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- Comment on Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page 1 day ago:
My worst offender would be the Neptunia games I’ve played (which I genuinely liked for gameplay lol) but honestly, if your gaming family can’t accept you at your Nep, they don’t deserve you at your NepNep.
- Comment on Nobody will question you 1 week ago:
To be fair, I’m snarky because plenty of colleges (and way too many high schools) still do this shit because it’s not about the knowledge, it’s about the signalling to employers that the student will make a good cog in their machine.
To anyone struggling in a stats course: real data science is programming, not math. If you’re on Lemmy there is a good chance you’re a better data scientist than your hack of a teacher.
- Comment on Nobody will question you 1 week ago:
If you’re in a college statistics course and you’re doing graphs by hand and not generated entirely be statistics software, the skills you’re learning are useless anyway.
- Comment on Nobody will question you 1 week ago:
Assuming it’s a correction line, I don’t think you can tell from the slope of that line alone as the clustering will matter and correlations are finicky. Now, if it was a regression coefficient, that sexy line can be calculated just by looking at it (although we’d want to know if it was significant, lol).
- Comment on Writing tip: just start brain dumping 1 week ago:
I teach for a living and this wouldn’t negatively impact the grade. But real talk you’re usually using a rubric anyway unless you want admin breathing down your neck after a disgruntled student takes issue with the A minus you gave her.
- Comment on How much can we hope is being put in place behind the scenes at the US federal level to mitigate the damage Trump will do? Can any of it be effective? 1 week ago:
On the state level, there are protections (for now) since a ton of stuff has to be done to the constitution to remove such powers and they don’t have the majority needed for that. Sure there are loopholes, but for every fed willing to turn a blind eye, there’s a state rep willing to disregard their made up policy. CA already has a lawsuit fund, lol.
The federal level gets dicier. Despite the kiss asses on the GOP side, I don’t think they’ll have the courage to do deeply unpopular things for their region. For instance, removing the Dept of Education isn’t popular in places that get a lot of that Title I money. That ain’t a safe guard the Dems put in place, per se, but they made it in 79 under Carter and even Reagan couldn’t get the support to undo it in 80.
Any current safe guards? Biden is unfortunately very bad at these things as far as I can tell and what good he did will likely be credited to Trump despite the truth. Best we’ve got I think is just trying to sure up as much Ukraine support as possible. The house Dems might have the best shot, though, given the narrow lead. With Senate, it’s probably a good thing Manchin wouldn’t let Dems abolish the filibuster… although the GOP might go ahead and do that themselves this time. Senators don’t really have to answer to their constituents because of incumbent advantage, so there isn’t at much deal making like in the house.
- Comment on GOG’s Game Preservation Program Gets Tested Early By Blizzard 1 week ago:
Obligatory mention that ExoDos exists. Look it up.
Y’know, I kind of get why a storefront would prefer delisting when there’s just a more complete or more “HD” version. I’ve had a friend buy an old version of a game for the same price as the “complete” version since both were up and he didn’t check. Blizzard is obviously just trying to promote their remake, but I wouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
(I’d still prefer having options, though, and that option should be free because playing the DOS version of Warcraft 2 would likely help promote the HD version, as sort of a demo. That game is fire and deserves the love, too bad the execs are morons).
- Comment on 🗣 📢 W A T E R 1 week ago:
I know a ton of people with English words tattooed in cool fonts. That said, they rarely are nonsense like Charcoal Grill.
No regarts, though, right?
- Comment on The things you can buy on amazon 1 week ago:
Why do the comments feel a bit whooshy on this one?
That said, I bet you could find a kidnapper starter kit somewhere on the Internet. Fun fact, chloroform doesn’t work the way you think it does— it isn’t instant and it doesn’t last long enough to be of any use like this. Movies have lied to you. Keep this in mind if you have weekend plans with any CEOs near you!
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 2 weeks ago:
NGL, kind of like the look.
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 2 weeks ago:
It won’t happen but that’d be such a fucking what the entire establishment would melt.
I’d pardon him for the lols, at Bidens age you gotta live a little.
- Comment on Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now! 2 weeks ago:
Gosh that gentleman has a nice smile. And he allegedly brought a smile to millions of Americans nationwide, too!
