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SparroHawc

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  • Impeachable: Pam Bondi Defied Federal Law by Erasing Epstein Photos to Protect Trump

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  • Okay, slow your roll there. Protecting pedophiles is not nearly in the same category as directly facilitating pedophilia and engaging in human trafficking.

    Downvote all you like, but a murderer is still guilty of a greater crime than their friend who is helping them bury the bodies.

  • The long game

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  • TF2 had a long and prosperous life. It's 18 years old at this point. There are a few live service games (usually with subscriptions) that have survived longer, but TF2 had its run, and it was a good one. I bought it as part of the Orange Box and I absolutely got my money's worth and then some from it.

    As for physical media - I don't know if you were around for it, but there was a period before Steam took over the industry when most major PC game releases had CD keys you had to input and validate before you could play the game. Do something the publisher doesn't like? The key gets revoked and you can't play the game any more unless you buy another license. There were entire underground communities devoted to cracking the CD key validations in games. Now you just use Luna or Steamless and call it a day.

  • The long game

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  • All it would take for Valve to lose their effective monopoly on PC game distribution would be for someone else to make a better product.

    Every other major PC game distribution platform (besides GOG, and they're far more niche than Valve) has essentially started their attempt to unseat Valve with enshittification baked in, and it was obvious.

  • Perfectly sane behavior.

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  • What the fuck?

    WHAT THE FUCK??

  • this is some sad shit

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  • I've seen demos of software that uses AI to split a song into multiple tracks, one for each instrument. THAT is pretty cool. It's not lossless, you're going to lose some of the human performance because the AI has to reconstruct the sound for each instrument and it's not going to be 100% perfect, but it's a really neat (and useful) tool.

    Notably, it's not the kind of thing you generally see when tech bros are touting AI.

  • The store that sells your lost luggage

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  • If you have something that you can't afford to part with, you don't let it leave your person. It goes in your pockets, or in your carry-on.

    If you have something that needs to get somewhere safely, and you can't afford to lose it, and you can't carry it with you onto an airplane, you don't put it in your checked luggage - you ship it. With insurance.

    Everyone either knows someone, or has had the experience themselves, of losing luggage due to an airline's neglect. It's a known risk.

  • Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon

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  • Amazon is a service. That service is becoming materially worse (I have a harder time finding what I'm looking for because of the flood of substandard products and Amazon's preferential search treatment practices, and even when I do find what I'm looking for, there's a sizable risk that it's a fake). This is very much enshittification; they captured the market share, and now they're squeezing it. Anything that makes them more money but is worse for the consumer, they do. Anything that is better for the consumer but costs them money, they don't do.

  • Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon

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  • There are two factors necessary for a truly free market that prevent any capitalist system from actually being a free market. They are:

    1. Consumers need to have perfect information about the products and the companies that make and/or sell them - in other words, companies must not be able to hide their sins.
    2. There needs to be zero friction for new entrants into the marketplace, whether that is from costs to start up a business, or anti-competitive behavior from other companies with money to throw around.

    It is impossible to achieve either of these in the real world.

  • I'd vote for him

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  • Somehow I don't think the people who were performing mayoral duties on behalf of the dog were hidden behind the scenes. Especially since it's a tiny little town; everyone knows everyone else.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Ugh. Well, sounds like I made a good choice dropping it...

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • The Sword of Truth series.

    I read the first book as a teenager. I was rather skeezed out by the roughly one-third of the book that was a poorly-disguised authorial kink fantasy.

    Then the second book had a lovingly detailed description of a witch gaining demonic power by getting railed by a demon.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Whoever wrote those books, didn’t have much consideration for the reader.

    Sizable chunks of the Old Testament were documentation, rather than formatted with the intent of being engaging. It's like how a family bible often has genealogy hand-written inside it, except it's the contents of the book itself.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • For the longest time, Sanderson was utterly terrible at writing romance, and it was very obvious. A lot of it was probably due to a lack of personal experience. He's gotten better, but a lot of the 'lack' you're feeling in his writing probably stems from the same place. Despite writing about dark topics - apocalyptic events, oppressed populations, the failures of heroes, etc. - he is missing the edge that you get from other authors who write similar stories. Personally I don't mind, and I really enjoy his books - but I can understand why others would find them bland.

  • Living language

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  • Okay, that's actually kinda great.

  • JD Vance calls for banning viral 'six-seven' meme after his child goes 'absolutely nuts'

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  • It has no meaning. It's a meme purely for the sake of being a meme.

  • Living language

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  • The word that always comes to mind is 'literally' which has come to mean 'figuratively, but with emphasis' and it drives me nuts - because it removes the word we have to say 'this is a thing that you might assume is figurative, but it's not, it actually happened'.

  • steam vs gog, which game store to buy from?

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  • If you own it on GoG you don't need a pirate copy - just save the offline installer.

  • Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age

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  • I'm pretty sure their point is that millennials are unable to accrue enough wealth to become conservative.

  • ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?

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  • A sizable portion of Lemmy's userbase is in a country that aggrandizes free-market capitalism, and we're getting to the point with it where its flaws are becoming impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, most of us grew up well after the peak of anti-socialist sentiment.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    SparroHawc @lemmy.zip

    AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

    futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/new-findings-ai-coding-overhyped
  • News @lemmy.world
    SparroHawc @lemmy.zip

    Texas Ice facility shooting: two dead and one injured, and ‘anti-Ice’ shell casings found

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/24/dallas-ice-shooting-texas-immigration-center-latest