blueamigafan

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Lost my uncle at the height of covid because he wouldn't get vaccinated, apparently because he thought it was population control not sure how many more kids he was going to have at 70 but there we go. He basically spent too long on nonsense Facebook pages and the inevitable happened, all because some random people online convinced him and they will never be held to account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I think it would depend on the specs of the camera but what about an infra red torch or light, invisible to the naked eye it would blind and disrupt a camera so the computer can't see the moves

[–] [email protected] 137 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine Brazil apparently propping up the internet, but huge swathes of twitter shutdown when Brazil banned it a while back, for a short time.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My current and former workplace both took huge hits and ended up cutting staff because it suddenly became super expensive to import raw materials, and more difficult and expensive to export finished goods. But it's ok because some retired boomers get to shout 'taking our country back' then blame foreigners for anything negative that happens

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Christmas dinner when my grandparents would join us, miss them loads

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They will be when public funds get used to prop up an 'important economy' In the 'nations interest'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Most likely a testing facility for prototype aircraft, although probably not anymore because of how much attention it gets now

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I saw a video on YouTube showing how to use them for knitting gloves, you can still buy plastic versions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

A controller for my switch that looks like gengar

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

The two reasons I'm still on Facebook are 1 my parents are on their, 2 to keep and eye on what bands are on locally at the pub

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

A very toxic industry to be in, I used to be an engineer for a company that looked after slot machines here in the UK. High Street betting shops would regularly get smashed up by people after they lost all their money, but they would just pay us to repair them and let them back a few weeks later because they knew they'd be back. Completely taking advantage of people with a very real problem.

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