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Some bloke put that sign up and went. “I don’t see anything wrong with this!”

As they mention in the article they anticipated a much slower collapse and likely prepared for that. But at the rate it’s currently going, it’s quite astounding. The fragmentation and internal strife in Russia are certainly not over.

I did read one article that made a reference to this more being an “end of the beginning” rather than the “beginning of the end”. Which I agree with. It hasn’t collapsed the federation overnight, but it’s certainly weakened it a hell of a lot.

I’m in Australia and have never boiled tap water before. Sometimes during major storms or flooding you get a boil water alert but these are usually advisory and monitoring shows that in most cases the water is still within legal limits. Of course though you should still boil the water if an alert does go out.

Apparently the Titanic caused all the maritime laws to be rewritten for vessels. It’s very ironic that 100 years later we’re likely going to have something similar for submersibles caused by an accident at the same location with a similar name.

That is what happens. Confined spaces that have little oxygen are extremely dangerous and have had quite a few deaths because of them. Those who are working in them literally just feel dizzy and confused, fall asleep and die from the lack of oxygen. There’s about 100 deaths per year in the U.S. Sometimes even rescuers die because they don’t know about it as well. They try to rescue, get confused and die. Hypoxia is a terrifying thing.

No, I haven’t spent any time on Reddit since the closure, except for looking at r/Pics and their John Oliver err, protest. I haven’t spent too much time on Lemmy though, that’s because I’ve been busy helping out with an app for it :P

This was a very well written statement and gives me a lot of hope for the future of the platform. I’ll be more than happy to invest my time and effort into it.

Memmy! It’s getting updates rapidly and it’s looking very good so far. It’s going to be cross-platform shortly as well. Also has a lower bar for contributors compared to Mlem. A redesign is also in the works.

Memmy! It’s getting updates rapidly and it’s looking very good so far. It’s going to be cross-platform shortly as well. Also has a lower bar for contributors compared to Mlem. A redesign is also in the works.

I’m posting from it right now! Works great. Don’t forget about the community for it in lemmy.ml

I enjoyed Watch Dogs 1 and Watch Dogs 2 as well. I probably liked Watch Dogs since I never bothered with the hype train with it. It was a pretty good game all things considered, some mechanics were moronic though like that ctOS scan.

I had a good amount of fun with Legion but it was pretty obvious the story suffered from the lack of any main protagonist. It was painfully clear that the other characters dialogue was recorded without context, so when you finish a mission it’s like a celebration with dementia patients who’ve forgotten what they’re celebrating and they’re trying to pretend that they know you.

The AI was also a bit of a fun one… or nightmare, depends on how you put it. When I saw the reveal of this complex interconnected network of NPCs and how they feel about things, like not wanting to join your special no dictatorships allowed club if you ran over their great aunt. I went… yeaaaah that’s going to cause issues. Yes, it did. But it was fun.

I’ve used SimpleLogin for awhile and it’s worked very well for me, everything shows up and everyone receives their mail as expected, very happy with it. AnonAddy is another alternative, although I personally haven’t tested that one. They’re both pretty cheap and recommended by PrivacyGuides. SimpleLogin was purchased about a year back by Proton. Who run Proton VPN, ProtonMail and a few other products iirc. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/#email-aliasing-services

Quite the update! A bit worried about the end of part of having several studios being closed down by the new owners though. I was surprised they didn’t really go for this creative mode side because a lot of people seemed to immediately ignore the campaign, if we can call it that. And go straight for the cathartic blow everything up with as many mods as you can find.

I never realised how much fun blowing up stuff is and watching it burn to the ground, but I’m pretty sure I’m on a list for my activities in game.

Let’s get rid of that little circle when posting… I agree with the sentiment for sure, but this is actually a bug. If you refresh the page, the content does appear. It’s just that for some reason, it keeps the spinning circle for around 30 seconds, even when posted.

At the moment, the cause of it is under investigation. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3061

I actually went to go and hunt down the sound and it turns out that I sent it to a friend. I mentioned that the last part sounded like a tyre screeching but they believed it was too consistent to be a tyre screeching. A few others that I asked had the same opinion of that. One thing that I can think of that has a very consistent screeching noise from a long distance is probably a train slamming on its brakes? Although it came from a direction where there isn’t any trains running at that time.

https://www.whyp.it/tracks/104097/screaming-ish-sound?token=AWqwT Have a listen for yourself and see if you can deduce it.

There are a few owls around but I know the sounds that the Australian ones make at least and I hear them rather regularly, it didn’t sound anything like this.

6’5” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. He’s tall but not that tall. Also “president” lol. As if they include that with mugshots.

I stayed up til 6:00am going through random communities so I’m tired as hell. But I can confirm that this fulfils my procrastination streak just as much as Reddit did. I like the idea of a daily “so what you up to?”. Could be interesting to see how mundane all our lives are.

No, not rural. But someone pointed out that someone may have seen a spider and in Australia, that’s not particularly an unlikely occurrence.