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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To expand on this: You can migrate accounts fairly easily. You can export your subscribed communities, and import them into your new account. So the only real thing you’re losing is your post history, but even that is seen as a bonus by many users who are looking to burn their old account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game surprised you with their length?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okami. Every time I finished an area, I thought I was nearing the end of the game. And every time, I was presented with a new, even larger area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting that the masks in the cabin aren’t designed to keep you awake. They’re just designed to keep you alive. They’re basically just hydrogen peroxide and a catalyst, which mixes when you pull the mask down. The resulting chemical reaction produces a small amount of oxygen for a short time. This is also why the instructions say to put your own mask on before helping any children; You only have 15-30 seconds of usable consciousness before you pass out, so you need the mask to stay awake long enough to help anyone else. The pilots are the only ones who actually have masks good enough to stay awake, and that’s why they immediately dive to a breathable altitude.

  Also, the entire cabin would immediately fog from the sudden pressure and temperature change. We’re talking “can’t even see your fingertips when your arm is outstretched” levels of fog.

  And while we’re talking about it, the cabin would suddenly be cold. Like absolutely fucking freezing.

  Lastly, your ears will painfully pop, and will likely ring for a while afterwards. The sudden pressure change will feel like you got slapped on the ears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Crunchy moms are the moms who push for the all-natural holistic new-age stuff. They tend to keep their kids away from technology, strive for all natural diets that avoid processed foods, homeschool their kids to keep them out of institutional systems, and (to the point I was making) they tend to avoid modern medicine vaccines. Because vaccines aren’t “natural”.

  Basically, they’re the essential oil moms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my personal theory on antivaxxers is that they’re actually more afraid of autism.

  Because autism is a very visible thing; Everyone knew that one autistic kid growing up. But there are no crunchy moms who remember life before the polio vaccine, because they’re all too young. They literally can’t even comprehend how bad some of these diseases are, because they’ve never seen the effects of them. They never lost a childhood friend to measles, or had a sibling end up infertile due to the mumps. They never saw the entire hospital wings full of iron lungs for polio patients.

  To them, these diseases are boogeymen. But autism is very real, because they have seen it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lesson learned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s tedious, but it’s mostly just a matter of waiting for the water to heat back up afterwards.

  Unplug the heater, then run the bathtub until you’re out of hot water. Turn off the bathtub, and turn off the water supply going into the heater. Attach a garden hose to the bottom of the heater, and run it to a drain somewhere. Turn the hot water on somewhere like a sink, to provide a vent to the system; It won’t run because the supply is turned off, but it’ll at least allow air into the system for when you drain the heater. Use the spigot at the bottom of the heater to drain it.

  Be prepared for a gross rush of water at first, because all of the sediment and rust will have settled to the bottom of the heater where the spigot is. Once it’s drained, you can do whatever maintenance you need. For instance, you probably need to replace the cathode rod, which is designed to wear away over time to protect the rest of the heater from corrosion.

  To do a final flush, you can open the water inlet at the top of the tank. It’ll help drain any last remaining sediment out of the tank. Then turn off the water inlet, turn off the spigot, disconnect the hose, and leave the sink tap open while you refill the tank with fresh water.

  The whole process only takes like 30 minutes, and then you’re just waiting for the heater to come back up to temperature afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stat of the day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife was caught up in that Ebola scare, because she was on the same plane that the nurse (who had been treating Ebola patients and knew she had been exposed) flew in on. The feds came knocking on her door, and basically said that if anyone in the household left the house, they would immediately go to prison. They put ankle monitors on everyone in the household, and security tape across all the doors and windows so none could be opened without visibly breaking the tape. The CDC called every hour or so to do mandatory temperature checks, and they had to talk to every person in the household to make sure everyone was still present.

  Apparently she almost got fired over it, because her manager initially didn’t believe her. She tried to pull the typical “if you’re sick you need to find someone to cover your shifts. If you can’t find anyone, you need to come in” BS that is rampant in retail. It wasn’t until my wife had the feds call her manager and basically tell her “she’s 100% under quarantine, and if you encourage her to break it we’ll haul your ass in front of a judge” that the manager relented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah you’re right; I was thinking of Lozito v. The City of New York. Same ruling; different circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turn off half the breakers. Now you know which half the outlet is on, based on whether or not it has power. Repeat.

  For instance, let’s say you have 100 breakers. You turn off the first 50. Your target outlet still has power. So now you have divided the potential number of breakers by half, and you know the breaker is somewhere in 51-100.

  So you cut that in half, and turn off 51-75. Your outlet is now dead, so you know it’s somewhere in the 51-75 range that you just turned off; if it were still on, it would be somewhere between 76-100.

