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Someonelol

@ Someonelol @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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    A Polymarket trader made $300,000 betting on Biden's pardons, a new analysis shows

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  • Apple Says Southern Lebanon Villages Weren’t Removed From Maps. It Never Had Them

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  • There is no war in Eurasia.

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  • Especially when you're forced to use a complicated method to do basic calculations with. People should be allowed to learn different ways to get to the same answer.

  • What is the fantasy book/series everyone should read?

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  • For sci-fi check out The Interdependency Series by John Scalzi. It's about an interstellar empire that can only navigate through wormholes that are now closing up. The last emperor foresaw this and is trying to save as many humans as possible while fending off political rivals and assassins.

    For a similar series check out Foundation from Isaac Asimov. It's more of an anthology of stories over the course of a millennium but Asimov has a brilliant way of piercing the story together through the vast gaps in time.

    I haven't seen anyone recommend The Expanse here so I'll go ahead and do it. The show is a faithful adaptation given the complications that came from having to change networks and deal with some... Problematic aspects of some of its actors. The book series however goes into greater detail and goes beyond the 6th season to some of the best parts of the story in books 7 through 9.

    My current fantasy fix is the Cradle series by Will Wight. He's not as well known as Sanderson but he's a diligent writer and has some interesting world building and magic concepts. If you want to start off light with him you might want to check out his Traveler's Gate series, it's only three books long but has great pacing.

    The Powder Mage series is a very decent military grimdark fantasy that features a world with 17th century technology and some interesting magic systems. The story's decently written but it's the battles that caught my attention the most. It's always interesting to read about how some mage soldiers do a line of gunpowder like they're sniffing coke to make bullets travel unfathomable distances and snipe out enemy generals on the battlefield.

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  • He won't. Just toss him as a lost cause like George RR Martin and Scott Lynch and move on. You'll feel a lot better when you finish a different series that took way less time than what Rothfuss did writing his only 2 novels in the series.

  • Crying is a free action

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  • Ahh yes. Cut my teeth on the 5th edition of that book.

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  • If it falls off the surface edge then it's a drop-out.

  • Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.

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  • Older games were a lot simpler too. No loot boxes, multiple forms of currency - some of which could only be bought with real money, invasive DRM, season passes, content pulled back by selling it to you as DLC, extremely long game times artificially extended by things like mapping gimmicks, giant and almost barren worlds, unoptomized graphics requiring top of the line graphics cards that would still turn your room to a furnace, and massive amounts of bugs and glitches that may or may not be patched out at a later time.

  • US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

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  • US citizens have suffered under awful social safety nets and a lack of universal healthcare for the trade-off of at least having a massive unstoppable military. Here we are though with its dwindling amount of munitions and the rest of the world pissed at it. It seems the US wasn't that different from Russia in that they both have a lack of military hardware for a sustained conflict.

  • AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history

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  • We're fed so many lies all the time and when a big, obvious one like this shows up in the stream it's just another jolt of alarm that my system can't keep taking anymore. If we lived in happier and more peaceful times I might have enjoyed it even.

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    Why do so many fellow Americans not want to hear anything about the Iran war or oil crisis?

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  • Its not uniquely American. Plenty of Mexican and Japanese bars have TVs too. Mexican and American bars love putting on a sports game while Japanese ones show a lot of music videos.

  • A Republican Farmer Relies on Immigrant Work. He Sees His Party Erasing It.

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  • May he lose his fucking dairy farm. I have no patience left for these obstinate fools.

  • If you woke up a billionaire tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd do?

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  • Buy a house and car for every one of my family members. After that I'd set aside a few million to live off the interest and spend the rest on actually fixing problems billionaires and the government refuse to do. Make a robust food distribution system that drastically reduces hunger in the world, build cheap affordable housing in rich people's neighborhoods, buy out land for the express purpose of installing a proper rail system across the state of California, that sort of thing.

  • Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

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  • "Do I hear chanting and laser gun sounds?"

    • Some NSA agent, probably

  • Scream your way to happiness? Maybe not, but scream clubs promise some relief

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  • Screaming into pillows is the best way to do it from the comfort of your bed.

  • Nvidia "confirms" DLSS 5 relies on 2D frame data as testing reveals hallucinations

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  • This is a culmination of years in which gamers kept getting ignored when they ask for some consideration to their needs like more memory, better Linux drivers, and smaller form factors. Instead we get hit with their server farm AI slop runoff and told this is what we want. To me it's an insult for wanting something that's more specialized to gaming and graphical work rather than some LLM platform.

  • Whats a good lesson you learned on the job?

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  • Always cover your ass. Take notes of everything, send emails out with important details of who was supposed to do what. It'll help you avoid trouble when something goes wrong and fingers start being pointed.

    If you're aloof in the office and your campus has several buildings to work at, you can work remote without anyone ever noticing.

  • Three-Time Trump Voter Goes Off About Gas Prices and ‘Worthless Pile of Sh*t’ Trump: ‘Apparently, I’m An Idiot!’

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  • The video showed several people saying they supported the higher gas prices. That lady was the exception who finally learned that the golden asshole isn't someone who should be in power. I don't have high hopes she wouldn't vote for him again though.