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Wait so what would happen if it was only 1000? Like, can't any connection automatically support up to its limit? What's the advantage of explicitly supporting lower numbers?

Sorry, what is a "modem delete", and how does all of this work if you just don't choose to buy a router from your ISP at the time you first order an Internet plan from them? Like, it's included there as a standard option with most ISPs, and they have instructions that at the very least seem simple (usually just making sure you have PPPoE with the right connection details, or IPoE set) to use.

I've got my first game scheduled for 25/26 April! A lot of logistics to sort out between now and then!

Wow thanks for sharing! That is a really cool tool!

I don't know if I'll use it or not, since it seems to have a fair few bugs or missing features.

In the Measuring questions, I noticed what it considers a "mountain" is very strange. Several places I would simply call a "hill" are included, and there are several locations counted for the same mountain (or hill). Demonstration:

Only Mt Coot-tha is a real mountain here. Maybe the area north of The Gap could count as one. But Red Hill and all the ones around Alderley are certainly nothing more than hills. They don't even show up on a Google Maps search for "mountain". And using parks says "too many parks found (5093). Please enable hiding zone mode and switch to the Large Game variation of this question."

Plus, all the "station" Matching questions (same length, same line, starts with same letter) are greyed out and unselectable. And station/line-Measuring questions are just absent entirely.

It's a damn shame, because this tool looks like it would be so enormously useful if it worked. The automated answering and filtering is insanely useful when it works. I'll definitely be sharing this with the other players of my game and seeing how they feel.

Perhaps, but I'm describing something slightly different. Your description is basically "one platform supporting two protocols that basically do the same thing". I'm talking more about "one app that has two separate-but-related bits of functionality, each using the more appropriate protocol for that job".

Relevant username, I guess.

Sounds like you need to upgrade your toaster, noob.

I mean, there's nothing technically stopping one app supporting both protocols natively, especially since Lemmy already includes a field for people's profiles to link their Matrix ID. Though to my knowledge none do it yet.

Hoffman was the head pedo and creator of jailbait is just as valid

No, it is not.

your opinion that it was a joke that he nothing to do with it

Not the opinion I expressed.

He was a mod for a while, but not the top mod. Top mod is the creator, unless the creator quits, passing it off to second mod. And he was mod at a time when anyone could be added as a mod without their consent. No need to accept an invite.

It's bad enough that he was happy to let the subreddit exist for as long as it did even after significant on-site pressure to remove it. The same thing he did half a decade later with the_Donald. The fact that it took mainstream media criticism to be willing to take it down should be scathing enough. We don't need to make up bs.

That's cos it's not true. He was a mod of it for a while, but I've not seen any verification of how long that was, and it was at a time when you could just add someone as a mod without them needing to approve it. But he was definitely not its founder.

He did allow it to stick around until the mainstream media started kicking up a fuss about it. That would be bad enough. We don't need to make shit up.

Holy shit her segment on the Cass review is scathing. 15 mice (including the control) of one sex that didn't even receive the drug their study is being used to draw conclusions on‽ Fuck.

It's obviously created as a companion to the "Jewish Games" video. But it really stands so much on its own I thought it worth sharing separately from that video's comment thread.

I had no idea that games designed to be played only in extremely limited & controlled situations were such a common thing. With Train in particular, it sounds like it would be a fascinating game to play. But only if you somehow went into it without knowing what it was.

I thought this was really interesting. Geller is Jewish himself, and the way he was able to read a Jewish narrative (with some really solid evidence) into Bioshock was fascinating. And then the parallel he made between the world Ryan created and the actions of modern-day Israel, and the way he delivered that revelation, was absolutely haunting.

Yes.
If Hell existed.
... so, no.

Was a short quip in response to the OP.

So is it some ports support 10, some support 100, and some support the full 1000? Or how does it work with the three different speeds?

I respond with as much thought as I receive

I actually upvoted your initial comment cos I thought it was mildly amusing. But uhh, it's hard to say it was a case where you "respond with as much thought as [you] receive". It's a short low-effort quip, in response to an hour-long in-depth video essay.

