It’s like free advertising for Nintendo.
eh, a lot of people have been Pokémon fans since childhood before they gave very much thought to such things as “advertising” or “copyright” or “corporations”, and we find things like this entertaining. I think I may even have watched some of that channel’s videos at some point, though am not sure whether I may be confusing it with another one.
I have no objections to mods removing it if they agree with you; I honestly believed it would be suitable here.
You don’t find anything oniony about a government actively paying money in order to switch to less environmentally friendly sources? I suppose it’s a matter of opinion.
That is good news…
So, uh, I assume the Dutch government will heavily push back against any ideas to ban social media for young people in the EU? After all, a public forgejo instance is also “social media”, and surely they will find it too costly to implement an age check there? Riiiight?
I wonder if it is perhaps common in Greek politics to make these kinds of references to ancient Greece? I’m not Greek and don’t understand Greek, so can’t answer that question, but could imagine that it sounds a lot weirder when translated to English than in the original.
FWIW I think the third one isn’t anywhere near as bad as the first two. You are getting more value for your money when you get a percentage off.
maybe you should explain it because several users seem unfamiliar with it, including me (who doesn’t natively speak English and therefore isn’t 100% familiar with all slang terms used in English)
I got my first (non-smart) cell phone at 11, first Android smartphone at 15…
My answer to this is: not really anything? Having a cell phone and a smartphone has made my life much easier, more fun and less boring, I would not want to go back to a world without it. I (kinda) do want to go back to (approximately) the state of the Internet at the time, but would still want to be able to access it from a mobile device!
I remember during the time when I already had a Nintendo DS but the first iPhone hadn’t been announced yet, I would occasionally be bored at school and fantasize about how awesome it would be if my Nintendo DS could connect to the Internet anywhere I went. A few years later I got almost exactly that (looked a bit different from how I imagined though). :D
You don’t, but I at least rarely use my phone while it’s charging anyway.
Right now I can access it. They seem to have a status page https://fhf-lemmyworld.instatus.com/ that says that earlier today there were some problems for approximately an hour? I don’t have more information than that.
If we’re going to wildly speculate, hey, isn’t this what we have AI for nowadays?
I asked ChatGPT: “give me ideas what the abbreviation WLBR might stand for if that is the name of a piece of image editing software”. Here’s the result:
Most image tools (like Photoshop, GIMP, etc.) don’t strictly spell out acronyms anymore—they use:
So something like:
WLBR = “WaveLight Brush & Render”
feels believable without being overly literal.
(end of ChatGPT response)
Out of these, I think “Workflow Layer-Based Retoucher” works best. But interesting that ChatGPT thinks “GIMP” doesn’t “strictly spell out” an acronym anymore, or that “Photoshop” ever did?!
ok, “Kurzsichtigkeit” in German definitely has both meanings without this causing confusion in practice
Is WLBR supposed to be an abbreviation for something? I realize it is a reference to the mascot Wilber, but apart from that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia says that both terms exist in English? Not a native speaker; I think I have seen “nearsightedness” more often in English but my first language’s term for it translates to “shortsightedness”. 🤷♂️
I think you may be looking for this: https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
Zuckerberg was born in 1984, haven’t looked up the others.
OSM is just a geographical database. It by itself doesn’t have any user-facing features at all. If there are such features somewhere, they are features of a specific frontend to that database.
I don’t think there’s a way to do what you want directly on openstreetmap.org but you can achieve your goal with https://overpass-turbo.eu/ for example.
not what the article says, the article specifically says:
The age-verification process will be implemented globally,
Did she get a new voice actor in the original at some point?
Because for us who watch the German dub, this happened in or around 2007, between “We’re on the Road to D’ohwhere” and “My Fair Laddy”. That was the time I seriously became aware of which episodes were (then) new, because Marge’s voice was different only in the new ones. :D
Steam says, out of those I have in my library there, Rocket League. But it’s relatively closely followed by GTA 5, which I’ve also played on a console (those hours wouldn’t be counted there), so I suspect that that’s the real answer overall. GTA 5 is just a wonderfully deep game with an entertaining story where you can almost never run out of things to explore.
It’s possible that Pokémon FireRed or Emerald has even more, that was too long ago for me to know for sure.