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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe no one has mentioned the Star Trek the Next Generation episode where Moriarty tries to escape the holodeck and they basically put him on a flash drive running a simulation of the galaxy to solve the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unique ID You're Giving to Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of what you say is wrong, but I will say that though my regular number is on permanent silence and straight to voicemail because of all the spam calls and texts, the Google voice number I have had for years has been largely free of all that BS and continues to work great.

  Maybe they are tracking everything I do, but the product DOES work pretty great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??,⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are getting too caught up in their stating “1995”. Video game graphics had already improved a lot by then. By talking about “pixelated” they probably really mean mid to late 80s technology. Heck, even in 1995 they were still using digital video disks the size of records.

  When you compare that to the amount of memory in video game consoles, they had to keep things simple and couldn’t afford to go fill professional digital audio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??,⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people may be missing a big factor in their replies. The graphics and audio on video games is digital, but music and video used in the rest of the world had been maturing for quite some time as analog.

  Think about a record, you are capturing the vibrations of the noise directly into physical media. Digital requires translating that somehow into a pattern of 1s and 0s, and at the beginning, we just weren’t that good at it and memory chips were just painfully small at that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's own Copilot will tell you how to activate Windows 11 without a license⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2006, the company reported staggering losses of approximately $14 billion due to unauthorized use of its products, despite investing millions in anti-piracy measures.

  Am I the only one that thinks they actually meant “unrealized revenue” and not an actual annual net loss of 14 billion dollars that year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roboburbilbear!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m mad, but what? Once we pull out the guillotines there’s no going back, so right now I’m hoping that checks and balances thing starts to kick in soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you eat soap for acid reflux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The burp let’s you know it’s working, and who couldn’t benefit from extra hydration?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Nukes DEI Office, Trump Demands "All Records To Be Preserved"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that he feels the need to say that all records need to be preserved shows an alarming ignorance of governmental records retention laws for a second term president.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at it at the individual level, of course it’s a tragedy.

  At the systematic level though, big change historically almost always includes death, and at the end people everywhere celebrate the successful revolution with very little thought to those sacrificed to get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And now Paramount+. Even now their strategy seems to be to fill it with Star Trek and wait for the cash to roll in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just watched a fascinating documentary on Star Trek and they talked about how paramount kept trying to launch their own network on the back of Star Trek as it’s cash cow and how they kept failing because it was all they had on it and not enough viewers.

  Problem solved by making all the different kinds of shows into Star Trek, I guess, but how are they going to grow a fan base if it’s all locked behind a paywall that only people who already love it will pay to get through?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always loved the “do uncontacted remote tribes that haven’t heard of God or Jesus go to heaven?” question. So far everyone has answered yes. And then you realize that Christians could save everyone, everywhere, forever, just by destroying all their literature, not teaching religion, and letting it die with them. One sacrificial generation and everyone is saved forever.

  But they won’t do it because of greed and pride, the core aspects of their belief system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could use some help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How old is your Bowden tube? Could you be getting more friction when it is bent certain ways leading to inconsistent feeding?