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thedirtyknapkin @lemmy.world
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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising
  • i think the only way Linux is increasing it's market share beyond fringe enthusiasts (that's us) is by more devices coming with it pre-installed. expecting anyone outside of the tech space to change the operating system their device came with is a pipe dream

  • State Farm asks for huge California home insurance rate increase, signaling financial distress
  • well, until that's required of them, businesses will just get beat by someone with the same success as then that doesn't save money for a Rainy day. any money not being spent to make more money is wasted to them.

    and remember, the companies aren't people. the people with money in them also have money in 1000 other companies. they're not actually that concerned about them succeeding long term. they have more to gain by pushing fast and hard knowing that 80% of them will fail because the few that don't are worth around a trillion dollars.

  • Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? Here’s the evidence
  • i just... harming the cultural artifacts is damaging to all of humanity. they should be targeting the people responsible more directly first. target their houses and their boats and them personally. target their families and the people around them. target the art they own...

    hell, the same group does do things that hit the appropriate targets. i just don't think they're going the right direction with the art protests specifically.

    the article is right, this isn't going to change anyone's mind one way or the other. it's not going to affect the minds of oil execs. the most it might do is increase the donations to the police that guard the art. it is at Best, mildy counterproductive.

    the most it will do is piss everyone off. everyone is already mad, this is just making it worse.

    it's destroying our common heritage. the history that we can see on front of us. to learn from where we came and see how we can progress.

  • New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals"
  • don't replace it if it still works. that would completely defeat the intent of being environmentally friendly. getting rid of it entirely just makes it someone else's problem. it will still exist somewhere and still be breaking down.

    if it's breaking down and needs to be replaced anyway because it's a decade old then ignore me lol.

  • Fly, you fools!
  • i still remembe needing to wait literal hours at the gate every damn time. we were never even close to late. they were always panicking. i don't understand it...

    it's not just parents either. some people are just like that when they travel. I've tried going places with friends that made it absolutely miserable as an adult because they were fucking panicking the whole time until we sat on the plane. i swear some people have never dealt with a deadline before or something. don't know how to deal with a clock ticking down i guess.

  • They're everywhere!!!
  • yeah, the idea didn't take off until the previous generation of doctors died. it's a fact that often both encourages and discourages me.

    even doctors were too stubborn to accept they may have been wrong about something so important, no matter the evidence. however, even those that are so stubborn that they'll take it to the grave will eventually be passed up by a new generation who has known of this idea since before they were born. at worst, this kind of stubbornnes is only likely to stall progress for 2 generations.

    still, millions of people died because humans are stubborn.

  • math checks out
  • yeah, but they would be better able to put an rma through for you. it is kind of on them to guarantee a working product actually. if the manufacturer gave them a faulty product it's up to them to get the manufacturer to fix it. most retailers have an entire system and process for this kind of stuff. things show up to retailers broken all the time. part of their job is to guarantee against that and deal with it if they fail to before you buy it. if you asked them to replace it with a like model that worked or for them to initiate an rma and they refused then you'd be in the right to issue a chargesback.

  • Heiroglyphs
  • some said i was destined to be a doctor with my handwriting and family. i decided to break the cycle and become a videographer that barely scrapes by. my family is... they like the videos i make of our get togethers...

    at least i haven't accidentally killed anyone.

  • Most Black Americans Believe “Racial Conspiracy Theories” About U.S. Institutions
  • i think they're differentiating between "created for that purpose originally" and "had been known to do/be".

    but even then, seems like a flawed and pointless distinction. the oldest proto police departments in America definitely included "wrangling slaves" and "making sure those free blacks don't get too uppity" in their founding ideas.

  • American White pelicans on a colorado lake (05-17-24)

    stopped by my favorite birding spot after work and had these fellas fly in over my head. guest appearance by a great blue heron.

    shot on sony a7siii with a tamron 150-500. all handheld and after the sun was behind the mountains, so you'll have to excuse some shakiness and focus issues.

    music: creep - original song by Radiohead - performed by scott bradlee's post modern jukebox.

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    Photography @lemmy.world thedirtyknapkin @lemmy.world

    had some nice clouds, so i found a barn.

    shot on a7siii with a nikon Ai-s 28mm f/2.0

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    sometimes night feels more like a dream...

    I'm sick as hell right now and this pulled up right outside my front door last night. stepped out to take a picture because nothing felt real for a moment. then i started coughing and kind of regretted it. worth it?

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    like I'm at the exit to silent Hill...

    took this riding into Milwaukee the other day when it was foggy as hell over like a third of the county...

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