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  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?

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  • Burning things for heat is never going away as long as humans are around, there's always going to be someone "off-grid" which means you're more than likely gonna be burning something for cooking and warmth (ie heat)

  • When was your house built?

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  • Unclear, but somewhere between 1865 and 1875, which makes it right around half the age of my parents' house

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    Why does everyone hate Income tax ?

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  • Idk about you but if the government took 24% of my money I'd be ecstatic, currently it's much closer to 55-60%, a too-big percentage of which goes on privatising profit and nationalising losses.

  • Cursed

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  • there's a gap on both, just in different places and you can get from one to the other just by sliding. The constraints are elsewhere so wouldn't allow you to twist.

  • Dots!

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  • It is a different definition, but it's the same unit... it's also more like saying "that ball of yarn is 10 metres" - the ball itself isn't 10 metres long in any dimension, but the meaning is clear given the context, as it would if you said "it's 0.05 metres". By having two meanings distinguishable by context, it seems like two definitions to me.

  • I get scared of a girl who approached me

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  • So for context, I'm an asexual guy who had one girl in his classes at high school & went to a 75% male university on a course that was 94% male...

    Right after graduating I had the same issues you're describing, just from "new experiences" more than anything, but when you go out into the world and start interacting with people you'll be fine - it's somewhat normal especially if you didn't have a drive to seek out women previously or even just didn't have the self confidence to

    Also though, that sounds like a bit of a weird interaction as an introvert anyway, I don't think I'd have been super comfortable either way as I'd be expecting to be robbed or scammed or something, but if someone is expressing interest in something you're passionate about then they very clearly want to hear about it, so just say things about it even if it's cringe or not perfect

  • Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus

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  • The intersection between Authoritarianism and Socialism:

  • Preferences (Art by Niels Vergouwen)

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  • Does that mean fudging rolls is basically the RPG equivalent of "mining off camera"?

  • Democracy dies in darkness

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  • Hey, sometimes they like to overthrow a beloved monarchy and install a dictatorship, just to spice things up every so often

  • :-)

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  • Infected road rash all up your right arm is so much worse too, and I imagine there's probably worse things than that once you get into spinal pain

  • What countries have the best flags?

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  • It kind of disappoints me that Wales ruins the standard:flag system in the Home Nations though, if they were to be included in the Union Flag I'd want to see it be the St. David's Cross with the dragon going on the Royal Standard where France used to be

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  • You're wondering if a place that grew on monopoly and extortion, with some of the most impoverished, deprived and violent neigborhoods in the country, along with some of the most exclusive and expensive collections of gated mansions, could have serious fundamental issues?I'd think it's safe to assume that's it's this one...

    A quick google search when I was initially fact-checking took me to this reddit post; I'm highly skeptical of both the LAPD and reddit so went for 15 minutes to be "safe" but make of it what you will...

  • Gasoline prices to exceed $1.40 a litre in parts of Ontario as oil prices rise over turmoil in Middle East

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  • It's around $2.35 in the UK at the moment and that's the lowest I can remember it being for about 15 years

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  • In an ideal world, if it's someone who immediately mentions that it's third time they've called this week about a neighbor having a dead tree in their garden, or someone's mad because someone else parked in "their" spot, someone's calling the fire department on someone having a bbq or someone's stubbed their toe, that sort of thing can get put way down the "call back later" list

    Everything else gets put through to a person. In LA it's not unusual to wait 15+ minutes after you call 911; most cities are going to be shorter, and if the wait is under a minute, you don't need the AI triage. If you do have a wait and block out 25% of calls which are obviously a waste of time with AI, you can significantly reduce that (ideally in addition to hiring more operators, but let's be realistic...)

  • Preferences (Art by Niels Vergouwen)

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  • There's "everything goes exactly as planned until one player derails the whole session unhindered by rolls or turns" rules-light and "let things flow more naturally and allow things outside the rules if everyone thinks they add to the story" rules-light though...

    Personally I much prefer the presence of rules which can be followed if convenient or desired, or ignored if you'd rather, but it is also equally valid to want to do collaborative storytelling/investigation without being derailed by bad rolls, I just know that dealing with setbacks and things not going to plan (which is different to things not succeeding in a pre-planned manner, but again equally valid, along with everything going well if you'd rather) is probably my favourite part

  • Helpful guide

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  • everyone and their dog has texts come up on their wrist... texts can also be read a lot more discretely than picking up a phone call

    That said, some things do warrant a phone call, it's just very specific situations

  • I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope.

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  • You remember while walking out of the front door, but tell yourself it's too much effort to go back and get them, only to regret forgetting them and not going back for them while it was easy right?

  • Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

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  • The difference between reasoning models and normal models is reasoning models are two steps, to oversimplify it a little they prompt "how would you go about responding to this" then prompt "write the response"

    It's still predicting the most likely thing to come next, but the difference is that it gives the chance for the model to write the most likely instructions to follow for the task, then the most likely result of following the instructions - both of which are much more conformant to patterns than a single jump from prompt to response.

  • I think your cat has depression

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  • Anything territorial with a social structure (wolves, horses & boars being great examples of successful domestications, otters and falcons for in-progress domestications and foxes and raccoons good candidates) are prime domestication material as the human can become the social leader and they won't be as inclined to leave what is their pack's territory

    That said, it takes thousands of years to fully domesticate something, which is why "semi-domesticated" otters and falcons just sort of help out with hunting without being "friendly" enough to be predictable