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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

This is the best title I've seen for this whole direwolf news break. Everyone else has a title like "Scientists Jurrasic Parked the Direwolf!" Or "Scientists bring direwolf to life after being extict for 10,000 years!" ... read article ... me:so they have a grey wolf species that looks and acts like what they theorize the direwolf looked like and acted like.

Ima resurrect the extinct use of obnoxiously saying "hashtag" before everything and say "hashtag, keepclickbaitoutofsciencearticles"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Come onnnnnn🤣🤣🤣 I hope that is real.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Idk why you are getting downvoted. It's a legitimate question and I assume you mean a re-structured version of mental asylums that meet modern standards for medicine. I mean what do people think happened when they closed all the asylums? Not many know that just about all of them went down 2 paths either you were under 45 and became homeless or you were over 45 and went to live in a nursing home as burdens of the state. It's a huge drain on nursing home resources, huge burden on the cna/pca/lpn/rn that work in nursing homes. It exponentially increased the relation between the homeless and the mentally unstable. It's a legitimate problem that noone wants to ever address it seems like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

This. This is why I internet. 10/10 content op bravo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Not OP but I'll leave this comment on their behalf, why does that change what OP was asking? They didn't ask if one cause the other just if one thing could lead to another. Wouldn't one symptom like a market crash happening first, then be followed by the other symptom being the ww3 still qualify under OP's question? Regardless if they share the same cause. Or am I looking at it wrong?

To elaborate on my rake of the question: The genocide of jews by Germany caused ww2. A symptom was the active engagement in the pacific, aka pearl harbor, which had the symptom of the US joining the war in full force.

The tariffs in the eyes of the markets is no different than the grand opening of rhe covid pandemic. Tons of uncertainties, tons of money moving around, all causing markets to crash or semi-crash like they are now.

*Quick side bar of my own oppinion, I don't think they've dropped enough to meet the criteria to be considered a crash but I could be wrong. I'll google it and edit accordingly if im wrong tho. Personally I know the tariffs are idiotic but anyone calling doomsday or market crash over a 3 month drop accross the board shouldnt be wasting money investing their own money and should leave it up to professionals.

Regardless of which idiot is at the reigns, what catastrophe is happening, if you looking at your investments every three months, you are not investing you are gambling. The entire financial institution as an industry is going to make fuck you money off this dip. It's literally why it's dipping, it's call mitigating losses by rolling your investments according to their capital gains tax priority. Every financial firm right now is selling on Monday and buying the same fucking stock back at a cheaper price and at a higher volume. They'll continue losing money but at a lesser rate of loss with higher intrinsic value because they're bulking their portfolio at the same time.

I barely know dick about investing but I know enough to say market movement does not need an economic movement to follow. We can have sorting inflation, rising cost of living, annual raise %'s less than the % of inflation and at the same time the markets could be soring. It's literally been happening to the nasdaq big tech industry which is large enough to prop the markets thru whatever rhe economy throws at it.

The pandemic was a fuckin crash. That shit was fuckin wild. And still i wanna say it was back to hitting ATH's by the end of Bidens 1st year.

Its because markets not giving a fuck about any country's economic wellbeing, who is in office, and especially because it sure as shit doesn't give a fuck about any individual investor are all parts of why I don't think the current state of the markets will lead to any radical military action from any country.

My tldr of my answer to the og original OP's question is:

  1. Markets not giving a fuck about any country's economic wellbeing, who is in office, and especially because it sure as shit doesn't give a fuck about any individual investor are not opinions they are well documented statements of fact. All the individual investors in the word no longer hold enough market share to influence what the markets do anymore, markets are unaffected by who was elected president and my citation is to ask any financial advisor, and we just saw that the economy can go to the shitter but markets didn't move till the variable of tariffs were introduced.

  2. A global scale war can only happen when there are enough solder committed to the fight. That's just my opinion. You can implement as many drafts as you want but until the solders have reason for themselves to fight you'll only end up with shit like Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine. All wars but all without any drive for the soldiers to fight for. It's because of my first point that I don't think what the markets do will affect people's mind set enough to charge the beaches of Normandy.

  3. The nail in the coffin for the market dropping causing war is the fact that the quality of everyday life hasn't gotten so bad that they would be willing to risk their life yet. Sounds morbid to say but now that we've seen the markets have detached from its dependency of economic growth or needing joeshmoe to invest in shit to keep the markets up I feel confident in my opinion.

