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  • Welsh tourist detained in US immigration centre calls conditions 'horrendous'

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  • Melissa Chavin, a US immigration lawyer based in London, said Ms Burke could be released either through voluntary departure or expedited removal, but the process of appearing in front of a judge as part of voluntary departure could be delayed because several dozen of the approximately 700 immigration judges had resigned or been fired by the Trump administration.

    This is pretty much is in line with what you say. Processing cases quickly to legally and humanely bring people through the immigration doesn't appear to be the goal from this administration's actions.

  • Do you often dumb-down what you say on social media?

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  • A little bit. If I offer too specific expert knowledge I could be doxxing myself, so I make a version that sounds like I just picked it out from the top search engine result, but works well enough as an answer.

  • CAW

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  • Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”

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  • "Why hasn't anyone designed a building like this before?"

    "Oh."

  • "Generational Disillusionment:" What It Took Young People in China to Get Their Jobs

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  • I guess China is no stranger to the high inflation more risk-averse economic environment.

    Took me a year and 150 applications and 10 interviews to find the job that I wanted. I wouldn't want to wish the stress of job seeking on anyone.

  • President Biden: student loan borrowers enrolled in SAVE “who took out less than $12,000 in loans and have been in repayment for 10 years will get their remaining student debt cancelled immediately"

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  • My uneducated guess is that banking corps getting "harmed" by the fact they can't suck money out of their borrowers will have to spend more effort putting each order through the courts.

    At the very least, the more times that Biden's student loan forgiveness plan is blocked like this, it will get it into voters' heads that it's not the President and Democratic party's failure to act but co-ordinated obstruction by Republicans and the financial institutions.

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    Dunkey's Guide to Streaming Services

  • Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

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  • You make a decent point, but the disconnect between people paying for content and the money going to the people who contributed effort to it is getting wider and wider.

    Popular shows that people subscribed for get axed after 1 season or moved to another service. All the work people did for Warner Brothers' Batgirl gets thrown in the trash so that WB can get a tax write-off, before any movie watcher can even give a cent to them in support.

    The point is big studios make so much year after year that pirating their stuff doesn't make a dent in whether the people they hire get paid accordingly.

  • Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

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  • Many scene groups actually purchased the games and cracked them, I've read NFOs that say "buy the game, we did too".

    People recording in movie theatres have to either sneak into the theatre or buy a ticket themselves.

    Someone scanning a book to post online had to have bought it or borrowed it.

    Yes some games are cracks of illegitimate obtained leaked copies or other unscrupulous methods.

    I have played pirated games in the past but my Steam library has thousands of dollars worth of games I bought, many of which I wouldn't have if I weren't interested in these type of games to begin had pirating games not been possible.

    Sure, the opportunity cost from piracy's "lost sales" to the publisher/licensor is non-zero. But how many sales that would have happened varies greatly on the perceived value vs. price of the product, and how available it is. If it's not in stores anymore and can only be bought from scalpers on eBay, the publisher cough Nintendo cough doesn't see that money anyway vs. pirating it.

  • Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

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  • Some countries have a blank media fee on writable casettes, discs and hard drives that are paid to music and movie studios for this purpose.

  • Zones vs Flat Fares: What’s the Better Transit Fare Scheme?

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  • Caltrain and Metrolink (California, USA regional trains) have the right idea. Low income Americans by and large carry EBT cards. They give a 50% discount on tickets when scanned. Of course this could be technologically easily made free but it's a start and the remaining challeges are financial and political.

  • How is Interrail?

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  • I did an EU Rail pass trip (same as Interrail but for people outside EU), because I love taking the train. Visited 9 countries in 3 weeks, spending 120 hours of my trip on a train or transferring. I had a lot of fun.

    Every train system is a little different, fare structure is a bit different here and there. In Germany it's easy to get around without paying extra, in France you'll have to pay extra often. Italy it's a small fee but you have to pay it for every reservation.

    You can get used to sleeping on a train, and if you're young enough then some NightJet 3 seater coach cabins aren't too bad. But be careful of overdoing it; at the end of the 3 weeks I was so tired I took the wrong train from København, Denmark and ended up in Nykøbing Falster at 2AM.

