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rainwall

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  • Football fans have been outraged to discover that getting to some World Cup stadiums via public transit will cost $80

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  • No bus costs $95/person to operate, especially when running at capacity. Its just gouging, plain and simple.

    You know its gouging because these trips already operate daily at $10-20/person, so its a 5x-10x markup for the same service offered the day before to literally anyone but the captive audience.

    That's explorative, and should not be part of our infrastructure like public transit systems, regardless of who it serves.

  • What do we do with this information?

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  • Take a look around. That shit is off.

  • Don't let your dreams be dreams

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  • texas before the islamic revolution

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  • Tauposting blocked

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  • What are you even supposed to do?

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  • "Rocks into replicators, my boy."

  • Which Genres Are Men or Women More Likely to Review (data from Goodreads)

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  • I think its actually gender color coded. The "male" side leans blue-ish, with the "female" side leaning towards pink.

    Using controversial forced gender roles colors as a axis is certainly a choice.

  • Canada to buy Swedish surveillance plane over US models

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  • The descendants of Lafayette will likely end up northward in that kind of conflict, in which case the US is fucked.

  • Let's just imagine that he's happy

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  • Its Camus, a famed French existentialist, so the buddist take is likely more in line with his intent. The core premise of his philosophy is that life has no instrinsic meaning, so you have to make your own with the radical, total freedom you have as a thinking being.

  • This is the way?

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  • I know, right? Really breaks my immersion when cartoon slug men are animated with unrealistic battle axes.

  • For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers

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  • Trucks are still tricky, but new EVs cars are about the same cost as new ICE cars. Used EVs are basically entirely reasonable and in some cases cheaper than used ICE.

    Nothing new is going to beat a paid off car for affordability, but that's a pretty apple to oranges comparison no matter how you slice it.

  • Rocket League will get updated to Unreal Engine 6 with new teaser shown

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  • I have it working without issue just via steam now. Deleting the game and enabling "proton experimental" in the games comparability settings downloaded the modern game. On start, it opened a browser tab and had me link my steam/epic accounts, and bobs your uncle.

    I have heroic launcher installed for gog/epic, but its not involved with this. Its good to know there is an alternative install path possible if I need it.

  • The circle of life

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  • Because they believe that AI will replace payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense. The more AI usage, the more likely they can eliminate jobs and give themselves bonuses.

    They are excited the way a farmer is excited when his pigs are gorging themselves on grain and getting really, really fat. The farmer is glad to pay for grain because its much cheaper than the money he makes from selling them for meat.

    They are giddy because its almost time for payday.

  • Rocket League will get updated to Unreal Engine 6 with new teaser shown

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  • Which version of proton? I can start the game and play bots, but the multiplayer is not availble for steam/epic friends. Literally no multiplayer browser loads at all.

    EDIT: Jesus. I'm still testing, but it looks like steam installs the defunct "Linux" build of rocket league that has not been updated for 6 years. You need to install the proton version instead by enabling proton experimental in the comparability mode.

  • Bambu Lab’s Bind: Company Stands By Its Position in Open Source License Fight

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  • There is not a "broad, international consensus" on digital locks. This was strictly the US using its trade and soft power to bully other nations into ratifying DMCA-like treatises or risk losing easy trade.

    That's all been blown up now due to Trump and his "tariff all the time" idiocy.

    Cory Doctorow has been pointing out very explicitly recently that with the threat of tariffs gone, that other counties should drop these stupid US prompted laws and instead encourage literal hackery in order to make home grown, billion dollar industries circumventing stupid bullshit:

    https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa

  • The circle of life

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  • Subscriptions are moving to usage based. Ain't gonna be $200/month/Dev soon. Gonna be $3-4k/month/Dev.

  • Music 🎶

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  • This is the way?

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  • Extremely. No leverage at all with a shaft that short. Might as well have rounded punch knives, which is not how punch knives work. This is like trying to kill someone with a rocker pizza knife in each hand.

    The hammer on the reverse is also just for show, because the finger guard prevents you from flipping your grip.

  • The Mandalorian and Grogu has lowest box office opening for a Star Wars film in Disney era

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  • The Simpsons movie had stakes and emotional impact. The Alaskan scene with Marge leaving Homer? Nothing in Mando comes anywhere close to it.

    I'd say most of the star trek movies did as well. The first one, while being the strangest of the bunch, hit you several times. The Wrath of Khan is rife with it, the nature of family. Even when they retconned Spock back in the next movie, there was weight there.

    Mando by all accounts was placid, shapeless pew pew nothing, with some cute scences and some bright flashing action scences, but with near zero growth or conflict for the titualar characters. They could have pushed the show forward, given Grogu more independence, really redefined the relationship that shows how kids grow from and away from their parents, but no. They split up, have a cute thing, have am action thing, then nothing of impact happens and it just resets to "man and baby go about their day."

    If you want to take your media to another medium, it should be to do something with it, something that matters, even if its only for a couple of hours. It should have some impact when it shirks its everyday bonds. That did not happen here.

  • Proton @lemmy.world
    rainwall @piefed.social

    Proton CEOs favored US antitrust chief Gail Slater ousted from Trump justice department

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/feb/12/us-antitrust-gail-slater-ousted-trump-administration