Plus, who in the flying fuckwants to fight in a war when they can juat fight anonymously on the internet?loljkjk

Edit: stupid fucking ai autocorrect apparently likes to correct the proper spelling of soldiers to solder🙄 Fuck it I'm leaving it lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lol I mean all tariff shit aside, isn't China still on the brink of a major real estate collapse? Last I heard they have entire ghost towns built with noone living in them. Who in their right mind is trying to invest in Chinese realestate?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Pretty sure if you try and spell out the letters n, i, g, g,... and submit your comment or reply, it's hardcoded on all platforms to remove the word. I've tried tellijg a story on the sync app for lemmy that involved a word that rhymes with maggot being said and even in quotes it only printed on the screen "removed" iirc. Context here implying it was the word someone said and not being used in the context of the comment. Not that it matters in a public forum but I point this out because the list we're looking at is subreddit specific list of banned words that will trigger a bot to remove the automatically comment/delete the comment but still show a comment was made.

With that being said I have no fuckin clue what im looking at for the rest of the drama. In the image. It's 4 boxes that could be read L to R from the top or it could be columns where top L is 1 bottom L is 2 top R is 3...

I think they didn't like triggering their automated moderating system because what they felt was legitimate content. Little absurd to expect a reply from a real person mod in a span of a couple minutes tho.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Subsequent question, why can't you sell pr store beer in plastic? I've never realized till this post that every beer I've ever seen is in a glass bottle, metal can or metal keg. Never in plastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

From merriam websters: adjective trans·​for·​ma·​tive causing or able to cause an important and lasting change in someone or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol make it full screen to really appreciate the black spot on venus that looks way too much like a smudge on your screen to not do the finger check🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Wtf even is this? Both games gett8ng remade from ground up? Why not just call it #5 then. And fuck them for changing the soundtracks that was the best part of the fuckin games. Who doesnt wanna skate to ratm

 

Was checking to see if an extension was available for Android yet when I saw a familiar word tucked into their screenshots lol.

 

Looking for anyone with experience with helping pick out hearing aides. It's hard for him to describe what he doesn't like about them so I can't provide much in the way of specific issues. One thing he has said was that they change how loud some things are compared to how they should be which I think he means they will make certain pitches louder than other pitches so something like setting spoon on glass plate will be loud but the sound of a low voiced man talking is quiet when normally the low voices are the only ones he can hear. He is the typical old geezer so it's easier to list all the numbers in Pi than it is to get him to a doctors office.

We have tried 2 different very expensive aids costing thousands each, we tried the new apple ones, he tried countless magazine ads hearing aids and doesn't like any of them. He's a very straight forward man so it's not his way of getting around using them or that he's embarrassed. He wants to find a pair he likes but he is also a very picky man who was a mechanical engineer so I feel like his expectations can be a little high sometimes for things to be perfect.

Just thought I'd see what other people's experiences were with hearing aides and if there's anything anyone can recommend.

 

What would it take for the Goliath to be the hero and David to be the pessimist? Not just in fictional narrative depictions but throught history too. The only scenario I can think of that kinda fits the mold was 9/11. Where America may not of been the hero or "good guy" but the underdog Taliban was unanimously viewed as the "bad guys." I'm not super knowledgeable when it comes to global geopolitical relations so I'm all ears for any scenarios that prove otherwise and would love to hear them.

Edit: I am loving all the responses and its a great conversation, I just wish I phrased the title differently so it wasn't getting downvoted. I didn't mean for it to come accross like I didn't think it ever happened.

 

I know most replies here will likely encourage Linux and I get it. If it were up to me it'd be done. The problem is I work from home and are bound to certain limitations.

So to the problem at hand, I hope to get some insight on:

The two culprits are bitlocker and Window's gaming service/overlay not sure what actual name of it is without having the error message in front of me. I'm not nearly as irritated at the gaming issue as I am with the bitlocker issue because the bitlocker is causing random crashes forcing PC reboots.

Where I find my hands tied is for both scenarios, I have gone thru Windows Services, Gpedit, regedit, and admin powershell command inputs that all show have successfully terminated the bitlocker and gamepad functions from even being able to be initiated.

As for bitlocker specifically, I have never enabled, used, activated or even owned a version of Windows 11 that provided access to bitlocker services.

I didn't know it even existed before the Windows 11 24h2 update. Neither issue was present before the update. Even went thru the steps back stepping the updates installed to before the 24h2 update.

