“Weathered steel” was all the rage on brand new buildings a few years ago, why not on a “truck”? 😏

The movie, “Big Miracle”, seems to have been based on a real event known as “Operation Breakthrough”. There was a time where something like this would have the entire world holding it’s collective breath and doing all it can to save the animals. Today, hardly anyone knows it’s happening. 😢

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

I mean, sure, but I feel it probably wasn’t the greatest unmasking. Some of the stuff was just plain ignorant and embarrassing … for the lawmakers. Like this exchange with the Tik Tok CEO. I feel like they probably don’t really understand what they are up-in-arms about. 🤷‍♀️

So it could’ve created the mid-drift, maybe, but not enlarge her breasts.

Epic lost their case with Apple regarding Fortnite, yet now Epic are looking to make Fortnite available on iOS in EU. But from the article it seems an alternate “app marketplace” would still need Apple approval anyway. It will be interesting to see how all this is going to work.

Exactly. I think the bigger question here is whether hand-soap is sufficient to use as body wash? 🤔

Apologies. It was the first source that appeared in my feed.

Edit: oh and this is British Sky News, just in case you hadn’t realised it’s not Sky News Australia … a completely different beast.

Yeh I don’t understand it either. I’m from Australia. Driving into a desert sounds like a pretty dangerous thing to do, no matter what the weather forecast is.

Nice.

Just visited a moment ago to check if I received my Place awards for placing FUCK SPEZ pixels. Couldn’t access my profile page without turning off adblock. They just keep giving me more and more reasons not to return.

Firefox:
Tools/Settings/Privacy & Security/Permissions/Autoplay/Settings/Default for all Websites: Block Audio

Extraordinary. 🤨 This is the sort of news I browse the internet for. Wonder what all that’s about, then …

Can you buy medicine from the pharmacy with online payment? Could not these products all process under that payment system?

Netflix wanting to get paid for their service and content is reasonable.

Sure, it’s reasonable, and why I started subscribing in the first place. But if I pay for four screens, I expect to be able to use all of those four screens, no matter what address they are being viewed from.

I have several hundred “Bricks” which is some cryptocurrency from r/FortniteBR … It’s stored in my “Vault” but I dunno how to use it or what I can buy with it. I dunno if I can sell it, but I remember them specifically referring to these Bricks as crypto when they came out, and they are earned by posting content and comments.

I never realized the storylines in Detroit were that short.

quick Google search tells me average play-thru time is 12hrs and completionist is 32hrs, so I dunno what I was looking at. I’m 5hours in, so it remains to be seen whether it’s gonna take me 32hours or 64hours minimum. 🤣 You’ll have to forgive me, it’s the steam sale so I’ve been looking at lots of games. Not that I need any more because I’ve probably only ever touched a quarter of my library, if that!

someone said all the hoops would keep the idiots out,

Yeah I liked that take as well. That layer of jargon really is a fantastic filter.

get my head around the fact that I had to also join any instance I wanted to respond to

Wait. What? Why are you doing that?

Don’t worry, I hear ya! I’m currently 4.9 hours in on my first run of the story game, Detroit. People in the reviews say it is a short game and they have less than 3 hours playtime … but I don’t wanna miss any narrative or clues! haha!

I joined Mastadon in December and that’s when I first tried to understand it all. I researched a server to join and it was right confusing … what if I picked the wrong one? Then I pretty much abandoned the account because I didn’t understand how to stay on my own server while browsing around (also didn’t help that I’d never used Twitter either, so I didn’t actually know what I sposed to be doing lol).

Then the whole reddit debacle happened and I signed up for a Lemmy & Kbin. And there was all the jargon again. But I think because I was actually jumping ship from reddit, this time I wanted my move to have staying power. So it was unusual for me to “skip the tutorial” but I was getting so frustrated with the jargon, while I could see others were already having conversations. And it was through the participation that the jargon finally defined itself. I even use my mastodon now, as well!

I think a great many users came to the Fediverse because they were not happy with their experience on FB, Reddit et al and were looking for something that is not that. Why should those users then be expected to recreate that model, or allow that content into this community? People here have already left those massive communities, and connections, and you speak like they lament that choice.