When I was a kid in the mid-90s, my mum won a pair of rollerblades that were in my size from a raffle at the local shop. I wore them and loved them for about 3 days until I was chased and threatened by homophobes 🤷‍ That was the end of that 😒 I’m not trying to fight off gangs of older kids on my own while wearing bewheeled shoes. I’m not even gay, but wearing rollerblades was akin to licking bumholes back then, apparently.

Eric Weinstein has left the chat in tears.

What were you doing as the arcing rope of hot bonobo jizzum was spiralling toward you from between the bars of the zoo enclosure?

Derry Girls

I noped out of there so fast when a credit card popup appeared when I tried to join. Like, what the actual fuck?

I wanted to give it a chance, but Lemmy is the future.

Why does he write like he perpetually stims by bouncing both legs to the beat of death metal?

$800 million doesn’t even seem that high at this stage (I had assumed they broke a billion by now).

Whatever this ends up being when it’s all said and done is never going to justify the production costs. If you developed a helmet that could trigger the hardest orgasm your body can muster at the push of a button, it would not justify $800 million.

We’ve successfully extinctified hundreds of species through our very excellent human-centric activities. I’ve yet to see any environmental fallout from it. Where are the secondary and tertiary extinctions of the animals that depended on the first lot we rubbed out? Where are the corpses left in the wake of the dodo’s disappearance? Big Environmental Science™ won’t tell you, because they can’t. They’re shills and liars, all of 'em. Rich elites who make bank on selling textbooks at a 1,200% markup.

Who’s up for starting a truthseeker podcast with me?

/s

This is a pretty specific recommendation that might not apply to your situation, but if you’re into gaming (at any level), I highly recommend No Man’s Sky and its communities on reddit and Lemmy. The people there are the most welcoming and friendly I’ve ever encountered in the context of gaming, and finding new friends to co-op with is easy. From there, you can get to know people more and chat in non-gaming contexts.

I support the general idea, but I hope they don’t go the MuseScore route and start adding popup ads in the free program for pro/paid elements. MuseScore literally has popup ads now. Insanity.

I wonder why they still haven’t come forward, given that there would be no legal consequences for doing so in 2025.

Her thesis supervisor had argued against her findings at first, she built the detector and found the signal, and she was disbelieved. She had to fight to get her supervisor to even acknowledge that she had found something worth looking at. And the shameless fucking cunt went ahead and accepted the Nobel Prize for it.

What’s the upshot of this, even if the article’s hyperbole is accurate? I’m assuming it’s not as spooky or sci-fi as the terminology sounds to a monkey like me.

😭 I corrected it now

Price and shit game selection/implementation aside, I simply can’t use the fuckin’ thing without getting headaches and nausea. Tried a couple of headsets and control schemes, but my shitty brain is just not wired for it. I get travel/car sick as well, in fact I had to leave a really good school I was attending to go to a shitty one within walking distance of home because I was puking every morning 😆

On paper, I guess so? In reality, and as is the case with pretty much every developed democracy, money and technology make a mockery of the whole idea. A society in which billionaires can buy their way into the Whitehouse - literally - is no democracy.

Oh cool! Thank you 👍

Wow 😆

If you want to compress video files, you’ll need to reencode them. Maybe using something like HEVC (High Efficiency Video Codec). But for 80GB of videos, you’ll be there for a while and probably won’t shrink them enough to be worth it. It would likely take less time to simply re-download the files later, even with a mediocre internet connection. In practical terms, you won’t get that 80GB to be any smaller.

ISOs don’t compress anything, as far as I know, or at least not by default. I think they’re basically just a container.

To reencode your videos, you can use the free HandBrake.

I’m not a dev/programmer, but does the version number starting with a zero suggest that Lemmy is still in a pre-release state? Like alpha or beta or something? If so, what needs to happen before it gets to version 1.0? Just curious! From my layperson’s perspective, Lemmy runs great and I have no complaints about it, so I’m not sure what v.1.0 would look like. Or maybe it’s all internal stuff that I’ll never notice anyway?