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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to read books after I wake up, but also not keep my phone in my room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way my partner eats avocado.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a better way to use a butter knife, which is to slice a grid into the half avocado, after which you can use a spoon or your fingers to pop the cubes off into a bowl. Then you can put those in a bag in the freezer to have ripe avocado anytime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pasta and potatoes are not the same thing, but you can cook and eat them together. Just cut the potatoes into chunks and add them to the water before you boil it, then add the pasta after it is boiling, then they should be finished cooking around the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also radon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holding sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If people are are ambivalent about the censorship, they probably also don’t care that people are complaining about it. To me it’s a mildly interesting quirk for an image to be self censored like that, but I’m also not going to downvote people who don’t like it since I don’t have any problem with their opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bring back physical media on PC?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any service could leverage their pre-existing DRM scheme to let you sell your copy to someone else

  But this would not be interoperable with other services, and to make it interoperable would require mutual trust and coordination between them that does not exist. Not to say that NFTs specifically are a solution here (video games are fungible after all, and porting physical ownership properties to digital goods is a problem these companies don’t want to solve to begin with), but there are actual reasons to use credibly neutral infrastructure and standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just a comic, it's a meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So to use — in conversation, do you just say “em dash” or what

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It cannot exist with a species like ours that is hardwired for greediness and self-preservation.

  In general this is a myth, being a self interested economic agent is something we’re trained to conform to, not something we do instinctually. Which isn’t to say we are naturally suited for large scale cooperation, but what the Hobbesian perspective misses is that whatever behavior you’re assuming is human nature has a context, and that context could be made very different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dawn Desert Gate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool aesthetic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We made it through this much already didn’t we? We’re in a period of accelerating change and large scale organizational dysfunction is threatening our chances of navigating it safely, but we’re not all dead yet and it’s up to us to figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about the dead internet theory?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that a lot of it is a result of forms of interaction that are easy to falsify and which real people are not expected to exercise judgment on. Fake likes, views, and upvotes involve little that can be scrutinized at the user level and are mainly a negotiation between spammers and a social media company. Those companies favor organizing their sites around these sorts of shallow metrics, and selling a passive experience that confers or requires next to no social agency, because they want to be able to treat the people using their services as commodities they own.

  These problems would be greatly diminished with social networks that are actually social.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Money laundering?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone played Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes sense as a way to think about it. This game probably does shift the balance a little away from micro in various ways, for instance there’s some autoaim, and usually ways to cheese boss fights a little so you don’t have to do precise dodges

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone played Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing with mouse and keyboard, but I just checked and it works with a gamepad

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a lot, as far as I can tell? I’m more expressing doubt than making an argument. You are claiming you know they do exist and what defines them, but I don’t see reasons to be confident about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear what you’re saying, that at a certain level of wealth the power hierarchy becomes about seniority, and I don’t know that it’s wrong, but I’m not sure what reason there is to believe it either. Certainly people like elon musk are not all powerful, but what does that really say about the state of things when it would be hard to point to anyone who gets everything they want on a level beyond that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you saying tech oligarchs don’t have as much desire or ability to control people’s lives and prevent threats to their power?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the bottom of the page it says

  Sign up now

  Stop Killing GamesA sister campaign of Stop Killing Games

  I wonder if there’s some way to corroborate that or they made a statement somewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI banners: what owner sees vs what I see⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like the OP banner much but I do like this one. There’s something really compelling about the abstract take older image models had on video game environments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WOMEN.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I figured it’s a watermark but it’s very confusing because it looks like part of the content and is incoherent if interpreted that way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you vet a person asking to be a mod? Unlike others don't want to read their entire post history. How come pretty much no one is asking to be a mod on c/askhistorians?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how the lemmy version of that sub works but I subscribed to the reddit version for a long time and it seemed uniquely dependent on very effortful expert moderation and involves removing a lot of highly upvoted comments, very intimidating task to take on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Startling Epiphany⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really like this one, very evocative

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the internet like before Y2K happened ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my first exposures to the internet was in school, a teacher plugged a computer into a telephone, it made weird noises, then we waited five minutes to load a website with facts about frogs, I’m pretty sure he had to type in an ip address that was written down on paper. Later I printed out videogame walkthroughs at the library. It wasn’t really until after Y2K that I really started using its more interactive features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It basically means you need a VPN to torrent because if you rack up enough letters they might shut off your internet, but there’s a big distinction between those letters and a lawsuit, they are way closer to just a scare tactic. Their text suggests a lawsuit might be a followup possibility, but that isn’t really true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I think is worth mentioning (US specific), there was a period in the 2000s with a lot of prosecutions, but then industry groups switched tactics to pushing ISPs to do enforcement with mass copyright letters, and ceased actually bringing lawsuits against small pirates for the most part. People are normally more worried than they need to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Going forward they should do it think it through,

  mutes audio for the rest of the sentence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rotund⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is someone out there whose job is bald hedgehog masseuse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extremely common red dwarf L⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what’s the reason? They are not consistent enough and changes in light/heat output would kill any life that arose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Being silenced hurts, rejection hurts. Whatever you were hoping for by writing in that space, whoever you were trying to communicate with, you can’t do it anymore, whatever part of yourself you invested in it, you lose. It does matter and it’s fine to let yourself grieve that loss.