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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
KOTOR is such an amazing game… I’ve replayed it recently hoping it would ruin my childhood recollection of it being god tier. It didn’t, it’s still an amazing game after all these years
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Lead gasoline for cars is gone. Lead pipes are still around.

You’re concerned about the big problem that we already solved? Bro, you need to re-prioritize.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
True, but the safe level of lead is none. This is especially true for children.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
While lead pipes were banned in 1986, millions of lead service lines remain in service across the US to this day…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Isn’t that the same? If you’re eating peanut butter and chocolate together frequently, you’re probably not long for this world…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
All I’ve got is wood, and I still need to beat it to a pulp, which is why I was considering beaver butts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This is the American approach to legislation: get in as many laws that favour you or your sponsors, and pray the courts let at least some of them through.

That’s not how this is meant to work. That’s a last measure, when everything else has failed and hell’s about to break loose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If that’s why you think they’re wankers, I have news for you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God what are they even for⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What kind of scissors are you posh people buying, that come in boxes?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cause and Effect⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ah so close. This comic should end with

“I did my own research”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're coming.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m calling it now: the 9-banded armadillo will be adopted as Canada’s mascot in the next decade, after they become the main species in the Canadian deserts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bored⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
A throwback to the OG troll that wouldnt let you cross the bridge.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think it’s related to patterns, it’s the methodology.

Sure, there’s some groundwork that needs to be memorized in different fields, but this is like learning your first words. These are necessary so that we can communicate with each other, and they serve as building blocks upon all rest is built upon.

Everything else we are mostly taught by learning how some old guy came up with an answer, making clever use of the tools that we also have.

After a while it sort of clicks that there’s a method to the madness, you build up and up until you get to the moon, and you get this feeling that anything can be explained logically - we might not know how yet, but surely it will be at some point.

Unless it’s quantum physics, fuck that.

It feels like there’s a lot of people who skipped these building steps, maybe they were just memorizing stuff to get by the exams without exercising their brains on the methods to reach those solutions, or were simply never taught, and now they just don’t have the tools to make sense of what’s around them, and will blindly follow a monster that assures them that they’ll be ok as long as they do this or that…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encouragement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Stop selling it already.
- Wednesday, probably.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ngl im kinda here just waitin for it 🤣⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
*Lalalalalalaaaaa

Now it’s just me and silence, ‘neath this lonesome midnight blue,

Prayin’ one day my runaway truck remembers me too.*
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HHS employees demand RFK Jr. resign for ‘compromising the health of this nation’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Resign? No, no, no. Arrested.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
For all we know, it’s a 50/50 that the customer service guy receives back an email back from that email that supposedly is not accessible saying “WTF I have no idea what you’re talking about, was my account hacked?”

But since you’re that gullible - hey bro, that wallet in your back pocket is mine, I put it there when I washed my jeans. Hand it back now, I paid for it and I’m 100% entitled to it!!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Me and my friend show that my dad’s Airstream trailer goes faster with dints and that we shouldn’t be grounded for hitting it with a baseball last Saturday”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Same. Like with most articles, I read the abstract and skipped ahead to the conclusion - they couldn’t get sufficient data to prove their theory but further research looks promising.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I agree with all of your points.

I’m not American, but my understanding of the system is that the long term plan for the country isn’t meant to be set by the president, but by the legislature - passing laws and creating federal bodies that steer the country.

Instead, there’s absolutely no laws being agreed upon, only presidents that try to impose their view for a while until they’re replaced by whoever’s next who then breaks everything.

The courts are then thrown on to the spotlight and asked by the country to fill up a role who’s not actually theirs, and I don’t even want to go into the issues with appointment of judges.

Not that the system in China is any better, they just happen to have a guy who’s ruthless enough to hold onto power with no opposition, and seems to actually care about his country - but he isn’t gonna last for ever, and there’s zero guarantee that the power struggles after he’s gone won’t tear the country to shreds, or that the next up isn’t a fucked up moron like the orange…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fancy European metal work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ah so that’s why you expatriated.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The worrying part is that they kinda seem to be implementing good policies for (at least some of) their people.

There’s a lot of disturbing stuff, and probably a whole lot more that we don’t even know about, but social security, education, healthcare - my impression is that they’re going the right way, while the US looks eager to go back to the Dark ages.

Just with STEM degrees, they’re producing almost 5x more graduates than the US, and they’ve surpassed the number of doctorates a long time ago too.

The current world balance won’t hold one more generation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well played sir, well played.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Are they all your phones, or different house members? Can you “pool” your photos together?

We’ve been doing this with all our phones for a long time using nextcloud. I’d like to use a more photo-oriented app, but the last I tried it, it just wasn’t there yet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alien invasion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah I know right? It’s like, bros you already did so much! You didn’t have to do all that - but we sure as fuck appreciate it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Bro has dementia. You could call it the most memorable, epic name ever, and he’d still forget all about it in 10 minutes. It’s a fucked up disease.

But as to your gripe with the name, Frontotemporal dementia is a pretty decent name.

Even if you know nothing about medicine, you’ll understand it’s some type of dementia, and immediately get a very good image of how it affects a patient.

If you’re more familiar with medicine and the brain, it will also tell you what regions these specific types of dementia affect, giving you clues as to what brain functions could be most impaired.

Thank god medicine has moved away from eponyms, because Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or Binswanger disease, or Fahr disease, are much much worse. If you’re not familiar, you’d have no clue if they’re a type of dementia or a problem on your anus.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Can’t rotate or do basic edits in web app, dead to me.

Also can’t really sync and share with rest of household. Auto sync to phones is also a must.

I was seriously unimpressed with its features, and I’m not bothering with it again anytime soon.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source evolution sim Thrive adds planet customization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is this what Spore promised to be but never was?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
An active redditor??

🔔 Shame 🔔

🔔 Shame 🔔

🔔 Shame 🔔
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I beat the roaches in this house?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Releasing the genophage on the korgan, are we?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I beat the roaches in this house?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I couldn’t find the brand I use on Amazon in the US, maybe they don’t sell it there. I’d go with something that explicitly claims to target the nests, like this maybe.