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by gigaflop 4y ago
This is the sole reason I use reddit on my phone. I keep a tab for AskReddit, open something for later if the title seems interesting enough, and at least skim the thread within a few days. No app, no login, old-style UI. Since my brain is
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by gigaflop 4y ago
It feels like a semantically-strained take, but I think Twitter is more of a place for people to say things, than it is for having conversations. Most people seem to use the site to broadcast something to their audience without really engag
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by gigaflop 4y ago
I used to spend a lot of time on youtube, in part because I had the free time to spend on it, and had gaps in my schedule that were convenient for watching certain content creators. Since moving into the workforce, my free time is no longer
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by gigaflop 4y ago
I've heard some people say that the stereotypical jock types, like a football team captain, are often pretty bright individuals. Meanwhile, I am a moderately-intelligent software developer who pulled 280lbs on a deadlift the other day,
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by gigaflop 4y ago
Anecdata of 1, but I've (in hindsight) realized that certain feminine smells seem to skip my nose and hit buttons directly in my brain, so to speak.
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by gigaflop 4y ago
The self-quotes really threw me off once I realized they were self-quotes. Most of them seem like self-comments, which would feel better if added as some sort of sidebar instead of interrupting the content.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Well, he's just following the American model. Leave, displace and colonize, rebel, and declare sovereignty. To those who would follow him on such a mission? Sayonara. He's spoken about how it would be mostly work for those livin
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I was looking at SFF cases, so I keep an eye open for lesser-known ones. I was willing to add another to the list of contenders, but I just don't get why that site asks for a password, and shows only one image of something that they&#x
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by gigaflop 5y ago
As a userbase increases, the lowest common denominator falls. I don't have any estimates on the rates of change, but consider how huge Reddit and some of the default subs are, and how half of those people are below-average intelligence
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I feel like anti-cults are never as strong as the cult itself, and will rarely ever be. A cult is a portion of society following something or someone, and I feel like it encompasses people from suggestible fans to fanatics. An anticult can&
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I think it's more than retail investors. I think it's the hype and noise that his followers make, plus whatever noise he himself makes. I think he's a bit like Trump in some ways. Trump was often said to represent an image of
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I feel like we should kill 2 birds with one stone: Bats and bat guano. Guano used to be mined for gunpowder, to the point where the US annexed a few islands after the Guano Islands Act of 1856. If bat guano is usable as fertilizer, we could
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Haven't some new-construction apartment buildings in China been left mostly empty, while others start crumbling before they're finished? As for Tesla, the market can stay irrational longer than one can stay solvent. If not for EM&
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Dog shit can potentially be used for fertilizer, which is more benefit than most NFTs provide.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
That's the direction most 'journalism' takes. Minimal effort, lots of filler to pad out space, the one thing you actually cared about buried in the second-to-last paragraph, but not completely answered. The biggest example of
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I'm about halfway through, and can second the recommendation. I think I see a potential twist, but I want to see how it actually plays out in the end.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Having worked at a gas station, most of the money comes from snack and drink sales indoors. Gas itself netted <$0.05 per gallon, I think.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Add enough sugar to a flavored drink, and some American[0] is going to say they love it. Make it cheap, and they'll keep coming back for it. [0]No ill will, just an observation and generalization.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
So long as calories-per-week average out, it'll be fine, right? It's just averaged CICO?
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I keep multiple food delivery apps on my phone, despite having the $MEMBERSHIP_NAME for one via my credit card(fees on card are cheaper than the membership itself). This 'pays off', in that I have my default choice, and can choose
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I agree that most tokens are scammy trash, especially when advertised, but acknowledge that some will stand the test of time. I don't think I'll ever hook up a wallet to my smartphone in order to use tap-to-pay in some hypothetica
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I recently got into using tomato powder, have you ever tried it? It would mean more work, but much more shelf-life and granularity of how much tomato you actually want.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I feel like AI/ML and some pre-rigged models could be used to build a web-hosted sitcom. It would take a lot of technical work, and a lot of writing chops to make it watchable, but it could be done. Look at Space Ghost: Coast to Coast,
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Sometimes, I'd prefer some sort of limited series more than a movie. 'Maniac' was enjoyable for me because it had time to let things go slowly, despite taking course over what was probably 1 week in-universe. I may also be di
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by gigaflop 5y ago
"These Days" in particular('Rona Season), I feel like a lot is/has been getting produced to keep up with increased demand. More people spending time indoors, means more people sitting on the couch looking for things to w
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by gigaflop 5y ago
The tree was killed by loggers looking for money before guitars entered the picture. It had been laying in the dirt for a while before the guitar types got their hands on it.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
That might be the ticket for me, thanks! I don't have a spare license key (or high-seas version) for Windows, but if I can get a game working with Proton, then I can at least try running some Proton-supported game within that tool on a
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Not yet, since my 'new pc' idea is shelved for at least another year or so, but that sounds like it could be a great help if Steam and Proton don't make things work out of the box. Thanks!
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by gigaflop 5y ago
For gaming, stereo headphones seem to be best, imo. I've had the same pair of Crossfade LPs for several years, and they give great (as far as I can tell) spatial awareness in games, without any special features.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
True nirvana for me would be to have a functioning Linux desktop, with which I can send a startup command to a windows PC when I want to run some Windows-only games, that also switches my monitor input and peripherals. Instead of dual-booti

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