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jordanlund, 9 months ago to mapporn in No hurricane has ever crossed the equator

Note to self: To avoid hurricanes, move to the equator.

jordanlund, 9 months ago to technology in Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform

People won’t pay for something that used to be free… OTOH, neither will bot farms.

Either case will end Twitter, so I say go for it!

jordanlund, 9 months ago to starfield in Noticed something fun in the Sol system tonight...

Going in and looking now…

Types for each:

Mercury - Barren
Venus - Rock
Earth - Rock
Mars - Rock
Jupiter - Gas Giant
Saturn - Gas Giant
Uranus - Ice Giant
Neptune - Ice Giant
Pluto - Ice

It doesn’t distinguish it as a dwarf planet and no other dwarf planets (Ceres, Eris) are listed.

jordanlund, 9 months ago to starfield in Noticed something fun in the Sol system tonight...

That’s the thing though, the other dwarf planets aren’t listed, Pluto is, and it has an orbit trajectory like the other planets.

jordanlund, 9 months ago to starfield in Is anyone who are on steamdeck seeing their game freeze when trying to load a save?

Not on Steam Deck, on Xbox Series X, and it happened once tonight. I let it sit long enough and it came out of it OK.

Another time tonight and it outright crashed to the main menu opening a door in the Well.

jordanlund, 9 months ago to technology in Google extends Chromebook lifespan to ten years

Possible to take the hardware, wipe it, install Linux and not worry about expiration?

jordanlund, 9 months ago to technology in Bike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buy

Lost me at “the first consumer product we’re aware of to use nitinol”.

There were nitinol eyeglass frames back in the 1980s.

youtu.be/XPrg8EZlD1E

jordanlund, 9 months ago to games in Destiny 2 has one of the worst bugs in its history that’s melting bosses and PvP players

How do we blame Telesto this time?

jordanlund, 9 months ago to asklemmy in What's a great but uncommon comedy movie we should watch?

Oscar.

youtu.be/QbfVZBsgC4s

Directed by John Landis (Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Coming to America)

Starring:

Sylvester Stallone
Don Ameche
Tim Curry
Marisa Tomei
Linda Gray
Chazz Palminteri
Kurtwood Smith
Yvonne De Carlo
Martin Ferrero
Harry Shearer
Arleen Sorkin
Kirk Douglas

jordanlund, 9 months ago to asklemmy in What's a great but uncommon comedy movie we should watch?

Oscar.

youtu.be/QbfVZBsgC4s

Directed by John Landis (Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Coming to America)

Starring:

Sylvester Stallone
Don Ameche
Tim Curry
Marisa Tomei
Linda Gray
Chazz Palminteri
Kurtwood Smith
Yvonne De Carlo
Martin Ferrero
Harry Shearer
Arleen Sorkin
Kirk Douglas

jordanlund, 9 months ago to asklemmy in The government is offering advanced degrees; what do you study?

Dunno. I dropped out 30 years ago.

Wanted to teach high school.

jordanlund, 9 months ago to asklemmy in The government is offering advanced degrees; what do you study?

Kinda need my undergrad first…

jordanlund, 9 months ago to moviesandtv in Drew Barrymore’s Co-Head Writer Says Drew ‘Will Prolong the Strike’ by Resuming Show: ‘It’s Not Too Late’ to ‘Stand in Solidarity’ With the WGA

Saying her actions will extend the strike attributes to her more power than she actually has.

I don’t see this having much of an impact at all.

jordanlund, 9 months ago to comics in Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain

IIRC Coventry was kind of a Fables prototype. So what he started there was likely worked out through Fables.

jordanlund, 9 months ago to comics in Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain

Wonder whatever happened to the Elementals property?

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Elementals_(Comico_Comics)