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  • Based on some other coverage I’ve seen, specifically from reviewers who were denied early review copies, it looks like BioWare/EA is doing what most companies do and shopping around for reviewers who will be especially positive. They’re just being especially aggressive with it this time around. It’s not a good look, but it’s expected for basically any major publisher.

    It sounds like after the early press only event they did a while back, a bunch of reviewers who were critical of the game then got ghosted by EA’s PR people and never received early review copies.

    So, like all pre-launch reviews take any reviews you’re seeing now with a grain of salt and wait until a week or so after launch to see the reviews that weren’t cherry-picked by EA’s corporate PR.


  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlMull & Fennec Vulnerability
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    Mull at least has been fixed in the divestOS repo. I can’t speak to fennec as I don’t use it.

    The version in the f-droid main repo is behind because of Mozilla changing their repo system thus screwing with the build process and at least for now currently requiring a compiler that doesn’t meet F-Droid’s (IMO slightly ridiculous) standards for allowable software.





  • Not to retail workers. The vast majority of them are underpaid and overworked. Between the stressful nature of a job like that and the various stresses that tend to come along with being an adult working for anywhere near minimum wage they probably don’t have the mental bandwidth to care about anything beyond their ability to get by. You’re not going to change anything by being a dick to someone like that.

    Now if you happen to run into a developer or similarly paid person for a company like Meta or Google, absolutely be a dick to them. They’ve chosen to work for evil and have the means to choose otherwise. Acute social pressure could actually make them care and choose something else.


  • Except all of those things you listed would be business expenses which aren’t taxable as they would be deducted from gross profits as part of the calculation for determining net profit (which is the taxable part of profit) and if they’re also using that as a charitable contribution then they are deducting it twice which the IRS tends to frown upon. Or at least they would if they had any kind of worthwhile enforcement mechanism for dealing with corporations.

    I would assume the tax agencies of countries outside the US similarly frown upon such double deductions, possibly even with effective enforcement.



  • Considering making a wish on a shooting star? Been granted a wish scroll by an obnoxious DM? Give a lamp a handjob only for it ejaculate a genie? Then you need the services of Nine Hells Legal! Our prestigious law firm can draft up an ironclad wish for all your mortal needs! No loopholes guaranteed or your soul back.

    All fees to be paid in souls. Retainer fees are nonrefundable. The souls of the sacrificed and those otherwise deemed to fall within the purview of Hell are nonrefundable. “Nine Hells Legal” is a wholly owned trademark of Sir Asmodeus, esq. The archduke of the Nine Hells.

  • Eh, FOOF is so unstable that it’s very hard to make enough of it to do any real damage. It’s also just very hard to make. It’s only remotely stable at cryogenic temperatures, and is so reactive that without an inert atmosphere it will rapidly decay into something more stable. Granted, it will do so by oxidizing the molecular oxygen in the air (which is as insane as it sounds) and release a ton of energy in the process but assuming you don’t already have a bunch of it, you won’t be able to create enough of it fast enough to do any meaningful damage without a specialized laboratory and associated equipment.

    Chlorine Triflouride however, can be made in your kitchen, and is just stable enough that, assuming you’ve taken some precautions, it’s possible to accumulate enough of it to immolate yourself in one of the worst possible ways.





  • A 2011 GMC Terrain. It burned oil like none other. The power steering would occasionally just not work upon starting the car, requiring me to turn it off and on again a several times. Sometimes, I’d stop at a red light, the engine would die, and when I’d restart it it’d go into limp mode. And traction control and AWD would occasionally just give out, which can be dangerous where I live due to ice and snow.

    The thing was a hazard and GMC and all associated brands can fuck right off.


  • If by “invest in real estate” you mean purchase a property that they will then live in while it appreciates in value, effectively making that property a hedge against inflation, then yes absolutely.

    And if after doing that they decide to purchase a second property to rent out, then sure, why not?

    But no individual should be allowed to own more than two, maybe three properties.

    No corporation (or any legal entity other than a person) should be allowed to own a single-family home or any other classification of single-unit residential property.

    And banks should not be able to deny someone a mortgage if the monthly payment would be equal to or less than what that person is paying in rent.






  • It’s a fan made project that cuts out the recaps, the filler arcs, and most of the OP and ED sequences, keeping one of each at the beginning/end of each arc. It then condenses a lot of the story arcs and reorders some events to (mostly) fix the pacing issues of One Piece and cut down on the run time while preserving the original story.

    They’ve got a website out there, but I can’t link to it here, since it’s technically a pirate site. No pun intended. It should come up with a google search though.