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bss03

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  • Anyone else about ready to give up on the internet?

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  • Unfortuntely, nothing fine-grained enough for me. But, you can block communities and users (or even whole instances).

    I prefer the keyword filters on Mastodon, but I don't mind the political stuff, so my needs are clearly different from yours.

  • TIL that only 7 petrol-powered cars were sold last month in Norway

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  • Definitely burning. It is possible to make reusable plastics out of oil, e.g.

    Of course, plastics might have their own problems, but they aren't always CO2 emissions.

    It seems unlikely we'll be able to completely eliminate plastics (current medical practices is the sticking point I see), tho we can certainly make a more "circular economy" around them, to reduce the need for oil extraction.

  • Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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  • A SmartPipetm subscriber in the wild?

  • OOP for the win

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  • You don't recover from diabetes by receiving insulin, so it doesn't fit into the "recovery virtually guaranteed" part of that category.

    But, yes, there are a number of chronic diseases with no cures but excellent treatments, and those treatments should be available free to the patient but are often targets for Capital to rent-seek from patients as much as "the market will bear". And, when market failure means a painful death, the market will bear quite a bit.

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  • When the treatment is clear and the recovery virtually guaranteed, the support is freely given.

    When the problems aren't visible, the treatment plan is more improvisation than schedule, and recovery is hard to quantify. Support is harder to give and rarer to receive.

    Mental problems are more likely to fall into the later bucket, but there are a swath of physical ailments from the metabolic and hormonal to the structural that also get lumped in.

  • Still no flying cars

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  • Bah, there's a LOT of devices that could talk to my father's phone over the LAN if they were programmed that way. But, they aren't. They report to a wall-known "cloud" server, and the app on his phone checks that same server for the latest status or to relay command/control.

    Nice advantage: can get status / send commands even when he is not on the LAN. Bad disadvantage: when the rural Internet blinks out (like every time it rains) he can't tell the robo-vac which rooms to start cleaning.

  • Columnist likens billionaires to Jews persecuted by Nazis

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  • It's a sin I had to scroll this far down to find the Silicon Valley reference.

  • Gaslighting

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  • Vidiverse search isn't working on the instance I use. You gotta link to "1944 Gaslight" for the underprivileged?

  • Gaslighting

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  • Ah, a fellow GPB enjoyer, spreading the Truth about gas lamping.

    /s

  • Gaslighting

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  • I remember this wording from Rick and Morty, but does it also predate that?

  • Stephen Miller melts down as ‘leftist’ jury acquits man who towed ICE truck away

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  • Jury nullification exists because juries can aquit for any reason. They are encouraged to acquit based on facts and "shadow of a doubt" (criminal) or "preponderance of evidence" (civil). But, they can also acquit for other reasons, and if they are doing it because the law, or it's application in this case, is unjust, that is jury nullification (of the law).

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards

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  • ... the best kind of correct.

    Are the new winners listed of the Indie Game Awards site?

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards

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  • I'm not going to uninstall or demand a refund, but I fully support the Indie Game Awards decision on this and will not refer to CO:E33 as a winner of any of the Indie Game Awards. I will still call it IMO the best JRPG in many years, but I thought that before it started receiving awards.

    I hope this event serves to scare game studios of all sizes from the mere appearance of using AI at ANY scale or part of the process. Hell, I hope it causes the whole damn bubble to burst, but it's just not that important.

  • If you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?

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  • I would also accept any other recognizable, removable media. Even a generic USB stick would be more relevant than a floppy disk.

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  • That's the worst vitiligo I've ever seen! Oh, just yoga pants.

    Uncle Ruckus does not approve.

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  • Oh, I didn't realize naked butts as part of full-height bottomless illustrations were SFW. Did I miss some explicit rules? My last in-office workplace would not put up with this as cube art, and my last workplace wouldn't appreciate this in any of the group chats.

    I don't really care that much, but this feels over the line to me.

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  • Probably should be tagged NSFW, yeah?

  • Loud Exhaust

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  • It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.