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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just no.

  Even if you think it’s a good idea, there’s way too much room for error. Hundreds of people in the UK have been charged with falsely accusing someone of rape. Just two years ago a woman beat herself with a hammer to accuse someone. Multiple innocent people where harassed, had their homes vandalized, there was attempted suicide, etc. And now they want to add more trauma?

  It’s not an “ethical minefield”, it’s sociopathic to even consider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No time to explain, grab a milk and look at the camera⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing he was from the New York area. Since it had been spreading from upstate New York since the 30s and 40s among people working in freezing buildings like warehouses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weapons trafficking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember it being revealed what Rob’s job is, but he is transferred from New York to Paris. And it’s his former townhouse that is used in Home Alone 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sarah Michelle Gellar Promises ‘Buffy’ Reboot Will Honor the Late Michelle Trachtenberg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Either type is known to cause an increase in mortality rates for transplant patients, especially if it is not discovered early. And it can occur in up to 30% of liver-transplants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And I was just about to register :/⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same thing that’s wrong with imgur and many other websites: It was made for a singular purpose, but over the years it was turned more and more into a commercialized social media platform.

  If you open fandom now, about half the page is filled with links, images, notifications, etc. trying to get you to join their “community”, and things like that. And that’s with adblock. Without it’s actually hard to find what is the real content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This ad that claims that windows 11 is 3 times faster than windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s misleading, but not wrong based on the hardware…

  • i3-6100U - 2015, 15W TDP base speed 2.3Ghz (has no turbo), 3MB cache

  • Ultra 5 125U - 2023, 15W base TDP, base speed 1.3Ghz, turbo 4.2Ghz(57W), 12mb cache.

  Honestly I’m surprised they didn’t go for the Ultra 9, with a 2.3(45W) base and 5.1 tubo(115W) and 24MB cache.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sarah Michelle Gellar Promises ‘Buffy’ Reboot Will Honor the Late Michelle Trachtenberg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s had some sort of chronic illness for a while. And diabetes isn’t that rare for people who have a liver transplant(which she did last year).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weapons trafficking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish this stupid meme would die.

  They say it and refer to it multiple times during the opening: THE UNCLE THEY ARE VISITING IS THE ONE PAYING FOR THE VACATION.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has been the “deal with C-suite issues” IT guy, that is honestly accurate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France’s new laser rifle silently melts electronics at 500 meters — and Ukrainian infantry could really use it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty common to avoid using products from other companies in PR photos(if there’s no deal). And the prominant picatinny rail is enough to tell any potential buyers that they can attach almost anything they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all C-suite executives pushing this onto executives below them, who push it onto their organizations as mandates.

  That is currently the core of the issue. It’s tech-bros and executives gassing eachother up, and most are too far gone to realize that they’re heading for a cliff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost 60% of Cuban-Americans voted for Trump, the second time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can already hear the future. Where teachers who were overzealues will be lamenting how the younger generation doesn’t trust a word from authoritarian figures, after having spent years being falsely accused and not believed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, most higher ups who keep going on about people not working when they’re home, are lying. Some of them believe it, but that’s mostly projection.

  They like use it as an excuse, because they know real reasons would make them sound like idiots. It’s things like not wanting to “waste” money on their 10year rental of office space that no one uses. Can’t keep paying some office managers and people in HR if there’s no one in the office. And so on and so forth. They literally want to expenditure at the cost of company revenue.

  TL;DR: Modern MBA education needs to be thrown out and rebuilt from scratch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The [new] owners told customers that they didn’t know about the lifetime subscriptions when they bought VPNSecure, and they cannot honor the purchases.

  I’m guessing their legal team consist of a a 19 year old paralegal, or whatever c-suite decided on this did not check with their actual lawyer.

  … however, its terms of service names the company “HOLDXB Trading FZCO trading as VPN Secure, IFZA Business Park, Dubai - UAE.”

  Aha, yeah they don’t care and the service should be dead to anyone who uses VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeoGuessr's Steam Release Hit With Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews For "Completely Pointless" Monetization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a recent change that went into effect on March 1.

  developers.google.com/maps/…/faq

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeoGuessr's Steam Release Hit With Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews For "Completely Pointless" Monetization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you install a “f2p” game, get ten rounds(which takes a few minutes) and then you have to subscribe to play anymore, and the only option is $30 for a year?

  Yeah, that is deserved rating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Blood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a limitation of the (ancient) engine the game is on, as I understand it.

  Old engine isn’t always bad. It is if you do like Todd and just slap more and more plugins and technology on top and call it a new engine, instead of fixing underlying issues or rewriting/updating old parts.

  Which is why Starfield NPCs walk onto tables and become owls when the camera zooms into conversations, etc: It is the same code that is used in Skyrim and partly Oblivion. And Todd Howard doesn’t want devs doing silly things like fixing twenty year old code, he wants new and bigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMERICAN POPE LETS GO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No kuru is just one form of prion disease that was found in one are. And from what I remember, it has never been found in other people, as it most likely developed as a sub-type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(・・;φ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed.

  Yeah people don’t just go limp, there is enough time to slip away. And you wake up pretty quick if you don’t keep breathing it in. Back when they actually used ether and chloroform as anesthesia, they had this little metal cage they’d put over the patient mouth to extend it away from the mouth, which would be wrapped in gauze and then have ether or chloroform constantly dripped on top.

  And if you try to speed it up by using more, you’re more likely to kill the patient than knock them out or numb them. Since it depresses the central nervous system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, it’s anoychia, the picture went viral a few years ago whe someone posted it on reddit. It’s an extremely rare genetic mutation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying there’s going to be another Stardew Valley update, I don’t even know at this point. Right now I am focused on my next game. So, we’ll see.

  -September, 2021

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The decision making behind this is incredibly hard for me to understand. Just a very, very nonsensical way to run the project, on paper. I wonder about the circumstances.

  The rights were aquired by Take-Two Interactive, who immediately wanted a sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly taps Nexon to publish Overwatch mobile and a new StarCraft game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it still brings in several million dollars a month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The honours course⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. There are no species of hornet that produce honey(only bees and some wasp do)

  2. Those aren’t hornets

  3. That’s honeycomb

  4. It’s still mainly after the larvae, although it will probably eat some of the honey and comb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fishing games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The varied enviroment really helps.

  You can stand on a leafy, forested river bank with deer grazing nearby in the reeds as the sun rises. It can be the dock of a large lake with boats driving by during the day. Or you can be by a tiny rocky mountain lake shore as the sun sets over the distant hills. It’s can be really relaxing(as long as you’ve cleared the are and aren’t attacked by a wild animal)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi checking out another CEO in my feed ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s already made a deal to have it pre-installed on the new Razr phones from Motorola, and has hinted that Samsung is doing the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So is this another tech-bro sniffing his own farts, or does he have some plan to force the browser on people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon always gets his man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup.

  You can buy portable frying pans that run on the 12V AUX power. And you can get it hot enough to burn things. Although it takes 10-20min for it to reach that temperature, even with the lid on. And you can’t just keep frying a bunch of things without letting it reheat.