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I grew up near gas hubs, where it’s normal to have gas mains at home, have family employed by producers. They’ve been spinning this yarn as long as I can remember. It has not clean energy by any stretch, this is just the basic sales pitch for natural gas unchanged for like 30 years

Meanwhile NASA’s next flyby depends on Elon Musk fixing Starship. I’m sure that won’t get delayed again.

They aren’t, though. That’s not an accurate preposition to associate with the courts from the circumstances given (about the case already determined), especially given Lehrmann’s trial was abandoned. The more recent findings against him were to do with a civil matter that he brought to the court. Any conclusion about the validity of his legal arguments is undermined by the fact he was under no obligation to make them.

There aren’t any actual cases where a false rape claim has been manufactured to exploit lack of evidence about the alleged perp’s alibi, because obviously real legal and non-legal risk remains about that, regardless of any standing prejudgement about belief. Consider even in the example you’re giving to justify prejudice of the court, there was no court-determined penalty imposed upon the accused to speak of. In that case you’re just asking for legal redress for the court not arbitrating public opinion about details of a truth defense that was forced by the complainant.

At best your position is against a perceived gender inequality whose legitimate purpose serves to address a real documented problem for many generations in Australia, over the imaginary problem you’re highlighting. I doubt your friend’s case will turn out as a better example of it. At least on the divorce court side of things you could find real bias towards women that is consistent with public opinion about those matters.

It’s probably a better example of a problem we do have, which is abuse of legal resources that she likely happens to have laying around to arbitrarily sue over nothing & try to force out-of-court settlement. That’s gender-neutral, though, and more a product of litigation as an industry than anything else.

It can become surprisingly complicated with axial deadzone settings, but that’s not really important to understand. The simple concept is it’s the zone in which the stick is moved but no change in movement is registered in-game. The complication that is added is mostly related to more precise calculation of where that zone is

You guys do know that outside the US you can’t generally advertise permanent positions and then just decide it’s temporarily more convenient not to have people on payroll, right?

Y’all need employment reform

Metroid Prime series are more “action games” than FPS’ per se, but they are must-plays if you haven’t, & might scratch that itch. There’s a switch remaster of the first game, none yet for Prime 2 or 3 but it’s likely they’ll come out leading up to the release of the recently-announced Prime 4

Moving a joystick is fundamentally different to moving a mouse. With a joystick there is a spring constantly acting to center it - no equivalent force when using a mouse. So you need to get a feel for estimating that force and accurately counteracting it in various gameplay scenarios. That’s a completely different “muscle” to have a memory of vs. using a mouse I think

Also, modern controller joysticks generally are not great. Most have medium to large deadzones in the center by default. I’d recommend reducing them for more responsiveness. It comes with the tradeoff of being more susceptible to stick drift. But that isn’t something you should be afraid of. It’s a physical impossibility for their design to not wear over time. I’d recommend recalibrating and adjusting settings regularly. At the end of the day, replacing joystick modules only requires screws (no soldering) so it’s cheap and relatively easy.

If you’re really serious you could get some hall effect joystick modules. That way you wouldn’t need to recalibrate often and could keep a consistently small deadzone setting without encountering drift. i.e. default settings from like dualshock 2, when stick drift was just as apparent but people hadn’t gone crazy over it yet.

Minecraft would be fine for learning fps movement in a relaxed setting.

Dodgy tactics like that are why it matters that our courts are strong: it’s not going to matter that she got an AVO out because if they didn’t have a history of conflict prior to his genuine identification of her in the video, it’s not relevant to the defamation case and won’t hold up in court.

Whether it’s technically possible to prove it’s her in the video isn’t materially relevant to a defamation case if it’s obvious to the average observer that it’s her. If she prove it wasn’t her, she’d need to prove his identification of her was intentionally malicious to win a defamation claim against him.

The idea that the Lehrmann trial indicates the courts are generally biased toward women is a couple bridges too far. Larissa Waters believes women in regards to their allegations of sexual assault against them where alleged male perpetrator denies it and where there isn’t a sufficient body of contradictory evidence. She isn’t saying she generally believes women about any and every grievance they may have, especially not having awareness spread about a crime they genuinely committed.

It is different for simulated blurriness, because simulated blurriness can’t be modulated by your ocular muscles, so they won’t reflexively strain to focus.

