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Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 92 points 9 months ago (4 children)

sparking concerns on Wall Street that the services will never be as profitable as cable once was

Obligatory fuck Wall Street

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm starting to think it might be finally time to look into CuriosityStream and Nebula

AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't believe the United Kingdom has an issue with people getting an abortion. Clearly you didn't read the article or the body of OP's post.

TIL eating 1 gram polar bear liver can be fatal due to an overdose of vitamin A that makes your skin fall off in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

scientists at Cambridge guesstimated it would take making it into a significant side-dish or main course to REALLY fuck you up

I actually heard about this from a YouTube channel referencing the diary of Gerrit de Veer from 1597 where he recounted his expeditions' encounter with eating polar bear liver and nearly dying from it in 1596.

I can't find the actual diary entry, but I think it's behind a pay wall on the Wikipedia link as a reference.

The story the YouTuber told was presumably in the diary. He said their ship got stuck in ice and they used wood from the ship to make a cabin. Sometime later, they had a run-in with a polar bear and ended up shooting it from inside the cabin. Sometime after that, they had a group meal consuming the polar bear liver and everybody's skin started falling off.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_de_Veer

TIL eating 1 gram polar bear liver can be fatal due to an overdose of vitamin A that makes your skin fall off in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Very few actually! Apparently some Dutch explorers back in the 1500s trying to sail over the top of the globe got stuck in ice and ended up killing and eating a polar bear and documented their illnesses

We didn't figure out what happened to them until the 1940s

TIL eating 1 gram polar bear liver can be fatal due to an overdose of vitamin A that makes your skin fall off in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Definitely not lol

FingerVision - Picking objects with vision-based tactile sensors in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The crane game on the left has been rigged to pay out every time

I might move again. (Or not) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I assume when everyone talks about hexbear being annoying, they refer to the comment images or whatever, but I've been using Voyager (previously wefwef) this whole time and it's always had those as a link by default so they don't clutter up the comments for me.

I might move again. (Or not) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not really here to argue whether or not the defederation of dbzer0, hexbear, or lemmy grad was appropriate by world or the defederation of world by beehaw. I just wanted to have the option of seeing content from all those instances and I'm clearly not the only one.

I might move again. (Or not) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Now that I look, I think it was really just hexbear.net, which I didn't agree with so I moved to another instance that didn't have them blocked

I might move again. (Or not) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can check what a particular instance is federating and blocking at any time by visiting the instance page. Here is the one for lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/instances

Notably, it looks like they are federating with dbzer0 again.

I might move again. (Or not) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (17 children)

They started defederating with piracy and trans instances and kept pushing a Discord server so I took off.

Oh and also Beehaw defederated with lemmy.world, and I wanted to see that content.

Second edit because I was reminded lemmy.world is still planning to federate with Threads, which I also wasn't okay with.