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ArbitraryValue

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  • outlawing pedestrians

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  • I want to clarify that I like spending time outside - while in California I spend at least an hour outdoors on most days. Having to be indoors all summer would be a real sacrifice.

  • Dev says "false DMCA" from Microsoft got their sandbox game removed from Steam over apparent Minecraft copyright, all because of a screenshot of birch trees

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  • That's not just similar to Minecraft - it's nearly identical. I'm not sure that the DMCA notice isn't justified. I don't know the law well enough to judge where the line between legal and illegal Minecraft clones is.

  • Trump’s Racist Obama Video Is Not a Deal Breaker for Some Black Ga. Republicans

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  • Well, to be fair, I think I would vote for a racist pro-choice candidate before I would vote for a pro-life candidate, so it makes sense that a pro-life voter would have similar priorities.

  • outlawing pedestrians

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  • I like walking when I'm not in a hurry and the weather is nice, but the weather usually isn't nice in most parts of the country (the US West Coast is an exception to that). I'm looking at moving to a southern state now and the only reason I'm even considering it is that I would be living in a car-centered area where I wouldn't have to spend more than a couple of minutes a day outdoors during the summer. Compare that to NYC where I used to live: milder summers, but still hot, and I had no choice but to endure them (and winters, and rainy days) because I couldn't drive to most places I went to. The unpleasantness of that far outweighs all the advantages of walkable neighborhoods for me.

  • Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.

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  • I gave up on console gaming for the same reason (the last console I owned was a Super Nintendo) but that's because mouse+keyboard is just so superior that using dual-joystick controllers feels like punishment rather than entertainment.

  • What do you think about AI?

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  • It's amazing. I use it as part of my work as a software developer, I get good advice from it regarding my personal life, and I can talk to it about topics that interest me but don't interest my friends. Everything is great right now but I'm genuinely worried about the near future, when it might be able to do the entirety of my job better than I can. At least I got this far - I wonder whether my friends' kids who were born recently will live in a future where they'll never be capable of contributing anything valuable.

  • I think all pet lovers can relate

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  • And then they even expect me to look at pictures of their human children instead of looking at pictures of my dog... 🙄

  • In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one

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  • I think the opposite is going to be true. One thing I noticed when I moved recently is that's it's getting cheaper to throw out perfectly good stuff and then buy it again rather than paying to have it shipped long distance too.

  • Pakistan's famous kite festival cautiously returns after 19-year ban

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  • I think this one is on Muhammed.

  • NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

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  • I'd say it's like at a graduation. You can clap for a student on stage if you want to, and more popular students will naturally get more clapping, but you're not supposed to boo anyone at all.

    I don't think that broadcasting the Olympics is "spreading knowledge" - the Olympics is a performance, and removing segments where things don't go according to plan is like removing outtakes from a movie.

  • NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

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  • No, because I don't think cheering and booing are in the same category here.

  • NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

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  • It's not just a matter of upsetting the government. People don't watch the Olympics for politics so I would have edited out the boos too despite having no love for Vance.

  • Inside the polarizing plan to stash carbon in a California wetland | A proposal to store carbon dioxide deep below a Bay Area wetland is testing how — and where — California pursues climate solutions.

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  • The endless battle between environmentalists and environmentalists.

  • woulda been helpful right before covid

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  • dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/bats

  • Oddly specific

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  • So a 10 is a thousand times hotter than a 7? And a 1 is a million times less hot?

  • Damn right he is

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  • Oddly specific

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  • "Like a strong 7" is about as reliable as "6' 0" tall" as self-evaluation in the context of dating.

    If 5 is average and 10 is "celebrity known for being beautiful, dressed up and wearing full makeup" then probably one in ten people is a 7 or higher. For the record, I'm 5' 11.5" and a 4 on a good day. My marketing pitch is "Below average but not so much so that people stare."

  • Reach for the sky!

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  • People told me that I should have trained my dog not to steal food, but the way I saw it, the dog was surrounded by people who had seemingly endless food and refused to share for no comprehensible reason. Any self-respecting animal would steal food in those circumstances. Dogs that don't have been brainwashed.

  • The classics

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  • I wish it told me what the title of the deleted video was, so that at least I could know what I was missing.