piccolo

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[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

I think federally at least sexuality is a protected characteristic, but I don't think the courts in Idaho would respect that so you'd need to have the funds to appeal it up a few levels

Btw the ruling to make sexuality a protected characteristic was an incredibly rare Gorsuch W where he ruled that discriminating based off of sexual orientation was discriminating based off of sex (i.e. if you refuse service to Jim because Jim dates Bob, but you wouldn't refuse service to Jane because Jane dates Bob, then that's implicitly discrimination based off of sex)

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the OP, but looked some things up because I was curious. Ente has a 2Tb storage option that costs $300/year or $30/mo; not sure how much you pay for that much storage in Google Photos. Their FAQ says they have an easy import process from Google Photos via Google Takeout (bulk download your data from all Google services). No idea if ente respects the geotags but I imagine they would (seems like an important feature for a Google photos killer).

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

This is a good documentary on the indoctrination that many American Jews experience, priming their support for the Zionist entity. I watched a screening of it a few months ago and it was pretty eye opening for me

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Highly recommend this article for understanding why JUST and Impossible aren't vegan companies. I've been avoiding their products ever since I first read it (well actually I knew about Impossible before this one). I think it gives a lot of good details about the process and why they didn't need to perform the animal tests. Both companies are unwilling to guarantee they wouldn't do it again, also :(

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Why isn't it called a teethbrush?

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

Your username is anti outside aktion but you like working outside... Curious

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

SpaceX owner Elon Musk said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the storm put his Starlink satellites that provide internet “under a lot of pressure”. A spokesperson for the European Space Agency (ESA) said the Starlinks had voltage spikes.

inshallah

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

EA (and to some extent Valve) is also well known for profiting very heavily off of getting people addicted to gambling in the form of loot boxes. Also EA's former CEO said that they should capitalize on gamers in the heat of the moment to charge in-app transactions, like pay $1 to reload your magazine mid-combat in Battlefield. They're also notable for charging tons for DLC. Overall just very money hungry and gross.

Valve is not very good at censoring profitable fascist games from their marketplace (which goes in line with Gaben and his reddit-logo freedom takes). Valve also takes like 1/3 of the price of the game for themselves, which is pretty high, especially for indie game devs who don't yet have many sales, and given that they have a de-facto monopoly. They also tried really hard to break EU and Australian law and not allow for refunds on games beyond very limited circumstances. Their work culture is also notoriously sexist and transphobic.

I think Valve is probably the lesser evil of game companies but I think that their reputation is much much better than it should be given all this shit. That being said, as a tux enjoyer I'm happy they are trying to get gaming on Linux working better, even if it's just for their own selfish interests.

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Here are some of my favorites:

Caffeinated, just tea:

  • Dragon tears (Chinese green tea)
  • Assam
  • Darjeeling
  • Oolong (not familiar enough with different types to give recommendations)

Caffeinated, tea + other things:

  • Rose petals + black tea
  • Genmaicha (Japanese roasted rice + green tea)
  • Earl Grey (esp Sadaf brand)
  • Masala chai

Non caffeinated (i.e. not technically tea):

  • Korean buckwheat tea (I drink this stuff all the time)
  • Mint (just steep dried mint)
[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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