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- Comment on Admin of discuss.online is mass banning for people using their vote in a way he doesn't like. Recommend defederation for bad faith participation in the fediverse. 1 day ago:
So you think a couple people all upviting the same comments in a thread is conclusive proof of vote manipulation???
Oh wait, it’s goat.
- Comment on Yum 2 days ago:
I think tablets like these are actually extremely common.
I know a guy I spoke to at the British Museum about cuneiform tablets said they literally just have hundreds and hundreds of them in storage and they are most very mundane record keeping.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 4 days ago:
Nah fuck this attitude, if you ever tried to use Wikipedia for an actual research project you’ll know how dubious those “”“sources”“” can be.
It’s actuslly an exercise one of my TA friends sets for students when they’re just learning to research things properly. She gives them a claim on Wikipedia and and asks them to find the primary source for it. So they end up spending hours following chains of citations, until they are checking out old books from the library to try and find excerpts that some blog post that was cited in a paper that was cited in a newspaper, that was cited in a different blog post that was cited in another news article that was cited by Wikipedia claims exists, just to find out it doesn’t.
But seriously, don’t take Wikipedia seriously unless it cites a primary source directly.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 5 days ago:
No I understood the point of your comment perfectly, it’s the old “well we can’t complete fix every problem with society magically overnight with 1 action, so we shouldn’t try to do anything” argument. With perhaps a dash of “you want to improve society, yet you participate in society, curious” thrown in as well.
Basically if everyone were to have the same attitude as you literally nothing would ever get better.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 5 days ago:
Idk, I’ve tried to play it at least half a dozen times since it was “fixed” and it still just seems rushed and unfinished, just less buggy now.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 5 days ago:
Idgaf he’s a bigot, a cow or a racist. If I like x thing that was made, and them being a bigot, cow or racist does not impact the product I’m buying, then I’m buying it.
Congrats on perfectly respresenting the core of what is wrong with modern society.
“If it doesn’t get in the way of my mindless consumerism, I’ll happily support people who are openly racist”
People like you, more so even than the bigots themselves, are why society is turning to shit.
- Comment on Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 5 days ago:
In fairness even if a big studio released a great game, enough people would either try it and not like it, or just give a bad review because it’s EA, that it wouldn’t make this list.
Indie games don’t have that problem.
- Comment on Belief 6 days ago:
I dont think it is, just the dumb and mean people are given the spotlight more and more.
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 1 week ago:
I think at this point, by dry weight I am 20% ham, 20% mince pie, 20% cheese (mostly camembert and Wensleydale) 20% chocolate and 20% Christmas cake.
- Comment on Ska ftw 1 week ago:
To me, madness - one step beyond is definitive ska
- Comment on The infantry will advance 1 week ago:
Fighting tyranny doesn’t mean going to war with the US military.
It can be things like black panther style community patrols. A lot of states are open carry, you could set up armed community patrols around your neighbourhood, and that would make the brownshirts a lot less likely to drop in and start abducting people.
- Comment on Anon enjoys Minecraft 1 week ago:
Can I play Minecraft and enjoy milfs?
- Comment on Burger King is always good for one. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 2 weeks ago:
???
They tought us about imaginary numbers in A levels (16-17) here, do they not even teach them in undergrad in the US??? I struggle to believe that.
- Comment on Most guys couldn't care less about skin care. But those who really care do. 2 weeks ago:
AI meme
- Comment on when fiber isn't enough 2 weeks ago:
Saw this meme while on the bog absolutely fighting for my life, and honestly I would take that.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 3 weeks ago:
That’s not a thong
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 3 weeks ago:
One joke
- Comment on Its been 84 years 3 weeks ago:
I succeed NNN because to me it’s nonstop but november
- Comment on There are ultimately only so many damn angles, okay!? 4 weeks ago:
I mean have you seen what we’re working with? I swear it’s actually impossible to take a dick pic that actually looks good
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 5 weeks ago:
If he was handsome it would still be creepy
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 5 weeks ago:
Nah but for real if some random stranger at a bar overheard me saying I’m single and then came up to me and my friends like that I would be a little creeped out too.
I wouldn’t be mean about it, but I definitely wouldn’t say yes.
- Comment on Anon is eyemaxxing 5 weeks ago:
We legit do eye exercises at training.
Hold a thumb up at arms length, then another at half way, then start by focusing on the far thumb, then the middle thumb, then your nose and back to the far thumb. Do that 10 times.
The hold your arms out to either side so you thumbs are right on the edge of your vision, then without moving your head look back and forth between either thumb. Then same for up and down.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 5 weeks ago:
There are actually versions of fusion reactors that use the magnetic fields generated by the plasma in order to make electricity directly.
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t actually, hence why I stipulated more than a few thousand speakers
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 5 weeks ago:
I think people are over estimating how long 100 years is.
No languages that are currently spoken by more than a couple thousand people are going to go extinct that quickly.
Remember 100 years is in the upper end of a human life span.
- Comment on We all know people like this who deal with the horror and yet never complain. They are heroes 5 weeks ago:
Wow look at Mr sex haver over here
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 month ago:
Please just go back to reddit
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 month ago:
Almost like women were systematically oppressed by men for centuries or something
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 month ago:
I got banned from that sub for “sounding like a man” then when I told them I’m non binary and so should be able to post their according to their rules they didn’t respond
