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bstix

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  • No Microslop for me

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  • Sure, but it's difficult to classify which jobs are objectionable and what the price should be for someone to do them anyway.

  • No Microslop for me

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  • If they want to pay me to deliver stuff on a unicycle, I'll be delivering stuff on a unicycle. Do I want to ride a unicycle? Depends on the pay.

  • What's the most brilliant idea that you ever had?

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  • Thanks for the tip. I've needed this, but being too cheapskate to buy a proper one, I've just been balancing my phone on the sheet stand, which sucks.

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  • They are so afraid that they pretend to ignore diseases all together.

  • Did you drink alcohol when you were younger than me?

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  • Yes, we have quite an unhealthy alcohol culture here.

    The only redeeming factor is that most people make their mistakes learning their tolerance while still being young enough to avoid getting in serious trouble.

    If you've never touched alcohol at 18, you might want to be extra careful about it. It's kinda cringe to watch grown ups not knowing their limits, because it's assumed that they should know by now.

  • What band/artist have you seen live more than once, would gladly go see again, and what keeps you coming back?

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  • blur, Suede, Pink Floyd.

    I don't know if any of them will tour again anytime soon, but I'd definitely recommend seeing them live if possible. The reason is that it's beautiful music played honestly. There's nothing else to it.

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • I had to mention both, because I like them for different reasons.

    Initially I didn't even like Vice City, because it was just an epigon of GTA3 with more lens flare, but the story and not least the music won me over. I know it's a blatant mockery of Scarface, but that's what makes it so great and funny.

    San Andreas is probably the masterpiece of them all. Maybe it got a little too serious in comparison to previous games, but it managed to portrait a great feeling of freedom and doing whatever in-between the main missions.

    GTA V is more like: Follow the arrow through this generic oversized map.

  • Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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  • I don't understand why I would want to buy a new computer so their OS can have their AI do that stuff that they want.

    Why don't they just do it themselves then? I never asked for any of that shit.

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  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • "I ain't never said no such thing" - Albert Einstein

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • GTA V.

    I liked all the previous ones, but this was just more of the same on a bigger generic map and a more convulted and stereotypical story. Online never worked for me either. Too buggy.

    Vice City and San Andreas were the best of the series.

    Map size/design is just more important than size. Same problem in Just Cause.

  • xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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  • Fuck cars alright, but as long as I'm dependant on a car, my no.1 reason to get an EV is that I hate the oil industry even more. Fuck their oil and money and pollution and fuck their wars and politics.

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  • The great thing about representative democracy is that idiots don't actually vote for anything. They only vote for whom to represent them.

    I'll admit, I'm somewhat of an ignorant idiot myself. I haven't read nor understood the entirety of all laws. That's why I choose someone else to represent me.

    I think it's only fair that mentally handicapped people are also allowed to choose someone to speak their case.

    The problem in US isn't the idiots. It's the two party system. In countries with multiple parties, truly idiotic votes would be scattered randomly all over different parties, or they would be placed on the party that represents idiots the best.

    That doesn't work in US, because you actually only have one political party and then the opposition. It's really easy for an opposition to trick idiots into voting against everything.

  • Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump will try to ‘steal’ midterm elections

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  • It's a good starting point. The more people vote, the more people will be angry if the result is stolen.

    Apathy is the worst threat against democracy. Especially when one part is cheating.

  • Trump Reportedly Mulling Plan to Declare ‘National Emergency’ Paving Way for Major Power Grab

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  • I've read speculations about him wanting Americans to riot so he can declare an emergency, and that's why people should refrain from rioting.

    However, it's pretty clear that he's going to try to stage that emergency to grab power, whether or not the Americans riot.

    Maybe he should have a national emergency. A real one that prevents him from grabbing the power.

  • Lemmy Client Question

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  • I've tried Jerboa, Connect and Voyager. By now these all have the options to customize the view exactly how I want it. (Dark mode, tiny list, thumbnails on the right.) I don't care about clients that can't do that.

    Jerboa was kind of buggy. Maybe it's better now, but that's what made me switch.

    Connect has a lot of options. The developer is active in the Lemmy community trying to catch up with the bugs that somehow creep into every update. It has the superior text editor of these and also its own tagging system.

    Voyager, previously known as Wefwef, is basic and stable. Maybe too basic.

    I'm currently using Voyager, but I sometimes still use Connect when I need to quote text from the post I'm replying to while writing. For instance if I need to quote two separate paragraphs or whatever. Can't do that easily in Voyager. Also when I want to embed pictures in a reply, then Connect is ever so slightly easier. Small differences.

    If I were to recommend just one for a new user who doesn't care about customization and weird options, I'd have to say Voyager, even if I myself prefer Connect. Voyager is easy to use and it's stable.

  • Are two heads better than one?

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  • Do they have to agree on the answer?

    If not, then you can add their experiences. They'll share some but it's a net plus.

    If they do have to agree, then they can only answer when they have shared experiences, in which case it'd be a net negative.

    It's basically two arrays of binary numbers, either they know something or they don't, and then you can do boolean algebra to get the kind of answer you want.

    In reality you will encounter both situations, and by using dialogue, you can sort out the differences and achieve a higher rate of correct answers.

    This way, two idiots can indeed answer more correctly than one expert. However it's required that the idiots are aware of their own shortcomings.

  • What is the point of down vote spamming?

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  • Lemmy is too small for it to make sense. I can easily read through all threads all the way through the controversial posts and still run out of content daily.

    It made sense on Reddit, where accounts could be worth money and/or used for advertising, or some people thought karma points was worth it, or that posts there had influence, which they did for a while. The Unidan affair was only about votes, and showed how a single user manipulated the majority of readers into something that was WRONG ON THE INTERNET, which should be a crime.

    Finally there's also people who view everything as a competition and just want the high score in that imaginary game. Endorphins or something. I'll admit that I have a longer streak than necessary in some apps too, but I'm no cheater. I wouldn't get my high off that anyway.

    I rarely downvote, but then again, every upvote is like downvoting everyone else, and I surely don't want to upvote everything.

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  • They used muzzle loaded cannons at his time, so it makes sense. It's not only for direction, but for faster rate of fire.