  So now you reset 51-63, while leaving 64-75 off. It is still dead, so you know it is somewhere between 64-75.

  Maybe now you turn on all of the odd breakers, leaving the evens off. It is still dead, so you know it must be 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, or 74. Reset the first three. Your outlet has power now, so it must be one of the first three.

  Flip 64 and 66 off. If you get lucky, your outlet still has power and you know it is 68. But you get unlucky, and it is dead. So now you know it must be either 64 or 66.

  Flip 64 back on. If it has power, you know it’s 64. If it doesn’t, you know it’s 66.

  We just eliminated 99 breakers and found the correct one using only 8 tests. Because each test eliminated half of the potential values, it whittles things down very quickly. We went from 1-100, to 51-100, to 51-75, to 64-75, to the evens between 64-74, to only 64/66/68, to 64/66, and finally landed on 66 as the correct breaker. If we had gotten lucky earlier, we could have done it in 7 instead. If you had simply started with breaker 1, it would have taken 66 trips to the breaker box to figure out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they don’t do their job and you have proof then they’re screwed

  Nope, Warren v. District of Columbia had the SCOTUS rule that the police have no obligation to protect or serve. They can’t be sued for failing/refusing to do their job, even if it puts people in harm’s way.

  The case revolved around a dude on a train who got stabbed. There was a psycho moving down the train cars stabbing people, and the police were chasing him. A passenger saw the attacker coming, saw the police in pursuit, and decided to help. He stopped the stabber, expecting the police to quickly catch up. Instead, the police locked the passenger inside the train car with the stabber, and watched through the tiny windows until the stabber was tired out from stabbing the passenger.

  The passenger sued the police department, stating that they refused to protect him. The SCOTUS ruled that the police have no obligation to protect nor serve, and can’t be sued for failing to help you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, if your security system didn’t allow you to set motion alerts, that’s a bad system. Basically any modern system will allow you to set motion alerts. You can specify a section (or sections) of the screen that will create a flag in the footage when motion is detected.

  My job’s parking garage had a car get broken into, and a musician’s (very expensive) instrument was stolen. We didn’t have a camera pointed directly at the car that was broken into, but we had cameras at every entrance and exit, and on the ramps leading between each floor. Management was expecting to scrub through literal hours of footage. Using some basic motion detection, I set it to flag any time someone came up or went down the specific ramps or stairs that led to the level the car was on. It ended up being like 45 cars.

  Then I just did a quick timer, to see how long each person lingered on the floor. Like 40 of the cars came up the ramp from the lower level, then like 30 seconds later went up the next ramp to the next level. So it wasn’t them. Only like five of the cars actually didn’t go to the next level.

  And out of those five cars, four were seen on the stairwells leading back down to the ground floor; They had parked on the same level as the incident, and went downstairs.

  Only one car lingered on the same level for about 2 minutes, then quickly left again. At the exit, there was a camera on the gate which pointed into the cars. We got crystal clear footage of the driver, (someone who the musician knew) and the instrument case was very obviously sitting in the passenger seat.

  The entire search took like 10 minutes total, simply by being able to whittle down when people were coming and going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I enjoyed the gameplay. But the actual story of the second play through was a slog until about 75% of the way through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised I haven’t seen Undertale yet. The online fanbase is hilariously toxic, (seriously, don’t go looking for any extra details about the game after you finish it) but it’s a solid game that should be experienced 100% blind. All I’ll say is that it’s a game that is written to subvert expectations; If you go into it expecting to play it like a traditional RPG, you’ll be in for a big surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a game that relies on shifting the gameplay mechanics based on where you are and what you’re doing. There are certainly 2.5D and top-down sections, but it’s a small part of the game overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have to disagree about the second playthrough; I found it to be a very large slog. The third and subsequent playthroughs were amazing though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, Washington was wildly popular at the time. He easily could have stayed in office indefinitely, as long as nothing horrible happened. But his reasoning was that they had just rebelled against a monarchy, and he didn’t intend to start another one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively: We have gone out of our way to foster a space where LGBTQIA+ people feel comfortable. In a world full of heteronormativity, this is a space where they can truly be themselves.

  And then a straight guy walks into the gay bar, and gets upset when dudes try to flirt with him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You got a few downvotes, but you’re not wrong. Another issue is if you have tags for everything except being straight, then it sort of implies that being straight is the default “normal” option, and everyone else has to go out of their way to designate themselves as not normal. It’s something that should be left up to the users to choose, instead of having a default.

