inbn

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 810 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about giving Pokemon just like a human firstname lastname is very funny to me. Go Tod go!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Slay the Spire 2. No matter how hard I try to escape, all roads lead back to the spire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not both? It is time for the exatiddy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an opportunity to study abroad in Budapest, Hungary for a semester. Should I take it?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it depends on what you want to do and what your options are, but from my very limited time there as a student passing through for a week or so I thought it was an amazing city. Tons of history and food and hot springs. Cheaper (at that time) compared to big western European cities. Listen to people who know the university system better and have lived in the area for sure, but I would go back in a heartbeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to NFTs and what where they in retro spec?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly off-topic, but the only kind of interesting use for an NFT I ever encountered was my Master’s degree. The diploma was issued as a pdf that is also an NFT. There is a university website you can upload it to and it says “yup this is a real diploma” which in theory means the digital is as good as the physical.

  So 99.9% of the time they were a scam but it was ALL worth it to have grad admissions committees tell me “neat but you will need to send us the paper copy anyway”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good, independent news outlets that are reliable?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are on the right track. Newswire services like AP and Reuters tend to have the least noticeable spin, but no news service is bias free. Best you can do is diversify your outlets and look at not just the narrative but now each outlet sources their claims (Who are they talking to? What data do they use to support their conclusions?)

  I do not know much about HK news sources, but I follow some Taiwan-based outlets like Focus Taiwan (state-backed) and Taipei Times (largest English-language outlet). There is often coverage of HK and southeast Asia there but obviously more in how it relates to Taiwan. NHK in Japan may also be an option. Best of luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate goals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really the rider that should feel bad that their bike is made of nonrecyclable materials /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Onions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  drink your milk or the long march of millennia will forget your bones, kids

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My vote is for Le Guin-style moon anarchy à la The Dispossessed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are separable verbs a thing in ENG?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The closest English has is phrasal verbs like “I turned the light off” or "I went to pick the kids up. Generally verb+particle = new verb. Sometimes you can put a noun between the verb and particle but not always (I looked the toys for vs. I looked for the toys)

  These are not just verbs plus postpositions as “I turned the light” and “I went to pick the kids” have entirely different meanings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or does it seem Google is either AI filled or becoming obsolete? Is there an up and comer that can be what Google used to be? Or are we stuck oogling stuff forever?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  noai.duckduckgo.com is the best drop-in replacement for a free pre-AI search engine.

  kagi.com is great if you can justify paying for it.

  I’ve used both for a long time and have never missed Google, especially in its current state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A classic movie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as the villain is still an extreme close up of George Lopez’s disembodied head I’m in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨App doesn't let me use my 32 char password⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On a side note but related, github.com/kmille/freetar is a private front-end for Ultimate Guitar that’s amazing. Free public instance at freetar.de.

  Never went back to UG after finding this, so much better than navigating their awful website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Office job⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not both??