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Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Today is a 90's goth kind of day.

Diva Destruction - Black Heart
https://song.link/s/20AsI3XaVNALCuqlV1KCw9

#music #NowPlaying #DivaDestruction #GothicRock #goth

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OceanTerra@fediscience.org ("Dr Sam Burgess 🌊 🌍 💸") wrote:

According to preliminary data from the #ERA5 dataset, the global average 2m #temperature reached 16.88°C on Monday, breaking the previous record of 16.80°C from August 2016.

Get the data 👉
https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels

#Climate #ClimateChange #CopernicusClimate #opendata #climatecrisis

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

actually there were a few pricks on years-old reddit threads who were like, "did you expect the game to just hand you everything?"

Yes! Yes, I did. Fallout 1 gives you appropriate starting items based on what skills you choose to emphasize in character creation.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

god that sucked. getting through the first area was bad enough that I was more wary than excited for more Fallout II after it was over.

I didn't research this beforehand, but apparently everyone else hates the tutorial area, even people who otherwise count it as one of their favorite games

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I was fully not expecting to be a "1 is better!" guy because usually a close sequel like this refines the base game but this feels like it's punishing you for not doing a melee build.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Oh my god starting Fallout 2 with a small guns build is agony. Midway through the first area I checked to see when the first one shows up and it's in some other town

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this could get interesting

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/german-state-buys-pandora-papers-data-invites-authorities-to-investigate/

Mastodon wrote:

There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

when infosec influencers move their thirst traps from instagram to the new Meta thing, that's called Thread modeling

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Browsers should straight-up refuse to load more than, say, ~200KB of JS if it isn't compressed on the wire. If you can't operate a web server, we aren't under any obligation to tax users with your JS.

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

How Harbinger is building commercial EVs with 20-year life spans

The powertrain has been designed and built in-house for a 450,000-mile life.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/07/how-harbinger-is-building-commercial-evs-with-20-year-life-spans/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt ("Hello dear,") wrote:

i like how "illegal in the EU" means it probably violated a human right and "illegal in florida" means it probably is a human right

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bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

Fossil fuel astroturfing is one of those conspiracies that sounds crazy but is actually real.

> Double agents’: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis
Exclusive: new database shows 1,500 US lobbyists working for fossil-fuel firms while representing universities and green groups

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/05/double-agent-fossil-fuel-lobbyists

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beecycling@romancelandia.club ("BeeCycling") wrote:

Attention! I recently learned that the behaviour of lying flat out on the belly with arms and legs spread out that some animals do, often to cool off, by radiating heat into the cooler ground, is called "splooting." I personally have been calling it "going full rug", but I guess splooting is also hilarious. So here's a red panda splooting, in case you need a demonstration. #RedPanda

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I like how this video points out the fundamental error of trying to find one ideal value for single parameters to define the worth of a human being. Diversity is good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/05/a-well-timed-contribution-from-katy-stoll/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lToSQeerP38

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bstacey@icosahedron.website ("Blake C. Stacey") wrote:

@pzmyers ah, the memories

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seldo@alpaca.gold ("Laurie Voss") wrote:

The best reason to get an Apple Credit Card is that hosting the cards is costing Goldman Sachs billions of dollars: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/30/goldman-sachs-may-be-trying-to-get-out-of-its-apple-card-deal#:~:text=Goldman%20Sachs%20spent%20a%20lot,related%20to%20the%20Apple%20Card.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Nice flags.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/05/geologists-have-pride/

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web3isgreat@indieweb.social ("web3 is going just great") wrote:

Kraken ordered to turn over user information to U​.S. tax investigators

June 30, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=kraken-ordered-to-turn-over-user-information-to-us-tax-investigators

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• Kraken ordered to turn over user information to U.S. tax investigators Bad news for wealthy crypto traders on Kraken, who previously might have hoped to evade paying taxes on their past crypto trades. A judge has ordered the exchange to turn over information to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on users who engaged in at least $20,000 in trades in any year between 2016 and 2020. Although Kraken argued against the order, describing it as an "unjustified treasure hunt", the judge determined that the IRS was justified in its request, and ordered Kraken to cough up the records. The IRS alleged that although the exchange has more than 4 million users, and has processed $140 billion in trades since its inception in 2011, only 288,330 of those users have filed tax returns. (remote)

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briannawu@mstdn.social ("Brianna Wu") wrote:

I couldn’t believe this was true, so I verified it. Musk did remove a Community Note critiquing China over their Uygur genocide.

Free speech my ass. This is about protecting Tesla.

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luna@tech.lgbt ("Luna 🐀") wrote:

While today it’s near-ubiquitous to have both, early CPUs often featured a ‘mul’ instruction while lacking a corresponding ‘div’

Meanwhile, as of 2023, HTML is the only major language to feature ‘div’ but no ‘mul’

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I didn't want to visit your stupid park anyway.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/05/im-taking-this-personally/

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I wanna continue to Fallout 2 but I also returned to Fallout 3 a few days ago and had a good time doing the Intro + the school building near Megaton. The thing where a sneak attack = instant crit makes it so fun to play a stealth character

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Anyway I finished off Fallout 1. I got a little impatient to get through it toward the end but I think I'll probably return to it eventually just to fuck around

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Huge line at the pharmacy for this time of day. I wonder if they were closed for longer than just the 4th

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Lorie Smith lied, and the Supreme Court rewarded her with approval.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/05/lorie-smith-is-a-liar/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The line goes down. I'd like to see a steeper slope, though.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/05/mormonism-is-declining/

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computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #348 from The Computer Chronicles - Shareware 1988-1aDXV10-5lo

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teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Procrastinating.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I'm doing the final couple of areas now. I accidentally chose something that led to a friendly faction sending a group of fighters to the cathedral with me, which kinda rules out the sneaky/talky approach I was thinking of taking