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I’m not like a super political person, and from my understanding its the idea that if I make a $10 thing for the bossman, but only get $1 that is wage theft?...

…despite the fact that, for example, Flash was proprietary and they, especially now, provide all their products by subscription?

Assuming copyright laws don’t change by then, otherwise there is no way to know....

I don’t have my own instance or server, so I don’t know, but it would be interesting to know.

I originally signed up for lemmy about six months ago due to becoming outraged over reddit’s continual coddling of hard right and fascist powermods that use their authority to harass....

As a kid, I bruised all the time, very easily. Nowadays, I don’t bruise at all, with some exceptions....

It doesn’t freeze here too often, but when it’s going to we’ll go outside and set our faucets to drip to prevent freezing. I just have to remember to do this, and I worry that I’ll forget. Do those faucet covers work? Any other options?

We all know the story, so many passion projects are taken down by companies and most commonly not even for reasons that make much sense....

Almost every jar of pickles claims a serving of pickles has zero calories. Now clearly, this is incorrect and the result of exploiting some ridiculous FDA loophole, since anyone knows that cucumbers provide calories....

When I was young, I played a lot of air-combat games. If I remember well I learned the Ukrainian geography while Bombing Russian troops in Odessa playing USNF Video for the kids . Another game had a campaign in Yemen. If my memory isn’t too rusty, there was also Egypt and Korea campaign....

Some article websites (I’m looking at msn.com right now, as an example) show the first page or so of article content and then have a “Continue Reading” button, which you must click to see the rest of the article. This seems so ridiculous, from a UX perspective–I know how to scroll down to continue reading, so why hide...

Can you place a lit kerosene lantern in a wood stove that has a chimney? In a relatively small room such as a truck camper, would you be exposed to carbon dioxide or would it go out the chimney as if burning wood?

Part of me thinks there may be, but the way you sometimes see them used interchangeably also makes me think that consumer has taken on much of the same meaning as customer. Maybe depends on from which context you’re speaking, i.e. out/in business?

What’s stopping us from making smellulators, for games or movies?...

I came to lemmy months ago to get away from the rising reddit infection of hard right activist powermods that use their authority to harass their ideological enemies. For a while it was really nice, to be able to engage with a likeminded community without getting banned for saying things like ‘cheetolini is a seditionist’...

Imagine the following scenario: On the 9th of January 2024 in the morning we wake up to news that President of the USA Joe Biden suffered a stroke and died in White House. The administration confirms that the death was entirely natural and no third party contributed to it. Even before the news reach all TV stations another one...

Hello everyone....

Every so and on we hear about crazy stuff by “far right government” stuff like...

All our coffee is served with two shots by default. We’re not some fancy coffee shop, just a motorway service station that makes coffee to go. We have some regulars who order a decaff with an extra shot. I explain thats going to have three shots total, and they’re happy with it....