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  • After seeing Mamdani win

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  • Yeah, this is one meme template that comes with too much baggage

  • 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN

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  • I know people hate the idea of console exclusivity, but without it, that's what really killed the Xbox for me. I've got a gaming PC and a PS5 (not Pro), and I could afford an Xbox Series X if I really wanted to. I simply don't know of any games on the platform that I want and can't get somewhere else.

    And that's not coming from a reflexive Microsoft hater. I had an OG Xbox (and loved the old Duke controller), 360, and One S. I just barely played the latter.

  • A 2020 law banning plastic bags in Vermont has nearly eliminated their use in the state

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  • Would it be feasible to bring your own bags? I picked up a cheap 10 pack of fabric bags and they are sturdy enough I can usually fit a week's worth of groceries in two or three of them

  • The Dictatorship is Here. The Constitutional Crisis is Now.

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  • Just ignore the billionaires behind the curtain applying for golden visas in New Zealand

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  • Yeah, I wouldn't suggest it be your only approach, but they do work in some cases. I'm poly and met one of my partners on OKCupid and another on Feeld.

    Dating profiles are like work resumes. They take work and refinement. Not getting responses? Try tweaking your profile and changing your profile pics. I find apps that don't let you put more than a few minutes into your profile are a waste of time because you simply can't figure out which profiles are real people and which are bots/scammers. I include everything in my profile that might be a common dealbreaker (poly, not religious, child-free, etc) so that anyone who swipes on me has already already filtered into a smaller and better-matched dating pool.

    The other thing that has worked for me is to not chat with a person online for longer than necessary. You need those low-stake getting-to-know-you topics to fill the awkward silences until you know you them to the point where they become companionable silences. Once I'm confident that the other person is real and that we have the potential for a connection, I ask if they want to have a quick vibe check meeting. 30-minutes to an hour max, typically over coffee, minimal pressure. Just get that first conversation over with. Let them know you're a safe person first, then hopefully establish a connection, build up some flirty energy, and schedule a real date on the way out.

    Edit: Noticed a half-finished thought and completed it.

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  • I'm awful about forgetting about my x/per day abilities, especially if they are granted from magic items. I've taken to writing them down on a post-it note to keep them handy for a session.

  • New Covid Variant Causes Sore Throat That Feels Like 'Razor Blades'

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  • I know it was a common symptom of the Delta variant in late 21/22. That's what I caught and it felt like I was gargling broken glass

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  • I wish their TV app had a better user experience, but the content is great. I'll put Um Actually or Very Important People on while I'm cooking and it beats the hell out of trying to find a Youtube video every few minutes or listening to ads half the time.

  • Such a loss

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  • Mom and Dad Save the World!

    "Pick me up...? Okay!"

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    YSK: people don't like genocidal murderous bastards.

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  • If we're following the spirit of the original subreddit, YSK was intended for useful, static information. Like, "YSK sucking snake venom out of a wound isn't effective" etc. It's not meant for topical content like this, especially news articles with editorial post titles.

  • The Faculty, any day

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  • 'Wayne, I think we've established that "Ca-Caw Ca-Caw" and "Tookie Tookie" don't work.'

    Ah, I'm glad I was reminded that this movie exists.

  • LGBT daddy!

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  • Judging by a poster I saw, it's We Can Be Heroes, a kid-friendly superhero movie

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  • That's heavily dependent on context. Oftentimes each person commenting in these threads has a different situation in their mind.

    If they're on your ass on a multi-lane highway and there's plenty of space for them to pass you AND you're in the designated lane for slow traffic (eg, right-most lane in the US) then it's not rude at all. Encourage them to get off your ass and in the meantime, you're giving both of you more time to react in an emergency.

    If you're on a two-lane road (ie, one lane per direction) I get wanting to slow down below the speed limit, but really, you don't know whether that person has a friend bleeding out next to them while trying to get to a hospital, or maybe they are at the boiling point for a road-rage incident with a gun in the glovebox. I maintain a safe speed and if I get to a passing zone, I make a point to slow down for them to make an easier pass.

  • Game Developer Rule

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  • That first one doesn't make any sense. Every processor has its own assembly language. The game would run on YOUR machine and any others running the same processors, but you'd have to build a custom version for any other processor you want to support.

    That said, it could potentially be insanely well optimized for that platform if everything was hand coded.

  • karaoke - Oatmeal

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  • Quebec to mandate formal 'vous' in schools for respect.

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  • My buddy had the opposite version of this when we went to Japan. He was pretty good at conversational Japanese because that's what was taught in his college courses, but most of our interactions were in a business context using keigo Japanese which is more polite and formal.

    He struggled for a while, especially because we found that lot of Japanese folks would downplay their knowledge of English out of modesty. There were a number of times when our friend would struggle to find the right word and the person he was talking to would confirm the correct English word first before offering the Japanese variant.

  • It's rigged

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  • I thought it was an Irritable Bowel Syndrome joke

  • Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive

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  • Elon Musk will go to any length to scrub this image from the Internet: