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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just read an article somebody stole 40k from an atm. How is that possible that an atm carries that much? And is it even possible to get inside an ATM if so?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what 100k in cash looks like:

  A pile of mixed bills on a table

  It’s not that tricky to fit all that in an ATM. ATMs are built to be difficult to remove and get open but with the right tools anything that can be closed can also be opened. The trick is to do that without damaging the bills inside, which I imagine the news wouldn’t report on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you ever traveled 1K miles by bus, would you recommend it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that this is a bad idea. Bus travel sucks. It has basically all of the downsides of air travel with basically none of the upsides, minus cost obviously. Without knowing what countries you’re going to be going through it’s harder to say. Bus stations in my experience can be difficult to navigate in my language, in a language I don’t know I’d be even more concerned. Usually you can eat food, but like airplanes try to be considerate about what you have. Avoid fish, common allergens, smelly food, etc.

  Finally consider that over those 36 hours you’re going to have to either bring food, or buy it, you’re losing time wherever you’re transit, and are at the mercy of the bus time tables instead of waiting on a single flight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[What If?] Could you survive a nanosecond on the Sun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually feel like I have an intuitive answer to “what ifs?” This one really surprised me to find that the answer is basically “nothing”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if Quantum computer could be used to solve hard math problems like Integrals.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, first of all, through linear algebra all things are solvable approximal. So jot that down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's Communism": Kamala's First Economic Plan Proposes Price Controls To "Combat Inflation"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A gif of a scene from The Princess Bride where Mandy Patinkin says “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team Heads To Nintendo Switch Online This Week | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but to regular switch owners the idea of going to some “sketchy” website, downloading an emulator, loading in a rom and starting is very intimidating. Not to mention it’s questionably legal even according to people in the scene and so the average person probably doesn’t want to fuck with that. We’re lemmy users, we are not who Nintendo caters to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conversely the worst is when that happens and a bad boss blind screws your run

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it possible to be married and still feel lonely?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, have you ever had an annoying roommate? Isn’t it so much more frustrating and isolating than living alone? You don’t even have your own space to get away so you just become more irritable all the time. Now imagine if you wanted to not live with that person that you need to get lawyers, your family, another family and the government involved

  A lot of people get married because “they’re supposed to”, “they’ve been dating for a while”, or because it’s arranged. Is it shocking that those people don’t have the foundation for a good long term relationship? Is it shocking that every day is a little bit worse for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to offer strong heuristics for Balatro because you could theoretically build up to a point where you’ve got a crazy high multiplier but if your chips are low it doesn’t matter.

  For example let’s say you’ve got a face card 4 of a kind build going with: Pareidolia, Zany, Smiley, Trio, and Family jokers. These give you (respectively) all cards are face cards, +12 mult for 3 of a kind, +20 mult for each hand (all cards are face cards), x3 mult, x4 mult for a total of 384 multiplier! On base 4 of a kind this is

  60x([7+12+20]x3x4)=28,080

  However if you were to drop smiley face (+5 mult per face) for scary face (+30 chips per face card) which by almost every heuristic is a bad decision your score becomes:

  (60+120)x([7+12]x3x4)=41,040

  Which is a way bigger score!

  So while people can offer general advice like stack high chips on plasma, always go for total score multipliers, etc. sometimes you just have to evaluate your specific build and figure out the best play

  Finally outside of decks like abandoned and checkered which are specifically made to get certain hands, there isn’t a “best” hand to go for. The highest possible scores I’ve seen all come from high card builds but most normal players won’t get those. I’ve won two of a kind runs, flush 5 runs, straight runs, flush runs. You just have to evaluate your deck and tarot cards to see your options

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally some good advice is that Balatro is a math game first and foremost so you want to focus on things that raise your score the quickest. So adding chips is ok, adding multiplier is better, and multiplying your total is the best.

  For example let’s say you are playing straights and you have a 10-6 with level 3 straights. So you’d have:

  10+9+8+7+6=40 (40+90)x10=1300

  So let’s compare how jokers impact that score:

  Devious joker: +100 chips if you have a straight

  (40+90+100)x10=2300

  Crazy joker: +12 mult if you have a straight

  (40+90)x(10+12)=2860

  The order: x3 mult if you have a straight

  (40+90)x(10x3)=3900

  You can see those are very big differences! It’s also helpful to pay attention to the order of your cards. Generally Balatro cards are scored left to right. The most important thing is to take any card that multiplies any part of your score on the right so you can add as much to the score as possible, then you multiply that number

  So in short: multiplier jokers are best, additive multiplier jokers are good, additive chip jokers are ok, and pay attention to the order of your jokers/played cards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For plasma specifically I’d focus on high additive chip jokers. While that’s normally bad advice, consider how crazy good a card with +50 mult on it would be. Now consider that a +100 chip joker is effectively a +50 chip/+50 mult (I know that’s not technically true but I’m illustrating a point). Also eventually you do hit a point of diminishing returns because plasma prevents you from having a super high multiplier or chips, so like every build, total score multipliers are the best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rat race, society, the world has gotten so ridiculous that my "Last Man on Earth" fantasies have been replaced by "Only Man on Another Planet" fantasies.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking Tandy. We’ll never know if he truly got his Shawshank Redemption

