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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Visual snow is when you see it with eyes open afaik. But yea, still not terribly abnormal on its own. Visual snow syndrome is a thing though, but it’s more than just seeing an abnormal amount of visual snow (the normal amount seems to be when looking at unicolored surfaces and in dim light).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Physical retailers have been taking 30% before steam was even a thing. And no, the physical storage does not mean they should be paid more, because steam provides hosting capabilities that also cost money.

  Epic takes less because they operate the store at a loss in a desperate attempt to gain market share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Complaining about the 30% is insanity, that’s how retailers work, it’s not an unusual cut for an online store.

  I fail to see how steam is anti-consumer, or how it ever actively tried to monopolize anything.

  Selling broken, unfinishedband shovelware games was just them giving in to the demand to let everything on the store, after people (rightfully imo) hated greenlight.

  Fuck the gambling though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do this so much at work with random german words, because we have so many specific names for our features, some of which I didn’t even know in german before working here. Others I’d know how to translate but it would be ambiguous. And our non-german speaking devs also use the software in german, so they understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New right click context menu for files is one example. Not sure about others bc I’ve changed just about everything I can to be like win 10, and in 10 I already changed a lot from the defaults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abdul⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the blob was their hands.

  Also the image is very clearly made by mirroring a single image in the center. So at most the original image was AI generated because AI would not mirror that cleanly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Girls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The order thing is very debatable tbh, I generally agree that going in origin culture order is better (easier to keep consistent imo), but there are at least a lot of japanese artists that swap the name order when romanized. (And I don’t think I’d care if someone swapped my name order when speaking chinese).

  Missing the “Sau” (no idea if Sau Lan is one name romanized as two words or two names) feels like a product of ignorance and pretty disrespectful though, yea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How popular is non-american football in the US? I know its been getting more popular recently, but unlike most of europe and south america, it’s far from the #1 sport.

  I have no doubt the canadian and mexican games (and the finals) will be sold out, but with these prices, the state of the US economy, and no sane person wanting to travel there, I wouldn’t be super surprised if some games in the US weren’t. After all, if you’re not from NA, you can just go to the next one 4 years later and it’s probably much cheaper.

  Sadly it won’t be the ghost stadiums it would deserve though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True staple of the format⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do both. When it’s not something I pull from memory I’ll say how I found it and also provide what I found. Which isn’t about telling people that they shouldn’t ask, but rather to teach them for when they can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets rid of drop box⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use s-ul.eu for my occasional filesharing needs, downloads are no bullshit you click the link you have the file and never had issues with it. Not sure if storage limits on the free tier are lower than dropbox though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon becomes Snake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, specifically just repeating the last word/bits of their last sentence vs asking a full question. It’s about when the other person is on guard against you, if they want to tell you everything anyway I can’t see it make a difference either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon becomes Snake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I forgot where I heard it but supposedly this an actual psychological trick to get people to reveal more information

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What even is money at this point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the problem is that having money leads to having more money and having more money also leads to having more power so every system just gets slowly worse for everyone except the rich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without unions, they'd have us working around the clock⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That predates christianity, judaism already had sabbath. I wonder if that was an original feature when judaism first came into existence or if the concept of a regular rest day is even older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bucatini and linguine are pretty similar tbf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always have a good password⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen at least two different “BND Überwachungswagen 00x” here in germany as well. The BND is our national intelligence agency (and Überwachungswagen just means surveillance van).

  Always a fan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Private water company increases CEO pay by nearly 100%. This is how Steve Reeds, UK water minister, reacts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you arguing against here? If you think you’re defending yourself then you think you’re defending yourself. If you think you’re helping the people you think you’re helping the people. Neither means the outcome will be good or the actions justified. All the person you’re responding to did was reason about Thatcher’s possible motivations.

  Do you actually understand the term strawman because arguing against a strawman is exactly what you did there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100%, furries get way too much hate. Especially considering how chill they’re usually are.

  Though honestly unless your pfp betrays some insane political affiliation it shouldn’t have relevance on how you see someones reply. I know this is a shitpost but people do that for real. I think my favorite are the xitter boomers dismissing people because their avatar isn’t a selfie and they don’t using their real names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting in honor of my nieces back to school week 😆⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad life rng, I think

  For me it got progressively worse for the next 12 years then suddenly better and then suddenly even better after uni. But I’m lucky to have a job that pays well, that I don’t hate, with great colleagues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect revenge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even get why. The person that did this for real has been posted about plenty, and there are pictures, so why not just use the real one? The AI generated one is also so much less funny than the real one bc it’s not just a painting of exactly what’s behind the fence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stupid sexy apples⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. Yes, they compete with the other ones and due to domestication have very high population, but also the same factors endangering honey bees (insecticides, monocultures) also endanger other bee species. So while “give the honey bees more sugar water so they survive” would be horrible foe ecological diversity, actually adressing the underlying factors would largely also benefit other species.

  I wouldn’t even be surprised if that still applied to places where they’re invasive tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a shocker!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not trash talk at all though. And even ignoring the language itself, trash talk is towards your opponents (where still most people don’t get how to do it in a non-obnoxious way, i.e. someone spamming ez after they win a game isn’t trash talk it’s being annoying). Most of the really bad flame happens towards teammates because everyone needs to blame someone else.

  Irl sports get by just fine without people constantly being pieces of shit, I dunno why it’s so hard to apply that to online games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a shocker!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That and it’s easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But conservatives reacting to the word “pronouns” isn’t at all about systemic oppression? It’s about the immediate brain off that follows to instantly rant about “woke” or whatever, even if e.g. someone mentioned pronouns in a grammar context. It’s a stupid reaction born from opposition to a perceived “woke mind virus” (or equivalent).

  Similarly, some people read “AI” and immediately think whatever follows is worthless garbage. Which, even ignoring that not everything labeled AI is always ML, is a stupid reaction born from opposition to the LLM (and general genAI) hype.

  Sure, the “woke mind virus” is pure delusion, and I, too, want to throw up from the genAI hype every time someone mentions “AI” or “ChatGPT”, but AI isn’t even well defined and even ML has plenty of useful applications.

  It’s the same anti-intellectual “I hate the things I associate with this word so anyone not hating on the word is stupid” while disregarding what the word actually means in the given context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube has the video ID as a query parameter, to use the most obvious example…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh no⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re trying to play a real time online game, you will notice if your upload capacity is hogged elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunno, the joke becomes obvious if you check the link, and the link being “diaphragm (birth control)” is effectively the joke indicator. The comment works as a joke all on its own, it’s not a setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⚡️👇👇👇⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More like an ok conductor, but yea that’s what I meant with the blood (and whatever other ways water exists in our body). Though even pure water is more conductive than air by orders or magnitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⚡️👇👇👇⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just out of pedantry: Water has terrible conductivity. Blood is less terrible though and in any case air is far worse than either, so point stands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re technically voluntary but also socially expected. I’m not sure about birthday gifts in particular but Japan is a country where if you go on holiday somewhere you’re expected to bring a gift for each of your coworkers, and people will think worse of you for not doing that. I’d be kind of surprised if omitting birthday gifts for your romantic partner without prior agreement is a real option.