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- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 8 hours ago:
I wish it was just a website. You can’t even download Android Studio or any other starter package without being forced into some kind of AI bloated IDE just to write “hello world”.
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 1 day ago:
On every single skateboard post or short video, somebody will mention Mullen too.
But anyway, outside of skateboarding, millennials also know of Bam, Sheckler and maybe Dyrdek.
Gen-z probably knows of the YouTubers that show up in their feeds. SkateIQ (Mitchie Brusco), SkateNomad (Mike Boisvert) and probably Andy Anderson because he’s everywhere.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 3 days ago:
That’s a valid point.
What I’m addressing is that after the EU mandated schools to include everyone in the same classes, things just don’t work.
It used to be one class with “normal” students and one class with *special " students, each with their own teachers. This was highly ostracizing to a lot of pupils who had a mild ADD diagnosis, and that number keeps increasing as parents become more accepting and take their kids for diagnosis.
The current strategy is include everyone in one class and then use supplemental teachers where it’s necessary. Big unsurprising shock is that it’s necessary to have a speciel teacher attached to every single class and they can’t find neither funding or qualified teachers. Surprised Pikachu!
It would be easy to say that we should go back to the old system, but that is also wrong. What they need is to educate every teacher to be able to include the “special” students.
I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a “special” class, but it should be reserved for the pupils who are further out on the spectrum.
When I was a kid myself, the special class was for kids with Downs. That hardly exists anymore, because of the option to abort after the chromosome test, and because these kids are funneled into special institutions to begin with. Kids with ADHD or autism would be in normal classes and failing because nobody recognized it as a handicap. They do now, but prior to the EU decision it was the opposite problem. The special classes were full of kids with mild diagnoses. The EU decision addressed this issue, but it wasn’t the right way, because there was no money given to update the qualifications of the teach.
Mmwhat I am suggesting is that we accept the inclusion, but also that we to ensure that all teachers are capable of handling it. We shouldn’t ostracize kids with mild diagnoses by putting then in special class or having special teachers. If we want to include them, which we should, we need to go all in on making the mainstream education include them.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 3 days ago:
I’ve come to the conclusion that everyone is somewhere on the spectrum.
The question of whether to get a diagnosis is more about handling any issues that come from it. Some people need medication, some people needs extra help with certain things and some people just needs to know about it - in order to function in the way that makes sense to them.
If you need those things to function, it will help to get a diagnosis, because it can it a lot easier to get that help, especially if it’s medical.
But, make no mistake. Everyone has something. It’s only a question of whether you need to treat it.
In a perfect world where there was no prejudice, we could be screening all school children and hand out paperwork along the grades, so you’d get an 8 in Math class and a 4 in ADHD. You know, just to get a full picture of the person.
But joking aside, there’s no reason why teaching can’t be more inclusive of these issues and just teach everyone as if they have autism and ADHD, even if they do not have a diagnosis. More often than not it’s only a matter of being allowed extra time for certain tasks or a slightly more pedagogical approach. Everyone can benefit from that, so it’s completely wrong to place diagnosed kids in special classes, when what is really needed is better educated teachers.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 3 days ago:
“Nippon” isn’t hard to pronounce for Germans, either.
I don’t know about that. Even if Germans are not shy of pronouncing letters wrongly (using V as F for instance), the P in Nippon makes no sense in German. It would have to be spelled with an H, to make the right sound.
- Comment on If it fits... 3 days ago:
Without marked spaces it’s impossible to say.
Someone can park perfectly in the morning, but then with everyone else moving their cars during the day, it can easily appear as a shit parking later on.
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 4 days ago:
It’s the same grid as most of Europe. AC 3 phases 50 hz 230/400 V.
Other places can do the same, but it’s a legal issue rather than technical. It’s difficult to tax.
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 4 days ago:
I was surprised when I read about it too, but it’s true, they quite literally just plug them right into the normal plugs.
It works because there’s a certain tolerance on the German breakers that allow for power to reverse. The balcony panels take advantage of this. However this also limits the possible output to whatever the tolerance is, otherwise it would overload and shut off or worse.
- Comment on idk how to title this one man 5 days ago:
It’s a depiction of what happens when Grok writes the kind of soft porn that is sold in paperbacks in airports.
A secondary joke is that the story is about a womanewho looks over the shoulder of a man watching porn on his computer, while we the reader of the comic is also watching her over the shoulders as she reads her pulp fiction.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
It’s certainly possible to drive from Finland to Portugal. It takes a little more than two days of constant driving. About the same as Seattle to Miami.
I’m not sure I follow the importance of this, unless you’re into long road trips. I would choose a flight in both cases, or a least spread the drive over several weeks for the adventure.
Most people only ever know their local area. And even that can be more than enough. People who live in New York or London don’t have a chance of knowing every street in their cities. They only know the routes that make sense in their lives. They only get to experience wherever they happen to be throughout their lives. Does it then matter which city is bigger, when you can only ever experience a fraction of it in a lifetime?
Neither EU or USA has any city in the top 20 of largest cities world wide anyway. All the really big cities are in Asia.
My point is that I don’t think it makes any sense to claim any value in being from some place that has the largest land or population or cities. They’re just facts that have nothing to do with the individual person.