You couldn’t really achieve that effect by actually putting any kind of lens in front of your eyes though. That is not a simulation of blurriness, it is actual blurriness.

The primary way it would be bad for your eyesight is by inducing eye strain, itself a primary cause of blurred vision. It’s a reflex of the subconscious brain - either your eyes will be constantly trying to focus, which strains them, or you’re consciously unfocusing them, which also strain them.

If you had eye strain causing blurry vision naturally and didn’t correct it with glasses, likely there’d be no downward spiral unless you have some other condition causing that. It’d potentially cause other issues like headaches or spasms though

I use Shotcut for more or less any video operations that require re-encoding. It’s great for basic editing but also simple transcoding jobs too

We have pretty strong courts though and if she loses the judgement she’ll likely be ordered to pay your friends’ costs.

Summit fits image to screen horizontally, ideal layout for me

Have we as users already given up on self-curation via blocks and filters? It seems an essential consideration for the design of this platform.

The recent wave of posts add nothing new to the discussion that I can tell. Maybe we need a sidebar link to help remind people of the instance federation principles, and perhaps help guide them toward use of the features Lemmy provides?

I appreciate the agnosticism. Preserving federation should never be considered as indicative of any position held by the instance, it’s just what’s best for the network.

I don’t have much to add to the local community but have been really pleased that I’m able to interact with most other instances from this one and plan to donate when I can.

They aren’t concerned with deaths, this legislation positions the most harmful and most physically addictive nicotine option as relatively more accessible.

They aren’t concerned with nicotine addiction, else NRT gum wouldn’t be allowed to stock within reach of children in retail outlets.

They’re just NIMBY’s, there’s nothing else to it.

Unscrupulous companies in this case referring to every car manufacturer, they wouldn’t have a systemic incentive to foster an EV monopoly that is anti-consumer and actively stymies the growth of the local EV sector.

It was back around 2018 that I was first learning the ropes in b2b sales, but I do think I felt similarly about people being able to detect parts of what I’d written that were copypasted, not lead-specific. So I just stopped copypasting stuff, wrote short nice genuine emails, opened up to the people that wrote back. Called the ones that didn’t. Always hated phone calls beforehand, but some good experiences on a few early calls definitely eased my nervousness.

I remember the first time I had to call the director of a big competitor, he was like “What was that? I can’t hear you, I’ll have to put the top down. I’m joyriding in my [luxury sports car] right now”. I found that extremely funny and it really broke the ice. And once I was able to be casual with him, I found it easy with pretty much everyone.

Literally the state of California would have lower CO2 emissions today if Tesla didn’t exist.

In Australia our tobacco strategy was to effectively ban vapes and price cigarettes out of existence.

The impact to date has created two totally new black markets: one for vapes after people realised anyone could just hop on AliExpress to buy them in bulk and resell for a 2000% markup. They are banned for import, but nicotine is a colourless odourless liquid and there are no rapid tests for it, no capacity to do expensive GCMS testing on all the random freight entering the country from China (our biggest trading partner by far).

The other new black market is for “chop chop”, the colloquial name for unprocessed tobacco illegally grown and sold by gangs for cheaper than regular cigarettes / RYO tobacco.

There’s also been a big increase in violent robberies at tobacco outlets and even gang turf wars over sales of illegally imported or stolen cigarettes. The excise tax is so high that the gangs can extract enormous sales margin and still undercut the market.

Predictably (and contrary to the rest of the western world) tobacco use has gone up nationally over the past couple of years following a significant downtrend lasting several decades. I’m confident that this strategy, which has been bipartisan amongst our 2 major political parties, will be used as a future case study in why prohibition is fucking moronic. It has continuously demonstrated to be a net detriment to public health, in this case related to a totally preventable yet leading cause of premature death and public health spend.

There is literally no logic to it beyond Lovejoy’s Law, except for some false manufactured statistics parroted by our leaders which blatantly ignore scientific consensus.

For what it’s worth, Mozilla did release a Firefox nightly test build a couple of months ago which included a proof of concept vertical tabs feature: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/04/02/mozilla-released-a-firefox-nightly-test-build-with-vertical-tabs/

Still not clear whether they’re gonna implement it properly though

Woo! I picture James’ disapproving stare at me everytime I let the kettle go to full boil, or accidentally oversteep ಠ_ಠ