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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They just made the winning bid⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The same way building contractors advertise their work with “everything built to code”. Yeah, building code is the bare minimum requirement for something to be legally put on the market. Building to code isn’t a brag. It’s saying “we do everything as cheaply as possible. If we cut any more corners, the house would literally be illegal to sell.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life Is Strange⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The first was pretty widely regarded as a great game. But most people agree that the rest are trash. The company made one good game, and then never managed to match it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That was actually one of my big complaints as well. I don’t think they ever fixed it. My complaint was that you needed to be facing a container to loot it, but Geralt’s regular movement controls felt like steering a sailboat. Even the alternative controls were only a stopgap.

  I eventually installed a mod that auto-looted every container within a certain radius. It basically did an invisible ping every second or so, and grabbed the contents for any containers that were close enough. I also had to disable the theft mechanic, because people would get mad when a protected container was auto-looted. But it worked well enough. As a bonus, I didn’t need to get off of Roach to loot herbs/enemies/containers/etc because the radius loot worked even when I was mounted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self sacrifice is honorable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most companies use background check services nowadays. Sure, you could try to just invent a new persona, but HR will flag you when your name, SSN, DOB, etc come back as bogus.

  There are even background check companies that specialize in corporate background checks. They’ll try to estimate or find things like how much you made at your previous/current job, so the company you’re applying for knows what they can offer you without it seeming like a lowball. If a company can spend $100 on a background check and save $10k per year on an employee salary, that’s an easy financial decision for the company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They actually updated the game with a lot of quality of life stuff. Things like automatic oils when you draw your sword, so you don’t need to constantly dig through menus to reapply it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone get this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it helps, people with autism tend to see straight through people with narcissistic personality disorder. People with NPD tend to try and isolate and ostracize autistic people as soon as they recognize them, because autistic people miss or disregard basically all of their attempts at manipulation. And if a person can’t be manipulated, a narcissist will see them as a threat to be excised.

  People with autism will usually be baffled at why everyone likes the narcissist, because the narcissist comes off exactly as you described. Manipulative, petty, vindictive, immature, etc… And for some reason, the entire group just seems to go along with what the narcissist wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember to follow OSHA 1904.39(a)(2) and report any loss⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Loss is the title of this specific comic strip of the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del:
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  It’s notable because the webcomic was basically just a weekly comedy sketch. It had a few ongoing story arcs involving the main characters, but it was always upbeat and funny. So this particular strip about a miscarriage was a drastic change in tone.

  The fans of the webcomic quickly started memeing about Loss, and posting remakes/demakes of it. It eventually got reduced into the version we know today: the 1, 2, 2, L format. It became a sort of rickroll for the people who recognize it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have VLC streaming Toonami Aftermath on my second monitor at work, pretty much 24/7. It’s always fun to look over and see the weird shit that is playing. I’ve seen commercials for PS1 games, toys that don’t exist anymore, etc… And if I work late, they usually play DBZ Abridged on Wednesday evenings. That was a particularly funny discovery, because my coworker saw DBZ on my monitor, and mentioned that they never got into it. I turned the volume up just in time for us to hear Vegeta complain about getting hit in the dick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Blackberries grow in thick brambles with nasty thorns. It also has a hardy root system that allows it to regrow if you just cut it down. They also spread a few feet per year, so keeping them contained is a constant (and often painful) battle. If you go too long without paying attention to it, your entire yard will be a mess of thorny brambles that are nearly impossible to kill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The funny part is that clumping bamboo actually makes a great privacy hedge. It’s leafy, grows in thick bunches, very quickly hits like 10-20 feet tall (depending on the variety), and doesn’t rapidly spread. So it can be a great option for people looking for a perimeter hedge or property divider.

  The tricky part is that most bamboo isn’t clumping. Most is running bamboo, which rapidly spreads, doesn’t grow very tall, and will break past basically every barrier (like sidewalks and landscaping stonework) that most other plants would be stopped by. It’s also extremely difficult to kill, because it stores nutrients in the (extremely wide) root system. So even if you cut it down, it’ll just grow right back again somewhere else.

