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Buddahriffic

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  • the one where ross says a slur

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  • Yeah, all the word policing kinda feels like a psyop because it's stirring up a lot of conflict without any real benefit. Controlling what words are ok doesn't make people respect the ones hurt by the words, and ultimately it's the disrespect that causes the hurt, the words are just the manifestation of that.

    Like with disabled people, pretty much every word used to describe them has become an insult and any new word will just suffer the same fate pretty much the same day it gets popularized.

    But the argument itself is polarizing, though in a way that makes the other side shut up about it until they can find like minded people. And might end up joining MAGA because they think it's about trolling people policing language and words like "woke" end up having very different meanings to the different groups (one side sees it as a respect for all regardless of background or capabilities, the other sees it as a drive for censorship) to the point where people supporting the other side seem "evil", which then means that as MAGAs wake up and see it is about more than just policing words, their opponents are more likely to tell them to fuck off than.

    And that's not even mentioning the people who take the stance "my racism/sexism is ok because it's against the race/gender with more power", and the people who treat non-malicious acknowledgement of differences between genders/races/cultures the same as malicious ones and no fucking wonder there's strong opposition.

  • Your car is here.

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  • I'd also accept that car Homer designed. Or a cyber truck.

  • Facts

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  • Lmao you hyperbole'd your own statement quoted back at you.

    Or have there been cases of KDE preferers/devs doing this to gnome preferers/devs?

  • Pentagon aggressively lobbies EU against Buy European weapons push

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  • Oh I agree, but as long as they can find people to buy their weapons (even on credit that depends on successfully using them) or weild them for them, they won't be going anywhere. And automation is quickly approaching the point where they won't even need others to choose to fight.

  • Find what you like and stick with it

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  • On the other hand, I suspect I'm on the spectrum but can't relate to this at all. I love a variety of food and would get bored to death if I had to eat the same thing all the time.

    I also like new and unexpected textures in foods (unless I'm already familiar with it and know it isn't supposed to have that texture). That shit's delightful.

    But maybe it's just the ADD overpowering anything else in the constant search for new sources of easy dopamine (while also overriding any urgency towards actually context shifting to eating or cooking mode).

  • Pentagon aggressively lobbies EU against Buy European weapons push

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  • Problem with arms races is you can't end them unless everyone agrees to end them, otherwise you just forfeit.

  • "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off.

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  • Which is pretty crazy when you think about it, hitting a target about 1.3 lightseconds away. As in, if you could sight it, you'd be looking at where it was 1.3 seconds ago. Because it is moving at about 1km/s relative to us. And don't read that as km/h, that's one kilometer every second, so by the time you see it, it's already about 1.3km from where you see it, so you need to lead it by about 2.6km to hit it but aim your sensor at the apparent image.

    Though it's so far away that it doesn't look that hard and the angle of difference between where you aim the laser and where you pick up the return signal is less than 0.00001 degree (thus you can solve that problem by ignoring it but still, just hitting that tiny distant moving target at all is impressive).

  • Wanna buy a(nother) humidifier?

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  • Yeah, I'm curious, too.

    I was able to find information on a wheel-based dehumidifier that uses things like silica gel to absorb water from the air and then heats it to dry it (with the wheel rotating between an open section it pulls water out of and a closed section it stores the water in). This can also act as a humidity buffer if it has a mechanism to switch between which side is open.

    For pure humidifier, best guess is that it uses a wheel mechanism to increase the surface area of water so more evapourates naturally. Basically you have a drum rotating just fast enough that it dries completely by the time it goes under water again. This would function as a simple AC, too, at least until the air is saturated. Though I do find that it's in winter that I want more humidity and summer where I want less, so that wouldn't help me lol.

    But I wasn't able to find clear information about if this is what OP was referring to, so that's just speculation.

  • This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN.

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  • They don't gaf about religion beyond the tribal shit and that it gives them a way to act better than those who disagree with them and appeal to an authority that will never contradict them.

    Edit: though also, there's nothing in Christianity that I know of that says aliens can't exist. The catholic church at least has stopped trying to oppose science, though still hasn't recovered from the ink they got on their face regarding Galileo, but that was more about the worshop of Aristotle than anything directly related to the religion itself. The whole "the world is only 6k years old and fossils were placed there to test our faith!" isn't supported by the catholic church. Not to defend them, "believes in science" is still a low bar.

  • Wanna buy a(nother) humidifier?

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  • I think all the ones that don't just use heat to evapourate water follow this general strategy: do something that gets water droplets suspended in air, then blow that air out of the unit to let it evapourate in the drier air.

    It's why the mist from a humidifier feels cool: it is still in the liquid state, those droplets stick to your hand, but also evaporate, taking heat from your hand or whatever body part you like shoving into the mist. No judgement.

