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Speak for yourself. BeOS 2001 BeOS R5

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If only one could ignore state government so easily.

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Do you know what state legislative bodies are?

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Maybe the ventilation system failed in some way. A carbon monoxide buildup in a tunnel could be problematic.

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I always knew she was dumb, but I didn’t know she was that dumb.

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“hey here’s news. Maybe. I can’t actually tell you. It’s just what I was told. This hasn’t been relevant to me since it once was. But here’s a blog post about it. I like cheese.”

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Nailed it. Sorry @filister, definitely was not a commentary on your post.

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My wife has begged me for years to allow her to buy a taxidermy mouse posed as a stripper on a pole. I don’t get it.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/367238f7-2812-44c3-99d4-ff4ff92e10d9.jpeg

MDKAOD ,

This is just an anecdote, not a defense or counter argument by any means. Somebody around me has figured out how to import what I think is a Suburu Sambar. It’s a micro suv/truck, and I’ve seen more than three around my area suddenly. I’ve also seen a couple of right hand drive skylines all of a sudden, so I don’t know if something has changed, but maybe importing is an option

Moms for Liberty members call the cops on Florida librarians (popular.info)

Two members of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing activist group, have reported several Florida school librarians to law enforcement. They claimed they had evidence that librarians were distributing "pornography" to minors and requested that law enforcement officers be dispatched. This represents a serious escalation of the tactics...

MDKAOD ,

Democrats just booted a mom’s for liberty majority off 3 hotly contested school boards in my area yesterday. I understand the sentiment, but elections can work. Moving only reinforces the facism because it concentrates the bad.

MDKAOD ,

I just bought the only game I’ll likely ever buy on EGS. It was Alan Wake 2. Being published by Epic, it will unlikely ever be anywhere else until EGS shuts down.

My justifications are as follows: I love the developer and want to support them.

That’s it. The experience was… fine, but far from streamlined. The Epic achievement system is terrible. Imagine walking around in a horror game, immersed in the atmosphere, then a loud cheery mobile app chime blaps through your headphones and a giant banner splatters across the top of your screen announcing your achievement totally jarring you out of the atmosphere.

Then, imagine you find out you can turn on a ‘do not disturb’ mode by pressing shift+f3, then imagine you need to turn it on every time you launch the game. That’s the Epic Games Store experience in a nutshell.

MDKAOD ,

Love Shoresy. It’s a Letterkenny spinoff, it’s a comedy with an uptick of drama over the source material.

MDKAOD ,

I’ve found ground news to have a right slant. Both the owner and developer have traditionally right leaning interests. I don’t find the stories that get “promoted” to the front of ground ot be all that neutral.

I could be talking out my ass, but after trying to use ground for a few weeks, I felt that I was seeing more and more right wing talking points than what I consider neutral news.

YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market (www.404media.co)

The Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia is one of the most brutally obvious signs of America’s public health crisis. The so-called “open air drug market” in the middle of the country’s sixth most populous city is where hundreds of people use drugs, some of whom are unhoused, usually without being arrested by the...

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This is part of a larger political astroturfing campaign. There was a very comprehensive post on reddit about it when this garbage starting flooding into small subreddits. I’ll see if I can find it.

Found:

www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/…/hhp5s4u/

reddit.com/…/whats_up_with_the_influx_of_videos_a…

Original credit to /u/hoyarugby on reddit

For people who are actually interested in how this developed rather than flogging a particular political horse

Kensington is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia. It’s located not too far from the major highway I-95, and is also well-served by public transit via the Market-Frankford Line (commonly called the El, the elevated train above this street)

It was originally a neighborhood inhabited by Eastern European immigrants, who worked in garment factories, making things like stockings and hats - the textile industry was a key part of Philadelphia’s industrial economy

The textile industry was one of the earliest hit with deindustrialization - factories moved to the cheaper and non-unionized American South, and then overseas, and Kensington was hit very hard by this de-industrialization. White Flight wasn’t as bad here as in many other cities - Port Richmond, a neighborhood right next to this, is still largely white working class - but much of the white population fled and were replaced by Black migrants from the Jim Crow south, as well as hispanic immigrants