- Comment on Square Enix Appears To Be Using The DMCA Takedown Process To Silence Criticism 2 weeks ago:
I’ll have you know that’s a chastity cage and Yoko Taro put himself in that position in preparation for the next big thing!
- Comment on Forgot your moms azz 2 weeks ago:
Inappropriate anecdote for shit memes: my 2 year old says hello to the moon when I pick her up around 5pm from daycare, and she says goodbye to the moon when we exit the house and goodnight to the moon when she goes to bed if it’s visible from her window.
Moon love is real, yet somehow only Mr. Sun gets a song.
- Comment on Share holder value 2 weeks ago:
It’s ok, Christmas came early.
- Comment on Share holder value 2 weeks ago:
I really liked that one, it was soooo fucked though (no spoilers, but let’s just say it’s a bit mind blowing). It lead to similar side missions where you got to do that to others, too.
- Comment on 'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the sorcerer subclass. From what I understand it’s not the cow-falling-from-the-sky good times from BG2 though. Might need mods for real craziness.
- Comment on 'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025 2 weeks ago:
Man, I still having had time to do my wild mage run. Granted a friend wanted in on that for the shenanigans.
- Comment on 'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025 2 weeks ago:
While that take is correct in 98% of circumstances, this isn’t one of them for a couple of reasons. BG3 has enough content at release to play for several years and have different experiences each time. The fact that it’s getting free additional content is more so because of people making the game popular in it’s first year, showing that CRPGs aren’t dead, etc. The game won literally every GotY award, for crying out loud.
There’s not a ton of other games I’d say this is bad take, but you know, it’s like complaining about Terraria or Dead Cells or something. At some point you get the game and you return to it periodically.
The only two reasons to put it off? You’re too poor or you don’t have time for a 300+ hour time investment. It’s not gonna get a steep discount anytime soon, though.
- Comment on Just a nice toilet paper with some flower prints. 2 weeks ago:
My mom used to always buy budget TP from outlet and dollar stores, this would be on that list. It’ll also feel like sandpaper and tear the moment it touches your ass, the spiders might be the least of your problems.
- Comment on Subscribe now for more clicks! 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good thing that market is so saturated that there’d always be a cheap uncomplicated mouse with all your features, unless you’re some sort of MMO mouse person.
That said, a company can probably still sell this to the government with enough lobbying. Those chumps love wasting cash on subscriptions they don’t need (looking at you, Adobe Cloud).
- Comment on Cooking advice 3 weeks ago:
I’m just so glad all the comments have such useful advice for folks. I second the tips suggesting throwing it in frozen and adding more water when things get spicy.
- Comment on healthy routine 3 weeks ago:
Probably! I think they just didn’t defed from lemmynsfw or whatever it’s called. They always appear around the double digits.
Used to also include furry porn but I think they defederated from that. Honestly I either ignore it or say “you go girl” and move on.
- Comment on healthy routine 3 weeks ago:
It’s Lemmy, even the All feed has an end (and that end is usually porn).
- Comment on healthy routine 3 weeks ago:
Oh, that’s the anxiety version!
- Comment on I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office 3 weeks ago:
Let’s be real, though, it really is bliss when there’s no one else around. Hell is other people, after all!
When I had mandatory in person office work, almost my entire team took time off, including the boss, leaving me and my mostly automated data job alone. I brought my steam deck on those days. It was bliss.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 3 weeks ago:
I imagine that’s still their property, given the fence in the foreground, but those screws sticking out could have been a great slip-and-fall style multi-million dollar lawsuit my just cutting yourself a little with a “rusty” screw. My building HOA got sued for less before I moved in, and insurance just caves without checking if it’s legit since that can just up the premiums.
- Comment on Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US? 4 weeks ago:
NPR was literally talking about this earlier in the morning, specifically within academia. I forget the speaker, but they cited that after Brexit, neighboring countries saw a rise in quality researchers who opted not to stay or study in the UK.
Honestly, even 2016 gives us some insight though and if I recall correctly, it never really caused significant brain drain. A little hard to measure people who never were here to begin with, but even my wife mentioned her reason for staying after the election and it’s because there’s still money to be made here.
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 4 weeks ago:
Better than a raspberry!
- Comment on it's raining hot death in Minnesota 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but it only feels 117. A brisk wind.