  And plenty of people have accidentally planted running bamboo, thinking it was clumping bamboo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mint is extremely hardy, isn’t picky about soil type, spreads quickly, and reproduces from the roots. If mint ever goes into the ground, your entire yard will very quickly be overtaken by it even if you start ripping it out as soon as you see it. It’s basically a weed that happens to taste good. Anyone who intends to grow it will keep it in above-ground pots instead. But even then, all it takes is a small sprig landing in the grass, and suddenly your entire lawn is starting to smell minty when you mow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything, it probably makes it more illegal. Because now he’s admitting to intentionally throwing a rock at an endangered seal and at an endangered sea turtle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped responding to them, because (at best) they’re a troll. And at worst, they actually believe the things they’re saying, and no amount of arguing will change that. And I tend to default to “don’t feed the trolls” whenever I suspect it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a dude in a ScienceMemes post try to argue that being gay is a choice, just like buying a car. He wasn’t banned. Odd how that works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The funny part is that as a db0 user, I haven’t even really seen the drama. I’ve seen people talking about the drama, but the only thing I’ve directly seen has been when the db0 admins got banned. Which seemed pretty funny on a petty level, but also raises a lot of questions about whether or not they’d still be able to effectively moderate if they’re banned from instances that their users are still interacting on.

  Like if piefed were to ban a db0 admin, could that db0 admin still see (and take action) when a piefed user is causing trouble on db0? Does the ban hide piefed users, and potentially allow them to break db0 rules with impunity? Or inversely, piefed would have no right to complain about db0 users causing trouble on piefed communities if the db0 admins can’t see it to take action. If I were to go post something bad on piefed, could the db0 admins see it to take action against me? I’m honestly not sure how the mod tools would work in that instance, especially if the ban prevents the banned admin from seeing the offending posts in either direction.

  I’m not saying instance admins should have carte blanche to do whatever they want without risk of getting banned. But banning an admin should probably be considered more heavily than simply banning a regular user, especially if you’re still planning on remaining federated with that instance.

  I can see an argument being made that an admin ban should automatically defederate the admin’s instance, unless the mod tools still allow the banned admin to police their own users. But even then, allowing the banned admin to circumvent the ban using mod tools runs the risk of completely defeating the purpose of the ban. Because it would essentially allow the banned admin to evade (or at least partially evade) the ban by falling back to the mod tools instead. For instance, what if an admin was banned for stalking or harassing a user, but the admin tools still allow the banned admin to stalk and harass that user? In that case, the banning instance has made a good faith attempt to protect their user from the banned admin, and the built-in tools are preventing that action from being effective. Or inversely, what if one instance admin bans another, to attempt to hide their activities on the banned admin’s home instance? If the db0 admin is banned from piefed, can they still see piefed users who interact with db0 communities? If not, that could easily be abused to enable brigading/raiding/takeovers/etc.

  It’s a tricky game of push and pull. One side of me wants to say that banning an instance admin shouldn’t prevent them from seeing your instance at all, because you’re still federated. Stop them from posting or commenting as a regular user, but still allow them to do admin things like police their users’ comments. After all, if you’re still federated, they should be fully able to police their own users. If db0’s admin can’t see activity on piefed, piefed loses the right to complain when db0 users cause trouble on piefed.

  But that runs the risk of making bans seem pointless, and would push admins towards defederation instead. Especially since basically anyone can spin up an instance and become their own admin. And (at least in my mind) defederation should be a last resort, not a first choice. Because defederation has the potential to affect vast swaths of the fediverse, not just the admin directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine was also the 360, but simply because of when I got it. I was a young teen when it originally came out, and begged my parents for one. They were concerned that my kid brother (several years younger than me) would inevitably end up playing the games I had for it. The 360 was marketed more as a mature console, compared to the family friendly Wii. So I had to wait until my brother was old enough to play games like Halo.

