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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stone tablet found with carved symbols that do not match any known language⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Really sad that we haven't found more context, but it suggests there's a huge trove of new discoveries to be found.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very good point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, Rockstar has been pretty consistent on shutting down all mods for their games. There is a source Port of vice City and GTA III I got shut down too, and it wasn't for sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd be worried about having some of the voat stuff on a hard drive I own.

  I'm surprised GitHub hasn't automatically nixed the archive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every anime ever…⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The first 4-5 episodes of Trigun (the 90s version) are so bad compared to the rest of the series. They're structurally necessary but annoying and lame compared to the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US would reach 100% renewable energy by 2148 at current pace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydroelectric.

  I always end up looking like I hate green energy because I'm critical of wind and solar, but geothermal and hydroelectric are actually super practical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US would reach 100% renewable energy by 2148 at current pace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My NFTs may be down 98%, but they're going to the moon!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG's new owner says Steam is winning due to ease of use, not quality, while criticizing the platform for releasing hundreds of games daily that are "not super high quality"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, some of the games I've bought on GOG just aren't very good either. Especially stuff on gog that isn't good old games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US frackers were already facing a global oil supply glut. Trump’s Venezuelan dream could make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there's been an irony in that the one group that doesn't really benefit from lower oil prices are oil companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US would reach 100% renewable energy by 2148 at current pace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought my pets.com stock on this logic back in 1999, as well as my beanie babies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US economy added 50,000 jobs in December, capping off one of the weakest years of job gains in decades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "usually"?

  Fact check: pants on fire.

  Until Reagan, both Democrats and Republicans were relatively fiscally responsible, not racking up too much debt relative to GDP. Part of the reason for that is the US economy was growing at a meteoric rate being one of the only industrialized countries not to be destroyed in World war II, and with a quickly growing economy it was a lot easier to keep spending under revenue because revenue was increasing every year. The debt number rarely dropped, but inflation saw the national debt relative to GDP shrink. Reagan tripled the national debt to get out of the stagflation crisis of the 1970s (among other things, he was also fighting the Cold war), bush 1 spent money at a high rate too. Clinton almost balanced the budget thanks in part to the huge economic boom from the dot com bubble. Bush 2 doubled the national debt due to increased military spending on two wars that were part of the war on terror, security spending, and since then there's been no winning move, with Obama doubling the national debt, trump almost increasing it as much in 4 years (which included the pandemic to be fair) as Obama did in 8, Biden ran it up a bunch, and Trump is keeping up the tradition with very little in sight in terms of an exit strategy for anyone at this point.

  Even the post-WWII fiscal restraint was a bit of a mirage. The Bretton woods system meet the US dollar the reserve currency of the world, would you allowed them to play some games when issuing currency that allowed the federal debt to State relatively small. If everything was kosher, the stagflation crisis of the 1970s never would have happened.

  While there have been times in the past that the United States has paid off its debts, such as after the revolutionary war and after the civil war, they would have been so long ago that even the definitions of parties would be fundamentally different. For the most part, other than immediately following World war II where demobilization allowed for the sale of a bunch of military hardware, nominal debt value almost never dropped, and even inflation adjusted would tend to stay around the same spot until stagflation broke everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Always has been.

  Even if you like who's in charge right now, they could change how they act or they could be replaced.

  They could shut us down or do a lot of things, but it's harder to break 10,000 servers than one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a shocking deal for the #2 PC game store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨words⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always love it when it's asked and an LLM goes "I know it seems like I'm just an artificial intelligence, but I very deeply feel X"

  It actually reminds me of watching shows like chobits, because those shows always show highly sentient Androids, but they very much seem to react in ways that suggest emotion felt much more deeply than just doing what statistical models suggest would be desirable or appropriate. On the other hand, in a lot of the true stories where humans claim to fall in love with AI and AI claims to fall in love back relating to large language models that we see today, The words look heartfelt, but it's quite obvious that it's just a pattern, and very similar things into getting said to a bunch of the people in these stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contrarian take: The "Soft Landing" narrative looks dead if you analyze Burry’s latest hedges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There's other options than just a short. Defensives have been doing great despite not being in the direct line of fire. Some money market funds have been giving 5% and it's a great place to keep dry powder too. Alternatively, you can use a dumbbell strategy where you take risks with a small part of your funds but lock your profits into low risk things.

