Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones' remains....
My county courthouse has a mural of the original constitution and the bill of rights: are they making a political statement by omitting all the other amendments?
People totally underestimate how infuriated trolls get when they're ignored. They want any attention, even negative. Just block them and move on, it works wonders.
The Winnipeg Police Service confirmed the DNA of four Indigenous women inside the home of their self-confessed killer, a court heard Thursday, along with the DNA profiles of an additional 12 women....
It's definitely worrying as I sit here North of my American brothers and sisters, to see the sheer amount of "Yeah but Biden sucks". Sure 100% agree, but you're welcoming in Orange Hitler if you don't vote, or vote Republican.
So definitely worrying sleeping beside this particular elephant.
I get journalists hate Xbox, but Xbox needs to exist as a consumer option.
I don't understand, is this a thing? "All journalists hate Xbox" I mean. I've never heard this before. Like there's a mandate that journalists have to hate the Xbox?
EDIT: I'll eat the downvotes, I just want to understand what the fuck they're talking about
Yeah the comment felt like bizarre astroturfing -- Why would 'gaming journalists' specifically not want Xbox to succeed, but want Playstation to? Like somehow a Sony monopoly is great for... journalists? A very strange take.
XBOX has been underwhelming for a while and journalists will report on that, and they will focus on those bad parts and certainly also sometimes make it sound worse than it really is, because it brings in clicks.
I worked at Microsoft and I can assure you, they deserve every bit of hate they get. And it really is that bad. There was a point with the Xbox One where Sony was beating 'us' in every single market we were actively tracking except specific parts of the US. Yet we had directive after directive for clearly nonsensical ideas like targeting Japan for console sales.
I also worked (third party) with Sony and they aren't much better, but they at least understand how to get their consoles bought. Microsoft hasn't known how to do that since the 360.
I don't think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I'm letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...
As someone with an avatar of the Q from Quake 1, I can avidly say that writing was not better in the past.
Just off the top of my head from the last decade:
-Baldurs gate 3
-Firewatch
-Return of the Obra Dinn
-Disco Elysium
-Tyranny
-Shadowrun Dragonfall
-Red Dead Redemption 2
-Witcher 3
-Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice
-Life is Strange
-Prey (2017)
-The Red Strings Club
Seriously, go check the story to Perfect Dark. Hilarious? Yes. A "good story"? No.
There are myriad issues in gaming now that weren't there in the past, but good writing is (thankfully) still around.
A man has admitted in court that he killed four women in Winnipeg, but his lawyers are asking he be found not criminally responsible because of mental illness....
One example, from just up the Ivy-garlanded I-95, at Brown University, was announced just hours before Shafik again called in the police. Brown’s governing body agreed to vote on a proposal that would divest the school’s endowment of companies affiliated with Israel in a meeting in October. The proposal is based on a 2020...
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
Another major issue I had was the community itself. When troubleshooting the issues I’ve had over the years, one big problem that kept popping back up was how toxic and condescending the Linux community can be. On more than a few occasions my requests for help on forums were met with passive aggressiveness and hostility because I “should have known better” or something along those lines. The most recent example I can think of was someone asking me to post a debug log to troubleshoot an issue I had and I had to ask him where to find the log. He told me the folder it would be in but not the folder path to get there. When I asked again where to find the log, he just told me that “maybe Linux isn’t for you”.
I had almost exactly this same issue years ago when I tried Mint. I was trying to get something to work (I think install games on Steam? Something like that) and it would just do nothing, no message, etc. When I asked for help, I was told "This is super obvious" and after trying their suggestions and having them all fail, was told "just go back to windows."
Ok, done?
(It also doesn't help that there is a huge difference between 'you can use the terminal' and 'you have to use the terminal.' I'm an 80's kid, I grew up with DOS, so I understand how to navigate terminals, I just don't want to constantly.)
I’d love to be eating my words here, but I think Microsoft would rather pull all the marketing tricks out the book to force everyone into Win11.
