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https://www.wd40.com/products/ez-reach/

WD-40 Multi-Use Product protects metal from rust and corrosion, penetrates stuck parts, displaces moisture and lubricates almost anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40

WD-40 (Water Displacement, 40th formula) is a penetrating oil manufactured by the WD-40 Company based in San Diego, California.[1] Its formula was invented for the Rocket Chemical Company in 1953,[2] and it became available as a commercial product in 1958. It acts as a lubricant, rust preventive, penetrant and moisture displacer. There are specialized products that perform better than WD-40 in many of these uses, but WD-40’s flexibility has given it fame as a jack of all trades.[3]

There’s a degreaser sold under the broader WD-40 brand. Might be what you’re thinking of:

https://www.wd40.com/products/industrial_strength_degreaser/

WD-40 Specialist Degreaser is a powerful, fast-acting formula designed to quickly clean tools, machinery, engines, and equipment, restoring their appearance and ensuring smooth operation. Featuring a proprietary industrial-strength solvent, it effectively breaks down grease while remaining safe for use on multiple surfaces, unlike other harsh degreasers.

It does lubricate, but it’s not as effective as dedicated lubricants.

Works fine for me without logging in in a quick test (from the US).

So you’re telling me that I abstained from Taco Bell’s Crunchwrap Supreme for nothing?

It has some defederations, albeit not many.

You can view them at:

https://lemmy.zip/instances

And clicking on “Blocked Instances”.

Lemmy.today currently has an empty blocklist and the following instance policy in the sidebar:

We dont block any other active instances. We will keep it that way unless it becomes a moderation problem.

I honestly don’t know why the GOP are attacking mail-in ballots.

It looks like it’s more-or-less a wash in historical data:

https://politicalscience.byu.edu/2020/08/28/do-republicans-or-democrats-benefit-from-mail-in-voting-it-turns-out-neither-three-decades-of-voting-history-reveals-vote-by-mail-does-not-give-either-party-an-edge/

Do Republicans or Democrats benefit from mail-in voting? It turns out, neither: Three decades of voting history reveals vote-by-mail does not give either party an edge

You might be able to intimidate voters or pull some other stunts locally that you cna’t do remotely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon

Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ˈɛr.ɛ.hwɒn/, ERR-eh-hwon)[2] is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872,[3] set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.[4]

In Erewhon, illness is crime and crime is illness. As a result, citizens are imprisoned for offenses like physical ailments, misfortune, or ugliness while those who commit conventional crimes like fraud or theft are seen more sympathetically as exhibiting symptoms of moral afflictions and prescribed sessions with a “straightener” (essentially a psychologist) for treatment.[5]

Big events like that are not about profit though. They’re really about buying prestige, which remains more valuable than profit.

Ehh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Correctional_Institution,_Ray_Brook

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee needed congressional approval for funding to build an Olympic Village for the 1980 Winter Olympics. Congress required an after-use contract for facilities, and Lake Placid’s congressman Robert C. McEwen considered the possibilities of having it be repurposed as housing, a hospital, or a permanent athletic facility, but these plans all failed to materialize. As McEwen searched for possibilities, he learned that Norman Carlson of the Federal Bureau of Prisons has congressional approval to build a prison in the Northeastern United States. It was ultimately agreed to create the Village with the goal of repurposing it as a prison.[1][2]

At the time of construction, the Olympic Village had 937 small cells, each holding between 2 and 4 athletes. The majority of rooms had one barred window, although some had no windows at all, and they had heavy steel doors with peepholes for use by guards after conversion to a functional prison. The Village was surrounded by concentric chain fences. The fences were sensitized and sounded alarms if touched. The only entrance to the village was a surveilled double gate. The village saw widespread condemnation from International Olympic Committees, and multiple countries sought to rent housing in other locations. While National Olympic Committees typically need to pay on their own if they choose to find new accommodation, IOC Director Monique Berlioux said, “This time the accommodations are so poor that delegations will not have to pay for them if they move somewhere else.”[3]

The delegations of Sweden, Italy, Austria, East Germany, West Germany, and other countries sought alternative accommodations. This created an unexpected boom in the local real estate market, increasing rent in some areas from US$200 (equivalent to $781.5 in 2025) to US$4,000 (equivalent to $15,630 in 2025).

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It sounds like they have gender-segregated seating on public transport.

https://anjo.pt/travel/2023/11/24/extra-post-navigating-gender-lines-turkeys-quirky-public-transport-rules/

Hey travelers! Ever booked a seat on public transport and had to specify your gender? Well, welcome to Turkey! In this unique travel experience, seating next to someone of the opposite sex is a bit of a no-no, unless you book together.

Trains: Clear as Day

Turkey’s train system doesn’t beat around the bush. Try booking seats next to someone of the opposite sex, and bam! You’re hit with a clear message saying, “Not allowed.” They’re serious about keeping guys and gals in their separate travel lanes.

Buses: No Mix and Match

Now, buses take it up a notch. Most systems won’t even let you book seats next to the opposite sex. No ifs, ands, or buts. It’s a full-on restriction. Talk about keeping things strictly platonic on the road!

Sure, some argue it’s about passenger comfort and safety. But seems not everyone’s on board with this gender-segregated journey. Critics say it’s a buzzkill for personal freedom. Solo travelers, especially those outside traditional gender norms, might find it a tad awkward or downright frustrating.

