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  • New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves

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  • I'm not porposing or defending any approach here, where do you draw the line between the decision to address the underlying issues and catering to creating isolated environments to shelter the marginalized groups, tho?

    I get that taking a breather in a safe environment to help with self-esteem and love is critical so as not to sink below that threshold of constantly feeling overwhelmed that is different for everyone, and I'm in no way seeing a one-day thing as anything else, but as public coordination events, how do you draw the line between the two I mentioned above? First example of going beyond giving breathing room to making a segregation comes to mind as the "pink buses" in which only women are allowed to be feel safe from men that some right-wing politicians bring up from time to time as a similar topic on addressing the cause vs treating the symptom or even causing different problems under such intention.

  • US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk'

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  • Oh no, not at all. First, you need to download the dependencies tho. Start with downloading more ram.

  • US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk'

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  • Tbh, uBlock Origin + brain.exe has been carrying the heaviest load for years for me. Windows Defender would catch 80% of the occasional slips where brain.exe wanted some risks, too.

  • NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense

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  • Well, if you allow CELL to gobble up that one android...

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  • Thanks a lot, this makes a whole lot more contextual awareness for the situation.

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  • Thanks for the detailed explanation about publicly traded companies, but what I wonder is the privately owned ones being forced to sell out, if there is such a thing.

    For example, lets say Proton is owned by a few shareholders or just one, and it is not openly traded unless the shareholders make personal agreements to sell out or anything like that. If Google came with a truckload of cash and told these shareholders to sell their shares to Google, can they simply refuse the offer no matter how big is the pile of cash or the benefits of the offer, or do they have to find a legal reason to keep their shares? I mean, even the question sounds stupid and the answer should be "yeah you can just keep your share and run the company however you like, as long as you don't go public listing", but with all the concerns about the buyouts talked all around this last few years, the premise looks like it is hard to hold out.

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  • What is this buying out talked about something not escapable if not some legal reorganization is made? It has been being talked about other companies, too, and it sounds like if you have a form of a company, you can't legally refuse monetary offers from someone to buy your company.

    Is there such a legal mechanism that forces an owner to sell out if an offer is made, or is this more about proofing a company against CEO/shareholder personal sell out decision?

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  • Is it hard to interpret running to Russia has the core benefit of not being extradited to the U.S. almost certainly, or at least with higher probability than any other country?

  • How the far-right gained traction with Europe's youth

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  • They meddled with the Islamic countries beyond what befalls them, and they helped the worst of the extremists come out in the instability they helped create.

    Besides, being some of the worst offenders on climate pollution per capita by far and making someone else's homes burn to global warming first was bound to create these refugees whether those ecuador countries were stable and tried to counter the local symptoms or not. I'm not saying advancing the comfort of human living is a sin or anything zealous like that. All I'm saying is that glossing over personal and corporate consumption while neglecting apt measures in favor of decoy policies and trying to reflect the blame somewhere else was bound to have the problem become bigger and more apparent.

    They reap what they have sown over the last few decades. Trying to put up a gunship and gunboat barrier over Greece while bribing the corrupt Turkish president to keep over millions of Syrian refugees, let aside others flooding illegally in groups of hundreds from Afganistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, etc. will work so far to keep the facade on.

    Rising fascism in Europe is not a defense against the religious extremists. It is due to desire for continuity of personal comfort and freedom in the face of reckoning day, by ensuring those who they fucked over can't come near and try to share in their abundance of resources.

  • Steam owner Valve accused of ripping off 14m UK gamers

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  • I have more than a soft spot for Valve. Their price recommendations over the years Turkish Lira reached the moon was stellar for the consumers here, and it wasn't just us. There are whole regions of countries that Steam has provided affordable game prices, which would otherwise simply have to resort to piracy completely.

    On another side, Steam's many features like lenient refund policies, extensive yet on-point and open profile/library/workshop/community infrastructure add more than 50% of the content and quality on some games, and a complete easy of use for consumers.

    Whatever one can say about their specific policies on some topics, I'm going to argue no other for-profit company has ever put this much feature on display without immediate gain from all of them. This is almost on par with many FOSS projects with such development behind them.

    However, on this price-matching practice, I believe it is totally not a pro-consumer one. It is not exclusivity, which could completely bankrupt and erase all other competitors long ago if Steam went that way, but it is still somewhat meddling with blocking cheaper options for consumers.

    All that said, and with another commenter mentioning that 30% price cut is standard in the industry and a developer selling a game expensive on Steam and having the possibility to sell it cheaper on another wouldn't make sense with the same cuts in place, I don't think this policy completely lacks any merit. Having unreachable presence on Steam and using it as an advertisement platform thanks to its reach while selling the game cheaper elsewhere with the same cuts, or even no-cuts in their own stores, would open a hideous scam many of the well-known companies in the industry would jump on without blinking an eye.

  • Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship

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  • Me omw to risk catching a mindless bomb or a shot in the back to use the internet. Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll have a chance to surrender without either happening.

  • Fired employee hacked into company’s computer system and deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 - CNA

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  • Which was also used repeatedly over the course of 3-4 months to gain access via a non-corporate laptop without the IT doing anything about it.

  • Doom: The Dark Ages is introducing big changes to combat because id Software came to one core realization: "Every projectile mattered in the original Doom"

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  • Tbh, even letting the platforming aside, the difficulty levels were pretty glossed over in Eternal.

    Choosing hard for the pushing yourself for fast paced gaming turned the health of every enemy to 11, making some weapons pretty useless instead of leaving them satisfying gameplay parts. Enemy animations were rather broken, too. In 2016, you could see every attack being prepared no matter how quick they were. In Eternal, it felt like playing an online game where animations were simplified and as if you were playing through a tick rate game where the game skipped cues for next enemy movements. A scrawny, naked possessed taking several melee hits wasn't fun at all.

    On easy, it is not even Doom.

  • 210 Palestinians reportedly killed during Israeli hostage recovery operation

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  • With one, you have to be cautious against infrequent exaggeration. With the other, you have to work your way through their constant denial. Both are not on point in scale of truth, and both can be used to completely subvert it for some intended purposes, but I think one is closer to the truth more frequently and by a lot than the other.

    You can definitely pick the exaggerating side to start with, then work your way to the truth as much as you can from there and you'd be closer to it than starting with the other one, having a lower rate of going astray.

  • Israel committing genocide in Gaza, new study concludes – Middle East Monitor

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  • Not what I expected to see from a Bebop fan. I guess they weren't wailing the blues when the doctor whacked their bottom on the day they were born.

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    TBH 6 was kind of a downgrade from 5

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  • Have you tried Googling everything and spending tens of hours making optimal progress flowcharts that require hours to read over instead of playing the game?

    Or, you know, just pour everything into science and forget don't dare about getting distracted by other game mechanics.

    s/ in case.

  • A heat dome will send temperatures into the triple-digits across the West as fires burn

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  • From summers when we slept under quilts to ones we can't even sleep almost naked in spring/fall, just in 15 years. From 2 weeks of snow each month on December, February and March to a day of light snow for 3 years and one medium snow once a year, if it comes once again.

    Yeah I'm definitely not optimistic about the next 15 years, let alone thinking of raising children beyond that.

  • mood

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  • The same for me. Although I could and would game in the dorm as much as I liked, I'd have pretty regular evening walks with friends over 2 hours with sitting for a bit on good places around the campus. On top of regular school stuff that'd amount to 4k-5k steps, these walks would add 5k-8k more on top, sometimes totalling 20k and not a single step or minute would be boring or hard to find motivation for.

  • US-built pier will be removed from Gaza coast and repaired after damage from rough seas

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  • It took about 2 months to become operational (don't know the exact time, but close to or exactly the planned 6-8 building time), used for 2 weeks, then on maintenance for a week. Spent $320M on this already.

    Jesus Christ, indeed.