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I’m a Federal Worker. You Have No Idea the Irreversible Damage Elon Musk Is Doing.
  • Deliberately sabotaging your job as a government worker (assuming you're not working in a military industrial complex or enforcement job) plays directly into the right's framing of government as inefficient. It's important that public-facing positions be competent to foster public trust; after all, those positions are what conservatives dismantle first as pretext to abolish an agency. After public discontent sets in through first-hand experience dealing with understaffing, those public services become ripe for privatization.

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    Two sides of r*ddit.
  • The text is translated to English, yes, but the original art was drawn for Japanese text which usually flows top to bottom, right to left. The entire visual design of a manga or comic book is structured around the reading direction for the language it was originally written in. When adding translations, you can't just change the bubble locations since they're almost always incorporated into the artwork directly.

    With the above in mind, you effectively have two options with manga: flip the artwork before adding the English translation so the bubbles flow left-to-right, or leave it alone and just explain the reading direction differences. There are often artistic, logistical, and financial reasons for the latter approach, so it tends to be more common.

    When on physical paper, most manga books are also read by flipping the pages right to left, and most of them explain this to English-language readers trying to read it the "normal" way on the last page.

  • Or that doesn't try to kill you
  • Maybe a hot take, but I thought it looked cool in the concept images (though those are obviously unburdened by the constraints of reality). Unfortunately, so much of that sleekness it was originally going for was killed by the time the physical product went into production, and the low build quality is very apparent from pretty much any photos of one you can find.

  • Google will now automatically revoke permissions from harmful Android apps
  • They have Google services but through a third party wrapper called MicroG, which keeps it sandboxed to a degree that you can keep it from doing system-level actions like this

    edit: not microG, as evidenced by the strikethrough I put in very soon after receiving the first of several replies clarifying the situation. I would encourage you to read one of them before adding your own. <3

  • Don't worry, it'll all make sense someday
  • Trump's going to order that they stop culling chicken farms due to H5N1 infections, call the disease a mild cold like he did with covid-19 and claim it's not that big of a deal. Nearly instantly, of course, a bird flu pandemic breaks out as the virus mutates to infect humans, but the CDC and NIH will be stopped from making any statements about the disease.

  • Trolley problem
  • Well, no.

    In scenario A they are instantly vaporized. In scenario B they are brutally sliced into multiple pieces and crushed to death, rather painfully depending on the speed of the trolley.

  • Books, $4 Each
  • Ah my mistake, I appear to have missed the sidebar and nature of this community. I apologize for my previous liberal agenda-pushing and now see the ways of Buy Sell Trade.

    I'll take the copy of Miss Mackenzie (Annotated). Is shipping included?

  • Books, $4 Each
  • No.

    Look, if you need to get your bag, get your bag. I'm still going to call you an asshole for being an asshole. This is why I permanent marker all of my LFL donations so they're less resellable.

  • Trump imposes tariffs, sanctions on Colombia after it refuses deportation flights
  • The cherry on top is Trump rescinding the CHIPS act which was supposed to bring more silicon electronics manufacturing to the US, meant to make our microchip supply more resilient. Not only is it cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, it's also shooting ourselves in the foot (and then blaming Woke when the obvious consequences come knocking home).

  • Path of Exile - Necropolis Official Trailer

    Also https://www.pathofexile.com/necropolis

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    Anyone else noticing a lot more "Access Denied" pages while using hardened Firefox lately?

    I use Firefox whenever I can.

    On first install of the browser I usually end up following a hardening guide which includes stuff like blocking cross site cookies, setting a few things in about:config to disable Pocket/etc, and installing uBlock Origin. I've taken what I consider a relatively balanced approach, I don't use anything like noScript, uMatrix, etc that ultimately just cost a lot of time fiddling to get the 10th website of the week working.

    I've been more or less fine browsing the web this way for years, but around the start of 2024 I've started seeing way more "Access Denied" pages than I used to. I think part of it is Cloudflare or similar, but I don't know exactly what's changed or what's triggering it to occur.

    It usually goes away and I can re access the site in 10-30 minutes as usual, but I've had it occur in really weird instances, such as trying to change my Minecraft skin and getting blocked by the website. The server block often goes away immediately if I switch my user agent, so I know that it has something to do with how I've got everything set up.

    Not sure what anyone else's experience with this has been. I'd like to hear some of your thoughts and tips

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    [Affliction] "Diamond Method" for finding Wildwood events

    To summarize for anyone who would rather not watch the video, there are always exactly 4 "events" in a wildwood instance. While any specific event is randomly selected, their locations are always around the far North, South, East, and West of the area. If you can find two events, especially if they're perfectly horizontal or vertical from each other, it becomes much easier to find a third and possibly fourth. After you find the first, all you have to do is look for the remaining spots of the 'diamond', following wisp trails to make an educated guess.

    I thought this was pretty useful information, especially if you're trying to maximize wisp collection to juice your maps or find more nameless creatures to complete quests.

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    Blahaj PoE sub created

    Hi everyone!

    I decided to create this sub as an alternative to other Path of Exile discussion boards on Lemmy, since most of them were pretty dead (not that another sub on another instance will fix that, but why not ok?) There was also a weirdly long propagation time for posts of mine to show up on the other instance's board, so I'm hoping that won't be as much of an issue with this one here.

    For now I've created the sub icon (and I guess this welcome message too).

    Any questions about the game are welcome! I'm not exactly an expert or anything but I've gotten through most non-uber endgame content and am part of a guild that is also very knowledgeable about the game.

    Thanks for reading!

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