Officials said the man also insulted federal police officers during questioning. According to authorities, he made the remarks in Turkish without realizing that one of the interviewing officers understood the language.

I mean, even aside from that, I suspect that they’re probably wearing bodycams…

Samsung is one of the Big Three memory manufacturers. Samsung’s phone division had some news articles talkimg about how they couldn’t get Samsung’s memory division to give them privileged access, even.

(Though for context, about two years earlier, when there was a glut of memory and Samsung’s memory division was losing money, they apparently went to the Samsung phone division and tried to get them to buy a bunch of the excess, which I suppose would have meant putting more memory in their phones than would have been optimal. The phone division told them no way.)

And now it’s the phone division losing money and the memory division making a ton of money.

https://www.megamobilecontent.com/news/2026/07/17/samsung-phone-division-first-loss-memory-prices/

Samsung’s mobile division may have posted its first-ever quarterly loss in Q2 2026, despite strong Galaxy S26 sales and record-breaking profits for Samsung Electronics overall.

The culprit is memory. DRAM prices have reportedly surged roughly 850% year-over-year, driven by insatiable demand from AI server infrastructure. Samsung’s semiconductor division is reaping the benefits, but its mobile division is paying the bill.

It takes 4-5 years to build a new memory fab from scratch for companies in the industry.

They’re talking about no price reductions for 1.5 years.

(And the reason they’re saying that is because the first significant new production capacity isn’t expected to be up until mid-2027 and isn’t expected to be scaled up to full production until 2028.)

And they already moved that forward by something like six months, probably by spending more on stuff like construction, so I doubt that there’s more slack to eliminate. Can’t just speed it up a little more.

Earlier this month, research showed that memory prices are predicted to rise sharply between now and 2027, with no reductions expected until 2028. Now, Valve has shared its own view of the hardware market, and it’s equally glum.

That’s not really a position new to this month.

That sounds like something that Trump would say.

“Politicians who set standards for others must be measured by them too,” said Marion Rosin, a Christian Democrat in Thuringia and part of the Women’s Union. “If that credibility is gone, resignation is a matter of consequence.”

Naturally. I imagine that if Marion Rosin could be shown to have purchased any product originating in another country with different labor laws than in Germany and operating in accordance with the labor laws of that country rather than German ones, that she would certainly herself resign and end her own political career. As a matter of principle, perhaps Ms. Rosin would care to show us, say, the tags on the items of her wardrobe?

Whatever Fallout Obsidian is doing is happening now, not after the next Elder Scrolls game is done.

Might not be Fallout 5 — Obsidian’s last Fallout game was Fallout: New Vegas, which I’d consider mainline, even if it fit between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 and didn’t get a number.

Obsidian has done a mainline Fallout before, New Vegas, so there’s precedent. And apparently Tim Cain (original Fallout, created the series) guy just showed back up in the last few months and is working at Obsidian and said that he plans to do one last game before re-retiring. And Josh Sawyer is there, and he directed New Vegas.

EDIT: And John Gonzales, the lead designer for New Vegas.

And Bethesda has said that they’re gonna be contributing.

That’s a lot of mainline Fallout head honchos in one place. First time I think that all of those have been together.

I mean, yeah, I guess it’s not impossible that they’re gonna do a spin-off, Fallout Shelter-like, but my money is that it’s gonna be mainline.

EDIT2: By “mainline”, I’m including Fallout: New Vegas, even if it didn’t have a number, fit between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. I don’t think that many people would call that a spin-off.

I doubt that they’re going to do a live service thing either, but at least part of the problem was, as I recall from postmortems, that they didn’t have people with experience doing network games going into it and figured that multiplayer capability would be easy to retrofit in. That generally isn’t the case — if you want to permit client-side prediction, to keep the game responsive, which you probably do, then your engine has to support rolling back all state in the event of a misprediction. Like, say my client predicts that another player character keeps walking straight, doesn’t push any keys. Given that, it calculates that the rifle grenade I just fired sails past them and hits a monster and kills it, preventing it from afflicting me with a poisoned status.

Then it gets a new update. Actually, it turns out that a while back, that player veered to the right, right into the path of that rifle grenade, and it hit him and killed him. The player is no longer alive. The monster that my rifle grenade would have hit is not actually dead, and so it survived and afflicted me with poison. All of that world state needs to be rolled back and recalculated (and this rollback done efficiently). That means that you can’t just leave any state about the world anywhere that doesn’t get rolled back.

Plus, Fallout has a scripting engine, Papyrus, and if it has any state stored, that has to be rolled back too.

That’s not so hard to do if you think about it from the get-go, and are careful about how you store state. But if you’ve been writing a purely-single-player game for decades and not thinking about any of this, it’s easy to stick state somewhere that doesn’t get rolled back. And that’s gonna manifest in all kinds of unpleasant ways during runtime, when you occasionally hit corner cases.

IIRC, they had to bring in network game people to help out.

But my guess is that that’s also something of a one-off effort to fix most of that. Like, I doubt that doing Fallout 76 2 would be as bad technically as Fallout 76.

That being said, I’m not really looking for a live service game myself, and I doubt that it’s what they’re doing. Plus, from a business standpoint, if you already have a live service game, I suspect that you’re probably better off just extending the existing game and leveraging the existing player base than starting from scratch.