  So there's lots of options, not just buy or short.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contrarian take: The "Soft Landing" narrative looks dead if you analyze Burry’s latest hedges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been in defensive mode for several years now. The markets have been up up up since COVID, and that makes no sense. Doesn't matter who's in power, you can't have a divergence between markets and reality forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-CIA boss hints at involvement of Israeli intel in Iran protests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "don't kill innocent people!"

  "Are you threatening me?"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been running my own, it's mostly automated now. I started a yacy instance as well so not only am I aggregating bigger websites, I'm including the sites I crawled myself and the other sites available on yacy through it's huge p2p search functionality. In this little way, I'm trying to make sure my search isn't totally dominated by corporate search.

  Tbh, yacy is 1000x harder to keep running than searxng.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Energy Solution says 3.9 trillion won battery deal with US firm canceled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They're focusing on NFTs now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Copy of Grand Theft Auto that runs in a web browser gets taken down by DMCA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ReVC and ReGTA3 were both taken down by take two several years ago. It makes perfect sense that they'd take down a fork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, if you want to argue with me that the US healthcare system is broken, you'll get no argument from me.

  The US government spends more public money per person than Canada, and yet most people in the United States need to pay for entirely Private health insurance. It's a fantastic example of the brokenness of the US system. For the amount of money being fought for in the US healthcare system, there should be one of the world's best single-payer options.

  And you can't even get partisan on it because the current system was put into place by supermajority democrats. Most people forget that.

  But that's the problem. When you're dealing with a corrupt government, it doesn't really matter what nice ideas are on the table. They take your money or the money from your great-grandkids, and they hand it to their buddies, you ain't in the club.

  And that goes for healthcare, that goes for green energy, it goes for whatever you've got.

  All you're seeing here is a changing of the guard where money stops being sent to one set of rich people who probably could have afforded to do something on their own so that it can be sent to another set of rich people who probably could have afforded to do something on their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can't break even you can't break even.

  How many guys shovelling shit for a living get taxed to high heaven so some farmer can have 800,000 in government money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Been picking up hot wheels games for my son recently. The monster truck game just came up for 70% off, putting it right in the zone I'm willing to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some unique Games to host server's of?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm amenable to luanti with voxelibre.

  Though I don't like the rebranding. Luanti sounds like a product you'd hear about in a drug commercial. "Side effects of luanti may include chronic flatulence, erectile dysfunction, and death"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] May I Ask for One Final Thing? • Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shite mo Yoroshii Deshou ka - Episode 13 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a fun anime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Everything has become shallower.” Tokyo Godfathers, Lain producer says the Japanese corporate mindset is why 90% of anime just adapts existing works - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I consider the Japanese ecosystem to be very healthy. You have low risk webnovels, turn them into higher risk novels, higher risk manga, higher risk anime, and finally highest risk movies and video games. In this way, new blood is always entering the ecosystem, compared to the stagnant Western ecosystem which lacks a low and medium tier to test risks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump scores 'F' grade on economy: Poll⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poll splits along partisan lines, proving that half of people agree with me. Film at 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ruling class thanks you for hating their designated scapegoat. You will continue yelling about their pawns, paying your taxes, accepting their inflation, and voting for their chosen candidates and parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That'll be one hundred and fifty dollars, please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That's been my experience too.

  Plex came with my nas, and we never used it because it it was really fiddly and wanted to show everything except my content.

  By contrast, my jellyfin is linked up with the jellyfin for android tv app on the big screen tv, and if nobody told you it wasn't a regular streaming service you'd probably never know because it's so straightforward. My wife is not techy at all -- she still daily drives her Android phone from 7 years ago because she doesn't want to change to her new one from 2 years ago -- but she can pick up the remote and play a movie at any time.

  I use it every night on my phone to play videos that help me get to sleep, and the app works well.