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Cloudpunk is nice, although it’s more of a “walking simulator” than a fully-fledged RPG. It’s a cyberpunk-ish indie game in which you’re a delivery driver, although with a flying car and a sentient dog.

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statistia-netcontrib.csv is using some weird country code that isn’t ISO 3166-2, because it’s got what I assume to be Latvia with the code LA which is actually Laos, and that’s reflected on your chart too – I was initially a bit puzzled as to why Laos was listed as being in the EU. At a quick glance it seems to be the only weird one though

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Ah I thought you pulled that from some Eurostat database and they were using wonky country codes. The AU / AT mixup is a classic one, and since the spelling of Austria and Australia is so close it’s easy to miss that mistake – just like I did

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Elon shouldn’t be in this chart, too easy to win

One would think, but with both Thiel and Bezos in the competition this isn’t as cut-and-dry as you’d assume. Thiel especially is fucking evil, he’s way worse than Musk

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Saturn 3! Such a terrible movie, but great fun if you’re a scifi schlock fan

Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)

apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...

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The thing is that Fallout: New Vegas used the same engine, and it proved that you can do a much more interesting and engaging story and quests with Creation Engine compared to what Bethesda is capable of. Sure, Creation is still a bit of a piece of shit when it comes to engines, but it can be used for creating complex storylines etc. and not just “go there and push a button” or “go there and kill a person”

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any attempt to implement libertarianism will only bring mass amounts of misery and destroyed lives to anyone beneath the Parasite Class.

This is a feature, not a bug

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The only libertarian I personally know is anti-LGBT+, just not as rabidly outspoken about it as a “regular” conservative. He’s the sort who’d be happy with gay people being murdered on the streets as long as he doesn’t have to do it himself

Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO (thehill.com)

Congress has approved legislation that would prevent any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an Act of Congress. The measure, spearheaded by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), was included in the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which passed out of...

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all alliances and other undue foreign influence on our legislature

Alliances are “undue foreign influence”?

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The cruelty is the point, as with nearly all conservative policies

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Moderate conservatives pretty much don’t exist anymore. I had a “fiscally conservative” and “moderate” acquaintance tell me that the world would be better if there were no sexual or gender minorities

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He’s the sort of person who probably wouldn’t at least say out loud that they want to murder minorities, but I can tell you completely without any doubt that were some political party here to actually start doing it, he would be more than happy to see it happen – he’s convinced that white hetero men are the most repressed “minority” right now, and he’s literally said that the mere existence of sexual minorities is “polarizing” and “adversarial”.

This is pretty much how it is with all “moderate” conservatives. They might not outright say they want to murder minorities, but they would absolutely approve of others doing it.

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Oh no no, you see he’s the default and everybody else is a minority

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Conservative LGBT+ folks always just puzzle the fuck out of me. How stupid does someone have to be to support a cause that would have them eliminated if they got their way?

Gives some really big Association of German National Jews vibes; a pro-Hitler Jewish organization, the founder of which eventually got sent to a concentration camp

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so you can keep your phone away from your bed to improve sleep quality

Wait how does this work

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Ohhh duh right, of course. I was thinking like notification sounds or even the signal itself somehow interfering with sleep quality

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We see a need to adjust up to 1,500 personnel capacities

“Adjust personnel capacities” is a new one. Loving the corporate newspeak

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We’re going to see more and more openly fascist policies in the EU as more member states elect fascist leaders. A previous example is the end-to-end encryption ban and mass content scannning ostensibly to combat “child porn”, and which many politicians have already suggested could be expanded to cover other cases as well.

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at 7 my bones were made of rubber

I was just thinking about this. I’m in my 40’s and it feels like I now break a rib if I sneeze hard, and I was wondering whether I’m actually “less durable” nowadays than I was when I was younger

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I resemble this comment

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show that Descartes was wrong, because they exist but they don’t think.

“A therefore B” doesn’t imply “B therefore A”

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I think your problem is that you took the Kremlin at its word.