It matters a lot more to me how people behave, what they are capable of or what they know. I’m not impressed with anyone who simply bases their self worth or identity on being from some place that has something that is bigger than some other place. Maybe patriotism is the real explanation.
And that’s the thing that annoys me about Americans, because quite a few of them seem to have a superiority complex over it. It’s perfectly fine to be proud of what your fellow countrymen have achieved, but it doesn’t automatically reflect back on the individual.
Or put differently: “Oh wow, the Grand Canyon is really impressively grand. Now, which part of it did you make?”
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
The size bragging.
No, Texas isn’t that big. Texas is about the same size as France.
USA also isn’t that big. Europe is larger than USA.
Sure it’s big and all, but the main difference is really just that there are fewer people in USA than in Europe. It has a lower population density, making everything seem further apart.
The reason I find it annoying is that the most obnoxious types have a tendency to use it to validate their own opinions on every fucking topic. Obviously we tiny Europeans just can’t comprehend the scale of their American way of doing things in the most backwards and old fashioned manner.
I’ve met plenty of American immigrants. Most of them are really nice and humble and appreciate learning how stuff works here. However some will eventually encounter something that doesn’t make sense to them, but rather than learn, they’ll cave in on trying to explain in the role of the world conquering strongman why it just won’t work in the scale that they’re used to in America, as if that would make any sense to do in that situation.
It’s delusional.
- Comment on If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? 5 days ago:
You forgot the best one: Kashmir - Bring back Superman
- Comment on The phrase "my world is brighter with you" is literally true 1 week ago:
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 week ago:
Can they make it stop too? Not taking any chances on this.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 1 week ago:
EU has an allow system, which is the reason the CyberTrucks is not on the EU market. It would not be able to pass the safety requirements if they attempted.
On a similar note, the EU also has an allow system for all vehicles already on the road. Every single vehicle is inspected every two years, with the first check for new cars being after 4 years. This system keeps older rusty cars away from the roads.
Tesla’s other models have an issue passing even the first test. It’s the brand with the highest failing rate of all car brands.
- Comment on Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball 2 weeks ago:
They also used the classic they knew what they were doing shortcut.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
The whole explanation about screen size is telling.
The entire point of Windows being named Windows is that apps can run inside these resizable rectangles nicknamed windows.
Yet the rectangular taskbar is apparently impossible to handle…
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 3 weeks ago:
It’s free?
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 3 weeks ago:
The background play is removed on cell phones. It used to be possible, but they removed it, only so they could charge money for enabling it again. I doubt they removed it from desktop.
- Comment on Commodore 64 Ultimate Review: 21st Century Computing from a 1982 perspective 3 weeks ago:
I wish someone could do a modern computer that would be as easy to setup and start developing on and for.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 3 weeks ago:
Not on free YouTube you don’t.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s interesting, that they can steal all this stuff and yet be unable to figure out how to sell it.
All the money, all the data, all the energy, all the computer power, all the political control. And yet, they can’t manage to sell a single dollar worth of their product.
Of course it’ll be shittified by commericals in and out of the content, and of course that will lead to paid models, but it’s not going to be very profitable, because nobody _really _needs bad intelligence. “Oh, it costs something? No thanks then, we already have intelligence at home.”
Yes yes, the users are the product, yes, but who then is buying that user data? Commercials and stuff yeah yeah, but at what point does any of this manifest itself as a single fucking sales transaction where a real person pays a company for a real product? Fucking never.
The whole thing is worthless.
- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 4 weeks ago:
It’s impossible to earn that much money, but at some point it’s also impossible to hold or spend. Banks can only take so much safely, so it needs to be placed in companies and investments that require some management and all the consequences and responsibility of running those. Spending it is problematic because it will disrupt whatever market it is injected to, potentially harming a lot of people.
The only real solution is to avoid billionaires in the first place by taxing corporations much much harder.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 4 weeks ago:
Football is called football because it’s played on foot, unlike polo and other horse sports.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 5 weeks ago:
The picture is from 1970. John Cleese is 30 or 31 years old in that picture…
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 month ago:
Who the hell goes to his page anyway?
- Comment on Typing on a keyboard is kind of like sign language 1 month ago:
It’s difficult to read if you can only watch the person typing.
Sort of like lip reading
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A brain itself doesn’t feel physical pain. That requires a nervous system and pain receptors of which the brain has none. Brain surgery is done with only local anesthesia for the skin and scalp.
We also know that braindead people don’t suddenly start creating brain waves even if the body gets mechanical resparation and pulse. It’s quite literally “off”. So, I guess the creation of a dead brain won’t feel anything or start thinking about anything by itself.
The question is what inputs they give these artificial brains. It’ll think that, and that will be it’s “sensory” input. Whether that can cause some emergent brain waves that could be interpreted as emotion or other stuff is impossible to say. I doubt it.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 1 month ago:
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 1 month ago:
It’s really a question of whether you have electric heating or a furnace or district heating.
It’s not common to have more than one heat exchanger for hot water if you have a furnace or district heating.
Electrical is much easier. You can just place them anywhere and they don’t cost as much to install. However, electricity is usually more expensive than district heating.
