GraniteM

@ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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2h ago

Androgny in Fantasy
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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2h ago
Elf...no ass
Excuse you...

1d ago

Try it. It'll ruin your life

I can listen to podcasts at 1.1x speed, and it basically just sounds like they tightened up their delivery a little bit. More than that and it sounds artificial.

I might go as high as 1.25x for some review videos, but I get the distinct impression that those guys are slowing down their delivery so as to pad out the runtime.

2d ago

You'll have to kill me first. No way in good Satan's Hell will pedophiles put their software on my computer. Eat dick bitch.

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

Streaming services, and seemingly all computing technology lately...

2d ago

Cargo ship hit in Strait of Hormuz, crew evacuating: UK maritime agency

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

2d ago

YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

All-Despising Baby Skull

3d ago

America only ever has one healthcare bill. It is the total amount spent on healthcare, including harm done to people who don't seek healthcare because it is too expensive, plus all the costs of people going to the emergency room when they have no other option, plus all the people who go into bankruptcy from medical debt. It's all one total bill, no matter how you spread the math around, and the only question is how much of that money is being wasted on inefficiency and lost to corporate profits. We might as well all keep paying that bill, but figure out ways to reclaim those corporate profits for the people.

3d ago

Cursing makes it hip and edgy

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 3d ago

What's weird is that I work at a used book store and we are busier than we've ever been in our fifty years of operation. From my perspective, print media is a very hot commodity... so long as the selection is carefully curated and the prices are carefully tuned to respond to the market on a day-to-day basis. If retail sellers can't manage that, maybe they need to look at their own business practices and figure out what they're doing wrong.

4d ago

What now?

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 4d ago

And "Jamake Highwater" got exposed like ten years before they hired him to consult for Voyager! What the actual fuck?!

4d ago

Caltrops

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 4d ago

I love the infinity d4

4d ago

Largest 'Religious' Group in Canada by Census Division

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 4d ago

It rains so much in Vancouver that it convinces people that there is no god.

5d ago

Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leaders

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 5d ago

Boom! Big bada boom!

5d ago

Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 5d ago

Not for nothing, but couldn't this be used to have AI play a game for 80,000 simulated hours and flag all the bugs? Human playtesters are important and have value, but no human should have to do the work of criss-crossing an enormous game map thousands of times just to see if the character model gets stuck on a random vertex sticking out somewhere, and yet it seems to be a distressingly common occurrence in more than a few games I've played.

6d ago

Low effort president, low effort meme

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

Doesn't want a breeze to come along and make him look like

6d ago

What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

That's certainly one of the points that I needed to learn about. There are certainly genetic diseases like congenital heart defects or hemophilia. But then there are genetic differences that might seem maladaptive under certain given circumstances, but wouldn't be any issue at all or might even confer advantages under different societal contexts. And then there are the straightforward differences that eugenics-obsessed regimes like to define as undesirable, like having the wrong hair, eye, or skin color, and then use that as an excuse to persecute whomever they want to. The whole thing is irreparably fucked.

6d ago

He looks so happy and proud

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

We have to go to Hammerbarn.

6d ago

Baba Yaga called... from her cellphone

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

What if we took an A-frame... and made it even harder to insulate?

6d ago

What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

When I was a freshman in college I thought "Surely nobody would want to inherit genetic diseases, and why wouldn't we want to to try and make people just naturally live longer, healthier lives?" but then I did even the tiniest bit of research on how eugenics actually worked and I completely abandoned that line of thinking.

6d ago

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 6d ago

Weird Al, Mission Statement

1w ago

Xbox as a platform is officially dead

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 1w ago

I like to see what's going on in the handheld emulator world!

1w ago

Polls show deep public skepticism of Trump’s case on Iran

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 1w ago

I'd like to run a poll of as many Americans as could be managed, and ask them if we should maintain diplomatic relations with... and then list a series of real and fictional nations. I suspect we'd get something like 25 to 30% who think we should cut off diplomatic ties with Narnia, Wakanda, and Oz.