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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There definitely was a “they are replaceable” attitude back then. Now try to imagine the generations before us, when 13 kids wasn’t that abnormal. And that 13 only counted the ones that survived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been told I have to go to my room and stay there. I’m like, you promise? Didn’t take long for that threat to stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they are old enough to ask, they are old enough to hear “I dunno, ask your Mom”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s autistic, and that concept is not something he could grasp yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the past people didn’t have access to a device with endless information about how rough it is the raise kids. Instead they had other local parents as a source, and those parents just wanted company in thier misery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a reason for declining child birth numbers… it has everything to do with more people knowing what they are really getting into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My son(11) will say, “you can’t do that, I’ll call the police and they will arrest you”. I say, great maybe I’ll get some peace and quiet. He doesn’t know I won’t, so it works. Lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t make it work. But I did notice that the spot in the background changed focus a tiny bit at one point. I suspect my brain was tracking the thumb and simply refused to continue to truely focus on the background spot. I tried and tried, but just couldn’t make it happen. Neither eye. :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a game like "99 days in the forest" to play with my kid, but not on roblox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I haven’t actually played it. But you start out in the center of a forest. You have a fire. You collect would to level up the fire. That opens more space in the forest… you collect things, level up things, find things… there is a random deer that attacks you at night or something. And some wolves at some point. But unlike raft, satisfactory or Minecraft it is a shorter overall play through. And the forest is different each time. So you play until you die or win. But it doesn’t let you save, which is annoying for me, even if a play through should only take an hour or so.
  I am open to other ideas as well. We have put many many hours into raft. Also satisfactory, minecraft, tf2 (though my wife doesn’t like that one :) )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a game like "99 days in the forest" to play with my kid, but not on roblox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  we have put many many hours into raft. Also satisfactory, minecraft, tf2 (though my wife doesn’t like that one :)). I am open to more options as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not enough people still printing these days to be worth the effort of an opensource printer. But in general, yes. Closed source products are always a ticking timebomb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a game like "99 days in the forest" to play with my kid, but not on roblox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a tough thing. I let him play on it because that is where the very few friends he has are. I did hold out as long as I could. He is autistic, so any interaction with neurotypical kids is good for him. But he can also be a pretty stringent rule follower, so I setup rules for interacting with anyone not a friend he knows personally. And he follows them. In general he doesn’t like playing with rando’s at all. So it works out to be “okay”. Not great. But “okay”. I just don’t want to make me an account, cause then he will want me to play all the lame money grabbing games with him and such.

  All in all. If you kid manages to have social interactions with other kids without roblox. Then there is no need for it. Nearly all of the games on there are just money grab pay-to-play games.

• Looking for a game like "99 days in the forest" to play with my kid, but not on roblox
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always ignore power savings requests. If they really can’t serve the population, they need to make more power. If we all turn down our usage to make it work, they won’t make more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, the restaurant probably has no control over those numbers. The software might give them a Yes/No option on showing suggested tips or not at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about everyone buy a share of thier stock. Then sue thier board for ignoring thier fiduciary duty to the shareholders. Turning down business is bad for revenue… and the games that got removed probably made decent money all together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This issue is not so cut and dry. The AI companies are stealing from other companies more than ftom individual people. Publishing companies are owned by some very rich people. And they want thier cut.

  This case may have started out with authors, but it is mentioned that it could turn into publishing companies vs AI companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  2. I’m a devops engineer. I personally haven’t written code to do this, but it isn’t something that hasn’t been done before. Just take all possible combinations of candidates and use thier answers to compute the percentage that answered a given way for each question foreach combination. Do the same with the voting results. Then compare the % of the population to the % of each combination to get a set of differences for each combination. For small states you probably need to increase the number of seats to some minimum like 20 or more. For big states you will probably get a match with a tolerance of +/- 1%. For others you will have to iterate the tolerance up until you get a match.

