Toy stores for men. There used to be loads of them around town when people had lots of spare money. Not a single one on our high streets now. Not that I miss them or bought anything from them.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Porto introduces free public transport for all city residentsEnglish
10·2 months agoYes, yes, yes! It’s the only way to fight emissions from cars, to encourage people to leave their cars at home, and even bring in programmes and laws to actively discourage them from using their cars.
I’ve been car free for over a decade, and while it isn’t always fun, I do prefer a comfortable train ride to having to drive myself in traffic. And people love you complain about the cost of public transport, but I still pay far less than my friends on travel expenses evey month.
tabris@lemmy.worldtoMental Health@lemmy.world•Heavy cannabis users have been found to have nearly four times the odds of developing schizophrenia or psychosis compared to non-users, according to a Kings College Meta-AnalysisEnglish
131·2 months agoAlso causation vs correlation. Isn’t it likely that people with schizophrenia are self medicating, especially before diagnosis and treatment? I know that happens for other undiagnosed and misdiagnosed neurological conditions like autism and ADHD.
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Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a monthEnglish
15·3 months agoThey won’t do that. They’re also greedy racist fascists. That’s what capitalism is.
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Games@lemmy.world•Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature to digitize game collectionsEnglish
81·3 months agoThat’ll help to digitise aLl ThEsE gAmEs that are coming out, eh Microsoft?
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Programming@programming.dev•Do you think these downvotes are bots, or just Nazis?
2·4 months agoHas anyone agreed with your premise yet, or are they all still secretly conspiring to make you look like a paranoid weirdo?
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science@lemmy.world•Entirely new way of making espresso unveiledEnglish
4·4 months agoWhen you’re dealing with thousands of litres per hour, it’s a fair amount.
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science@lemmy.world•Entirely new way of making espresso unveiledEnglish
12·4 months agoThey’re talking about commercial scale coffee products and coffee flavoured products (bottled coffee drinks, instant coffee, etc.), where a reduction of 75% of the energy consumption could not only be very profitable, but also helpful in hitting environmental targets. Coffee is already a bit of an environmental nightmare when it comes to water usage in farming, so lessening the impact of commercial coffee is definitely a plus.
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PC Master Race@lemmy.world•Microsoft pushed 16GB RAM as must-have for Windows 11 for years, now sells an 8GB Surface Laptop for $1,299English
31·5 months agoThey never change. I used to repair laptops for a well known laptop brand, this was around the release of Windows Vista, 2006 or so.
We were getting a lot of warranty repairs where the issue was “laptop slow” or words to that effect. The only issue with them was that they didn’t have enough ram to run Vista smoothly enough. The whole system chugged. But as there was nothing wrong with the laptops, we’d send them back to the customer largely untouched saying “buy more ram.”
At some point, a couple of suits from the company came to look around the warehouse and meet the team. I was primary diagnostic at this point, so I would inspect most of the laptops and confirm their issues. I was getting around 15 laptops a day at this point that were just low ram for Vista, so I asked the suits “why do we sell laptops with Vista that can’t run it properly as they don’t have enough ram?”
His response was that “Microsoft sets the specs of the laptops. Nothing we can do.”
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Europe@feddit.org•Ban private jets and cut speed limits to avert UK fuel crisis, say campaignersEnglish
82·5 months agoMake buses free to use for all, ban all car journeys under 20 minutes (largely unenforceable, but it needs to be done), reduce subsidies on fuel and instead subsidise bicycles, micro mobility and accessible mobility, build bike lanes and safe pavements, allow zoning of more retail inside residential areas so cars are needed less day to day, encourage late hours retail, turn parking spaces into green spaces.
These policies would lead to cleaner air, hit our environment goals, less dependence on foreign fuel supplies, greener spaces, healthier population, therefore taking the strain off the NHS. It’ll create jobs as there will be more evening retail jobs, building infrastructure always improves the job market, and none of this is difficult to implement, none of it is costly, and all of it benefits the entire population of the country, not just London or the wealthy.
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HistoryArtifacts@piefed.social•Terracotta gaming die, Iraq, ~2nd millennium BCE?English
2·5 months agoI don’t think it’s balanced, either.
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Games@lemmy.world•Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke"English
17·6 months agobut it’s nice that the game recognises that gay people would have existed regardless of the cultural attitudes at the time.
The late mediaeval period was actually fairly accepting of gay relationships, with a legal doctrine of Brotherment being practiced in several countries, where two men would legally join their lives and assets, and which often included declarations of affection.
I’m keeping hold of my pixel with GrapheneOS while also keeping an eye on the new Jolla Linux phone. If that achieves even a half way decent experience, that’ll be my next phone. Android is too much work to keep control of your own data.
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Programming@programming.dev•JADEx Update v0.49: Improved IntelliJ Plugin Stability and Responsiveness
13·7 months agoSo it’s the best bits of Kotlin in normal Java? Looks nice. Will give it a play.
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Gaming@lemmy.world•Some timeless advice from The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)English
13·7 months agoI went looking and found this article about the art.
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Games@lemmy.world•EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, buckoEnglish
863·8 months agoYeah, that’s just to normalise rentable levels. Once it has been begrudgingly accepted, there’ll be one that requires premium currency. Never buy EA.
It’s a mix of about 45% extra strong white, 45% extra strong wholemeal, and 10% spelt. I love the flavour it produces.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is Autism something old or has it been developed recently?
32·9 months agoAnd before that, we were doppelgangers that had stolen people’s children away: https://youtube.com/shorts/WH5zYErWmAQ
Meatloaf is simple, but yummy and filling.





Exactly what I use. Both are very low footprint, so they sit on an old raspberry pi, with the rest of the services on the n100. Works great for me.