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radix , 6 hours ago

Create the problem, sell the solution.

radix , 3 days ago

I saw so much praise for this game, which got me to buy. Then I genuinely felt like I played a different game than everybody else.

Not that I thought it was bad or anything, I just walked across the landscape for 2h15m and then haven't thought about it since.

radix , 6 days ago

Budget analyst

radix , 6 days ago

Why is my app saying this article is NSFW?

Professional Counter Strike:Global Offensive player Fashr is known to use somewhat unorthodox keybindings. Using the Right Mouse to move forward, Semicolon to move backwards, Comma for strafing left and a Full Stop to strafe right.

Oh, that'll do it.

radix , 8 days ago

When you start a new language, you learn "The Rules" first, and wonder why your first language doesn't have such immutable "Rules."

Then when you get fluent, you realize there are just as many exceptions as your first language.

radix , 10 days ago

Reminds me of one class I had in high school right after lunch. The teacher was occasionally late getting back to class from the bar.

radix , 17 days ago

That was a big talking point a few years ago. Polling companies stubbornly held on to calling landlines for too long, but the only people who had landlines were not representative of the voting population.

They try to correct for things like age, income, race, etc, by weighting the answers to match the wider population, but it's hard to correct for things like "stubbornly old-fashioned regardless of physical age."

radix , 20 days ago

Also PETA got involved, because they've never seen an animal-centric story they couldn't weasel themselves into.

radix , 25 days ago

Requiring a login would probably cut off a significant portion of their audience and ad revenue. Only Google analysts know for sure, but if the eyeballs lost to cutting off casual visitors (sent to YT from links or embeds, etc) are greater than the losses due to, frankly, a small portion of users who would just end up blocking ads in other ways, it's a net loss for Google.

radix , 25 days ago

A 2022 survey finds 7.1% of Americans identify as LGBT:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx

Also in 2022, Texas had 9.0% of the population of the USA.

That's close enough that we can call being from Texas "abnormal" and start restricting all sort of rights.

radix , 30 days ago

I like rice, rice is great when you’re hungry and you want 2,000 of something.

radix , 1 month ago

Unverified account? Straight to jail.

It wasn't compromised. If you can't be tracked and cross referenced with all the other data that brokers have, your activities aren't worth anything to reddit and they don't care about that account.

radix , 1 month ago

I work from home and often go weeks at a time only communicating with coworkers over IM.

It's pretty nice for an introvert, but also real easy to feel completely out of the loop.

radix , 1 month ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/us/politics/russia-disinformation-election.html

It's starting, for sure. Assuming it ever really stopped, that is.

radix , 1 month ago

There are certain talking heads on TV that can only be explained by the theory that there's no such thing as bad publicity. He gets people talking, even if it's usually only about how bad he is.

Outrage media works. Sports commentary especially seems to depend on it.

radix , 1 month ago

In your case, I'm guessing lots of people have heard the horror stories of shitty, scammy repair techs in various fields (automobiles being one prominent example). The good ones have to deal with the occupational reputation driven by the worst of them.

For me, I don't consider myself a real expert in any specific subject, but I'm adjacent to a number of financial areas. I try not to delve into the weeds of those internet discussions too often (like I said, not an ironclad expert), and even when I do, it's only to address the most egregious errors. Money can be an emotional topic, and many of those opinions are based on the way people want the world to be rather than the way it is, so show up with facts and references and they tend to understand.

radix , 1 month ago

For anyone who misses it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-von-shitzinpantz-has-formally-been-entered-into-the-record-2024-5

radix , 1 month ago

The Imperial March for the in-laws. (Years ago, we're good now)

radix , 1 month ago

Joke's on all you skinny folks. I carry a month of calories on me 24/7.

radix , 2 months ago

I haven't used any Logitech gear in a few years, so things may have changed, but after running iCUE...Logitech can't possibly be that bad, right?

radix , 2 months ago

The term identity politics may have been used in political discourse since at least the 1970s.[19] The first known written appearance of the term is found in the April 1977 statement of the Black feminist socialist group, Combahee River Collective, which was originally printed in 1979's Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism,[22] later in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith, a founding member of the Collective,[23] who have been credited with coining the term.[24][25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics#History

radix , 2 months ago

I was pretty shocked that it was permanent.

I also wondered, if he dropped her straight down into a bottomless hole, what was he standing on just 2 seconds earlier?

radix , 2 months ago

Also tv, movies, video games, etc.

Nobody hates [thing] like the biggest "fans" of [thing].

radix , 3 months ago

Sure. It contains proteins in the mucin family, which will have some, eh, "nutritional" value. Plus whatever is caught up in it. It's mostly water, though, so not much.

radix , 3 months ago

The Twelve Mile 500 consists of a 15-mile, 60-lap course

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

radix , 3 months ago

Sketchy Chinese data brokers: 👎
Sketchy US data brokers:👍

Signed, Congress.

radix , 3 months ago

Stanley, the cup company, didn't even make the Stanley Cup.

radix , 3 months ago

Or the tire and restaurant rating.

radix , 3 months ago

Yes, in case it wasn't clear, that's what I was trying to say. The "beer and world record publisher" are related. The "tire and restaurant rating" are related. Both unlike the Stanleys which are not.

radix , 3 months ago

Samsung did have a major problem early last year, but it seems to be limited to a run of products with a specific firmware.

radix , 3 months ago

I worked at a university computer lab in the late 90s, and soooo many people referred to the 3.5"ers as "hard disks."

radix , 4 months ago

This reminds me of a question I've had for a while, but hopefully isn't too offensive.

Is there a word for the feeling of "relief" that other people/places are going through the same shit I/we are? It's not quite schadenfreude; there's no joy to be had here. Just a sense of togetherness. All my problems aren't uniquely mine, or even uniquely American (even if the degree may differ for certain issues).

radix , 4 months ago

Putin uses Reverse Psychology!

It's not very effective.

radix , 4 months ago

"He said he WOULD HAVE done a coup, not that he WOULD DO it, totally different!!!1!"

radix , 5 months ago

While choking on his totally normal dinner of polonium-210 and novichok.

radix , 5 months ago

His pals in NK and Iran have been using poorly edited video games footage as propaganda for years. This is the next logical step after importing faulty munitions: importing faulty tactics as well.

radix , 5 months ago

left-leaning economic,

Ok

conservative migration

Unfortunate, but populists gonna populist

and pro-Russian foreign policy

Wait, WTaF‽

radix , 10 months ago

Disclaimer: I've never run a Mastodon or similar server, so the software may have more privacy built in, but potentially the issue would be account setup information that could be associated with public posts. Email addresses, IP address logs, etc. Those would be critical in matching public "anonymous" speech with real-world identifiable information.