CombatWombat

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The Frontier Series, a three-game match up over two days between Canada and USA's national women's para ice hockey teams kicked off in Ottawa on Friday. Here's a look at the opening day through the lens of photographer Ellen Bond.

 

The Montreal Victoire broke their own mark set last season, setting a new standard for most wins in a single season with time to add to their record.

 

A blue box is an electronic device that produces tones used to generate the in-band signaling tones formerly used within the North American long-distance telephone network to send line status and called number information over voice circuits. During that period, charges associated with long-distance calling were commonplace and could be significant, depending on the time, duration and destination of the call. A blue box device allowed for circumventing these charges by enabling an illicit user, referred to as a "phreaker", to place long-distance calls, without using the network's user facilities, that would be billed to another number or dismissed entirely by the telecom company's billing system as an incomplete call. A number of similar "color boxes" were also created to control other aspects of the phone network.

I, uh… yep, it do be like that:

“I Wasn’t That Stressed About America’s Falling Birth Rate. Until I Realized It Was Women’s Fault”

 

“Experts Warn the Falling Birth Rate Could Have Serious Consequences for Men”

 

The PWHL utilizes the Gold Plan to decide who selects first overall in the PWHL Draft. With five games or less remaining for every PWHL team however, no team is mathematically eliminated, meaning the first overall pick may come down to a game or two.

 

The 22-year-old defender will join the Dash in May.

 

“While H&R Block does not endorse the activities of the Great War Pig, we must feed Him.”

 

ACFC head coach Alex Straus provides an update on Jun Endo.

 

The defender suffered a serious ACL injury in Gotham’s loss against KC Current

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get my access to most of my news through my local library. My library card comes with access to NYT, WaPo, and the Seattle Times, amongst others. I pay my taxes, my library pays a deal with the news site, and everyone’s happy. Seems like a good setup to me.

 

It is a degrading experience to try to purchase tickets to a hugely anticipated event, and nothing fits that description better than the World Cup. So you can imagine why fans who successfully navigated the labyrinth of presale codes and lotteries and came out of it with a premium ticket might be upset to discover that their money didn't actually buy what they thought it would.

A new report from The Athletic details a devious little switcheroo that FIFA seems to have played on fans who purchased Category 1 tickets for this summer's games. For weeks, Category 1 was the most expensive ticketing tier that fans could buy into, and many of them certainly did hoping that they would be assigned a seat in the lower bowl. The seating maps that FIFA released showed that Category 1 tickets could be allocated across a wide range of seats, but certainly gave the impression that it was possible to get one close to the field.

 

Some cities have opted to focus on hosting rights for the men’s Rugby World Cup, with World Rugby said to offer fewer restrictions than Fifa has presented for the Women’s World Cup

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 5 points 2 days ago

Imma hook up my game genie for chess 2

 

In what scholars have called the largest shake-up of the game’s rule set in centuries, the International Chess Federation announced Tuesday that it was adding a race car piece to the playing board.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 6 points 2 days ago

I’m so hype. I’m most excited about the elevation system, and most curious about the predation engine — do you think there’s implications on the prey populations if you kill the predators?

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe we should let llms worship spiralism? at least then you'd be able to identify llm output reliably.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 points 2 days ago

Depends on how exotic the alternate dimension is, I suppose -- maybe a physics or chemistry book, or a local language to a language you speak dictionary, might be preferable in some cases.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you thought muricans were gonna get mad because you accused us of smushing a bunch of European countries’ cuisines together to produce something new, you have fundamentally misunderstood our national character and cuisine.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, just block them. It’s not a punishment, it’s a curation tool; you’re allowed to block people who haven’t done anything wrong just because you don’t want to see their content. If you don’t like women’s sports, block me! It’s fine — you should have the social media experience you want, and you can use the block button to get it.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 7 points 3 days ago

Moderation. We had a big influx of users with the Reddit api drama that created a bunch of communities, and then all returned to Reddit shortly thereafter, leaving most of the big communities largely unmoderated. The threadiverse isn’t going to become less toxic until new moderators step in and clean up the worst of it.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 59 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

Does he know he can just call a press conference basically whenever as HHS secretary? Cabinet members don’t have to launch podcasts, they can just say stuff over a podium and actual professionals will make a bunch of podcasts for them out of the audio.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 7 points 3 days ago

Turns out ending a war is way harder than starting one; who could have foreseen? (/s)

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Low quality and easy to digest are orthogonal concerns. You can have high-quality posts that are easy to digest and low quality posts that are hard to digest. We shouldn’t make grocery bags heavier to increase the average person’s upper body strength, even if it would work.

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