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GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•I found a sunken boatEnglish20·15 days agoThose finds are typically found in deeper water where they’re protected from oxygen and sunlight.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Elon Musk travels with as many as 20 bodyguardsEnglish61·1 month agoThis person is greatly exaggerating. I bought a house in central Illinois with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms for $130k
Also, just having a million dollars is a big step up
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealthEnglish123·1 month agoLook, I’m fully aware that this won’t sit well with the billionaires are horrifying monsters that not only should be slain but should be strung up in the town square and be given the blood eagle…BUT if you’re going to make the argument that traffic fines or any other monetary penalties should be a percentage of your net wealth or yearly income, then you have to acknowledge that giving away half of your lifetime earnings is a tremendous act of good will.
Now–there is a difference between me giving up $5000 of my roughly $11,000 in liquidity. We still have around $40,000 in student loan debt and $120k in a 25 year mortgage while we make about $100k per year. And these billionaires could still buy a second house in Cabo with a helipad using what is remaining, but it is SOMETHING. If they truly are “spurning” their billionaire status they should start with giving away half their fortune and continue to give away half their yearly income on top of that, but I won’t totally disregard the contribution that they’ve already made. Unless they’re republican. Then I’m nearly certain that money is going exactly where it shouldn’t.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Charging to tour rental properties...English4·2 months agoWhat the hell are you on about? Renters accompany prospective buyers on tours or walk throughs. No one is doing remote tours.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Charging to tour rental properties...English171·2 months agoYou sure? Cause nothing about what you’re talking about is critical. Part of being a renter is the cost associated with showing units and convincing people to buy. You’re lucky enough to have the capital to own rental property that’s essentially passive income. If you don’t want to put in the effort to show a unit to a potential tenant, then sell the real estate and fuck off with your money.
“Oh, you’re interested in a desktop PC? It cost us money to power it on and show how well it runs while playing games or using it as a workstation. So to cover that cost we’re going to have to charge you $5 to mess around with a display model.”
“Test drive a used car on our lot? You’re using 5 minutes of fuel and wearing the tires so $5 please.”
“Welcome to your local shopping mall. It costs us money to keep the place cool in the summer and we’re tired of people coming in and not buying something so to make sure we recapture that cost, we’re charging $5 at the door.”
FOOH
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?English2·2 months agoI’m glad I checked the comments because I was going to point out the same hypothetical issue lol
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Obscure torrent: What seems like only seeder only connects for about a second, updating my "last seen complete" every 5 minutes or so, without transferring any substantial data. Thoughts?English35·2 months agoRight, but the poster did mention that they were making a connection and transferring at least some data, so I just kind of inferred that the seeder has port forwarding.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Obscure torrent: What seems like only seeder only connects for about a second, updating my "last seen complete" every 5 minutes or so, without transferring any substantial data. Thoughts?English212·2 months agoIf I understand correctly, port forwarding has no effect on download. It’s only a factor in seeding. So if that’s the case, there’s likely nothing you can do. Your download rate is entirely dependent on the behavior of the seeder you’re downloading from. If they give priority to other media that is more popular and increases their seed ratio while relegating the source you’re trying to download, then you’re at their mercy. This is why using VPNs that are capable of port forwarding is so important. You may be the only person who manages to download whatever it is your trying to grab. If the seeder you got it from goes offline, anyone else wanting that material is shit out of luck unless they happen to use Mullvad. Mullvad is great. Their privacy and pricing is very strong. I’d recommend it to anyone, but for the purpose of information availability and preservation through torrenting, a VPN capable of port forwarding is a requirement.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What community would you like to see more active on Lemmy?English3·2 months agoKeep it up. I don’t much care about off-season news or anything, but I’ll probably join the discussion when it comes to highlights and game threads. These upcoming seasons for each sport will play a big part in how active the community will be going forward I think. Unfortunately a bunch of traffic was dominated by the presidential election last year so other niche topics should gain more traction this year.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you ever had a close friend die and it changed your view of life?English22·2 months ago5 years ago to the day I lost one of my best friends to a drowning accident while we were on a float trip. We were just 24 and 25yo. From that day I realized that no one is untouchable by tragedy. I already knew that but didn’t live it. Now as a friend group all of us are much more vocal about our feelings and our expressions of love to each other. It was a long car ride home that night. 2-3 hours of silence from 1:00-3:00am just letting it sink in that we watched our friend die. I personally performed CPR on him and took lead in his rescue attempt. As a medical professional, I learned more from that single experience than anything in school which is my silver lining.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•why the hell cant men stay out of women-only spaces?English232·2 months agoSay I’m a trans female. Can I post then? Trans man? Gay man? Gay woman?
It’s self policing. If they’re being obnoxious or killing the environment or culture of the space, downvote/block/report and move on.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL not all water bottles can survive the dishwasherEnglish10·2 months agoNalgene uses tritan for their plastic bottles btw
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Games@lemmy.world•Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW TitlesEnglish40·2 months agoAnyone got one of them antitrust lawsuits?
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Where to find collection of celebrities photographs?English246·2 months agoHoly cow am I glad that I have no desire to pirate (presumably) nude photos of celebrities. Let alone post on a forum about where I can find them…you do you of course, but this seems like trouble
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I patch up the ugly bar on the top and bottom when I mod a aclyics side panel?English2·2 months agoI guess I wasn’t factoring in the context. I was just focused on the hard drives not having issues with magnets thing. But yeah in that case you’re right. And google did tell me that most modern hard drives have pretty robust protection from magnetic fields now. So you’re doubly right. TIL
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do I patch up the ugly bar on the top and bottom when I mod a aclyics side panel?English1·2 months agoI have a hard time believing this.
If so, we totally “wiped” hundreds of hard drives of useable data for a recycling center without actually wiping them. We just took a 10lb magnet and plunked it on both sides before we chucked it in a bin.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What kind of communities would you like to see either created or become more active on Lemmy?English4·2 months agoA big chunk of my time on reddit was just chatting with sports fans in local team subs during games and in league wide subs about current events.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The Healthiest and Unhealthiest Cities in the USEnglish7·2 months agoSurprised to not see St. Louis on the right side of this list
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Illegal streaming: police take action against providers from GermanyEnglish8·2 months agoIt could be a case of intentional word play but the wording of the article makes it seem like it’s more than just usenet. Specifically the line: “inciting serious sexual abuse of children via a messenger service and producing child pornography content”
It doesn’t read as though it’s simply CSAM traffic through his network and if that were the case, I’d imagine the other 2 would be looking at similar charges, but news media notoriously bad a properly representing tech so that’s what gives me caution.
Format, no, but sometimes the release group. I’ve filtered some of them out but there’s times when they’re the only option for high quality content. So I was hoping to solve the issue another way.
Excellent insight on the after release setting, that would explain why they’re getting downloaded prior to the air date. I always assumed that’s what that meant.