I worked with a lady who did this all the time. She’d over hear words and just start using them at work and even with clients. She offered people “dime bags” assuming it meant “a small bag”. She heard someone call a charcuterie board a “coochie board” and thought it was cute so kept saying it. She called her husband “Big D” because his name starts with D and the default icon her phone gave him was a capital D and she thought it was a cute nickname.
The adrenaline-fueled excitement of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is now at your fingertips with the announcement of a free trial, available on all platforms. Immerse yourself in the action-packed world of Modern Warfare as you engage in intense multiplayer battles and experience the thrill of Mode.
I came here to post this lol. I honestly can not think of a single element of that game that isn’t already in another Bethesda game, let alone another RPG.
0.19 changes the login process so apps need to update. Most have from what I’ve heard. You’ll also need to log out and log back in on any apps after the update.
Isreal’s main exports are cutting-edge technology found nowhere else in the world. Russia’s main export is oil. Western and European Union countries were fine getting their oil elsewhere, but they absolutely do not want to give up advanced tech. Especially since there will always be other countries that don’t care and will continue trading anyway.
One month after finance ministers met to discuss the Alberta government's intent to pull out of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) public opinion polling by the Angus Reid Institute suggests there's little desire among Albertans or the rest of Canada to see Alberta leave the plan.
In their defence, it is a difficult concept to grasp. My dad started his career shovelling gravel for a few dollars an hour. Now he’s a vice president making very good money. In his mind, anyone can replicate what he did by working hard instead of being lazy and asking for handouts.
I eventually got through to him one day when he was talking about hiring for a senior management position. He was interviewing all these people with fancy degrees and credentials. I asked why not promote one of his hard workers? He laughed and said the person needs to be more than a hard worker to manage multi-million dollar projects. But where would he be now if his old boss had thought the same thing? My dad has none of the credentials of the people he was interviewing. He’d still be shovelling gravel 60 hours a week for minimum wage if nobody gave him the opportunity to advance. How could he think hard work will be rewarded when he doesn’t even reward it himself? That’s when he admitted the world works differently now.
COVID-19 became the third-leading cause of death for Canadians last year, overtaking accidents and unintentional injuries for the first time since the disease emerged in 2020.
New Brunswick saw the biggest decline in life expectancy among provinces, dropping more than a year to 79.8 years from 80.9 in 2021, the report said. Saskatchewan’s life expectancy has fallen the most over the past three years combined, dropping a full two years to 78.5 in 2022 from 80.5 in 2019.
So COVID is killing so many old people that it’s dropping overall life expectancy, and it is worse in the provinces with the lowest vaccination rates.
“Spin a large magnet near some copper coils, you’ve invented an electrocution device!” I think having a vague idea about some of these things is more dangerous than not knowing anything. Lots of stuff about electricity and nothing about grounding and insulation.
Capitalism is criticized a lot on here (especially by American users, it seems to me). Most of that seems well-founded, but I also have the feeling that most of these complaints are simply venting and not the first step to improvement....
The youtube channel, Economics Explained, has a lot of great videos on macroeconomic concepts. They recently featured a video on Norway pointing out how it handles its economy near perfectly.
The video explains Norway got pretty lucky, and it’s not like every country could straight up copy them and succeed, but the major points are:
Their massive natural resource reserves are majority owned by the government. The government puts the profits from this into stable long term investments to benfit the citizens of the country. In many other countries, natural resources have been sold to private companies for a one time payment and private shareholders now benefit from the long term investment.
Their government has one of the highest tax rates in the world, even though they earn so much profit from natural resources they could literally have a 0% tax rate. Despite this massive tax rate, Norway has some of the lowest emigration of people and companies. Nobody has fled the country due to high taxes like many fear would happen elsewhere.
Their government spends heavily on social welfare and ensuring a high quality of life for all of its citizens, and their companies provide short work weeks and long vacations, which are huge reasons why nobody has left.
I think when people say they hate capitalism, what they mean is they hate working 50 hour weeks at a job they hate for a boss who treats them like dirt for a salary that doesn’t even pay their rent while the CEO has more wealth than small nations and spends it on eating endangered animals on their mega yatch with politicians and judges who then pass laws making it legal to hire children and dump garbage into the ocean. They don’t really care about private companies and investments, they care about how sociopathic greed has become so normal that it’s actively defended.
