I don't know your group and maybe this went over well. But I was in a group that had a similar situation happen, but when it happened in my group it completely killed the campaign. We didn't know a party member was doing it, but we felt like we were being undermined at every step and the DM wasn't allowing us to make sufficient progress to enjoy ourselves.
Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good....
Gotta love Canadians that think they are ruled by American laws. Every Canadian should know slander and libel laws here are much more restrictive on speech.
There is a fundamental difference in the way defamation is treated in Canada(and other Common law countries like the UK and Australia) and the US. This is a simplification, but basically in the US you generally need to prove that the statement was knowingly false (in addition to other defamation requirements like proving damages). This is nearly impossible to do in most situations. In Common law the person who said the statement needs to prove they had a reasonable justification for thinking the statement true. This reverses who the onus of proof is on and makes winning defamation cases in Canada actually plausible.
Not my cat, but a family friend's. The cat would go nuts for olives. One of them liked having olives on their pizza, and the cat would eat their way through unattended pizza boxes to get to the olives on the top of the pizza.
If the intent was to keep up with inflation in a way that maximizes local profits, pegging to the US dollar makes no sense. The games wont sell at this price in any appreciable number. Steam could have easily used other tools, like some dynamic pricing model, to maximize local profits. The only thing pegging to the US dollar does is combat key resales, as the comment you are replying to implies.
Assuming you're an atheist (because if not the answer is your god), the closest answer we have is the Golden Rule. Just don't be too strict about assuming everyone is too similar to yourself when applying it.
Seeing that they need quite a lot of clean water, which is not widely available everywhere during the entire year in big amounts, especially with these droughts due to climate change.
How much do you know about Three Mile Island? Fukushima was built in a stupid location, so lets not do that again. But Three Mile Island is often way over blown.
How are you defining fully? I haven't logged in since june, and don't browse it. But occasionally I know it will be the best place to get a very specific piece of information or it will turn up as the top result for some search I've done.
First off, I don’t base my views on “what Americans are like” with what people post online. Just about everyone I know personally has just gone off the deep end it seems....
All the data I've ever seen suggests that its the left thats been slowly moving, and the right has been largely anchored where it started for decades (this ignores trump and post trump, which might change that?). It's a bad thing that the right has remained anchored on horrible positions, but its a different problem.
Premier Doug Ford’s government copied, word for word, a developer’s requested changes to Hamilton’s official plan to allow an eight-storey condo at the current site of a designated heritage building — blindsiding city planning staff, elected officials and residents....
I think there is value in heritage preservation, but I have no nothing about this building. No idea if it deserves it. What I do know is that a property zoned that way would be substantially cheaper to buy, and so this is another case in a pattern of Doug changing zoning after his buddies/supporters bought something at a discount.
Its pretty simple: Their businesses were built when it was cheap to borrow money. The pandemic caused large inflation. In response feds all around the world have greatly increased prime interest rates. Now their 'run large deficits to expand' business model is more expensive and they need to compete against increasingly valuable bonds as a competing source of investment. All of this means they need to aggressively chase improved profitability.
Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...
I’m laid up with a severely broken ankle and leg, and will be laid up for God knows how long. I wanna read webcomics, but I feel like I’m running out of good ones on Webtoon. Anyone have any recommendations or sites to look at?
Adblock detection has literally already been ruled on though (it needs consent). I'm sure there are nuances above my understanding, but it's not that simple.
This might sound like a question inspired by current events, but I’ve actually been thinking of this for a while and can give pointers to a few times I had asked this or talked about it....
They are allowed to try and monetize in various ways, but there are still ethical standards that are just consistently not followed in online advertising (like doing due-diligence to make sure the company advertising isn't some sort of transparent scam). But this change seems to be stepping away from one of the standards that is actually a legal mandate, properly labeling adverts and sponsored content as such.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, or LTNs, reduce traffic in residential streets, and improve access for pedestrians and cyclists with dedicated lanes, wider pavements and planters blocking off vehicle access....
While camping, I noticed that if you look long enough at almost any star, you start seeing some tiny, subtle colors in that star. Even crazier, they sometimes flicker between more colors. In my case orange, blue and something like cyan....
Its 'true'. But we just call those kinds of stars white. Green is the middle wavelength we can see (because our suns output is centered there). It also outputs lots of all visible light though. Red stars and Blue stars are red or blue because their central output is shifted towards a different part of the EM spectrum, and red/blue are the outer wavelengths on either side.
The solution to the housing crisis isn't detached homes. It's higher density housing, better rent control, disinsentizing house ownership as an investment.
It gets much better starting in Season 2. I had the same experience as you during season 1 and just watched episodes I caught randomly. Season 2+ had me watching everything.
This is true of lots of foods. What tends to be the case is that, when times are bad and the unemployed need to subsist directly on their own labour, it makes sense for them to do things like go oystering because time is something they have, but when times are better, catching oysters is time consuming so the food is expensive.
