I'm glad someone else is calling this out. He seemed so thoughtful and methodical previously.
So for the guy to get busted because he eats in a public place, while a huge manhunt is ongoing, and he happens to have on his person: the gun, the fake id previously used, and a manifesto expressing his motive? It's ridiculous! He could have tossed the gun into a body of water anywhere on his route outside NYC and it would never be found. And why reuse the same ID if you had several? Why not burn the associated IDs after they've been compromised?
It doesn't make sense to me. I've seen suggestions that this could have been a state hit, maybe to destabilize the country further? Would our spooks make up a lazy narrative to cover up for their spooks?
Please point me to the statute or code which states a juror is legally obliged to render an accurate and truthful verdict, and explain how you would enforce such a thing.
Nice! I'm playing through TP2 right now and it's great fun, though I did enjoy the mystery of the first more I think. How many laser puzzles does a person need in life though?
Chicle isn't the only natural chewable by the way. Many resins can be jawed on for a while, I'm very fond of chewing mastic resin. Mastic comes from Greece, and has a piney taste when you've chewed it for a while.
That’s fine in principle, but we’re skeptical that this particular moment lends itself to nuanced discussion of a complicated, and heavily regulated, industry.
Ah there it is! How dare the poors use this tragedy to bring up a base and disgusting issue like their inability to pay their (medical) debts instead of blindly praising and weeping over the dead millionaire?
There are tradeoffs involved in healthcare: we're trading your lives for our money, this is no time for debate! It's time to come together, in silence, and spend some extra money on security and healthcare this holiday season.
People with no money have one big problem, people with money have many small problems.
You'll get weird DMs showing off your bear feet that way!
I've noticed that wine (and proton?) use a vulkan-based system to emulate DX/D3D, did you tweak any graphic settings or is this default settings "out of the box?"
It's possible the Linux version is defaulting to OGL and the Windows version is using d3d-as-implemented-in-vulkan, (or a similar situation) which could cause some differences in rendering or capabilities.
Many school shooters talk about wanting to be seen, wanting fame/notoriety, and so on. With the huge positive response to this, it wouldn't be too surprising to see copycats. "If I do this, people will remember me and love me for it."
I switched to Linux Mint recently and it's so good opening the task manager equivalent and seeing only the apps I expect to be running, and only a small page of them. I'd almost forgotten computers can be simple but also secure but also not trying to steal all my data or monetize me constantly.
I first heard of it from Joel Spolsky's blog and wikipedia also credits that article with popularizing the concept. In it's original formulation, it was based on remote procedure calls being hidden in APIs. Because a remote computer call has all these limits of latency, packet/info loss, and possible connection loss, it is impossible to make a perfect abstraction that allows the programmer to treat the remote call as though it were local. The reality the abstraction tries to hide "leaks" in those fundamental limits.
All of contemporary global society is such an abstraction; that's one of the principles of post-modernism. When you buy clothes online an entire invisible work force of shippers, manufacturers, resource procurerers, and more lies beind each article of fabric.
Pressure from climate change, tariffs, global war, and more are straining the foundations of society and the comfortable abstraction is starting to crack.
Running theory is that it relates to this book.
I wonder also if the timing is related to it being open enrollment right now. For non-USians, you contract for health insurance for a year at a time, and are required by law to renew or buy different insurance every year. This period of renewal/purchase is "open enrollment". For many, their employer provides a menu of 1 to a few options for plans to pick from. Or you can buy on the "open market," but usually at worse rates than an employer can negotiate.
Anyway, it's a magical time of year when you realize how hard you've been getting fucked by the insurance companies, and "negotiate" how hard you'll get reamed in the new year. It's quite dehumanizing: trying to bargain and haggle with yourself over how much health you can afford, what you'll give up so your kids can have dental coverage, whether you should "take the bet" on extra life insurance coverage, etc.
Not a shock to me that right now is when someone would snap.
The binary executable for Fossil is a single file (repos are also single files, sqlite databases). That one executable does all the VCS functions but it also has a built-in web server that will host repos as a little customizable website. That's how you access the wiki, chat, forums, and ticketing system. You can also configure the repo, view timelines, view code, and all that stuff.