So by all intensive purposes (lol) the PC is running on a Windows build before the update fucked it up, is running without any group permission, active services, or regestry settings that should allow bitlocker or gamebar to launch.

Yet here I am. Everytime I launch a game I have a popup that informs me there are no available apps to open the gamebar.

As well as almost every other day no matter what I'm doing or what I am in the middle of, my PC just shuts down and reboots out of fuckin nowhere.

When I check the event viewer, the "critical" error message just says "The system rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power suddenly."

The two warning error messages that occur almost in conjunction to the reboot critical message are two identical error messages that state, "Bitlocker timed out attempting to enumerate bands during volume discovery on this hardware encrypting drive."

Before i get to my questions, I would like to add I am also entirely exhausted of reaching out to microsoft for help. They are fucking useless and each ticket I've opened with them results in a redundant cycle that ends nowhere at the cost of hrs of my time sitting on hold or following their recommended troubleshooting suggestions that are just redundant to the previous attempts to help.

My specific questions are as follows:

1.0 Everything I google regarding bitlocker just returns bugs people experiencing from when the are trying to get bitlocker to work properly and not much for scenarios that want it removed completely from a system. Does anyone know of any recommened resources I can do some more learning on the matter?

2.0 Am I wrong to think that turning off, disabling and removing the means for these operations to launch/initiate/run in the background will also prevent the system from attempting to initiate those operations?

3.1 Potential work around I thought to try, any feedback is appreciated, if either of those event viewer error messages are actually telling me that I must install a bitlocker driver for the service to properly launch and the issue will work itself out.

3.2 The fallback plan is to reboot my approach completely and convert Windows 11 back to Windows 10. Have never done this extreme of a fix so any feedback is gratefully recieved. Does anyone have any goto resources for this procedure to help me keep from anything falling thru the cracks.

4.0 Last couple notes if it helps, another bug that I noticed but fixed is my one screen's taskbar does this wierd shit where the whole thing gets super fucking tiny and just floats in the middle of the lower screen. The issue only stopped when I reinstalled the back ported Windows 11 24h1 version or whatever it's called. Since being under the previous update version the taskbar glitch has gone away. Went thru 3 hrs of troubleshooting with Microsoft for this one and despite their most urgent attempts to prove otherwise, we came to the conclusion it was not the hardware, monitors or gou driver. It only happened to whatever monitor was assigned by the system to be considered monitor "1."

Nothing here is life or death so I'm not overly worried but at the same time I'd love to get some insight into either end of this shitshow but to reiterate, fixing the bitlocker shit is enemy of the state numero uno.

Any and all input to follow will be so appreciated. Thank you to anyone in advance who made it this far thru this rant and replies. To them especially but also to anyone else that pops in, I'd also like to wish you all a wonderful fucking holiday season!

 

My father is not a gamer by any sense of the meaning. He plays the mobile game kinda platform style shooters here and there but that's it.

Was racking my brain for something to get him when for no reason I found myself digging up memories of being 4 or 5 years old sitting on his lap playing some flying shooter game. Him and my mom were 17 & 19 when they had me so I often forget how much of life they missed raising a little shitbrick that early in their lives.

So I really went out on a limb and felt like I was reaching with this present. Going so far as to get an extra Amazon card either for someone else if he liked it or for him if he didn't like it.

Holy shit did he like it. Took me by full surprise. As soon as I showed him the library he was like a kid in a candy shop. So many stories and anecdotes about this game and that game. Told me how the "idiots" at megaman made sequels 1-8, then for reasons before he could google them, they skipped megaman 9 and went to megaman x, megaman x2, and megaman x3.

Told me how when I was around 6 or 7 I was obsessed with tecmo bowl, tecmo super bowl and tecmo superbowl 3. Which I remember. But what I didn't remember was that I used to shut the Nintendo off anytime I (playing only as the Buffalo Bills) was about to lose the game, would quickly shutoff the Nintendo so not to ruin my perfect seasons. Then would throw a bitchfit tantrum over losing that my parents would have to take away the controllers from me cuz part of my tantrum would be biting the soft rubber controller cords. Which were not in their broke ass budgets at the time.

Anywho... that's all. What I thought was a risky Xmas gift turned out to be a wonderfully appreciated gift accompanied by an amazing walk down memory lane with the rents.

