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by permo-w 3y ago
>I disagree that this is not a big problem. The cheat situation in online gaming probably worse now than it has ever been in PC gaming, sure. for software cheats, sure. but I'm not talking about either of those things. I'm talk
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by permo-w 3y ago
in the hundreds of hours I've played of multiplayer console FPSs, which are what these controllers are marketed towards[1], I think I saw a player with a modded controller once. yes they got an advantage from it, but FPSs are mostly ab
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by permo-w 3y ago
alcohol always seems to hit me harder on a plane, and afterwards
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by permo-w 3y ago
this effect seems to be especially true in airports. they seem to particularly inspire dumb herd behaviour. perhaps there's an increase in perceived danger leading to a stronger desire for safety in numbers? another example: queueing t
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by permo-w 3y ago
back in the day some of the real stars did have epilepsy. the sacred disease
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by permo-w 3y ago
>I don't think anybody loves submitting to authority just for the fun of it. I can think of some counter-examples
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by permo-w 3y ago
>It’s not that we’re deficient, after all. It’s more that this authority business is a neurotypical notion that we don’t seem to share, and thus we tend to ignore it. I'm neurodivergent and always find it off-putting when people tal
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by permo-w 3y ago
their motivations may be selfish, but that doesn't mean that regulation of AI is wrong. I'd prefer there be a few heavily-regulated and/or publicly-owned bodies in the public eye that can use and develop these technologies, r
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by permo-w 3y ago
I've often considered starting a "think tank" in order to scrounge money off of unscrupulous corporations who need an "independent" advocate. you could probably write a lot of it with an LLM. the issue would be look
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by permo-w 3y ago
>before the Romans arrived according to the article, the coin is from after the Romans arrived, but before they established a lasting presence
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by permo-w 3y ago
>If you are a reader, you probably have more books than the entire corpus of ancient Greek writing. I'm sorry but this is just not true
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by permo-w 3y ago
at the bare minimum, we have graveyards all over the place with our language, names, number system, religious symbology, etc etc carved into stone
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by permo-w 3y ago
change and power do not necessarily make one happy
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by permo-w 3y ago
I've never heard of a gold mine in the UK, but Welsh gold is something you often see and hear of, whatever that tells you
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by permo-w 3y ago
at a higher level, ISIS was largely made up of former high-ranking Iraqi intelligence officials
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by permo-w 3y ago
of course it wasn't unexpected, but "expected thing came to pass" doesn't make for a clickbait headline
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by permo-w 3y ago
the two things go hand in hand
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by permo-w 3y ago
sure, but the explanations, like here, are always given in isolation, seemingly as the be all and end all, and while it may well be true that they're all a little part of the truth, that is interesting in itself
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by permo-w 3y ago
absolutely booming culturally though. food, tv, comic books, video games, trading cards all extremely popular the world over, which cannot be said for any other nation besides the US, which is almost 3x the size and hasn't earned that
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by permo-w 3y ago
that's not what it feels like living here, and let's be real, it's that coming from the largest empire the world has ever seen, which in many ways is the problem. since the late 70s our political decisions have been tainted b
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by permo-w 3y ago
United Kingdom?
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by permo-w 3y ago
wallowed in the backwaters is a bit strong. it's still the world's 3rd/4th largest economy with the 12th largest population
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by permo-w 3y ago
every time I hear about the US outlawing weed there's a different explanation given with absolutely certainty of truth. "it was the paper industry". "it was a way to oppress African-Americans". "it was a way to
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by permo-w 3y ago
jtpda, how many dials do you need in a hot air balloon?
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by permo-w 3y ago
ai
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by permo-w 3y ago
none of this is relevant. so what he has to take 2 extra steps to access the wealth? it's still there, and it's not like he has to sit down and do it himself
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by permo-w 3y ago
get one made out of rubber
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by permo-w 3y ago
what's $30bn to someone with $260bn? that's like the average person buying a mac, or maybe a cheap car, except less important because Elon Musk doesn't need the other 7/8 of his wealth to survive on I sincerely do not th
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by permo-w 3y ago
Twitter/X is/was the biggest ever platform for public organisation. Unionisation, protests, independent journalism, all things that an authoritarian like Musk and his Saudi backers would very much like to crush. what's $30bn
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by permo-w 3y ago
I don't think he ever wanted Twitter to succeed

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