    If it was already in a gaseous state, it would condense on your hand and feel hot like the steam that tries to punish you for pouring your pasta into a strainer while holding it. Well, maybe not that hot, but it would be giving your body part heat as it condensed from the saturated air, which probably immediately evapourates again, taking that heat with it, but it would either be a net warming or neutral result instead of cooling.

  • Wanna buy a(nother) humidifier?

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  • Selling ads to people wanting to make money is like selling picks and shovels to people heading to the gold rush. Those selling shovels don't even really care if their buyer finds gold (despite any apparent enthusiasm), they don't even care if they'll even need or want the shovel after figuring out most gold in this rush is found panhandling rather than by digging or that the amount of digging you'd have to do to find a decent amount of gold is more than what a shovel can handle (actually they might use that to sell you a shovel subscription).

    They only care that your desire for money has brought you to them, where you can make them money whether you do or not.

  • Las Vegas sees sharp visitor drop as leisure spending wanes

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  • This is how I've been feeling about tourist places in general. So many shallow attractions trying to get easy money mixed in with the real interesting stuff, and everyone is competing for a spot with the good stuff, which drives prices to ridiculous levels and still there's a large line and crowd.

    I much prefer places tuned to attract locals because they have to at least be good enough to be worth future visits.

  • Las Vegas sees sharp visitor drop as leisure spending wanes

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  • Yeah, my company could offer me a fully covered trip with extra free time to explore or have fun in the US and my answer would still be no.

  • Remember when car controls weren't complicated

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  • Disagree, I would hate that center spedometer.

  • Marina Sirtis' memories of Troi's non-standard uniform

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  • I believe that second one is actually from the episode where O'Brian accidentally gets all the normal sized shirts stuck in the transporter buffer so everyone breaks out their night shirts until Data suggests reversing the polarity and running them through the deflector array, after which they just had to send some folk from the lower decks outside to grab and iron them.

    That episode also had the subplot where Data's memory banks get slightly corrupted and mix up the Star Fleet Protocol Reference with the Karma Sutra and The Art of War for some humourously awkward moments with Picard, LaForge, and poor Wesley Crusher.

  • Marina Sirtis' memories of Troi's non-standard uniform

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  • It's a serialized 90s show, you don't have to watch the early seasons to understand the later ones. Pick any episode and just watch, as long as it isn't a 2-parter, you'll likely get the gist of what's going on. There are some longer story arcs that do span multiple episodes or even seasons, but the information is more at the "Lore" level than "necessary to understand what's going on in this episode".

    Eg, if you knew the back story, you'd have had a better chance at catching the pun in the last sentence. But all you're missing out on is maybe exhaling a bit quicker as you read it and an eye roll.

    Hell, if you don't want to watch all the episodes, you might be one of the rare people who might even enjoy the clip episodes and how much they tried to set up an in-universe reason to be showing clips from previous episodes. Like Riker's memory parasite.

  • Marina Sirtis' memories of Troi's non-standard uniform

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  • I remember being a bit confused about why everyone other than her had to wear a uniform but she could wear "what she wanted".

    Never would have guessed it was Star Trek producers demonstrating very non-Star Trek traits.

  • Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux

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  • Try a live USB, lets you boot into a linux flavour without needing to install it (plus has handy buttons to start a real install if you desire).

    I procrastinated moving to linux for pretty much the same reason. I hated windows more and more with each passing day but wasn't excited about the part of the learning curve where I was even less effective using linux than I was at using windows.

    But I was pleasantly surprised to find I didn't have to go through that stage at all. The same "discover settings" works for customizing (but it's better because linux devs don't have any metrics pushed on them by marketing or MBAs who think user goodwill and patience is infinite when they are "captured", leading to hidden or buried settings so most users just go with what MS wants).

    Setup was easier, though deceptively so because I wasn't expecting the answer to "gpu drivers?" to be "already installed" and was skeptical until I had a game running. I did do a bunch of reading during the process but could have just used the defaults for most things and kinda regret some where I didn't (like snapshots are probably worth the disk space they use).

    But the best part is that I haven't had to go on little "ok why the fuck is this <back to the default setting/behaving differently/addressing me without my prompting or a reason worthy of my PC interrupting me>?" adventures and wade through outdated MS help forum posts where if the problem was solved, it wasn't by the useless MS rep that seems to be struggling just to understand the words being used (indicated by copy/pasting anything that is vaguely related as a response, rather than actually addressing the question) to either figure out how to force it or give up until the next time it annoys me enough to search again.

    I haven't had a single imaginary "it's my fucking computer, not yours" argument since switching and wish I had just tried sooner because it was way less friction than expected.

  • How kind!

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  • I appreciate that you were efficient enough to know you could back out before consuming the frozen treat that melts your mouth along with it.