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Probably because it was released just before OoT so it was an irrelevant title almost immediately.

In the 1950s in the Philippines the CIA was conducting operations against a militant group called the Huks. The CIA operatives spread rumors that manananggal (basically the local mythological equivalent of a vampire) was attacking people, particularly in the area of one mountain village. Then they located a Huk patrol, stealth-killed one guy, punctured his neck to create the appearance of "bite marks", drained all his blood, and threw him back on the road where they had jumped him.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswang

Word on the street is she and Obama confronted Joe and told him point blank he would be stepping aside from the nomination or Kamala would 25th Amendment him with their support. That was the stick. The carrot was they'll give him a giant fellatio tribute at the DNC and find some way to get funding for a library for his "legacy".

This does make one wonder though, why is he even still the acting president?

Millions of people are deferring home and automotive purchases, maintenance, and even medical care because they can't afford it.

That means they're "refusing to pay higher prices" and the economy is cured, right?

Anyone remember that time the CIA faked a vampire attack as a psyop in the Philippines?

Rogan seems the type that spouts strong opinions about everything and then doesn't even vote.

You know, like most of Reddit and Lemmy.

Since the story came out people fixated on "lol he used a shitty gaming controller" but really that is one of the least sketchy design choices in the entire rig. Why reinvent the wheel and make a custom set of controls that are realistically another huge expense and potential failure point, when off the shelf solutions exist for that component?

The corners that were cut are the ones involving the viewport/nose adhesion to the ships frame, and the structural integrity of the carbon fiber hull itself. They had test data suggesting it was a bad idea to engage in repeated dives with their design, and an even worse idea to operate at the depths they chose. They decided to ignore that.

You have all that space in the Complex and you put a toilet there?

Stay out of the Back Rooms

I more mean to imply there a ton of Europeans and Canadians on Lemmy. They seem to have a lot of strong opinions on US politics. I don't think you (or almost anyone else) are a Russian bot.

I suspect a significant percentage of very vocal individuals in Lemmy politics threads can't even vote in US elections because they don't live here.

Turns out making everything into a subscription service doesn't make it better, it just makes it worse.

The SSN itself is limited to under 1 billion possible permutations anyway because the format is 9 total digits. (3 digits hyphen 2 digits hyphen 4 digits.)

And if I recall they also have something weird with the state you were born roughly corresponding to which 3 digit prefix you're issued. Obviously that isn't purely true either because that would only give you about 1 million unique numbers per prefix.

Either way they've gotta be close to the theoretical maximum of the format without recycling numbers.

"Booker, catch!"

Saw him perform a few times (in addition to LP he also filled in for other bands including being the frontman for STP for a few years) and I can tell you that he definitely enjoyed performing... It was very clearly the highlight of his life.

News flash: single-factor analyses fail to adequately explain human social behavior.

Purely strategically, it is an absolutely braindead move to not pick Shapiro. 538 has done a lot of work recently showing the likelihood that whoever wins PA will almost certainly win the election. So why would she decline to select the PA candidate with 60+% approval in that state?

NGL I literally still use a PS/2 port for my decent yet extremely old membrane keyboard from circa 2007.

I meant to upgrade to a customized mechanical keeb a few years back, got a bunch of sample key caps and switches, got really overwhelmed by the choices, and never bought anything permanent.

In my dream scenario this choice pays off when some fed agency tries to install a hardware keylogger and can't because I'm the last idiot still using a PS/2 keyboard in 2024.

If you want to support a US company, buy a Steamdeck and do retro emulation on there. The device components and whatnot are still going to be of mixed international origin.

I think avoiding crowded indoor areas and washing your hands every time you return home, or before eating or drinking anything, are good policies in general. If more people just did those things we'd see less communicable disease overall.

Then again I'm routinely horrified by the amount of people who barely wash (or don't wash at all) their hands before exiting public restrooms...