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Comment on New Jersey is motivating telecommuters to appeal their New York tax bills. Connecticut may be next. in ~finance
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New Jersey is motivating telecommuters to appeal their New York tax bills. Connecticut may be next.
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Digital books are costing local libraries a ton
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Lemon-scented marijuana compound reduces weed’s ‘paranoia’ effect
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Comment on US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform in ~tech
AugustusFerdinand Link ParentCorrect. CCP won't let Bytedance divest it as that would be considered selling the company to a foreign entity, which isn't allowed. It's why there's tons of shell company games just to get a...Correct.
CCP won't let Bytedance divest it as that would be considered selling the company to a foreign entity, which isn't allowed. It's why there's tons of shell company games just to get a Chinese company stock on the US stock exchange. CCP won't budge, let it go down as a lesson to other Chinese companies not to lean so heavily on US consumers.
This is more tit-for-tat about not having so much data in a non-allied country. Anyone complaining about fairness should go look at what it takes for a US tech company to have access to the Chinese market and pretty much every non-Chinese social media company is already banned in China. US and allied nations have to follow GDPR, a divestiture from a non-allied government owned data sink is a reasonable ask.
Yes, it does assist and is supported by US social media companies, but it's not the whole picture.
If a US citizen's data is going to be mined, it'll be mined by a US company and you'll like it! -
Startups want to geoengineer a cooler planet. With few rules, experts see big risks.
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Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle — 373 games for $8 (save 99%) in ~games
AugustusFerdinand LinkCopy/paste from a previous comment: If you purchase this, the script that ~kfwyre found during the Ukraine bundle proves useful for adding them all to your itch library:...Copy/paste from a previous comment: If you purchase this, the script that ~kfwyre found during the Ukraine bundle proves useful for adding them all to your itch library: https://tildes.net/~games/10mh/itch_io_bundle_for_ukraine#comment-75xa
I will note however for those that dislike a lot of unnecessary emails. When you do this, you add yourself to every single game's/developer's itch email list. So those thousand or so games in the Ukraine list? I've received emails from probably a hundred of them already about updates or other projects despite having those emails turned off in the itch preferences. I'll admit I turned off those preferences after I added them all to my library, but they don't seem to be retroactive. So consider yourself warned.
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Comment on Trap | Official trailer in ~movies
AugustusFerdinand Link ParentI think that's unlikely or there's significantly more to it. I joked above that the twist is that M. Night is giving the twist away in the trailer, but he's never been known to be that easy to...I think that's unlikely or there's significantly more to it. I joked above that the twist is that M. Night is giving the twist away in the trailer, but he's never been known to be that easy to figure out and parent-protects-evil-child is a trope already that'd be beneath his twist-y style.
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Comment on Trap | Official trailer in ~movies
AugustusFerdinand Link ParentI think just because some of the twists have been weak (Signs/water, Visit/imposters), doesn't mean he doesn't have a "twist obsession". The entirety of Split and the marketing leading up to it...I think just because some of the twists have been weak (Signs/water, Visit/imposters), doesn't mean he doesn't have a "twist obsession". The entirety of Split and the marketing leading up to it was pointing at it just being a psychological horror and not a sequel to Unbreakable 16 years after the fact.
The other twists...
The Sixth Sense—Bruce Willis is a ghost
Unbreakable—Samuel L. Jackson is the villain
The Village—It’s set in the modern day
The Happening—The plants are killing people
Glass—They really are superhuman
Old—It’s all part of a clinical trial...aren't as weak and well outnumber them to make me doubt that his fondness for twists is an exaggeration.
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Comment on Trap | Official trailer in ~movies
AugustusFerdinand Link ParentPossible that you're right. Just as possible that a big movie director has zero interest in the online opinions and snooping those people go through in order to spoil movies for themselves. It's...Possible that you're right. Just as possible that a big movie director has zero interest in the online opinions and snooping those people go through in order to spoil movies for themselves.
It's likely he just likes twists as much as Tarantino likes feet.
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An ex-MLB player needs just one more day on a roster to get a pension. Will the Atlanta Braves help?
