If DMCA is going to continue to be ‘guilty until proven innocent’, it really needs to come with some really fucking severe penalties for false claims. Using automated claims services should not be an excuse.

Even if they did, the chance of one of them landing on someone’s eye is so astronomically low as to be functionally 0% - but that’s not the point! The point is to jokingly play into someone’s unreasonable fear of orbital copper needles! Work with me here.

This was fun in Smash Ultimate for the switch; if you had amiibos, you could load them in as characters and they’d (supposedly) learn from what you did when playing against them. We used to pit our amiibo characters against each other and treat it like Pokemon battles. It was a good time.

I mean, there’s very few people in that hall, so presumably they’re arriving before the lecture starts. Furthermore, if the lecturer (or whomever else) had a problem with it, presumably they would have put a stop to it during the two months depicted here.

I could not disagree more. They’ve clearly gotten to know one another in a positive way and are clearly all enjoying themselves; what more could you really want from a group? Just because they’re enjoying something you wouldn’t enjoy doesn’t make it bad.

I get what the comic is trying to portray, but from the time traveler’s perspective, having a palm-sized device that represents access to what is essentially the complete compiled knowledge of humanity is probably the best possible case scenario. What more could you possibly want to get, when newly arriving in the future?

Although the dispersed needles in the second experiment removed themselves from orbit within a few years, some of the dipoles that had not deployed correctly remained in clumps, contributing a small amount of the orbital debris tracked by NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office. Their numbers have been diminishing over time as they occasionally re-enter. As of April 2023, 44 clumps of needles larger than 10 cm were still known to be in orbit.

They’re still up there. If they somehow survived re-entry, they could hit you. You could be innocently looking up and all of a sudden - copper needle from space, right in the eye.

I’ve played online games before where the entire point was to write a bot to play the game for you; I don’t know what the genre is called, but there’ve been a few of them over the years. The game is essentially just an API and the efficiency and complexity of your self-written bot determines your success or failure. It’s fun.

This is functionally that, except… you… don’t write the bot yourself. So… what the fuck is the point? Like, seriously. I’m not judging you - if this interests you, I would be legitimately interested to hear what the appeal is.

I rarely feel as stupid as when reading anything about quantum computing. The whole field could just be a giant in-joke where none of it exists and they’re all just spouting nonsense technical jargon to confound the plebs, and I’d be oblivious.

[To preempt the obvious objection, I’m talking about e.g. a private residence, not a business.]

No, clearly not, as I already addressed. Fuck off.

I would argue that in private spaces, absolutely. The owner of a private space has the exclusive right to admit anyone they choose and bar anyone they choose, based on any criteria they wish. [To preempt the obvious objection, I’m talking about e.g. a private residence, not a business.]

I’d argue this is doubly true for support group style groups. If there’s a support group for a topic that is exclusively experienced by one sex, I don’t think it’s at all unreasonable to make that group exclusively for that sex. (Examples might be testicular or ovarian cancer sufferers.)

The word ‘terrorist’ has lost all meaning at this point.

I would even go a step further and say that cops’ testimony should not even be accepted if they don’t have bodycam footage to back it up. When you have a camera that’s able to verify anything you need it to, the absence of that verification should be viewed through the lens that you specifically did not want whatever was happening during that time to be recorded.

Worth noting if you take this advice: SteamOS (and Bazzite, recommended elsewhere) are immutable distros, which, to over-simplify it to an extreme degree, limits your ability to install things that modify the system directly. This can be a good thing, but it can also make it difficult to install certain things that you might want. There are workarounds, but you might find this frustrating at first.

If you primarily game, this is probably not an issue for you except that some non-Steam games may require some extra work to run (particularly ones that, for example, require you to install .NET Framework or specific Java versions.)

Not trying to discourage you from these - they’re great OSes and the ‘downside’ of immutable distros can actually be beneficial when new to linux, as they prevent you from breaking things through inexperience, but it’s something you should be aware of up front. (FWIW I use Bazzite as my daily driver for everything, and it works fine.)

I disagree; “fake it til you make it” prescribes specific behavior (faking it) for a specific period of time (until you make it) but does not specify what behavior should take place (faking it or not) after that period has been exceeded.

This seems to be a trend as if you only take into account reviews with 2+ hours of play time, Highguard’s opinions are “mixed” rather than “overwhelmingly negative”.

People who enjoy a game are more likely to have more playtime, therefore the higher the playtime in the ‘window’ of reviews that you look at, the more likely they are to skew high. This is exactly what you’d expect to see on any game, barring situations like the developers making changes that ruin a game that previously was good.

So after 2 hours of not having a good time, the game was deemed bad and negative reviews were written.

Two hours is the window for a refund, so I absolutely make a call within 2 hours. If a game - especially a new / expensive game - hasn’t engaged me within that time, I refund it and move on. I don’t have enough hours in the day to play games I don’t enjoy hoping that they’ll get good eventually. Why should anyone feel the need to do that, whether they’re giving the game the benefit of the doubt or not? It’s the MMO argument. “The game gets really good around the 100 hour mark!” I don’t care. I’m not sticking around for it. There are plenty of other games to play that are fun within the first 2 hours. If a developer expects people to slog through an unenjoyable 2+ hours to get to “the good parts”, they probably deserve the negative reviews.

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The elites don’t want you to know this but the waxwing birds at the park are free. You can take them home. I have 458 waxwing birds.

If AI agents stick around, I feel like they’re going to be the thing millennials as a generation refuse to adopt and are made fun of for in 20-30 years. Younger generations will be automating their lives and millennials will be the holdouts, writing our emails manually and doing our own banking, while our grandkids are like, “Grandpa, you know AI can do all of that for you, why are you still living in the 2000s?” And we’ll tell stories about how, in our day, AI used to ruin peoples’ lives on a whim.

Thanks goodness I know where my papers are.

There’s plenty of evidence to suggest this isn’t enough. Stay safe.