When Blizzard shut down Overwatch 1 they required a real phone number to transfer your items and log into Overwatch 2. Tried a Google Voice number, nope, they require your real phone number. There is never going to be a situation where I want Blizzard contacting me on my phone.
…and that is why when they finally turned off the Overwatch 1 servers, I stopped playing Overwatch at all.
All pictures in the listing seem to be from before the ship’s “Margaritaville” makeover, but it’s definitely the same boat. The rest of that class has been retired and sent to the breakers....
Its a bad deal doing extra at an employer expecting a raise or job security. You do the extra to learn the newer/better skill, gain the experience, then take those new skills to a new employer who will pay you more for having it. This is how you move up the ladder in the 21st century.
spoilerDog: "I wish the entirety of my lifespan wasn’t just a small fraction of yours. If I had 6 times my life, I likely wouldn’t be there with you at the end of yours. Even with my current life span, the last 3 to 4 years of it I won’t be the dog you knew before. My joints are going to wear out. I might lose my sight or my hearing. I’m going to be a burden when I can’t control my body well enough to get outside before making a mess. I can’t stand the thought of disappointing you! I can’t get over how unfair it is that the best I could give you for a lifetime companion is maybe 13 short years. You too will change as you grow. I’ll never get to know the multiple people you will grow into. I get this one brief glimpse of life with you where we have so much love, fun, and comfort, and then I have to go away to whats next while you grieve and go on without me. So I have a wish to be with you all the way until the end. We’ll both lie down in the sun one last time, close our eyes at the same time, and dream of days we were both capable of throwing a ball and chasing it. That is my wish. I only need that one.
Stable diffusion prompt: background of planet LV426, dark, center frame is Cadbury Creme egg pointing upright on the ground with a haze of vapor floating in the air, one egg is peeled back from into four petals centering at the top as a sci-fi face hugger emerges from the Cadbury egg, in bio-industrial art style of Swiss artist HG Giger
Interpret improvements as you like. For me it's any large scale reforms or legislative packages designed to improve the country for all or see to the material interests of the majority without overly benefiting the elite....
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) - which among other things created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and put in place the Volcker Rule which forbids banks from making certain risky investments with depositors money. To give you an idea of the power of the Volcker Rule, when it went in place banks begged (and got) a 5 year delay to divest for investments that violate the rule. Yeah, banks were playing fast-and-loose with with the money you deposited in your checking and savings accounts for their own gain. The Volcker Rule stopped (most) of that.
As I’m not a celebrity, I’m guessing there’s quite a few more options than most of us are aware of. One example I could think of is for the celeb to make an LLC and have that LLC buy the house they’re living in.
Anyone can google their address and show up/take pictures/lurk/stalk, But thankfully most people would never think to do such a thing nor have any inclination to do so,
I’m sure that nearly all celebrities/public figures, once a certain amount famous, encounter crazy people that they should be fearful of.
How terrifying it must b for celebrities, so they have body guards and a security detail and full-fledged security system at their houses 😥 it’s exhausting thinking about it.
I don’t feel bad for them for this part. Its part of the price of being a public figure. I don’t know why people wish for fame. Seems like its a mountain of trouble to deal with.
Didn’t bother with Barbie because it seemed not my style.
What I assumed the movie would be about being a Barbie movie isn’t my style either. However, the Barbie movie was quite a bit more than I expected. I rather liked the subtle feminist messaging underneath the obvious message. The movie also didn’t take itself too seriously on what could be considered very delicate topics. I’d recommend it even for non-typical Barbie doll audience.
No, you may not eat an entire head of lettuce for lunch.
Wait, why is that one bad? Its likely not enough calories for 1/3 of the day’s meals, but if they’re hungry later they’ll consume different calories elsewhere in the day, yes?
I would also add that if you had a neighbor or relative that had HBO, you’d be able to record on VHS a set of movies playing at that time. For many of us this may have been only a few months/years of movies. That set of movies would grow on you because thats all you had to watch on demand. Genre, theme, high budget, low budget, it didn’t matter. Someone close to you popped in a 6 hour tape one day and pressed “record” before they went to work. You got the one movie you were hoping for and whatever came afterward.
You’re not actual a “real human.” You’re an alien just like us, but we convinced you that you were human so we could study “human behavior”. One behavior we’ve identified is paranoia.