You might be touching on skeuomorphs, when a modern object reflects the design of its outdated version. A modern phone that looks like a rotary phone. An LED light fixture that looks like a gas lamp. The save icon resembles a floppy disk even when saving to a solid state drive.
Terrible first day, but he had a senior position at New York TRACON (which controls nearly all air traffic in New York) for years before getting the federal position. He was definitely experienced.
In your Lemmy user profile there is a setting called “show read posts”. If you have that turned off it hides any posts you’ve seen but it also hides all the posts you’ve made. Try checking that setting.
The current state of Twitch (startrek.website)
marijuanification rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
18+ Wrong word (lemmy.world)
no rule
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Play CoD Modern Warfare For Free this Weekend (www.gamingarcade.co.uk)
The adrenaline-fueled excitement of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is now at your fingertips with the announcement of a free trial, available on all platforms. Immerse yourself in the action-packed world of Modern Warfare as you engage in intense multiplayer battles and experience the thrill of Mode.
The Steam Awards: nominees are chosen, voting starts 21th Dec. (store.steampowered.com)
Lemmy.ca upgraded to 0.19
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inside man rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Tunnel Snakes Rule (youtu.be)
We’re the Tunnel Snakes That’s us, and we rule
For real though. Tough to get through. (lemmy.world)
Apparently this reminder is needed....
Biden says Netanyahu must change, Israel losing global support (www.reuters.com)
Don't know what happened Rule (slrpnk.net)
There's a difference (startrek.website)
The Nordic Model (lemmy.ml)
Most Albertans don't want the province to pull out of CPP, survey finds (www.ctvnews.ca)
One month after finance ministers met to discuss the Alberta government's intent to pull out of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) public opinion polling by the Angus Reid Institute suggests there's little desire among Albertans or the rest of Canada to see Alberta leave the plan.
My cousin said the gas savings for a prius and a motorcycle were the same. (lemmy.ml)
Mathematically they’re equivalent, but the feelings could not be further apart.
Oh no! The Shareholders! (discuss.tchncs.de)
Anyway…
blood joe rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Business Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
earth rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
rule (feddit.de)
SSB is a little messed up, when you think about it. [Safely Endangered] (startrek.website)
Christmas rule (feddit.nl)
eBay has everything rule (sopuli.xyz)
Russia limits women’s access to abortion, citing demographic changes (www.aljazeera.com)
Experts say crackdown on abortion drugs and services is part of a project to instil ‘certain values’ in society.
It's all downhill from here (lemmy.zip)
Death rule (pawb.social)
Old but gold (lemmy.world)
Life expectancy for Canadians fell in 2022 for third year in a row, says StatCan (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Guess I finally have a use for my archive of random internet shit (sh.itjust.works)
I have so much…
The duality of Man (startrek.website)
Critics of capitalism, what concrete economic policies do you support?
Capitalism is criticized a lot on here (especially by American users, it seems to me). Most of that seems well-founded, but I also have the feeling that most of these complaints are simply venting and not the first step to improvement....
onegai, accept my pull request senpai (lemmy.world)
Rulesgiving (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
What logo does have parts (if not the whole thing) that refer into the past? (kbin.social)
Example: Warner Bros' logo looks like a shield which makes me think about medieval times.
Guys he's taking over my pc (feddit.de)
time to code (lemmy.ml)
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf (startrek.website)
Wat is your favorite breathing technique and what effect does it bestow?
I like the 4/7/8 (inhale/hold/exhale in seconds) = not sure if its “relaxation”, “sleepiness”, or both context-depending
Kurzgesagt — An unofficial community for discussing Kurzgesagt's videos on space, biology, philosophy, etc. (kbin.social)
An unofficial community for discussing anything and everything related to Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell....
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It's my first day, how bad can it be? (lemmy.ml)
18+ CNN analysis: Video suggests IDF might have rearranged weaponry at Al-Shifa prior to news crew visits (edition.cnn.com)
Truth rule (startrek.website)
I have never understood that. (lemmy.world)
Having posts but does not show up [Solved] (i.imgur.com)
I was not sure where to post this, so apologies if this isn’t the right place and would like to know where I should go....
Here Are The Six GOTY Nominees For The Game Awards 2023 (www.forbes.com)
Here are the six nominees for 2023 GOTY at The Game Awards, in one of the best years for gaming ever.