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Platypus

@ platypode @sh.itjust.works

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  • How are the icon styles of Liquid Glass (Light/Dark/Clear/Tinted) made?

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  • What specifically do you dislike about it? Personally I’ve really been enjoying the new design and haven’t noticed any issues around things like animations, I’d be curious to hear a different perspective

  • Dutch politician Esther Ouwehand was asked to remove her first shirt (Palestine flag), so she came back wearing another one of watermelon seeds.

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  • Watermelon has been used as a plausibly deniable way to show support for Palestine since 1967 per Wikipedia, since it shares the same colors as the flag while being a completely common and innocuous item.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Picked up the original Hollow Knight on sale a little while back. With the all the buzz around Silksong I finally booted it up, having a blast so far!

  • Do you feel sad for people born today?

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  • That’s our fight—not our unborn childrens’.

    Having a child for any purpose other than the flourishing and well-being of that child has always struck me as a deeply flawed decision. If your child doesn’t want to fight for a world they never knew, all you’ve birthed is misery.

  • What should be the ONE universal controller layout that everyone would agree on?

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  • Right stick, generally used for camera control. Reading my comment back that’s super unclear lol

  • What should be the ONE universal controller layout that everyone would agree on?

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  • I think the asymmetry is great! It makes it really easy to move my thumb off the camera stick to grab the dpad without letting go of movement or doing the claw. I like the aesthetic of a symmetrical controller, but offset sticks just works better for me.

  • In Norway, laser weapons are being used to remove sea lice from farmed salmon. The Stingray Laser System uses cameras to scan the fish, identify lice, and then deliver a laser pulse to kill them.

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  • Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?

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  • Spent 4,000 hours on Dota 2. Finally kicked the habit and Valve goes and drops Deadlock 🙄

  • Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data?

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  • Getty Images has an image generator trained exclusively on licensed images. I’m not aware of any text generators that do the same.

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    The average c/fuckcars user commute

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  • I’m very conflicted about that community because on the one hand they’re exactly correct that car-centric infrastructure is a fucking atrocity but on the other hand they elide that directly into demonizing car owners with seemingly no understanding that car-centric infrastructure makes car ownership mandatory in many places.

  • What's the most "oof" or wtf fact you know about an everyday object?

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    Riddle Me This Batman...

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  • Oh cool, we’re schizoposting again

  • Do you ever get phantom vibrations on your phone?

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  • This has been a feature on iOS for a long time—I’ve still got some custom patterns from back in high school

  • If you could add any new rule to a sport or game you enjoy, what rule and why?

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  • I would implement two salary rules for baseball:

    • A hard salary floor and cap. Super cheap teams like the current Rockies that are all but guaranteed to lose is a detriment to the competitiveness of the entire league, as are pay-to-win juggernauts
    • No deferred money contracts. They’re bad for competitiveness (see the current Dodgers) and a bummer for fan bases when the time comes to pay out the deferred money and the team can’t afford a viable roster.

  • What is the equivalent to women for compensating size of their dick for a man? Like someone buying expensive cars to compensate for their smaller dick.

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  • I’m curious what you identify as poorly made—I’m not a psychology researcher, but their methodology and statistical analysis seem basically credible.

  • What is the equivalent to women for compensating size of their dick for a man? Like someone buying expensive cars to compensate for their smaller dick.

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  • It’s just one study, but there is science to back that up

  • Iraqi book market culture

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  • Oh, fair enough

  • Iraqi book market culture

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  • I never said it was only semantically different, only that you were making a semantic argument: namely, citing the semantic distinction between copying and stealing as grounds for one being acceptable and the other not (“stealing” is wrong but I’m “copying”), ignoring that the injustice against the work’s creator is not pragmatically different. Practically speaking, the author is equally robbed whether you “copy” or “steal”; therefore, arguing that copying is not stealing obscures the heart of the matter behind a semantic distinction.

  • Iraqi book market culture

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  • That’s a semantic point. The truth is that artists deserve to be paid for their work. Whether you “copy” or “steal”, you’re getting the work without paying the creator. That’s fundamentally shitty behavior.