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When Gamers Turn Into 5-Star Voice Actors!
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Why Walmart failed in Europe
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Youtube or Spotify?
  • I will admit I like listening to obscure stuff which YouTube does really well. The only problem is that they will play the music video instead of the song on free youtube music.

  • Youtube or Spotify?

    I had gotten Youtube premium and enjoyed it. My subscription ran out and I find I have 90% use of it for free. I got it to listen to the app on my phone when I was out. However the app sucks ass. I would listen to one song and then the app would just crash. SO I never got to use it for the intended use.

    So which would you choose? Youtube or Spotify? and how is the Spotify app on the phone?

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    [Lefty Cartoons] Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless! That’ll Work!
  • I have bit of a nuanced take on the subject (ie: I'm going to get downvoted into oblivion.)

    So here goes. To me Homelessness isn't the problem. Rampant drug addiction and mental illness are. For the mental illness part, we need comprehensive and affordable mental health care for everyone. That's not going to happen in my lifetime though.

    The drug addiction however...

    Places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver (where I'm from) have followed the decriminalization theory of drug rehabilitation. This posits that by providing clean drug paraphernalia and safe places to use drugs, will help people to overcome addiction. But the current state of these cities prove that this theory is false. In order to make someone change, they have to want to change. When you make drug use easier, there is less incentive for that person to want to get clean. Homelessness and the accompanying problems are to most of them just the "cost of doing business."

    Their lives should be made more difficult as to incentivize them to want to change their ways. Of course there should be certain exceptions, such as when it's too hot or cold out. But we have to somehow give them a reason to change their ways.

    At least where I live there are systems in place to help you get off the street. I would know as I was homeless for a year living on the street. But when COVID hit, I finally had enough and decided to get help. I went to a shelter, got signed up for disability and through BC housing I got myself a room in a shared complex. I'm proof that when you really try, there is help out there for you to make your life better.

    Now bring on the downvotes.

  • Renew The Orville!!!
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    Don't expect Blackwell GPU's any time soon.
    www.theverge.com Don’t expect affordable Nvidia Blackwell gaming GPUs to arrive anytime soon.

    Nvidia just said it won't begin to ramp production of its new Blackwell GPUs until its fourth fiscal quarter, which begins in November. Nvidia just reported a record $30 billion quarter, and the vast majority of it ($22B) was data center compute... will it set aside some of its latest and greatest ...

    Don’t expect affordable Nvidia Blackwell gaming GPUs to arrive anytime soon.
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    Do any of you ever donate to big time streamers?

    I was just thinking about this the other day. For example, I used to follow F1nn5ter. I liked his whole schtick. The "Stop Making Me Dress Like A Girl Dammit!" was fun in the beginning. A few times I contemplated sending a funny paid message, but never did.

    He has obviously gone through some major changes since then. And I'm happy he's figuring his shit out. Even has an amazing girlfriend.

    But I don't understand people who still send him 100 dollar dono's anymore. I mean His Only Fans is estimated to be pulling in 250K a month. He owns two houses and just recently purchased a Maybach (probably used, but still)

    He has come right out and said he only streams on twitch because he want's to, not because he needs to.

    So I'm just curious if any of you follow or donate any big streamer?

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    Why is cheap popcorn not as good a premium popcorn?

    I usually buy the cheap (for us) 2.79 CAD bag of 1kg popping corn. the 850g Orville Redenbacher is 5.79.

    However, they were out of the cheap stuff so I was forced to get the ol' Orville's stuff. And I found it there were less kernels unpopped, the popcorn was fluffier and weirdly, it sounded louder too. (same stove, pot and everything)

    So my question is why is there such a quality difference? Is there a difference in how it's prepared before shipping? Anyone know?

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    micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world Alpha71 @lemmy.world
    Does anyone know where I can buy Silverfish style Batteries in Canada?

    I want to get another battery for my ebike but everything I've seen online ships from China and I'm worried about getting scammed/wrong product.

    The company I bought my bike from is in America and they won't ship batteries into Canada.

    My battery is a silverfish style with a 4 pin connector port, a canon head charger port and it's dimensions are 390mm X 75mm X 110 mm.

    It's 48v 15AH.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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    PASTOR PLEA DEAL: Pastor who sexually abused child for nearly 7 years receives probation
    slatereport.com PASTOR PLEA DEAL: Pastor who sexually abused child for nearly 7 years receives probation

    CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — William C. Robinson, a pastor working for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries in Corpus Christi, received 10 years probation after sexually abusing an underage family member. According to his indictment, Robinson sexually abused an underage family member between July 11, 2015 and June 2...

    PASTOR PLEA DEAL: Pastor who sexually abused child for nearly 7 years receives probation
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    Hands On with Spacetop the AR Laptop
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    Here's an interesting problem. Forza Horizon 5 won't go to 21:9 aspect ratio even though the game detects 5760X1080.

    I recently booted the game up and forgot about the problem. Here's the thing. The game was able to do so on my old 2TB super cheap NVME drive. But I upgraded to a WD Black 4TB drive and that when the problems started.

    I'm sure a major portion of the problem is I have a Intel Arc A770 card. runs the game smoothly at 60fps locked on extreme settings (as long as ray tracing it turned completely off.) But Intels monitor combining software is HORRIBLE!

    I have tried the hack of using SRWE to get around it, but even doing that the screen still defaults to 1920X1080.

    was just wondering if anyone had any other suggestions for getting my triple monitor setup working again?

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    When was the last time you made Jello?

    I'm 52. And in my entire adult life I've never made Jello. How about you?

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