GameOfFrowns

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by GameOfFrowns 4y ago
The moon blew up suddenly and without warning.
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>How can you complain about them being "ideologically driven", and simultaneously criticize them for not insisting on anti-war/environmental ideas in the face of war in Ukraine? Simple, the Greens have refocused on US-styl
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by GameOfFrowns 4y ago
>Unlike this article, nobody sings odes to the boldness, inventiveness, motivation, honor and leadership qualities of the African migrant. Maybe they should. No, they shouldn't. Smuggling migrants into Europe is a business these day
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by GameOfFrowns 4y ago
The only two I'd even recognize are "tptacek", because he appears to be so often in a really bad mood when posting and prolific karmacollector "tomte", who (I assume) tries to politicize HN furthering a personal soc
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Asking for people who aren't familiar with the Escape from Tarkov game mechanics: What is a 'meta' and what are 'wipes' in this context? And in which way did 'the Flea' ruin the game?
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>How does it interrupt you for someone else to be taking a photo of themselves? Blocking one's path for once, even more so with telescope sticks and of course taking pictures with one in the background without consent. I live near o
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Twitter's approach to combating misinformation for 2022 US midterm elections(blog.twitter.com)
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Thank you very much for the insight and also for providing the example (in the other post). What is your opinion on the Age of Empires series?
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>I tend to win because I'm just a better tactician due to studying chess Can you give an example situation where your chess experience gave you an edge over your opponent? I'm failing to see how chess tactics would translate to
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Depending on the type and volume of music it can be annoying to your audience if that includes people who are hard of hearing or for whom English isn't their native language, even more so if the presenter isn't a native English-sp
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>If the training data is out of date, it's quite reasonable for people employing that model to decide it shouldn't return results based on the out-of-date training data. It's not "out-of-date". That's just t
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>54% are women, and 35% are nonwhite. But when we have media depictions of doctors, I agree they tend to be white and male What's the issue? I used to watch a lot of medical dramas on TV and in my opinion the black rockstar MDs are
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>After all it's not like a differing genders or skin colours leads to any diversity in experience . . . The actual problem is sacrificing meritocracy and excellence in order to satisfy checklist "diversity".
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>we're limited on what info to display & sources due to privacy laws and to prevent misuse Of course. We're not not allowed to know who sold our personal data to shady 3rd parties due to "privacy laws". Hilarious.
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Great idea, I just made this my browser startpage. What happens to the discussion from the day before? How do you plan to solve comment spam?
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by GameOfFrowns 4y ago
A friend of mine is going to spend some months doing work in Turkey. This would be a useful gift for them.
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I love Mullvad, but I fear that they will become a victim of their own success. The more prominent the service becomes, the bigger priority it will have for intelligence agencies, despotes and ad companies to undermine/hack/subpoe
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by GameOfFrowns 4y ago
>I can deduce with some confidence that you've never taken psychedelics. You're wrong though. I have consumed Magic Mushrooms and LSD on several occasions. In my personal opinion psychedelics make people "malleable" f
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So how does it spread to children then? https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/22/health/monkeypox-children...
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We got the Soylent, we got the Panopticon, here's the Soma.
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Thanks a lot. Article carefully avoids mentioning why these individuals had received lifetime sentences. I assume their murder victims didn't get "second chances".
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>However, the wikipedia page says that disqualifications had to be made within 30 days of the close of the games. His occurred 6 months later. So that sounds like grounds to disqualify the disqualification itself, so to speak. The questi
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by GameOfFrowns 4y ago
The consequence of such a mentality leads to an arms race that would only allow economic powerhouses and totalitarian countries to even have a chance in the Olympics. How many athletes are you willing to condemn to an early death for nation
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It has become a general problem on Reddit that mods view the subreddit they're supposed to moderate as personal fiefdoms. The supposed house rules are often applied arbitrarily. If the the mod agrees with your, let's say, politica
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>The [pierced] nipples are for aesthetics. I'm sure tattooed people would say the same about their tattoos. People are very bad at uncovering the origin of their behaviour and very good at retroactive rationalization. The question r
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by GameOfFrowns 4y ago
>are often an expression of bodily autonomy and self-expression In the same way that anorexia is an expression of "bodily autonomy and self-expression"? Tattooing, piercing or cutting rather see to be forms of self-mutilation a
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>I think it's a great candidate for a redo in the streaming era Don't wish for it. It's very likely that it will be utterly ruined by shoehorning in current political talking points and race relations.
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Depends, is the coin a Democratic party establishment candidate and the predictor part of the liberal politico-media complex trying to prime an audience?
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>That means among their simulations is very likely to be an instance that is similar to the real outcome. So what? If you only make enough enough predictions then some of those will turn out predict the future correctly. It is how "
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>How'd that work out in 2020? In 2020, obviously senile and charisma-void, candidate Joe Biden surprisingly manifested ~81 (Edit: actually 8) million more votes than the 'second-coming of Christ' Barack Obama before him, w

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