[-] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago

That's stupid.

The main problem with lemmy now is adoption, there isn't a critical mass of users yet.

When users see the stats without lemmy.world, they'll be discouraged from joining. Add to that the issues with federation and the few who join will leave because of the steep learning curve.

Way to alienate potential users.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Don't be stupid, they're doing BUSINESS and not COMMERCE. completely different things.

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"workers remain on strike on Friday morning and have taken the keys to hundreds of vehicles".

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"workers remain on strike on Friday morning and have taken the keys to hundreds of vehicles".

[-] [email protected] 106 points 1 month ago

Bunch of fuckin weirdos

[-] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago

Don't forget that weird sofa dude was born as James Donald Bowman, and JD Vance is his preferred name.

Keep that in mind when he attacks people with preferred names and deadnames trans folks.

[-] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These are air pistols which shoot pellets propelled by compressed air, not your usual guns. They make a moderately loud pop, but nothing like gunpowder - you can stand behind someone firing and have a normal conversation.

That said the guy is wearing earplugs - more for concentration and to block out crowd noise than anything

[-] [email protected] 304 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This meme is funny but they are pretty similar. The only "gear" Yejin is wearing is the shooting glasses, which is basically a prescription lens (no magnification is allowed - these lens make things look less blurry, but can't make them look bigger) on a frame that allows more adjustment than normal eyeglasses, with a piece of plastic instead of lens over the other eye. You can achieve something very similar by taping a piece of paper to the left lens of your own glasses.

The advantage shooting glasses provide is the ability to move the lens up/down/sideways. Depending on your specific shooting stance, if your head is tilted too much, normal eyeglasses may not provide the best field of view if you're only looking through one side of it. In those cases, you buy a pair of shooting glasses and move the lens. If you look at Yejin's shooting stance, her arm is almost parallel with her body, whereas Dikec's arm is slightly angled forwards (not much, maybe 10 degrees?). This means Dikec can see more out of his regular eyeglasses than Yejin can in their respective shooting stances, which is probably why Dikec didn't need shooting glasses.

Besides ear protection (which Dikec is actually wearing - if you watch videos of the match he has bright yellow earplugs in), no other gear is allowed in this event - shoes cannot go above the ankle, clothing cannot restrict movement. Most people wear some sort of flat-soled shoes, whatever clothing you wear literally doesn't matter except to keep you warm/cool. This is in contrast to air rifle, where stiff clothing is allowed - competitors basically wear what looks like clunky armor (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Air-rifle-shooting.jpg), it's hard to bend your knees in them and nearly impossible to squat. I used to train with those guys, I'd take the piss out of them by pretending to be nice and offering them some water, then putting it on the floor in front of them.

And before anyone mentions it, putting their hand in the pocket is the standard stance for air pistol shooting. Only one hand is allowed on the gun. And in a sport where your breathing and heart rate interferes with your accuracy, having one hand free means it might move around and cause micro movements to your body, so everyone puts their other hand in their jacket/pants pocket, or tucks the thumb in their waistband.

It does look badass though.

Source: I used to compete in ISSF 10m and 25m air pistol events like these (this is 10m)

FINAL EDIT: I just wanted to end by saying that Dikec (the Turkish guy) may look cool and casual, and I enjoy all the "retired hitman rolls out of bed casually" memes just as much as everyone, but don't let that diminish the decades of training and dedication he's put into the sport. Dude has been competing for more than 20 years and first set a world record in a different shooting event in 2006. Shooting is one sport where age isn't a big disadvantage.

[-] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago
  1. Rather than fighting against ad-tech , they're caving. If someone comes into your house to punch you and rob you everyday, do you say "let's find a solution that we're both happy with, how about you rob me and don't punch me?"

  2. We could have argued about how privacy-protecting this is, and whether it will actually prevent further intrusive tracking. Perhaps I might be persuaded to keep it. But the fact that I wasn't informed about being opted in when upgrading, and the fact that the CTO is doubling down on "users are too stupid to understand this", means they've lost any trust and/or willingness for me to listen to them. Turning this off for good.

[-] [email protected] 113 points 3 months ago

this is what is known as "a feature, not a bug"

[-] [email protected] 104 points 4 months ago

Apparently smaller tech firms are loving office mandates, because it allows them to hire talent that they normally would not have access to at their budget.

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There's a certain cheesiness and non-political-correctness that's refreshing.

Also discovered a few mods like Shockwave that I wanna try.

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According to Israel, the two Hamas and Fatah members who were killed were responsible for dozens of shooting attacks and planned to carry out more in Israeli territory

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A 23-year-old German-Israeli woman who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival by Hamas militants on October 7 has been declared dead, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

“We are devastated to share that the body of 23 year old German-Israeli Shani (Louk) was found and identified,” the ministry posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.

A source involved with her identification told CNN Louk’s death was announced after forensic examiners found a bone fragment from her skull.

[-] [email protected] 159 points 11 months ago

“The only downside is that the Windows Store appears not to work out of the box.”

This is a feature, not a bug.

[-] [email protected] 102 points 11 months ago

Anyone who still uses the official reddit app at this point is just unsaveable

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Hollywood scribes initiated a work stoppage in early May as negotiations broke down with studios including Disney, Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed last week after months of starts and stops.

The WGA and AMPTP are still drafting the final contract language.

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Experts say even if it claims to be “microwave-safe.”

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And buried in the middle of the article:

"He and his colleagues believe that the company's move was the result of workers' decision to unionize."

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In an extraordinary show of support for organized labor, President Biden said he would join workers in Michigan on the front lines of their strike against leading automakers.

[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize

This was an excuse for them to get rid of the pesky union forming troublemakers. Despicable.

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