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Is Ernest still here?
  • I bet a lot of folks have just quietly given up or moved to lemmy or mbin because they’ve gotten frustrated with all the issues.

    I guess it's not quiet once I post this, but I submitted the account deletion request a couple weeks back and spent some time setting my feedly back up after 1 too many spam posts. I'm already getting my scrolling fix from rss feeds again, and this is the first time I've been on kbin in a week.

    tl;dr: you're right.

  • Tributes to Alexei Navalny, Putin's greatest foe, removed from Russian cities as police look on
  • Or the weapons. Have to imagine there's a pretty wide disparity between the police and average citizens. If Prigozhin/Wagner couldn't get it done, it's not exactly a simple task for some politically progressive average folks.

  • Judge Engoron Takes Parting Shot at Ivanka Trump
  • A few seconds past the timestamp I linked:

    As good as my memory is, I don't remember that. But I have a good memory.

    So you don't remember saying you have one of the best memories in the world?

    I don't remember that.

  • Judge Engoron Takes Parting Shot at Ivanka Trump
  • Seems like she didn’t inherit her father’s “perfect memory”.

    Sure she did.

  • Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired
  • I got ya. I'm agreeing that he's a coward and an idiot, but disagreeing that he might not have been trying to murder a guy. He might not have believed it was murder, because of the idiot part...but the video convinced me he was intentionally trying to kill the unarmed man in the back of his car.

  • Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired
  • At an active threat, sure. When the dude's been searched, handcuffed, and trapped in the back of a car...there's some personal responsibility, imo.

  • Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired
  • Would just be an idiot and a coward trying to kill a man.

  • Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired
  • You don't mag dump like that if you don't care. He very much was trying to kill him.

  • The CDC may be reconsidering its COVID isolation guidance
  • like we’ve learned absolutely nothing from the experience

    We've learned a lot, it's just what we've learned is about the nature of our employers and our value to them.

  • Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor
  • vSphere was never available in the free tier.

  • A crowd set fire to a driverless Waymo taxi in San Francisco, as tensions about driverless tech grow
  • No human would be dumb enough to park there.

    There's at least 3 other cars parked there clearly visible in the videos.

  • Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor
  • The reality is that nobody's learning much useful from Free ESXi, as you need vCenter for any of the good stuff. They want you using the eval license for that, which gives you the full experience but only for 60 days.

    Still, there's a lot of folks running free ESXi in labs (home and otherwise) and other small environments that may need to expand at some point. They're killing a lot of good will and entry-level market saturation for what appears (to me at least) literally zero benefit. The paid software is the same, so they're not developing any less. And they weren't offering support with the free license anyway, so they're not saving anything there.

  • A crowd set fire to a driverless Waymo taxi in San Francisco, as tensions about driverless tech grow
  • I don't believe it was, based on the other cars present in the videos.

  • A crowd set fire to a driverless Waymo taxi in San Francisco, as tensions about driverless tech grow
  • Seems like the witnesses saw it differently.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/12/waymo-set-on-fire-sf/72567647007/

    "They were putting out some rage for really no reason at all. They just wanted to vandalize something, and they did," witness Edwin Carungay told KGO-TV.

    The witness told the outlet the Waymo was vandalized and set on fire by a big group of people.

    "One young man jumped on the hood, and on the windshield.," Carungay told KGO. "That kind of started the whole melee."

  • Uber, Lyft, DoorDash drivers in the U.S. to strike on Valentine’s Day for fair pay
  • What about contacting them and telling them you'd like to place an order but won't be because of the long wait times (which should reflect in the apps if they're striking)? You can include a suggestion that they pay a fair wage to attract enough drivers to meet the demand they're failing to meet.

  • Jury foreperson in Jennifer Crumbley case says the mother failed to 'secure' the gun used in the mass shooting from her son
  • Sure, if you're willing to count my house as a "fence," otherwise the same logic would make you liable if someone breaks into your house and drowns in your bathtub. Of course it's not likely at all, but if someone were to smash down your front door to commit suicide in your tub, nobody's going to argue that's your fault.

    I'll agree that leaving a firearm laying in the open in your back yard should be criminally negligent though, so can get behind that much of the pool analogy.

  • Jury foreperson in Jennifer Crumbley case says the mother failed to 'secure' the gun used in the mass shooting from her son
  • I’m not saying that is the case here, but I’d like to know if it is.

    It's not. The reason I called out the specific Nanovault in another comment was that a friend had locked his (the gun bumped into the internal button to change the combination and it had gotten changed and was unknown, another ridiculous design flaw). Rather than mess around with cracking the new combination, I shoved the blade of my pocket knife into it, twisted it, and it popped open. Literally the same amount of effort/force and sticking a key into a keyhole and turning it, but without needing the actual key.

    After realizing how secure it wasn't, he decided to test the other one he had before replacing them. Picked it up and dropped it from about waist height onto the garage floor (empty, no gun in it). It popped open, sending little plastic bits from the locking mechanism everywhere.

    Yet, these are generally considered to meet the California legal standard of "a locked container or in a location that a reasonable person would believe to be secure."

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    www.ign.com Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not Expands the Critically Acclaimed Franchise - IGN

    The Life Is Strange saga is expanding again in the form of Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not, a comic series set after the events of True Colors. heck out our exclusive cover art reveal.

    Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not Expands the Critically Acclaimed Franchise - IGN
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