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  • World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles

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  • The NES was the best selling of those, at ~60 million. The PS1 completely changed the curve.

    It's funny. People remember the PS3 as a failure because it's the worst-selling PlayStation, but it still crushed NES numbers

  • World's Video Game Companies

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  • Because Sony and Microsoft make most of their money from other sources. That isn't to says their game studios aren't big, just that they don't make 90% of revenue.

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  • Samaritans still live in Palestine, around Mount Gezirim. They consider themselves to be the faithful heirs of Moses, and that Jews are doing it wrong. Israel considers Samaritans to be spicy Jews for demographic purposes (let's them slightly inflate the number of Jews living in East Palestine), but requires a Samaritan who wishes to marry a Jew to formally convert.

    Judaea was never a name for Israel. It was the Roman name for Judah, a kingdom which stopped existing around 70AD when the Romans marched in, smashed the Second Temple, and folded Judaea into direct Roman control.

    Zionists insist on referring to the West Bank (eastern Palestine) as "Judaea and Samaria" to assert that it's a land for Jews (and Samaritans), denying the very existence of Palestine.

    But Gidley can't even get that right.

  • How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?

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  • What the fuck kind of calendar has at least 22 months in it?

  • When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly

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  • What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema?

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  • Apparently the Hindi translations of tge Harry Potter books translate the Latin into Sanskrit, but that's more of a cultural thing, since Sanskrit has a similar cachet among South Asian Hindus and Buddhists as Latin has among European Christians.

  • Panchen Lama says reincarnation must follow Chinese laws, be endorsed by Beijing

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  • The Panchen Lama is a puppet of the CCP.

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • Bad news for the Libertarians: silver was historically way more common for money than gold was, to the point that languages like Irish and French use the same word for money as for silver.

    This is because there was (and is) way less gold than silver, so gold is way more valuable. As such, gold coins were only used to buy things like houses, horses, and suits of armour. Silver coins were much more practical; the linked article mentions that Ptolemaic Egypt had to export large quantities of grain to bring in enough silver to pay their army despite there being gold in Egypt.

    But more than that, if there is a complete societal collapse, the metal you'll want is iron. Societal collapse doesn't mean things continue as they have been except there are no safety or food quality laws. It means everybody goes back to peasant agriculture using tools made of wood and iron (well, steel, which is iron with extra stuff in it). If money is used, it might well be something where no coins actually change hands; everybody just remembers how much they owe their neighbours, and how much their neighbours owe them. That, if course, assumes that in the event of complete societal collapse, we don't decide to give local communism a try.

  • What folders do you make in addition to the default ones ?

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  • I rsync my home folder across installs. These are my standard extra folders.

    ~/Books, with subfolders by topic.

    ~/Comics, with subfolders by publisher, then by title, possibly with an intermediate folder for author or franchise.

    ~/Programming, with subfolders by language, then project.

  • Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?

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  • That's actually how it works in Irish. The word for good is deas, while the word for bad is deas prefixed with the negating particle mí, so mídheas.

    (There are still separate words for tge cardinal directions).

  • What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

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  • If it's dark and I see a light at just tge right angle, I see an image of the blood vessels inside my eyes.

  • Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder

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  • I like the term Markov chains in a Chinese room

  • One of Silicon Valley's most prominent techbros is giving lectures on the Antichrist -- and he thinks it's the Pope

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  • It's a little older than that, friend. Martin Luther himself proclaimed that the pop was the antichrist, and the Vatican was the whore of Babylon.

  • Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer?

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  • I use a dedicated video player instead of a browser. Quite a few desktop and mobile video players can directly play YT videos if you just feed them a URL.

  • Gaming Pet Peeves

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  • Needing to log into an online account to play a single-player game.

    When a single-player game keeps pausing to tell me it can't connect to the server.

  • New Castro Bar Rikki's to Host Lesbian Pie-Eating Contest

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  • Are bisexual pies allowed?

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • Do you have just a few minutes to chat about our lord and saviour Richard Stallman?

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • Linux and BSD had package managers before Mac did!

  • US Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

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  • That's not true. Swastikas can come in either orientation.

    But even Buddhists refrain from using swastikas nowadays because the Nazis ruined them for everybody.