dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

This command is much faster. Instead of random bits, it just marks everything zero (dude). Is good enough.

That thing about being anti-bacterial is true. By simply being a barrier that microbes (and dirt, and water) can’t penetrate. For short term wound treatment, petroleum jelly is an excellent barrier for an open wound that’s not bleeding. Bandages inundated with it can keep a wound clean in the roughest conditions.

Good news everyone!

One of the biggest reasons nobody trusts the media is because of this stupid standard of objectivity. Not the journalists fault, might as well insist reporters can fly as be “objective”.

Pretending to be objective is dishonest; making it an editorial standard guarantees you’re lying to the audience.

So they just pretend to be objective, we all see though it; and nobody likes being bullshited.

What does it mean that a company is worth $4T? (and I’m not talking about market cap)

It means that above and beyond the sum of Apple’s assets is a giant balloon of funny money backed by the full faith and credit of the greater idiot. Tesla has a big pustuous boil full of money too, and bitcoin is nothing else. I sure hope they don’t pop.

Because I’m not allowed to read the article to know if this is mentioned: a big reason why this would aggravate Wukong fans is that Nintendo is a Japanese company.

I tried to read MK once, it was impenetrable. If you’re not intimately familiar with continental politics from the F/P war through Wiemar, most of it will sail noiselessly above your head.

I read in a history once that the joke in Nazi Germany was that Mine Kamph was like the Bible; everyone owned a copy, but nobody read it.

Anybody notice that the cybertruck looks like a “refinement” of the taste that brought us the Aztec?

This article’s reasoning is faith based. The cornerstone assumption is that industry profits and layoffs obey the preferences of the market.

To those who follow the industry, this is demonstrably false. What follows is the lack of awareness on full display:

and even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.

I got a tortilla press for Xmas last year. It really is a different experience. And I’m just using plain grocery store masa.

You younglings won’t understand, but after about age 35, your brain filters out calendar math and you won’t notice the meme is wrong.

If Batman were a realistic Billionaire, he’d buy Wikipedia to “set the record straight”.

Instead of denying the label “terrorist”, we should embrace and normalize it. It was always a rhetorical weapon for the status-quo, and we have the power to take that away.

The people responsible for your anxiety are not offshore, they’re upstairs.

Everybody knows that Dr. Dang doesn’t have a magical robe, it’s his Mullet that’s the source of his power.

You should be able to do all that stuff with spreadsheets. Any program you use will be a spreadsheet under the hood anyhow.

Why does capitalist reasoning always sound like a prayer to an angry god?

We consulted the oracle and it seems that the dragon is tired of corn. So we’ve hedged our portfolio with wheat and virgins.

It’s a pain in the ass to block all the lemmy users one by one. I’m trying to curate an experience where Lemmy is just about my posts and my comments. Like the gold standard of social media: myspace.

I’ve asked over and over for a “block every account except my own” and people just laugh at me.

Workplace violence has always been a thing in the US. As a phenomena, it predates the era of school shootings. It’s so common that I feel comfortable predicting that this man’s motives were a personal grievance, not class warfare.

Student loans have dulled price-point as a major consideration for choosing a school. So they compete on other non-academic stuff that tends to raise the tuition like sports, amenities, and prestige.