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jedibob5

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  • Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microsoft

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  • The moderators of online communities have every right to manage the content of those communities as they see fit, as long as they're within legal bounds.

    That said, individuals also have the right to call said moderators a bunch of clueless asshats when they make dumbass decisions, as long as they're abiding by the policies of the space where they're saying it.

    Microsoft banning the word "Microslop" from their Discord isn't censorship is well within their legal rights, but they are a bunch of clueless asshats for thinking that it was a good idea.

  • B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time

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  • You know, I don't really think that raising a concern about the possibility of kids getting hit by cars that I hadn't heard discussed much before really falls into the same category as religious wingnuts scaremongering about "subversive" books or drag queens or whatever.

    I didn't even present it as some sort of urgent, insurmountable problem, I just didn't have any rebuttal for it in the moment when I heard it. The other replies have brought up good points that could help make it work. Was that really warranted?

  • ard

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  • So a lizard must be an excess of Liz?

  • blinker checkpoint

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  • Oh, that makes more sense. It's a joke about the fog, then. If rain is God crying, then fog is God hitting the vape.

    Edit: Looks like you got it at about the same time I did lol

  • blinker checkpoint

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  • What does "take a blinker" mean here? Guessing it's a regional thing, I've not heard that one before.

  • B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time

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  • I actually heard an argument against permanent DST that I still haven't really been able to refute. The reasoning was that darker conditions in the mornings during winter could make things more hazardous for kids walking to school. In places with properly pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, it probably wouldn't be an issue, but at least in more suburban areas, I can't say I disagree. Changing back and forth twice a year is still silly, but I feel like I might prefer permanent standard time over permanent DST in a lot of places.

  • 🫡🐙🫡

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  • Ah, right, THAT Hydra. I felt like I'd seen that logo somewhere before, but I'm only passingly familiar with comics and such.

  • 🫡🐙🫡

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  • But who is Mr. Schmidt?

  • Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto

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  • As much I agree with the idea of abandoning Discord - honestly, fuck 'em - I just don't know how I or many other people could practically make the full switch... While I might be able to convince a few of my close friends to go with me to whatever new platform comes about, there's just no way any larger communities would be able to uproot and leave without losing 90%+ of their members, and that's only if the owners of those communities are even willing to leave in the first place. Inertia is a powerful thing, and the reality of the situation is that the vast majority of Discord users will not be convinced to leave over this.

    I want to defend my privacy, and I want to tell these corporate ghouls to shove it, but at the same time, I don't want to become a digital hermit. Having to decide between protecting my privacy and cutting myself off from so many valued social connections and communities feels like an impossible choice.

    I know I'm not saying anything particularly new or actionable here, I'm just... tired. I'm tired of having to flee from platform after platform into increasingly smaller and more insular corners of the internet to escape the endless cycle of enshittification. I'm tired of what the internet has become, where the only places left where you can exist without being manipulated and exploited by corporate interests are a handful of small, decentralized platforms that are becoming increasingly cut off from the internet at large. I'm just tired of this shit, man.

  • Mistakes were made

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  • Sure, probably, but it definitely would've been a surprise.

  • Mistakes were made

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  • I came pretty close to putting sour cream on my bagel once on a particularly groggy morning.

  • Wanna buy a(nother) humidifier?

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  • Yes, was just about to recommend that myself. Link to the video in question: https://youtu.be/j_QfX0SYCE8

    If I remember it correctly, though, dehumidifiers can be useful for comfort in very specific climates where ambient humidity is high, but temperatures are mild enough to not require much actual heating or cooling. I think dehumidifiers are relatively common in many areas of the UK for that reason.

    If OP is from the UK, it might be a sensible recommendation for their specific climate, just not in many places elsewhere. In the US, at least, the only place you'd find anything like that climate might be some parts of the Pacific Northwest.

  • Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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  • Was he not just being facetious?

  • Another miserable year for nuclear power as renewables surge

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  • I mean, at least it's a form of green energy that's surging instead of fossil fuels.

  • hells angels

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  • I don't get it

  • TrumpRx delayed as senators question if it's a giant scam with Big Pharma

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  • As an aside, I always hated how Dems completely caved on the terminology of the ACA. They should've been saying the words "Affordable Care Act" at every turn, keeping the actual goal of the whole thing more in the popular consciousness. Going along with calling it "Obamacare" implicitly accepted the GOP's framing of the bill and allowed them to more easily control the narrative.

  • pls no

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  • I looked it up, and it's apparently closely related to the datura genus, so that doesn't surprise me lol

  • pls no

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  • If that's datura, which it looks to me like it is, you don't want any part of it. It's pretty much universally regarded as giving one of the worst, most unpleasant trips imaginable, and its effects last at least 24-48 hours or even longer. It's also just outright toxic depending on the dosage. It's just not worth it.

  • Forza Horizon 6 - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer

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  • The DLC car packs contain exclusive cars that cannot be obtained elsewhere. The weekly cars are often "hard-to-find" in that they are generally not available elsewhere until they re-run them, but apparently, now that the game is late in its content cycle, they've also added a "backstage pass" thing recently, which allows for easier acquisition of some previous "hard-to-find" vehicles.

    There are a ton of base-game vehicles that are not exclusive to any particular time or event. Many can be obtained in the Autoshow, which you spend in-game credits to buy cars outright, or in wheelspins, which are basically lootboxes, but they hand out free spins like candy, to the point where I never felt any pressure to buy more. Most spin reward cars are pretty cheap on the auction house anyway (which also uses in-game currency, no IRL money or anything).

  • Video Game Music @lemmy.world
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    AoE2 music on a full-size pipe organ

  • Video Game Music @lemmy.world
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    Matthew Steele

    Dungeons of Dredmor - Stygian Search

  • Video Game Music @lemmy.world
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    Håkan Glänte

    Europa Universalis V - Overture II: The Odyssey

  • Software Gore @lemmy.world
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    I messaged some friends about a free game on Steam, but it seems the Discord preview disagrees on the price...

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Seems I've found some of the neighborhood cats posing for their next album cover...