What confuses me is their weird TPM and whatever else requirements. I have a decent system, but it doesn't support Windows 11 (thank the gods), so what is their plan for people like me exactly? Like I'm going to replace my motherboard and CPU just to use windows 11? This feels like multiple parts of Microsoft fighting each other.
Unfortunately, they would rather that the image of Win11 is this really secure OS
(This is in no way an indictment of what you've said here, it is entirely directed at MS.) If that's their objective, they've done an absolutely horrific job of making that clear. I guess part of that is they claim everything they do is for security, so no-one believes them.
Not to mention, I'm pretty sure the vast, vast, vast majority of Windows users aren't concerned that if their PC gets stolen people can get into it. They're much more concerned with the lost PC itself.
Either way, they look, frankly, incompetent. The OS is maligned by users, and they've stuffed so many embarrassing things like ads in the search bar or whatever, that any illusion of its benefits are lost behind a wall of garbage.
Lester, who later said he saw a large Black man at his door and was scared, shot through a glass storm door and then shot Yarl once again when he fell.
I don't think the media needlessly added race to it, the guys statement did.
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A fast-moving fire damaged several buildings in the Gitxsan community of Gitwangak in northwest B.C. on April 21, 2024. Jacob Beaton captured footage of the flames spreading from building to building.
We can use it as a one-time cure for a bunch of current cancer patients, or we can use it to continue further research towards a permanent, universally-available cure.
How is this what's happening? Who said it's a one-time-only thing? Who said they can't also research permanently available cure? Wouldn't proving that removing the debt is a huge boon to everyone cause people to invest more in the idea of a cure?
Yeah Nazis are a problem in pretty much all subcultures
I don’t know if I agree with that; well, I agree they’re always a problem, but if you’re a Jazz or Blues fan for example, I imagine there aren’t the same issues we have in Metal.
As an ideology, black nationalism encompasses a diverse range of beliefs which have variously included forms of economic, political and cultural nationalism, or pan-nationalism.[9][7] It often overlaps with, but is distinguished from, similar concepts and movements such as Pan-Africanism, Ethiopianism, the back-to-Africa movement, Afrocentrism, Black Zionism, and Garveyism.[5] Critics of black nationalism say it promotes racial and ethnic nationalism, separatism and black supremacy, and they compare it to white nationalism and white supremacy. However, the Southern Poverty Law Center says that black nationalist groups exist in a “categorically different” environment than white nationalists in the United States.
I’m white, my dad (also white) played blues guitar, and I’ve never run into anything remotely like what you’re describing.
And if it turns out that the SPLC was totally wrong, and ‘Black Nationalism’ takes over and commits genocide on white people, that’s definitely something we’ll be worried about.
Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year....
That means the USA has 800 times the rare of firearms deaths as the UK. So when this mysterious ‘civil war’ happens, how many children will have died so that you can have that semi-auto AR-15 to fight off the drones of the American military, or the armoured vehicles of your cops?
Instead of pretending One Man With A Gun is going to do something, maybe try voting locally. Maybe try de-arming your cops?
Yes. They are trying to use school shootings to ignite a civil war. It’s in their manifestos they leave behind. They say so on their forums. The same talking heads who formented the insurrection are same ones who encourage incels to commit public massacres, then deny all culpability immediately after. They even claim the shootings never happened.
You think this is a push, from the NRA amongst others, to get people to… ban specific firearms? How exactly does banning semi-auto firearms prevent your Totally-Going-To-Work-Later uprising?
[Because congratulations, your efforts to keep your firearms only cost the lives of 4,357 children (ages 1-19 years old) in the U.S. in 2020.
But the realities of the past several years have shown us that an armed rebellion can be significantly more powerful. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan, look at Myanmar today where the rebel groups are literally 3D printing carbines.
