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  • Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

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  • I got a TCL last year and it wouldn't let me use the TV until I set up the internet. After 4 factory resets I figured out how to put it in store demo mode, and plugged in a separate streaming device that connects to the internet. Now I realize I could have connected the TV to the internet and then blocked it at the network level.

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  • I remember trying to run Spider-Man on my 1080p monitor and wondering why it looked like complete shit even at 30fps. You're right that the strength is limited, and lots of AAA games will need the settings lowered quite a bit to run smoothly.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • In 2020 Bernie and Biden were the front-runners, and then all the other candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden. So it wasn't ratfucked in an illegal way, but in a "torpedo a popular leftist in favor of a right-of-center establishment neolib" way.

  • Whats a Good App to Hide Certain apps Behind a Password or Pattern Unlock?

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  • I believe you need a separate Google account for the separate space, just FYI.

  • What is something you dont care to understand or "get"?

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  • This would have been my top line comment. I wish anime wasn't such a glaring blind spot for me, because it's something so many people connect on. But I see it like reality TV. There's 1000 shows with 1000 episodes each, and some shows are probably great, but I've never been interested.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • It's so special and it has a lot of really important messages. Everyone has parts of their lives you don't see, it's okay to laugh at yourself, and we're all in this together.

    They did such a good job with S02E01, I wish we got a chance to see how they'd portray the pandemic.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • High Maintenance on HBO. It's an anthology show (different characters every episode) that centers on a guy who bikes around NYC selling weed. It manages to be hilarious while focusing on some very sad and strange experiences. It feels very grounding to me and I always feel a sense of "we're going to get through this."

  • What song/band did you not expect to like - but ended up loving?

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  • Those people perform at such a high level. And they do it every night without missing. I can't wrap my head around it.

  • ‘One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok’: Alarm grows over Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

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  • It's an unbelievable gift. You can pretty much play anything on Criterion and it will be somewhat nutritious (as the Buddhists would say)

  • Updates to the ‘bible’ for mental-health conditions will miss the mark — is it time to ditch the DSM?

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  • Sorry, you said insurance and I missed it somehow. I agree that laymen and insurance companies treat it as a bible, but I also think that's how the APA presents it. If the goal is to compile "symptoms that tend to present together" the DSM does a poor job of making that clear.

    I have several problems with the DSM. This isn't an exhaustive list but off the top of my head:

    -It's based on the idea that there's a clear line between "normal" and "disordered" mental functioning, and that we can quantify all of a person's experiences to land on either side of that line. There are a handful of diagnoses that are discrete enough for me to say "you either have it or you don't" but the majority of them are so arbitrary that they're not useful. Mood disorders are especially vague.

    -Inter-rater reliability is notoriously poor. I can diagnose anyone with a disorder to argue medical necessity for therapy.

    -It includes conditions that cannot and should not be diagnosed by mental health professionals, like narcolepsy. It's good for providers to know what narcolepsy is, but unless they're going to include every other medical condition, I don't know why they include the ones they do.

    -DSM-5 broadened the criteria for several disorders, possibly to increase access to insurance coverage, but it's edging ever closer to categorizing every human experience as a disorder. According to DSM-5, if you're having depressive symptoms for more than 2 weeks after a loved one dies, it's no longer grief and it's considered a major depressive episode. When people criticized that bereavement clause, DSM-5-TR included "prolonged grief disorder" which extends the time you can grieve the loss without a MDD diagnosis. But grief is absolutely a normal response to loss, and sometimes it can be really disruptive and long-lasting. Why are we pretending that's disordered?

    -The majority of every DSM task force has been older white men, and we should be very skeptical of what they consider normal or not.

  • Updates to the ‘bible’ for mental-health conditions will miss the mark — is it time to ditch the DSM?

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  • I mean... insurance companies also treat it like the bible, as do many psychologists. It would be useful to have guidance like "these are symptoms that tend to present together" but that's not how the DSM is written.

  • What are these two plastic sheets one always sees when US presidents give speeches?

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  • Yes. They project the text from an angle so it reflects towards the speaker. Just like windows are transparent but can still reflect images in the right lighting.

  • Gambling impacts people’s quality of life as severely as chronic medical conditions, alcohol and illegal drugs, study finds

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  • Gambling addiction is the scariest kind of addiction, IMO. You can get sober but you're still in the hole.

  • Google's Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear

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  • I've had several from the a series and I've liked them. I currently have the 9a and I hate it. The corners are very round, and important real estate (e.g. buttons, text fields) are regularly cut off and unreachable. There's no way to fix this that I've found.

  • Is there a good way to tell if music was made with AI?

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  • This guy found that his production software had a hard time isolating the tracks, probably because the music was all generated at once, rather than track by track. I'm not smart enough to know any more detail than that.

  • Is Netflix making us stupid?

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  • Sure, exposition has always been a thing, especially in low-effort media. But I would say movies and TV are at a historic low-point in visual storytelling. For a growing portion of it, the picture might be pretty to look at, but it's not where we get any important information about the plot. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but it's definitely become a feedback loop.

    My wife works from home. She'll frequently put an amazing movie on in the background while she works, then say the movie was "just okay" and never watch it again because she's "already seen it." Why would any producer waste their effort on the visual part if half the audience isn't watching?

  • Wannabe President ICE Barbie’s Fake ‘Cabinet’ Meetings Exposed

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  • That's what I thought also. Maybe she thinks DHS is itself a cabinet and she's leading the meetings.

  • Epstein survivors say they felt 'degraded' and a 'lack of empathy' from AG Pam Bondi

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  • Another nitpick I'm surprised I haven't seen: she said The Dow was up to 50,000 DOLLARS. She even hedged for a bit because she doesn't know what units we use to measure the Dow.

  • Can I prevent someone breaking into my car?

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  • I just started leaving my car unlocked for this reason. There have been a few times over the years that I left it unlocked and someone rifled through my shit, but last week they smashed the window. It's amazing what a mess it makes.

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    What's the worst thing you've ever done to someone?