One can set up a proxy and publicly self-host the repo over the internet. That's what the official fossil site is, a hosted repo of it's own source code. I didn't feel like setting up a local web host, an ngnx reverse proxy, figuring out vpn for remote access, etc etc. So i just use synching and only run locally, because it's easier for me.
That's another nice thing about fossil, it's quite flexible and can grow with the needs of the project.
So is anyone not a woman automatically a man, or are they going to define that one separately? Is one presumed masculine until proven guilty (of womanhood)?
I really enjoyed it, no crashes on Steam Deck but it runs pretty poorly and yeah, occasional visual bugs.
Is this a variation on "there are only 2 stories: a person goes on a long journey, and a stranger comes to town." Some would argue those are two sides of the same story (digressions about this are the backbone of Lemony Snicket's Poison for Breakfast, an excellent light read).
So does Widow also go through a mutation arc and become an 8 legged horse at some point? Cause that sounds rad af
Duo Wrap Up
Duo's also on the app trend of year end reviews and wrap ups, so I thought I'd share mine. I kept up the habit, though I started doing the music lessons too as a break in language lessons all the time.
Also, just wtf is going on in the art department over there? Why is Duo's lil green butt featured so prominently?
Last Day of LemmyFriends Server
I wanted to take a moment to thank @[email protected] for the multiplayer server they set up! Tomorrow is the last day for it, and I thought I'd share some screenshots!
@[email protected] and myself managed to meet up online a few times and had a blast building up the factory! We got half-way into Tier 4, unlocked a lot of goodies in the MAM and the ticket booth! A few more days and we'd get to phase 3!
Sorry I never ran into you Jet, but if you decided to keep the server up for a little longer, I wouldn't complain. I'd pitch in some monetary support as well.
Anyway, here's some of the fun we had!
! BadCodeCat glides over the moon.
! The parking lot at night (yes, we unlocked the cybertruck, even parked it correctly!)
! Close up of the skate park (for doing sick flips in the cart!) Back-to-the-Future-style hoverboards when, Coffee Stain?!
! I rode the freighter up to get a high overhead view of things!
! A final shot of the factory at night.
This was my first Satisfactory multiplayer experience (and kind of my first factory game MP at all!) and it was a great time! Thanks again for setting it up Jet, hope to catch you online some other time! And thanks to BadCodeCat for being an awesome Pioneer to work with (and taking many of these lovely picture!)
King of the Bebop
Someone posted an Evangelion joke elsewhere that reminded me of the incredible Propane Genesis Evengelion.
I was rewatching that when I ran across this brilliant parody in the same vein. There's a sequel for the closing theme as well.
All that the light touches
I was scouting a high place to set up a radar when I noticed this great view! Couldn't quite get everything in (there's another factory off to the left, and my main/initial layout is directly under me, as evidenced by the space elevator) but I liked how my little empire looks, pockets of industry in a wild world.
I like also the evolution of my factory building as I unlocked parts and started to care more. From naked buildings on platforms at the far right (and below) to a roofless but walled factory in the distance, and then my most recent building in the mid-right distance. The only one so far with walls, floors, AND a frickin' ROOF! It's even got lights and windows! Yeah, we get a little fancy sometimes, haha.
How's your factory/empire looking?
Electric Six - Gay Bar
From their 2003 debut album, Fire, which it pretty much is all the way through. I remember this song exists about once a year and binge it for a day.
The Fresh Prince was apparently anything but that day
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/36965
CONSIDERING HIRING AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR!!! AROOOO!!!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20367057
> Ah, I knew it..
Garfs of the Deep, Rising
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25352537
> Anon tells the tale of the Garfield phones
(LP) Paradise State of Mind - Foster the People
Paradise State of Mind is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band Foster the People, released on August 16, 2024, through Atlantic Records, their first under the label. It is the band's first studio album since the release of Sacred Hearts Club in 2017, although they released an EP and a ...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18722992
> Foster the People has a new album out, pretty good! Torches, their debut, is one of my favs, and I've enjoyed some of their later work too. This one definitely sounds like FtP, though I think there's a little more brass and other jazzy sounds being pulled in. I haven't listened enough to have any album picks yet. > > Have you listened yet? What tracks did you like best? What's your favorite FtP song?
