We’re doing our best! 🙂
To be fair, we know how to raise the temperature on a planet, but have never successfully lowered it
I like reading books, having meals with my spouse, seeing friends, listening to music, dabbling with my hobbies, and petting our cat.
Oh; and drugs
Niece locates her uncle Luis Armando Albino living on other side of the country after search sparked when she took online DNA test ‘just for fun’
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29541820
> A man who was abducted as a six-year-old while playing in a California park in 1951 has been found more than seven decades later thanks to the help of an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings. > > The Bay Area News Group reported on Friday that Luis Armando Albino’s niece in Oakland – with assistance from police, the FBI and the justice department – located her uncle living on the US east coast. > > Albino, a father and grandfather, is a retired firefighter and Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, according to his niece, 63-year-old Alida Alequin. She found Albino and reunited him with his California family in June. > > On 21 February 1951 a woman lured the six-year-old Albino from the park in West Oakland, where he had been playing with his older brother, and promised him in Spanish that she would buy him candy.
Kind of seems like a puff piece for China?
LLMs produce a string of outputs (from numbers) that are sometimes useful in some contexts and utterly useless in other contexts 🙃
Dang it now I have to update OpenWrt
I would’ve picked “repression” because it’s true and therefore (imo) darkly funny
I’m not removing this comment bc I think the discussion about suicide has some merits but please stop with the name calling and review the community guidelines. Thanks
One of my favorite instruments
I see a fair bit of fedoras at music festivals and even some hiking or beach days. I think the trilby is a goner though
When you've got to go to work on board a spaceship at 9am, but you've got a metal gig afterwards.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/23517820
TIL That you can download English Wikipedia in only ~100Gb
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17748238
> TIL That the entirety of Wikipedia is only ~100Gb and you can download it for offline use > > In light of the recent Crowdstrike crash revealing how weak points in IT infrastructure can have wide ranging effects, I figured this might be an interesting one. > > The entirety of wikipedia is periodically uploaded here, along with many other useful wikis and How To websites (ex. iFixit tutorials and WikiHow): https://download.kiwix.org/zim > > You select the archive you want, then the language and archive version (for example, you can get an archive with no pictures, to save on space). For the totality of the english wikipedia you'd select the "wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim" > > > The archives are packed as .zim files, which can be read with the Kiwix app completely offline. > > > I have several USBs I keep that have some of these archives along with the app installer. In the event of some major catastrophe I'd at least be able to access some potentially useful information. I have no stake in Kiwix, and don't know if there are other alternative apps and schemes, just thought it was neat.
New Ally Joins Fight to Defend Rooftop Solar in California
"It's outrageous that California regulators keep attacking rooftop solar and it has to stop," said one attorney in the case.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17401338
Relevant
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/12851483
> What's the craziest or funniest Wikipedia outline you've seen?
Nine killed in Seoul after car hits pedestrians
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17525307
Tips for first ascent?
Hey all, started playing SPD a month or two ago, really enjoying it! I followed a build guide from Reddit for “first win” using Mage with shielding and looking for the Potential enchant on armor. Worked well, did get my first win with it… now, I want to ascend!
What’s your go-to build for ascending? I know a lot of stuff is random per the seed, but still, I want your tips. One specific question, do you ration your health pots at all for the ascent?
Caviar
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15411587
> The state of streetwear lately let's be honest
Mumbai billboard collapse: Eight dead and dozens injured
Tens of people are still feared to be trapped with a rescue operation under way, emergency services say.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/15388716
> Mumbai billboard collapse: Eight dead and dozens injured > > > Tens of people are still feared to be trapped with a rescue operation under way, emergency services say. > > Archived version: https://archive.ph/Pru6m
PC Martin Briggs’ alleged treatment on day of fitness test left one woman bleeding from her ears
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13733540
> Dorset police instructor removed female trainees’ earrings with bolt cutters, hearing told > > > PC Martin Briggs’ alleged treatment on day of fitness test left one woman bleeding from her ears > > Archived version: https://archive.ph/Mid5o
inflation
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13611200
> You've got to do more than just forego that expensive avocado toast!
Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy in Zanzibar even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/7927997
> 8 children, 1 adult die after eating sea turtle meat in Zanzibar, officials say
After a Weekend Camping at a Music Festival
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12809654
> After a Weekend Camping at a Music Festival > > Creater is Your Childhood Ruined.
30 minute techno set with Elektron Syntakt and 303
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11429968
> 30 minute techno set with Syntakt & 303