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  • Compromise culture

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  • After today, of all days, I will be taking no memes/strips about this from anybody that doesn't keep blood-soaked ties, scalped hair inserts and shattered cufflinks as serial killer trophies.

    Or is running for office, at the absolute least. But bloody ties are better.

  • Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro has been captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country

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  • Yes, the lesser of two evil is still evil. And that's the one you vote for, or want the locals to vote for, because we're not running on Hannah Barbera levels of cartoon logic.

    I swear, burn down the Internet. It was all a mistake.

  • Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro has been captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country

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  • They demonstrably do not, on account of one of the two just having, and I can't believe I have to keep typing this out, just kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife.

    I am pretty sure that's not some bipartisan policy. That's the ending of a Metal Gear sequel.

    That's the lesson, isn't it? People just say things online, and the things need to get entirely dissociated from basic reality before it starts showing that they're just things people say on the Internet.

    Screw under-16s. Social media should be banned altogether.

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  • No, it's not, that's not how that works. If one side is ideologically unpalatable and the other side is a gaggle of crazy fascists it's perfectly valid to propose that one of the two sides is better than the other. Especially if you don't have as much of a vested interest in domestic reform.

    That's an absurdly childish stance.

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  • Who is "you"? I'm not American.

    But there are differences between both US political parties, and given the choice, any non-American should absolutely be hoping the actively fascist party loses, obviously.

    The notion that they're both equivalent is so farcical it didn't hold up to any scrutiny at the time when it mattered, and anybody that pushed that notion then is now partially responsible for this whole mess.

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  • Man, save me from cosplayers playing at revolution online.

    It's embarrassing, you know? Like watching your little child try to act like you and accidentally exposing all your garbage.

  • Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro has been captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country

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  • Ah, we've moved on to the "maybe they wouldn't have done this batshit crazy thing, but they would have done other things that are bad, so they're the same".

    Except, obviously, a good way of telling that two things aren't the same is that they're different. Also, in cased you missed it, Trump bombed Nigeria on Christmas day. So this isn't an "or" thing, this is an "and" thing.

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  • No faction in the US represents my interests, on account of my not being American.

    But man, if I have to choose which faction is more likely to, say, roll up with tanks into Greenland, annex Canada or, and I can't repeat this enough, bomb Caracas and kidnap Nicolás Maduro and his goddamn wife, I am pretty sure there is a single correct answer.

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  • Well, let's see who is in charge in Venezuela by next week, if anybody, and then we can talk about that. It's one thing to... and again, holy shit, kidnap the sitting president and his wife, and another to enact a regime change without all-out violence.

    Anyone who says they know what happens next is probably lying. Trump very much included.

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  • You... think the differentiating element there is domestic vs foreign policy? That's the objection you...

    ... you know what? I rest my case.

  • Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro has been captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country

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  • Yes, you weirdo.

    In what universe would Harris bomb Venezuela and kidnap Nicolás Maduro and his wife? Are you nuts?

    At some point the people just doubling down on this train of thought just make me reassess how warped and delusional the argument was during the actual election. I guess when you have the luxury of a hypothetical you can just go forever. Trump will pass a law requiring him to rub his bare ass onto every single female politician and these guys will be going "do you really not think Harris would have her hairy asshole pushed onto people as well?"

    We live in the dumbest dystopia.

  • Is there a way to install Windows 11, somewhat bloatware/AI free? (It's for college.)

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  • Any normal install of W11 can be cleaned up a fair bit just by manually refusing permissions and disabling unwanted features. For all the memes, very few of the features people complain about are forced on.

    After that the biggest fixes I'd recommend are editing the registry to remove online search in the Start Menu, which makes it very workable (although there is a redesign incoming, not sure how that'll interact) and installing PowerToys to get a universal search shortcut and a bunch of really nice QoL features.

    W11 is actually perfectly usable after some customization, honestly.

  • Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro has been captured after US conducted ‘large scale strike’ on country

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  • I guess. Because most countries in the region would have gone for that option just fine. It's not like Maduro has a particularly solid claim to his seat. Half the country and a bunch of even fairly left-leaning governments would have thought supporting the internal factions with a legitimate claim for electoral victory was a harsh but reasonable outcome.

    And yet they went with "massive airstrike followed by a ground incursion to kidnap the guy" instead.

    So... you know, that's a difference, one would say.

  • Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19%

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  • Sounds about right. Console install counts start being "relevant" after 20-ish million unit sales. The Deck itself isn't close to that, and the overall Linux install base on Steam is maybe what, a third of that?

    But I'd argue you need more for Steam, because a lot of those Linux users also have Windows available as it is, given that about 20% of them are on a Steam Deck and many of those likely have a Windows PC on the side rather than only using Steam on the Deck.

  • Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19%

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  • Having daily driven Bazzite for ages now...

    ...nah, you still will tinker.

    Linux advocates just don't parse what "tinkering" means for most users, and frequent distro hoppers tend to think anything that doesn't break in the install process is "tinker-free". Neither is even remotely accurate.

    Bazzite is alright, but it defaults to autoupdates, so you may want to understand how rolling back on a Fedora atomic distro works if you don't want to be confused later when something fixes itself/breaks randomly for no reason.

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  • So on what stage of deflection are the "Trump and Biden/Harris are exactly the same" locals at this point? Anybody keeping track?

  • Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026

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  • There's only one mention of the word "slop" attributed to Nadella in the entire piece. It's this:

    "We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication," Nadella laments, emphasizing hopes that society will become more accepting of AI, or what Nadella describes as "cognitive amplifier tools." "...and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our “theory of the mind” that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other."

    Now, that's entirely meaningless corpospeak, but it's also very clearly not "Nadella wants you to stop saying slop".

    But the article needed bait and nobody reads past the clickbait headline anymore. The intellectual laziness fuelling the slop isn't exclusive of AI usage.

    We suck at this.

    I propose an oath, ok? You commit to not using GenAI in 2026... and also to not EVER comment on an article or social media post you haven't read in full.

    Deal?

  • Street Fighter II: It sounds dumb but they really fixed a typo with a human leg

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  • They didn't, they used a sprite with a single pixel to hack together a visual tweak (that just happens to be part of Guile's leg).

    But watch the video anyway. Despite the clickbaity thumbnail (blame Google) it's a passable account of an example of having to fix a visual bug in code after an asset lock because of how the production process of old games was structured.

  • Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

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  • The report the other person linked above is specifically and entirely about those questions. Addresses them decently, too.

    https://www.parkrecord.com/2025/12/16/heber-city-police-department-test-pilots-ai-software/

    FWIW, at least one of the examples they cover actively requires manual edits to allow a report to be completed. The point isn't to actively provide a final report, but a first draft for people to edit.

    Now, in my experience this is pointless because writing is generally the least bothersome or time consuming part of most tasks that involve writing. If you're a cop who maybe doesn't do the letters part so good and has to write dozens of versions of "I stopped the guy and gave them a speed ticket", maybe that's not true for you and there are some time savings in reading what the chatbot gives you and tweaking it instead of writing it from scratch each time. I guess it depends on your preferences and affinity for the task. It certianly wouldn't save me much, or any time, but I can acknowledge how there is a band of instances in this particular use case where the typing is the issue for some people.

    Anyway, read the actually decent report. It's actually decent.

  • The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.

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  • Oh, so there literally is no practical reason? Just pure aesthetics, OCD-ish stuff?

    So does that extend to the lid and people just say "toilet seat" as a catch-all or is there a specifically cultural predilection for the seat down/lid up configuration? Because that one looks messy to me. If the goal is for the toilet/bathroom to look tidy surely the lid down is a must, right?