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deoxxys posted...

If it went in the trash itt might be the cliche part where the garbageman finds it and is killing everyone.

"Time to take out the trash, once and for all!"

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Nothing so far, which probably won't change before tomorrow. Nothing that's got an all-time best discount has jumped out at me as being something I want to play immediately, and given the state of my backlog, I don't particularly want to buy anything unless it's either an exceptional deal or I have immediate plans to play it.

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This is making me realize just how underused chess-based sexual innuendos are.

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Eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Usually some corn starch as well, if I'm really trying to thicken it.

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I feel like I should apologize for some of the egg puns I've made. I've really benedict about them.

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You know somebody's going to have poached all the good ones long before the topic's over, don't you?

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I certainly hope you don't have phlegm in your phloem.

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Eeyup.

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Mead posted...

If youre happy with your purchase and enjoy it then it isnt a waste of money

Eh, that's debatable. If you could have derived just as much happiness and enjoyment from something cheaper, then there's really no point in spending the additional money, meaning it's been wasted. In practice, though, that's often pretty difficult to predict, and the assessment can change completely as time goes on (especially with something like a game system, whose value typically increases until it stops being supported), so there's little sense in judging people for it now.

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PunishedOni posted...

what's a xylemphone

It's like a xylophloem, but it goes the other way.

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Mead posted...

why should they if people keep buying more?

They fix them for free. People don't really need to buy more.

Now, that fix tends to take a while and isn't the most reliable, but it still means people don't have to buy more.

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Monopoman posted...

I don't think the Death Note is capable of that.

It's capable of exerting pretty much complete control over somebody, provided that series of commands ultimately ends in their death. Light exploited that by writing his own name in the book to wipe his memory during one of his more elaborate schemes. The series doesn't explore it, but there's really no reason it couldn't be used for good. Heck, even within Light's idea of eliminating criminals, he could have simply used it to compel them to stop being criminals and live out the remainder of their natural lives as upstanding members of society. That's still ethically questionable because of that whole "free will" thing people seem to like so much, but it's generally a more positive outcome than murdering everyone. But Light was an arrogant teenager with a god complex, not somebody interested in minimizing collateral damage while fixing the world's problems, so he went the serial killer route.

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Monopoman posted...

I think any Death Note used in any capacity turns the person into an evil douchebag no matter how good the original intentions are.

What if it's used to bestow good fortune on somebody for the remainder of their natural life by spelling out a never-ending stream of positive events that will happen to them until they die peacefully in their sleep at the age of 120 (presumably dying for some other reason before then, since iirc you can't extend somebody's life past when they'd normally die by using the book)?

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VioletMassacre posted...

Why would you even need this? Internet works fine without it.

Depends on your wireless router. Wired is always going to be faster and more reliable than wireless, so if wireless is proving troublesome, wired is your best bet.

Of course, you can buy USB ethernet adapters for it that render that particular feature unnecessary, but it's still handy to have it built-in.

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SmugRickMoranis posted...

Nothing is a waste of money when you're wealthy

Sure it is. That waste just becomes less likely to hurt you if you still have enough left over to not miss it.

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Normally $20-40. I've got more now, largely because I haven't been to a bank in a while and I've accumulated some here and there.

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It's procrastination, mostly fuelled by status quo bias (the tendency to prefer that things remain the same, resulting in an aversion to trying to change them).

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papercup posted...

No 4K output? Weird...

There's not a lot of benefit to this half-generation idea some platform makers have been trying out. Releasing a more powerful system sounds like a neat idea at first glance, but actually taking advantage of that power means either developing a lesser version of a given game that will play on the old version (or, more likely, developing the game for the weaker version and adding some enhancements for the new one, either of which is a substantial amount of extra work), or making the game not function on the old one (reducing the portion of the install base you can access). We've seen this with the New 3DS (it had one exclusive game and a small handful that had extra features, but there was virtually no reason to develop with it in mind), the Xbone/PS4 remodels (Cyberpunk being one of the highest-profile failures of the model), and probably others I can't recall.

Smaller upgrades sound tempting, but without developers supporting them (which takes additional resources on their parts, for little gain), they're rarely all that beneficial, and ultimately just discourage people from being early adopters. Improvements to things like form factor and battery life already discourage early adoption, but when it becomes a matter of "you can't play this game without upgrading," that just breeds a whole lot of ill will.

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__starsnostars posted...

You're imagining a scenario to try to improve the world with a book that only kills black people... What is wrong with you.

You can improve the world by killing certain black people (at least, working from the assumption that Light's approach wasn't wrong, since there's plenty of room to debate that but that's not the discussion at hand). Same as you can improve the world by killing certain white people, or certain Asian people, or certain people of a diverse assortment of ethnicities. It's not racist to recognize that some of the people whose deaths would improve the world happen to be black.