By the 60s the area had a large number of abandoned buildings, and the drug problem began then. First heroin in the 60s, then meth in the 70s, then crack and cocaine in the 80s and 90s. The neighborhood became a bit of a drug “emporium” because of its location - it’s right near major highways and train routes, so it was a common place for people from outside of Philadelphia itself to go buy drugs. And all of the abandoned buildings created ideal places for people to squat in and do drugs

But though the area was awash in drugs and drug addicts, the abandoned buildings paradoxically helped keep the problems less visible. Large drug/homeless camps were established in abandoned lots and other marginal space - drug addicts and the homeless congregated there

The current situation in Kensington is caused by two things - fentanyl and cleanup efforts

I probably don’t need to elaborate too much here, but the opioid epidemic and the influx of cheap fentanyl from China has turned the existing drug issue into an epidemic. Kensington is the place where you can get the most potent heroin on the east coast, for the cheapest price. It’s a place that draws in drug addicts, keeps them ensnared, and kills them via overdoses. And it’s the most potent of its kind in the country

Paradoxically, cleanup efforts pushed the problem from being somewhat invisible to being out in the open. In general, both the City of Philadelphia, and real estate money, have made an effort to buy up and restore/rebuild many buildings in the area. Kensington has excellent transit access to Center City, and is very close to the hottest real estate market in the city, the neighborhoods of Fishtown and Northern Liberties. Many of the buildings and abandoned lots that served as drug squats and homeless camps were bought up and torn down or restored, with the hopes that in a few years, Kensington will be the next hot real estate market in the city

The proximate problem that led to the current crisis was the clearing of a number of homeless camps, particularly the biggest one in the city, El Campamento which was established in the CSX railroad cut to the West of Kensington. After mounting complaints from neighbors and community leaders, CSX and the city finally cleared out the homeless camp. They were able to get some people housed and/or in treatment, but many addicts refused treatment/housing, and the drug problem will always create more homeless addicts. But now these homeless addicts didn’t have an established camp to go to, so instead they just started living close to the drugs - right under the El on Kensington Ave, which is what you’re seeing in this video. Basically, cleanup efforts pushed the homeless addicts out of camps where they were mostly out of sight, and into streets where they were very visible

The problem is really bad, as you can see, but there’s no obvious thing for the city to do. A charity tried to set up a safe injection site nearby, but both the Trump administration and locals blocked it from being established. The city’s homeless infrastructure isn’t really equipped to handle the numbers of people here - and even if it had the money, most of the homeless are addicts and will refuse to live in homeless housing that requires sobriety. Kensington is going to remain a convenient place to buy drugs no matter what thanks to its great transit links. And the opioid epidemic will continue to produce new addicts that will be ensnared by places like Kensington

Some articles:

inquirer.com/…/kensington-opioid-crisis-history-p…

nytimes.com/…/kensington-heroin-opioid-philadelph…

thephiladelphiacitizen.org/citizen-of-the-week-ch…

MDKAOD ,

I live in the area, Philly suburbs. We’re very aware of Kensington. We’re also very aware of public heath problems that are causing the problems that Kensington has. There’s been a very public fight over a supervised injection site that would save lives and provide resources for people to get help. Democrats want it. Republicans don’t.

You can be as opinionated as you want about it, but it’s something that affects me, and from your comment, my opinion is that you have a limited understand of the actual problem Kensington faces.

MDKAOD ,

Here’s the thing. A response like this on reddit wouldn’t have surprised me. But imagine what would happen if folks on the internet re-engaged the public filter of “ya know, I don’t really need to respond to this.” How much more pleasant life might be if everyone considered that from time to time.

inb4 something something irony, something something hypocrite

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Not really. It’s an indication of my awareness that I could have also just chosen to not say anything and moved on with my days plans of hosting a Rocky Horror movie night with a bunch of friends in my driveway. But I made a decision, just like you, again, made a decision to respond in a non-constructive way.

