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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To expand on that if I may:

  What alcohol does is impair your judgement and your motor control(reaction time)

  So things you normally would not do for a variety of reasons(like, yell at a giant easily angered bouncer), now seem like a great idea.

  It doesn't make you do things, it allows you to do things your sober self might find reprehensible into outright vile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else apprehensive to down voting even if you're being down voted?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This. The original intent of the downvote on reddit was for things that actively take away from the conversations; not merely because you disagree with it.

  Equally, the upvote was for things that contribute, not just for things you like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  She also loads the fridge badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only steam it to soften. Then bake as normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like this could have been worded a little better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, as Canadians we're ecstatic to be in the round of 16, but it isn't much of a surprise.

  The US paid for a good team and they're in a decent group with little surpise that they're on top.

  Mexico was in an abymsally easy group and its no surprise they're where they are.

  Canada was also in a group with little surprise that we ended up proceeding. Only real surprise was tying the higher ranked swiss.

  Given that S.Africa beat the better ranked South Korea, they put up a great show but were still dominated by a sloppy but effective Canada yesterday.

  I will be surprised if the next game v Netherlands/Morocco is anything but a blowout, but we made it to the 16 and I'm happy with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to New York City⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see taxi drivers doing it regularly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to New York City⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100 years of automobile propaganda has made us in North America that streets are for people to move, not for cars to move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a downloadable demo, yeah. Just had various polygonal shapes on a black background, top down and could move with WASD and could interact with plant sprites and creature sprites. Very simple graphics, but had different level creatures wandering around, so it was hard to stay alive when you had level 5 creatures hunting near the starting beach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the simple shape demo of the creature world.

  It was vastly superior to the crap they launched. It had an actual ecosystem, but admittedly led to you dying a lot at low tiers because you were the equivalent of a meal worm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, 7up had a platformer. Wasn't a bad game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An LLM can only call out a premise if the average response to an input in its model calls out the input.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scorched Body 🔥⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a video by a medical channel(actual doctor) I follow on Youtube that explained why the body temp increase happens during an infection in one of his recent videos covering the Hantavirus situation.

  TD;LR: Its that parts of the immune system get sigificantly more effective with a slightly increased temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What character is the king of plot armor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Batman any time any of the rest of the justice league are in the same feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The US education system is in such tatters that what they teach anymore is largely irrelevant to the rest of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies should get fined a minimum of 1% of gross profits per infraction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recent conversations between Dawkins and sentient chat-bot Claudia (Claude)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I didn't realize that old Biologists have the same issue as old Physicists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it used to be filled with tap water.
  That changed in a 2009 reno to use water from the Tidal Basin(man made resevoir) constantly circulating to avoid stagnation issues.

  However, that itself caused issues. Rampant algae growth immediately became an issue, so they had to improve the ozone disinfectant system in the same year.

  It was drained in 2017 to solve a parasitic snail outbreak which was killing ducks in the pool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Three that I know of.
  The Eurasian/African one that is the least dangerous and doesnt transmit human to human.

  The continental Americas strain that is pretty dangerous(lethality in the 30-60% range) but doesn't spread human to human.

  The new kid on the block, the Andes strain, an offshoot of the Americas one. Last Outbreak was in a small town in Argentina in 2018, first discovered 1995, first human to human 1996. ~40 known infections, 11 deaths. Can spread human to human. It has already been confirmed we are dealing with this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What little Ive seen documented:

  1. It was relatively new(20 years 30 years) to the southern end of South America, they beat out an initial outbreak of it, has been endemic there since.
  2. Not too much reaearch has been done on it, i.e. few experts.
  3. It appears that it is most, and potentially only infectious when symptoms are showing, particularly the fever, but is very easily spread during that small window.
  4. It seems like it isnt as easily spread as covid, but yeah, is much nastier.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You realize that for millenia, philosophers fantasized about the concept of a police force that existed just to enforce laws, and not just be military guards?

  The issue is not the concept of police. It is the leadership and the police unions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to the ball⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also: dont overlook that media hounds women about everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally this reeks of being a shadow lawsuit by Epic games.

  With the end goal being to let people buy and play the games on Steam, but then buy the addons via EGS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, it was over a decade ago that I used it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A long, long time ago, there was an online messaging tool called ICQ. You didnt even have callsigns in it, you had a randomly generated number you shared with your friends. You chatted. Had fun. Life was good.

  Then there was AOL instant messenger. It largely replaced ICQ in the US. It added emoticons.

  Then there was MSN Messenger. It tied into the MSN gaming zone(Before MS killed it to make Xbox Live. You could play games with your friends through it. You could do rudimentary video chats.

  Then you had Skype(pre-MS. Better video, not tied to MS).

  MS makes MSN Messenger into Lynx and adds it to office. Its not good.

  Then you had Google Hangouts. Better chat, fun features, tied to your google account.

  Then you had MS owned Skype as Skype for Business. Largely replaces Hangouts because Google enshittifies everything, not because it is good.

  You also have former Vancouver startup Slack. Its fantastic. Until Salesforce buys it.

  Now we have the bastard officespring of Skype for Business: MS Teams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You ask who believed this stuff. But in 20 years people will look at the mainstream newspapers of today and ask the same question.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, weekly world news was always patently ridiculous.

  They're the ones that had all of the really crazy conspiracy theory stuff. Used to see them every week for sale at a place I worked. Best cover was the one of a bad photo edit of the heads of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden over two guys going at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.

  The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a dreamy guy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jlorida?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨but like seriously do try it⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Birdwatching: get and support the Merlin app. Its a great way to find out what birds live or pass through your area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  !Grakata

  I may or may not be looking forward to continuing that tradition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether they allow the warframe community to make a mockery of the concept of chat again.