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Shitposter while I tend to two babies. Maybe when I have my life back, I'll help us get a few more niche communities back?

  • So, if I'm understanding right, the computer said there's a great chance at $1 million in the mystery box if I'm the type to pick it and only it, which I am.

    But I pick it for this bad reason: friends and I like to make fun of my troll luck. I'd take it, and somehow get $0 despite several more people after me will get $1 million after me, including two boxers. We'd laugh at "can you believe this shit?" and know it just wasn't in the stars, just like that time I broke my ankle and all the automated walkways at the airport were broken. It's that kind of thing (and yes that happened). My infamous troll luck strikes again!

    Or it's all superstition and I get a million bucks, since I'm pretty sure my infamous luck is just confirmation bias. Either way, fun had by all.

  • That happened to me, but I'm happy with CachyOS now for most things. I can't believe how much it a step down 11 was from 10 though, it was astounding. Worse than 7 to 8, even.

  • Funny a book I read literally today, published 1918 had radium as the mysterious magic treasure hidden in the island with healing powers. Well, and also cancerous sores powers. They knew what happened to Curie.

  • Maybe it's to avoid getting buried in the algorithm on mainstream apps that avoid that word. It's likely just a copy paste from one of those.

  • Shame and regret.

  • Lol, indeed-- the 2 lane 1 lane road certainly exists elsewhere, as I've seen in Japan side streets.

    But as my old Indian roommate mentioned to me once, red lights also don't always mean stop there either, lol

  • Lol I literally remarked about that earlier in another thread, but now we can really rant.

    Is this fairly universal in all cities? Here in LA it's almost every block on the westside but less so elsewhere. Visiting people in Santa Monica I even ran into two double parkers across from each other and couldn't even pass. Lol

  • Even more true if you're one of many who remove shoes in the house. Shoes are an outside thing only and if they're the only thing you have on, something has gone tricky terribly awry.

  • The c-suite is perpetually in love with it, and as someone who often consults start-ups, it's impossible to dissuade them. Every month I have to explain why their product isn't working, and every month I'm surprised by how much longer they want to throw money at vibe coded projects.

    I say... at this point let it all burn to the ground with glorious malicious compliance.

  • Good question, but it's technically not sociology so... maybe not? Oh wait no, psychologists also acknowledge racism as existing so probably illegal.

  • Since we're sharing fun facts, conservatism and authoritarianism is unsurprisingly correlated with high levels of obedience in things like the Milgrim shock experiment replications. Something akin to 90% compared to the original 60% (which was already quite high since they only had white men at the time).

    They're also more likely to choose selfish options in things like the prisoners dilemma, too!

    (Edit, if you wanna read more there's an open source textbook I use: https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/ )

  • It's the 21st century, if your friend doesn't send a meme without any context at random intervals, are they really your friend?

  • I saw one other person mention RetroAchevements and I second their love for adding it to older games-- in these cases, though, they're a passion projects by fans and while they maintain a leaderboard, the main thing to be is it legitimizes some retro gaming by disabling save states and cheats while still having sets for modded games. I think it sets a good standard for what the industry should be doing.

    For instance, it checks those boxes; it's opt-in by default and there are privacy options, although hardcore mode requires rich presence for enforcement of the rules. There's still the softcore option though. The sets have rules about what you can make, leaving grindy and multiplayer stuff as subsets. And again, modded/hacked roms get support, since all it takes is a user wanting to develop it (except Pokemon Clover, that's banned for pretty good reasons lol)

    At this point, it feels more legit than Steam, Xbox or PlayStation achievements. If the industry adopted a similar model, most of your concerns would be addressed although it's likely impossible since developers often have to write achievement code that fits all platforms.

    (Oh, and if you can't tell, my answers to the questions, mod use makes it irrelevant on PC and permanence does matter to me, although not for any good reason: RA badges are nice to look at. Lol)

  • Gas taxes pay for transportation infrastructure and environmental efforts, similar to some European countries. That at least goes to something, unlike gas prices going up due to pointless wars.

  • To be fair, the bike lane is better than 99.9999% of America's biking infrastructure, so... it's not get too picky here.

  • Look closely and you'll see a middle-class guy peaking out the rooftop opening right where a leak is about to get him. I'm sure he'll act like it's the worst thing he's ever seen, completely ignorant of how much worse it could get.

  • $5.19 at the cheapest near me in Los Angeles, 3/8. Just a week ago it was around $4.29, but of course I procrastinated filling up my hybrid since I still had a quarter of a tank left... Sigh.

  • That was my thinking. I'd hate for a chunk of my skeleton, like my spine, was evicted from my body.

  • That was my plan with EVs too, and also just the selection isn't great. The range keeps releasing on new models at lower than anticipated ratings. They were even killed Chevy's compact car with the promise they might return to it if they ever get their new battery made. Ugh, bad years for all this.