  All of this meant that by the time I finally got the 360, the XBO was nearing release. And the 360’s multiplayer heyday had largely passed by that point, as everyone had largely moved on from games like Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, Assassins Creed Brotherhood, etc… So matchmaking lobbies for all of the games I wanted to experience were basically only full of the diehard fans who had absolutely no sympathy for new/learning players. It meant I ended up using it primarily as a single player console. I enjoyed lots of single-player games like Final Fantasy 13/13-2, Lost Odyssey, Mass Effect Trilogy, Dark Souls, etc… But that’s pretty much all I used it for. I’d chat with friends while I played if they were online, but it quickly became clear that my friends were moving on from the console.

  All of the big multiplayer experiences for the 360 were largely lost on me, because none of my friends were interested in playing those old games by that point. And multiplayer is unfortunately a large part of what the console was designed for. I think the only multiplayer game that really held our attention was Destiny, and even that turned out to be a pretty big disappointment after a while. We only really kept playing it as an excuse to hang out in voice chat.

  I was also largely moving towards PC gaming by that point. I had already experimented with installing games like Oblivion and Skyrim on my (really shitty) laptop, and got them running at potato quality. I saw the potential, and shifted towards PC gaming after getting the 360. I saved up my money from my first job, and built my first PC a year or two after getting the 360. So I only really kept the 360 around for the exclusives that weren’t on PC.

  Nowadays, I just emulate the 360 exclusives for single player. Currently working my way through Lost Odyssey, because I never actually got around to finishing it on the 360. I think because I built my PC before I beat the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just because MarkDown doesn’t really make mathematical notation easy. The point is that with a slash, the 6 is over the entire 2(3) divisor. It’s the difference between these:
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  You can even see that the automatic solution (in yellow) parses the two differently. In the first example, it correctly resolves the 2(3) first. But in the second, it parses the 6÷2 first, because it is left ambiguous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually a generational thing. Millennials were taught “PEMDAS”:

  1. Parenthesis
  2. Exponent
  3. Multiplication
  4. Division
  5. Addition
  6. Subtraction

  But younger generations have been taught “BEDMAS” instead:

  1. Brackets
  2. Exponent
  3. Division
  4. Multiplication
  5. Addition
  6. Subtraction

  Notably, Division and Multiplication are swapped on PEMDAS and BEDMAS, to make this “both happen at the same time” more straightforward. But that only applies if the entire operation can happen at the same time.

  For instance, let’s say 6/2(3) compared to 6÷2(3). At first glance, they both appear to be the same operation. But in the former, the 6 dividend would be over the entire 2(3) divisor. Which means you would need to simplify the divisor (by resolving the multiplication of 2•3) before you divide. So the former would simplify to 6/6=1, while the latter would divide first and become 3(3)=9.

  Technically, if you wanted to be completely clear, you would write it using multiple parenthesis as needed. For instance, you would write it as either:
  (6÷2)(3)=9 or 6÷(2(3))=1 to avoid the ambiguity. Then it wouldn’t matter if you’re using PEMDAS or BEDMAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you actually trying to equate left handedness (which is a natural innate part of someone’s lived experience) to choosing a car? I used left handedness as an example because it’s a personality trait and the rates have been extremely stable over time, but the natural rate wasn’t really known until we stopped punishing kids for being left handed. Anyone can choose to drive a Jeep, but nobody can choose their hand dominance.

  And if you think left handed kids aren’t more “liberated” than they used to be, you’re simply refusing to accept how much they previously had to struggle to learn to do everything with their non-dominant hand. The entire point of my previous comment is that those kids were needlessly forced to struggle much more than their peers, for something that they had no control over. Instead of properly supporting them, the system was focused on hammering down the nail that stuck out. Because the system prioritized conformity instead of support.

  You’re toeing a very close line to some of the “being gay is a choice, and they could stop being oppressed if they just chose to be straight instead” talking points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  none of these ideas existed in day to day life or conversation. nobody had depression, anxiety, or any of that.