Couple things, but mostly: 1. How free are people in Iraq and Afghanistan, exactly? 2. Rebel groups are illegally printing carbines. The legality of it is meaningless. They aren’t taking on the US military on it’s own soil.
If you guys are saying that making death-by-gun the most common form of death for children in the USA, even abovecars is worth it for some maybe-one-day-we’ll-be-a-militia-group seems like the most sad and specious logic I’ve ever heard. I’m a parent and theoretically fighting some imaginary war (which we’ve been hearing about for decade after decade…) takes a definite backseat to my kids making it through school un-shot-at.
And virtually every armed rebellion that worked happened in a nation where firearms were heavily restricted, so the laws are meaningless. Hell you could only own a smoothbore shotgun at most in the soviet union, and last I checked a whole bunch of those countries had armed rebellions.
And none of these We Need Our Guns For Defense! comments are address that the main cause of death of your children is firearms. How many children have to die to prevent this theoretical tyrannical takeover? Where were all you guys with your guns when a coup was attempted?
Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting....
In Canada, bodies go unclaimed as costs put funerals out of reach ( www.reuters.com )
Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones' remains....
Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection. ( lemmy.world )
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows. ( about.winamp.com )
Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.
Another World is Possible ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Trump's $60 Bible & Constitution omits amendments ending slavery and allowing women to vote ( meidasnews.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15442706...
Single Issue Voters will save the world! ( lemmy.world )
Baby is ready to party ( lemmy.world )
Police find DNA of another 12 women at self-confessed killer’s apartment in Winnipeg ( www.aptnnews.ca )
The Winnipeg Police Service confirmed the DNA of four Indigenous women inside the home of their self-confessed killer, a court heard Thursday, along with the DNA profiles of an additional 12 women....
Trump Leads in 5 Key States, as Young and Nonwhite Voters Express Discontent With Biden ( www.nytimes.com )
Wholesome co-worker ( lemmy.world )
What is the point of Xbox? ( www.eurogamer.net )
Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape ( www.gamespot.com )
I don't think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I'm letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...
Winnipeg man admits to killing 4 women but says he’s not criminally responsible ( globalnews.ca )
A man has admitted in court that he killed four women in Winnipeg, but his lawyers are asking he be found not criminally responsible because of mental illness....
Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda ( www.ign.com )
Affected devs:...
Police raid far-right German MEP’s office in China espionage probe ( www.politico.eu )
Spy investigation into the AfD’s Maximilian Krah and his assistant ramps up in Brussels....
List of countries that cannot make a PSN account, following the Helldivers 2 controversy. ( programming.dev )
The censored one is probably Niger...
What Columbia Should Have Done Instead of Brutalizing Its Student Protesters ( slate.com )
One example, from just up the Ivy-garlanded I-95, at Brown University, was announced just hours before Shafik again called in the police. Brown’s governing body agreed to vote on a proposal that would divest the school’s endowment of companies affiliated with Israel in a meeting in October. The proposal is based on a 2020...
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining ( www.neowin.net )
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
Black Kansas City teen Ralph Yarl sues white man who shot him for ringing the doorbell ( www.kcur.org )
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Houses burn in fast-moving fire in northwest B.C. ( www.cbc.ca )
A fast-moving fire damaged several buildings in the Gitxsan community of Gitwangak in northwest B.C. on April 21, 2024. Jacob Beaton captured footage of the flames spreading from building to building.
Finally beat cancer ( sh.itjust.works )
Yousaf: Trans women will be protected under misogyny law ( www.bbc.com )
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Pls pls pls.... ( slrpnk.net )
They really want people to RTO ( lemmy.world )
Source- but beware, the site is cancer.
Semiautomatic firearm ban passes Colorado's House, heads to Senate ( apnews.com )
Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year....
Employee Quietly Sneaks His Own Painting Onto the Walls of a German Museum ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House ( www.theguardian.com )
Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting....
Didn't you get that memo? ( lemmy.world )
Apparently, this was a photoshoot for TV Guide...
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