Accurate except for the “instead” part. Road maintenance comes from local taxes, whereas military aid comes from federal taxes.
I have 7 trees on my property. If you pay me $700 I’ll promise not to cut them down for five years, and you can subtract 35 tons of CO2 from your environmental balance sheet.
That’s how carbon offsets work. They’re bullshit.
As someone who has designed and used telemetry systems, I’ll never quite understand the strong aversion some people have to them. Telemetry is what lets me tell my boss “yes people really do use our software this way and we can’t break it” or “90% of crashes happen right after the player uses a grenade”. And despite what some conspiracy theorists would have you believe, telemetry data for software from reputable companies does not get sold or used for marketing purposes. Our lawyers make sure of it, and also make us go through privacy reviews to make sure that data isn’t leaking PII.
Nuclear Gandhi has entered the chat…
a game I made in 1995
a game someone else made in 1995 which was later hostilely acquired by EA only to see it immediately fire all staff and shutter the studio
FTFY
”Without these people, it would be painfully obvious how unfunny I really am.” - John Oliver, probably
Veritasium has really gone down hill. I honestly think it started when he did the video on “clickbait” and actually realized how much more lucrative it was to make shittier clickbaity content than make straightforward science content.
It went from “here’s why magnetism is just electric field + relativity” to “I buried myself in cement - you won’t believe what happens!”
He’s technically correct - if you bleed fast enough for long enough, you won’t get infected by anything that needs a live host to grow.
This is the third post I’ve seen on Lemmy recently where people seem to overwhelmingly think the word “scam” just means “something I don’t like”. To be a scam, something needs to be dishonest in its representation, usually either by falsifying the true cost to the buyer, or lying about what is being provided in return.
I’m really glad I didn’t purchase that stupid screwdriver now.
After working with linux drivers for far too long, I’ve developed some strong opinions on the so-called “APIs” they implement.
Figure 1: Human discovers that hosting a web service for hundreds of thousands of users is expensive.
Seattle area, about 30 feet up in a tree. A few small dark flying insects were buzzing around it but I couldn’t see them clearly.
Deplorable (adjective): Dishonorable or deserving of strong condemnation.
Vermin (noun): Noxious or disgusting wild animals that are difficult to control.