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  • What the actual fuck is wrong with admins of SJW?

    Please direct any seething that you may wish to do to the struggle session that's well underway over here.

    Thought this instance puts things to vote so yeah, duck you too, goodbye.

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  • Conflating inclusion of people regardless of their inborn traits / social status and inclusion of people regardless of their shilling for genocidal regimes is par for the course for people making mockery of the left.

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  • Regular users subscribe to communities they like and occasionally browses "All" to explore what else there is, knowing 99% will be irrelevant to their interests.

    You and Lemmygrad people openly talk interfering with other instances so don't play coy. Your astroturfing attempts are transparent to anyone with a pair of eyes or a screen reader.

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  • Other than shilling for genocidal regimes I've seen them brigade such posts after they refederated recently. This kind of behavior is unacceptable in my book regardless of what ideology you subscribe to.

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    How to watch Wheel of Time season 2 online: Release date and time
  • I'm not judging someone who read the entire series or those who did it multiple times. People are free to enjoy what they want. Regardless of that, doing 8 months multiplied by even 2-3 times is a considerable chunk of a human lifespan. It explains takes like "I don't like the adaptation because it made too many changes" and it needs to be put into perspective. I've elaborated more on this in my other comment.

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    How to watch Wheel of Time season 2 online: Release date and time
  • "This series is 1:1 replica of a book" and "this series is only taking a passing inspiration from original books" are merely facts and a starting point to set expectations before moving on to describe and judge an adaptation. It's okay to judge by comparing original to adaptation but "this is not a faithful adaptation, therefore it is bad" does not help in evaluating quality of derived work.

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    How to watch Wheel of Time season 2 online: Release date and time
  • You've read 14 book series multiple times? That's enormous investment that's probably setting unrealistic expectations.

    I've only started the first one to die out of boredom quickly so I can't imagine repeatedly getting through a slog first few books supposedly are. My girlfriend read everything after the first season and once she was finished she did a re-watch which she enjoyed, in part because it's different. Second season has higher production value but seems to be confusing with the amount of changes so far. I'm following along because the themes are interesting and there's nothing so bad that would discourage me.

    Even without reading everything it's fair to assume that this couldn't be a faithful adaptation. They'll likely have to merge more story lines, characters, then remove some things entirely and it'll still be a challenge to fit this into amount of seasons that's reasonable to produce. The Expanse did plenty of that but it still had roughly a season per book, and that was with a book series that Bezos personally enjoys.

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    Paris officially the first city in Europe to ban e-scooters. What are the rules in other countries?
  • I guess it was up to e-scooter renting companies to come up with some kind of geofencing of reasonable parking but they failed to self-regulate which led to everyone being pissed off about them. If those companies were concerned about the spaces they littered they'd probably be still in business.

    It's a good sign that abusing good faith is punished with such severity.

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    Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn
  • I agree that it's more cybersecruity related but given that this incident led to a food product recall there is a bit of a more broad appeal so I think fits this community.

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  • www.euronews.com Paris e-scooter ban: What are the rules and risks across Europe?

    Paris has officially become the first European city to ban rented electric scooters. But laws controlling their use are still evolving elsewhere.

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    techcrunch.com Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn | TechCrunch

    Superstore giant Lidl recalled Paw Patrol snacks after a website listed on the packaging displayed explicit content unsuitable for children.

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    techcrunch.com Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn | TechCrunch

    Superstore giant Lidl recalled Paw Patrol snacks after a website listed on the packaging displayed explicit content unsuitable for children.

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    Grouped Communities question
  • No idea, I tried out Bean while it was in open test flight and was confused when the app dev went ahead with advertising this feature once it went paid. It's definitely a standout among other Lemmy clients but unfortunately it's half baked. I remained subscribed to this community to keep an eye out for when it is properly implemented.

