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  • I'll quit watching YouTube before I give it my ID

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  • How do you even do that?

  • Meet James Coulter: The Billionaire Private Equity Guy Who Gets Rich by Making People Unemployed

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  • Pretty sure ChatGPT wrote this article, not sure how accurate any of this is when there's no sources.

  • The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot?

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  • TikTok

    I think you're always going to have problems with a lack of authenticity on platforms where opaque algorithms do all the work of deciding what gets popular and what gets shown to who.

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    Women and men and consensual sex

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  • but the kinds of people who grape others generally don’t feel shame

    I think this is probably not true.

    the primary tool society uses to respond to grape, assault, prison, ostracizing or murder is, so like, so what is there less shame?

    Those tools aren't equally available to everyone, they are expressions of power, which some people have access to more than others.

  • Thin rule crust

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  • however without apps like this if you think about it we’d have to be back to driving everywhere to go eat at most places most restaurants profits would be down still and you would have to work at those shit restaurants for even worse pay

    How about instead of all that we go back to people making their own food at home and let the restaurant industry die off altogether

  • Have you ever met a truly evil person? What happened?

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  • From what I've heard "psychopath" is in fact a disorder that makes a person worse at managing their own life, in addition to making things worse for the people around them.

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    TIL Iran Has No Water Left, 28 Million People WITHOUT Water

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  • It's definitely glossing over some stuff, like when it talks about the unwillingness of neighbors to trade with them and chalking it up to "burned bridges", I imagine the aggressive US sanctions they've been under played a big role there.

  • Parents Are Accidentally Buying Their Kids Electric Motorcycles Instead Of E-Bikes

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  • Sounds like the issue is that the metric people should be using is maximum speed, because that's the main thing that makes it unsafe, but this is not clear to them

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    apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people

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  • I like it, more people should adopt unusual typing quirks imo

  • Definitely how it went for me

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  • Wait what? How does that work? Is there some data storage in the motherboard that's remembering the best way to organize your ram?

  • Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer

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  • and there’s a well-defined mission in each zone

    It's been a long time but I remember there being missions with scripted events and objectives and stuff, but then also areas where the main thing to do was simply travel through it to get to other places. My favorite moment from the game was when I worked out that you could skip a portion of the normal progression by getting to a higher level area early to buy more powerful equipment, but actually getting there was a real challenge due to being underleveled and the difficulty of getting past enemies without killing them. I got a group to make the attempt (which took some explaining and persuasion because it wasn't the normal next thing to do) and we spent hours on it and got to the last leg of the journey, but ultimately had to give up because our death penalties were stacked too high to get through that last bit. I was able to make it on a later attempt with a different group using character loadouts more specialized for the task.

    Something I think GW1 did really well was doing various things like this to build up a sense of location and meaningful travel, which does a lot of work to compensate for the gameplay itself happening in isolated instances and making the world of the game feel expansive and epic.

  • Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits

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  • Emote only chat

  • Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease

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  • I don’t think anyone would ever argue against that

    Aren't they though? Take the example from the article:

    KJ Muldoon of Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, was diagnosed shortly after birth with severe CPS1 deficiency – the buildup of toxic ammonia in the blood.

    The experimental therapy, crafted specifically for his condition, corrected a minor yet crucial error in his genetic code, offering hope for others with similarly rare diseases.

    While liver transplants can be a solution for some, this innovative gene-editing treatment offers a new avenue of hope.

    Presumably this was considered acceptable because it is something that was able to be done after the baby was born. What about similar, unambiguously deleterious conditions (there are lots of really awful ones) that fall afoul of the broad prohibitions on modifying embryos? At least on paper, this is specifically what the company that the article is about claims its focus is; the stuff no one disagrees that it's bad to be born with. Like it isn't very arguable that it's good for babies to have ammonia in their blood and need liver transplants.

    Gene editing to create a baby is illegal in the US, UK, and many countries around the world, with critics arguing it is unethical and unsafe.

    So really at this point the question is only, do we allow the development and use of this technology for the things there is no objection about. I guess the risk is that this will be a slippery slope and lead to things being done that are actually bad, or maybe that mistakes will be made that cause unintended genetic issues. But if it was possible to use it just for that class of diseases, and the treatments were safe and worked, it would be a good thing.

  • Pennies Are Trash Now

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  • Ass pennies guy in shambles

  • It's true

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  • What's the best way to pirate a deck of cards

  • Old post, but this toxicity is a reminder of why reddit sucks.

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  • Reddit recently got rid of their direct message system entirely in favor of their new 'chat' system, which overall sucks, but one advantage is you now don't see messages by default and have the option to 'ignore' message requests instead of seeing their content. As for manual moderation, doubt that will ever happen since Reddit is a corporation that isn't going to want to pay people for that kind of thing.

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  • I don't watch his other content but in that one video he was absolutely doing exactly what a typical user would do in his situation. He was trying to follow a tutorial, he ran into the sort of warning message Windows users are conditioned to breeze past, and followed the onscreen instructions without trying to understand the confusing stuff. They changed how it worked after that incident, as they should if mass adoption is at all desirable.

  • Guys and Girls of the fediverse who have made the decision to end a toxic relationship, did you choose to go to the gym? If so what has been the out come for you since then?

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  • Wasn't my choice to end it, but working out did help, the physical discomfort dulls the emotional pain. Although I did it at home rather than going to a gym. Years later I'm still more in shape than I was before that episode.

  • Platform for Crowd Sourced Software Bounties?

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  • What about a way to donate (held in reserve for that purpose?) money after the fact for specific commits, and then have a way to indicate which things you'd be most likely to donate to going forward if they are completed? This would mean less reliable payments since there wouldn't be a guarantee any given contribution would result in a payout, but there wouldn't be any disincentive to work on things and there would be a general idea of what donators want. Plus doing it that way would eliminate the need for a manual escrow process.