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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Tits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I gave it its 69^th^ upvote. Nice.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people recommend Brave browser.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your attitude is very reasonable. I strive to be as unreasonable as I can.

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  ___ “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people recommend Brave browser.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I will reject the misbehaving website rather than resort to using Chromium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If your training data has a pixelated circle as an input and a circle as output, your neural network will “upscale” your pixelated circle to a circle. If your training data has a pixelated circle as input and a high definition pie as output, your neural network will “upscale” your pixelated circle to a high definition pie. It’s the same algorithm in both cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not yet been decided what monetary damages, if any, will result from the ruling, nor is it clear if Subnautica 2’s release will be affected.

  Sounds to me like fair damages would start with removing Unknown Worlds from Krafton’s ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hostile design: sink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it’s plausible. They might not have wanted a home inspector writing up “low water pressure” as a potential problem. 'Course, the inspector might write “water splashes out of the sink” as a problem instead, but that at least is more straightforward to solve, rather than being possibly indicative of a bigger hidden problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hostile design: sink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, hostile design (or “hostile architecture,” which is the more searchable term) is like IRL enshittification: it’s not just when it’s bad, it’s when it’s intentionally bad in order to serve some goal other than fulfilling the needs of the user.

  The most common example is a bench with an armrest in the middle so that homeless people can’t (easily/comfortably) sleep on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Theoretically doing something right, you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 3.14 Day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to evolve wheat from primordial soup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That wasn’t dressing for jazzercise; this was dressing for jazzercise!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Being overweight is in an entirely different category than the other attributes you mentioned because it’s a choice, and more importantly because physical fitness is directly relevant to a soldier or sailor’s ability to perform their duty. In fact, the show itself addresses this: there are scenes that show Tilly jogging around the ship so that she can get a “physical endurance commendation” and be more likely to get into the Command Training Program.

  If she were a civilian character, sure: no judgement, no problem. But having an overweight military officer (especially if they hadn’t acknowledged and addressed it the way they did) would be problematic in a legitimate, non-judgemental, suspension-of-disbelief-defying way.

  (That said, I don’t think Tilly was anywhere near big enough for fan complaints to actually be legitimate. I’m just saying that, in principle, that category of complaint could be legitimate for that type of character, in contrast to complaints about race/sex/hair that are never valid.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German man says american are savages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So he’s saying “send a German” but what I’m hearing is “tow a gurney with a bike.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I didn’t want to shove that all into clarifying square brackets within a quote, OK?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I LOL’d at the “this data is internally valid in the sense that I am precisely average in all respects, in relation to all the other [zero] people I know of the same sex” part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fascism bad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (Edit, if you wanna read more there’s an open source textbook I use: opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/ )

  Let me guess: illegal in Florida?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fascism bad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How the fuck is [being scared and angry] “better”?

  Through the power of sarcasm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder when we’ll find out that flood basalts (the Deccan Traps, in this case) are the “exit wounds” of the meteor impacts?

  (That’s my hypothesis, anyway, but I don’t have the geology background to investigate it properly.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop being a blob, and buy my skeletal system.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What the Hell am I supposed to do with a pile of bones without any ligaments?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨National Institute of Health Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Being “certified” and “recognized” isn’t a requirement for unions; it is a courtesy afforded by labor to management. Workers are more than capable of going back to things like wildcat strikes and other stuff management won’t like, if they forget that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the person you asked, but for me:

  • The music CD rootkit
  • removing OtherOS from the PlayStation 3
  • trying to push various proprietary formats like MemoryStick and MiniDisc
  • DRM in ATRAC3
  • etc.

  Take your pick!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cycle lane paused after thousands of locals object⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the ol’ “this project is stupid because it isn’t finished yet” argument. 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good riddance. All consoles are cancer, by their walled-garden nature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally (city dweller) a car is a time machine. I can get where I need to go mostly on a bike or my feet, but if I’m pressed for time - and that happens plenty - a car can get me there faster.

  If your city were designed properly, that wouldn’t be true. Not that it was the most scientific thing in the world, but Top Gear famously demonstrated biking being faster than driving across London, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐲 mg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the pathetic t-rex to the mighty chicken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judges Grow Angry Over Trump Administration Violating Their Orders⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me, waiting for one of those judges to actually throw a Trump admin official in a holding cell for contempt:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand they say the modified ads are offensive, but it’s still kind of annoying that the article doesn’t include any side-by-side comparisons so we can see how bad it actually is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Inside you are two old ladies. One of them is Sophia and the other one is Rose.

  terrible risqué joke twist

  ___ Blanche supplied the strap-ons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Deep⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and all their other tripe

  Not sure if generic insult or if you’re talking about actual tripe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Deep⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I’d call any part of the process of making pemmican “frying.”