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Deconceptualist

@ Deconceptualist @lemm.ee

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  • Subnautica 2 devs warn players about "fraudulent links" to a playtest for its upcoming underwater survival game: "Stay safe out there, Subnauts!"

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  • I know! S2 is my most anticipated game right now so part of me would love to jump in as early as possible. But I had the same experience of playing the original Subnautica with almost no prior knowledge and I'm so happy I did.

  • True love

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  • Yeah actually I quite like the peel in a cocktail or orange chicken. I was just joking around.

  • True love

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  • Both of you should just man up and eat the seeds and peel too.

  • AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them

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  • I'm no expert and I've been out of the game for a while, but as I recall the platforms are all quite different. Maybe it's common now to only allow messages between matches.

    But anyway, I was referring more to the trolls and harassers that need to be banned entirely, not just blocked/ignored by individuals. These people will put nasty inappropriate stuff as their profile pics in the first place, and create new accounts just to pester others.

  • AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them

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  • I think the problem there is moderation. Who is going to do the work of blocking/banning 1000 creepy messages and dick pics per minute on an open platform?

  • AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them

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  • Let's be honest, what these apps are going to do is boost user engagement (read: waste your fucking time) by pulling you into conversations with AI chatbots. The longer you're there, the more advertisements they can feed you. It's going to be harder and harder to find a real person, because investors don't benefit from that.

  • Colombia’s president: Legalize cocaine, it’s no worse than whiskey

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  • I think ethically, legal status should not be a barrier to education about drugs. Sadly, in reality it often is (this includes research as well).

    I'm not advocating for intrusive policing, if that's what you think. The system we have now in many places is horribly broken and abusive. Instead I'm saying we should decriminalize but keep policies that are essential to public health (e.g. don't give hard drugs to children), provide better resources for doctors and other healthcare workers, and deliver robust (and scientifically accurate) informational campaigns.

  • Colombia’s president: Legalize cocaine, it’s no worse than whiskey

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  • I know, it's such a shame there's never been a campaign to inform people about the risks of drunk driving... /s

  • Colombia’s president: Legalize cocaine, it’s no worse than whiskey

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  • Prescription meds generally aren't party drugs. At least not the ones I know about. So that's not quite the same.

  • Colombia’s president: Legalize cocaine, it’s no worse than whiskey

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  • Oh, I 100% believe that drugs should be decriminalized and treated as a health issue instead. Meaning both individual health and public health. Like how Portugal does it, IIRC.

    Booze and cocaine are both party drugs and people already use them together, but I think there's a larger public health concern if they were both readily available because that population would spike. People should have a little more knowledge of the risks. Plenty of folks out there think uppers + downers just cancel out 🙄 We don't need more 20-somethings in the morgue.

  • Colombia’s president: Legalize cocaine, it’s no worse than whiskey

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  • Okay, but the combination of coke and alcohol dramatically increases your risk for a heart attack, so having both really available is potentially an even worse health crisis.

  • Soldier identified in D.C. plane crash, data shows helicopter may have been too high

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  • No, the helicopter was, read the headline again

  • What is the weirdest PDF you have in your downloads?

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  • What would happen if somebody kidnapped the president?

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  • Thanks, correction added!

  • What would happen if somebody kidnapped the president?

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  • It's the same situation as if the president became ill or incapacitated in some way.

    This has already happened 3 4 times; once for Reagan, twice for GW Bush, and once for Biden (see comment below). In these cases it was quite brief.

  • What's your favorite volume measure? Mine's 1/2 cup or 125 ml. So handy.

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  • Wood Science must be a rather strange field.

  • What's your favorite volume measure? Mine's 1/2 cup or 125 ml. So handy.

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  • 1 mL of pure water weighs exactly 1 g at 20 °C and 1 atm pressure :) It's a defined standard, useful for calibrating other things.

  • What's your favorite volume measure? Mine's 1/2 cup or 125 ml. So handy.

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  • 1 mL. Studying chemistry has made that extremely useful and now other units seem ridiculous.

    If we're talking about geology or oceanography though, cubic meters are fine.

  • Symbolism

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  • Also the phone app icon still resembles one of those old banana units, even though phones haven't looked that way in 25+ years.