to be ahead, because I knew that it was going to be a slog when I was finally ready to buy a home. Just like it was a slog to get into my career, just like it was a slog. I wanted to be AHEAD I wanted a good home. And after all that effort I got...
half a duplex for $305,000... Cheapest we could find if you don't count badrealestate suggestions on lemmy.
All that effort and I barely have a home. barely. We could've taken a larger loan but, shit happens. We could've been laid off, One of our cars could've needed to be replaced, We could've been disabled, We could've had our identity stolen, We could've been scammed, We could've been robbed, We could've come across a cop who didn't like our faces, We could've missed payments because Wells Fargo SUCKS and have our credit killed.
All of these things DIDN'T happen to us, so we got to purchase a house. Because if any of those things happened to us, we would've dipped into savings and we wouldn't be purchasing a house in our 30s. All of those things that could've happened were completely out of our control. (except for Wells Fargo, you can choose to not be fucked by Wells Fargo by LEAVING Wells Fargo)
Well, I just recently got married in July. We'd been together for 5 years before that point, we survived COVID in a rather stress inducing state.
My wife works in banking, with secrecy requirements. I work in AV, testing equipment that records everything it sees and hears. We couldn't even be within earshot of each other. She was forced to work in her bed and I was forced to take up half the living room with 2 baker's racks of AV equipment. Still went through those two years being able to look back fondly at being able to take a five minute break to scream into a pillow and get a hug after a particularly stressful problem, meeting, or office politics.
I completely understand where you're coming from, but just like how you can't imagine a partner you want to spend the rest of your life with. I cannot imagine someone ever replacing my wife, and I don't even want to entertain the notion of losing her.
well what if it's insert_celebrity_crush_here?
-- that's not my wife, not interested
well what if it's your wife but she never says no to you?
-- that doesn't sound like my wife at all, I'm not interested
We just mesh incredibly well. We both grew up in problematic households with a disdain for our parents. We both grew up poor. We both care more about financial security and safety than trying to get it all. I feel like we're a team, at all times. Not having her beside me would be like playing football with only half the players.
I will say, this is gonna sound weird but stick with me. Don't... don't chase a monogamous relationship.
I think too many people get hooked on this idea that you must have a partner. You must marry before you hit 35. You must fuck before you hit 19. Just don't think so hard about it. Geography, life events, mistakes, opportunities, are all at place with literally everyone at all times. COVID especially through a wrench in every life plan in America. I feel so bad for anyone who hadn't gone through college yet. Just... find enjoyment where you can and balance that with building your future and if both those points can be met with the same activity. DO IT. Whether it's a partner that you can't live without and you wanna keep, or a group you can't live without. You need both those points in life. Do whatever makes sense.
Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police (startrek.website)
Trolley Dilemma (lemmy.best)
Citizen watchdogs eye Congress' 'killing it' approach to stock trading (abcnews.go.com)
Lawmakers could vote for infrastructure bill, then buy stock in a concrete firm.
KeeperFX 1.0.0 released - Dungeon Keeper opensource remake and fan expansion (keeperfx.net)
Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart (feddit.de)
I’m at true neutral.
BioWare's endless cryptic teases for Mass Effect and Dragon Age aren't just frustrating, they're arrogant (www.pcgamer.com)
The studio's acting like it's on a victory lap, when it should still be on its apology tour.
What's your favorite Enigma / Riddle / Sentence Puzzle?
Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I’d like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that’ll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that...
Is a bed without a headboard seen as cheap?
Or odd, or something?
AI Generated QR Codes with Stable Diffusion and ControlNet (reticulated.net)
Caption This (lemdit.com)
What is white hydrogen? Scientists say the clean-energy gas could save the world. (www.businessinsider.com)
Hydrogen power is an exciting form of clean energy. But hydrogen typically needed to be produced in a lab using energy-intensive methods. White hydrogen, a newly identified hydrogen source, could eliminate the need for lab production.
Agility Robotics has opened a factory in Oregon to build 10,000 of its 'Digit' humanoid robots a year. (spectrum.ieee.org)
What's the most disappointing anime you've seen? (sh.itjust.works)
Microsoft Edge, anyone?
I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?...
'One Piece' review: Netflix does the impossible (mashable.com)
Picnic (64.media.tumblr.com)
A post from Pizza Cake Comic
They Live: The Story Behind How Roddy Piper Came Up with the Movie’s Most Famous Line (www.syfy.com)
Right in the very movie moment when they heard it, the words completely freaked out the sinister skin-walking aliens of John Carpenter’s action-horror classic They Live.
Headphone Experiment
I’ve been experimenting with putting headphones on (not playing music, just blocking noise) in situations where there is a lot of noise and it kinda helps! Although, apparently it’s not considered “socially acceptable” to wear headphones while singing along with a group of people at a youth event lol. (I did explain it...
If you squint, my beef stroganoff is trying to tell you something (sh.itjust.works)
Plant based > Flesh based (lemmy.ml)
Does anyone feel like their life is going according to plan?
A house, two cars, a healthy relationship ,a career, livable wage, 2.5 kids, a dog. ya know, the expectation many children were told in school....
How does anyone believe in monogamy nowadays?
Not talking about being with one partner at a time. Talking about the idea of finding “the one” and being with them your whole life....