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Bethesda Game Studios has unionized!
  • Fantastic news for the devs!

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    Rule
  • The ones in the picture are hospital socks, presumably from a psych related stay.

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    A person's home may be their castle but if they leave it vacant can they really complain if it gets taken away?
  • If it's vacant then it's not their home, it's just unused housing.

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    The Alps
  • Is this a map from the medieval era lol

    It's from America in 1965, so basically yeah.

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    Children is bugs
  • Nah, there are just a bunch of alternate subs that people made after disliking the moderation.

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    Climate change simulator tool draws gasps, even tears from P.E.I. residents
  • Realistically, we're already past the point where renewables are cheaper than nuclear, so it doesn't make much sense to go into it now.

    20 years ago would be a different story.

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    Cyclist Julien Bernard fined for kissing wife during Tour de France
  • UCI doing bullshit? I'm soooo surprised.

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    Hydro-Québec announces $9B wind power project, one of the largest in North America
  • Yeah, I think you are right in that idea. Realistically they will be clumped in high wind areas within that 5000km².

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    Hydro-Québec announces $9B wind power project, one of the largest in North America
  • One turbine for every 12.5km²? Seems like a pretty reasonable spread accounting for space in between and geographical features they may have to avoid.

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    Let's discuss: Super Mario
  • I was pleasantly surprised by Super Mario Wonder. It had the same feel of fun and variety that the older games did.

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    Homo sapiens sapiens
  • Neanderthal stands for new man valley.

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    Capitalism
  • Don't want this to come across as defeatist, because the message is nice and Ursula K. Le Guin is a real one, but there's still 43 monarchies in existence in 2024.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchies

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    Is 13 too young to work? A Saskatchewan proposal has reignited debate around kids and labour
  • I agree with your point about teenagers work interfering with their schooling, but that's not quite correct about the mandatory age.

    It's only mandatory to 18 in New Brunswick and 17 in Manitoba.

    In the rest of Canada the age is 15 to 16. (16 in Saskatchewan.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20100214200211/http://www.educationau-incanada.ca/index.aspx?action=educationsystem-systemeeducation&lang=eng

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    Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 30th
  • Picked up Bloons Tower Defence 6 on sale for $1.50, already put quite a few hours into it.

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    Maximum Yearly Extent of the Ozone Hole since 1979
  • The eruption was in 2022 though, so what caused the hole to increase so dramatically from 2019 to 2020?

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  • We've all got one. That pile of books waiting to be read, some of them surely doomed to linger for years as other more enticing novels are selected instead. What's in yours?

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    www.playbalatro.com Balatro

    Balatro is a deck-building roguelite where you must play poker hands and earn chips to defeat enemy blinds. Enhance your deck of playing cards, buy Jokers to modify each hand you play, and discover new and wild synergies to win!

    I'm not usually a huge fan of rogue-likes, but I've enjoyed a few, like Hades. I bought Balatro last week and have been absolutely smashing it ever since then. I love the way the game works, each run being so different even within the same framework, and the feeling when your build starts to go off is so incredibly satisfying.

    Anyone else hopelessly addicted to joker poker?

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    open.substack.com Wet bulb events. Not as sexy as they sound.

    When the air is hot and humid, you just die. That's kind of a big problem.

    If you've never heard of wet bulb events, get ready for a new level of climate anxiety. When the air kills you!

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    www.humblebundle.com Humble Book Bundle: Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen by TOR Publishing Group

    We’ve teamed up with TOR for our newest book bundle. Get all 10 volumes of Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson and more. Pay what you want & support Covenant House!

    The massive 10 book epic fantasy series is a classic of the genre. If you've been interested in the series at all, this is the cheapest price I've seen for the whole lot.

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    agrobertson.substack.com You've never heard of the most brutal race in the world.

    The ninth iteration of the premier ultra-endurance cycling race is currently underway.

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    agrobertson.substack.com You've never heard of the most brutal race in the world.

    The ninth iteration of the premier ultra-endurance cycling race is currently underway.

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    I have completed and released my first short story, Hide. It is a prequel to the novel I am currently editing, Singularity.

    Blurb >Deep in the mountain lakes of the Yukaan Empire, Tomas ij’Lu’kan, a haunted ex-soldier and recovered addict returns to a hunting hide he visited with his father as a child to scatter his ashes. > >Someone is waiting for him in the darkness of the hide, someone from his past, left long behind. In remembrance of the man that was his father, he and the other are forced to confront the transgressions they have made and the secrets they have kept from one another.

    Viewable for free on my Patreon, on Royal Road, or on my Substack.

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    agrobertson.substack.com AI doesn't read or write like humans, and we shouldn't act like it does.

    We shouldn’t be affording companies the ability to profit off other people’s creations without their consent, and despite the intentions, that's basically how current copyright law works.

    A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.

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    Just wondering why lemmy is on a .ml domain. (Which is Mali) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml

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