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TheDudeV2

@ TheDudeV2 @lemmy.ca

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  • Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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  • Buddy. Take a breath for a moment. I mean this constructively; it's an opportunity to learn.

    What you've just said here is essentially this:

    1. Some journalists sometimes make errors.
    2. Therefore I choose to make an interpretive error.

    Please remember, we all make errors (myself included). The best of us learn from them.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Pulled “Indefinitely” By ABC After Over Charlie Kirk Comments

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  • Someone needs to DM to remind me (if you’re interested), but I built a pretty clever stack with all the arrs, a failsafe vpn network tunnel, dynamic dns, deluge, Jellyfin, jellyseer, reverse proxy. The works.

    It’s dead simple to use (my mother runs it no problem). There is a semi-manual setup process, but a few mildly tech literate friends got it running in a couple hours.

    Built for Windows, all deployed on docker. Works fine on Linux/Mac also.

    The reason I’m not sharing it in this comment is I never intended to share it publicly and want to ensure my repo is sanitized of any PII.

    If you’d like, hit me up sometime.

  • You can literally just see where any ship in the world is

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  • What a blast from the past!!!!! I worked on that ship for 4.5 months back in 2003 when it was the MSY Windsurf. Played the piano in the Lounge. Thanks for the smiles my friend!!! :)

  • Your Song by Elton John & Bernie Taupin

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  • I appreciate your graciousness; Elton is an impossibly high standard for anyone to be compared to 😜.

    I’m glad I could give you those goosebumps. Made my day! 🫶🙏

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Your Song by Elton John & Bernie Taupin

  • Upgrade to 0.19.7 on Sun Nov 24th at 10am PST - Complete

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  • You rock. Thank you for your professionalism.

  • Guess who's back

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  • And that the USA exists in 4 years. Not saying it won’t, but the chances are disturbingly higher than 0%.

  • Outage on October 30th 2024 @ 9:20AM (ET)

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  • Amen to that. Lemmy.ca admins seem to be doing excellent work. Thank you!

  • JD Vance falsely claims Donald Trump didn’t lose 2020 election

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  • This dude most certainly does not abide.

    Like, most of the time I do.

    Just not in this particular instance.

  • Not much of a picture, but I got to see the Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

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  • Nice pic. I’m a little jealous that you’ve been able to see it yourself, but mostly glad to know some people are getting the chance and taking the opportunity. Cheers! 😀

  • Not much of a picture, but I got to see the Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

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  • If you have binoculars you should try using them. It’s not so much about the magnification, but rather the amount of light collected. Basically, the diameter of the objective lens is bigger than your own eyeball lenses/irises, so therefore more light is collected and projected to your retina while using binoculars.

    I’m in western Canada right now and have so far not had the right conditions to see it myself. I’m hoping that might change in the next day or two.

  • Comparison of a picture from Mars (left) to a picture from Earth (right)

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  • I’m not a geologist but I’ve read up on it a fair bit.

    This Mars photo appears to be sandstone.

    On earth sandstone is usually associated with ancient rivers, lake shores, and sea shores. But also sand dune fields.

    The thing with sandstone though, is it’s not just sand. Rather, it’s sand plus time plus pressure plus cementation.

    Now, the time part is obvious. What’s sandstone now was sand a long ass time ago (usually).

    Pressure? That’s a little harder to understand for me here. Has mars ever had tectonic stuff going on to bury it (and hence have pressure applied), followed by erosion and uplift? Or am I incorrect and pressure is not a necessary condition? Maybe sandstone without pressure is a thing it’s just weaker and/or less dense? Maybe layers of volcanic basalt or something could have a similar effect? I don’t know and would love to have someone more knowledgeable fill this part out.

    Cementation? This part, I’m nearly certain, REQUIRES water. On earth anyway, this happens when ground water absorbs chemicals from other rock/stuff (for example carbonates from sea shells, but there’s lots of other chemicals that can do this), then flows through the beds of buried sand, and some of those chemicals are deposited along with magical chemistry stuff happening, and your sand becomes sand stone.

    So I don’t 100% know that the short answer to your question is “yes”, but I’m leaning towards a solid “yeah, probably, but I’m not a real geologist and Mars isn’t a real Earth so I dunno”.

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    Murder conviction remains reinstated for Adnan Syed in ‘Serial’ case as court orders new hearing

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  • I don’t really have an opinion on this case (in terms of Syed’s guilt or innocence), but it all just seems like such a shit show. If this guy is innocent he’s been repeatedly screwed by the system.

  • Johnson pulled strings to get Trump into Arlington — and now the scandal is spreading

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  • I abide.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    The State Fair of Texas is banning firearms, drawing threats of legal action from Republican AG

    apnews.com /article/state-fair-texas-gun-ban-da8b22f018f46dd770f65e799a6d3e6e

  • Plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters revoked - US government

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  • Thanks for providing this update. You added some sources and data that I didn't know, and your last point clearly articulates the set of likely causes of this misstep.

    When I first became aware of this story my gut-reaction was "I fucking hate unforced errors like this!"; I'm now very curious why this happened the way it did. Mind you, in the grand scheme of things I suspect this is nothing more than a fleeting political blip.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters revoked - US government

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c7202593k0xo
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    Trump's answer today reminded me of his infamous "Nuclear" quote.

  • The likes the upvotes

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  • I got 2.7k on a post, but I just got lucky.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS

    www.bbc.com /news/live/world-us-canada-69069142
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Arizona Supreme Court rules state must adhere to century-old law banning nearly all abortions

    www.cnn.com /2024/04/08/us/arizona-supreme-court-abortion-access-tuesday/index.html
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    Gunfire and blaze at Moscow concert hall, reports say

    www.bbc.com /news/world-europe-68642162

  • Study suggests up to 1 in 5 U.S. adults currently suffer from major religious trauma symptoms

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  • I'll just leave this here:

    https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/

    Recovering From Religion is a fantastic organization which exists to help people through this sort of thing. They've got lots of catalogued resources (podcasts, articles, videos, etc.), a 24-hour helpline, online support groups, and other helpful resources.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years, but signal weak

    apnews.com /article/moon-landing-private-company-intuitive-machines-9c896bfca61582773d381f4045fd35d7
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Ex-FBI source charged with Biden lies is tied to Russian intelligence, prosecutors say

    www.npr.org /2024/02/20/1232789953/alexander-smirnov-fbi-informant-biden-hunter-ukraine
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Ex-FBI source charged with Biden lies is tied to Russian intelligence, prosecutors say

    www.npr.org /2024/02/20/1232789953/alexander-smirnov-fbi-informant-biden-hunter-ukraine
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump seeks Supreme Court pause in 2020 election case

    www.bbc.com /news/world-us-canada-68277167
  • World News @beehaw.org
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    Alaska Airlines grounds 737 Max 9 planes after section blows out mid-air

    www.bbc.com /news/world-us-canada-67899564

  • I have never understood that.

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  • It’s not just a fat or muscle thing. Those both contribute of course; fat insulates and muscle produces more heat. But the real player is the surface area to volume ratio.

    A bigger person has a lot more volume than they have a bigger surface area, and since heat is lost through the skin this has a major impact.

  • Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world

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  • I agree that, if the detection is accurate and correct, it could be produced through non-biological processes, but, on earth, the molecule in question is known to be produced solely by biological processes. So when you say “easily”, I must disagree.

  • Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world

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  • This is very preliminary data, and we shouldn’t get overexcited about the possible implications of this discovery, but I think it’s fascinating.

  • Science @beehaw.org
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    Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world

    www.bbc.com /news/science-environment-66786611