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Yeah, but having four different Rockies to work with would be like 12 years' worth of costumes, and that's a bit too long to milk such a joke. That means you'd have to start curating them, and who has that kind of time?

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Joe_Biden posted...

this is about hiv

has nothing to do with covid.

Oh, it's relevant enough to Covid. Detecting a virus with PCR is detecting a virus with PCR. The capabilities and limitations of the technology are virtually the same regardless of which virus you're looking for, given a few tweaks to things like detection thresholds and whatnot.

Joe_Biden posted...

also, he was very much proven wrong about his views on hiv

This, however, is more of a reason to discount what he's saying. Not exactly a stellar track record there, even if he makes the theory sound convincing.

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Clench281 posted...

but you being misinformed is not a surprise, understanding science can be hard

I mean, I think he deserves some credit for managing to find people dredging up 30-year-old videos of a scientist most people have never heard of making comments on the HIV epidemic (comments amounting to "it's not an epidemic," which should really give people with the benefit of hindsight some pause) and interpreting those comments as a commentary on the Covid pandemic. It's been a year of some very impressive mental gymnastics from the folks that want to believe Covid isn't a big deal, but even with all that competition, I must say this is quite a remarkable display.

That said, I hadn't actually realized that Fauci had played a role in convincing the public that HIV was more than just a gay disease. If anything, that just makes me respect him more, so kudos for... doing the exact opposite of what you wanted, I guess?

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Kanatteru posted...

maybe not that but they might think wow trans people like to trick people into kissing/having sex with them

which is absolutely an attitude that contributes to violence against trans people

Yep. The trope of trans deceptions is arguably the main reason people hate them (especially trans women) so much, including being the entire basis for the persistence of the "trans panic" defense in places that still accept as a justifiable reason to murder trans people (most of the US). Sure, one joke in one movie isn't exactly going to single-handedly set the trans rights movement back by decades, but it's nevertheless part of a body of media that inspired and reflects a culture of anti-trans hatred.

Does this mean you can't like the movie? Of course not. It just means that, if you're paying attention to the world around you and how people are affected by depictions in media, you should recognize that that particular scene really isn't okay, even if it was acceptable at the time it was published. You should also recognize that some people are going to be put off of the movie over it, and respect that instead of telling them to stop being so dramatic over something that legitimizes their murder.

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OhhhJa posted...

If you want, I can Google a link for you to how they work. It's pretty simple.

You could, but that would be a terribly rude way to respond to me trying to figure out what your personal understanding is.

Zeus posted...

Meanwhile Australia's vaccine rate is 25% for 1-dose, 7% for full-vax and they only have 488 active cases in a population of 26m >_>

Kinda tears apart your overly simplistic, ignorant narrative.

Australia also kept their case numbers low with measures that would have had the science-hating 2/5 of the US engaging in full-on armed rebellion had they been enacted in the US. Yes, it's overly simplistic to think purely in terms of vaccination rates, but in a country where a virus runs as rampant as Covid has in the US, vaccinations are pretty much the only way to wrangle it, short of welding everyone into their houses for a month. There's also very substantial overlap between those who are refusing to be vaccinated and those who actively undermined and worked against other infection control measures, further contributing to the lingering case count, so it's still a reasonably accurate statement even if we acknowledge that there's more than just vaccinations at play.

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OhhhJa posted...

If you wanna go this route, we'll have to either cancel or put a disclaimer before almost every movie ever made.

That, or you shouldn't get too uppity when people take issue with an offensive joke because society has evolved such that such conduct is no longer acceptable. Times change. No need to be such a drama queen about it.

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OhhhJa posted...

Which is the same thing any time someone simply cites the WHO or fauci as the end all be all of any health advice

It is indeed. Citing the body of evidence upon which they're basing their decisions, however, is just good empirical reasoning. By extension, trusting their conclusions instead of personally researching the evidence they are using is generally going to be a reasonable way to save time, since if their evidence isn't a valid support of their point, it's usually easy enough to pick it apart that somebody else will have done it for me. If skeptical, however, I (or anyone else) can go looking through their citations and form dissenting opinions as needed.

Are you going to elaborate, or will I have to do extra work to make sure I cover all possible misinterpretations of Mullis' comments so as to minimize the chance of missing your particular ones?

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What if everyone stands on top of each other and that giant tower of Americans spins clockwise twice?

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OhhhJa posted...

I'm saying there was pretty much zero awareness of it back then. People knew trans people existed but it wasn't the up front social issue it is now.

Which means we can now look back and say "wow, that was pretty tasteless."

What you're saying basically amounts to "they made this joke because they knew trans people weren't popular enough for them to take heat over it." That doesn't excuse much of anything.

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I'd expect it's a regional thing, mostly.

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What if everyone spins clockwise twice, all at the same time?

