ZapBeebz

@ZapBeebz@beehaw.org
0 Post – 28 Comments
Joined 1 years ago

I mean, one good long term solution is either ban or heavily, heavily tax corporate ownership of single family homes. And heavily tax short term vacation rentals. Basically force all the companies that are buying up blocks and blocks of single family housing to sell.

Then, take a look at zoning laws. I have no experience with this side, but they're probably often a barrier to creating medium or high density housing. Which we're gonna need a lot of in the near future.

Apparently foreign home ownership is a big issue in Canada, so I have to assume it's also a (smaller) issue in the US.

Basically, the issue I see is not that there isn't enough housing. It's that corporate greed is pricing people out of their neighborhoods and then the houses are sitting empty because they're barely worth $150k, but the "market" says they can be listed at $400k, and not many people can afford that.

9 more...

I am hopeful, but not necessarily optimistic...if it lost power and descended below crush depth, no amount of life support is bringing them back.

2 more...

Frankly the biggest safety issue is that they have no transponder. So even if something goes wrong and they have to surface, rescuers are stuck looking for a drifting needle in a 41 million square mile haystack.

2 more...

I mean, in that case, it seems to me that the right move is to add Food Not Bombs to the network and allow the city to refer people to them. This is a group of people who clearly care about their community, and they should be given every tool to help them succeed.

I mean, it's not like anyone goes to Fox for real news anyways. I doubt any of their userbase would complain.

My cynical take is that the rights to any video games for those franchises are owned by the likes of EA, who just like recycling the same game over and over, year to year, because it's cheap and easy and brings in a boatload of profit from Mtx. Developing a new arcade style sports game would cost money and not be the guaranteed cash cow of, say, Madden 23.

Didn't Reddit already drop at least 40% in valuation from when they started the IPO process a year or so ago?

1 more...

So we continue to negotiate with terrorists. Glad to hear it.

I can't recommend Stardew Valley enough. It's $5, but so absolutely worth it. Especially since there are no mtx, and is still getting updates, albeit a bit behind the PC version. One of the best uses of $5 on the app store imo

The Factory Must Grow

2 more...

Well with all that taken into account, the fact that we haven't seen any evidence of the sub yet is a very bad sign.

What the actual fuck. They built a literal deathtrap

I gebuinenly would not be surprised if they wrote in an exception for the confederate dishtowel flag

Just make it so if you stop providing regular updates/servers/maintenance, etc. you lose the copyright

The real advantage to nuclear subs is their operational range, which is definitely an asset to the US and probably is to Australia. However, the most important part of the AUKUS deal is that not only is the US handing over some (probably) Flight III 688i boats or Virginias in the interim, but also the US and the UK are working with Australia to come up with an indigenous design for Australia to manufacture in country. The US and UK are also working to train Australian sailors and engineers on how to build, operate, maintain, and retire nuclear submarines, and that goes a lot further towards building Australia's defence capabilities than buying a handful of diesel boats from France.

I mean, anything will crack under pressure. The biggest issue I see is uneven compression of the two materials coupled with different fatigue behaviors. I'd feel a lot safer if the whole submarine was titanium, honestly. Barring that, a couple inches of solid steel would be just as comforting.

Ikr? It might be the nostalgia talking Atomic Purple is always an amazing look for handhelds

1 more...

It's controlled with a knockoff Xbox controller. I'll bet the "black box" is a cassette recorder bought from Goodwill for $3 and then spray painted black

I only found out about the emoji keyboard when I got a Microsoft ergo keyboard at work, and it has a dedicated button for the emoji keyboard

2 more...

An interesting point from Hoffman is the lack of inclusion of the filter holder, as well as the funnel. I bought a new aeropress 6-8 months ago, and it came with the filter holder (and 300 filters), but no funnel. So they've been going down this road for a little while.

Shame, too, because that funnel would be super useful for me

1 more...

Not the onion@lemmy.ml should be what you're looking for

3 more...

What worked for me was having a couple good friends in my degree program, and always doing the homework together on campus. I never did homework actually at home, and that did wonders for my concentration. I was able to say "if I'm on campus, I'm doing my coursework. If I'm home, I can do whatever I want", which really helped mentally.

1 more...

Interestingly, Trey Parker and Matt Stone bought Casa Bonita in 2021 and they just reopened it this month.

He's gonna end up with a public defender, isn't he?

Of course! The biggest help for me was having friends that kept me on track, just as I kept them on track. It's easy to convince yourself to take a 3 hour study break. It's hard to convince yourself and a couple friends of the same. Good luck!!!

I managed to get myself back into Snowrunner this weekend following the Season 10 release. Honestly it's my favorite expansion so far for two simple reasons: the second map has a garage, and all the warehouses (so far) have unlimited quantities of materials, instead of the limited set that has been the norm through most of Years 1, 2, and 3 (so far).

Otherwise, just grinding away on the OSRS group ironman as usual!

Definitely the mobile version of Stardew Valley

Honestly it could be just as simple as reddit spooling up the bots so the drop in users only looks low, when in fact the number of real people using the site plunged considerably.