neartheplain

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by neartheplain 5y ago
I agree that events leading up to the shooting were problematic. If respected media commentators had not glorified riots or villianized the justified police shooting of Jacob Blake, or if the Mayor of Kenosha had requested further National
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by neartheplain 5y ago
How much of the trial did you watch?
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by neartheplain 5y ago
This wouldn't be the first time the FBI mismanaged software contractors: https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/fbi-virtual... Or the second: https://www.newsweek.com/fbis-expensive-senti
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by neartheplain 5y ago
I don't know how real Deldo is, but if you're curious about the state of teledildonics, buttplug.io is widely used and actively developed (link probably not safe for work): https://buttplug.io/
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by neartheplain 5y ago
The Soviets solved this problem in their closed ecosystem experiments of the 1970s using 8 m^2 of algae per person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS-3
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Certainly there wouldn't be an 8chan/8kun without 4chan /pol/. Simlpy pointing out that it's another newer branch on the SA family tree, one with its own distinct culture and character. As an object of study, I find
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by neartheplain 5y ago
To see if the plot would've worked had the conspirators not been arrested, ITV built a replica of the House of Lords as it stood in 1605, placed barrels of gunpowder underneath it just as Fawkes would have done, and lit the fuse. The e
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Oculus has sold around 4 million Quest headsets, which don't require a gaming PC and cost less than current-gen gaming consoles.
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by neartheplain 5y ago
World of Warcraft is actually on the wane, and has been since 2015 when Blizzard stopped reporting subscriber numbers [0]. Big WoW streamers like Amsongold have recently switched to other MMOS, mainly Final Fantasy 14 [1], in the wake of Bl
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by neartheplain 5y ago
The speech Zuckerberg gave onstage with pomp and ceremony said, "Our apps and our brands — they’re not changing." Contrary to this claim, the Oculus brand was killed offstage in another executive's Facebook post. I'd say
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by neartheplain 5y ago
I don't understand this move. As much as Facebook has tarnished the Oculus brand, it still had positive attachment among longtime VR users and enthusiasts. For me the 'Meta' brand is linked more strongly with Facebook and Mar
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Ugandan Knuckles was most users' introduction to VRChat. It's been a dead meme for a while, but that doesn't stop 9-year-old kids from running up to strangers in VR yelling, "Do you kno dae wae?" Aside from the risk
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>a kind of place where people could do really extreme things you could never possibly get away with in real life, i.e. gladiator battles, just getting murdered over and over, extreme sex and partying with no consequences The future is no
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Mao's government compelled addicts into rehab and summarily executed drug dealers [0][1]. Drug trafficking is still a capital crime in the PRC. In 2017, 13 traffickers were sentenced to death at a public trial in front of 10,000 specta
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by neartheplain 5y ago
I also funded the Kickstarter and received a DK1 (and DK2). I believe I was fairly compensated, and that demanding some unspecified extra payout would be excessive. If you want stock, buy stock, and deal with the added risk that true invest
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by neartheplain 5y ago
It's a double-edged sword. For people with debt, the value of their debt decreases as inflation rises. If salaries rise with inflation, even with some lag, the debt becomes easier to repay.
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Surprised how quickly YouTube deleted this video, when they firmly resisted both internal and external calls to take down a different rap video promoting violence against Chinese: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>Nextdoor has had enormous racism/bigotry problems. Could you provide some concrete examples? I've used Nextdoor regularly in three major US metropolitan areas, and I have yet to see anything like an "enormous racism/
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>For example, a fully immersive VR app that takes into account objects and other things in the room to ensure the virtual experience generated doesn’t lead to a person walking into things. This already exists and works very well, in the
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by neartheplain 5y ago
The point of AR is to layer one's reality with additional information, while the point of VR is to escape reality entirely. I think the latter is more compelling for most people, and the products for VR are here now.
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by neartheplain 5y ago
That's what VRChat has been for 4 years now. Though it's less Clubhouse rooms packed with celebrities and clout-chasers, and more improv comedy meets "Humans of New York": https://www.youtube.com/c/s
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>Under the plans, Facebook would change the name of its holding company but not that of its eponymous social media platform, known internally as the “big blue app”. Nothing to see here. Just another Alphabet-type holding company.
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by neartheplain 5y ago
OpenMW can also be used to play Morrowind in VR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUrvAAn9hFo
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>but raising children has become increasingly complicated with the eroding middle class and desire to have fewer babies. False premise. Lots of Americans want to have kids, they just can't afford it [0]. This reality hits immigrant
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Similar lists existed within Google for their ("on hold" last I heard) project Dragonfly [0]. I saw a bunch of banned terms like these in the Dragonfly repo before they hid it from regular employees. It was a very long list. On it
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by neartheplain 5y ago
What are the negative health effects of nicotine versus, for example, caffeine? I've always wondered how much "healthier" vaping really is compared to cigars and cigarettes, but I wouldn't know how to make an evidence-ba
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by neartheplain 5y ago
The influence of the Israel lobby on the 2003 Iraq invasion is not an anti-Semitic trope, it is recorded and acknowledged history. The final decision to invade lay with George W. Bush, and the Israel lobby was far from the only factor in hi
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Consumers can buy similar off-the-shelf "smart" rifle scopes, marketed primarily for hunting: >The Eliminator LaserScope is the most innovative and effective hunting riflescope in the world. With the push of a button, the Elimi
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by neartheplain 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah#Conflict_with_Israel
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by neartheplain 5y ago
"...because Israel is not actively attempting to advance its nuclear technology capabilities." Says who? >Retired in the 1990s, the Jericho-1, like its successors, was intended for nuclear delivery. >From the mid-1970s to th

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