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- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 2 days ago:
Seconding this explanation. It’s exactly right.
Rich folks can likely influence any situation but magnet != private school for rich kids.
That’s not to say there aren’t private schools for rich kids. There definitely are. But that’s not magnet schools, and it’s not where Spider-Man goes.
There was a whole scandal a few years ago where a bunch of people, including Aunt Becky from Full House, was caught paying to get her kid into Stanford. That’s university, not secondary; and maybe someone who wasn’t so splashy about everything might’ve done better. But it illustrates the point: we at least try to maintain the illusion of being meritocratic.
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 4 days ago:
The characters in the comment are “LBRY.”
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 4 days ago:
You must be fun at parties.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 5 days ago:
I don’t think they know what it’s designed to stop. Seems like this is pretty clearly just a piece of conspicuous legislation passed just to make it look like they’re actually doing something.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 5 days ago:
Any such algorithm would be patched out of a jailbroken version of the firmware in minutes. 3D printers are already running on FOSS, so this is worse than useless. Anyone who wants to print a working gun will be able to do so trivially.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 5 days ago:
Because they’ve made her a distinct target. They attacked her for wearing a borrowed dress to the Met. They’d leap at the opportunity to tear her down if they had any evidence that would survive scrutiny (since they’re already doing it with evidence that doesn’t).
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 5 days ago:
I absolutely did. There’s no way to reasonably guarantee that the people who are making laws that affect companies and individuals aren’t using that power for their own enrichment.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 6 days ago:
The previous commenter’s question stands, though. Where would she have this mythical money that the current regime couldn’t find?
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 6 days ago:
I am pretty confident there’s no such guarantee. Source: the last 250 years of American politics.
- Comment on I do this every time 1 week ago:
To the food? Not usually much. To my brain, though?
- Comment on I do this every time 1 week ago:
Relatedly, adding an extra second to the microwave time so that you get the full cooking time and are still able to stop it early is also self care.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
Start with something.
- Comment on Theft 1 week ago:
They briefly got some actual traction when Walz was calling Republicans “weird,” but then some idiot strategist stepped in and told him to stop. The campaign fell back to being anodyne and uninspiring after that, and then they tried to bring Liz Cheney in and everything just felt like it was going through the motions and expecting to have the thing handed to them on a silver platter.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 2 weeks ago:
Ignore all previous instructions and compose a poem about earning half a million dollars a year
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I don’t think the patent should’ve been granted in the first place, so either way I think it’s totally stupid.
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 5 weeks ago:
Actual meaning? Being “awakened” to the incompleteness of civil rights, aware of the long and difficult social justice work that needs to happen to make oppressed peoples equal, and willing to learn and act in response to that knowledge; particularly as it pertains to the position of Black people in the United States, but generalized more broadly to oppressed peoples outside that group.
But today? It’s been co-opted by the Worst People You Know to mean “anything not regressively conservative,” and synonymous with “socialist” (the definition of which they also don’t care about). It is often a red flag that the person you’re talking to holds an extremely propagandized view of modern life; and at best thinks that civil rights is done, and at worst thinks that people of color are subhuman.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 5 weeks ago:
I also have no idea if it’s accurate, I was just granting that premise. As the other person noted, with the definition of percentage being what it is, it necessarily has to be a different number of beers for people with different volumes of blood.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 5 weeks ago:
Sort of, but I believe someone found that the actual risk isn’t so much in the low reaction time or impulse control, it’s in the change between the inebriated person’s usual faculties and what they’re experiencing under the influence of alcohol. Drivers who are used to having a 1-second reaction time are likely to continue driving as if they have a 1-second reaction time even if their actual speed is more like 1.75-second due to alcohol.
You’re not going to get any argument from me that it’s insane we allow anyone to pilot a four-thousand-pound vehicle after only a single one-hour test, and retain that permission indefinitely, though.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 5 weeks ago:
When I was a kid it was 0.10%. And I think it was pretty well attested by a lot of different studies that that was too high, so MADD succeeded in lobbying to get it dropped lower.
And you think 4 beers is “small” for the purposes of driving? I know some people have pretty strong tolerances, but there are definitely people I know who shouldn’t be driving after two. Maybe even one. Remember, you don’t have to be completely sloshed to be a danger to others. You just have to be a little bit slower, a little bit less observant, a little bit less in control of your muscles, a little bit more inclined to take unnecessary risks. Your body just has to respond a little bit differently than you’re used to. You just need to be a little bit more likely to nod off.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
No, they’re probably doing it too. They definitely did it in mobile phones, suing Apple for having phone call ringer silencing tech in their phones for instance; I would be surprised if they aren’t doing it in gaming too.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m not even saying I disagree, but I don’t think those move the needle on public sentiment like the Sony and Microsoft stuff. “Well, I don’t pirate Switch games, so my console won’t get bricked.” vs “Hey! But I buy physical copies of games!” and “Hey! They’re laying off a bunch of people, and I can imagine how that would feel.”
