OwenEverbinde @ OwenEverbinde @lemmy.myserv.one

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Are there any confiftent rulef for which placef an "f" can replace an "s" ?

Descent 1 & 2

There's a Descent 2?! And 3!?

(Also, I didn't know Interplay was a well known company. I had a whole set of Interplay CDs I used to play as a kid. Fond memories. Descent, Conquest of the New World, Whiplash...)

I don't think they were hue bulbs. I think they were just regular LED light fixture bulbs.

Oh. Huh. Gotta say, I wasn't expecting to encounter anyone who had good experience with those bulbs.

That... blows a hole in my theory.

I still don't regret the cheap, foreign light bulbs I got off of eBay (best LEDs I've bought thus far)... but maybe my family and I have just been unlucky with name brand LEDs.

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Got cheap, no-name, unbranded LED bulbs off of eBay. Years later, not one of them had broken.

But Philips LED bulbs? Those things don't last a year. In fact, none of the high-rated, "high quality," top-ten-list, LED light bulbs have ever outlasted an incandescent in my experience.

If you want your LEDs to last, buy the no-name bulbs, guys. The Phoebus Cartel is still out there.

Ah... So that's what you're saying.

Well I can believe it. The CIA once tried to murder Fidel Castro with, like, shaving cream or something one time. Our agencies can go back and forth from "we are a daunting, all-knowing panopticon" into "hi, we're the Keystone Cops" a dozen times in a weekend.

If that's the case, and they're targeting someone who didn't even get in that deep, then: ouch. My condolences. I hope you if you really aren't a threat that they figure out they aren't needed anymore.

Yeah, the FBI has caught bombers by monitoring them before the bombers were able to break the law.

Secretely surveiled them right up until they dropped the duffel bag on the sidewalk.

My memory isn't great right now, but I think I recall reading somewhere that they catch over a hundred would-be bombers a year.

Downvoted because this isn't a question.

But there's a lot of places where I would upvote this post. Both of the communities below would be great choices for it:

• !adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !tankiejerk@lemmy.world

Frankl died of heart failure in Vienna on 2 September 1997. He is buried in the Jewish section of the Vienna Central Cemetery.

• Wikipedia

He was 92 when he died. He treated suicidal thoughts / tendencies, but there's no info suggesting he actually tried to kill himself.

Not OP, but I imagine "carbon negative" sounds negative because it has the word "negative" in it.

When it fact "carbon negative" means you're reducing carbon, which is generally regarded as a positive thing.

If you'd like to know who this guy is, here's a paragraph about him on History.com

One such erasure was Nikola Yezhov, a secret police official who oversaw ██████ purges. For a while Yezhov worked at ██████ right hand, interrogating, falsely accusing and ordering the execution of thousands of Communist Party officials. But in 1938, Yezhov fell from ██████ favor after being usurped by one of his own deputies. He was denounced, secretly arrested, tried in a secret court, and executed.

I'm cis. The flag does not belong to me. It does not describe me. You can ignore my complaints...

But nevertheless, my neurodivergent brain is very bothered by the fact that there are only four panels, with the backgrounds going, "blue, pink, white, pink..."

Why is there no fifth panel?

Don't worry. The water might be flat, but we've been working on carbonating the air for some time now.

I am so sorry. That's devastating. You already have to struggle to fight your illness. But to have to fight that hard AGAINST YOUR DOCTOR when your doctor is supposed to be on your team? It's a betrayal.

Oh yeah, certainly. And one of the first steps in that direction -- the corporate death sentence -- is just common sense.

(The corporate death sentence is basically "any company that does more damage than it can reasonably repair gets converted into a co-op controlled by its workers / victims. The investors' shares get dissolved.")

I don't think anyone would have a reasonable objection to allowing the voters of East Palestine, Ohio and the workers for Norfolk Southern to elect all of the company's board members from here on out. And I don't think anyone would weep for Norfolk Southern's shareholders if their shares got dissolved.

There's a lot of trouble with definitions regarding capitalism. (I'd call them intentional since muddying the waters serves the people who benefit from our current system.)

Pick any person who is complaining about "capitalism" right now.

If you proposed a system where everything was structured the same as it is right now, HOWEVER instead of shareholders and owners possessing companies, every, single company was a worker cooperative (owned and controlled by its workers) then I am 95% sure the anti-capitalist you picked would

1. Not consider that capitalism, and
2. Vastly prefer that over what we have right now

With some minor variation. (Tankies don't think it's possible to maintain such a system without monopolizing violence. Anarcho-communists wouldn't be too happy about the scope and financial power of state and federal governments, and would seek to pare them down. Democratic socialists would think it was perfect. Little disagreements like that.)

But I think most other people (people who aren't anti-capitalists) would think "that's just a form of capitalism" if I described the above.

In fact, if I said,

A free market system, but ownership and control of the means of production is only allowed collectively and democratically. No shareholders allowed, no transferable individual ownership allowed.

Most ordinary people would consider that a form of capitalism. (Even though calling it capitalism is, technically, highly inaccurate). So it's a difficult conversation to have. Because most "anti-capitalists" disagree with most "pro-capitalists" on the basic definition of what they are fighting or defending.

I'm actually convinced that a lot of "pro-capitalists" are more eager to defend the free market system than they are to defend transferable, stock-marketable, individual ownership of the means of production. I think they would compromise on the latter if they could safeguard the former.

The entire industry is built on catering to the vast swaths of women who get ignored by doctors and need somewhere to turn.

I highly suspect doctors are taught in medical school, "women are over emotional and prone to exaggeration."

Hell, "hysteria" was considered a valid diagnosis until the 1950s.

I'd build as many zero-equity housing co-ops as I could in areas with high costs of living.

I like this logic. Killing should be a last resort.

Further, if I had a billion dollars to spend, I'd sooner spend it on organizations like Life After Hate and get them the resources necessary to deconvert and deprogram Nazis than I would on any iteration of our current system of playing whack-a-mole with their censor-evading code words. Or on some Nazi-killing executioner.

I hate how quick people are to advocate giving up on their fellow humans.