radix

joined 2 years ago
[–] radix@lemmy.world 42 points 23 hours ago (5 children)
[–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

A delicate native ecosystem is being ravaged to enable mass commerce. Spice = oil.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (9 children)
[–] radix@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He was born in 1946. The world came together to reject what he stands for before he was even born.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Absolutely essential for the full experience in a retro roguelike.

Usually repetitive and boring in 3D.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have they even said 'thank you' once for not dropping a nuke?

[–] radix@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Dumb question: which one draws more media attention in Chicago?

In my own experience (not Chicago), the local news is dominated by where the rush-hour crash is today, while national news talks way more about gun deaths.

I'm going to go with the general vibe of Lemmy here and assume you mean that auto deaths need to get more attention in America. To that I would say there is a general cultural attitude that cars are a necessary evil (even among most people who don't outright love them, which is a huge demographic), and fixing the zoning and infrastructure would take decades and many tens of billions of dollars to restructure a large city around public transit. Besides bumper-sticker-slogan politics ("more public transit!") there are precious few real, concrete plans for getting from the current situation to the car-free utopia.

Even then, you'd not eliminate cars entirely. Among the more developed western European nations that are known for good public transit, Ireland seems (at a quick glance) to have the fewest cars per person at 536 per 1,000, while the car-happy US has 850/1,000. So best case, you reduce cars by ~35%.

Gun deaths, on the other hand, are easier to imagine as a problem that can be solved relatively quickly and with less disruption. From an advocacy point of view, it's the lower-hanging fruit.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Ok, Agent Smith.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Win10 EOL is surely driving some people away, but it's difficult to put a number on that. Measuring by market share is tricky and can be misleading. Steam Deck popularity may be driving increased usage, but those users aren't necessarily migrating their main OS, just adding a new machine to the mix. But maybe "migrating" their time spent in a given OS counts? It's messy.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I don't remember who said it (so I'm likely butchering the phrase), but I've heard that any creative work exists in three forms: The mind of the author, the physical copy, and the mind of the audience.

For example, a book/story exists as the author intends, as the author writes, and as the reader interprets.

No one of the three is more "correct" than the other.

 

Abolish ICE

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[Steam] Metro 2033 Redux (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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