TheLadyAugust

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[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Supposedly there are 16 holodecks on a Galaxy class ship. Why have your party at a bar when you can have it be anything you want?

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I felt that Gagguino would give me more customizability down the road. I was also already familiar with Arduino type projects and thought it'd be a rewarding experience. I think I like the size and placement of the screen better than the Gaggimate. I also expect to mount the screen to the side of a cabinet sometime in the future

 

After burning away my entire weekend trying to get this together and also juggle life, I've finally got my machine back together. First glass was at least drinkable, just need to tune it a bit more I think.

The rest of the scale parts just finished printing. Need to get it all assembled and calibrated, but I'm happy to use my Acaia Lunar until then.

I received a defective touch screen, half the screen doesn't respond to touch. Still waiting to hear back from the supplier on if they'll send me a replacement. Thankfully, the web interface works perfectly fine for now.

Also, please ignore the stack of dirty dishes and unkempt counter. I was really going crazy trying to get this thing figured at some points. I should have just done custom wiring harness. It would have been so much simpler.

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This guy was a social media influencer, why should the university, and thus the students, pay for his security? Like everybody else said, his mouth got himself shot.

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Something similar happened to me once. It was 4am and I was about to enter a construction zone. I saw hazard lights and a stopped semi up around a bend so I move off into the contraflow lane to avoid what I assumed was an accident.

Suddenly a concrete barrier out of nowhere, which I very narrowly missed, forcing me out of the contraflow lane. Cut to driving through a debris field, and when I get to the stopped semi, I see what had happend. It wasn't hazard lights. It was fire. The left side of the semi was torn up. He had hit the concrete divider where the contraflow lane starts effectively closing it.

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 80 points 2 weeks ago

He was a social media influencer, not an activist. Everything he did was for attention or profit.

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, I learned something new. I hadn't heard that one yet.

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Its not my fault Tito's is so smooth.

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The article provides the context that people will sometimes make things up about celebrities when they're in the news, then gives an example of when it has happened before.

It's less feasible to prove a negative, "prove that she didn't do x". I can't provide an article about this specific claim because it never happened outside of this block of text. Aside from that, why wouldn't the hospital still bill insurance, then Dolly cover the rest. Thats just bad finance.

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I suspected it was fake just because of the writing style. It reads like easy internet fantasy fiction.

I was able to find a Snopes article, however, that helps settle the matter.

https://www.snopes.com/collections/celebrity-ai-slop-collection/#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+proliferation+of%2Cgenerosity+of+stars

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

$66,000 to incarcerate someone

https://www.vera.org/publications/the-price-of-jails-measuring-the-taxpayer-cost-of-local-incarceration

Caveat to this. It looks like the number is actually closer to 45-50ish thousand. $66,000 seems to be closer to the cost of caring for the aging incarcerated population.

$16,000 to feed and house someone

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8863642/

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't this mean that Facebook and all other social media and by extension all of their employees are now terrorists as well? Since a terrorist organization could conceivably use Facebook Messenger to quickly plan a terrorist attack moments before committing it?

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

No it wasn't, and we aren't you are.

 

Hi friends! My wife and I are looking to move out there to somewhere around greater the Minneapolis area, from Ohio. I currently own my own home and I'm looking to sell and buy out there, hopefully within about a year if not sooner.

Would anyone be willing to give me advice either on selling my house, moving states or the area around Minneapolis, like what areas I should look at for housing.

 

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