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Tin

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  • In other words, the number of stars in our solar system is appxomately e.

  • Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know

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  • Oh, I didn't know audacity would do it. Well I know how I'm wasting time at work the rest of this week...

  • Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know

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  • I have the album I made with them! Some of the tracks are solely composed of Sound Recorder playing non-audio files, but every track contains samples created that way. The quality isn't the best, this is a CD rip because I've long since lost the original files, but since it's experimental industrial noise, the audio quality doesn't hurt much I guess.

    https://soundcloud.com/themachinal/sets/the-machinal-disturbance

  • Taliban ban windows to stop women being seen inside homes

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  • When do we get to the part of the episode where James T Kirk, prime directive be damned, finds the meglomaniacal computer controlling these men, and blows it up?

  • Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know

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  • Windows Sound Recorder used to open literally anything - text documents, pdfs, images, executables, DLLs, and attempt to play them as audio. Photoshop files make especially interesting noises through it. I used to use it for samples. Got some great noisy stuff that way.

  • american culture

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  • I know you know this and likely just mistyped, but for clarity, the Iliad is about the war itself. The Odyssey is about the dude trying to get back home.

    They weren't religious texts per se, but they were certainly cultural touchstones which contain important lessons about the human condition, death, love, and what's truly important in life. They would fill a role similar to histories in the Old Testament, probably, like the book of Ruth.

  • Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account

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  • I used to game with a guy who spent an absurd amount of money on a d20 made of meteorite.

  • Player two has entered the lobby

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  • He probably gave them a membership to the jelly of the month club instead of a Christmas bonus.

  • Donald Trump gets bad news about his tariff plan from Americans in new poll

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  • It was an election season where the race was polling around 50/50 pretty much throughout. Even when one candidate had a lead, with margins of error, no they didn't. A ~50% probability of losing is huge, even if many polls did show her slightly ahead. Consider a 20-sided die. 9 sides are red, 11 are blue. You wouldn't be surprised if you rolled red.

    News media has no idea how to talk about polls because they don't want to talk about probability, they want to talk about which number is bigger as if it's a scoreboard. I didn't want him to win, but the polls weren't wrong.

  • Rule

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  • As an Old, I started with an Apple ][ and learned BASIC. We did get the classic B&W Macintosh computers when I was 12-13.

  • I mean...violence is bad.

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  • Ah, good. So the corrupt, evil, and greedy tactics of health insurers are finally mitigated to... checks notes oh, to what they were last week.

    You know they're sitting on a wish list of awful policies while they're waiting for this to blow over so they can implement them when we aren't looking. Fuck that.

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  • True - so it's a bit more like the swamp overflowed and some shit ran out.

  • Windows VS Linux (part 2)

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  • Weird, I would expect Steam to be in the Ubuntu repos (assuming that's what you were using, since you mention apt), but maybe not. As for apt, or apt-get, they are just the terminal equivalent of the GUI package manager (synaptic? it's been a minute since I ran ubuntu), so if something isn't in the repos, apt at the terminal won't find it either. If it's not in the repos, you should be able to download and install steam from the website just like you would in windows. It gives you a .deb file which will launch just like an executable installer in Ubuntu. But to your point, yes, sometimes things in linux take a little extra thinking to get to work. Getting accustomed to the way Linux works can help overcome hiccups like this. Windows has many quirks as well, it's just that if you use WIndows often you know your way around them.

  • Windows VS Linux (part 2)

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  • Most games on Steam work just fine when you turn on Proton. Gaming on linux has come a long way.

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  • Well, how about that. Trump did drain part of the swamp.

  • It's all tied together

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  • To what end? To pee? Who cares? Go ahead. When the line's too long at one, people regularly duck into the free restroom in an emergency anyway. If you have to go, just go.

    If someone goes into a public restroom with the intention of harming someone inside, it doesn't matter what gender any of them are, or what they look like, or which bathroom it is. None of that matters. Don't go into a bathroom with the intention of harming someone. That's wrong. The end.

  • This world is cruel…

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  • Astronomy is pretty cool :) Yeah, the H-R diagram plots luminosity vs. temperature (decreasing), so the biggest, brightest stars are at the top left and the smallest and dimmest at the bottom right with the red giants hanging out in the upper right corner. Most stars (the main sequence) can be found along the diagonal from top left to bottom right.

    To talk astronomy on a first date, I might suggest asking about a favorite constellation and then pointing out some of its neighbors in the sky and some of the more prominent stars.

    You can have some fun with Orion, for example. Find Orion's belt and follow it down and to the left until you get to a bright blue star. That's Sirius, and the constellation is Canis Major, Orion's hunting dog. From Orion's belt again, follow it up and to the right until you come to a red star at one tip of what looks like a "V" shape. That V is the face of Taurus the bull, and the red star is Aldebaran. Following the line of Orion's shoulders up and to the left you'll come to three stars in an elongated 'V'. That's Gemini, the twins, the two stars at the top are Castor and Pollux. Pollux is the brighter one, on the left. And Castor looks like a single star, but is actually six binary pairs!

    If your date things that's cool, maybe one day you can talk to them about the different fusion reactions that occur in the core of a star, but I wouldn't lead with that. :D

  • This world is cruel…

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  • Astronomy is one of those things that people think they like until they find out it's mostly math, physics, and chemistry, and looking at cool pictures of space is not directly involved.

    source: astronomy minor. I liked it but being able to discuss the various types of variable starts and plot them in a Hertzsprung–Russell diagram is not going to win me any dates.

  • Liberty University sued by former IT staffer fired after disclosing she's a transgender woman

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  • Why make up a religion, when you can join an already established one, and then foment a schism? The Church of the SubGenius welcomes all heretics.