Chee_Koala @ Chee_Koala @lemmy.world

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The reason chocolate is expensive is because the last couple of harvest were a horrifying preview of what global warming is gonna do. Cocoa, now coffee harvests are failing. My pessimistic side would say: eat chocolate now, while you can. Those prices are not coming back down in our lifetime.

"late 2023, failed cacao harvests have contributed to a major jump in cocoa prices on the New York and London markets where cocoa is traded, reported The Guardian."

Oops.

Yeah no thanks, you have a nice day 🤣

I wonder how fast they can produce and use those new laser weapons, they should rip most drones a new one. Currently, modern war looks a like a total cluster fuck for everyone involved, tiny accurate death from above at any time... sheesh... With laser cover, currently only available on tracks/wheels and in short supply, I think it would already look very different. I have no real clue what's about to happen though, this war kicked off a crazy weird arms race.

It's a lot harder to do in some other democratic structures. 100 % for sure we have not yet reached end-game governance styles, no one and nothing is immune to sustained malice, but (for example) multi-party cabinets are a lot harder to 'flip' then just stealing one election and press the fascist button, which is what this ( States of Murica politics ) kind of feels like from a distance.

Why did they wait? Because if all this support started on day 1, a lot of folks would have feared nuclear retaliation and there is no way back from that.

The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is too complex to use your oversimplified perspective, and thus only useful to throw oil on the fire. There are serious nuclear threats, Putin’s unpredictable actions, it also involves many (very different) countries standing up against tyranny. The bureaucracy may be slow in its responses, but efforts are being made to ensure careful moves that prevent escalation. Labeling European leadership as bloodthirsty is misleading in my eyes; they are actively working to protect democracy.

Why would you think European leadership aiming for more dead Ukrainians? Why would they still provide financial and humanitarian support? And increase it now?

Some NL based medical companies also have stored extremely sensitive data overseas. The rule is: comply (and don't use foreign cloud solutions) or explain. I've read the explanations of a couple. They perfectly explain: we wanted this, it's cheaper in the short run, clouds are just so convenient, it's such a big company we don't really need an exit strategy. Wow great explanation y'all 😅! I guess all of the transfolk have totally nothing to worry about, cool!

I shared a story of some international gay adventures I had in darkrooms to a Dutch governmental health organization so my STD check would be free (I believe all STD checks should be free forever and everywhere, so embellished every and all details so I would be marked as high risk). Let's see how long it takes for that to finds its way back to me through DOGE or some other murican garbage institute :).

He could just as well have ended this statement with "Sieg Heil", hooooold the front door, what is happening!? (It's metaphorical y'all, I know what's happening I just can't believe it 😔)

Wow, that very randomly and suddenly reminds me that in Leiden, NL, they have a Bio-Science Park that is building mega lab after mega lab(Covid really shifted this bio park into sixth gear), with some plots still left to fill, right next to 2 highways! Schiphol is just a train stop away! If the price of living and housing won't deter you, nothing will!

Bonus fact: I used to jam riiiiiight there in the top right appartement of the block that's starts lowest in the picture with my band Karateklit. Not anymore, we have a new place :)

Lol ok. I paid money to ableton when I could have just donated instead. Thank you so much for the follow-up!

Well thousand bombs! That's a whole lot o firewood, this son chops!

Latest release is 2020 it says on the GitHub page, is that incorrect information? I started using LMMS in 2022 but I recall ditching it because I thought it was a dead project..

Just chillin' with my homie Mount Doom.

Tasty cold beverage after long physical activity (day hiking or biking)

They told me every 10m/1bar is about one beer when learning to scuba. Cheers

Ask an LLM for recommendations based on what I liked to read.

Stick it to the man!! 😜

That's pretty unfortunate 😔. Thanks for sharing, what's next for you?

True :)

Piracy is a service problem. If Videogames solved this problem, so can books. If changing these laws closes down libraries further, all of our EU representatives that worked on this legislation failed us immensely, libraries are already nothing but a faint whimper of the idea that started them off, and could fulfill an important cultural role for so much more folks. If only they were allowed.

But no. We have to think about those multibillion businesses who might miss a couple bucks left and right. Don't know if anyone used that adobe DRM in the last 5 years but it's basically a way to bully paying customers into an ecosystem, and you're telling me they're making it worse? Lol.

It's a library manager, like iTunes for music, or Plex for movies, Google Photos/Picasa for photos/images . You pick a spot for you library locally, and then your local lib is a jump off point to load in on to any reader device you want. It will understand what device you are pushing it to, and automagically convert it (like Amazon’s proprietary format to mobi or epub 😜 !) to supported file-types. If you are into that kind of stuff, you could run it as a service on your network, and have all that fancy BYO cloud ebook solution.

The big difference with just copy-pasting is that you have a full library somewhere locally, and you can pick and choose what you load up on your reader. For me and maybe you, those lists are pretty close to identical, but what if you have a very large collection? And what if i just had to RMA my Libra? One click and a couple minutes after i receive my replacement, all of my books and reading progress will be synced back. If you had put your lib on the device itself, you would have had to rebuild it from scratch.

TLDR: Collection Management/Self Host and auto-convert are the big plusses.