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- Comment on Just in time for rainy season 23 hours ago:
Hey, who chopped down the Froggy boots?
- Comment on willpower 3 days ago:
“Gambling is a tax on those who are unwilling to learn about statistics.”
It’s so destructive to people, yet so tempting for governments and businesses to push onto others.
- Comment on willpower 3 days ago:
These screenshots imply the family’s wealth is built upon the father’s full time gambling addiction “working out” (he never quit, apparently).
Realistically though this is either a shitpost, satire, or pointing out the stupidity of thinking gambling will support your family.
- Comment on Found my spirit animal 3 days ago:
Look at the rear leg on the left side of the photo, it’s curled in unnaturally. This might be slop.
- Comment on If you've ever wondered how many poptarts you can stack on a borzoi, it's at least 8 4 days ago:
“Didn’t I hold it for you?”
- Comment on A fine dish. 5 days ago:
Same here, perhaps it just had a delay before it was viewable to others - they are on Lemmy.world, so maybe the traffic is congested.
- Comment on A fine dish. 5 days ago:
Check your settings to what provider images and files uploaded are hosted on. Your default may not be useable.
- Comment on Good news. :) 6 days ago:
Don’t got one, sorry mate. Also, how tf did you come away with that as bot generated
- Comment on Good news. :) 6 days ago:
I could give less of a fuck if my friends and loved ones are being pulled into vans under the orders of some miserable politicians out east who never represented us.
If D.C. can fix their own shit, my tune will change. As of now, California’s my refuge away from federal hell, and I don’t see the flames extinguished yet.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Politically, I don’t see it happening in any of the 3 states tho.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Common misconception for people outside of the US, Washington State =/= Washington, D.C. They’re on opposite ends of the country, and don’t have much in common in terms of how they are ran.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Come to Cali, we got weed, healthcare, cheap electronics and good high-speed uncensored internet.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
California in the EU would be quite the mind bender, unless you’re referring to Denmark being an import vector.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Hey if you ever make it to Cali, I’m sure I can talk with some of my contacts to get you a place. Gotta look out for the disadvantaged after all :)
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Very high concentrations of educated citizens among the populace, a functional tax system that actually reinvests into its people compared to many other states in the union (especially below the Mason-Dixon line), and key cities center to high-tech development and critical US industries, military or otherwise.
Additionally, because these states were some of the last to be incorporated into the United States, they largely were able to develop in less rigid ways in the 20th and 21st centuries compared to other states in the union (Cheaper land also allowed developing industries like computing to invest heavily in the region).
Though not a perfect summation, here’s a video from Vox about why Silicon Valley is located in California: youtu.be/6xvrKW2H_hA
I can try to explain any other questions about our politics and social norms as a Californian (though I’m less familiar with Oregon and Washington State, sadly).
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
always has been, friend
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 week ago:
Blue beret item references the VDV, airborne russian troops, in the description. Also one of the armbands has the russian flag on it.
Although because the game is shown through the lens of PMCs (you’re not fighting as or against Russian/UN/NATO troops), most of the russian military references are minimal (unless you count the descriptions of weapons detailing their design/usage histories).
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 week ago:
It doesn’t, and that’s one of the reasons I only play offline with mods rather than online.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 week ago:
They have their own launcher.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 week ago:
Install a singleplayer mod that allows you to progress at your own pace and know that all of your faults were not because of cheaters (SPT), but I don’t think those changes could be rectified in the PvP game.
- Comment on Or Library Genesis 1 week ago:
Unlike wikipedia, they don’t offer a full torrent of the site, so it’s hard to estimate. I guess the closest point of comparison would be Anna’s archive index, since they have a rough filesize total?
- Comment on Apple Envy 1 week ago:
Apple provided the icloud backups. Apple did not provide the decryption key for unlocking the phone directly.
- Comment on Don't be suspicious 1 week ago:
“It’s the fuzz scoob, act normal! We don’t them to confiscate our scooby snax!”
- Comment on Apple Envy 1 week ago:
That might because many people (at least in the US) get their phones through payment plans with a cell service carrier, and those usually aren’t unlocked unless you pay for the whole phone + if they care enough to give you the code after.
I always bought unlocked phones directly, so I guess I never had that issue?
- Comment on Apple Envy 1 week ago:
It’s the lack of choice on what to do with your hardware after EOL that always rubbed me the wrong way with Apple. Unless there’s a known exploit to unlock the boot loader, you can’t install something like postmarketOS or LineageOS to continue using it, so you just feel compelled to treat it like e-waste and buy a new device.
I’ve had 3 android phones total in my life, and one of them I only replaced after it got crushed in a roadside accident. The other 2 are still useable.
- Comment on Apple Envy 1 week ago:
That didn’t stop Apple from handing over backups to the FBI that were swiftly decrypted after several high profile incidents (like the San Bernadino shooting), and I assume it would be even less difficult for them to fork over info for another Snowden if they use Apple products.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 1 week ago:
Fair, although you couldn’t pay me to use the Epic Games Store or make an amazon account lol
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 1 week ago:
Steam sales: Humble bundle deals: GOG giveaways: itch.io’s existence: FOSS games: Modded total conversions of existing games: Browser/F2P games:
I mean libraries are awesome, but let’s not say pirating is the only option to get content on PC for cheap/free.
- Comment on android 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if Motorola phones would count since their mobile division was largely acquired by Lenovo (and as far as I can tell, are still open platforms)
- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft is notoriously bureaucratic - there’s probably a lot of PR, middle managers, support staff and bean counters at each studio.