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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it still kinda feeds the AI narrative if he recodes the AI part.

  “See? He used AI to make it faster and get some money then he went back and touched it up, really helpful tool”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[meme] choochoo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what the other dude is talking about. It definitely exists some places.

  Source: live in Copenhagen, don’t own a car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off the Rails⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A super fun counter argument I heard once is that if it’s intelligent design, surely it’s not for humans. The universe is BIG with lots of empty space, lots of massive elements to it. Surely it was designed for something much bigger than humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can, but both my Fairphone and old pixel could have a physical sim and an eSIM. I daily drive both with my old US number and my current EU number. Can’t have two active eSIM cards at once though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient wolves could only have reached this island by boat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With lettuce but not with a sheep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Miss normer can i

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The term snake oil is actually especially fitting for this, due to its origins.

  In Britain in the 1700s there was a somewhat common recommendation for using rattlesnake oil from the fat of the snake for skin diseases/rheumatism. The efficacy is debated but it’s got some amount of potential for change (if not help).

  This turned into people in the US selling mineral oil as “snake oil” as a total panacea. So a product that actually could do stuff being used as the poster child for a completely useless product that can solve every issue ever, buy as much as you can today.

  Snake oil indeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who started this shitposting?!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well Jimmy Carter won’t be exactly aligned with me on a Foreign affairs issue so I think we might as well just support Putin

  ^Average pre US election .ml poster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Change my Mind⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. I mean, Trump is just the marketing of a president. All sizzle, no steak. He has appeared in debates but it’s a huge stretch to say he’s shown up well in them.

  In fact, a lot of politics are purely a popularity contest these days, aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This song, it's infectious⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or kpop? Maybe against demon hunting?

  Sounds a little demon-esque to be anti demon hunting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, I’m super far from a biological/genealogical scientist. What’s promising about that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best vertical games on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The original Shapez is vertical. I don’t love how it plays on mobile in terms of controls but it works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exit tax is only if you give up your US citizenship, which you definitely can’t do if you don’t have another citizenship and even then it’s very often not required

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tunic is so damn good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when Valve releases a phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope for Steamie Boi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So that’s a great picture I think for the difference between the loan durations.

  I of course think the real problem is that average people might need a 50 year loan to barely pay for a house these days. But it isn’t “nothing” between the terms, it does help in the super short term

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, but it also shouldn’t affect the relative prices from 30 and 50 year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The calc I used for that number put $3k property tax annually amortized, good call

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

  Some random numbers that are of course VERY variable, but I just ran the calcs with 400k, 5% down, 6% APR for 30 and 50 years

  $2648 for 30 years $2369 for 50

  Now that is of course not a great deal, presumably you’d also get a little better rate for the longer loan (more points) but it’s not a dollar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, exactly this.

  Coached race cars (and bikes) at tracks for years, and amateur raced for more than a decade.

  Try just pushing (not pulling). You have a LOT more range and more comfortable control from 9/3 than 10/2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3164: Metric Tip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look up cooking or baking recipes and get American ones you’ll see oz a lot, I have found

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure where you’re located, but if you’re in the EU you can consider Fairphone for an extremely repairable phone instead. The 6 doesn’t have the specs of proper flagships, but it’s quite a step in the ethical direction in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an engineer, I definitely could think of a lot of cool ideas that’d fix problems if I just had unlimited energy or infinite resources.

  However, since I’m not a CEO I don’t get paid for said “what ifs”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely this comes from the American, not European point of view, yeah?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My AYN Thor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Super super cool. I don’t have a need for this since I have a nice modded 3ds lite, but the youtube on one screen and gaming on the other is absolutely sick. The screen size and color depth looks great too.

  Does it have an SD card slot? I didn’t see it on their site but I assume so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia Giuffre thought she might 'die a sex slave' at hands of Epstein and his circle, memoir reveals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man I’ve seen you pop up a lot today with a lot of negative comments.

  Account created today too.

  Be better, please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I actually frequented a sim center when I lived in the US. They ran Rfactor2 but it got me doing some iRacing too. It was great fun! I can’t believe how real a lot of it felt. Honestly except for elevation not translating well it was an insane practice tool

  Yeah, only IRL for a bike. If they made a really legit sim rig I’d probably have to seriously consider it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah cool! After i raced irl for like a decade I sim raced for a while. It was super fun! I’d like to get back into it someday. It’s a lot better on the wallet and body than IRL stuff (especially motorcycles).

  I think it helps, but it probably is more of a selling point and aesthetic than an actual help on the (agreed) biggest selling point number.

  It’s one of those decisions that someone up top probably made and has these kinds of stupid consequences of moving fast and breaking shit. I wouldn’t be upset if it had to go to a normal one