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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Great word, topological.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Hmmm. Since breakfast cereal is demonstrably soup, that makes strawberries, Cheerios, and Reese’s Puffs all vegetables. Good to know.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’re correct! “Vegetable” is a culinary term. “Fruit” is both botanical and culinary. The “tomato isn’t a fruit” nonsense comes from people trying to conflate the two; if we called botanical fruits “grunkles” we wouldn’t have this problem.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, well I don’t even know why I would need an explanation, I’m convinced.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Potentially true, but that just makes the idea of a notification less likely.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think the big reason is…if they could find you, they’d just come and get you.

Smartphones make it a little bit more possible to actually be unfindable while still technically contact-able, but I believe police departments can still trace you through them. So if you’re in a situation where they can send you a message, they can just come and slap the cuffs on.

Also, you’d have to actually enroll in whatever notification system they set up, and what are the odds that anyone (who’s actually likely to ever be notified) is going to sign up?

And then you get into the problems of privacy (what if someone else enrolls their phone number under your name?) and consistency (What if you change phones or move? What if you get banned from your email provider?)—a lot of crime (well, the kind of crime that the police actually pursue) is committed by people without a steady address; in fact, that’s part of why they’re committing crime. Besides, the reality is that a lot of jurisdictions keep very little information about you on file: your name and address, maybe a phone number, and that’s it. Sure, they could find out more, but there are a lot of governmental entities that consider the postal service the only valid means of communication with citizens.

All of that is a big bundle of trouble with no real upside. If you did something wrong, you probably know to expect a knock at your door.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not true. There are a dozen different types of knockoff USB-C. If you buy one that meets spec (basically just not the no-name bottom-of-the-barrel e-waste on Amazon) you’re going to get essentially full functionality (meaning high speed data transfer, power delivery, HDMI over USB, etc); and if you need something more, you’re probably going to know what to look for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Happy to help!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Colloquially, “the pendulum” here is probably public political sentiment. It’s commonly understood, whether true or not, that a population swings back and forth between progressive and conservative values; illustrated by a pendulum swinging from left (progressive) to right (conservative). In the US, this is further inflamed by the two-party system, which unintentionally encourages such polarization and swings in political will.

So, in the US for instance, the Gilded Age (far right) gave way to the Progressive Era (far left), which led to the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (right), which led to the New Deal (left), which eventually led to Reaganomics (right), which led to Obama (slight left), which led to Trump (super far right).

The original question was asking, how long until this pendulum swings back to the left again. The “65-75” answer, it seems, was talking about WW2 in Europe, when the pendulum swung to the right as Hitler took power, and didn’t swing back to the left until after 65-75 (million) people died.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harsh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, but if you’re actually aiming for the moon and miss, an orbit is pretty likely. It may not be a good orbit, but consider that you’re most likely to miss because the moon has precessed in its orbit during your transit further than you expected, meaning that you’ll end up coming around the back of the moon and captured by its gravity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, with the SNES technology the way it is, it might not be possible to get more than two item sprites on the same screen. That is to say, if you do this, the next one might not spawn in.

I don’t know for sure, though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harsh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’re now in orbit, and that was almost certainly the goal anyway
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They probably meant “65-75 million,” but hey, even the typo is correct as long as you’re talking about a very specific 65-75 people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I had to look at this three times to figure out whether it was a troll or not, and I’m still not sure. But ok, I’ll bite.

I’m an American citizen, and while I was a pretty angry neocon as a college student in the early 2000s, I settled down into a much more open, responsive, empathetic conservatism by 2008-2010 or so. And for about ten years, my politics didn’t change a bit. I still voted for smaller government, I still voted against wars (super funny in retrospect), I still voted in favor of my values (which also didn’t change).

But in that timespan, the far right worked themselves into a lather about Obama, a fury that I didn’t (and still don’t) quite understand apart from cable news stoking the fire; yeah, I disagreed with a lot of his policies, but I certainly never wished him dead. To everyone else, though, he was the antichrist. And so I watched as friends of mine went down the rabbit hole, getting more and more worked up and rabid. When Trump came down the escalator in 2015, I thought it was a blip, and we (conservatives) would collectively realize how far off the rails we had gone.

Instead, I got death threats. My kids got death threats. From people who used to be my friends, all because I dared say that I didn’t think Trump was a good choice. And, remember, my opinions and values hadn’t changed over the previous decade or so.

Since then, it’s gotten much, much worse. And, in fairness, I’ve seen how much I had been lied to, even before Trump, and moved over to the left as a result; but the right wing has gone so far over the edge that some of the posts I made on Facebook in 2005-2006—at the peak of my conservative rage, the stuff that was basically just Sean Hannity talking points—I’m seeing MAGAs pillorying Democrats making those same points for being “radical woke communists.” I’m not talking about similar viewpoints. I’m talking about nearly identical wording, in some cases.

