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- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 14 hours ago:
Nostalgia’s a helluva drug. I’ve done my best to try to avoid it, but we all like that hit from time to time.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 1 day ago:
He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro?
- Comment on Clippy's coming for you 2 days ago:
Thank you for being considerate of your friends mental state. Not enough people stop to think about things like this. Thank you.
- Comment on Clippy's coming for you 2 days ago:
Wow, rude.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 days ago:
I worked in a “European” US bakery for a hot minute around 2012, and one of the things I remember most was them trying to find new providers with cheaper products. This lead to a difference in taste because obviously in this case the cheaper products are actually a sub-par product.
A big part of it has been the consolidation of the businesses who sell food to restaurants. They all pull from the same places, and so the variety has gone down and the filler gone up.
It’s not just fast food, it’s all restaurants that are suffering this plague.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
I’m a Linux user and I think the conversation should be:
More than half (over 60% ackshually) of Windows PCs in service are still Windows 10. Windows 11 barely cracks 34%.
People should boycott this and demand that Microsoft offer long-term support for Windows 10 like they did Windows 7 and stop trying to force Windows 11 on consumers through dark patterns like this.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
I like all the comments ready to take a fisting in the ass from Microsoft just to keep Windows 10.
If you raised a fucking stink instead of taking this shitty deal, they may be forced to keep supporting it for free anyway like they did with Windows 7.
They’ve got you fuckers cowed into paying for the convenience of getting fucked, don’t they?
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s less about the need to be the smartest person in the room and more about peddling dangerous disinformation?
This is literally how the Republican party functions, by purposefully being so brain-dead that we spend all our time explaining why they’re wrong and they just happily keep doing stupid fucking shit and expect us to protect them from themselves all the while.
- Comment on At 4AM this New Year's Eve, play the Ramones track "I Wanna Be Sedated." 2 weeks ago:
Take your upvote and get out.
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 2 weeks ago:
During the period Saddam was in hiding, a friend of mine was trying to write a comic book called Saddamatron: Weapon of Mass Destruction.
It was about the US government capturing Saddam and turning him into a pro-US Super Soldier.
The finale was supposed to be a Kaiju-style battle between Saddamatron and Polpot-bot.
So sad it never came to fruition.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 2 weeks ago:
What are you talking about? George Lucas invented the Hero’s Journey!
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 2 weeks ago:
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
-Frederic Jameson
- Comment on Hood Classic 2 weeks ago:
I am skeleton jelly?
- Comment on Candy 2 weeks ago:
The Joke Is Sex.
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
True, because they can still access it, but it’s garbled and/or confusing. Interesting idea.
so they just get frustrated with it and just lean more on the written stuff
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink it. In my experience, most average people just don’t like reading.
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
Do one better: Get control of their internet network access and start straight DNS black-holing whole swaths of misinformation on the internet. Tell them you don’t know what’s wrong and to complain to the service provider.
You can do this easily with a Pi-Hole under the guise of it being an “ad blocker,” and slowly, over time, making more sites unresponsive.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
This is an incredibly stupid question.
OP: Image
- Comment on You've Boned the Wrong Woman! 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t this the beginning of Frankenhooker?
- Comment on EU to Apple: “Let Users Choose Their Software”; Apple: “Nah”. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bill Would Force The Department of Veterans Affairs to Overhaul Suicide Prevention Algorithm That Favors White Men. 2 weeks ago:
I was trying to figure out why they’re making such a big deal about adding it since men veteran suicides still massively outpace women veteran suicides and I stumbled on this note:
• From 2020 to 2021, the age-adjusted suicide rate increased 6.3% among Veteran men and 24.1% among Veteran women. From 2020 to 2021, the age-adjusted suicide rate increased 4.9% among non-Veteran men and 2.6% among non-Veteran women.
• In 2021, the age-adjusted suicide rate of Veteran men was 43.4% greater than that of non-Veteran U.S. adult men, and the age-adjusted suicide rate of Veteran women was 166.1% higher than that of non-Veteran U.S. adult women.
It seems its less about the total and way more about the spike. While men veterans still kill themselves more often, that’s still in-line with what has been happening for decades now and not increasing at a rate inconsistent with non-veteran suicide, while the women veteran suicides are a massive spike of suicides in a short time frame, compared to non-veteran women suicides which only grew a fraction comparatively.
So, initially confusing, but looking closer, super important to take into account, actually.
- Comment on Where Roger Rabbit's pal shops? 2 weeks ago:
Overall an extremely underrated film in the modern era and people who get excited about “crossovers” should still love it for being one of the only (if not the only) times you ever see Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny on screen together. Blows multiverse nonsense out of the water with how big of a deal that was and continues to be.
- Comment on Where Roger Rabbit's pal shops? 2 weeks ago:
Baby Herman is a damn star and here he’s reduced to “Roger Rabbit’s Pal?”
- Comment on Not haunted. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had this conversation repeatedly about the house I grew up in:
It’s not haunted, it’s just a rickety piece of shit.
- Comment on New Attack Lets Hackers Downgrade Windows to Exploit Patched Flaws. 3 weeks ago:
DOWNGRAYEDD
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 3 weeks ago:
Me, viewing banned Wikipedia articles:
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 3 weeks ago:
'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff?
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 3 weeks ago:
lmao, nobody cares when it’s big companies silently manipulating the results like this, but once regular people become enraged enough to poison the data, now it’s something to talk about and totally represents how dystopian everything has gotten!
And while this is far from being a dangerous attempt to manipulate search results or AI algorithms, it does highlight the pitfalls of Google results becoming dependent on content generated by users who could very easily have intentions other than providing helpful information
Thanks for joining us in 2009, ArsTechnica.
www.theregister.com/2009/04/…/time_top_100_hack/
Time Magazine’s poll of the 100 most influential people has been hacked by a motley band of online troublemakers who have managed to manipulate the top 21 names so their first letters spell “marblecake, also the game.”
- Comment on Pee posting? 3 weeks ago:
aloud
That’s quite the sound
- Comment on Waterboy 3 weeks ago:
Teacher’s Assistant.
