hightrix @ hightrix @lemmy.world

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As I said with the very first statement, I don’t believe any of this.

why not just fund the terrorists and ignore warnings?

This is exactly what many tinfoil hatters thought and probably still think.

I didn’t actually believe this, but it was fun to entertain the idea.

Here’s why. At the time, there were a bunch of very odd coincidences. I’ll do my best to remember the best of them.

• The CIA/NSA (one of the “secret” agencies) put out a budget report showing a large amount of money that was not trackable, in the billions.
• Coincidentally, the section of the pentagon hit by the “plane” was reportedly where financial records were stored.
• By “plane”, I mean object. If you watch the 1 video that got out (all other videos were confiscated) from the nearby gas station, the thing that hits the pentagon does not look like a plane but instead a missile.

Next!

• reportedly, the owner of the twin towers took out a massive insurance policy against the buildings the day or week before 9/11 (I forget exact timing)
• also, the building was covered in asbestos, the cost to remove was in the billions, and the cost to keep the building occupied always also increasing

Next!

• building 7 (I think that’s the right one) collapsed under what appeared to be demolishing conditions
• building 7 was never hit by a plane or anything else, it just dropped like it was purposefully demolished

Edit: forgot one!

• the towers were obviously hit by planes, we have plenty of video evidence of this. The controversy is around how the towers actually fell. This is where the “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” meme comes from.

There are more, but it’s been 20 years and my memory is hazy.

Overall, there were some oddities around the whole event that, when allowing yourself to think completely outside of reality, make sense as to why it was an inside job.

Finally, personally I believe the Saudis did it in cooperation with Bin Laden and their goal was to bankrupt America. They did a pretty good job, from their perspective.

The tutorial takes longer than an hour, but I understand and agree with your point. The game needs more endgame content.

The repetitive missions would be fine if there were also additional difficult goal type activities. It’s a fun core game that needs a solid progression loop.

Hot take: it is a really good game that is a ton of fun. It got really bad press from “professional” gamers because they can’t play it 10 hours a day for the next year.

The main deficiency with the game is the lack of end game content. The story was fun, the end game is fun, but there isn’t enough of it.

A lot of football fans were also upset and it had nothing to do with politics.

Thankfully, they only showed her ~twice in the first half and ~7 times in the second. We had bets going on!

Simple in practice but obviously harder to grow a community… but the answer is to post like a normal person. Stagger posts a few hours apart at a minimum.

Oh yeah 100%. If you really hate a job or boss, it isn’t worth staying.

There were 2 characters in BL3 that were annoying, and no not the twins. Ava and Lorelei. Both extremely annoying.

Yeah. That is silly. Job hopping every 2-3 years is perfectly normal and expected. That said, job hopping every 6-9 months is a big red flag. When I find I hate a new job, I try to stick it out until the 1.5 yr mark, as that’s about the minimum before it starts to look bad.

While browsing all, seeing the effects of #2 is a signal to block the community. When I see 10 posts from the same community in a row on all, it gets blocked.

Israel indiscriminately firing at buildings.

This is my shocked face. 😐

Exactly! If people on the bottom quartile of the income spectrum are given a free $500/mo for rent, guess what happens to rent? It magically increases by $499.

One click install that provides regional VPN, multi-index torrent searching, scheduling, auto downloading based on simple criteria, and then file and metadata management.

I do all this now with various apps, but a single package that does everything that I could install on a new machine and start downloading immediately.

This is my dream app.

As a software engineer that is involved in hiring decisions, they are not worth anything with respect to software development jobs.

I look for, in order of importance:

• demonstrated experience - this is your work history
• academic achievement - this is college degree. I do not include certs
• additional skills - this tends to be a skills section - I expect people to not lie and will ask about this section explicitly in interviews
• external factors - previous job - circumstances around leaving

And that’s it. Certs don’t ever even get considered.

I’m on the other side, why use either? Microblogging seems quite dated and the format is not conducive to conversation. I prefer Lemmy style posts and comments to microblogging.

Let’s not even get started on how stupid people sound when they talk about skeets and toots.

No one. This is what propagandists do. They change the conversation until you get frustrated and quit.

Exact same thing happened to me. Group project needed a programmer, I was a gamer with a nice computer so I volunteered. 15 years later and I’m a software engineer at a huge company.

It is even more annoying on Lemmy clients that show every link in a comment at the bottom of the comment in easy to tap boxes. This is great for 1 or 2, but every mastodon post has everyone @ing everyone else.

I just downvote it all, block the users, and move on. That shit is annoying.

Lol. I hadn’t even thought of that random instance until this post.

I imagine most people are like me. They forgot this instance existed.

Ahh. Yes, yes it is. I blame lack of coffee :)

Thank you. Nice work!