There are corners of the Internet still out there where you can find some really great people to hang out with; like 70% of my friend group is people who all meet through online games. We get together in person weekly or so now but still regularly play games together and hang out. I know it's no replacement for all you've lost, but maybe playing games with friends could be some comfort? Or some other hobby or interest group that can be engaged with online?

The sentence after the one you emphasized seems to be saying what I was: the virus is in aerosol particles or potentially droplets, which are what your mask protects you from.

Because the virus is transmitted via spittle/moisture from other people not wearing masks. The virus doesn't just hang out in the air on its own; it's suspended in aerosol particles.

Sure, our society is so progressive we could never backslide to the point that abortion is illegal or anything.

Beside that, if he's throwing around billions, he's likely most interested in economic issues like unions and worker protections.

Michael Crichton in a list of "best sci-fi"? Really? He just does mass market pulp. It can be entertaining, in the same way a Transformers movie can, but it hardly qualifies as "best".

"Life is what happens while you're making other plans," as they say. The future is important, but so is the now.

I absolutely agree that it can't create finished content of any particular value. For my D&D use case, its value is instead as a brainstorming tool; it can churn out enough ideas quickly enough that it's easy for me to find a couple of gems that I can polish up into something usable.

This is why my most frequent use of it is brainstorming scenarios for my D&D game: it's really good at making up random bullshit.

Came here to say this. Fantastic storyline, and runs great on Linux.

Here's the first few paragraphs:

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan's initiative to use antitrust laws to protect workers faces a key test on Monday when the agency will argue the merger between grocery chain Kroger (KR.N), and its rival Albertsons (ACI.N), would crush unionized workers' bargaining power.

Khan and her fellow antitrust enforcers in the Biden administration have sought to use antitrust laws - deployed in recent decades mostly to protect consumers against high prices - to combat what they view as anticompetitive practices squeezing workers' paychecks.

Labor has been an area of focus for Khan, a former law professor and congressional antitrust counsel, who took the reins of the agency in June 2021.

If loaded with pages didn't have access to keyboard events, you wouldn't be able to write comments on Lemmy posts. I'm not a front-end guy, but that should be limited to just white the browser is focused.

... she's proudly left leaning.

She's a billionaire. She's no more left leaning than Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos. She just flies socially progressive flags.

There can be only one: Highlander

Here's a gallery of all the raptor skins:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_Raptor_skins

They haven't actually had a presence at PAX for ages. They did an event there to announce IBS when it was coming out, but I don't believe they had a booth then. They've had parties pretty regularly though

Will do! We went last year too; we're a PNW guild (primarily Portland, OR) so it's a reasonable trip. Gonna check out a couple of days of PAX as well.

I'll be there, with Guildies!

I've been playing it through Steam since Windows 7 went EOL. No problems unless you count Taco not working.

Life doesn't adhere to waterfall methodology: we don't have to do one first, and then the other. We can progressively disarm as we're addressing the problems you mentioned..

Don't even need to bring force into it. Can you imagine "I'll give you $20 if you transfer your vote on issue X to me"? Seems like it's basically just handing the government to the billionaire class even more than we already do.

It seems to me like joining the military is arguably more deserving of the phrase "selling your body"; you're basically signing up to get injured or killed.

As soon as he gets that idea, he'll start talking about how Kamala is paying actors to be in her audience.

Multi-account containers is one of my favorite things about Firefox. I use Temporary Containertabs too, so anything not in an explicit container is in a brand new one of its own.

I had to stop and think to figure out what you meant; not really so much a thing here.

I'm still on mp3s. I have gigs of music on my Plex server and just use that. Fuck subscriptions.

Not the person you're asking, but my general understanding is that different products would be required to be their own companies, so advertising, Android, and Chrome would all be separate businesses.

I hope this sticks, and that the trend spreads

Put a pebble in your shoe.

Making a profit from healthcare and health insurance.

Or even just make private health insurance illegal.

Oh nice, great find!

10 years ago would have been 2014; at that point 25 Bitcoin would be a good chunk of cash:

The price of bitcoin opened the year at $770, according to the CoinDesk Price Index. By mid-December, it was trading in the mid-$300 range. This represents a drop of more than 50% from the start of the year.

• https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/12/27/bitcoin-price-2014-a-year-in-review/

It'd be interesting to know when this was actually from; it's a great screenshot even without the exact details, though.

Along with that, I'll add in "number" vs "amount":

• A shocking number of people get this wrong (countable)
• The amount of confusion about it is distressing (aggregate)

Ah interesting, thanks!

Interesting! Sounds like they may have changed things a few times, or maybe my co-worker's memory has some gaps.

A coworker of mine has worked with CrowdStrike in the past; I haven't. He said that the releases he was familiar with from them in the past were all staged into groups and customers were encouraged to test internally before applying them; not sure if this is a different product or what, but it seems like a big step backwards of what he's saying is right.

Yeah, that's much different than the brown bread my family calls Irish soda bread. Here's the recipe:

• ½ lb./225g whole wheat flour (1-3/4 c.)
• 3 oz./75g unbleached white flour (2/3 c.)
• 1½ oz./40g porridge oatlets (3 heaping Tbsp.)     (steel cut oatmeal or John McCann--in a tin)
• 1½ oz./40g  wheat bran (1 c.)
• 1½ oz./40g wheat germ (1/2 c.)
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 pint/600 ml buttermilk (2-1/8 to 2-1/3 c.)

1. Preheat a cool oven, 300ºF/150ºC/Gas mark 2.
2. Grease and flour a 2 lb./900g loaf tin (I use an 8-1/2 x 4-1/2 x 2-5/8 inch bread pan).
3. Mix all the dry ingredients together thoroughly.  Then, add them to the buttermilk and mix quickly to make a wet dough (I have found it better to use only 500 ml or 2-1/8 c. buttermilk).  Turn into loaf pan and bake in the preheated oven on the very bottom shelf for 2 to 2-1/4 hrs.  When cooked, the bread will shrink from the pan slightly and sound hollow when rapped on the bottom with the knuckles.

When I make it it's much wetter than that and definitely needs to to poured into a bread pan. This is for Irish Brown Bread, not for the white flour soda bread with currants and whatnot.

It's much closer to a cake, really; it's a batter more than a dough. It's not sweet though, which is a defining factor for a lot of people.

Then this is definitely your easiest and safest way to go: no new services to configure, no rolling the dice to see how upset the org will be about possible policy violations.

If the note is with your shoes, does that make it a footnote?