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 may "disappoint" players hoping for a technological "jump", says former Rockstar North tech director⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you played a GTA game on PC? They’re all so poorly optimized to the point some are unusable. Not to mention bizarre choices. GTA IV used games for windows live which became its own shit show when it went EoL. GTA V/Online took forever to get to PC and didn’t even have all the features when it did release. Also minor gripe but I think it shows how little they thought about PC: the default controls for flying a helicopter (required in several missions) use a numpad. Numpads aren’t even popular on keyboards anymore, let alone the fact that nobody will ever intuitively guess those controls. RStar doesn’t care about PC at all, and even further, Linux/steam deck support is a pipe dream

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good game soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer Sci-fi background noise so Surviving Mars is my favorite. Mass Effect is ok but I find it gets a little too cinematic and bombastic at times. FTL and Into The Breach, or really anything by Ben Prunty is good too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was so good I immediately went to his page and started watching his most viewed videos. This guy rocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well when I purchased my car he hadn’t done that, so it didn’t factor into my decision. To your second point. That’s literally what they just did, I mentioned that in my comment. A bunch of auto manufacturers are switching their primary port, that’s another way of fucking your charging network. However, to my benefit, they’ll probably be picking up some of Tesla’s slack on NACS charging stations. Finally, worst case scenario it’s not like Tesla disappears off the face of the earth. If Elon fucks it all to hell they’ll break the company into pieces, sell the various pieces to other auto manufacturers and life will move on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who bought one recently (past yearish) there’s several things:

  1. The charger network: Superchargers are so much more plentiful than the alternatives, and there’s still not a great central charging app. I have 3 different ones installed on my phone and honestly most of them suck besides Tesla’s. Non-tesla chargers are basically just at apartments, businesses, and malls. Very few of which actually help me

  2. Autopilot: when used within reason it’s a great feature. I use it in clear weather conditions for highway driving which probably covers 75% of my total time driving. In the optimal environment it feels much safer than a human and the (admittedly biased) data seems to back that up. Also having it commute for you in stop and go traffic is a huge game changer

  3. Tesla is an all electric car company. I don’t necessarily trust other big auto companies to continue supporting electric, and to keep supporting specific electric models. We’ve already seen major auto manufacturers drop a charging standard (which is probably better for Americans) but what’s to stop them from doing it again? What stops them from stopping support for a specific model and running out of parts for it? I don’t expect an all electric car company with 5 models to do that

  4. Yes, Elon is a massive piece of shit. You know who else is? Every auto exec. The only difference is that they’re quiet and effective. Those old money fucks have done so much more harm to our planet because they know how to influence politics effectively. Something something, ethical consumption, something, something, capitalism

  Overall I got a mid-price electric car with a decent set of features. I’m relatively happy with my purchase while understanding the clear limitations of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Lieutenant! We need a bigger budget, sir!”

  “Is there a sidewinder equipped helicopter or predator drone for sale?”

  “No sir, something even more serious. We just found the bullshit excuse we need to charge porn to the public and watch it at work”

  “Oh my god”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No actually, in America we don’t actually have all that many rights. I was specifically asking him what right we have as citizens that he feels we are being denied by this decision. Because I would be hard pressed to identify a right we have that is harmed by this decision

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It appears this person signs off all of their comments with a creative commons license for fair use, presumably saying how you’re allowed to use their comment. Which I’m relatively sure has exactly the same legal power as a boomer posting a Facebook picture saying that they don’t consent to having their data collected

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every single time we infringe on personal freedoms, we need to do this calculation.

  What freedom do you have that you think this is infringing on?

  Stop Chinese data collection. I think this is just misdirection. You say it’s conspiracy, but just like the PATRIOT Act had nothing to do with patriotism or protecting children and the Iraqi war had nothing to do with WMD… the government often misleads or outright lies.

  Correct, it had nothing to do with patriotism or protecting children. It had to do with war profiteering. That’s the simple answer to basically every question that starts with “why did the American government do…” It made wealthy Americans richer. That’s the default US policy

  Much of our data is for sale to anyone who wants to buy it. In fact, our law enforcement loves buying data instead of going through the process for a warrant.

  There are so many apps out there with less than scrupulous devs who are more than willing to scrape for as much data as possible and sell that off. China can easily acquire massive amounts of data regardless.

  Yup, and that’s fine in the way that it’s fine for us to ship oil, soybeans, and semiconductors to China. As long as America gets the first bite of the pie, what happens after that is mostly fine

  Chinese influence on Americans. I think this one makes more sense than the first one. China is able to quietly suppress or encourage certain points of views - subtly pushing the 170 million Americans into directions that are beneficial for China’s interests. For example, perhaps media discouraging support for Taiwan.

