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• Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who remembers when you needed a separate "Download Manager" to handle concurrent downloads?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FlashGet was my jam back in the early 2000s. Then one day it downloaded malware a malicious third party had somehow managed to inject into its updater 😒

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp, looks like I’ll need to get myself a PS5 then.

  Said no cunt ever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Charlie Kirk’s killer turns himself in. This cunt literally says “we got him”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just getting into a little bit of Troubles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s some evidence/theories that the Northern Bank robbery was done to give ex-IRA members retirement funds 👀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Steam Store Front’ should be shortened to ‘Stormfront’. At least then no one would be shocked when they discover it’s teeming with illiterate bigots.

  All I can suggest is that you report and block as much as you can. If there’s a game, like Relooted, that’s a bug light for scumbags, go to its forums when you have 10 minutes free and just report the shitstains you come across. Steam does take action sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents paid about that much for a SNES copy of Earthworm Jim back in the mid-90s. It was disgusting then and it’s disgusting now, despite the fact that, adjusted for inflation, that would be £140 today. I mean I don’t feel like we’re getting a 50% discount when a game costs 70 fuckin’ quid nowadays.

  There’s really no reason to spend that anyway, not on PC at least. IsThereAnyDeal.com and the slightly questionable loaded.com (formerly cdkeys.com) give decent discounts even on day one (and Steam itself will eventually have it on sale, of course). Loaded isn’t like G2A, which is a credit card thief’s wonderland. It’s more like when your uncle Jim crosses the border with 40 cartons of cigarettes secreted in the wheel wells of his truck because they cost 400% less over there. I can live with that level of mischief when it comes to AAA games that take the absolute piss with their prices and their hostage DLCs. EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar have not caused me a millisecond of lost sleep when I get their games for £3 six months after release from a code that was originally bundled with a new GPU. With how extremely easy it is to pirate games (something I haven’t done in nearly 20 years), I don’t feel like those larger AAA companies are meeting us half way, to say the fucking least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rage for the machine?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could cover ‘Killing in the Name’ and not change a single lyric. They just need an aura of “and that’s fine, actually” which will be provided by their TRUMP 2024 flags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ironing clothes significantly less common now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many newer fabrics don’t require ironing, or not as much of it at least. Newer washing machines and driers, as well as newer fabric softeners and detergents, seem to play a role in the non-wrinkliness of clothing, too.

  I rarely own anything that would require regular ironing these days. I tend to avoid buying clothing that looks like it would be a pain in the ass to keep wrinkle-free. I guess in our parents’ era there ware no such choices available.

  Plastic in clothing might have circumvented the need for ironing, but of course it has brought its own issues. Plastic might be an apocalyptic death substance, or it might actually be fine to have 5% of our bodyweight to be nylon. Not sure which yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I get a set of furry train tracks to complete the scene?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is our collective memory of this trope (man ties woman to train tracks) all based on one instance of it in one silent movie, or was it really as widespread a cliché as it seems to us nowadays? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re banking on severe vendor lock-in preventing people from moving on. So many communities are solely on Discord now, it’s insane.

  Would something like Stoat (previously known as Revolt) eventually have the same requirements?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid Rock is the people version of an above ground pool⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kid Rock makes music for people who listen to Kid Rock.

• Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  be on the wrong side of history speedrun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least they have an AI-free option, as annoying as it is to have to opt into it.

  On a related note, it’s hilarious to me that the Ecosia search engine has AI built in. Like, I don’t think planting any number of trees is going to offset the damage AI has done and will do to the planet.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" imply you can be happy and not know it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes you don’t know how good you have it until your “rock bottom” turns out to be an elevator which is now headed down a mineshaft 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In any other business, having 6 simultaneous failed projects would be cause for dismissal of the CEO and probably the majority of the management staff. If I owned or had a large amount of shares in a company where this happened, I would not be a happy chappy. But I’m assuming the Ubisoft upper echelons are patting themselves on the back for their business acumen and financial savviness, already penning their bonuses into their calendars.

  Meanwhile, regular workers are dropped like pubic lice the minute it’s convenient to do so.

