officermike

@officermike@lemmy.world
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Joined 12 months ago

Can't speak for OP, but I took a maybe ten-year hiatus from Minecraft and came back to find the were so baby more block types that it clogged my inventory and I felt overwhelmed and just stopped playing again.

Yeah, I also hate back-button hijacking. I suspect some websites do it to artificially force more page views for ad revenue. Try a long-press on the back button to view the history for that browser tab and click on the most recent page you think won't redirect.

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It’s kind of insane that there’s no provision at all for people who are going to be waiting this long

It's kind of insane that there's people waiting this long

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It's because as the hot air rises, cool air comes in from all sides of the fire. Your body blocks that air from one side, so the prevailing current of cool air feeding the fire is biased towards you and it carries the smoke with it.

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Or instead of investing in a redundancy or software failsafe for the angle-of-attack sensor that was problematic back in 2019.

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For anyone unaware of the reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

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Non-ferrous metals are still subjected to forces in the presence of changing magnetic fields through a combination of Lenz's Law and the Lorentz Force.

It's why when you drop a magnet through a copper pipe it falls slower than it would in open air.

Two in one!

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I mean technically 16 is a round number, but it's also a square which makes it sound less round and more pointy.

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Coming soon to a Supreme Court near you:

"It is this Court's opinion that this rule infringes on businesses' First Amendment right to free speech."

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Whoosh. OP was using Musk's own words against him.

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A proton is a positively charged subatomic particle doing in the nucleus of an atom. But in this context, Proton is a translation layer that allows games that were built for Windows to run on Linux.

Is there anything Trump hasn't lied about?

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Trump started that months ago.

Because there are legitimate reasons for some robo calls. Appointment reminders and confirmations, school weather closure announcements, two-factor login verification, etc.

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Does it really sound that odd? I would expect the exact same from USA-based companies regarding USA laws. Companies generally don't like hosting illegal content.

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"solemn ceremony"

Grinning with thumbs up...

I have, and as a tab hoarder, the transition has been rough. I really miss the tab grouping feature from Chrome, and I haven't found any FF extension that suitably replaces it.

I had already switched to mobile Firefox years ago for extension (uBlock) support, and that was an easy transition.

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I don't fully understand. The Supreme Court has granted immunity for official acts performed as President. Aren't the charges for this case for actions from before his presidency, and therefore not subject to immunity?

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You don't want your 1.4 million dollars back?

He has since paid his back taxes, so this isn't a valid argument.

"In the year after he disclosed a federal investigation into his “tax affairs” in late 2020, President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, paid off a significant tax liability, even as a grand jury continued to gather evidence in a wide-ranging examination of his international business dealings, according to people familiar with the case.

Mr. Biden’s failure to pay all his taxes has been a focus of the ongoing Justice Department investigation. While wiping out his liability does not preclude criminal charges against him, the payment could make it harder for prosecutors to win a conviction or a long sentence for tax-related offenses, according to tax law experts, since juries and judges tend to be more sympathetic to defendants who have paid their bills."

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html

Batman: The Animated Series

Unique art style (it was drawn on black paper), excellent writing, excellent voice acting.

My guess:

Non-alcoholic

Beer is here.

Keep cold.

Enjoy fresh.

Charge him with what, exactly? He has a first amendment right to fly whatever politically divisive flag he (or his wife if we're to believe him) chooses, just as anyone else does. As far as I'm aware, the Supreme Court still has no legally-binding ethics rules, so no matter how clear a bias he shows, there's no crime to prosecute. His recusal is at his sole discretion.

I don't know if the legislative branch has the authority to codify a legally enforceable code of ethics that has some backbone, but even if they do I'm sure someone would fight it up to the Supreme Court where they'd just nullify it anyway.

Currently have a ban after 15 weeks since last menstruation began.

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Technically not... They'd still have Canada.

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Probably true.

The car itself should never come with something that will require recurring payments.

Cars already do. Satellite radio has been a thing for decades now. I've never used it. Never felt the desire to use it. I haven't even taken the free trial. I'm less annoyed that it exists, and more annoyed that I'm forever fated to receive unsolicited junk mail for this feature that I have to unceremoniously dump in the recycling bin every couple weeks.

As for the remote start, yeah, it's kinda bullshit that they've removed the more permanent, older version of a feature to replace it with something out of the owners' control. If anything, it should exist in parallel with the key fob button, not replace it entirely. I'm less concerned about the fact that it's a subscription than I am about the prospect of that feature dropping support down the road with no recourse for the owner.

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I had an American-made 2001 Honda Civic that didn't start having significant problems until it was well over 100k miles. Had an American-made 2007 Accord that never had a major issue with 116,000 miles. Now have an American-made 2023 Integra, and I hope it fares the same.

Edit: but our American-made '96 Astro was a total piece of shit.

Ooof

Every Star Wars game...

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My boss has a Land Rover that was in the middle of an OTA update at one point in the first few months he owned it. Wouldn't start and appeared basically dead, and he didn't know it was updating. He had it towed to the dealer and it had finished the update by the time it got there.

I don't think it was anything beyond this short video.

To be fair, the description included "Florida-woman" so that alone disqualified those other two nutjobs.

To be clear, "final solution" is a phrase OP added for effect, not literally quoted from Trump in this instance.

Down in Palm Beach county there's still occasionally people who hang out on overpasses over I-95 holding Trump banners on the bridge over rush hour traffic. This was happening in 2023 when we weren't even in election season.

Other problem is that a weight shift has to be countered with elevator trim, which can increase aerodynamic drag and therefore fuel consumption.

Looks like blister packs of medication to me.

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I landed on Nova back in 2013 because it allowed me to assign secondary app shortcuts to icons on my dock that are accessed by swipe-up gestures. My hotbar has:

  • phone, but swipe up for contacts
  • messages, but swipe up for Gmail
  • music player, but swipe up for YouTube
  • Firefox, but swipe up for clock app

Haven't paid any attention to any newer launchers.

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If you give them permissions. Speaking from Android. Don't know how iOS works.

Range and guidance are not the whole package. I severely doubt North Korea has the ability to defeat US missile defenses.