ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications 3 points 22 hours ago

Oh man, now I want to read an isekai about a SovCiv reincarnating into a fantasy world and trying to solve all their problems with SovCiv tactics!

[–] ImplyingImplications 11 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

special interest entity master trust

Sounds like it could be from an anime

[–] ImplyingImplications 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While I'm all for spray painting a Musk company because he's a dick, I'm not sure spray painting an electric car company to protest inaction on climate change makes a whole lot of sense.

[–] ImplyingImplications 9 points 1 day ago

I have a relative that, while working as a police detective specializing in fraud, lost a lot of money in a Ponzi scheme. It was his belief that he would always be able to tell if something was a scam that sunk him. Definitely embarrassing, but it always reminds me that anyone can be scammed by the right offer.

[–] ImplyingImplications 2 points 1 day ago

I play in 4k with DLSS turned off!

[–] ImplyingImplications 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I first played it on a 5 year old computer and could barely get 10 fps on the lowest settings. I upgraded knowing that pretty much every other game now is wanting crazy hardware to run. I now have a very expensive top of the line rig that can run the game on max settings with a silky smooth 40 fps...which seems to be the max anyone can get even in benchmarking videos. I haven't played this patch so not sure if that's fixed yet.

Other than the ridiculous hardware requirements, the game is very much like all the other STALKER games. You wander around dreary forests and swamps completing quests or searching for items. If you liked the other games you'll like this one.

Annoying parts for me have been all the walking and the mutants being bullet sponges. Walking takes up a lot of game time and I wish there was an option for fast travel. I know not everyone would want that but I'd personally like the choice. Sometimes I just want to get back to the settlement to trade my loot and don't want to spend 20 minutes walking through an empty forest. I often run from mutants when I can because it'll take 100 rounds to kill one and they don't drop any loot.

[–] ImplyingImplications 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Jesus quite literally loved prostitutes. It's in the gospel.

[–] ImplyingImplications 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That guy looks like he knows how to get rid of a body.

[–] ImplyingImplications 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It literally says anyone who watches Neon Genesis Evangelion is a criminal.

From the section on what constitutes 'obscene':

representations or descriptions of masturbation,

[–] ImplyingImplications 18 points 4 days ago

Alaska was settled by Russian colonists in the 1800s but the colony didn't do so well. The Russian emperor at the time decided to sell the territory to the US hoping to weaken the British Empire by preventing them from taking over the territory in the future (ie. to avoid it becoming part of Canada). The Russian emperor had hoped the entire West coast of North America would be US territory eventually but that never happened.

After all the gold was taken from it, Alaska's benefit to the US is now extending its reach into Arctic waters which are being eyed as a potential international shipping route since climate change means ice breakers might not be needed to escort other ships through the Arctic. The US (via Alaska), Canada, Russia, Denmark (via Greenland), Iceland, Finland, Sweden, and Norway are all currently arguing over which parts of the Arctic ocean belong to them. They're hoping to ensure any cargo ships that pass through will have to pay them a fee similar to how Panama and Egypt charge for the Panama and Suez canals respectively.

[–] ImplyingImplications 30 points 4 days ago

They could also avoid the Canadian fees by using ships but the US has the Jones Act which increases the cost of contiguous States shipping to non-contiguous States like Alaska. So their own government has already messed with Alaska which is why they truck shipments through Canada in the first place.

 
 

I've recently started using the Boost for Lemmy app on my phone and it's amazing. I was using Liftoff before but I'm switching over. However, I've noticed an issue. When I browse through communities using Liftoff I see a lot more posts and comments than when I use Boost.

I figured this was an issue with Boost at first, but when I used my computer to edit these screenshots I noticed the same thing happens in my browser!

Opening up https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy I see all the posts that Liftoff shows. Of course I'm not logged in since my account is on Lemmy.ca.

When I log into Lemmy.ca and view the community though: https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] I only see the posts that Boost shows! Many posts are now missing!

I figured this is an issue with Lemmy.ca blocking stuff. But wait! The most recent post (titled "Bug: Hiding all read posts also hides...") has the URL https://lemmy.world/post/6954944 which, of course, does not allow me to comment on since I'm not logged in. If I search for that post through Lemmy.ca I find the equivalent post with the URL: https://lemmy.ca/post/7377534 which now allows me to comment on it through my Lemmy.ca account.

Does any one know what's going on here? Clearly Lemmy.ca can "see" all the posts in the BoostForLemmy community on Lemmy.world. Even Liftoff manages to show all of them! So why does my browser and Boost for Lemmy not show everything unless I specifically search it out?

 

I made this a while back to use as a background for my phone. What do you think?

 
 

Shuba shuba

 
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