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- Comment on Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes 11 months ago:
The North Sentinel Island Sentinelese are not cannibals. They just want nothing to do with anyone not born on the island.
Which is a good policy to have, seeing as how the British genocided the rest of the Andaman Islands. They even landed on North Sentinel, kidnapped a few old people and children, and then sent the survivors back as plague bearers. (this was in 1880)
- Comment on What normies see when someone posts here claiming Disco isn't canon 11 months ago:
The main one would be, in 53 years of Trek before Discovery, Spock never mentioned a sister.
Which is mostly of explained at the end of Season 2 of Discovery.
If you just noped out in Season 1, which a lot of the more conservative sort of trekie did, then you'd miss that.
- Comment on What normies see when someone posts here claiming Disco isn't canon 11 months ago:
I do like that they sort of explained the Klingon Empire was getting really into genetic experimentation. It kind of ties in the DS9 tribbles episode as seen here.
The simple "We do not discuss it with outsiders" line is great. Which actually makes me want to watch more DS9...
Anyway... some of the continuity issues are explained away in the second season? Sort of?
It's still my least watched trek. I've even watched more of the Animated Series than Discovery.
- Comment on How Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages 11 months ago:
I was military before my first civilian job.
We had that lesson beat into our heads repeatedly, and yet there were still people who never quite picked up on it.
We had the consent to monitoring pop-up every single time we logged onto a government computer, and then had that consent to monitoring explicitly spelled out every three months as we had to complete a computer based training program.
For some people, it still didn't take.
All that said, this particular thought crime detection effort is creepy as fuck.
- Comment on Beer and Wine are vegan drinks. 11 months ago:
That's the most common, but there are weird pasta types out there made with beans or cauliflower or such...
The majority of those are vegan by design, but I've seen a few that were just gluten-free, and still used egg as a binder.
- Comment on Beer and Wine are vegan drinks. 11 months ago:
Usually sold as egg noodles, yes.
Most Italian died pasta is going to be made with just flour and water, but again, there are exceptions.
- Comment on Beer and Wine are vegan drinks. 11 months ago:
There are vegan sauces that are quite nice, sure, they're just not Worcestershire sauce.
Hell, I'll go further and say that if it's not made by Lea and Perrins, it's not Worcestershire sauce.
- Comment on Beer and Wine are vegan drinks. 11 months ago:
Dry pasta is. Any other noodle will not be. Eggs are used in a lot of places.
- Comment on Beer and Wine are vegan drinks. 11 months ago:
All Worcestershire sauce. It's fermented anchovy sauce with some spices.
Anything that doesn't have the anchovy, isn't Worcestershire sauce.
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 11 months ago:
They literally go through the class schedule in each book. General studies are not in it.
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 11 months ago:
There was Arithmancy, the Harry Potter wiki says that it was using numbers to predict the future. It was an elective and Harry didn't take it.
The only other class that would have had math would be Astronomy, which was a required class for all students. The students are required to make star charts and such... Seems like rote memorization was the only thing taught. The wink says that the end of year 5 tests was filling in a blank star chart from memory.
They might get some English pointers in the dozens of essays they wrote, but since essays are graded on the length of the scroll... it becomes questionable.
- Comment on ifn't 1 year ago:
Basic used "else".
It's nice. "if", "then", and "else". I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.
But yeah, "else" is nice.
- Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 1 year ago:
That's the coin flip.
- Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 1 year ago:
The problem is, you can't trust ChatGPT to not lie to you.
And since generative AI is now being used all over the place, you just can't trust anything unless you know damn well that a human entered the info, and then that's a coin flip.
- Comment on The Second Ku Klux Klan: How It Gained Social and Political Power Among White Protestants 1 year ago:
It goes back to the idea of the signal fire.
The symbolism of the burning cross was specifically used a call to arms/declaration of war for the Scottish clans. Sort of a command for all clan members to make their way to the area and defend it.
It was used extensively in the 1715 Jacobite rising and in Canada among Scottish settlers during the war of 1812.