This policy isn’t meant to do anything but further subjugate women, because right-wing authoritarians generally despise feeeeeeeeemales

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Well, they elected a literal neofascist government so I guess anybody left of the Strasserites is a leftist now

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It’s one of my favorite shitty movies. Figured there’s got to be like dozens of people (DOZENS!) who would get this meme on Lemmy

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Oh nice, I’ve never thought to make fried onion garnish in a microwave

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Better than no data, I guess

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There’s actually a few different methods that can give you at least more accurate results if not 100% accurate (which polling never really is in the first place.)

Eg. list experiments are a potentially useful method. You start off with a list of statements like “I like candy” or whatever and you ask people how many of those they agree with (ie. not which ones, just the amount), which gives you an approximate baseline. Then you give another set of people the same list but with eg. “I support the war in Ukraine” added on (hypothetical example, nobody please get pedantic about the wording), and you then compare the total number of agreed-on statements with your baseline. Here’s an example from LSE last year that used this method: …lse.ac.uk/…/do-russians-tell-the-truth-when-they…

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Oh yeah it’ll work for any “sensitive” statement

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I may be an anomalous IT professional, but despite being a coder and generally a ginormous nerd, I’ve never really understood why people buy “smart” devices. This isn’t a criticism; I honestly just don’t understand why they’re popular. The amount of convenience they provide really doesn’t seem like it’s worth it at all, to me

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I guess those devices make more sense if you don’t have a laptop. I only have a laptop (well, that and a Steam Deck which counts as mobile Linux I guess) so I just plonk it into the HDMI port

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An old hand-me-down 1080p TV and my laptop

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Generally mpv

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It’s not like an average person would be unable to use their laptop and some media player, regardless of which OS they use; the fact that I use a weird-ass player doesn’t mean it’s the only option available on a laptop. It just seems pointless to get another gadget to do the same thing you can do on a gadget you own (assuming you have a laptop, of course.)

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OK that’s more mice than I was expecting

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I wonder if mice will generally eat corpses if there’s other sources of food available. They’re herbivores, but they’re not obligate herbivores and can eat pretty much anything, so it’s not impossible at least. It being winter, maybe a little Russian snacc might be tempting even for mice?

Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case (apnews.com)

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18....

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… what

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Algorithm-free

I’m not sure you understand what an algorithm is. They’re simply a sequence of steps you apply to get some end result, comparable to eg. a recipe in baking.

Lemmy still has multiple ways for you to choose how posts are sorted; “hot”, “active”, “new” etc. Each of those is an algorithmic sorting, and there’s literally no other option except to have an algorithm that is used to determine which posts you see

edit: I think many people who think Lemmy is “algorithm-free” may mean that it has a transparent algorithm for post selection. It’s still an algorithm, but we can all go look at source code and documentation to be able to know exactly how it works – with eg. Facebook the exact workings of the post sorting algorithm is secret

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Its insane that people now think you can somehow ignore a majority vote because you don’t like the result.

Making a bad decision doesn’t mean you can never, ever rethink that decision and have to stick with it no matter what.

If the majority doesn’t like the result, then what’s the point of not reconsidering things?

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I wouldn’t be surprised if it’d be the last free election in the US if Trump gets elected again

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I lost the game years ago, and soon you will have lost it too. It’s a 20 year old meme, but basically:

The Game is a mind game in which the objective is to avoid thinking about The Game itself. Thinking about The Game constitutes a loss, which must be announced each time it occurs. It is impossible to win most versions of The Game. Depending on the variation, it is held that the whole world, or all those who are aware of the game, are playing it at all times. Tactics have been developed to increase the number of people who are aware of The Game, and thereby increase the number of losses.

Semyon Karmanov from Siberia is unable to read and write. Despite his disability, he was pressured into army recruitment during prison term for an 80‑dollar theft, sent to war (en.zona.media)

25-year-old Semyon Karmanov from Kemerovo, Siberia, diagnosed with a developmental delay in childhood, resulting in a partial disability, has faced several minor criminal charges as an adult and eventually found himself in a maximum-security (“strict regime” in Russian) colony. With only a few months left to serve, he signed...

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Smartest Russian serviceman

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Ideas are a dime a dozen, unfortunately; doing shit is where the money comes from, and even a bad idea can make you rich if you follow through on it and get lucky.

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Don’t shove things into your orifices.

BUT I HUNGER

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This idea just begs the question of how exactly do you think international law works

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