  Sort of like if you had race tags for everything except “white”, it would imply that being white was the expected norm, and everyone else has to mark themselves as outside the norm. Or for a more forced-binary example, what if a game had a “woman” tag, but no other gender tags? It would heavily imply that the expected default is “man”, and every woman (or really anyone who doesn’t explicitly identify as a man) has to self-select.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Premium Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no ReVanced or uYouPlus for iOS. YouTube is too far up Apple’s ass for them to allow something like that.

  Ironically, they allow Vinegar. But only because it’s a Safari extension (and Apple likes when people use Safari more than they like the money from YouTube.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Premium Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for Vinegar. My only real complaint is that I use Firefox as a daily driver, and Vinegar only works with Safari. Even though Firefox is using the Safari engine under the hood on iOS, (because Apple doesn’t allow third party browser engines,) it doesn’t support Safari extensions.

  I’m fine with switching to Safari to watch YouTube… But since Firefox is my default browser, YouTube links automatically open in Firefox. There isn’t a way to specify that I want everything except YouTube to open in my default browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The unfortunate part is that Nintendo is likely going to win it. It’s a Japanese company, in Japanese court, and the courts are hilariously biased in favor of Japanese companies. Nintendo has literally never lost a lawsuit in Japan against a foreign defendant, because the Japanese courts are set up to trust Japanese claimants more than foreigners by default.

  Japan has a lot of cute media and a reputation for being polite, but the harsh reality is that the country is one of the most racist in the world. They get away with it because the culture is built upon being polite. But under that polite exterior, there is a lot of overt racism. Japan is one of the most homogenous populations in the world, with 99.8% of the population being native Japanese. That remaining 0.2% includes all of the tourists, visa holders, immigrants, half-Japanese children, etc… Japan has a saying, which roughly translates to “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” In a society that is focused on blending in, immigrants stick out.

  Imagine how bad the White Power rhetoric would be if America were 99.8% white, and that other 0.2% (not 2%. Two tenths of 1%) of non-white people included tourists, immigrants, and naturalized citizens. In a packed 20,000 person stadium, that would only be 40 non-white people in the crowd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fritz Haber moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, the process for purifying aluminum is still the same as it was when it was first invented. Prior to the discovery of the Hall-Héroult processes in the mid 1800’s, (two men discovered the same process at the same time in different parts of the world,) pure aluminum was extremely rare. It used to be considered a fine metal, more expensive than silver or gold; Napoleon famously had aluminum silverware that he would use (instead of real silver) when he wanted to impress guests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also because several ballot drop boxes in liberal areas have been set on fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what Valve did. The automated refund system wasn’t available, but you could request a manual review and cite the added anti cheat; Valve was refunding those who did so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same argument as the one used against emulators. The actual emulator may not be illegal, but they are overwhelmingly used to violate the law by the end user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the current best smart TV software/brand/ecosystem option?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s a toss-up between the Nvidia Shield and the Apple TV 4K. Go with Nvidia if you want to be able to load your own custom launcher. Go with Apple TV 4K if you want ease of setup. Either one will be a workhorse of a device, both have robust app stores to run whatever streaming services you prefer, and both will run whatever custom media you want to throw at it via Plex, Kodi, or VLC’s network play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the windows bug that would break Linux booting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the issue was with Windows doing funky things with GRUB during an update. If you use your BIOS to choose your OS (instead of using GRUB) you’re fine.

  Even then, the fix is relatively simple in most cases. It’s just running a command in Windows’ Command Prompt, to re-enable GRUB after the update disables it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What careers are relatively easy to get into with decent unions behind them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Warning: You basically get no time off. Even when you’re off, you’re expected to be on-call. And no, you’re not paid extra for that.

  Railroad scheduling has reached a point where railroad companies began cutting workers. They cut so many workers that it got to the point where a single sick person can bring the entire system to a screeching halt. Instead of actually keeping enough people on the roster to actually fill their needs, they just started implementing increasingly strict attendance policies, to the point that railroad workers have basically zero time off.

  This led to the 2022 strike, where railroad workers were eventually allowed one day of PTO per year. They’re either working or on call for the other 364 days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens when the US runs out of SSNs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In this two thousand and twenty fourth year of our lord, there are still people using databases that don’t automatically append a unique number to entries to avoid this exact scenario…

• ⁨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:

  If it was just an expired license, did you get it renewed afterwards? Oftentimes, cops will issue a “fix it” ticket to encourage people to actually take care of their stuff. Basically, you’ll be able to show the judge that you got it remedied. The judge will likely look at your (otherwise spotless) record, and outright dismiss it, or knock it down to a small fine. The cop knows this will likely be dismissed if you get it taken care of, so they really just issue the ticket to force you to actually stop procrastinating and get it done. It basically puts a deadline on your renewal.

  If you haven’t renewed yet, you should start that now. At least be able to show the judge that you’re working on it.