Have you heard about our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, and his need of your money?

Ah that's interesting. Thanks!

What does 10/100/1000 mean?

Lindsay Ellis was a very well known film critic turned cultural commentator on YouTube. And an extremely good one. She was also a vocal feminist, and attracted some intense hate because of that. She got run off of YouTube (mostly) after a sustained and vocal harassment campaign that began after she tweeted the very milquetoast review of Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon saying it was "basically a rehash of Avatar: The Last Airbender" [paraphrased]. If you're wanting to get to know her, a good place to start would be her three-part retrospective on The Hobbit (parts one, two, and three, and her lengthy series explaining different types of film criticism and lenses that can be used through which to understand film—done through the lens (pun, I assume, intended) of Michael Bay's Transformers series. Ellis's series here was called The Whole Plate.

If your question is about this community, this is Nebula, a video platform owned in a sort of co-op structure where the creators have a financial stake in the operating of the business. It's designed to give them protection from the censorship and algorithms of YouTube, and provide a better revenue stream than YouTube's advertising-based system. Sort of like a Patreon-lite, where viewers pay one subscription fee to get access to all the content on the platform. I'm not a mod of this community, but I am a mod of !notjustbikes@feddit.nl, a community dedicated to one of Nebula's other creators. And since we regularly get questions there asking what's with the paywalled links, I created a pinned post explaining it in more depth. Feel free to ask there or here if you have any more questions about that.

If the question is about this video, well, one of the reasons Ellis is such a great reviewer is the level of depth and nuance she brings to discussions. But that makes it hard to provide a meaningful TL;DR. But if I were going to try, briefly, it would be that she is criticising Southpark's frequent status quo bias and "both sides"ism. She particularly criticises its "Man bear pig" episode, which can be seen as an analogy for climate change. The episode presents the view that people who fight loudly & publicly for change against climate change are scaremongers at worst, and just annoying even if well-intentioned at best. And she draws a through-line from that into much of the right-wing thought that grew over the last two decades. She adds a lot more nuance and detail than that, including many more redeeming factors for the Southpark creators (such as the fact that their film presented almost the opposite viewpoint: that standing up for what you believe in is important), and presents the argument far more thoroughly than I could without basically writing up a transcription of the video.

That said, I will add this comment from the Reddit comments on this video (unfortunately, many Nebula videos do use Reddit as their semi-official comments section, since Nebula itself staunchly refuses to add comments), which was quite on point:

I took a screenshot of this 2014/2015ish Reddit comment, by an account marked [deleted], that I've had for over a decade now. Here's the text:
Yeah, and Manbearpig was almost ten years ago. What an idiot Al Gore was to think climate change was real.
South Park has always been fundamentally reactionary; those pushing for change are wrong no matter what change they push for. Nothing is a bigger crime to Matt and Trey than Giving a Shit. Their ideology is apathetic-libertarian; whether you're on the left or the right, if you're asking me to change my behavior, you suck.
As it stands, the political left tends to push for more change than the political right does; as it stands, Matt and Trey admit they dislike conservatives and "really fucking hate" liberals. It isn't about left or right; it's about change versus comfort. If you're trying to change something, they think you're annoying. And they think you're lame, because caring about stuff is lame.
It's the same attitude that establishes "u mad" and "butthurt" as the ultimate trump cards in internet arguments: caring is for losers, and if you become personally invested in politics you're part of the problem. Uncritical, detached acceptance of the status quo is the only morally upright posture, and those who draw a distinction between is and ought are all smug bullies, outlandish freaks, and/or closed-minded zealots.
It's a short that teaches its audience to become lazy and self-satisfied, that praises them for being uncritically accepting of their own biases, and that provides them with an endless buffet of thought-terminating cliches suitable for shutting down all manner of challenges to their comfort zones.
South Park is a place where you never have to have your assumptions challenged. It's a place where you're always right, you shouldn't bother to think, and the people asking you to change your mind are annoying busybodies and prigs who should just shut up and leave you alone.
South Park is, if you'll excuse the expression...a "safe space."