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  • linuxjedi.co.uk Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux

    I was having an email conversation with Stoo Cambridge, and he mentioned that he was having trouble making his Linux machine display thumbnails of Amiga IFF/ILBM files. It turns out I have a soluti…

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    www.bbc.co.uk US health department recommends looser restrictions on cannabis

    The US health department has called on drug enforcement officials to reclassify cannabis as lower risk.

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    arstechnica.com Dog autism? 37% of US dog owners buy into anti-vaccine nonsense

    For the bazillionth time, vaccines do not cause autism—and dog autism is not a thing.

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    Danish government will introduce new law to ban burning the Quran
  • I don't believe critique of JK Rowling is left wing extremism although book burning as a form of consumer boycott seems to be rather counterproductive.

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    Danish government will introduce new law to ban burning the Quran
  • How about banning public book burning in general? Not a lot of good memories related to that.

    Want to keep burning books? Have waste collection services provide a pickup point. Then they can do it in some industrial incinerator so you'll have your book burned but without providing media with an easy outrage (unless you wanted outrage?).

    Book burning seems to be a tool of right wing extremism, even when it's used against right wing extremists of some other kind, there's very little benefit to the society.

    Also obligatory, fuck organized religion.

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    Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming to Xbox ‘this year’
  • 9/6 is the PS5 date. Still no word from Larian on the Mac date - the last I heard was when they originally announced it would be delayed, and that they didn't want to give a date and not meet it.

    I just checked Wikipedia which I think I got it from and it states 9/6 but the link cited as source doesn't state it anywhere.

    grumble

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    Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming to Xbox ‘this year’
  • I was similarly disappointed but IIRC it was delayed to September 6th.

    I wonder how will it run in Act 3 since DX11 is so much more performant than Vulkan and I assume they use either MoltenVK or straight Metal. It's likely the reason for the delay.

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  • www.euronews.com How I competed in Europe's first ever Extreme Relaxing Championships

    Relaxing as a sport? I took part in Europe's first Extreme Relaxing Championships in London, to see if I could become the ultimate chillaxer.

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    www.bbc.com Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin 'on board' crashed Russian plane

    The head of the Russian private military company was on the passenger list of 10 people who died.

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    Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
  • I think it's just the first step since VBA is in a dire need of a replacement.

    Around the time Office 365 rolled out and replaced Office 2023 at my old job we've had a crapload of old VBA tools just refuse to work. Those tools were in use for 10-15 years sometimes with barely any maintenance required.

    Then with O365 some calls to certain 3rd party libraries resulted in Excel crashing without any single error message, stack, nothing. At that time everyone understood they need to get off that ship ASAP, corporate policies got super strict on end user created stuff. PowerBI and Power Automate are not there to replace it and I think MS feels threatened.

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  • www.euronews.com Frans Timmermans resigns from key EU climate job to run for Dutch PM

    Frans Timmermans, the man tasked with spearheading the EU's ambitious climate policies, has resigned from the Commission to return to Dutch politics in the hope of becoming the country's next prime minister. #EuropeNews

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    www.euronews.com Attention! Penguin promoted to Major General in Norwegian army

    Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands, is now the most highly decorated penguin in the world - probably even the universe.

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    www.newyorker.com Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

    How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

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    www.euronews.com Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon, Roscosmos says

    Roscosmos said it lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday after it ran into trouble while preparing for its pre-landing orbit of the Moon.

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    US, Japan and South Korea agree to boost security ties at Camp David summit

    www.euronews.com US, Japan and South Korea agree Pacific security pact

    “The purpose of our trilateral security cooperation is and will remain to promote and enhance peace and stability throughout the region,” the leaders said in a joint statement.

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    www.bbc.com Drone attack hits building in central Moscow

    Russian officials say air defences shot down the drone and its debris landed on the city's Expo Center.

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    www.bbc.co.uk Drone attack hits building in central Moscow

    Russian officials say air defences shot down the drone and its debris landed on the city's Expo Center.

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    www.bbc.co.uk Evergrande: China property giant files for US bankruptcy protection

    The move comes as fears grow over problems in the world's second largest economy.

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