    Wherever you go, be mindful that cost of staying varies wildly too, especially if you're coming from Romania. Switzerland was expensive as hell for a young and broke traveler like me.

    Including the plane ticket, rail ticket and reservation fees, hostel fees, food, beer and a couple souvenirs, I spent 4000 CAD over the 3 weeks, which works out to 200 CAD a day. This was in late spring 2022.

    Be aware of the weather of where you're visiting, this is true of any international trip but if you will be travelling far across various European climates it's extra important to remember.

  • Warcraft 2 / Starcraft type games ( or clones, or engine recreations )

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  • Official Blizzard, idk if you've played just the original basegame or the Brood War expansion. There is Starcraft Remastered, which has updated graphics and usability improvements but doesn't add much other than that over the original.

    An open source Brood War engine seems to exist but development appears to have stalled.

    For SC2 the coop missions and the custom games are imo the most fun to be had in that game.

    In terms of RTS genre, BAR is an epic scale free and open source RTS that feels like a distant cousin, but doesn't have the deep lore that Starcraft has yet.

    I'd also recently caught word from a fellow Lemming about a new game in development called Stormgate, worked on by some ex-SC/WC devs under a new studio. Gameplay has a very similar look to the former two.

  • UAW Launches Largest Organizing Drive in Modern American History

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  • There's hardly a better time to do it, than off the back of the massive contract wins the unions fought for and successfully attained.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • Wishing you a speedy recovery.

    Last weekend I built a new PC which I collected parts over 6 months when I could afford them, and today I replaced all my burnt out light bulbs! My room is a lot brighter now!

  • A doctor tried to renew his passport. Now he’s no longer a U.S. citizen.

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  • Dang, if he's not going to get his citizenship instated, he might as well spend his retirement committing crime for fun under diplomatic immunity.

  • @gaming Playing Video games can adjust my mood so much that I might forget my sorrows.

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  • Good games give me the same feeling as reading a good fictional novel: I get transported into the universe, following the character or whatever action is unfolding.

    More generally, games give the player a goal to achieve, whether that's winning over others, cooperating with others, completing a campaign, collecting a bunch of goodies (or all the goodies), relaxing and enjoying scenery, crafting min-maxed playthroughs, or trying over and over again to beat a level.

    Being focused on this goal can help keep your mind off of whatever is troubling you in the present.

  • Amazon hit by strikes, protests across Europe during Black Friday

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  • I don't know how likely it is (seems unlikely as it was coordinated until Monday), but if they can maintain strikes through to Christmas, then it would have a major effect. People ordering a week before will not get it in time.

  • You've heard of the PS5 slim, but have you heard of the PS5 mega?

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  • エアーステーション

    Airstation

  • Tenants united against corporate landlords: York South-Weston tenants mount Toronto’s largest rent strike

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  • Best the Ontario conservative government could do was to open up protected Greenbelt land so his developer buddies could make a quick buck without actually developing anything. Sorry.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • That's a great mindset to have. Life kicks everyone in the ass at certain points, but the will to continue forward has to come from you.

    I raise my glass of milk to you and your new life.

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    How has Cities:Skylines II been for you?

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    Cocoon (dunkview)

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    5 million bees fall off truck on Guelph Line in Burlington, Ontario

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/hamilton/bees-off-truck-burlington-1.6951640
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    Videogamedunkey - Bigmode Memo 2023

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    The Best Pizza from Every State - Videogamedunkey

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    Shadow the Hedgehog - videogamedunkey

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    Elton John - The Bitch is Back (Live, 2000, NYC)

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    Revisiting Uncharted 4 - Videogamedunkey

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    Technology Connections talks about a red fridge from Walmart for an hour

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    One Day More to Reddit Blackout

    teddit.net /r/Lemmy/comments/146m4r7/one_day_more_to_reddit_blackout_meme/
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    Look at how much this place has grown!

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    Jerboa v.0.0.32 backported to Android 5.0

    github.com /ShinyLuxray/jerboa-lollipop
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    Jerboa v.0.0.32 backported to Android 5.0

    github.com /ShinyLuxray/jerboa-lollipop