  I think this is ancillary benefit that is mostly being pushed by our military. I know it’s the “reason” they’re giving but I agree this is not the primary purpose

  I believe this because we are a free society.

  We do not. By basically every measurable metric of “freedom” the US doesn’t even crack the top 10 in the world and on a lot of lists we don’t make the top 20. I don’t know what Americans think “freedom” means but whenever I hear people talk about it I often wonder if we live in the same country

  You are right that we don’t always live up to that term, and never really have. But we get a hell of a lot closer than China or Russia. We shouldn’t be moving towards them in ideological terms, but away from them.

  It’s pretty hyperbolic to say that banning the Chinese pipeline of disinformation and spyware makes America ideologically similar to Russia

  As for the young people, there are 170 million people on the app and it skews younger. A large portion of these people use Tiktok as their primary social media. A lot of these will be pushed towards anti-establishment and radical ideologies. Tiktok already leans leftist (and not neoliberal left).

  That’s just conjecture. Do you know how many social media sites we’ve seen come and go? You assert people will become anti-establishment, I assert they’ll just move on to other social media. Both of our assertions are equally valid without evidence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened to freedom of speech? Freedom of association? Free market capitalism?

  America has none of those things. We have clear limits on what is and isn’t acceptable speech. We routinely see protest groups beaten, jailed, and killed for protesting things the police like. Finally, you have to live in a bunker if you think we have a free market

  If an American citizen wants to use a Chinese platform, why don’t they have the right to?

  Because part of the government’s job is protecting its people. If China gave away a blowjob and cocaine robot and all you had to do was walk it around and give it detailed tours of civilian infrastructure that’d be banned too despite being hugely popular. If the government desides it’s in the best interest of the people to not do something then they have the authority to prevent people to doing it

  I think the data collection stuff is a red herring. Real reason is that war is coming and they’re preparing the online information space so they can more easily manipulate it. Sort of how they did a test run with covid. Banning misinformation and such.

  This is just pure conspiracy talk. Occam’s razor says the simplest solution is usually correct. What’s the simple answer here? Data is becoming one of the most valuable “natural” resources. You don’t hand valuable resources for free to rival governments. You charge them, or you prevent them from taking it. It’s all about money

  If the sale doesn’t go through, I don’t see how this will eliminate whatever little bit of credibility the federal government has among the younger generations. 18~25 or so

  Call me naive but I like to think young people care about more than just the apps on their phone and are capable of holding a more nuanced view of our government than you clearly are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subset Games created two amazing games: FTL & Into The Breach⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the mods are pc only. Multiverse feels like it quadruples the size of the game. Not every single element of it is fully fleshed out but there’s some really cool and unique stuff. They add new ships, crew, quests, sectors, weapons, and secrets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand and obviously agree or else I wouldn’t be vaguely gestures to everyone around him

  But let’s not live in fantasy land. Capitalism rules the internet and like it’s old predecessor Feudalism there’s one rule. Bigger Army (bank account) diplomacy. None of the other rules matter if you’re big enough to write them. Nobody will willingly give up their level of control of the internet and everyone who takes it will do so with the objective of replacing them not dethroning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden and Trump set for election rematch after clinching nominations⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of them is significantly more likely than the other to be in prison by then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The later books are really something⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry but that’s not accurate. It is definitely his son. There’s evidence Paul considers it but Leto II is the one who actually merges with the worms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The later books are really something⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Major Dune spoilers:

  Isn’t that pretty explicit in Children? Leto II frequently chastises his genetic memory father/actual father for being a coward to afraid to commit to the golden path. Paul saw where the golden path led and couldn’t do it so he becomes the Preacher whereas Leto saw what was needed to guide humanity and thus sacrificed his to become The Tyrant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have "about 40" video game projects in the works⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to remind people that this is corpo speak. This is likely counting mobile shovelware monopoly, my little pony, trivial pursuit, clue, etc stuff. Plus there’s Transformers and we don’t know if they count only their own games or do they count something like the Fortnite crossover as a video game project? Hell I can name 4 active magic the gathering video games off the top of my head. It’s entirely possible they count certain magic expansions as their own thing if they’re complex enough (MH3, Assassin’s Creed, Final Fantasy)

  My point is that this doesn’t say anything of substance, don’t read it as a reaction to anything in particular

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump fraud ruling reveals New York's 'assault' on real estate, 'Mr Wonderful' says: Move your business out⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gee whiz mister, was there something that happened between 2019 and 2020 that might impact statistics in a way that might not make them super accurate models for the future?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump fraud ruling reveals New York's 'assault' on real estate, 'Mr Wonderful' says: Move your business out⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t commit crimes in the biggest business capital on the planet and maybe it won’t be an issue? Manhattan has a physically very small amount of space that a bunch of people want to be in. If you don’t want to play by their rules then go somewhere else. Everyone who moves out because of their politics will lose money, and there are plenty of people who are happy to make the money you give up on. Sorry the market decided it didn’t want you, don’t let the door hit you on the way out