CombatWombat
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Only a fraction of Washington’s state flood aid has made it to victimsEnglish5·6 days agoBased on some rough math, I estimate that ~35% of Washingtonians make 80% of the state median household income or less. That seems… low? I get that we should target those in the most need, but we really think 65% of Washingtonians wouldn’t need aid to rebuild after a flood?
I guess I’m the pug jesus today. From wikipedia:
Before the speech, while Reagan was joking with NPR’s audio engineers during a soundcheck, he riffed on his own speech, saying, “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” This sort of levity was common for Reagan; he injected his humor into soundchecks, outtakes, and downtime throughout his careers in show business and politics.
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movies@piefed.social•Weekly thread - What movies have you watched this week? 20/05/2026English
2·8 days agoDevil Wears Prada 2. It was very earnest, and you could tell they were working hard to clean up a bunch of messes left over from the first one, but I really enjoyed it and I think it’s worth going out and seeing.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•US House Unveiled Plan to Charge $130 [Yearly] Fee for Electric VehiclesEnglish
11·10 days agoA gas tax makes the most sense because it directly addresses the supply shock from US military action in Iran, but I’d take a usage tax (they’re already tracking every car anyway) or an per-axel annual tax or a tire tax.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•US House Unveiled Plan to Charge $130 [Yearly] Fee for Electric VehiclesEnglish
21·10 days agoNot if you raise the gas tax by 500% while you’re at it 🤷♂️
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•US House Unveiled Plan to Charge $130 [Yearly] Fee for Electric VehiclesEnglish
41·10 days agoDriving is expensive, societally, and tailpipe emissions are only a small part of that harm. Cyclists and transit riders should not have to pay to subsidize cars murdering children and tearing down our cities to build parking lots. Drivers should have to pay. Shifting the cost of cars to drivers incentivizes drivers to stop driving to save money, which is the goal. We should continue to tax driving in all its forms until the cost of driving to individual drivers adds up to more than the cost of driving to the whole of society.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•US House Unveiled Plan to Charge $130 [Yearly] Fee for Electric VehiclesEnglish
23·10 days agoNot really, as transit and bicycles are unaffected. Cars are the problem; EVs are only marginally less bad (maybe, depending on whose lobbyists are doing the math).
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•US House Unveiled Plan to Charge $130 [Yearly] Fee for Electric VehiclesEnglish
42·10 days agoHell yeah. Raise the gas tax by like 500% while you’re at it. Make cars pay for roads.
You can use the calories to do anything, even make more babies!
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The Onion@midwest.social•Judge Orders Everyone to Know This Piece of Shit from Covington, Not SeattleEnglish
10·12 days agoJust because Seattle is the only city in Washington state anyone has heard of doesn’t mean that everyone from Washington state is from Seattle:
“I hereby order Igor Lytvynchuk to return to Hawaii to face federal penalties of up to a $70,000 fine and year in prison, and for the general public to note this guy is actually from a suburb people live in just to seem 2% better than people in Kent, not Seattle,” said U.S. District Judge Paula McCandlis. “Sure, we have many pieces of our own shit living in Laurelhurst, etc, but please let it be stated for the record that this particular steaming pile of crap is from Covington.”
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Canned Lord of the Rings MMO now formally cast aside, Amazon claim they've still got a game "that does justice to Tolkien's world" in the worksEnglish
2·14 days agoI mean, I’m fairly certain there’s been at least one LotR game in the works at all times since about 1980.
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Programming@programming.dev•Planning to learn multiple languages and frameworksEnglish
3·15 days agoIt’s just a lot all at once, and you can ship serious projects with just the other four. If you’d said you had a broader experience with more languages and frameworks, I’d be more inclined to recommend the broader program because effectively you’d have less to learn, since you already would have encountered most new paradigms and ideas in other environments. I suspect your biggest risk is getting overwhelmed and giving up, either by putting the keyboard down, or farming out your work to an llm and not learning anything, and I think it’s easier to stay engaged with a smaller curriculum.
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•"Unofficial builds of Subnautica 2 are currently circulating online," Unknown Worlds confirm, just days before the ocean survival game's early access releaseEnglish
5·15 days agoIf you wanna pirate it, fine whatever, but please still buy the game. Unknown Worlds has specific sales targets they need to hit to stick it to Krafton, so think of it as a donation to a legal fund to help protect game developers.
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Memes of Production@quokk.au•guys the conservatives reported us to the scawwy FBIEnglish
22·15 days agoJust a heads up, it would be trivial for the fbi to set up a dark listener to the fediverse and get a copy of every message in the network. We federate to anyone who wants to listen.
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Programming@programming.dev•Planning to learn multiple languages and frameworksEnglish
1·15 days agoI think I would postpone Dart + Flutter until you feel strong with the other four, personally
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196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•[i'm going insane] homo economicus vs sexualityEnglish
5·16 days agoMostly persuasive, but I’m not sure I really believe in homo economicus. I think it’s more something like that quote misattributed to Oscar Wilde: “Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”
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The Onion@midwest.social•We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More CrackpotsEnglish
4·16 days agoWhat else would you expect from a school that has a color for a mascot?
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Programming@programming.dev•Planning to learn multiple languages and frameworksEnglish
10·16 days agoWhat’s your baseline? Where are you starting from?
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movies@piefed.social•‘The Odyssey’: Christopher Nolan Confirms Lupita Nyong’o Playing Two RolesEnglish
4·16 days agoShe absolutely has a face that would launch a thousand ships. A great casting choice that I’m sure all the other social media platforms are being extremely normal about.














Do we really have to have an “assassination attempt” at the nba finals?