 

Gimi 30 year old Ciri on a unicorn with new monsters, magic and a good ass storyline, and I'll be good to go.

 

What is Britain?

Is it the same as the UK?

What is Briton?

Wtf is up with Canada?

Is it it's own country?

If yes, then why do they still salute the queen or king?

If no, how are they operating as it's own country?

Same for Australia I guess, too?

Was there an Australian revolution?

Are all parts of the British island the same country?

Or are Scotland and Ireland seperate countries?

 

What the shit happened to freedom of information act? Now we not only have to sacrifice our privacy to some 3rd party contractor but I must also create a fucking account in order to access information our government provides? Fuck that shit. I'm just guna make a throwaway account. Scrape the fucking site dry and upload the shit to my own website. Fuck them.

 

I'm on 24H2 Windows 11 with a local account set up, ran windows debloat tool and have CoPilot/onedrive/other data mining features un-installed.

Edit: I have a plan to make the switch to Linux. For now I was just looking for any feedback on how to handle current Windows OS. I whole heartedly hate Microsoft as much as the next, I promise lol.

 

I think it's the same color as the color designation for:

Avg.: 72°F | 58°F

But I have no idea what the graph is showing if the blue line is showing the Temperature at that time of the day. All the values change with the vertical slider for to change the time of day.

 

I want tonpreface that I use exclusively Lemmy for my source for all news. I have no real social media accounts, will never be caught dead watching network or local news on TV (idc if im 37 its cartoons of gtfo lol). I use duckduckgo, Firefox for search and browser ever since I was tasked at work to keep a pulse on seo rankings. Id give cancer permission take my testicles befor ingive any fuckin company's ai permission to my data. If any of my hardware or software is using "AI" it is not at the front end or a configurable setting. What I'm building to is that I feel I put in more effort than most to not have the news I am fed influenced by anything more than what is happening in the world right now and the decisions news outlets make to report on.

Now we have that established, I can elaborate on my question. When I see reports of protesting in the US (live outside of Buffalo, NY obligatory Go Bills!), I see primarily protests in opposition to an event or thing. I get the literal definition of protest, I'm speaking of the mission people are protesting under. Protesting police brutality, protesting oil line, fuck the insurection that doesnt fall under this example but there have been other actual protests against election results (see Buffalo ~~shithead~~ I mean mayor, Byron Brown's most recent election).

Why are the so few:

Protest for improved living conditions. Protesting for higher wages (ok I admit I forgot about this one till now. I do see unions protesting for this) Protesting for lower tuition costs. Not loan forgiveness but legitimate improvements to the corrupt financial structure allowing shit like Alabama's highest paid public office position is Nick fuckin Sabin. Protest for better medical billing regulations.

Is it just the way news headlines and articles are written domestically vs globally? Is it a vernacular thing where US English grammatical structure dictates a protest must be against and never for? Or is it cultural thing where American laziness has evolved into something horrible needs to happen for action to happen (We don't become known as one of the fattest countries thanks our love of working hard). On the same note different page, is it that protest I see for better living conditions don't have the luxury to protest against something? Whether it be a question of freedom of speech, governing corruption or other similar issues.

ORRRRR do you think I am off base here and there actually isn't a difference between domestic and other counties protests?

 

So one of the selling points I've seen tossed around for Lemmy is it's absence of a Karma system. Keeping that in mind can anyone explain why Lemmy wouldn't adapt a more automated/bot style approach to increasing content. What I had in mind was a system that shocked Pikachu meme used some sort of scraping method or web crawler method that could produce continually fresh posts to communities like the NFL community or even offer a new News type of community that is fed every news break from a defined set of sources. Hell Lemmy even offers the ability to create its own automated front page of the internet instance that exclusively for those who enjoy the automated content provided. If it gained traction there would be no limit to the specific communities it could support. For example if there were a NFL auto posting bot why not one thst serviced each individual team's community.

The biggest ckmplaint in reddit back in the day was the increase of bot activity generating reposts. With Lemmy tho, there already are natural reposts already happening between common communities present across multiple instances.

I very much enjoy how differently Lemmy and it's user base is from the trash pile reddit became. The reddit comment threads after the exodus are all just regurgitated memes and hivemind friendly bot responses. Compared to Lemmy where it's been rare if at all to find anyone farming for karma or pandering to the masses.

This is all just second hand understanding of the digital world. Thank you in advance for anyone whontakes the time tonread this and comment🍻

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