Yeah I would say they have been abnormally high since 2016, with 2020 being an oddity (COVID).

Murders overall are half what they were in 1990. Meaning we have a lot more targeted attacks for various reasons I’m not going to speculate in because my bias would likely impact what I think reasonings may be.

In 1990 violent crime was twice what it is now. It dropped heavily from 91’ until 99’.

We just think it is more dangerous now because we can see it every time we reach in our pockets. (And companies make money off making sure we see it.)

I’m just curious where all the users went if places like Lemmy arent growing. Piefed I heard was growing, but I kind of assumed they are getting users who are switching from Lemmy and still perusing the same content, just preferred their client options

Doesnt have to be an issue no. Neither do bathroom doors or clothes, but I still prefer those as well. It’s a to each their own thing.

I didn’t know anyone left that on. Why would anyone want that on?

Yeah there was a codec pack made by klite that I use to download from the sketchiest sites. I think I used to use media player classic with that codec pack before I knew about VLC. Otherwise you’d be fighting all the time to play get things to play. You’d be downloading content from P2P sites like Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, and what not, and coming across file types you wouldn’t recognize (and a lot of content that wasn’t what you thought it was until after you opened it). Which is why many of us learned a decent amount about malware through our own naivety. Install sketchy software to play sketchy media, end up with sketchy results. But so many of us did it.

Windows media player was the most common way people knew to burn CDs that most of my friends knew. So you would either rip CDs that family members had, or download songs offline, try to get them all into the same file format and name/organized them into a nice playlist that went well together. And burn them and listen to them walking around. They were a big “gf/bf” gift back then as well. If you wanted to tell someone you liked them spending the time to curate a CD of songs you thought they would like mixed with ones you knew they like and giving them it with a personalized written track list on the top was a huge hit.

You may know all of this but it brings back some good memories. Haha. I remember doing that for a girl I liked in Elementary School… And subsequently being dumb enough to NOT know a girl who did that for me was into me. She made one of me and my friend because she was nervous about just giving one to me, and I of course thought, well she made one for him too so it might not mean what you think…

Couple years later in 7th grade she told me she had had the biggest crush on me back then and I was shocked. (Also may have been a clue that I should have picked up on, but I was to much of a doof still… oops)

Webp is a format Google made. Something gave it a codec, so it knows how to open it. It a program doesn’t have the codec to read it, no go.

This may work depending on your application https://github.com/jacklicn/libwebp

Officer: “Why’d he jump” Honestly, I don’t know. I told him their might be rocks and to be careful. They should probably put up a sign.

“Are there rocks at the bottom?” No they are deep enough you’ll be fine.

… huh, guess I was wrong

Meh, as someone who grew up in swamp puppy land I think this whole map is why people like Trump get away with touting places in America as being dangerous and people believing it enough for congress to not shut it down. I’ve been up and down the east coast, stayed in every borough except Staten Island at least once. Throw in D.C., Philly, Baltimore, Atlanta, tiny towns that most people have never heard of or couldn’t find on a map. I’ve been to Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas, Charlotte, Chicago, Memphis, Nashville… And I’m sure many I’ve forgotten. The one thing they all have in common is they have all had mostly nice people.

Why does that give me an urge to want to walk the length of it.

Never heard the term Oregon Trail Generation before but immediately knew what it meant. That’s a great name.

I’m 35 and seem to find people older than me on here fairly often. So I don’t feel on when I’m on here, until I stand up.

I understand that there is no logical reason to not do what they are doing… But this to me is like getting in the elevator and facing the side.

It’s probably the better option depending on where the sun sets, and where traffic flows.

Yeah so uh, what does your couples therapist say about it?

There used to be a phone number you could call and it just played the song. I put it my email signature at work and forgot about it. When I got a promotion later on I found out when the guy I was supposed to be training called me cracking up saying he tried to call me from the number in my email. Oops Thankfully it wasn’t a big deal because I think I put it as Work # then Personal # and had it as the personal one

I thought about asking Grok to merge that photo of him in with her because the color scheme down to the buttons and belts match, but then I didnt want to figure out what the Grok site was

Dude’s been working on her for years.

3d printed cake. The frosting to cake ratio to make the structure stable sounds like it would kill most people and be delicious.

Wait… Here I thought the nostrils on the snake were where they smelled from. I can swear they have nostrils. Is it some kind of sonar tongue? How’s it getting the 3D. Whatever your response is I will believe for the rest of my life because I am not going to verify it