[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago

If you're talking about the visual style, it borrows pretty heavily from SimCity 2000 and Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. You might like those as well.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 256 points 1 month ago

It's time we take seditionists out of the Sheriff's Departments.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 112 points 1 month ago

This reminds me of when Weird Al told Canadian (or maybe Australian?) fans who wanted to watch his movie, "there's Very Probably No way to do this. I know you probably have a TORRENT of questions, but I don't have time to answer them right now."

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 138 points 1 month ago

Obviously this is a terrible idea, but I'm gonna answer it seriously for the sake of dunking on it.

  1. The amount of work. I mean, just astronomical. That's 1,650 miles of longitude this dude is talking about filling in; the largest earth-moving project ever was the Panama Canal, and it's only about 50 miles long. Plus, by comparison, it's essentially a one-dimensional line! This looks like it's probably in the ballpark of 500-ish miles from the current shore to the new shore, and two-ish miles from the surface to the floor.

  2. Where would we get the land from? It's not like there's a pile just sitting around. I guess we could dredge the Pacific and truck it across to pour into the Atlantic? Take down the Appalachians and the Rockies? Bring down an asteroid into the ocean? None of that would be enough. In fact, nothing I can think of that we have access to could even come close to providing enough dirt (remember, we need 1,650 x 500 x 2 cubic miles of it!), even if we could manage to do it without destroying ecosystems or killing billions of people.

  3. The people who have spent a lot of money buying homes and businesses on the current Eastern seaboard of the United States would probably have something to say about this plan. (Something loud and something very angry.) Besides, it would completely upend the shipping industry, the fishing industry, the tourism industry, and more. This would legitimately destroy multiple national economies, and that's before you even take into account the ecological disaster.

  4. Sea level rise is already a major problem. So displacing a bunch of water in favor of dirt probably isn't going to help that too terribly much.

  5. ...why? A lot of America is sitting unused or underused. If you were to clump all of the US's land use into discrete blocks, it would look like this: Image The area labeled "LAND?" on the ocean in the OP map is, give or take, the size of the current amount of land owned by the 100 largest landowning families, private family timberland, golf, and fallow land (meaning land used for nothing). This means that the area that the person in question is asking about is already essentially or literally being used for nothing at all. Before we start undertaking an ecologically-disastrous and fundamentally impossible project, we'd probably figure out ways to use that other land.

But there's more. The land that is being used is almost entirely being underused. For instance, take the "Cow pasture/range" section of the map; cattle account, by far, for the highest land use of any land use in the country. But the 28.2 million cows in America only need about an acre of land each; meaning that the 124.7 million acres of land they roam is about five times bigger than what they actually need. Most of the other production uses for land in the US (along with rural housing) are similarly sprawling because they can be; land is comparatively cheap, so there's no real reason to consolidate. If that changes, land prices will rise, and the people and companies holding on to underused land will discover that it makes financial sense to sell and reconfigure their businesses to make more efficient use of the land.

So calm down, Lex Luthor. The problem isn't that resources are actually scarce. It's that people at the top have a financial interest in underusing their holdings so that they can keep prices artificially high.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 111 points 2 months ago

Have they been subject to medium to long term safety testing on humans?

Yes. For over two years now. Using a population of hundreds of millions of people and a control population of people who xerox misinformation and hand it out to strangers in grocery stores.

News flash: the vaccinated ones are doing way better.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 283 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the FFmpeg version is currently used in a highly visible product in Microsoft. We have customers experience issues with Caption during Teams Live Event.

This seems like a "you" problem, Microsoft, and since you employ thousands of programmers with the experience to solve your problem and commit the change back to the FOSS project, I think this is also very easily a "you" solution as well.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 163 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I love this sort of thing. Like NASA engineers calling an explosion a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

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I had 2FA enabled for lemmy.world before the big update this past weekend, and when I logged out/in this morning I discovered that 2FA had been turned off for my account. I've got it turned back on and I think it's working now, but just a heads up that if you had 2FA enabled you might need to re-enable it.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 104 points 6 months ago

Firefox logo looks better anyway.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 127 points 6 months ago

Isn't this like posting "I'm done with meat, are you?" in /c/vegan?

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 163 points 7 months ago

This is the thing. Remote work as an option helps everyone. Lower costs for the employer, happier employees, the people who do want to work in an office have a better time because it's less crowded, the people who need to care for kids or parents have an easier time...it's entirely a win for everyone.

Except real estate companies, and therein lies the problem.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ilinamorato@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

In the latest Messages for Android Beta, scheduled send is broken due to a date validation bug. It won't let you schedule messages after today's date number in any month. So, for instance, today's date is 29 November, 2023; it won't allow any messages to be scheduled in December unless they're scheduled on the 29th, 30th, or 31st. Also, it won't allow any messages to be scheduled in 2024, for what I assume are similar reasons.

Reverting to the latest stable version fixes it and allows messages to be scheduled for any future date.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 142 points 8 months ago

"In probably unrelated news, remote workers love how they can't be micromanaged or watched over their shoulders and are frustrated and disoriented by return-to-office plans."

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 113 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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