I was reading about the allegations against Russell Brand and couldn’t help but wonder how it works legally that his revenue can be blocked based on allegations and before any juridical ruling....
In the case of youtube, there are 2 ways you getting paid can be paused. In the case of, for instance, a copyright claim, your video will either be taken down completely or, if left up, will typically still be monetized with the money going into escrow until the copyright claim is resolved, with the winning party getting paid. The 2nd kind is this kind, where they deem your video isn't monetizable. Likely they think their advertisers would be upset to have their advertisers next to you or your content. In this case they just don't run any adds at all, so there is no money for you to be given if the monetization is resumed.
Obviously it depends on the price, but maybe 10% of a free userbase will be willing to pay. The problem is, that userbase is coming to the platform mostly for rapid news and celebs. Will it still be the best place for rapid news with a 1/10th of the userbase? Will celebs want to stay on the platform when their reach is reduced to 1/10th? I think this likely just starts a death spiral that substantially shrinks the userbase.
Police investigation remains open. The photo of one of the minors included a fly; that is the logo of Clothoff, the application that is presumably being used to create the images, which promotes its services with the slogan: “Undress anybody with our free service!”
Obviously this is creepy, but the technology is out there, one of those can't put the genie back in the bottle techs. You can and should look at the people generating the images as creeps, but ultimately we as a society need to learn to not put as much veracity or identity in images now.
With that said where the fuck did this model get its training data for 14 year olds. That sounds like a more serious issue.
This is incorrect. The magic user kits are generally fine and if the mages just stick to damage spells they are probably mostly in line with other classes for damage (worse single target, better aoe). But there are a lot of spells that are fairly game breaking when you move outside of damaging ones.
In the context of VPNs for example. Some VPNs store and provide information about what sites you go to third parties. Third parties analyze it and figure out what adds to show you. Hmm… then let them show me those adds they want to show me. I do hate adds as a whole and use an add blocker, thus. But I couldn’t care less what...
You are thinking way too small about what can be done with that amount of data on you. I'll give you an example. I once did some programming work for a website. The website got 'hacked' (An administrative admin had their password guessed because they weren't using good password habits). This website had poor security and with the admins password the 'hacker' was able to get a DB dump. Bad stuff. So me and another guy set out trying to identify who had done it. Via server logs we were pretty sure we had correctly tied the 'hacker' to a user of the site. By looking at their activity on the site, and what referral links they had followed to get to the site previous, we learned where they approximately lived and their first name. But we knew we needed more info than that, so we looked at his hobbies and figured out he liked pokemon quite a lot. We then created a 'what pokemon are you' quiz, asking mostly unimportant questions, but throwing in a couple we needed in order to be able to report him to his local authorities (IE their last name and some other info I can't remember off the top of my head). We then had this quiz get posted by an account not associated with the running of the site. the 'hacker' filled it out, and we reported him for breaking the law with our evidence to his local authorities.
So to reiterate, 2 idiots with no background in data science and like 16 hour between us, were able to manipulate an arbitrary guy into doing what we wanted because of a relatively small amount of data. Now Imagine what people dedicating their lives to this stuff can do to you.
Although my anecdote ended with additional data collection, the scary part is the manipulation of action. You might think that, as an example, they see you browsing a pokemon website and therefore show you more pokemon ads, something that coule be mutually beneficial. What you should be worried about, is something like based on your browsing behaviour they figure out how to manipulate your political action, or figure out your state of mental well-being and manipulate it. There is especially horror cases here when this is algorithm driven instead of being pushed by humans. One could imagine ,and I want to preface this by saying I'm not aware of this ever having happened, a machine learning algorithm relating signs of some mental illnesses with an uptick in firearm sales, and then increasing advertising of firearms to those people. You could imagine this driving things like an increased suicide rate.
Although they were the target, they were far from the only person to fill it out. Context can make people drop their guards. But yes, not some criminal mastermind. Of course, again, I'm some idiot programmer not a genius forensic computer detective.
Its a lot easier to support the UAW than the rail workers. Not because of the justice of the positions, but because rail workers striking paralyzes the entire country.
"Do I get paid now?" An actual quote (lemmy.world)
Right-Wing Trolls Are Freaking Out After Learning They Can Get Sued For Calling People 'Groomers' On The Internet (pressprogress.ca)
Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good....
What is the weirdest food your cat wants to eat? (lemmy.world)
By weird I mean outside of regular cat diet, things like cornflakes, ketchup or banana bread (these are real examples from my and my friends’ cats).
Palestinian journalist says CTV News fired her after "speaking up for Palestine" (dailyhive.com)
Night owls of lemmy, how do you cope with modern society?