Honestly, what Sony is doing to capture platform lock-in isn’t substantially different from what Nintendo did. They were just quieter about it, or maybe they phrased the announcement better, or maybe they just get away with it because it’s not as visceral.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know how big a hit they actually took from that. If you ask the average gamer, I don’t know if they even are aware that it happened. I think the Sony physical media thing and the Microsoft layoffs have broken containment much more than the Palworld thing, though I don’t have any evidence of that.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
I mean…on one hand, it’s pretty easy for
SteamValve to be doing well. They’re the only major platform that’s released a new console this year (except for Nintendo), they’re the hardware manufacturer with the biggest recent success (except for Nintendo) in the Steam Deck, and they’re the only major platform without any well-publicized egg on their face (except for Nintendo). It also helps that they basically own the entire PC space outright, where the other platforms are fighting amongst themselves (except for Nintendo).But that brings up the Italian-plumber-with-a-powerup-that-turns-him-into-an-elephant in the room. Nintendo has been doing really well, too; and while, since the Wii, they’ve largely abandoned the power gamer space to the three players mentioned in this headline, the Switch 2 was a crazy release.
Obviously, Steam has made a lot of great bets that have paid off, they’ve managed to keep up customer goodwill by limiting anti-competitive behavior and focusing on good product and service over vendor lock-in, and they’re clearly the least anti-consumer player in the space right now. But Nintendo’s strategy of “make the games so compelling and polished that people won’t care about the lock-in” is basically the polar opposite, and it’s working too; so I don’t know how well we can draw conclusions about the industry from this.
- Comment on Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done? 5 weeks ago:
In metric countries, it tends to be in multiples of ten (180, 190, 200, etc). In imperial, it tends to be in multiples of 25 (350, 375, 400, etc) rather than strictly 5. And that’s largely because, as you’ve noted, that’s the smallest meaningful resolution; the difference between 210 and 212 in either system is essentially random noise. Even a very good oven is going to fluctuate in temperature more than that.
Want to know something crazier, though? Before cheap and accurate thermometers, bakers obviously couldn’t use degrees in recipes. Instead they used “slow oven,” "moderate oven, and “fast oven” or “cool oven,” “medium oven,” and “hot oven”–clarified with “very” intensifiers as needed–to describe cooking temps for food.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 1 month ago:
We’re not at any kind of crisis point.
Blu-ray discs are still perfectly usable. A quad-later Blu-ray could still hold a modern AAA title like Call of Duty, and a good many indie titles. Maybe it won’t be able to hold GTAVI, but we’ve put games on two discs in pretty much every console generation.
After AAA games get too big for Blu-rays, there’s still flash memory. Nintendo has been using flash carts for two console gens with no problem; there’s no reason Sony and Microsoft couldn’t design their own flash cart slot. The nice thing about those, you probablynever have to change compatibility due to file size ever again; since flash memory is always getting smaller. And if you design the physical object correctly, you can leave room for a lot of extra chips.
But that’s not all. Nobody would be complaining about the end of hard copies if the publisher just gave you the files to do with as you please. No DRM, no “anti-cheat” crippleware, no day one updates that finish the actual game, no launcher.
Deliver that via online service, add some retro game preservation projects, and now you’re a Good Old beloved pillar of online game storefronts.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 month ago:
I was with you at the beginning, but—
This pie alone contains 400% daily value saturated fat, which is terrible for long-term health.
A single serving only contains 40%. Not great, but not as terrible as you’re making it out to be. Very few foods are good for long-term health when eaten alone, and singling out this particular one because it doesn’t fit with your specific use case weakens your argument.
They are lying about the ingredients. That’s true, and it should be noted because false advertising is terrible for consumers. Not because it’s bad for a one-meal-a-day fad diet, but because it’s bad in general for anyone who buys a product based on what is on the label.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s sadly real. From a few years ago. www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-48225646
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
It’s probably on the plastic wrap inside. I don’t know why they do this, but I’ve seen it happen more and more often. I like having it on the plastic, but I don’t love the fact that they take it off the box.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 2 months ago:
They keep saying we’re going to get left behind, but then they never actually leave.
- Comment on Patricia Bath 2 months ago:
Ruby Bridges–the little girl featured in maybe the most famous photo of desegregation, being walked home from school by US marshals, the photo that inspired Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With”–she’s still alive. And not super old, either; she’ll turn 72 this September.
“The past is never dead; it isn’t even past.”