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Comment on Trap | Official trailer in ~movies
AugustusFerdinand LinkM. Night's latest twist: Revealing the twist in the trailer.M. Night's latest twist: Revealing the twist in the trailer.
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Comment on Online shopping - how convenient is it actually? in ~life.style
AugustusFerdinand LinkI order from Amazon as little as possible and often just use them as a search engine for a product then buy it elsewhere, including in a local physical storefront. I prefer shopping in person, but...I order from Amazon as little as possible and often just use them as a search engine for a product then buy it elsewhere, including in a local physical storefront. I prefer shopping in person, but I'm also old enough to have ordered out of physical, mail-order catalogs, mail-order ads in magazines, etc. and understand that online/remote shopping has its place and Amazon isn't the first to have such a large presence in the remote shopping sphere (see Sears Catalog for the largest historical example).
I'm also aware that much of my hobbies would range from impossible to much smaller in scope without online shopping. Even in a large metropolitan area I currently live in there simply isn't a market large enough for a storefront to carry many of the incredibly niche items I use. -
Comment on Astropulse: Reincarnation | Reveal trailer in ~games
AugustusFerdinand Link ParentAgreed, holding judgement until gameplay footage. Watching it gave me Blizzard cutscene vibes, then I read the description:Agreed, holding judgement until gameplay footage. Watching it gave me Blizzard cutscene vibes, then I read the description:
from Imagendary Studios and accomplished Blizzard artist Wei Wang.
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Hawaii-born sumo champion Akebono Taro dies of heart failure at the age of 54 in Japan
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Comment on The fish doorbell in ~enviro
AugustusFerdinand Link ParentBy that you mean endlessly spam F5 until I get to see the fish of course!Let's take turns people. :)
By that you mean endlessly spam F5 until I get to see the fish of course!
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Comment on My 3D printer monitor livestream in ~hobbies
AugustusFerdinand Link ParentGood job! I used to do the same thing when I worked in an office several years ago. Two cameras, OBS, and streaming to Twitch (because for whatever reason YouTube was blocked on the office's...Good job! I used to do the same thing when I worked in an office several years ago. Two cameras, OBS, and streaming to Twitch (because for whatever reason YouTube was blocked on the office's network, but not Twitch), plus being able to remote into the dedicated PC I had hooked to the printer (pre-Octoprint) to cancel the print should it all go awry.
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Comment on Eclipse plans in ~talk
AugustusFerdinand LinkI'm smack dab right in the path of totality. Set an alarm to go outside when it started, then another at 80%, at the second alarm my wife and I laid in the hammock staring through the glasses all...- Exemplary
I'm smack dab right in the path of totality. Set an alarm to go outside when it started, then another at 80%, at the second alarm my wife and I laid in the hammock staring through the glasses all the way through totality and the other side of 80% then back inside. Was neat to experience and the clouds broke just in time to let it all happen.
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Comment on I bought a house, now what? in ~life.home_improvement
AugustusFerdinand LinkHow old is the house? When the inspection occurred did they check the plumbing and by that I mean did they physically send a camera through the pipes? My house was built in the 60's, still had...How old is the house?
When the inspection occurred did they check the plumbing and by that I mean did they physically send a camera through the pipes?My house was built in the 60's, still had mostly cast iron plumbing, started having drainage issues, sent a camera through the pipes (which did not happen during the otherwise very thorough inspection) to find breaks, cracks, and enough bellied connections to make the sewer pipes under the house and to the main line look like a rollercoaster. Cost $26k to replace it all and that was pre-COVID pricing.
If your inspector did not send an actual camera through the pipes, call a plumbing company to do so, give you a report, and the video. A couple hundred bucks now can save you a multi-thousand dollar fix later.
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Comment on Manga’s dark side: An interview with filmmaker Sybilla Patrizia in ~anime
AugustusFerdinand LinkLink to video mentioned in article (unavailable in Japan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky3HqvT3M8ELink to video mentioned in article (unavailable in Japan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky3HqvT3M8E
This is something I was unaware was a thing and am a bit confused on how one state can charge a non-resident income taxes at all, let alone for work not performed in the state's borders.