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- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
Somehow my brother wound up with a copy of Crash Time: Autobahn Pursuit for Xbox 360. There are many reasons to call it a bad game, and it’s a little odd to release a video game in North America for a German TV show few people in North America have heard of. We each beat the game eventually, but we had a lot more fun not playing the game the way it was intended and just driving around the open world racing each other and crashing into things. I even wrote to them suggesting they add a mode similar to the car soccer games Top Gear tried on their show (this was several years before Rocket League was released).
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 4 days ago:
My in-laws in Quebec get weighed in pounds
- Comment on What makes a man? 6 days ago:
There’s a 568C?
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Sometimes it’s using PTO or sick time (normally I’ve been able to take the time in 2 hour blocks), sometimes I’ve just been able to arrange with my supervisor for an extended lunch break, or just taking an unpaid break during the day and making up the hours later in the day or the week so that I’m not hitting my income or not completing my work.
Also, there’s reasons dentist offices often open early, or work on the weekends. Other necessary services like that may offer extended hours on certain days of the week.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to assume that was not a test since there was a real plane in there
- Comment on Any tips on immigration? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only given it a relatively cursory look in the past, but it seems like Canada doesn’t give a quick pathway to citizenship via marriage. I think you can get a residency status somewhat quickly and easily, but it seemed like you’d need to live in Canada for a decade before you could apply for citizenship, whereas for my wife we could apply for US citizenship after 3 years or after she’d had her green card for 3 years, I can’t remember which exactly.
If you have the money, a lawyer can make the process a lot easier for the US, so I’d guess the same might be true for Canada.
Also, double-check how Canada views things, but if there’s any chance you might want to get your spouse a green card in the future, the US government strongly prefers that you get married in the United States. They seem very suspicious that marriages conducted in another country might not be real and that it’s just a scam to try to get a green card. The longer you’re married the less of an issue it is, but if you decide to get a green card in the first few years it could be a problem. If Canada is not as strict about that then you may want to have the legal wedding ceremony in the United States, even if you’ll be living in Canada.
And overall, I feel like it’s most valuable to try to get both parties some sort of citizenship or permanent resident status in both countries. You never know when a family medical emergency might lead to you moving to another country, and that’s not when you want to try to establish residency permission. Canada seems to require you to actually live there for more than half the year to apply for residency, so we haven’t done that for me, but since you will be living there you should be able to. I think you can also apply for a green card without immediate plans to live in the US (but double check that) so you may want to start that process sooner than later.
- Comment on Memories of defragging your computer 4 weeks ago:
I felt like the difference was only obvious if the disk had gotten really bad in the first place, but maybe it was just psychological from seeing the colors move around.
- Comment on You take your dog into an elevator and they look at you funny. "Why did we get in this little room for a minute and walk back out?" 5 weeks ago:
My dog hated elevators the first couple years we used them when we’d travel to see my in-laws. The floor is moving? She wanted nothing to do with that. Even now I’d say she only tolerates them.
She still hates the grates inside the entrances of Canadian hotels that I think are to help deal with melting snow. They tend to sink/bounce as you walk across them. She tries to go around or leap over them, or runs across them like they’re a platform in a video game that will fall if you stand on them too long.
- Comment on -Artemis crew: I think I can hold it. 2 months ago:
“At the next natural satellite make a free-return”
- Comment on Progress 2 months ago:
For some reason they posted this on their social media account
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 2 months ago:
It’s interesting considering how the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety really highlights what is more important for them to reduce in a collision. Modern cars might sustain much more damage and be more likely to get written off as a total loss, but that will probably cost them $30-40k at the high end in most wrecks. But if a person gets seriously injured the insurance company could very quickly be on the hook for the full $100-300k in medical bills most people get coverage for.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 2 months ago:
Featured comment on the first video pretty directly answers the question from @OP @Patnou@lemmy.world :
As a Firefighter I was called to an accident which turned out to be a head on collision between 60’s model Chrysler and a 2000 model Subaru. The Chrysler looked to have held up pretty good but the driver was taken to hospital with life threatening injuries. The Subaru was totalled back to the windscreen yet the mother and daughter in the car walked away without a scratch.
- Comment on Your mother's package has arrived 2 months ago:
It’s impossible to miss something that large
- Comment on Anon is worried about AAA sales 2 months ago:
- Comment on I think my sister asked this. But why can't we have a pirate community? Like not teaching how to pirate but just articles on streaming is raising prices, stuff from torrentfreak.com and other things? 2 months ago:
I’m misremembering, then; I trust your version over mine!
- Comment on I think my sister asked this. But why can't we have a pirate community? Like not teaching how to pirate but just articles on streaming is raising prices, stuff from torrentfreak.com and other things? 2 months ago:
There was brouhaha when they first blocked it (I think they originally defederated from db0) and the reason given was .world had received a takedown notice from a rights holder because of a thread where someone was actually sharing some sort of copyright material. They felt like they were attracting attention as one of the largest instances, even though they weren’t the source.
- Comment on Mindspring Memories – Virtual Hallucinations (1:30:29 album, 2015) 2 months ago:
MindSpring was the name of our first Internet provider
- Comment on Anon contemplates AI 2 months ago:
I think it goes back to the Reddit days. Subreddits would be referred to as r/SubredditName, which referred to the URL path (reddit.com/r/SubredditName) and was how they would be displayed on the page. I think the Reddit mobile app at least would actually turn that into a link. The equivalent to a subreddit on Lemmy is a community and their URL often shows up as lemmy.instance/c/CommunityName. It’s not actually as useful in the Fediverse to refer to them in that way, though, because it generally only works as a link if you’re signed in to that instance. Using !CommunityName@lemmy.instance is better because it should work regardless of what instance you’re on, or even if you’re using something different from Lemmy.
- Comment on Air Canada Express flight AC8646 CRJ-900 at LaGuardia crash footage 2 months ago:
I don’t think it even registered at first for the truck that they were being told to stop because he’d just told the Frontier plane to stop
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 months ago:
We talking, like, O Brother, Where Art Thou? being based on Homer’s Odyssey?
- Comment on Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC 2 months ago:
I guess they weren’t even working on those games anymore:
However, while Red Storm is best known for its association with Tom Clancy games, for the past decade, it’s been focused on VR games, such as Werewolves Within (2016), Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017), and Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR (2023).
Modern stewardship of Tom Clancy titles has been handled by Massive Entertainment (The Division), Ubisoft Montreal (Rainbow Six Siege), Ubisoft Paris (Ghost Recon Wildlands), and Ubisoft Toronto (Splinter Cell remake).
- Comment on Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC 2 months ago:
I think a friend from middle school worked there; not sure if he’s still there, though
- Comment on Do most comedians invite heclers to their shows? And they go over the bit so it seems sporadic? And get them more views or clicks or whatever? Kind of like a magician does with a plant? 2 months ago:
Adding to this, if someone gets a reputation for sparring with hecklers, more hecklers are likely to show up and take their shot. Releasing videos of yourself taking on hecklers is probably going to encourage them.
- Comment on Every single time. 3 months ago:
I remember seeing a stunningly beautiful woman at the grocery store, and I looked in my cart and saw lactose-free milk, lactose-free probiotic yogurt, and ultra-soothing toilet paper.
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 3 months ago:
Where else would it go? The veins are blue!
- Comment on A product of his environment 3 months ago:
You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?
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- Comment on 0mg 3 months ago:
!youdontsurf@lemmy.world
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Iceberg or wave for me, thanks
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 3 months ago:
So in Germany one often has to move out of Harms’s way?
