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  • What is a relatively inexpensive item that offers entertainment beyond it's intented usecase?

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  • Growing up, our household had a giant roll of butcher paper. It was 2 ft (60cm) wide and about 1000 feet (300m) long roll. I have no idea why we had it, but as kids we were allowed to use as much as we wanted for whatever we wanted. It turned into a childhood of projects, games, costumes, banners, signs, crafts, wrappings, pranks, etc. Close to the beginning as kids, we'd asked for art supplies like markers, paint, pens, pencils, charcoal, etc to transform that boring cheap paper into different universes. We became creative because it was available.

    Something about having an unlimited supply of something and infinite permissions was an unexpected freedom.

  • U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025

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  • Uh huh, hey, why don’t these job numbers reports ever talk about whether these new jobs are keeping up with the cost of living? Seems like it’d be important to discern how many jobs are paying minimum wage and how many are paying enough to actually afford to survive longer than the next 24 fucking hours.

    You'd get closer to that answer with a different report. Probably a combination of the Occupation Finder data showing wage ranges and the Employment Projections data which shows employment increase in number of jobs or declines in each sector.

    The BLS used to be a gold standard for fantastic data collection, analysis, and sharing. However, I am not putting much confidence behind any data coming out of the trump administration.

  • Trump Posts Unhinged Video Of Himself As U.S. Olympic Hockey Hero

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  • I mean, I expect a hockey team to be in its locker room. Did they actively invite Patel, or did Patel just show up uninvited. I think its the latter, right?

  • What are some examples where the more you know about the world, the better it seems?

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  • Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen.

    I'm not sure if you know the history of how close we came to nuclear war in October 1962. It was the first time in history the USA ever went to Defcon 2. We had 25 nuclear bombers in the air with the rest of them on 15 minute standby.

    Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries.

    As bad as trump is, has he murdered 13 million innocent people yet? That's Hitler's number of murdered innocent people.

    We have been at worse points in history than we are right now.

  • What are some examples where the more you know about the world, the better it seems?

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  • The world is in a bad place right now, but it was even worse of when we are right at the edge of global nuclear war in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Before that the world was on the verge of falling in the early 1940s to fascist rule of Hitler and the Emperor of Japan with most of Europe occupied and concentration camps exterminating thousands of innocent people a day.

    As bad as it is today, we've had worse, and we made it through it to better times. It won't come without effort, but humanity will get through this too.

  • More Americans believe Bad Bunny embodies the country’s values better than Donald Trump

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  • I have no problem with Bad Bunny's music or entertainment even if its not something I seek out regularly. However, I've never seen Bad Bunny work against free and fair elections in the United States or foment insurrection when he didn't get elected President, so just by those measures, Bad Bunny is a much better representation of American values than trump.

  • Man killed after entering secure perimeter of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, Secret Service says

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  • Is it surprising though? Those that put more thought into it choose not do to the violence.

  • The future is here

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  • Venus isn’t at all comparable to Earth… That’s a literal crazy comparison.

    Some people are only able to identify the differences using hyperbole. I specifcally called out Venus as an extreme example to highlight the difference in atmospheric conditions. I did not suggest the Earth would become Venus.

    but just because the atmosphere holds more water doesn’t mean it won’t also be releasing more water.

    I addressed this directly.

    More extreme water patterns doesn’t mean less drinking water.

    Except it does. Yes, the water will be released, but not in the same geographic places and the other conditions created by climate change will mean when it rains far less of that fresh water will be usable or capturable.

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • Its not an equally slow CPU. These boards support Xeon CPUs that first launched 11 years after DDR3.

    The implication is that there are users needing large RAM footprints that aren't CPU bound. The hit in performance on the RAM isn't significant enough to justify spending orders of magnitude more for modern DDR5 which is in short supply.

    In computing history there's precedent for this. Amiga computers had a small amount of "Fast RAM" which was extremely expensive, but the CPU could address a second bank of "Chip RAM" which was significantly slower but much much cheaper.

    We could see this idea return in modern computers.

  • CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate

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  • Woah there buddy, the start of the line for the 5 1/4" floppy is back there. No cutting.

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • 4116s are DIPs. I'd de desolder those myself for installation into my Intel 8088 luggable.

  • Trump vows to raise worldwide tariffs to 15% ‘effective immediately’

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  • He also needs that revenue to personally enrich himself from taxpayer money. He gave himself $10 billion of taxpayer money for creating his Board of "peace".

    The population of the USA as of Feb 2026 is 342.3 million people. This means that trump personally took $29.21 from every single American living today (including newborn children and aging senior citizens) and put that money in his personal bank account.

    Its things like this that I cannot understand how poverty stricken trump supporters are still okay with him and his actions.

  • Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda!

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  • ...yes but what about the second play through. There's changes to the game after you've beaten it once?

  • Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda!

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  • What is your favorite Zelda memory?

    Drawing in the missing map squares from the published map that came with the game:

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • What I'm surprised hasn't happened yet is RAM ICs being recycled at the retail level. As in, you could bring in an old laptop or phone with 32GB of soldered RAM and it would be desoldered and sold for cash or possibly even soldered into a new device you buy from that retailer.

    I wonder how close we are to that business model arriving.

  • A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

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  • Do you not remember what happened after the the acquittal of the officers that brutally beat King? The LA riots happened. The video was what catalyzed so many to action even when the truth of police brutality was well known before that.

    This is true of Eric Garner which was also caught on video and lead to large demonstrations.

    And again with Philando Castile where the video showed Castile totally complying with officer orders, yet was still shot dead by that police officer. Again demonstrations against police brutality.

    Its the video that makes people take notice. Sadly, it doesn't sound like we have video of Ruben Ray Martinez final moments yet.

  • FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance

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  • Pro America programming:

    Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of our nation. Acting to disenfranchise citizens from voting with plans from our current administration of jackbooted paramilitary thugs at polling places is a threat to America.

  • Sri Lankan lawmakers scrap their pensions, delivering on a campaign promise

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  • Headline leaves out this important distinction:

    In Sri Lanka, a lawmaker was previously entitled to a pension after serving a five-year term. The new law stops payments to anyone who already receives, or qualifies for, the pension.

    The pensions being scrapped those that are only received by elected politicians (or sometimes their widows). There is no scrapping of general government pensions for regular people with this action.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Even more Star Trek wash party

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Video: When A Barn Owl And Great Horned Owl Meet

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

    hackaday.com /2025/09/27/how-many-phones-sport-a-5-and-1-4-diskette-drive-this-one/
  • Commodore 64 @lemmy.world
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    C64 spotted at Universal Studios Orlando

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Chief O'Brien has the most wholesome Holosuite programs