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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite metroidvanias?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding some more people haven’t mentioned:

  • Guacamelee! on Steam
  • Sundered on Stadia, funny enough. It was a great couch co-op Metroidvania
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Can Hide Images in Text Data and Embeds Directly into DNS TXT Records⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn’t stop to think if you should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And this kinda explains/retcons how Ahsoka was able to take on all the clone troopers during Order 66 as they show at the end of that episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed with this, but I don’t think it was entirely the point of Destin’s video, as more of his focus was about keeping jobs local to the United States. Unfortunately his bit at the end about companies spending more money for local manufacturing is not how Wall Street works, and that’s all corporations care about. If from a national standpoint, retaining this knowledge is vital to the security of the country, the government should be investing in keeping that production in the countries via tax subsidies or other incentives. Corporations won’t do it on their own if it means less profit for them, and imposing tariffs will just be passed to the citizens with no industrial gain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the line of self sufficient? I remember a story about a guy who made a BLT sandwich from scratch, it took him 6 months and thousands of dollars. Sure he was self sufficient, but it’s not sustainable to produce 100% of everything yourself. In the Smarter Everyday video, almost everything was supplied from another vendor, and there was no mention on where the raw materials came from to make the parts made in the America. If anything, being able to supply the chain mail from China (via India) allowed the production to be resilient to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I also watched the whole thing, and have to imagine that a lot of xenophobic stuff was edited out when they found out their chainmail from India was actually from China. That section was so cringe, they had someone on earlier who spoke Chinese, why not ask him what it meant or research some more, than make assumptions and air that lightly filtered.

  I get he’s making a point to invest in local manufacturing, but then knowingly having the excess supply of chainmail come from India defeats the point he’s trying to make. Considering the handle for the first 2000 are from costa rica and the excess chainmail after the 2000 units was at least thought to be from India, it seems rare anything being sold is 100% Made in America, yet has a price tag 4x as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do americans assume they invented the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re getting a lot of comments correctly pointing out that ARPANET was actually invented by the US in the 1970s and was the precursor to the Internet. I think it’s your question which is phrased incorrectly, and not the point you’re trying to make. Assuming this and rephrasing your question to mean the World Wide Web (not the Internet), you’re correct, that was created by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in the 1990s, approximately 20 years after ARPANET. This brought along Hypertext websites, and basically was another step in the foundation of the internet as we know it today.

  So rephrasing your question to “why do americans assume they invented the web (websites)?”, it’s mainly because the underlying infrastructure of the internet was originally developed by the US government, so even before websites existed, domain names were heavily American leaning, with .gov being US Government websites, and .edu being US Universities, etc. Other countries at the time had ccTLD for their country code, like .uk, .au, etc and when it came time to assign domain names, they chose to use .co.uk or .com.au for example, rather than .com.

  I assume that americans rarely encounter a .com.au or other ccTLD domain names, and largely are going to .com websites. They probably assume that the .au TLD was tacked on to support Australia because they didn’t invent the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of the month - this community will be relocating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  is this an instance thing, so like if it appears empty to me, that means there has not been any new posts since someone on the instance I’m on subscribed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What if this doesn't work?' The 'Severance' cast reflects on Season 2's biggest swings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s going to be glad she doesn’t have to go through whatever is next alone. Neither Mark nor Helly have any plan, but whatever it is they’re doing it together.

  Also that final scene was very similar to the ending of The Graduate, which had the same sort of theme. In both cases, they have no plan and no clue what to do next after running away together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He voiced John Redcorn for those who don’t want to click through to TMZ:

  Joss was the voice of John Redcorn in “King of the Hill.” He also landed a big part in “Parks and Recreation” as Chief Ken Hotate. And he had small roles in TV shows such as “Tulsa King,” “Ray Donovan,” and films like “True Grit” and “The Magnificent Seven.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s a product of its time, but I had a week off in 2009 and went through the first two seasons very quickly that week. IIRC, it being on Netflix in the early days let people binge it and contributed to its success while it was still airing which made it very popular. I’d venture to say it may be one of the first bingeable shows, but because that wasn’t a thing at the time, it didn’t follow the bingeable formula, so maybe that’s why it doesn’t feel like modern bingeable shows?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many sites are we talking about? I have like 600 passwords in my password manager, it would be insane to try to remember each of the rules for when I changed the password last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV series has the best intro song or sequence? What TV series have the worst intro song or sequence?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clone High and Sealab 2021 are both so good. 20 years later and they’re still stuck in my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diagrams⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They actually teach Electrical Engineers to yell IEEE when shocked by high voltage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nathan Fielder Pulls Off His Biggest Feat Yet on the Season Finale of 'The Rehearsal'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was fantastic, what a ride of a season. Not sure if I’d fly as a passenger of his, but I enjoyed the ride watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a triumph

  I’m making a note here

  “Huge success”

  It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sesame St is great⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More than just upsetting to viewers, the messaging of Snuffleupagus was leading to kids thinking that adults wouldn’t believe them if they were being harmed:

  The fear was that if we represented adults not believing what kids said, they might not be motivated to tell the truth. That caused us to rethink the storyline: Is something we’ve been doing for 14 years—that seemed innocent enough—now something that’s become harmful?

  smithsonianmag.com/…/brief-history-sesame-streets…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you watching and, what do you recommend this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A N D O R

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it was clear they just wanted a big name to have on the poster. The actress who played the child version of Furiosa was fantastic though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first ever earthquake fault rupture captured on a security cam in Myanmar⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding from reading Wikipedia is that both sides are moving opposite against each other, so from the observation side, it looks much faster than it would look if observed directly above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Swims in D.C.’s Rock Creek, Which Flows With Sewage and Bacteria⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drain the swamp, both figuratively and literally.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nathan Fielder Created a Fake Singing Competition for ‘The Rehearsal.’ One Contestant Lost $10,000 and Feels Betrayed: ‘I Signed Up to Be a Singer, Not a Lab Rat’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always read a contract Nathan Fielder makes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back up off my nuts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Million dollar idea (that probably violates campaign finance laws): Come up with a service that allows you to donate to any candidate, and will not sell or share your information, and will never contact you. The fee is $1 regardless of the donation amount. There has to be 1m people who would find this worth the added fee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced to lie on a questionnaire⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, the only way this would be acceptable if this was in an application for a Social Media manager position?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had to guess, i think most of it comes down to not wanting to understand how society works, and finding it easier to think everything should come for free to them. If I couldn’t afford my car payments and someone told me that if you’re a sovereign citizen, you don’t have to pay, I could see how desperation could lead people to think they could get out of obligations. There’s also probably a large group of influencers and scammers who are incentivized to spread this misinformation, which is how it spreads.

  It’s also likely that for minor infractions, they’re let off with a warning from an officer who doesn’t want to deal with them, and this emboldens them to think they’re correct in how society functions, until they get an officer who won’t put up with them, or do something so egregious, it can’t be ignored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue I had with slingshot was in whatever version released for the switch at release, maybe in 1.3? Tbh I have not tried with the slingshot in newer versions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Andor' creator reveals scrapped K-2SO 'horror movie' episode⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could always have a horror spin off show of the spy thriller show, that is a prequel of an action movie, that’s a prequel to the original movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  having played maybe 500 hours with controller only, maybe I don’t know what I’m missing, but the controls don’t seem that bad. Only thing which comes to mind as terrible is the slingshot, i never even try to use that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really sad next week is the final arc but all good things must come to an end.