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I’m just a simple man, trying to make his way in the universe.

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The cruelty is the point.

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It's the Far Side

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Why not make the surgery a little less invasive and incorporate the power supply, antenna and transmitter into one?

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If you have a wire going to the transmitter/power supply, just run the antenna wire along with it. No new tech needed.

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Anyone have any experience with Swisscows?

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Hurr durr, uncle Sam think protesting bad!

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The sun would like to have a word

Ball Game on the Piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence- Johannes Stradanus, fresco (1555) ( lemmy.world )

[The sport] calcio was reserved for rich aristocrats who played every night between Epiphany and Lent. Even popes, such as Clement VII, Leo XI and Urban VIII, played the sport in Vatican City. The games could get violent as teams vied to score goals.

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Matches last 50 minutes and are played on a field covered in sand, twice as long as it is wide (approximately 100 m × 50 m or 109 by 55 yards). A white line divides the field into two identical squares, and a goal net runs the width of each end.

Each team has 27 players and no substitutions are allowed for injured or expelled players. The teams are made up of four datori indietro (goalkeepers), three datori innanzi (fullbacks), five sconciatori (halfbacks) and 15 innanzi or corridori (forwards). The captain and standard bearer's tent sits at the center of the goal net. They do not actively participate in the game, but can organize their teams and occasionally act as caccas (referees), mainly to calm down their players or to stop fights.

The referee and the six linesmen officiate the match in collaboration with the judge commissioner, who remains off the field. The referee, above everyone else, is the master of the field, and is responsible for making sure the game runs smoothly, stepping into the field only to maintain discipline and reestablish order when fights occur.

Shots from a small cannon or colubrine announces the beginning of the event. The game starts when the pallaio[clarification needed] throws and kicks the ball toward the center line, then at the first whistle as the ball first rests on field, 15 forwards or corridori, begin fighting in a wild mixed martial arts match- punching, kicking, tripping, hacking, tackling, and wrestling with each other in an effort designed to tire opponents' defenses, but which often descends into an all-out brawl. They try to pin and force into submission as many players possible. Once there are enough incapacitated players, the other teammates come and swoop up the ball and head to the goal.

From this moment on, the players try by any means necessary to get the ball into the opponents' goal, also called "caccia". The teams change sides with every caccia or goal scored. It is important to shoot with precision, because every time a player throws or kicks the ball above the net, the opposing team is awarded with a half caccia. The game ends after 50 minutes and the team which scored the most cacce wins.

Along with the palio, the winning team used to receive a Chianina, a type of pure-bred cow. However, this has been reduced to a free dinner for the winning team; the players earn no other compensation.

Wikipedia

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This is the best thing I've seen all day. Thanks, OP!

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That's why I have my pocket computer remember for me

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One day later: bird has mysteriously disappeared, while cat is covered in feathers for some reason

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"What, you think someone would actually do that? Go on the internet and lie?" - Abraham Lincoln

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"The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We put an instrument inside", he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman asked Rosemary, for example, to recite the Lord's Prayer or sing "God Bless America" or count backwards;... "We tried to estimate thus, how far to further cut, based on how Rosemary responded." When she became incoherent, they ceased cutting."

Holy fuck

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Its cum

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Can't wait until I have to cosplay Paul Muad'Dib everyday just to survive.

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He doesn't exactly keep that fact a secret...

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What are you talking about? There's already ads everywhere and there has been since the beginning of the industrial revolution.

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Signal and DuckDuckGo

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I was surprised by how many of my friends were using both when I first installed it. Just try it out.

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If you were a real miku fan you'd take a pic of your actual bed, OP. Smh my head...

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Yeah, I think there was a documentary on that, something called "Iron Sky", I think

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At what point in your life do you come to the conclusion that yes, everybody should be made aware of what exactly I masturbate to?

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Let alone the necessary structural integrity

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We don't use slave labor, maybe that's what we're "doing wrong".

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First part: looks like that was a mistake. Decentralized manufacturing has always been the future, though.

Second part: we overcame that, didn't we? That's why it's history and not currently happening like in China.

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Perhaps we mean different things with "decentralized". What I meant was that it's a bad idea to outsource all your manufacturing to the part of the world where its cheaper. Keep some steel mills, auto plants and chip foundries near where they're consumed.
Food production is actually a good example of decentralized manufacturing. I buy mostly locally grown produce, I can literally take a walk and see the wheat which will someday be the bread I eat.

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That pic is a pretty accurate representation of the lava zone

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Are you sure? The paper you linked mentioned the model beating a top geoguesser player six times in a row.

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I would like to inform all agents that I will put this knowledge to use in Minecraft only.

Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App ( lemmy.world )

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a....

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What's with the terribly shopped doom pic?

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Wait until you learn languages with gendered articles

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I'm very glad I had the opportunity to leave. Being bilingual makes it a lot more feasible.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone ( www.theverge.com )

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

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The package manager was actually one of the simpler things about switching to Linux in my experience

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Wouldn’t landlords simply pass those costs onto their renters?

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I’m sorry for your loss.

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Can’t really tell from the picture in OP.

House Approves $95 Billion Aid Bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan ( www.nytimes.com )

The House voted resoundingly on Saturday to approve $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Speaker Mike Johnson put his job on the line to advance the long-stalled aid package by marshaling support from mainstream Republicans and Democrats....

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Hah!

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You’re using Chrome in 2024 while also browsing Lemmy? Dear God, man. I wish I had your determination and\or powers of ignorance.

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Somebody’s got to be the mysterious stranger in the corner, right? Why can’t it be me?

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That’ll do it

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Nah, he got his PhD in Purrology.

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images ( www.bloomberg.com )

When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...

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Y’all never heard of recycling?

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I agree with everything except the last four words. The ends do not always justify the means.

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Why would you wear them all day?? Crocs are exclusively for going outside for a few minutes, tops.

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Imma just point out that at least two of those dudes were some of the worst mass murderers in recent human history.

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Okay so this place being coded by dumbasses is a security issue, right?

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This is so fucking stupid but actually made me laugh. Why??? 😂

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions ( www.theregister.com )

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

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It has a ribbon. I’d say its on par with Office 2016.

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