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- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 3 weeks ago:
I knew a guy who did this with Comcast for every minute his Internet was out. He’d call them every day for weeks until they cut him an account credit
- Comment on The time is now 2 months ago:
Ahhh I just have missed the hive mind patch
- Comment on The time is now 2 months ago:
Why do I keep seeing this Christmas gnome
- Comment on Max is testing always-on HBO channels 2 months ago:
- Comment on What do you create? 3 months ago:
Cortisol
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 4 months ago:
I guess to be more specific, you can request 6 months of your data
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 4 months ago:
I used this exact thing as a teaching aid when I taught the ROTC opsec lesson. Also scared a couple kids pale when I told them Snapchat keeps a 6-month record of everything you send
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 4 months ago:
But how much can I charge to be verified, versus how much can I charge to not have your link flagged or removed?
- Comment on Father horrified by an AI Chatbot that mimicked his murdered daughter 4 months ago:
His daughter can’t give permission. No one should use her image like that
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 4 months ago:
I’ve got to check these recs out
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 4 months ago:
I’ve never actually seen, just the references. Guess it’s worth a go
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 4 months ago:
Where have you seen this? I’ve been looking for some stories like it
- Comment on DarkPattern.games - a website that rates mobile games for their "dark patterns" 5 months ago:
Exactly. I’m not blaming Google entirely, though I do condemn them for being an example of what emerges from a system who’s only incentive is maximum profit.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games - a website that rates mobile games for their "dark patterns" 5 months ago:
Cool cool cool. The dark games list is basically all the play store recommendations
- Comment on Thousands are playing Valve's unrevealed shooter Deadlock, a blend of Team Fortress 2 and Dota with Bioshocky skyrails 6 months ago:
Agreed. But also, it’s a good way to communicate complex ideas quickly like Darmak and Jalaad. And many novel ideas come from “What if (blank) did (thing) but differently?” Like a huge portion of art history is just artists doing something another artist did in a different way.
- Comment on Sexual dimorphism 6 months ago:
Pretty sure Kars would only have sex with his own reflection, if he wasn’t a stone cold lady killer
- Comment on With Shared Software, Landlords Are Teaming Up to Raise Rents 6 months ago:
I think there’s a little room for nuance, but not much. The way corporate landlords are buying up houses and collaborating to fix prices is totally fucked and needs regulated. There also needs to be regulation or limits for private property owners who buy up a bunch of properties and slumlord it.
Where I think there’s nuance is how things fall right now. I just left the military and I’m renting out my house exclusively to military occupants who are not trying to buy. I bought it at 3% interest and my mortgage is more or less fixed. The next buyer was looking for it as an addition to their rental portfolio. I did the math before deciding to rent and found that because my interest and mortgage are so low I can charge $800/month less in rent than a mortgage would be if I sold it. It’s also less than their housing allowance so they have more for utilities and food.
It’s regrettable that this is the situation, but in this specific case in a very high demand/low supply area, renting it out is the lesser of the evils. Hopefully the market crashes or rates fall and I can sell it to a family who needs it. But until then, I’ll try to make things easier on some service members.
- Comment on Lol. Lmao, even. 8 months ago:
Thank you for representing me
- Comment on Sonny Legacy Collection got announced - the classic flash games are coming to Steam 9 months ago:
Talk about a flash from the past, amirite
- Comment on SpaceX is reportedly building a $1.8 billion network of spy satellites for US intelligence 11 months ago:
I’m getting Deus Ex vibes
- Comment on Stop this? 11 months ago:
When I’m in the middle of a meltdown and my dog asks me if I need help
- Comment on Data contamination expert 👌 1 year ago:
I wonder how much these models are now learning from spam they were used to generate
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 1 year ago:
I found a set of Makita tools for 60% off last year and now I’m Makita battery dependent for the rest of my life
- Comment on Heaven's newest angel 1 year ago:
He pulled some strings
- Comment on The first minds to be controlled by generative AI will live inside video games 1 year ago:
This is just Westworld.
I’m tired, boss
- Comment on Lifehack for naive schoolchildren 1 year ago:
Time to draw some free body diagrams!
Actually it would be the same force on the car if you removed the arm holding the magnet and placed a block of wood in the space between the magnets. It’s a static system
- Comment on Confused with Santa 1 year ago:
I think this one?
- Comment on I’ve got this worldbuilding project where a big chunk of land is cordoned off. I’m not sure what’s inside. 1 year ago:
What are the rules of the world?
- Comment on Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years 1 year ago:
Perhaps the archives are incomplete.
- Comment on Lemme croc your world 1 year ago:
Ah I got crocd