MDKAOD ,

I won’t play it again, because the story is burned in to my memory exactly how I want to remember it.

MDKAOD ,

The picture of the business card in the OP is the same picture used in the site linked in the email (and in your post)

How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

My 9yo daughter has a tablet with family link, so I can monitor what apps she wants to install. As the garbage games are mostly at the top free, she keeps asking for games that I reject, in most cases because it’s riddled with ads....

MDKAOD ,

Good luck. We tried that rule too, it has led to so much stress and fighting. I’m certainly not suggesting to not try and hold the line. I’m just wishing you luck with it.

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Fuck yes. Who the hell thought that was a good idea. Looking at you Steam.

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Found.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4ebb8743-96b8-4a69-9c13-fdafdaed10b6.jpeg

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I don’t know. I kind of liked rage face (and tangential meme) comics.

MDKAOD ,

A side note, with the announcement of the raspberry pi 5, there’s a lot of chatter about how the pi boards are big contributors to boinc.

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Because in theory, there will be “sister” communities on different servers and everyone can just go somewhere else on the same platform.

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Windows has kb/m prompts

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For the record, jedi survivor still crashes on Jedha with ready tracing turned on.🤷🏼‍♂️

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I’ve found that there are a few boomers who should be honorary millennials, as they have hard millennial energy, but there are exceptions to every rule.

MDKAOD ,

There’s a fun bingo game called “sloppy joes bingo” (it searches). Rooster Teeth pitched it and someone in the community made a card generator and Sloppy Joes is a bar in key west which has a youtube live stream of the road out front.

Lots of fun to be had at parties.

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Golden Earring - Radar love

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Tell that to my opnsense box that refuses to NAT mirror.

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We’re just one careless lab tech going surfing away from unleashing something accidentally.

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I have a pixel 6a. I have pixel buds. And I have a fossil sport gen 5 wear os watch.

Whne my phone rings, it’s a crap shoot which device will output audio and receive my voice.

Bluetooth sucks donkey balls.

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It’s not worth arguing with @atomic Apparently my pixel, with pixel buds and watch with wearos is also a software issue. As if the software issue might not lie within the software that drives the Bluetooth protocol, I. E. Bluetooth itself🙄

MDKAOD ,

Real talk, why can’t we just launch that shit into the sun? Obviously, I understand the risk of a rocket filled with spent fuel rods exploding is low Earth orbit and the weight to cost ratio, but are there other reasons?

Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)

Luis Chamberlain sent out the modules changes today for the Linux 6.6 merge window. Most notable with the modules update is a change that better builds up the defenses against NVIDIA’s proprietary kernel driver from using GPL-only symbols. Or in other words, bits that only true open-source drivers should be utilizing and not...

MDKAOD ,

TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE & GPL Condom has to be intentional double entendre right?

MDKAOD ,

39, Philly. Up until my current VW, yes. Couldn’t get a manual GLI when I was buying in 2021 and needed to make a decision. At least the dual clutch 7 speed DSG auto is fun as hell to drive and feels like a manual.

The Spotify Car Thing cost $100, but I can't use it anymore. (lemmy.ml)

EDIT: The only reason why I still had it at this point was because I could use it with other apps. However, now that my Spotify Subscription is cancelled, it doesn’t work with anything. It’s mildly infuriating because today, I can’t still use it with other apps like I was able to yesterday....

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Alex Jones Jr. Wing nut conspiracy theorist.

MDKAOD ,

Check out the S-town podcast. While not about watches, it’s about a guy who repairs antique clocks.

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I have footsoldier dogtags still. 10six was my jam. Still alive via project visitor.

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You underestimate the casual gaming crowd. The same people who buy all of the sims content, still play animal crossing to get cozy in bed before sleeping every night.

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EXPLOSIONS‽

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To be fair, ATI windows drivers were dogshit as well.

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Tell me more about these pizza steels. I know of stone, but a quick google shows me that steels exist, but why steel over stone?

MDKAOD ,

Thanks for the tip!

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