  Parasites.

• If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whichever one has life-deranging haemorrhoids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna give it a chance back when they were letting people reserve their usernames. When the site first went live (in beta, I guess?) they wanted me to pay them money to gain access. Enshittification is baked into the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • I don’t give the slightest fuck who provided the middleware for the cloth physics, stop impeding me from playing the game to show me this shit every fucking time I launch it.
  • Continue and New Game are often the wrong way around in the main menu. Why would you have New Game at the top/default selection position? How often would someone be clicking that as opposed to Continue?
  • Unskippable dialogue and cut-scenes. I’ve read devs describe cut-scenes as a reward for the player achieving a certain milestone. I see them as punishment. Especially so if I want to replay the game. It’s a game, not a movie. Leave me the fuck alone already.
  • It should be forbidden to sell a game on Steam that requires an account and launcher from Ubisoft or whoever. If you sell it on Steam, you use Steam, and if you wanna use your own shit then you don’t get to use the Steam storefront and must forgo all the advertising and exposure you enjoy there.
  • Walk-and-talks, especially when my normal walk speed is like a sprint compared to that of the NPC in question.
  • Narratively, my character is a saviour to a group of people who provide me with weapons and ammo to help me save them, but the cunts charge me for it?? “Hey thanks for single-handedly saving us and fighting the tyrannical evil empire, while you’re out there risking life and limb for us please use our cool weapons and bullets! That’ll be 500 credits, cheers!” Motherfucker? What are you even spending it on? WHERE are you even spending it?
  • Fake endings. I was playing RDR2, and thought I was coming to the end of the game, all signs pointed to an imminent ending. So I was mentally in a place where I was ready to pack up and uninstall it, just had to finish the last few quests, already wondering what I’d play next. Then there’s an entire 500-hour chapter that comes after. So I keep going, and am constantly thinking “surely it’s just another quest or two…” but it just never fucking ends. Had I known or expected all this extra shit, it would be different. But I was already halfway out they door before you called me back in for another week’s worth of the same malarkey.
  • Time-wasting as a core mechanic. I love No Man’s Sky, but so many of the quests in that game involve literally waiting 24 real-world hours for the next phase of the quest. Which, when completed, leads to another 24-hour wait. Who exactly does this serve?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I so dearly wish I had these kinds of skills!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich humans*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What it means for you

  What does it mean for Red Candle Games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “do your own research” people need to have it explained to them that even experts in their respective fields aren’t automatically capable of parsing scientific literature. A family doctor with 50 years experience who prescribes antidepressants every day will have no deep understanding of what any particular scientific peer reviewed study on SSRIs is telling them. They need a grounding in statistics more than anything else, which most people just don’t have. So the idea that a non-educated, non-scientist can read peer reviewed studies and come away from them with some sort of understanding of the issue is the thing that needs to be highlighted, preferably in high school science class (earlier, frankly). A willingness to slog through scientific papers in pursuit of deeper knowledge is admirable, but is dangerously misguided without proper training. I don’t even mean training in the specific science, but just in how to speak the language of peer reviewed studies more generally. It’s very much its own discipline.

  I want someone to ask Joe Rogan what ‘regression to the mean’ means. I want someone to ask him what a ‘standard deviation’ is and how to apply the concept. I don’t want to know what papers he’s read, because you could read 50 true scientific papers a day on one topic and still have no idea what the current scientific consensus is on said topic, absent the requisite training. You’ll almost certainly come away from it with a very wrong but very confident belief. Dunning-Kruger on steroids.

• Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages?
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• Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there like a petition or something we can all sign to show that literally no cunt wants this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI, along with crypto, is getting to the point where even oil executives are like “dudes, the planet…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Food is so weird. Bread becomes toxic waste after 8 minutes of being opened, but there’s probably some cheese species that gets fermented up the asshole of a mountain llama for 6 months, being stuffed back in after every bowel movement, and is still edible (if you’re into that sort of thing) after 400 years of being left in a dank cave amongst the frothing remains of a rotting gerbil cemetery.