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- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 12 hours ago:
Additionally, give a copy of all the documents to your lawyer to release in the case of your death. Multiple Deadman switches are better than one, especially one that’s controlled by a person and not just hoping your cloud service doesn’t go down after you’re dead.
- Comment on Well, they finally got around to me 1 day ago:
I got the warning yesterday and then nothing happened. They just threatened me and then didn’t follow through.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 5 days ago:
If it’s a call-to-action, you always need the /s. Some people will see it and listen if you don’t. Sometimes you can get away with leaving it off, but not if you’re telling people to do something bad.
- Comment on nuclear 6 days ago:
The idea of an explosion is. That’s what this thread is about. It’s not just about meltdowns, which, like you said, is very low risk, and lower than ever from what we’ve learned in the past.
- Comment on nuclear 6 days ago:
It is not the top one in the typical usage of the word “nuclear energy.” Sure, it is nuclear energy, but that normally refers to electrical infrastructure, not nuclear weapons. Nuclear electricity is pretty much always just heating water up in a safe and controlled manner, and using that to spin a turbine.
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 6 days ago:
I might be weird, but I like the look of a full but chaotic bookshelf.
- Comment on My post was removed because it was not political? 6 days ago:
Many others celebrated though, especially at Sauron’s.
- Comment on Valve now sell refurbished Steam Deck OLED models 1 week ago:
Linux is free, and pretty much all hardware is compatible. AMD GPUs have a small advantage with their open source drivers, but Nvidia cards still function 99.9% of the time as far as I’m aware. You don’t need to worry about it. Just install Linux and you’re likely good to go.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Here’s the thing: landlords make a profit, right? Where does that profit come from? There are better and worse landlords, but any time there’s a profit there’s money being taken away from people.
No one is coming after your aunt, but that’s where it comes from. They’re leaching money away from tenants. Some are worse than others, but it is by definition parasitic if you’re making a profit and not providing a service.
- Comment on Splat 1 week ago:
Huh. I might be totally wrong. I thought they could but I’m not really that knowledgeable on that.
- Comment on Splat 1 week ago:
Nice deep fake! You can’t trick me!
- Comment on Splat 1 week ago:
Seeing how both us and birds can vomit, probably. I imagine that developed very early. If you eat something harmful, you’re dead if you can’t vomit. If you don’t have the brainpower to identify safe and harmful things, you’re pretty screwed.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, we don’t live in a fair rule-of-law state in the US, so if they go to trial that’s probably not how this will go. If the justice system were fair the assassin never would have needed to do what he did in the first place. Until the justice system is repaired, I don’t think this person should face a trial. It wouldn’t be fair.
- Comment on Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale? 3 weeks ago:
I had access to it with GamePass when it launched (I’m full Linux now so I’ve canceled that). I still pirated it because you can’t mod games distributed by Windows unless the specifically allow it. I’m saying this to say, there are alternative means to try it available if you want, but also I regret the time I wasted on it. It wasn’t worth the time spent not even spending money on it specifically, and I love previous Bethesda games and the sci-fi genre.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Very easy to get into I’d say. Just listen to your squad leader, and don’t start a squad until you know what you’re doing.
- Comment on Anon visits the Philippines 3 weeks ago:
The smell of garlic ruined your appetite? Do you have some kind of disorder? The smell of garlic is amazing!
- Comment on 2k Launcher has been fully removed from all games 3 weeks ago:
Some games include launchers for practical reasons. Launchers allow you to change settings before having the game up, for example, which can be nice. They also sometimes can do mod management, though this is less common. Paradox does mod management through the launcher, for an example of that.
Usually the launchers suck though and only slow things down, but you can also usually use an argument to skip them.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Isonzo is the newer one. I haven’t played it in a few months, but it’s similarly small but I never felt close to anyone there.
I play Squad fairly frequently, and it’s got a similar feel to what the OP is about. You choose your server with a server browser, and it’s frequently got a lot of the same people there all the time. There’s some servers that are more casual, and they end up cycling players more so you don’t recognize anyone. The more experienced focused servers draw from a much smaller group though, and they play more consistently.
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 4 weeks ago:
It would change things if it becomes systemic. If they learn to be scared of being a billionaire, maybe they’d be less likely to want to become one.
- Comment on Anon needs cooking advice 4 weeks ago:
But the salt absorbing into the pasta will be a bit different than being part of the sauce. If it’s a common issue that people you’re cooking for want less salt, fine I guess. If not, salt the water when you cook pasta.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
It’s the point of no return for something, but I suspect there’s still a future to fight for. Anyone pushing a full doomer view is trying to suppress you. In case the worst happens, you should try to build a community around yourself and support other people. Join a mutual aid group if you can (or start one). If you grow produce or something, talk to your neighbors and exchange resources.
If we build a strong foundation, nothing that happens can break us. In the worst case, they’ll try to break us and break themselves upon us. We need to be strong so we can come back stronger in the future.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 4 weeks ago:
The 70s was a wild time.
- Comment on Anon tries to manipulate Tinder 4 weeks ago:
As I guess a reasonably attractive man, as the other person mentions, it’s probably a volume problem. I end up not messaging a lot of matches just out of apathy. If I don’t think their profile is interesting enough, I often just won’t message. I’m sure this is at least 10x worse for most women.
- Comment on Anon tries to manipulate Tinder 4 weeks ago:
If the best you can do is say hello, that’s pretty pethetic.
The complaint is that Bumble had something that made it unique: that women sent the first message. On other services anyone can message first, but 99.9% of the time that ends up being the man, which is fine but having something attempt to switch that up was cool. Bumble removing this makes it more like everything else.
- Comment on Anon tries to manipulate Tinder 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the old Bumble model was better (in my opinion as a man). It creates incentive to have an interesting profile with stuff people can comment on. The newer “opening move” thing incentivizes generic responses. Bumble (in my experience) still has women message first far more often than Tinder though. You may just have to wait and not message immediately.
Creating an opening message is only really difficult if someone has a generic boring profile, so if it’s an issue for anyone maybe that’s why.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely not true. All the console creators, sure, but not all developers. There are so many good developers, especially indie.
There’s issues with purchasing anything in capitalism. We have to deal with that as long as that’s the case though. It doesn’t mean Nestlé isn’t significantly worse than other campanies though, for example. There are different degrees of bad, and Nintendo is basically the top for gaming.
- Comment on Why? 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have to be AGI, though it’d certainly help. It could be a Machine Learning algorithm (the stuff we call AI in marketing today). It just needs a lot of data to train on to recognize what we want to bring and what we don’t. It’s actually a particularly good application for ML.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 weeks ago:
Personally, I think 1 holds up better. 2 isn’t bad by any means, but it was one of the first games with physics and the physics puzzles get old fast. It was amazing at the time, but now it’s not as interesting because we’ve seen it a million times.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
I use a Chemex, and I have used Fedora. I’m on Garuda now, which is my favorite, which is Arch based but with extra stuff, so the Chemex makes a lot of sense (fancy pour-over).
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 5 weeks ago:
So say we all!