'Today is the end of Steam': Argentina and Turkey floored by new Steam price hikes as high as 2900% (www.pcgamer.com)
Most DMs will adjust to your AC... (startrek.website)
Beware imposters... (i.chzbgr.com)
What is wrong and right?
And who decides it?
What's a sci-fi or fantasy book or series that you want to see adapted as a movie/television series?
I didn’t read this series when I was a kid, but I finally got around to reading Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber....
The Escapist staff resign following termination of editor-in-chief Nick Calandra (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Calandra shared more information on Discord, revealing that the “entire video team” has resigned in response....
I've unfortunately made this mistake at Costco of all places. (startrek.website)
Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere?
Seeing that they need quite a lot of clean water, which is not widely available everywhere during the entire year in big amounts, especially with these droughts due to climate change.
I guess they don't have moisturizers on a moisture farm. (lemmy.world)
There are exactly two types of Star Trek fans (startrek.website)
Question to the ones that fully left Reddit
How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?...
Am I crazy, or are Americans going insane?
First off, I don’t base my views on “what Americans are like” with what people post online. Just about everyone I know personally has just gone off the deep end it seems....
Hmm this better not awaken anything in me (files.catbox.moe)
Ford government copied developer's exact request into Hamilton official plan to allow controversial building (www.cbc.ca)
Premier Doug Ford’s government copied, word for word, a developer’s requested changes to Hamilton’s official plan to allow an eight-storey condo at the current site of a designated heritage building — blindsiding city planning staff, elected officials and residents....
‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
understanding reality is tough for some people (sopuli.xyz)
How to deal with Ancient aliens in the workplace?
Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...
What are some good (and free) webcomics?
I’m laid up with a severely broken ankle and leg, and will be laid up for God knows how long. I wanna read webcomics, but I feel like I’m running out of good ones on Webtoon. Anyone have any recommendations or sites to look at?
This Metacritic redesign is s... (feddit.nl)
I prefer ‘The Legend of …’ over ‘The Legend of …’ myself.
Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)
Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here | NOEMA (www.noemamag.com)
Why do we always consider cultures as inherently better than cults? Are there no exceptions to this?
This might sound like a question inspired by current events, but I’ve actually been thinking of this for a while and can give pointers to a few times I had asked this or talked about it....
X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked (mashable.com)
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Kevin McCarthy is ousted as House speaker in a historic vote pushed by conservatives (www.nbcnews.com)
They Need To Stop Doing This (kerala.party)
"New long-term plan" to "put the brakes on anti-car measures:" Sunak vows to stop 20mph zones and review LTNs (www.bbc.com)
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, or LTNs, reduce traffic in residential streets, and improve access for pedestrians and cyclists with dedicated lanes, wider pavements and planters blocking off vehicle access....
Star actually have colors
While camping, I noticed that if you look long enough at almost any star, you start seeing some tiny, subtle colors in that star. Even crazier, they sometimes flicker between more colors. In my case orange, blue and something like cyan....
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If you had access to a scifi-level artificial super intelligence that could simulate anything perfectly at unimaginable speeds, what experiments would you want to run that would be unethical otherwise
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Liberals and Tories demolished Canada’s legacy of social housing (breachmedia.ca)
by The Breach
Why FRINGE is Scifi's Forgotten MASTERPIECE! 🧬 (www.youtube.com)
Huuuge deep dive on the show and awesome nostalgia fest for lovers of this (probably underrated) show!
Why is a dish that originated in the rich arostocracy now being extolled on lemmy in memes and posts?
Somebody explain please. I for one never had that stuff growing up. Strogan f**ck off
With October approaching, what Halloween pranks can I pull on my gf.
I like to build pranks with some psychological horror, not just a jump scare. Help me brainstorm pls....
Russell Brand allegations question from non American (www.theguardian.com)
I was reading about the allegations against Russell Brand and couldn’t help but wonder how it works legally that his revenue can be blocked based on allegations and before any juridical ruling....
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is to charge all users subscription fees (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk has indicated that X, formerly known as Twitter, is preparing to charge all users for accessing the platform....
In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’ (english.elpais.com)
Police investigation remains open. The photo of one of the minors included a fly; that is the logo of Clothoff, the application that is presumably being used to create the images, which promotes its services with the slogan: “Undress anybody with our free service!”
How it feels playing PF2E after DnD 5e (ttrpg.network)
At least at low levels. Every combat so far was absolutely carried by our parties fighter just beating the enemies into a pulp :)
Why does everyone make such a fuss about privacy?
In the context of VPNs for example. Some VPNs store and provide information about what sites you go to third parties. Third parties analyze it and figure out what adds to show you. Hmm… then let them show me those adds they want to show me. I do hate adds as a whole and use an add blocker, thus. But I couldn’t care less what...
In historic first, United Auto Workers union strikes at GM, Ford and Stellantis (www.cnn.com)