ProfessorPeregrine

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[–] ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The guy behind Wing Commander (and my favorite game of all time, Privateer) has a mission based space flight game out next year. You can see the first hour of gameplay here: https://youtu.be/1H-0x4xk2Xk

Keep in mind, cutscenes are in-engine not pre-rendered.

My eyes are burned into my head due to someone using a pie chart on these data...

There have been two disaster declarationss near where I live. The town of Lyons was flooded and the Christmas Marshall fire. I also know someone whose property flooded in Florida just recently. In all of these I know people who got/are getting significant government help. I have a family member who lost their property in the LA fire, but it is to soon except for the emergency relief in this topic.

There is plenty to criticize, but saying that the government will only pay these people $770 is wrong and the product of right wing misinformation.

[–] ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here is an article from Fox. Look for the link Can I get more assistance. https://www.foxla.com/news/california-fires-770-fema-checks-how-to-apply

You can find the same information in many other sources.

Do you have any actual proof that other disaster victims received "exactly the level of aid" of $770 without further assistance? Or, is it a consequence of misinformation?

[–] ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com -3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Surely you all know that this is not the end of the aid the government is going to give, that it is only a quick cash infusion to help with immediate expenses? Because some of your are acting like you don't know that. This was the same line put forward by the Rs after the Vermont floods. It takes time to get full disaster relief to an area, especially when one party is threatening to put preconditions on that aid or to block it entirely.

Whether it is enough or not is a different question...

[–] ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a person who grows a few Venus flytraps, the traps exude a sweet nectar along the inner upper edge. Flies another insects are attracted to that, and the color red, eat some nectar, hit the trigger hairs, the leaves snap shut in a few microseconds, and they are trapped. They're struggles after that are necessary for the leaf to fully close and form the hermetic stomach for digestion.

They're eating the doges!

Spy Hunter Sinistar Joust Tron

Great idea! We are lucky in that we go hunting trees on my mom's property, which really needs to be thinned out for fire mitigation. They don't look like lot trees- they have more character so each year's tree is unique.

Wing Commander, Privateer, and Strike Commander for me.

Had a print of this in my house growing up. It looks like my dad.

 

Hey, new to the Fediverse and thought I would put this out there.

If you teach stats or use stats in your job, you might be interested in using my GUI for R. I hope this doesn't count as an ad, since it is free.

I like how versatile R is, but I hate remembering how to type in what I already know it can do.

So I wrote an app.

You can tell I am not a programmer or a computer scientist (I am an engineer, industrial researcher and occasional teacher) but it works to do the basic to the moderate stats you probably use all the time.

It is free. I just put some of my blog posts and books on the splash page. If you register I only send you info about the app.

Let me know if you would like any enhancements. I continue to add stuff to it until I can do most of what the practical researcher would need.

 

Internal emails highlight how an advertising company can use its in-house resources to oppose public policy proposals.

One of the world’s largest advertising firms is crafting a campaign to thwart a California bill intended to enhance people’s control over the data that companies collect on them.

According to emails obtained by POLITICO, the Interpublic Group is coordinating an effort against a bill that would make it easier for people to request that data brokers — firms that collect and sell personal information — delete their dossiers.

 

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that she plans to put serious limits over how sensitive evidence is handled in the Donald Trump 2020 election interference case, in a dramatic hearing Friday in Washington, DC, that could set the tone for the upcoming trial.

The former president has a right to free speech, but that right is “not absolute,” Chutkan said. “Mr. Trump, like every American, has a First Amendment right to free speech, but that right is not absolute. In a criminal case such as this one, the defendant’s free speech is subject to the rules.”

 

I can't figure it out.

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