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dustyData

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  • 40 year old hero

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  • Nothing like the Taken 3 scene of him jumping a fence from 19 different angles, each shown for less than 1 second to hide the fact that Liam Neeson absolutely cannot jump a fence to save his life? I think that was the craziest stunt on the entire trilogy. TIL, in cinematography it is called a “blender cut”. Because it looks like they just put all the clips on blender and stitched them at random.

  • 40 year old hero

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  • They still felt the need to make the protagonist a fresh out of school lawyer. It wasn't that far off.

  • What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ??

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  • Launching in a workable state is criminally underated by publishers. A bad game can eventually be patched after launch, sure, but a botched first impression takes decades to switch in the public eye. Look at cyberpunk and witcher games. Beloved after decades of bug fixes, but not everyone has the good will of CD projekt red to burn through. A bad first impression can turn a good if unimaginative game into "that ugly game that was broken at launch" forever. And let's be real, 90% of a game's lifetime profit comes during the launch window.

  • Amount of paper I used in one school year

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  • I recognize the complexities involved. But as long at data centers are fueled by a fossil based grid and use clean water for cooling, this amount of paper is not hurting more nor less. OP is fine, if they want to save trees the move is to stop corn and palm oil in products. That's what is destroying forests.

  • Not remotely

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  • It doesn't matter because it's a ghost posting and the position isn't real anyways.

  • Not remotely

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  • Had a night shift for 5 years. I will never be able to sleep normal again. A decade after leaving my brain still has issues keeping a regular schedule, I get random bouts of sleepiness in the middle of the day. And when stressed my brain refuses to sleep some nights.

    It was pretty chill while doing it, though.

  • Amount of paper I used in one school year

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  • Before full paperless, a college semester for me was a quarter of a small closet stack of paper. By the time I graduated it was a couple of notebooks and a tiny binder not larger than yours. Paper is super recyclable, paper is not what is killing the rainforest, if that is your concern. A single Google data center kills more and wastes more resource than all the tiny paper stacks of each student combined.

  • Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics

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  • I agree, but again. Elections are not even technically required. There are democratic decision making structures that don't rely on election of representatives or voting. Specially on direct democracies, it's but one of the many ways to ensure the prevalence of democratic values.

  • Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics

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  • Elections are not the defining trait of democracies. Technically they are not even a requirement. This is why plenty of autocracies can actually have a ton of elections.

  • Property tax cuts sound great — until your city can’t fund schools or police

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  • If you can tax property, then you can tax unrealized gains of stock. Tax the billionaire class.

  • It's swimming, I would've thought the drugs would help

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  • The problem is that with the potential damage to the body and their career this is exactly what happens. Only the retired or mid performers are willing to actually take on the experiment. Top athletes already use some forms of doping but are very protective, since they have more to lose. Only those with nothing to lose will go all in on the enhancements.

  • Whats the dumbest thing youve ever heard?

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  • "I hear what you're saying, but have you considered losing your convictions and compromising your principles?"

    — average politician

  • how much money is there in total?

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  • That's actually the valuing (wealth) definition of money. But money doesn't have to be that way. There are economic theories that propose decoupling value from debt by having two different mechanisms for each function. Part of the inequality reproduction problem is that both debt and wealth are coupled in our current fiat money systems without any real underlying value equivalence.

    First forms of money made sense when money was made of valuable metals. The value was intrinsic to the physical object. Debt was managed by paper accounting. Or paper money like in China. Then paper debt was based on gold, like the early xix century money. Finally, modern fiat money stopped being backed up by gold and today it is purely debt, though it is still used as value. Which has accelerated the negative effects of capitalist labor extraction.

    Like, Jeff Bezos doesn't do $55k per minute of labor. But, amazon does extract and steal that amount of labor and funnels it towards his pockets (actually steals much more). While the workers receive an infinitesimal fraction of their own labor. They can do that because there's no friction from having to transform said labor into an actually valuable medium, like silver or gold.

    This is why the other response to OP's question is that fiat money is actually infinite. The us treasury snaps their fingers and billions come into existence. It's pure abstract value.

  • It's time to talk about my writerdeck

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  • It makes me sad that e-ink is so niche that it will never reach a truly cheap price. Last time I checked it seem to have already achieved its mass production potential. It is so hard to manufacture already, and newer developments just find ways to make fancier screens that are even more expensive and complex to make. The process to make them is already as efficient as it can be.

  • What piece of technology can we not have because of society?

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  • Nuclear was killed by Greenpeace, not only did they take tons of money from shadowy donors to bad mouth nuclear (they turned out to be fossil industry related), they did it via spreading misinformation and plain lies. Everything incorrect the public thinks they know about nuclear power derives from a Greenpeace campaign. The worst part is that coal has killed more animals and people than all of nuclear incidents combined, including the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)

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  • Wow, that's a lot of projection on a single comment. I didn't disagree with any of the comments. And I'm not attacking anyone. Chill down, we are talking about software ffs.

  • People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)

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  • Always remember that the point of this scene is that the guy saying “I don't think about you at all” is an insecure prick who is constantly anxious of losing his power and status. He thinks about it all the time, this scene is just bravado to keep up a façade of suave indifference, but inside he is spiraling out of control because the other dude took a project away from him. So, this meme doesn't say what you think it says.

  • People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)

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  • Pangolin then.

  • People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)

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  • There's only one, well, now two with yours, comments about that. Any negativity is being brought here by you. Sure, people who use jellyfin advocate for it whenever they can. Just like Linux users can be seen as insufferable by windows only people. Or self-host fans can be felt as insufferable by people happy giving their data to google, Microsoft, meta and apple. But then, you fucking missed your turn, this is self-host, what do you think people were going to talk about here?

  • Books @lemmy.world
    dustyData @lemmy.world

    Boundless (previously Unbound) has informed over 238 authors they won't be getting paid royalties on books they already sold

  • Games @lemmy.world
    dustyData @lemmy.world

    The games industry sucks

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    dustyData @lemmy.world

    What is you backup tool of choice?