Thanks! I guess my recollection of events might be a bit hazy, I’ve corrected my earlier comment.

Definitely bothers their new director, for sure.

Can’t help but feel like it didn’t mean all that much before then either, though.

Ho boy, where to start…

• The moderators of the community !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone had disagreements with the admin team of blahaj.zone (Ada) and decided they wanted to move to lemmy.world.

• The !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone community was locked with an announcement to visit !196@lemmy.world instead. This caused confusion/anger among much of the community who preferred the way blahaj.zone is run as an instance.

• Ada did not want to forcefully reopen the !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone community and boot the mod team, but also did not want to leave the users of 196 feeling like they had no choice but to use the lemmy.world community, so she opened promoted !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (which displays as 196) which is run by a different mod team.

• There was still a lot of disagreement about the attempted move to !196@lemmy.world, so the mods reopened the previous !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone community to placate folks.

The end result is that there are now three 196 communities (plus a 4th on Hexbear I think) which are each relatively active.

Edit: typos.

Edit 2: correction about the origin of !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

According to a post on Instagram I can’t link because I don’t have an account, it’s an FBI office, apparently.

How would this end any differently from other mainstream media outlets, though?

There should be a law allowing full refunds of a game if its core service is taken offline without implementing a workaround. It should be treated the same way as planned obsolescence.

Companies aren’t motivated to allow self-hosting at launch because there’s no money in it. And they’re not motivated to implement self hosting after they’ve made their money and then take the service down because there’s no money in it.

Implement the workaround, open source the software, or force the publisher to issue a refund to anyone who requests one. That should be the standard.

Bento is something you’d typically prepare at home. That meal is elaborate because they made it so.

I can’t help but think of the film The Death of Stalin (itself pulling from the reality of the time) where they tried to find a doctor who could save his life only to realize they purged all the good doctors.

I think Deepseek was a factor, but so too were the tariffs announced that week and the reviews coming out about their latest line of consumer GPUs, coupled with the fact that they were just so incredibly overvalued to begin with.

A lot of algorithms likely concluded “It can’t go any higher from here” and started selling off.

Undershirt with a zipper on back, sweatshirt with zip-up or open front over it.

Still not worth that price point, though. The 5080 is a $1000 GPU, which still isn’t cheap, but they expect us to believe that the rest of that machine justifies the extra $3500? For the cheaper model?

The one that is some morally questionable religious or political message to make people feel uncomfortable and remind everyone that you can air anything during the superb owl as long as you have enough money.

Just today (or yesterday depending on time zone).

Agreed. Nice for those who want them, I won’t fault anyone who chooses to take advantage of the offer. But more than that, I’m just glad this allows people who can’t sign up for a PSN account due to region restrictions to play these games, now.

They removed the requirement in favor of giving perks for it.

Usually next to.

If there was space for it.

Eh, I do feel bad about it.

The military as an organization sucks, but not everyone in it is the “just following orders” SS type of goon. For a lot of people, especially from underserved communities of color, it is one of the only available routes out of poverty when education and job opportunities are inaccessible.

This is by design, I have to imagine, to ensure the US military always has a steady stream of warm bodied volunteers. And they get people young, too, setting up recruiters in high schools to recruit teenagers who have no idea what they’re signing up for and are told they have no better options.

Sub- as a prefix does not mean substitute, though. The word “substitute” is made with that prefix but it doesn’t represent it any more than “submarine”.

Then maybe pick a prefix that isn’t synonymous with “beneath/lower” if that’s the idea you’re trying to get across.

As a Large Language Model, I cannot approve of such blatant cheating. Looking at your opponent’s pieces gives you an unfair advantage and defeats the spirit of the game.