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Does this mean I should encourage my beautiful young wife to join the local stitch and bitch? Obligatory "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing '
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My understanding is the waste problem is overblown? It gets sealed in fuck-off huge concrete cylinders, and the volume of waste compared to the energy generated, it's just a no brainer. Also depending on reactor type the waste can be
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Oh yea! There was something in the manual, or in the installed hints about that invisible ink thing. Before my time. The re releases I played they were under "hint" or "hints" or "help" or something. There wa
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1y ago
It is Pitch Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE
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I solved it as well. ... but I'm pretty sure my game copy had "Invisiclues" or whatever installed. I'm curious why some of the games in the 90s re-releases had this and some did not.
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"put all into thing" "I got the Babel Fish T shirt" How did the infamous Babel fish puzzle originate? The basic idea was by Douglas, and I added some refinements (like the Upper-Half-Of-The-Room Cleaning Robot). More int
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I would love to see pictures and unboxing of the feelies. Those were before my time. I played many of these as part of the "Comedy Collection", "Sci Fi Collection" etc re-releases when I was 9-10 or so. Later searching
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1y ago
"Because of the broken socio-economic hellscape we are forced to exist in" is certainly a valid-ish answer. > What's the alternative? Make your own company? Check address bar? :)
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Know your target and backstop. What goes up must come down.
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Nothing dictates you must own and drive new cars. If you want a new car, I imagine disabling the modem should be trivial. I agree with your comment though.
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1y ago
Please do not call these "license plate readers". They are far more sinister and have far more advanced capabilities.
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1y ago
I was thinking more super soaker paint? They are mounted quite high.
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Argumentum ad legem. Was slavery moral because slavery was legal? Apart from that,the device's raison d’etre is committing federal crimes, namely violating the 4th amendment rights of private citizens. Previous case law has found mini
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1y ago
Are you looking forward to tens of ... dollars from that recent suit?
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How does that work? I used it once to look up an old book and ended up on Discord? Reminiscent of #bookz on Undernet.
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1y ago
Argumentum ad populum.
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1y ago
I've tried to coax ChatGPT to do this but have not been successful beyond cover shots random page views.
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1y ago
"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."
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1y ago
Careful now, I was just flagged (whatever that amounts to) for calling apartheid apartheid.
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> What the fuck is going on? That's my key take-away from reading this. I hope the majority of this is going to be powered by nuclear or hydro. That's a lot of power.
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1y ago
Yes, I read that, thank you.
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1y ago
These are a lot more than ALPRs. Look into them more / see my other comment in this thread.
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1y ago
Why would you work for such a fucked up dystopian Orwellian corporation? Appreciate any other insider details you have to share.
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These are not "license plate readers". They can and do identify vehicles based on a myriad of other factors. Paint wear, dents, roof racks, bumper stickers, and more. There's currently a suit filed against them for 4A violat
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I guess you missed the case of Google and SFPD going after a dad for taking a photo of his son's genitals to share with mom and doctor.
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Roger Murdock : ROGER MURDOCK. I'm an airline pilot. Joey : I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. [Kareem gets angry] Joey : And he says that lots of times, you don't even ru
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I wish I could find my (terribly embarrassing) Geocities site in the archives. The finest HTML my ten year old self could generate.
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Don't forget about the other Bowser. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/01/the-man-who-ow...
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I might have to try it. Currently playing Beyond Zork.
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ChatGPT is great for these tip of the tongue/joystick type things.
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