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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • I’m sure there would be a few, surely? Multi-million dollar lottery win; finding an old USB key with a bunch of bitcoin; discovering an oil/gas reserve on your property; finding a suspicious unattended briefcase filled with unmarked bills; an unexpected inheritance from a previously unknown great-aunt, provided you spend a night in her haunted manor…

    …yoy know, just those usual circumstances that happen to all of us!





  • My family’s first PC was hand-me-down Amiga 2000; so these games helped shape me growing up:

    Dune 2: Battle for Arrakis T-Rex Warrior* Cannon Fodder Sensible Soccer** The Settlers After the War

    • Funny anecdote, if memory serves - it took my child brain over a year to figure out that holding down both mouse buttons made you move forward…

    ** Namely, the demo disk version which was set in 1945 and replaced the ball with a bomb that would periodically explode, killing nearby players and removing them from the match.












  • I do recommend watching the video, it’s a lot more egregious than you might think.

    Say that you’re watching an LTT video, and they say that they have a sponsored affiliate link in the description for a product you want to buy.

    By clicking that link, you’re basically saying “Thanks, LTT! I hope you get commission off this sale for me, for bringing it to my attention”. Otherwise, you could just go to the site directly, and bring up the product without any affiliate link backs.

    So you’ve click on the link, your browser opens up and takes you to the store page with an LTT affiliate link cookie set.

    ANY interaction with the Honey pop-up (even clicking ‘Got It!’ when it says that there are no coupons available) will overwrite the cookie to PayPal (Honey’s parent company).

    Additionally, Honey works in conjunction with stores to only show certain permitted coupons, even if end users submit better ones. e.g. it might only show HONEY5 for a 5% discount, while there might be a valid BLACKFRIDAY20 coupon code available that aggregation sites show.

    There’s also meant to be a Part 2 to this coming out soon, I believe? So there’s probably even more to this story than we know so far.




  • thatKamGuytomemes@lemmy.worldGood luck, bro
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    23 days ago

    The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!

    As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.


  • thatKamGuytomemes@lemmy.worldGood luck, bro
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    23 days ago

    I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.

    Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.

    The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.

    Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!