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9point6

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  • TIL that Benito Mussolini, enacted the Acerbo law, providing that the largest political party would automatically receive two-thirds of the seats

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  • Just some additional context that not everyone has:

    There was a propaganda campaign run by a chap named Matthew Elliott to make sure of the no outcome in the AV vote. Billboards with "baby needs a hospital not a voting system" and similar all over the country

    That same chap was pretty instrumental in the Vote Leave campaign

  • I know which one I am.

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  • The severity of each level is different

    I think matching wine glasses is relatively uncontroversial, but also understandable if kinda mismatched. A contingent of matching tumblers is also fine but you need the random pint glasses too at the very least. I maintain a fully matching set of mugs is a red flag

  • When you wanna watch something but for whatever reason using a big screen is inconvienient, would you just watch it on your phone or wait till you find the time to watch it on the big screen?

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  • I don't really like watching video on my phone, so I'll pretty much always go for the nearest bigger screen unless there's no option to do that.

    I honestly think most of the time I would just not watch the video rather than watch on my phone

  • TIL drinking, smoking, games, etc are all "social lubricants" for making conversations easier.

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  • I don't really smoke anymore, but the smoking ban in the UK (no smoking indoors from 2007) created the concept of the smoking area outside a pub/club and some of my best friendships in life ultimately started in that Petri dish

    A smoking area outside anywhere in the northwest of the UK about 10-15 years ago was just peerless in calibre

  • I'm Not Into Politics

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  • If you don't keep an eye on politics, it only keeps an eye on you

  • 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

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  • I more meant now they're not being made because Micron recently killed the Crucial brand to focus supply towards data center customers

  • 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

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  • TBF that is a crucial ram stick in the picture, those are rare shinies now

  • Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...)

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  • You know what's really stupid about this

    Notepad existed for decades, resisting the general trend of Microsoft software, and it continued to do one thing, and do it well (for the purposes of this argument, let's not get started on line endings)

    If someone wanted to do more than just view text files, there was wordpad, a stripped down word processor, that would have been the perfect application to add support for markdown to.

    Except they killed it, because enough people must have realised that the word processor bundled with the OS did everything they needed without having to pay Microsoft a subscription for Word.

    So now Microsoft is trying to turn notepad into the rudimentary word processor that people expect to come with their OS, destroying the aspect that made it useful

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  • And without fail, every accusation continues to be an admission

  • ‘BARF O’CLOCK’ [OC]

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  • I gotta ask where the idea for this one came from

  • TIL for at last 15 years US government has been able to implant hardware into USB cables to turn them into hacking devices with wireless capability.

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  • Not just the US government, anyone has been able to do this for years

  • Nope, not visiting that

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  • Goddamn so everyone's a bastard, eh?

  • Accuracy is relative

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  • WiFi router: 📡

  • What subscription based services are actually worth the money?

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  • A good VPN that values privacy is a pretty easy answer

    Random one, but I get a lot of use out of a boardgamesarena premium membership. I've got a few mates that I can't see IRL as much any more, so it's nice to be able to jump on a video call and play some board games. Only one in the group needs a membership to unlock all the games and it's about £30 for the year. Easily better value than a few hours in a pub

    I have other subscriptions I find varying levels of useful for me, but hard to argue for many of them being particularly good value.

  • You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

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  • Good

    Hopefully the rest of the industry takes note too

  • The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

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  • 45 bucks gets you on with a FAKE one?

    What's a REAL ID?

  • The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

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  • I'm sorry they let people get on planes without ID in the US?!

  • What's some "Human Music" that you enjoy? [context in body]

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  • I can't really see a similarity between the scene and the other track you posted personally, I'm curious what makes something "feel like" it to you?

    Though tangentially related, there's a remix of that scene that lives rent free in my head

    Human Music - Ommo

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    No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

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  • Most people [...] write [...] comments [...] and hope AI picks them up

    Really quite sad if there's even one person out there doing that.

    This is also as much of a grift as any SEO that claims to have cracked the code of getting to the top of results. Even if they have figured something reproducible, it will get fixed. If someone can manipulate a search engine to provide results different to what it would otherwise do, that's a bug they will fix