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  • Hot air balloons

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  • How's this?

    Also, in the first picture the walker was blown off because the balloons were tied down. In this picture, the balloons are moving with the wind, so the walker won't be blown off so easily.

    That's another thing about being up in a balloon that surprises first-timers, there's no wind, and it's very quiet, when the burner isn't burning.

  • Hot air balloons

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  • New Mexico

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  • They occasionally do bump off each other, usually during mass ascent at the Balloon Fiesta.

    Those are houses. About 2500 sq. ft., two floors, no basement.

    It's the biggest park in the neighborhood, mostly grass, plus a dog run area, and a small playground. The three smaller parks get many more visitors than this one. It's a waste of space and water, IMO, because people don't use it very much. Maybe there just aren't many kids near it?

    I dunno if you can find the video online, but many years ago, when I was on a balloon crew, a balloon (not "my" balloon) was up when it was too windy, and the envelope collapsed partway, the throat, where the fire shoots up, was closed, and the balloon was falling. Near the end, the pilot in desperation, burned, and snapped half of the cables holding the basket. The basket tipped, and they all fell to their death. So, yeah, like any transportation method, there are dangers.

  • Where is your god now?!

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  • If they had asked, the answer would have been "Yes. Yes, we should."

  • Hot air balloons

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  • My guess is skydiving.

    Or, tightrope walking?

  • Hot air balloons

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  • I saw you like hot air balloons...

  • Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs

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  • I feel like we've been seeing AI coding doing a shit job at big corporations, i.e. Microsoft. My expectation is that the harder Meta leans into AI, the worse their products will get, and they'll start begging their employees to come back--and I hope they get the finger in response.

  • Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'

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  • The biggest clue was when they started referring to us as a "resource". We're just another input on their spreadsheet.

  • Hot air balloons

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  • From my walk this morning. Buncha crazy mofos up there.

  • Would it be wrong for a lawyer to defend the killer of their family member?

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  • No, because people's morals are their own.

  • I have to mop today AGAIN

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  • Life was a lot easier, before we made it so easy.

  • I have to mop today AGAIN

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  • ‘Every health facility said they were full’: alarm over rapid spread of Ebola in DRC

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  • No one outside of Africa will pay attention to this till it starts taking large numbers in Europe.

  • Jellyfin to quadruple their prices following Plex's price increases

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  • We're going to need to double Bezo's taxes to pay for this.

  • Solar electricity is poised to overtake coal in—of all places—Texas

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  • Makes sense, lots of open land and lots of sun. Just don't tell MAGAs.

  • Immigrants don't take our jobs

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  • The landscaping company my HOA contracts with is having trouble finding people to do the work, after, of course, many of their employees were rounded up.

    My idiot neighbors are whining about how their yards look like shit, because the landscapers aren't coming around once a week, like they used to. The same idiot neighbors who urge everyone to "vote red" and are absolutely certain that only "illegal" immigrants are being "deported".

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  • We all could if we started early enough. I didn't get a language class option until high school, and by then it was almost too late. Americans should be taught English and Spanish in school from the first day of kindergarten. But, for now that's a pipe dream, American public schools are a complete disaster at the moment.

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  • Extracting money from the ignorant.

  • Bezos says taxing him more won't help teachers. Mamdani disagrees.

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  • If people want me to pay more billions, then let’s have that debate.

    Nonsense. He's not open to debating this. Not at all, not fairly. If it were one person, one vote, they'd all lose, and they know it.

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Billionaire Trump Is Angling for a Massive TikTok Payday | $10 billion

    www.thedailybeast.com /billionaire-trump-is-angling-for-a-massive-tiktok-payday/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Blocked in Europe, deployed abroad: The facial recognition system monitoring Brazil’s schoolchildren

    www.investigate-europe.eu /posts/facial-recognition-software-ai-europe-brazil-school-children
  • Antique Memes Roadshow @lemmy.world
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    2006 called, they said we need better memes and left this

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Live updates: Venezuela’s Machado says she presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize during meeting

    apnews.com /live/donald-trump-news-updates-1-15-2026
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Lyft and Uber drivers protest Waymo robotaxis as California considers further regulations

    apnews.com /article/waymo-lyft-uber-protest-california-robotaxi-ae899573f4b12aa1844656fa5f7365ec
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building

    apnews.com /article/kennedy-center-jazz-jam-canceled-993fdbcbadb34da635799012e7369452
  • Just Post @lemmy.world
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    Merry Christmas

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that

    apnews.com /article/hhs-medicaid-fraud-3d40bf698ab845859e3ad6bb4131e8e7
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim 'Trump Accounts'

    apnews.com /article/michael-dell-susan-trump-accounts-stock-market-poverty-inequality-7e2615d50a3fc0563109ed0eeb4c41e1
  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I eat the same meal every day, and have for the past four years.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA) lead to midterm worries

    apnews.com /article/election-security-cisa-2026-secretaries-state-midterms-6d18799c6c5fdd1bc001544b2dca12bf
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    The Surveillance Grid Tracking Everyone and the "person" getting rich off of spying on all of us

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    So, did a new printer drop? LOL

  • News @lemmy.world
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    SpaceX launches the 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket

    apnews.com /article/spacex-starship-elon-musk-b4ac6a3ff6ecb04100fab1ac7cf832e6
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Linux Mint--I've unmounted an ISO, but it still shows under Devices in the File Manager. How can I remove it?

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump asks Supreme Court to quickly take up tariffs case and reverse ruling finding them illegal

    apnews.com /article/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-emergency-powers-law-3c71bfeeeb0f9fe56652d9dc23c1991c
  • Reddit @lemmy.world
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    1,000,000 comment karma, 8-year-old account, and I was banned for seven days...

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
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    Typoglycemia?

    www.dcode.fr /typoglycemia-generator
  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    I can't block a community I was banned from. The button is gone.

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Sorting by Controversial is broken.