radix

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure she likes me already. Enough to stick around for the last 25+ years, anyway.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I once worked for a CFO who used the word "phenomenal" so much that a drinking game around that word would be classified as a mass casualty event.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There are reports from every state, including Hawaii.

https://www.bigfootmap.com/

Some obvious jokes, but somehow there are true believers across the continent.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There was a full news cycle of tech folks talking about how "they are so in demand, they sold out instantly." Build the hype with free press.

Valve has enough experience with this to know exactly what they were doing.

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

I don't think I could even pick the CEO of my own employer out of a lineup.

There are something like 24 million millionaires in the US, and over 50 million worldwide.

"Famous" is relative, but its safe to say most people have never heard more than a tiny fraction of those names.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Under the section for the leaders of each side. The six men who led the escape include the three killed in the attempt, two more executed for their roles, and Clarence Carnes.

Bernard Coy †.
Joseph Cretzer †.
Marvin Hubbard †.
Sam Shockley Executed.
Miran Thompson Executed.
Clarence Carnes Surrendered.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's hard to distinguish the scammed "victims" from the people who knew the crypto was worthless but bought it anyway as a barely-disguised bribe.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They really are good at painting out wire work in movies these days.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago

I said this when he bought Bond and the Washington Post.

Bezos is basically Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies: billionaire media mogul who manipulates the news to his own ends.

Slight tangent, but Elon Musk is even more like Hugo Drax of Moonraker: foreign-born billionaire who owns a rocket company and is obsessed with repopulating the earth with his own offspring.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Deep Thoughts by Werner Herzog.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The real version isn't a ton better, but his head is less slumped over, and may have just been caught mid-blink.

There's enough other evidence that he falls asleep during meetings that there's no need to exaggerate this one.

Edit: This is why this comm has rules. Links to trustworthy news sources, not just random unverified dunks.

 
 

Tyrannus tyrannus is too powerful.

 

Abolish ICE

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[Steam] Metro 2033 Redux (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by radix@lemmy.world to c/freegames@feddit.uk
 

Free to keep if claimed in the next ~48 hours.

 

"One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the live site and say “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.” "

 

For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine.

 
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Useful Idiot (en.wikipedia.org)
 
 

Just because a 3060ti is technically capable of ray tracing doesn't mean I want you to keep turning it on every time the driver gets an update.

 

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold.

 

"Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period."

The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject's thin wrists.

"Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts," the subject exclaimed.

The officer pressed his weight into the subject's small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.

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