I stayed at a Hilton a couple of years ago after a cancelled flight and I was absolutely flabbergasted at what 300 dollars a night gets you these day: a bed in a barely cleaned room.
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Sometimes decades later I suddenly realise I was being flirted on in some random party circa 2004. I used to think exactly like you!
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more"English
2·8 months agoPaying less is good. I love sales, but they are still a psychological manipulation to get you to spend more money than you normally would.
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more"English
72·8 months agoThis dude is 100% correct and I have no idea why people are downvoting him. Sales make people more likely to buy a product due to being limited. Limited time sales work better than lowering prices in the long term.
It’s why indie games do stuff like release their new games with time-limited 10% off discounts.
Portugal can’t even into Europe right now
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Android@lemdro.id•Fairphone releases open letter to the Community - Apologizes for 3 month support time and says the FP4 will skip Android 14 for Android 15English
1·10 months agoI don’t get why people recommend nothing phone. They promise less years of software updates than most major brands and the best they do differently is “it’s sustainable”. Whatever that means.
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for warEnglish
7·1 year agoYes. There are actual letters and memos from german leadership about poking the Austrians into making the situation in Serbia worse in hopes a tiping point would give them an excuse to take swathes of Russia and France in the coming conflict.
Bonus points: methods for the handling of jews and other undesirables in the occupied lands were already being talked about
Legit bit of code I saw once
getRandomColor() { Random.seed = 0; return Color.blue; }
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.world•Swarm robotics - emergent collective behavior in experimental robotsEnglish
3·2 years agoOoh I did a project based on this in Uni. It’s surprisingly easy to build a kill bot even without a processing unit. In fact the real issue is getting it to not kill everything that moves.
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the major world news that you got from weird sources (and maybe wish you had heard first from legit news sources)?
2·2 years agoOn the reverse side I told a bunch of people on Furcadia that 2 airplanes had just hit the twin towers.
Do not Google Furcadia on your work PC.
If it’s the UK it’s cheaper to meet in a random ass village in Lapland. (Or Mallorca).
Why is everyone suggesting ventoy and stuff and no one is telling you to just reformat drives you no longer need? Or are they all live OSs in use? Am I missing something?
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Berlin museum pokes fun at German bureaucracyEnglish
2·2 years agoWhen I lived in Germany I told this joke to a bunch of people.
Foreigners were either slightly offended (for the jab at germans) or found it chuckle worthy.
Germans couldn’t stop laughing.
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Out of the loop@lemmy.world•What's the deal with Isreal vs. Palestine side taking in the West?
8·2 years agoYou’re right, but they do lead the Gaza strip.
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Out of the loop@lemmy.world•What's the deal with Isreal vs. Palestine side taking in the West?
1·2 years agodeleted by creator
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Athens turns orange, Helsinki goes white as Europe’s weather springs a surpriseEnglish
7·2 years agoHelsinki yes, Finland no.
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Uplifting News@lemmy.world•A Paradigm Shift in Social Policy: How Finland Conquered HomelessnessEnglish
7·2 years agoThey don’t afaik unless you’re a legal immigrant. If you’re ilegal they will try to get you home.
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Star Wars Memes@lemmy.world•Is that a bow caster? I thought they were hugeEnglish
1·2 years agoThey look useful for jousting. May even be historical but I’m not an expert on those.
crushyerbones@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is an activity that you can't do in the area that you live in, but that you would like to try out?
4·2 years agoLook into Hema. I’m sure there’s a club local-ish to you and if not just start one.





Hah Crytek did that to me circa 2015, C# role but then they changed their minds to C++ and told me “not to worry” 🤣