  I think the important distinction is that nobody knew they had depression, anxiety, etc… The whole point of this graph is that people had it and were simply undiagnosed. So the people who had those various neurodivergences were likely unsupported and struggled in their daily lives much more than they would have if they had proper support.

  Look at the graph of left handedness over time:
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  When we stopped trying to beat the demons out of kids and forcing them to write with their non-dominant hand, they were suddenly able to exist openly. And that graph shows that as they were able to exist openly, the rates of left handedness steadily increased until it reached its natural levels. It doesn’t mean more kids were suddenly left handed. It means previous kids (now adults) had been forced to struggle more than their right handed peers, because they got beat if they used their dominant hand. And there were 100% adults at the time (mostly entrenched teachers who still wanted to enforce right handedness in writing classes) who would have been decrying the sudden increase in left handedness as unnatural, simply because it wasn’t being unnaturally suppressed anymore.

  To be clear, I agree that many of the natural rates likely aren’t a flat line over time. Depression and anxiety diagnosis rates both seem to be particularly dependent on external/environmental factors. So as the world becomes more and more depressing, people are naturally diagnosed more. But it’s not really accurate to say “nobody had it” before, because it definitely existed. It’s simply that nobody was diagnosed before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I got diagnosed in about a month. And it only took that long because the psych accidentally double-booked appointment times and we had to reschedule. But that was with decent insurance. If I was self-pay or on public healthcare (which is basically non-existent in my state) then I’d still be waiting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh no guys theyre gonna report us to the FBI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, lots of users seem to treat this like oldschool 4chan before they had moderators. Back when you could just casually scroll past everything from CSAM to terrorist beheading videos, because none of it was moderated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  iMessage sends read receipts by default, so she can probably see that he read it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, it’s only playable on a hacked original Switch, by loading the compiled game onto an SD card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨average twitter political discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chris Chan is an interesting “Frankenstein’s Monster” case. In Frankenstein, the monster is regularly treated like a monster by everyone they encounter. So eventually, he basically decides “if I’m going to be treated like a monster regardless, I might as well give them a reason to fear me.” The monster begins acting like one… By the end of the book, the monster has done plenty of monstrous things. But it didn’t start out that way…

  And Chris Chan’s case has a lot of parallels to that. Maybe she didn’t initially deserve the bullying. She’s always been weird, but it’s entirely possible that her life would have been on a different trajectory without the constant harassment. However, by the time the Chris Chan stuff was really coming to a head around 2020-2021, she was a full blown racist, misogynistic, homophobic, sexual predator piece of shit. Her potential life is an interesting hypothetical “Nature vs Nurture” thought experiment. But as it currently stands, Chris doesn’t deserve a platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This will never stop being funny to me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The company was literally named OceanGate Inc. So yeah, it very neatly fell into the “call every scandal [thing]-gate” media habit. The actual sub was named Titan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For real, here is a super shitty approximation of the same image. It took me roughly three minutes to make. And most of that was simply remembering how to get ProCreate to do the things I wanted it to do, because I don’t use it regularly:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of you are too young to know what this is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I had an automatic version. It was basically a pair of ultra-fine sandpaper wheels, and some buffing wheels for a finishing pass. The wheels would spin while the disc slowly rotated, using the ultra-fine sandpaper to remove the surface layer of plastic (where the scratches were) and then the buffing pads would smooth things over a little bit so the surface was smoother.

  It definitely still left circular buff marks all over the surface of the disc. But it at least helped get rid of the random scratches that would cause discs to fail to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if you zoom in and actually read the text, it very quickly becomes noticeable as fake
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  Look at the numbers on the scale. Look at the “Downloaid” numbers. Look at the fact that “Syvert” is apparently a data unit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servers go Brrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laser projectors also tend to have better color depth. Projector tech has actually progressed by leaps and bounds in the past decade, so people still using older projectors are really missing out.

  The one big problem they haven’t been able to solve is black levels. Because with a projector screen, your black level can only ever be as dark as the ambient light in the room.