Hudell
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- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 days ago:
I just meant that the intention behind my comment was not to attack Wikipedia in general.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 days ago:
Btw this is not an argument against Wikipedia in any way.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 days ago:
There’s a lot of misinformation on Wikipedia too, of many different kinds. Some smaller pages exists purely for someone’s PR. I’ve seen blatantly false (but “verifiable”) stuff too but the most common thing is to have pages that are just creative with the truth.
Also sometimes I’ll notice an article make multiple different claims that all point to the same source and then check the source and realize it is not a valid source for all of those claims, just some.
And also there’s stuff that gets flagged as verified based on extrapolation of data from a combination of sources. For example: one source says “John Doe facing 1 billion dollars fines if found guilty” and another source says “John Doe was found guilty”, then the article says “John Doe fined 1 billion dollars after being found guilty” as verified, then you go search the web and find no mention of any fines actually being issued following the verdict.
- Comment on 102% 3 weeks ago:
Too deep into the cult but to actually see him negatively, while seeing their whole life in shambles due to his administration.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 weeks ago:
I hate food. It’s hard to explain but it’s kinda like most food triggers my fight or flight response. It takes me a lot of willpower to eat through a regular meal. As a kid I was severely underweight because I was always avoiding food. When I moved out I took the easier approach and started eating only the stuff that was easier to eat (mostly fried and dried stuff, and some ultra processed stuff like chips and cookies). I went from one end of the BMI table to the other in ~5 years.
- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 5 weeks ago:
No idea why you’re being downvoted, the guy who created Stardew literally had his wife take care of his whole life for him while he was working on it.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
No, but life style changes may reveal you had ADHD all along and had just been lucky enough to be unaffected by it.
- Comment on If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving 1 month ago:
And modern medicine also slows it down further.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 1 month ago:
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 months ago:
I want to answer Xenogears because of all of its story and storytelling, but the worldbuilding itself is kinda standard, if not for the scope of it. You do end up learning about pretty much everything there is to learn - the world and its history, the characters and what moves them, the politics, the conflicts, the geography, the physics, the religions, the supernatural, the origins of mankind - not to mention a full class on philosophy. And then whatever question you still have left, there’s a book about it in addition to the game.
And you start with a classic amnesiac character in a small village.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 2 months ago:
Not just new ones. Last month my mom asked for help because she could no longer turn off her phone. I checked the settings and the power button had been assigned to the assistant.
- Comment on Michael 2 months ago:
My rule for considering it a sport is: anyone should be able to play it if they have everything needed. It’s impossible to be banned from a sport (banned from tournaments is not the same thing) - if you want to play, you play. If you want to make custom rules just for you and your friends, you make them and then play. Nobody can own the rights to a sport (again, not the same as that sport’s tournament). No company can ever stop others from making money with a specific sport.
If you have any kind of ball you can play soccer. If you have anything that can represent chess pieces, you can play chess. If you have a kart you can have a race…
So can videogames be considered sport? Perhaps some can, but anything that requires access to a specific company’s private servers is out of the question. I’m not even gonna argue that the game should be open source, but at the very least it should have a way for anyone to spin up their own server for it.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 months ago:
Maybe I shouldn’t ask, but what are scalies?
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 months ago:
I’m Brazilian. For the first time ever, this month I started seeing ads from the US’ tourism department or something. I used to see ads from Brazilian traveling agencies that take people there, never ads directly from the US. I thought it was quite absurd to think anyone would be going there for leisure purposes any time soon, but turns out the idioms school a block from my house is taking people there every year and the 2026 group is apparently larger than usual.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 months ago:
Even the folks who bring out a guitar in every gathering they participate?
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 months ago:
Is that because we exist within a nut?
Or something like that, I don’t know. I don’t remember anything from the “the universe in a nutshell” book.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 months ago:
It was nurses for me. Not necessarily attracted them, but like a third of my matches on dating apps were nurses. And I remember one of them mentioning that it seemed like every other guy she matched with was in IT (at the time I thought it was simply because dating apps were still kinda new around here and IT people were more likely to be trying it)
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
I had a girl ask if it was OK to bring a friend once, I said it was fine. She ended up coming alone anyway.
- Comment on Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that! 3 months ago:
It happened to me once. Then I started giving LLMs more chances afterwards and it made me waste a lot more than the time it had saved me with that one single initial success.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 3 months ago:
Nah, 99% Mint is only for old computers. If you have a good pc the recommendations change a lot.
- Comment on redwoods 4 months ago:
Funny how I was able to get the pun even though I was not familiar with “je ne sais quoi”
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 4 months ago:
The recovery time is based on how well you’re playing. The better you play, the harder it hits (you).
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 4 months ago:
MKW made it much more annoying to recover if you fall behind for any reason, but if you’re in first place ahead of everyone else it’s mostly the same game as always.
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 4 months ago:
I always put handling on the minimum as I feel like I don’t need it due to drifting through anything. Speed is good for long straight stretches.
- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 4 months ago:
Go fishing but come back with a full bucket of fish within an hour.
- Comment on Working Overtime at the Disease Factory 4 months ago:
Yesterday I heard someone was a “psychologist specialized in disasters” and I was ready to sign up, but turns out they meant she works with victims of natural disasters.
- Comment on The virus she told you not to worry about. 4 months ago:
Sir, that’s a lollipop glued to your scanning machine.
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 4 months ago:
Someone went through all the trouble of carefully making everything match, only for others to not care enough to put in 0.1% of that effort and keep it in order when they work on it.
Seems like a great analogy for my work experience these days.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 5 months ago:
“everything after the ? Symbol can be removed without issue” is a bold statement to make. Reminds me when the TV news had a specialist telling people to look at urls before clicking and check if it ends with “.php” as that would mean it is a virus.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 5 months ago:
So you’d rather stick to the ground, where you can’t dive to avoid an oncoming vehicle?
