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There are probably better instances out there, but I'm on lemmy.dbzer0.com at the moment.

NBC News is not naming the provider to protect the identity of its sources.

I think that is the right thing to do.

Didn't Lincoln and the other guys have slaves themselves?

No.

I thought the slavery abolition was just a reason to get the black people fighting on their side

That is a half-truth at best. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free any slaves outside the confederacy.

How did sideloading get its name?

The 2008 crisis was a result of predatory lending practices and mortgage backed securities that were full of subprime mortgages and other toxic assets, and a burst real estate bubble. I don't think it was a tech bubble like the dotcom bust.

Enron claimed to have some vague new means of lowering costs, acquiring revenue, and making the line go up. It would have been transformative for the power industry if it wasn’t straight-up fraud.

Well, they were gaming the rules in the California energy market. They were doing shit like causing blackouts so they could price gouge.

The Biden administration, reluctant to change course, may say the parallels between Gaza and Ukraine are far from exact, but it also seems to know it is gradually losing diplomatic support.

There are no parallels in Gaza and Ukraine. The Revolution of Dignity spooked Putin. There is no analog of that in Gaza.

Israeli attitudes towards Hamas are comparable to the Russian pretense of the "de-nazification" of Ukraine.

someone was made fun of one too many times about having green bubbles in imessage

I seem to remember a lot of people upset about GPL V3 I don't remember how that was resolved.

You're welcome.

I wish I had a use for that.

It's the holidays and everyone is traveling. Get your clickbait headlines outta here.

well, you have to learn to employ different techniques like crop dusting

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crop+dusting

they change the names because they suck

Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave something behind, and the ones that leave nothing behind. Sometimes, it can be hard to guess what kind of bubble you’re living through until it pops and you find out the hard way.

Contrast that bubble with, say, cryptocurrency/NFTs, or the complex financial derivatives that led up to the 2008 financial crisis. These crises left behind very little reusable residue.

The 2008 financial crisis was not the result of a "tech" bubble.

well, I don't think battle.net is the worst launcher

Origin is still bad and so is whatever Ubisoft's launcher is called.

edit: for the record I didn't say that steam was the best launcher, but I have found the launchers for world of warships and warthunder to be serviceable

guilty dog barks first

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

Why is it so hard for companies to build a game launcher that doesn't suck? Is it just a lowest bidder situation?

if no one can hear you fart, no one knows who is responsible

I don't like artificial metrics constructed from other metrics without any explanation.