Sometimes you just want to brag about something you excel at but never get the chance or you’re just to modest. Now is your chance to tell a bunch of internet strangers about your amazing talent.
I bought 5 of these less than two years ago, though they were the 500 GB model. Every single one of them has failed - some within 45 days and just outside the return period. The last one, which I honestly forgot was still running and thought I’d replaced, failed this morning....
I was a teenager and I thought RadX sounded cool (this was a full year before Fallout 1 came out, so I don’t think it had any other inspiration). A few years later, I wanted a little continuity, but also something not quite so cringe-worthy. A single “i” fixed it.
While perhaps not “the” authoritative source on the matter, I do find it a̶m̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ appropriate that Wikipedia’s page on Fascism in Russia is effectively a disambiguation page because of all the forms it has taken over the years.
At the start of the XB1 generation, they announced an “always online” requirement for every game, all the time. It was such a disaster, they walked it back before the console even launched, but the damage was done.
Hybrid local/online games becoming the norm rather than a genre (MMO) means the same thing. No local play = no ownership of your library. It works as part of a subscription, but anybody paying $70+ for that is throwing their money away.
I want to make it clear that I am in no way, downplaying the alarming amount of shootings that occur in the US. Just that it was engrossing to see so many accounts of mass shootings in other countries, spanning decades....
This reminds me of a question I’ve had for a while, but hopefully isn’t too offensive.
Is there a word for the feeling of “relief” that other people/places are going through the same shit I/we are? It’s not quite schadenfreude; there’s no joy to be had here. Just a sense of togetherness. All my problems aren’t uniquely mine, or even uniquely American (even if the degree may differ for certain issues).
There are laws in place for service workers related to minimum wage. The employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t meet the rate for hours worked. It seems to me that’s not sufficient for the times....
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, an employer has to pay each employee the minimum wage, unless the employee is “engaged in an occupation in which the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips”. If the employee’s wage does not equal minimum wage, including tips, the employer must make up the difference.
If an employee’s tips combined with the employer’s direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.
Almost certainly, depending on the time scale. Physical constructs will eventually break down, but the impact on the environment in total will likely be able to be deduced for millions of years.
For example, we already have a good record of the five previous mass extinction events, and can tie them directly to geological causes. On our current trajectory, a sixth wouldn’t necessarily tie well to any other factors other than the activity of a dominant species. This is one of many factors in the proposed geological epoch of the anthropocene.
Yes, but it’s easier for the NYT to “both sides” the situation by making a false equivalency between “being slightly older” for Biden, and Trump’s “91 criminal counts and an actual rapist.”
One could argue they have a greater duty to report the truth, regardless of what people are talking about.
By ceding the news pages to talking about whatever is popular, they open the door to unscrupulous media outlets driving that political conversation unchecked. If Fox News repeats the same non-story every hour of every day, and more respectable media only respond by talking about how people are viewing that non-story, they’ve lost the plot.
I worked (briefly) as an unarmed security guard many years ago. It was company policy to never, never, ever touch a person unless we felt our life was in danger. We were there to document only. Security is just a less reliable camera with a mouth.
With no markings or provenance at all, the origins of this revolver are a mystery. Its features all point to the 1880s or 1890s, and someone clearly spent a lot of time working on it – but we don’t know who. What makes it interesting is the very unusual operating mechanism. It is similar to a “zig-zag” system like the...
What something that you are really good at?
Sometimes you just want to brag about something you excel at but never get the chance or you’re just to modest. Now is your chance to tell a bunch of internet strangers about your amazing talent.
Who wants to play some D&D? (lemmy.world)
Saru sarong (lemmy.world)
Never Again (dubvee.org)
I bought 5 of these less than two years ago, though they were the 500 GB model. Every single one of them has failed - some within 45 days and just outside the return period. The last one, which I honestly forgot was still running and thought I’d replaced, failed this morning....
Found my old non floppies… oh no, a Grue! (lemm.ee)
PS VR2 to add PC support in 2024 (www.gematsu.com)
How did you get your username?
Is Russia a fascist dictatorship?
Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men (phys.org)
New Crazy Taxi Game Will Be Live Service with a '100-Person Survival Mode' (insider-gaming.com)
To nobody’s surprise, Sega has enshittified its beloved Crazy Taxi IP.
How to disable one speaker in a stereo speaker Android phone?
Is there a way to disable one speaker when I have stereo speakers on my Android phone? It’s a Pixel 7 for reference....
What's the longest line you've ever waited in?
What are the stereotypical or super common names for your generation?
Plenty of Todds and Kylies for gen x
Microsoft says next Xbox will 'deliver largest technical leap seen in a hardware generation' (www.eurogamer.net)
18+ TIL: There are several mass shooting lists for countries other than the US, on Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
I want to make it clear that I am in no way, downplaying the alarming amount of shootings that occur in the US. Just that it was engrossing to see so many accounts of mass shootings in other countries, spanning decades....
Tipping culture in U.S.
There are laws in place for service workers related to minimum wage. The employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t meet the rate for hours worked. It seems to me that’s not sufficient for the times....
Putin says he would prefer Biden to win the United States election rather than Trump (www.ft.com)
Archived link:...
And baked potatoes are basically tacos if you think about it (startrek.website)
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When our species has become extinct, is there anything that would survive long enough to tell the next intelligent species to arise that we were a technological civilization?
Donald Trump's threat to NATO allies has moved attention away from questions about President Biden's age (www.nytimes.com)
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I Don't Know - Revolver Thing (lemmy.world)
With no markings or provenance at all, the origins of this revolver are a mystery. Its features all point to the 1880s or 1890s, and someone clearly spent a lot of time working on it – but we don’t know who. What makes it interesting is the very unusual operating mechanism. It is similar to a “zig-zag” system like the...