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Quetzalcutlass

@ Quetzalcutlass @lemmy.world

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  • smoooooth, in their lane, flourishing

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  • Scientists be like "ow, how?!"

  • Prominent fringed fimbriated folds.

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  • I remember a surgeon commenting that sometimes muscles and tendons can be in different places or even outright missing in individuals. That must make surgery fun.

  • Prominent fringed fimbriated folds.

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  • The (not) technical term for that is "gleeking".

  • remember progress?

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  • RAM, graphics cards, SSDs, and HDDs are all up, some multiple-fold in price, and the disruption looks like it may continue for years. Combined with the death of Moore's Law, a $400 computer at today's prices might actually be worse than what you'd get for that money a decade ago.

  • If you made $50,000 a year and donated 0.06%, you'd donate $30... that's it.

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  • I don't think there's enough information about Gabe Newell to make a solid determination of morality. His company makes a good product - one that focuses on maximizing the quality of the user experience instead of extracting every cent it can. That's rare and admirable, but Valve also ushered in the era of loot crates with TF2 and CS and designed some of the most predatory forms of that model.

    Regarding Gabe himself, if he makes large donations to charity he doesn't advertise that fact. But he's a private person, so it's possible he's a major philanthropist but keeps it anonymous. He seemingly lacks the obvious vices of other billionaires (he doesn't interfere in politics or commit sex crimes) and hasn't been caught in any scandals. The worst thing he's done that I'm aware of is that time Valve gave a fake job offer to the Half-Life 2 leaker in hopes of getting him into the country so the feds could grab him.

    He also doesn't seem to do much with his money. His main hobby is collecting knives, something he could have done with a fraction of a fraction of a percent of his wealth. He does own a fleet of yachts, but he demands they be as environmentally friendly as possible and leases them out for ecological research when he's not using them.

    I'd personally rate him as neutral. He's not doing anything to make the world worse, but he's not really doing much to improve it either. The bar is just so low for billionaires that he seems amazing in comparison.

  • The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

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  • No, it was Mihoyo (makers of predatory gacha games like Genshin Impact and Star Rail). IIRC the replaced VAs had gone on strike in solidarity with the union, but weren't actually members so lacked job protection.

  • If you made $50,000 a year and donated 0.06%, you'd donate $30... that's it.

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  • Warren Buffet is the closest thing there is to a "good" billionaire. He made his money through responsible investing (investing in stocks based on the quality of the company and product rather than demanding short-term profit at the expense of future sustainability like the rest of the market), openly campaigns for higher taxes on the wealthy, pays his employees a generous wage, and was one of the first to join Bill Gates' Giving Pledge and the only billionaire I know of to immediately follow through and donate away huge swaths of his fortune, while the other Pledges only gave vague promises to donate a portion of their wealth to charity at some point before they die.

    He's not perfect, but if more wealthy people were like him the world would be a much better place.

  • Disappearances in Mexico surge by 200% over 10 years

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  • I remember when multiple school busses of students went missing and it turned out the Mexican military thought they were rivals of the local cartel pretending to be students, so they handed the busses over to said cartel. Who immediately murdered everyone on board, then hid the bodies and the vehicles after they realized they fucked up and killed a bunch of innocent students.

    The cartels are capital-E Evil to a degree most people can't conceptualize, and the authorities are hopelessly corrupt and openly assist them.

  • The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

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  • I can't wait until a studio replaces an entire character with a new actor using generative AI, kind of like Lucas did with Anakin in Return of the Jedi but for an entire series. It'll be a shitshow.

    It already happens in games with voice actors. I'm fine with it when it's done because the actor turned out to be a sexual predator or something, but a few live service games recast VAs during the recent(-ish) voice actor strikes, then went back and rerecorded every line ever said by their characters. That was pretty gross.

  • Editing comments doesn't work correctly

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  • I'm running into this too. It happens when adding text to an existing comment, not just deleting, and only when editing multiple characters at once (swipe typing or holding backspace). It doesn't seem to happen when pressing a single button at a time.

    The bug only happens once and seems to trigger the first time the number of lines changes and Voyager has to rewrap the input text, but it's not consistent (I've edited this comment about a dozen times now without it happening). And it never happens on a fresh comment, only when I go back and edit one later.

    Running on Android with the HeliBoard keyboard.

  • Kids

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  • The author agrees with you.

  • The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

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  • "This show has replaced the iconic music with generic slop to save on licensing costs."

  • Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended

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  • The "support" was clearly a hallucinating AI agent, and Ubisoft has already clarified that the game is still supported and should get a patch in the future. This is yet another example of how replacing employees with LLMs doesn't actually work.

  • Honduran white bats in their tent (Ectophylla alba)

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  • Is this technically a taco?

  • Forced Update

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  • Firefox keeps flipping randomly between the old and new layout on my phone. I guess their newest innovation is single-user A/B testing for maximum efficiency!

  • Eeeeek

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  • No more so than a regular dog eating meat.

  • ravioli, ravioli, what’s in the pocketoli?

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  • I hope you thanked him. Those screws, like all hard drive screws you take your eyes off of for more than thirty seconds, would have vanished forever otherwise.

  • Poor manatee though

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  • Is that the new STD spreading out from Mar-a-lago?

  • Scientists find a 'blue hole' so deep they can't reach the bottom

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  • That's a search that seems like it could backfire horribly.

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    When John Williams dies, he should donate his body to science

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Steam adds official support for game version-specific Workshop mods

    store.steampowered.com /news/group/4145017/view/497183817277113900
  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Steam adds official support for game version-specific Workshop mods

    store.steampowered.com /news/group/4145017/view/497183817277113900
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I wonder how the Habsburgs would have felt about pugs

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    I can always tell when I use one of my hoarded ADHD meds...

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Trying to save a custom emoji crashes Voyager

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Feature request: option to separate user vote totals

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Profile overview page isn't fully chronological

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    (Android) Improper bottom bar padding after rotation