So, no. This meme is absolutely bonkers, in a way that’s so obviously backwards as to bewilder, and the best way to prove it is to point out that George W(MDs in Iraq) Bush opposed Trump. MAGA has moved the window of acceptable political thought so far to the right that today’s Democrats sound like 2008’s Republicans, yet they’re being called socialists. Some of MAGA’s “centrists” are actively looking to rehabilitate the words “nationalist” and “Nazi.” “Small government,” “personal liberty,” and “values voters” are considered left-of-center ideals. At this point even Ronald Reagan would’ve been considered a “lefty” to this new-look GOP.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Took me a full year, and I still get panic attacks sometimes when I put it on, but honestly you can do it if you need to. Go see a sleep doc. I was terrified, but I discovered after I got the thing how tired I really was (and I already thought I was pretty tired!)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It legitimately took me a full year to get used to it. I still have a panic attack every once in a while when putting it on and have to walk around for a few minutes before bed. Anyone can get used to it if you need to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Anybody “could” do anything. It’s all made up. Government is just a set of rules we all agree to play by, so any group of people could “decide” to stop playing by the rules and start playing by different rules. That’s why the Confederacy happened.

The only question is, do you have the strength (militarily, usually) to back it up. Because, no, legally what you’re talking about isn’t a thing.

Not that there’s an alternative, of course, if no agreement is reached. The government just stops. Taxes continue, the military goes on (at least for two years), but that’s about it. There’s no default state or last good save for us to revert back to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Constitutionally, it doesn’t matter. Practically, the two year limit has been very generously interpreted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
For me, with the Switch 1, I was worried about wanting to play a game but oh no it’s back at home. Happened a bunch of times with my 3DS.

But then I bought a case that had card slots in it, and that concern wasn’t much of a concern anymore. Then the pandemic happened, and I never really left home anyway, which meant it mattered even less. So now I have a few digital games that are super annoying to share.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s fine. It’s probably the weakest of the modern Trek shows, but only because SNW and LDS are so good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe they could add a setting to automatically start up the game in the background after an update. Since shader compilation happens right at startup, that could get the job done.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, if I was from the Southwest I’m sure it would be different. But as a Midwestern kid, our “culture” is almost entirely used to ferment milk for cheese.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Very much not true. Accounts from the development team call the dev process “fork and run;” meaning, they made a fork of the operating system. Yes, it diverged over time, but part of the reason that a Windows port of an Xbox game is so much easier is that they’re fundamentally the same OS.

And Android is Linux under the hood. They’ve committed code back to the Linux branch and maintained alignment with the LTS kernel since the start, and even the Linux Foundation calls Android a distro.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not visually, but under the hood it is Windows. Windows 2000 in the case of the Xbox and Xbox 360, Windows 8 (and later Windows 10) in the case of the Xbox One, One X & S, and Series X & S. Kernels, drivers, APIs, etc. are all shared with the Windows codebase.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I played BL2 at launch and don’t regret it. But I only just picked BL3 up again over the last couple of months. It wasn’t only the loading screen, but I will say I don’t think the writing shines quite as much as it did in BL2.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I think it’s smart of them to keep all gaming products under the XBOX brand.

I don’t have any issues with that, I just think that fragmenting your brand across so many different SKUs makes it tough if you’re a retailer.

I suspect the next XBOX (if there is one at all) will be just like the Steam Deck, just a PC in a suit, booting into the XBOX PC app, with an optional Windows desktop.

That’s more or less what the Xbox already is, just without the Windows desktop. In fact, that’s pretty much what the original pitch for the first Xbox was. Obviously they don’t bother with the desktop environment or the print spooler or whatever, but “PC in a suit” is basically the way they do everything. And the Switch is Nintendo’s “Android tablet in a suit.” I think PlayStation is still on a bespoke kernel, but I’m not sure.

The game subscription is XBOX GamePass and the cloud service is Xbox Cloud. Simple enough.

Is it simple, though? You boot up your Xbox (app) to connect to Xbox (Cloud) and play a game on Xbox (GamePass) with your friends on Xbox (Live)? That’s simple?

If they were all bundled, that would be one thing. But you have to buy all of those elements individually, and there are probably different tiers of each, and it might be doable, but I guarantee you that I’d prefer not to think through it all.

I know it may be confusing but it’s a transition that’s long overdue. The console market as a whole is losing market share to PCs, so why not just make a PC that works like a console?

That would be pretty nice, and since Valve has already done the market research on that, it seems like an easy win for Microsoft. But then again, that is what they’ve nominally been doing this whole time, so who knows if it’s ever going to happen.

And anyone can optionally buy their own hardware and use that as an XBOX.

I doubt they’ll ever truly give users that freedom. OEMs (like ROG) sure, but I kinda doubt they’re going to let people just put the Xbox app on whatever hardware they bought.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you for that info! I do most of my PC gaming on a very underpowered Linux box. Gonna need to check that setting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t mean people who earnestly pronounce it the way they do in Barcelona, I mean the people who make a huge deal out of saying it as intensely as possible, trying to call attention to how well-traveled they are by making it sound super alien.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe if there were any variation at all in the dance. Or a cycle of two or three different dances he goes through. Maybe give him a hat at random intervals. But no, just the same nonsense, over and over, for five minutes every time you start the game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I honestly feel like it would be better if Steam would compile the shaders in the background after the download finishes and before it tells me that the game is ready to play. That seems like a thing they could totally do.

They could even precompile shaders for known setups (the Steam Deck, the last three generations of Nvidia and AMD, that sort of thing) and just add that to the download for people with those devices. It would improve the experience for a lot of people.