At the end of the day, some of us in IT security want to do the right things based in common sense but we get stymied by management decisions and precedence. Hell, I’ve brought NIST 800-63B documentation with me to check every reason why they wouldn’t budge. It’s just ingrained in them - meanwhile you look at the number of tickets for password help and password sharing violations that get reported …
Paint the picture for management:
At one time surgery was the purview of medieval barbers. Yes, the same barbers that cut your hair. At the time there were procedures to intentionally cause people to bleed excessively and cutting holes the body to let the one of the “4 humors” out to make the patient well again. All of this humanity arrived at with tens of thousands of years of existence on Earth. Today we look at this as uninformed and barbaric. Yet we’re doing the IT Security equivalent of those medieval barber still today. We’re bleeding our users unnecessarily with complex frequent password rotation and other bad methods because that’s what was the standard at one time. What’s the modern medicine version of IT Security? NIST 800-63B is a good start. I’m happy to explain whats in there. Now, do we want to keep harming our users and wasting the company’s money on poor efficiency or do we want to embrace the lesson learned from that bad past?
No one who had a house they planned on staying in for a long time, who kept their job, felt that crunch.
These are the only ones to pity. They may have lost their job because of the economic conditions, and been forced to move to another place to get another job. So in trying to sell their old place to be able to buy a new place these folks suffered the same difficulties unloading their property as the speculators.
But reading the brine discharge always makes me wish that grid based sodium ion batteries would be researched more. But can’t have that because oil companies already put large deposits into lithium mines.
Its light on specifics but China is already producing Sodium batteries which makes sense for a nation that is technologically advanced, but resource poor. Since China doesn’t have any entrenched petroleum interests, and is geopolitically distant to most of the proven cobalt and lithium supplies, it makes sense for them to use what they have plenty of.
Honestly, I’m excited about this. Sodium batteries aren’t very energy dense, but they should be very cheap. Lots of applications don’t need physically small batteries (like grid or solar tied).
Absolutely it is big news! If you know what your future holds you can plan for it. This means getting your affairs in order, taking that trip across Europe you’ve always wanted to do now instead of when you were planning at 65 (when you might be disabled from Parkinson).
On the scientific front, early detection would also let researchers learn how the disease progresses and could unlock new treatments to slow or stop the disease in earlier stages that we can’t do right now because we detect the disease too late.
Betrayal (startrek.website)
all power to the purrletariat (lemmy.world)
Fetishize This (lemmy.world)
Aint no way I'm giving some website my real phone number (lemmy.world)
make smoking great again (i.imgur.com)
The "Margaritaville" cruise ship is up for sale if anyone wants it. (www.boats.com)
All pictures in the listing seem to be from before the ship’s “Margaritaville” makeover, but it’s definitely the same boat. The rest of that class has been retired and sent to the breakers....
If you had to restart your job at your current employer, what would you do differently?
You get to keep all your current memories and knowledge....
only one wish required (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10594088...
Creamy centres (slrpnk.net)
The four houses dads belong to. (lemmy.world)
US residents: What big domestic policy improvements have the american people won from congress in the last 30 years? (kbin.social)
Interpret improvements as you like. For me it's any large scale reforms or legislative packages designed to improve the country for all or see to the material interests of the majority without overly benefiting the elite....
How would you feel/react if your home address was announced & published very publicly the same way celebrities experience?
I feel second-hand fear & paranoia on behalf of celebs whose home addresses are public worldwide knowledge....
What are your best flight tips and tricks?
Since I assume lots of people are flying this time of year
The barbieheimer debate rages (lemmy.world)
"The Pact" by ChrisHallbeck (64.media.tumblr.com)
Source: Mastodon - RSS
The joys of parenthood (lemmy.zip)
Just a PSA (lemmy.zip)
Back in my day (lemmy.zip)
What's a secret that you're keeping from your partner/significant other that you're taking to the grave with you?
It doesn’t have to be anything bad btw
Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?
One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:...
Financial Instruments (www.threepanelsoul.com)
Source: Three Panel Soul
MIT’s New Desalination System Produces Freshwater That Is “Cheaper Than Tap Water” (scitechdaily.com)
Global solar installations projected to jump 56% this year!! (slrpnk.net)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/2294408...
New Blood Test Could Diagnose Parkinson’s Before it Begins Damaging the Nervous System (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)