(LP) Paradise State of Mind - Foster the People
Paradise State of Mind is the fourth studio album by American indie pop band Foster the People, released on August 16, 2024, through Atlantic Records, their first under the label. It is the band's first studio album since the release of Sacred Hearts Club in 2017, although they released an EP and a ...
Foster the People has a new album out, pretty good! Torches, their debut, is one of my favs, and I've enjoyed some of their later work too. This one definitely sounds like FtP, though I think there's a little more brass and other jazzy sounds being pulled in. I haven't listened enough to have any album picks yet.
Have you listened yet? What tracks did you like best? What's your favorite FtP song?
TIL: "Doom + Doom II" defines a new standardized compatability level for mods, ID24
ID24 is a specification and standard specifically aimed at mod authors and mods in general. It builds on top of the possibilities shown in the MBF21 standard, acting as a super-set of it, and was first implemented in the KEX Engine source port of Doom + Doom II. It was first used there for the Legac...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18580092
> I had wondered about how some things were done with the new episodes. I'm glad they released some documention and kept the standardization so that the rest of the broader Doom community can build off the new release.
TIL: "Doom + Doom II" defines a new standardized compatability level for mods, ID24
ID24 is a specification and standard specifically aimed at mod authors and mods in general. It builds on top of the possibilities shown in the MBF21 standard, acting as a super-set of it, and was first implemented in the KEX Engine source port of Doom + Doom II. It was first used there for the Legac...
I had wondered about how some things were done with the new episodes. I'm glad they released some documention and kept the standardization so that the rest of the broader Doom community can build off the new release.
Donald Trump Photo Without Ear Bandage Raises Eyebrows
Famous photographer Pete Souza has seemingly deleted his X account after a post doubting whether Trump was shot in the ear.
Updates:
Might be best for mods to lock this post at this point (is that a thing on Lemmy?) because this story is basically wrapped. The FBI says a bullet caused some ear damage. Maybe it was bullet shrapnel from a ricochet or something like that, but later photos show the teleprompters in-tact so it wasn't shards of glass from those. Trump's usage of the bandage (and the assassination attempt) as symbols and political tools has been discussed at length and I don't think conspiratorial thinking beyond that is very productive. Pete Souza took his own account down after getting a lot of harassment, so no further conspiracies are needed regarding X-formerly-known-as-Twitter at this time.
> A photo of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taken on Saturday without his ear bandage has sparked a wave of speculation.
> The image, taken by Alex Brandon of the Associated Press on July 27 and shared by photojournalist Pete Souza on X, formerly Twitter, shows Trump walking up an airplane staircase with an apparently fully healed ear wound just weeks after he was shot with a high-powered rifle.
> Souza, known for his tenure as the chief official White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, posted Brandon's photo on his now-deactivated X account on Saturday, writing, "AP photo this morning. Look closely at his ear that was 'hit' by a bullet from an AR-15 assault rifle."
> Souza's profile, @PeteSouza, which had over 200,000 followers, now reads, "This account doesn't exist, try searching for another," implying that he has deleted or deactivated it. If he had been banned, it would read, "Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X rules."
Commanding the Room: The Spread of Christian Nationalism in Louisiana Politics
“But it is dominion that we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are after. World conquest… we must never settle for anything less.” —George Grant, The Changing of the Guard: Biblical Bluepri...
I really enjoyed this high level review of how we got to where we are, and where they're trying to take us. From my favorite local left wing rag.
PlayStation has no games!
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35692489
> A callback to the PS3 early days.
Ashes: Hard Reset OST by John S. Weekley
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16392555
> Ashes: Hard Reset OST by John S. Weekley > > I saw over the weekend that the soundtrack had been released ahead of the upcoming (!) prequel (‼️) to the amazing series of Doom mods. The Ashes series rules, play them if you haven't. The soundtracks also rule and I had the Afterglow OST in heavy rotation all last year. > > This one is pretty good. Very heavy with callbacks to the previous OSTs and to the original Doom's music. "Romero Waiting for the Train" is particularly fun for it's mix-in of my favorite OG track. I can't wait to wander more post-apocalyptic subways to this groovy tune!