WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress....
A family member bought that Hunter Biden Laptop book and I browsed through, I noticed that they intentionally put a random story of sexual abuse adjacent to an anecdote from a Biden family member to confuse people into thinking the two events were related.
They truly will sink to any low. I hope Hunter’s Defamation suit is going well.
ACAB and all that, but bringing a crime to light is a good deed and victim blaming is bad. People always seem to throw out too much nuance in discussions of justice and politics.
Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church....
Well, they still have a ton of greased up machinery below deck and they still need to properly store and dispose of bilgewater, so not perfect by any measure, but still way better than any other type of shipping.
It claims that between 1996 and 2005, “the FBI continued to receive direct reports, complaints and tips concerning the illegal sex trafficking of women and underage minors, sex abuse and human rights violations committed by Jeffrey Epstein and associates”....
Idk, if you provide evidence of a crime to law enforcement and they don’t act on it resulting in further harm then that seems like a pretty clear case of damages caused by negligence to me.
Some people get paid to live there and clean the place, but it’s becoming a thing of the past as the individual tasks get compartmentalized by specialist jobs. Why hire a full time custodian, landscaper, heavy equipment operator, and records keeper extraordinaire when you could just hire part timers and contractors for each as needed?
One of 70 flavors of Chromium including the “privacy centric” Opera who run Chinese loan shark gangs for some reason, Edge which is Microsoft Chromium and aside from hardware acceleration capabilities is pretty meh, and Brave which despite operating their own separate search engine index are one of the most likely to sell your data and/or kidneys
Rapidly Enshitifying Firefox
Safari - no comment
Whatever the fuck Gecko is…
Tor Browser (for people with infinite time to wait for pages to load, or maybe just drug dealers)
A culture of harm and racism, that sorts people into class by lightness of skin, needs to be imposed over with discrimination of equal or greater measure. Tolerance for the intolerant is unacceptable. Maybe India doesn’t see the necessity compared to countries with much more violent racial tensions, but it’s a lesson that can be learned an easy way or a hard way.
If you believe something fucked up then people are gonna call you out on it. No exceptions. If anything you should be happy others are willing to discuss it with you rather than write you off as unsalvageable or incorrigible.
The base game can be done in like 5-8 hours on a leisurely pace, the current speedrun WR is 57minutes but there are only 6 runners who’ve submitted to it so feasibly you could get a lot better times than that.
I’ve actually got a video on YT where I perform the “I Was Not Expecting You, Human” achievement to Slay Warden Krieg, who is the game’s midboss, in Veteran Mode with a character under level 11, and it was an hour and thirteen minutes from character creation to finish. The last 10 minutes are just the Krieg fight itself. This could be done much faster without the level requirement, though, because you could get more damage and better items.
The major problem with it is the enemy scaling. Every area has a minimum level and a maximum level, and as the character levels up so do the enemies. That means if you keep leveling in an area until you dwarf the enemies, it just keeps making it harder in the next area, so you’re incentivized to stay at the minimum level for that area and ignore the vast majority of enemies. Even farming for good loot comes at the added cost of making the mobs harder. I used to use a site that shows the level range for areas but I can’t find it anymore, sadly.
That might be nice, it would be cool to have coherent independent stories instead of: “There is literally only one path and this random person who means nothing to you or your mission personally is in your way, kill them! (reading their pocket journal is optional)”
I do feel like the second chapter was better than the first in that regard, though.
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often requires biting the bullet and doing something like working for a big soulless company
No, it really doesn’t. People who chose that path in the last few years made a very clear mistake. A decent enough artist to get hired by Triple A can absolutely get plenty of work elsewhere, and it’s getting easier every day.
Entry level average salary for Game Designers is around 50K USD, or $24 Per Hour equivalent, veteran positions make over 100k USD. For artists that number is even higher, from 60k to 120k.
In the last 3 years alone Indie games have gone from about 10% of the market to 20%. The game market as a whole has been seeing massive growths. There has never been a better time to abandon the corporate overlords and make your own games with small teams and studios.
Guten Morgen aus Deutschland, wo der Markt für Bürogebäude den stärksten Rückgang seit zwei Jahrzehnten erleidet, da höhere Finanzierungskosten und schleppende Trends bei der Rückkehr ins Büro den Appetit der Anleger trüben: Der Abschwung beschleunigte sich im vierten Quartal mit einem Rückgang von 13 % gegenüber dem...
Compared to having a building go unused until it becomes unusable, the construction costs don’t seem so bad. For sure, a very large number will sit empty for a long time, though.
a certain class absolutely benefits from that – the current owners of property
But that only holds true if they’re maximizing profit by keeping housing unavailable, because they can also profit off of the office spaces. But if the office spaces become unprofitable and unmaintainable, then their best choices are to either convert or sell, otherwise they are losing out on money. They can’t force people to buy, lease, or rent their offices.
We are talking about greedy people. They’re not going to intentionally lose money to make your life harder. What this system does is make money for the owners, your suffering is merely a side effect.
NASA's Voyager 1 probe hasn't 'spoken' in 3 months and needs a 'miracle' to save it (www.livescience.com)
FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress....
Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage (apnews.com)
Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church....
To keep trade flowing, the US is now using aircraft carriers to move containers around the globe (sh.itjust.works)
Alleged Epstein victims file suit against FBI for failing to protect them (www.theguardian.com)
It claims that between 1996 and 2005, “the FBI continued to receive direct reports, complaints and tips concerning the illegal sex trafficking of women and underage minors, sex abuse and human rights violations committed by Jeffrey Epstein and associates”....
Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing?
I have seen in many US shows where they portray guys who are living with parents as losers, or there are jokes or memes about it, I never get it.
remember, if your gf isn't open source and running locally, you don't own her (lemmy.ml)
Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
I am an Indian and I hate to admit this. (programming.dev)
Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo?
The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion (lemmy.world)
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Was steckt hinter die RTO-Bewegung? (feddit.de) German
Guten Morgen aus Deutschland, wo der Markt für Bürogebäude den stärksten Rückgang seit zwei Jahrzehnten erleidet, da höhere Finanzierungskosten und schleppende Trends bei der Rückkehr ins Büro den Appetit der Anleger trüben: Der Abschwung beschleunigte sich im vierten Quartal mit einem Rückgang von 13 % gegenüber dem...