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by sb057 3y ago
(1667) :o)
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by sb057 3y ago
>The oldest game still available (counting by which date it was made available on Steam) is the original Counterstrike with a game ID of 10. Games 1 through 9 aren’t on the platform anymore, and I’m sure they are far from the only games
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by sb057 3y ago
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
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by sb057 3y ago
FWIW a recent YouGov poll[1] found that 20% of 18-29 year-olds agree with the statement that "the Holocaust is a myth," with an additional 30% neither agreeing or disagreeing. Compare this to 0%(!) of 65+ year-olds agreeing, and a
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by sb057 3y ago
The average American watches five hours of television every day, or just shy of 11,000 hours over six years. https://www.marketingcharts.com/television/tv-audiences-and-...
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Self selection of diet by newly weaned infants: an experimental study (1928) [pdf](medicine.mcgill.ca)
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by sb057 3y ago
“It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single war. What are the odds?” -Norm MacDonald
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by sb057 3y ago
"Simulation and Simulacra" was an instruction manual to some people.
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by sb057 3y ago
A barebones Toyota Camry is $26,420.
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by sb057 3y ago
>while they are not currently necessary to view the file, they will be by the end of the year, assuming nothing changes. What makes the author think something is changing?
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by sb057 3y ago
I picked Alice's Adventures in Wonderland[1] just to check out the quality and was met with: >Lice was beginning to get very >tired of sitting by her sister on >the bank and of having nothing >to do. Once or twice she had G
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by sb057 3y ago
I'm not a fan of them either, but at least they aren't positioned in a way to abuse their status as much as Apple is.
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by sb057 3y ago
My limited experience using friends' and family's Samsung phones is that they are the worst out of all of them. Absolutely nothing but bloated, buggy software that you can't disable.
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by sb057 3y ago
Your example is quit fitting given that it's another clear abrogation of ancient rights, specifically the right not to be arbitrarily detained.
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by sb057 3y ago
https://stallman.org/apple.html
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by sb057 3y ago
I'm part of this statistic. I've been an Android user my entire adult life, but it really has been a constant downward spiral over these past several years. My previous three phones from LG, Motorola, and Xiaomi all had major soft
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by sb057 3y ago
I think something like this would actually make for a really interesting 3rd grade class project, with each student contributing a few pixels.
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by sb057 3y ago
It's worth noting that freedom of transit and use of public ways (literally the original "right of way") is such an ancient and obvious part of common law that the Framers didn't deign it necessary to include it as an ex
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by sb057 3y ago
Complete shot in the dark, but I bet culpability lies with FedEx's thousands of subcontractors. Their van lease agreements with FedEx obviously benefit them if they return them with fewer miles. Given that a great deal of contractors t
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by sb057 3y ago
I'm still skeptical of non-crank windows after seeing virtually all motorized windows eventually give out in 90's models.
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by sb057 3y ago
FWIW, the costs for transporting gold bullion are marginal. A fully-laden Boeing 747-400F cargo plane can carry 396,900 kg, or 12,760,000 troy ounces. At the current price of $1,936/ozt, that's over $24 billion in value transporte
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by sb057 3y ago
Given other Russian claims regarding the effectiveness of their military equipment, it's impossible to take a claim like this seriously, even if it's true.
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by sb057 3y ago
"Like normal but worse" wouldn't entice much interest, would it?
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by sb057 3y ago
Readers may also be interested in Google's complete archive of Life magazine: https://images.google.com/hosted/life https://books.google.com/books/about/LIFE.html?id=N0EEAAAAMB... As an
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by sb057 3y ago
Strictly speaking, 100% of any energy network faces shortages during extreme demand.
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Screwball Scramble(screwballscramble.net)
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by sb057 3y ago
>Unlike the 90s and dotcom companies, there are few if any tiny AI stocks that offer huge returns. The number of (legitimate) publicly-traded internet-related companies in the late 90's that were accessible to the average investor w
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by sb057 3y ago
>>Smartphones give children the ability to bully eachother at a scale unlike any other. >No, social media does. Social media (and other mindless media consumption) is perhaps the defining role for smartphones, especially for childr
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by sb057 3y ago
My immediate assumption is that they're probably a sort of non-wearable jewelry in the same vein as globus crucigers and fabergé eggs.
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by sb057 3y ago
I've been using Yuzu with a couple of patches (that I think have now been merged) with Vulkan, which can be touchy with hardware, but runs fine on my machine other than minor visual glitches. The game runs nearly flawlessly and with ap

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