  If you want to get a better match, you could make the number of cadadites selected dynamic. And personally I support having a larger number as it reduces the power of anyone individual. Then the reps from the state can vote on any issue, and the states votes can be distributed to represnt the votes of the many representatives.

  The idea is a group that actually represents the views of the people they represent istead of special interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. I disagree that answering the questions have to be harder. They don’t have to be so specific that they require a solid grasp. They should be more like do you agree with doing X. Not “choose the best way to solve the homeless crisis”.

  2. You’re overthinking it. You take each question and determine what % of the population answered each way. Then you choose multiple cadadites such that together roughly the same % of the cadadites answered the same way as the people. So yes you should end up with representatives on opposite sides of the issue if people voted that way. The idea is that the representatives as a whole accurately represent the people. And like I said, in a small population state that may be a challenge. But there are ways to work around that.

  3. I don’t think a direct democracy is better. In a dd, money determines what gets voted on. And there are less things voted on in general, so money can sway the people a lot. When the number of questions is higher and all at once, money has a hard time focusing a message on them all. And even after that, the answering of the questions chooses a rep who is able to learn enough aboutvit to be less likely to be swayed by money. A large part of that is that they need no campaign, so they don’t have to serve the money to get reelected.

  I’m not saying it perfect, but the general idea is to get people who represent the opinions of the people, not popularity contest winners. And to reduce the money connection to poloticians votes. Also, you don’t need a “party” at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1, it is actually less complex for the voter. Right now they don’t kniw much about who/what they are voting for because all the info they get is marketing. But a question about homelessness or crime they probably feel more confident in thier answer. Plus many people don’t vote because thier options are all liars. The reps in this case don’t have to be popular, so they don’t have to lie. 2 in very small states it might be tough, but an algorithm can find the closest match by simply trying all the combinations. For a computer that will be a very simple task. And it could even print them all out for anyone to validate. 3 this for sure is the hardest part. Probably some kind of public proposal and polling combo would be needed. Btw, at work we were told to use numbers instead of bullets because it makes referring to a point much easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if everybody just votes thier opinion on a set of issues. The cadadites have to declare thier opinion on the same set. When the voting is done, the percentages are calculated for all the issues. Then a computer program picks a list of cadidates such the they together match the distribution of the voters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CEO = Marketing with a different title. Trust the words out of their mouths the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am saying sex need not occur before love because they aren’t connected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, for guys, love and sex simply aren’t connected early on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A boating ticket from the 1950’s. “No lights on boat. No beer on boat. Only one blonde.”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait so was he in trouble because he should have had beer on the boat? And should have had more blonds?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeasty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So how do you get rid of old dough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well think of it like this. I keep an amount in my checking account (basically no interest) to cover the credit card bills. Extra I move out to an online savings account that does have a ddcent interest rate. By having a date when the CC bill comes due, I can check once a month (7 days before due) and move money if needed to cover the bill. So while the checking has practically no interest, I was getting close to 5% on the savings for a while. Still a far stretch from the 12% cds I got as a kid, but it’s something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mention other cars overriding your input. The most common is the auto breaking when it sees you are going to hit something. But my understanding is that it kicks in when it is already too late to avoid the crash. So it isn’t something that is involved in decision making about driving, it is just a saftey feature only relevant in the case of a crash. Just like you don’t ram another car because you have a seatbelt, your driving choices aren’t affected by this features presence. The other common one will try to remind you to stay in your lane. But it isn’t trying to override you. It rumbles the wheel and turns it a bit in the direction you should go. If you resist at all it stops. It is only meant for if you have let go of the wheel or are asleep. So I don’t know of anything that overrides driver input completely outside of being too late to avoid a crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never said they weren’t wrong for lieing. Just that this case seems a poor match for showing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These 5 Co-Op Games Are Dominating Steam Right Now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know in split fiction I saw at least one area with a bunch of things to interact with that were just there to explore. Before that there seemed to be just random things here and there.