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DaiDactylos

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  • Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed

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  • Slightly more insidious than that is the attempt to conflate 'socialism' with 'national socialism', i.e. the Nazis. Seemingly every five minutes someone tries to conflate the two despite being on opposite sides of the political spectrum, hence the bullshit pseudoscience that is "horseshoe theory".

  • Recommend some games for PCem

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  • Are the subtitles in individual files per language in the game directory? If so, swapping the filenames for English and German while keeping the spoken language as German might work. Not at the PC so I don't know if I have the sequel to test the theory; will check later.

  • ‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation

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  • Has anyone questioned why the whole "free house, free TV, front of the queue" stuff - abject bollocks to anyone with even the tiniest sliver of knowledge - might act as an attractant when relayed as fact by the usual suspects? I know that it's way too late to be starting now, but that means it's only the second best time to do so. Tell the poor sods the truth: you can't work, you're given pocket money; you're shoved into any available accommodation at the lowest possible cost (except to the private sector landlords); you're likely to get shunted around at a moments notice, etc.

    If the entire local population of a given area has been radicalised to believe immigrants are a threat, how is integration supposed to happen at all, much less be successful?

    Labour Party, my arse.

  • Priorities

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  • He always looks like he's received a surprise prostate examination and the doctor had cold hands.

  • Australian teen charged with sticking googly eyes on artwork

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  • Looks like the unholy outcome of breeding a Smurf with a Womble...

    Which is to say that it looks much better with the eyes in place.

  • Whats the best voice acting in any video game?

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  • Every actor in 'Still Wakes the Deep'. I don't usually like that type of game - you don't really have a great deal of agency, you can't fight only run, there are sudden deaths in some sections - but the overall atmosphere, the design, and that perfect voice casting drew me in. I think it's still on Game Pass if you want to see and hear it for yourselves.

  • EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat only

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  • Yes, 'sausage' is definitely used more for the description of a shape than for what out contains. It would make more sense for 'burger' to be used to describe the shape too, i.e. a synonym for the word 'patty', which makes it sound too close to 'pat', as in 'what cows leave in fields'.

    The Dictionary Gatekeepers should also add the word 'sausagenous' to mean sausage-shaped, mostly because it's pleasing to say.

    The claim is that people can be confused about what the product is if the meat and non-meat products are called by such universally descriptive names. I find this argument specious as all the non-meat stuff I see has some variation of ”meat-free" on the packaging in large and distinct text, so what they're suggesting is that meat-eaters are illiterate. Not sure that's the huge gotcha the lobbyists think it is, TBH.

  • I tested the world's most eco-friendly phone, and was surprised by this one small addition

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  • Looks like a means of detecting how far the phone is from an object, then calculating the depth of field adjustment needed to supply the "right" amount of background blurring, making the object stand out in the resulting image. Good for making portrait subjects stand out from their surroundings, for example.

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  • Inspector Inigo Montoya will likely find no shortage of six-fingered men, I suspect. The sooner this AI bubble bursts, the better.

  • Pay attention

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  • I read Undercover recently and it shows just how far they'll go to infiltrate those groups they deem a threat. Not the right wing groups who suggest that murdering MPs might be a good idea, obviously; just those marginally to the left of Goebbels.

    https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9781783350346-undercover/

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    List of European Linux Distributions (inspired by blaze's post)

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  • Snap is a packaging format for applications that was created by Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu. Works similarly to Flatpak in that you just download one file and the application still then just run as it includes any necessary libraries, etc. I don't know how well supported it is outside of Ubuntu, but Flatpak seems to be more prevalent.

    Cinnamon is a UI, one that should be easy to pick up for new users if they've had some experience with Windows.

    And FWIW, everyone starts as a beginner!