It was made a symbol of the Klan by a racist fan fiction author in 1905. (note that this is after the first Klan was disbanded, and before the second formed)
The racist fan fiction author knew about the Scottish tradition, and assumed that the burning cross would call all the white people together to come kill the black people.
And now you know.
- Comment on You can have anything you wan... 1 year ago:
So I forever work on legacy systems.
Not ideal, but there's quite a bit of job security in it.
- Comment on VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing 1 year ago:
Sadly, VW has never strayed far from their roots.
They've always been just a little scummy on the business practices side of things. More than a little scummy during WW2...
They do sometimes have good engineering. Which means fuck all in the face of management who want to cut corners and cheat to make more money.
- Comment on Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. 1 year ago:
Verification posts go back further than Reddit.
They were used extensively on 4chan, because they were the only way to prove that a person posting was in fact that person.and yes, it was mostly people posting nudes, but it was more that they wanted credit.
The reason it carried on to Reddit was because people were using the accounts to advertise patreon and onlyfans, and mods mostly wanted the people making money off the pictures to be the people who took those pictures.
Also it was useful for AMA posts and other such where a celebrity was involved.
- Comment on Especially this meme 1 year ago:
I don't know.
This one is maybe a better representation of his talent. Or any of his other original songs. He's released a lot of them the last 7 or so years. He also has a bunch of tour dates in England, some of them are already sold out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Yup, kbin for the win.
Just wish it had a mobile app...
- Comment on xkcd #2877: Fever 1 year ago:
That one is easy. Rankine and Kelvin line up at 0 and technically a bit at 1 as well.
- Comment on xkcd #2877: Fever 1 year ago:
Ah, another excuse to whip out my one bit of interesting temperature based trivia.
-40 is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit, and 575 is the same in Fahrenheit and Kelvin.
- Comment on Every race needs at least one. 1 year ago:
They wanted to explain why there were so many accidental alien-human hybrids. Because someone forgot that Spock was originally described as being a product of medical science.
Which should have been the answer to every hybrid, their parents made a deliberate choice to have a child, and then did some genetic engineering to get it done.
But the writers wanted to inject drama with accidental hybrids. Also they decided that genetic engineering was banned so that Khan could be an enemy. A good choice because that movie was great. But a bad choice as well because it led to this episode.
- Comment on Best distro for linux gaming? 1 year ago:
A bit sad that it didn't work out for you.
I know the classic "it's worked fine for me" doesn't help.
It uses the Arch based rolling release, so give it a few weeks and try again? Or not, if you find a distro you like before then.
- Comment on Best distro for linux gaming? 1 year ago:
Garuda is literally designed as a gaming distro.
It has auto installers for retro and modern gaming (emulators, Steam, Gog, etc.)
- Comment on Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium? 1 year ago:
The only place I see liquid fuel being used is in commercial transportation, particularly in shipping and rail. Anhydrous ammonia would be perfect for shipping, and a nightmare anywhere else. That shit will fucking kill you in an instant, and those who survive just wish they were dead.
So it should only be used in highly regulated professional settings.
That said, it's still a wonderful fuel option for those settings.
This electrolyte swaps shit? I see it as an attempt to reuse all that gas station infrastructure all over the place.
EV chargers are all over as well these days, but they're still not anything near as ubiquitous and gas stations.
- Comment on 2017 Medium Article: "Why The Hyperloop Will Fail" 1 year ago:
Hyperloop didn't fail, it did exactly what Musk wanted. It killed the California high speed rail plan. At least for a few years.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 1 year ago:
It's the only thing that works. Shouting Nazis into silence is the best early way to deal with them. Show up to protest in huge numbers, deplatform them, force them to scurry back into the shadows.
Most importantly of all, keep them from recruiting more.
Once these efforts fail, all you're left with is violence, and violence will come, because the Nazis love it.
- Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate 1 year ago:
Actually, no.
Bullet voting is just a thing people do.
Even in places that have been using versions of RCV for decades, about 30% of any given population will bullet vote.
That's info from FairVote themselves (The main proponents of RCV, even if they're sort of scummy in their advocacy)
- Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate 1 year ago: