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Pheonixdown

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  • A drone collided with one of the only Super Scooper planes fighting the LA wildfires, grounding a key resource

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  • I guess some people's point is that if the automated restrictions that come with those aren't used maliciously or commonly problematic, it shouldn't really be a big deal for it to exist. In fact, that they do exist is probably a good thing because it prevents amateurs from making potentially hazardous mistakes, given there really aren't any other controls on who can operate them.

    From the sound of your initial post, it sounded like you were primarily building your own to evade these automated restrictions, but I'm going to assume you're more of an enthusiast and just don't add those features to what you build, and you build things for that intrinsic joy and customizability. If true, I think given your level of familiarity and expertise, that feels generally reasonable.

  • ‘I follow the law:’ El Paso doctor responds to Ken Paxton’s lawsuit over alleged transgender care

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  • So long as the doctor isn't otherwise or unethically benefitting from the interaction, fully agreed.

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  • Maybe if they build a large wooden badger....

  • GOP-controlled N.C. Supreme Court blocks certification of Democrat as winner of close high court race

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  • Graham's Supreme Court

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  • Florida State Rep. Hillary Cassel becomes second Democrat to turn Republican since 2024 elections

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  • Nobody even got to vote for this person this election cycle, that's why your comment doesn't fit in this discussion. You just went off on an unrelated talking point. This is a result of different failures of the democratic process than what you're trying to start the discussion about.

  • Florida State Rep. Hillary Cassel becomes second Democrat to turn Republican since 2024 elections

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  • Is your suggestion that people vote in the cancelled election differently? Even if there was an R to vote for, should they have voted for the outright R instead of being tricked?

  • Squeezed by high prices, a growing number of Americans find shelter in long-term motels

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  • Good job admitting you don't know the meaning of the word, here I'll help: Accident “2a: an unfortunate event resulting especially from carelessness or ignorance"

  • Squeezed by high prices, a growing number of Americans find shelter in long-term motels

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  • He only realized he could no longer back out after he asked to cancel the sale when he realized all the work he'd need to do to move out.

  • Squeezed by high prices, a growing number of Americans find shelter in long-term motels

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  • He went beyond the point of no return without understanding or intending to have done so, that's an accident.

  • Squeezed by high prices, a growing number of Americans find shelter in long-term motels

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  • Yep, even asked his agent if he could undo it after having signed all the papers.

  • Squeezed by high prices, a growing number of Americans find shelter in long-term motels

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  • I know of at least 1 person in this situation, but that's because he accidentally sold his house because he didn't want his neighbors to give him weird looks while he smoked in front of his house.

  • Valve will be Lenovo’s ‘special guest’ at just-announced gaming handheld event. Microsoft’s ‘VP of Next Generation’ Xbox exec will also attend.

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  • Ah, the bad faith internet classic, someone who disagrees with you must not be a real person who holds an authentic viewpoint. Clearly only the things that feel right to you can only ever be things that feel right to others. You obviously should keep ignoring the voting on all the posts in this chain and other supportive comments, certainly don't get introspective.

    Thanks for showing me there's no point in having further discussions with you.

    Have a nice life.

    I'd recommend you look up a recipe by Babish, Alton Brown or Kenji Lopez-Alt, they all usually pretty solid.

  • Valve will be Lenovo’s ‘special guest’ at just-announced gaming handheld event. Microsoft’s ‘VP of Next Generation’ Xbox exec will also attend.

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  • That's the neat part about it not being the only way to access a game, people can choose, if they want to buy other things, they can buy other things, but if they still like certain titles available from MS, they can still get those even outside the service. Or they can just get the subscription if it costs them less for stuff they'd support anyway. If they don't want to support MS for decisions they've made with studios, they can choose to not buy anything too, but I'm not sure how that's going to help other studios they care about within MS. And let's not pretend the studio issue is exclusively a problem with MS or game pass, it's a capitalism symptom across the industry.

    As for third party contracts for making things available on game pass, those developers get to choose if the deal is good enough for them or not, they have a stake and more information than outsiders trying to play armchair executives.

    Nobody's calling it a default here, the options aren't "have only game pass forever" and "game pass doesn't exist", there's plenty of room for nuance in-between. So long as game pass continues to be a value proposition for enough consumers, it'll be around, if they raise the price too much or lower the quality or offerings so that it isn't seen as a good deal, people will stop paying. Adding it to the deck would increase the value proposition.

    I find it odd that an argument about giving people the power of choice is used to advocate against a choice existing.

  • Valve will be Lenovo’s ‘special guest’ at just-announced gaming handheld event. Microsoft’s ‘VP of Next Generation’ Xbox exec will also attend.

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  • If ever game pass is the only legal option for accessing a game, I'll happily consider revising my opinion, until then increased choices is always more consumer friendly. People should make their own personal choices about which of those options work best for themselves, and just because one option is preferred by some people, doesn't mean another can't be preferable to others.

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  • Game Pass native on Steam Deck would be 🔥🔥🔥

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  • You think people in California are going to be happy waking up at 3 pm, going to work at 5pm-1am, then going to sleep at 7am?

    Yes, other than a 1-time adjustment, it's no less arbitrary than the current times they use.

    People are angry that they get an extra hour of sleep one night and lose one another. 2 days out of the year.

    They're right to, it literally causes a rise in deaths, with this that goes entirely away, so yay?

    You really think you're going to sell these people on waking up at 3 pm and going to bed at 7am?

    I'm not sure you'd still use am/pm, but yeah. What intrinsic negative is there? Who cares if they have to be at work at the same point relative to the local day/night cycle but it's named something else.

    Working hours being 9am-5pm PST vs 9am-5pm PDT are just numbers

    They also come with the baggage of dst and timezones, part of which you list below.

    Maine could be in it's own time zone as far east as it really is. The idea that Michigan is in the same time zone is absurd. Michigan should be in CST. That would drop them back an hour. If you talked to someone in Michigan they probably hate DST. Their DST should be their current standard time and then they should fall back to CST if they wanted to do the DST switch thing. They would get a lot more sunlight in the morning.

    Yeah, this is all dumb, so why not make all of these oddities go away.

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  • The amount of sun is not dictated by what time we arbitrarily call it. People's scheduled times for work would vary based on location, so someone in CA who currently works 9-5 would would work like 17-3. Which would be the same as the sun coverage locally is concerned.

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  • Different employers in areas have their own arbitrary start/stop times already, time numbers are already an arbitrary concept, if someone in CA right now is working hours based on NY, when they work relative to the sun won't change, just the numbers. The difference would be in people cold contacting others vs scheduled times. Right now if something is scheduled you have to convert it to your time, the formula for which will vary based on what time zone it is scheduled in. With this change, when reaching out to someone far away, you'd have to figure out if you're contacting them at an appropriate time for their day/night, but that's also inexact because people have different personal cycles anyway.

    Working hours being 9am-5pm vs 1900-0300 are just numbers.

  • Two Teens Indicted for Creating Hundreds of Deepfake Porn Images of Classmates

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  • Isn't all of that still kinda of true regardless of the age of the subjects? If they were 18 or 30 it isn't magically better.

    Revenge Porn might be a closer analogue. CSAM laws feel like they'll get loopholed somehow, like idk if can just ask the AI to make the person aged up or whatever and get away with it.