[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

I am genuinely interested in the line of logic that links "About to become leader of the free world" with "dated Montel Williams in 2001'.

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

To add to this, if your debit card is used fraudulently, that money is gone from your bank account forever. If your credit card is used fraudulently, you are on the hook for maximum $50, and in my experience it has always been $0.

I have had fraudulent charges show up on a CC about once every 2-3 years. In each case, the worst hassle is waiting a few days for a new card to arrive. That alone is enough for me to never use a debit card unless absolutely necessary.

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

If you can't get this ziptie around your waist, you're probably going to die soon

https://www.mcmaster.com/7177K64/

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

I haven't played monopoly since about 1996, but the house rules in your first point were how I was taught the game. Crazy how ingrained those mods are, and where tf did they come from!?

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Ultra HDR is a new image format available with Android 14 on supported devices & camera. Basically it's a JPEG image but some additional data added to it when captured on supported devices. With ultra HDR, images can have darker shadows and brighter highlights.

I thought the same thing at first, but it sounds like it is just that you can now view the "Ultra HDR"-ness within the app.

Also,

Google Messages doesn't strip the gain map metadata from images

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Maybe I'm getting whooshing here, but they are organelles, nor organites... no?

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

You know that nobody has ever claimed it's the only way a nutjob would kill people

But for whatever reason, it's vastly more common to murder.people with a gun than with a truck or fertilizer bomb.

Coincidentally trucks are licensed, registered, and highly regulated. And while I'm sure you can get around it, the sale of ingredients that can be used in bombs are generally tracked/regulated as well.

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

That seems more than a tad hyperbolic. My wife and I enjoy sitting in our backyard next to the fire and stargazing every now and again. We'll catch maybe a dozen satellites on a good night, during the couple hours post-sunset when you can actually catch the sunlight glinting off them. By about 2 hours after sunset, the number of objects that are both high enough to still reflect sunlight and large enough to see is pretty tiny.

I see vastly more planes with blinking lights and bright landing lights than I do satellites, and this has been the case for decades, but somehow that's not a threat to our enjoyment of the night sky?

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Why may it have been considered "no big deal" at the time?

Because the people who thought that way believed that the people being enslaved were literally sub-human.

So the question is still why is it relevant in any context whether slavery was considered acceptable at the time?

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Guys, hear me out... maybe rich companies aren't evil because of some top-down direction to be evil, but because the system through which they become large and rich encourages them to be evil. In that light, Wal-Mart has two choices: either they can be large, successful, and evil; or smaller, less successful, and not as evil. Surely I'm not the only one intelligent and worldly enough to realize that these companies have no choice but to keep wages low and muscle out local competition if they want to dominate international retail.

Some real galaxy brain shit there, OP.

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

My wife and I watch this at least a couple time per year and it never fails to get us laughing out loud!

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