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- Comment on gen z gorillas 4 weeks ago:
I wanted to confirm this because it was so cool.
The main hit I found was a National Geographic article (paywall it seems) from Jul 18, 2012
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Right? The math here is all over the place. Like he figured out how much WoW would cost over two years and then asked ChatGPT for an investment plan with $950 or something.
- Comment on What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers? 2 months ago:
From a marketing perspective, it sounds like a slam dunk. Someone wants to sue you, with lots of fanfare, saying that your energy drink doesn’t actually give you wings? Sure, come in at us. In the mean time, we’ll take out ads everywhere with fake apologies about not actually giving you wings.
- Comment on How do I... Do court? I didn't realize my license was expired and got pulled over. Now I have court tomorrow. 2 months ago:
That’s a bummer. I would have a plan for how to get to the courthouse without personally driving, otherwise the judge might take offense with how you arrived there illegally and do something more drastic.
- Comment on How do I... Do court? I didn't realize my license was expired and got pulled over. Now I have court tomorrow. 2 months ago:
It might be too late, but if you have your license renewed bring that up to the judge. They will ask you how do you plead, I wouldn’t try to pull any shit with the not guilty plea. Just say you plead guilty, it was a mistake, and you renewed it immediately.
I had my state inspection expire and it was dismissed by the judge. Just dress nice, be respectful, and tell them it happened and you fixed it ASAP. You will still have to pay a court fee, so you won’t get out of jail free, but not having points on your license is worth it.
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 3 months ago:
… he slowly rises out of his wheelchair before collapsing under his own weight as his atrophied legs give out. Your party must now find a way to move him away from the orcs without amusing his newly healed legs, perhaps on a nearby chair with wheels.
- Comment on Giga-Vaxxed Fauci Somehow Contracts Ultra-Rare West Nile Virus On Heels Of COVID-19 Infection 3 months ago:
Weird that all the vaccines that we have for other diseases doesn’t seem to help against West Nile, which we don’t have a vaccine against. It’s almost like vaccines are extremely targeted against particular viruses and not a wide-spectrum disinfectant. If only he had been injecting bleach, he certainly wouldn’t be in the hospital for West Nile today.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux is back with new god sim Masters Of Albion, which looks like a stripped-down Black & White 3 months ago:
Why stop there? I might be misremembering, but I think my war panda could throw lightning bolts at our foes
- Comment on Peter Molyneux is back with new god sim Masters Of Albion, which looks like a stripped-down Black & White 3 months ago:
I just want to hear that intro song with the sailors again. I also think it would be kind of fun to play on iPad.
- Comment on It will outlive us all 4 months ago:
IDK man, it would be great if my crash cart or KVM only needed one cable. I can’t wait for USB-C on servers to be everywhere
- Comment on Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN 4 months ago:
Yeah, that’s I mean though, it’s optional and not a fundamental design of the truck.
- Comment on Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN 4 months ago:
Trucks with covers are a thing, it’s called a tonneau. What’s not normal is for them to be permanent.
- Comment on Is there any actual standalone AI software? 4 months ago:
If you are into development, the setup I use is ollama running codegemma:7b along with the Continue.dev plugin for vscode.
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 5 months ago:
I feel like in most states, non-voters overwhelm the difference between the two candidates. Vote s d find a friend to vote with.
- Comment on First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip? 5 months ago:
Think about ways to enjoy doing things with her, either things she specifically enjoys that you can share in her joys or things that you two do together apart from crowds, like meals and spending time together.
- Comment on First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip? 5 months ago:
I think my wife and I have this down pretty well, so here’s our guidelines:
- Figure out some structure. We usually plan one “thing” per day. Whether that’s catching a train between cities, a particular museum, or a guided tour. This helps with pacing when you are there because you don’t have to think too much day to day, but you won’t feel like you wasted a whole day.
- Figure out food options. I usually make a Google Maps saved list of different kinds of restaurants in every city. The goal here isn’t a plan, but simply to have good options no matter where in the city you end up. You will less than one dinner per day of travel after you consider travel time, don’t waste it on some tourist trap that you happen to be nearby when the time comes. I’ll usually make a dinner reservation for every other night to make sure we get some incredible meals.
- Naps. It’s vacation, just plan on taking a nap everyday. Our first trip was together was to southern Spain and we’ve just decided that siestas are for us.
- Self-Guided tours on the first day. If you are Americans traveling to Europe, I’d recommend the Rick Steve’s app and then splitting a pair of AirPods together as you walk around. He does the whole look here, walk here, turn left tour thing, but it’s self paced. We try to do this the first day we’re in a city so we get an idea what the major areas are. Self paced is nice because he’ll say something like “this is a great coffee shop” and we can just pause it and grab coffee if we want. Split the AirPods so you can really hear your surroundings and the tour is something you share.
- Any plans you make are just so you know your options. If you plan on taking a train between cities, look at when the next train in case you have to miss it. Same with dinner reservations or museums. If it doesn’t feel fun or convenient, you’ll want to know what your alternatives are so it’s never “something or we read in the hotel all day”. Think about “it’s raining, so we’ll go to a museum instead”. Rick Steve also does museum tours.
- Comment on Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton 6 months ago:
But blockchains get “bad” records added all the times. Database entries and blockchain blocks are both equally as susceptible to bad business logic making incorrect entries. No business is going to adopt a sales recording system that doesn’t allow them to control the entries and to reverse the entries they don’t agree with.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 7 months ago:
Why? What’s in Texas? This says Maryland
- Comment on oWo 8 months ago:
Amen to that
- Comment on oWo 8 months ago:
You’re at the top of my comment chain, so I’m replying to agree with you and take this further.
Whoever photoshopped this and the other one with the park bench that’s floating around is trying to pit liberals against each other by making it seem like fighting for trans rights and fighting to house the unhoused are opposed to each other.
For anyone reading this, don’t fall for it.
- Comment on oWo 8 months ago:
I think you and the others trying to pass off the same idea don’t seem to understand the problem here. It’s not that you can’t have satire, or fiction that acts as a social commentary. It’s that all of the examples you are mentioning aren’t trying to pass themselves off as reality . Nobody reads A Tale of Two Cities and thinks that it is literal. Or A Modest Proposal. This here is trying to pass itself off as real and as soon as it gets called out for it, the choir shows up to say “Oh, so we can’t have satire anymore”.
- Comment on oWo 8 months ago:
If there were so many examples of this in the real world, then you wouldn’t need to photoshop one.
- Comment on The 3 Body Problem (2024, creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alexander Woo) 11 months ago:
Aren’t those the shitheads who fucked up the ending of Game of Thrones?