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If you had to pick three ice cream flavours to fill a cake with, which three would they be and what sauce would you garnish it with?

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If you somehow incorporate a mountain in there instead of either humanoid Rocky, that'll set you for the next 6 years of possible permutations.

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Reigning_King posted...

As far as trends go I'm with adjl, but I did tell myself I would keep up with technology and not be one of those old people who has to call someone over to their house to start a DVD player or turn on a computer. So far even if I haven't been adopting newer tech that quickly I still know how most of it works.

I remain the person that even my contemporaries ask for help whenever they run into computer problems, so I think I'm doing okay in that regard. Really, provided you approach computer systems with the right mindset to figure out what the problem is, you can pretty quickly learn any new system and solve basic problems within it, even if you don't have direct experience with that particular one. They all follow the same design principles.

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Rocky from RHPS on the bottom, Rocky from Rocky on top. Then swap them next year.

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OhhhJa posted...

Yes.

Please elaborate. As I said, I'm trying to gauge your understanding so I can better address it.

OhhhJa posted...

If you can't trust the guy who invented it then who can you trust

This is a blatant Appeal to Authority fallacy. You should not base anything you wish to qualify as a logical argument off of it.

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I turned my nose up at the trends the youth were into when I was a youth. I never made any such vow. Kids are, have always been, and will always be stupid.

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OhhhJa posted...

He's saying that if you magnify the results of the pcr test enough that you can find pretty much anything in anyone. He says that in plain English. There's nothing to interpret. He's saying that having trace amounts of covid 19 in your system doesn't prove that you're sick or that you could transmit it to someone else. In other words, the case numbers are inflated

Next question: Do you understand what PCR is and how it is used to perform these tests?

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OhhhJa posted...

https://youtu.be/rXm9kAhNj-4

Here, this is more concise and to the point

Can you summarize in your own words what you believe he is saying? It'll be much easier to address your understanding of this quote if I have a better sense of what that understanding is.

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OhhhJa posted...

https://youtu.be/MkqQIY7J0fQ

7:00. You can cite better than that.

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OhhhJa posted...

The guy who invented the PCR test said they weren't meant to be used this way

[Citation needed]

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Cruddy_horse posted...

Anyway I feel like there's some false diagnoses, my mother was diagnosed with it and she just had a minor headache for 2 days and no-one else in the house got sick despite frequent exposure.

Was everyone in the house actually tested, or did you just assume that everyone avoided infection entirely because they were asymptomatic?

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The base price is down to $25 already? Hoo boy.

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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...

What site in 2008 was as big as Reddit is today?

Pretty much nothing. The Internet was starting to condense into larger, more monopolistic social media sites around that point (Facebook, Youtube, Reddit), but traffic to those sites has grown massively since then, such that virtually all of the modern monoliths see far more use now than they did at that point.

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Parents (or at least the gun owner) should definitely be charged for negligence. There's no situation in which a pair of 8-year-olds should be free to play with a gun.

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Zeus posted...

Because f***ing over your neighborhood is a dick move?

And where do we draw the line there? Should she be sued for painting her house anything other than the three most popular shades of beige, for fear of harming property values? Should she be sued for having anything other than grass growing on her property? For driving a car that might harm the neighbourhood's image? Hell, given the anti-Asian racism running rampant following Covid, one could suggest that the mere fact that she's an Asian-American hurts her neighbours' property values (since there are many people who wouldn't want an Asian neighbour). Should she move out to be considerate of that?

Let people exercise some individuality in decorating their own homes. There are more than enough cookie-cutter suburbs out there governed by totalitarian HOA's for the people that get off on exerting that kind of control over their neighbours' lives. If that's what her neighbours want, they can sell their houses to people that don't hate fun and move to one of them.

Of course, all of this is without pointing out that you're generally quite defensive of people that come under fire for flying swastikas and confederate flags on their houses, citing freedom of expression and whatnot. How interesting that property values don't seem to matter there, yet are of the utmost importance here.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Sad to see people try to create a vaccine scare over a birth defect.

Heck, even if the vaccine is wholly to blame (unlikely, but not impossible), it's sad to see people try to create a vaccine scare over an extremely rare adverse outcome. Exploiting a tragedy like this to undermine the most important public health effort in a century by misrepresenting the risk the tragedy represents is just pathetic.

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Zeus posted...

Because I sympathize with the neighbors. Nobody should have to live near that. Probably drags the value of their home down.

Why are her neighbours' property values her responsibility? Provided she's not actually endangering anyone (which she isn't) and is following the zoning laws and all relevant building codes, who is the city to dictate what she does with her own property?

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Clench281 posted...

The only problems come when eating out or going to other people's houses where I'm not in control of what's being served. There are so many little opportunities for contamination that most people wouldn't even realize, unless the meal being prepared is 100% gluten free (and that's a big ask for most people)

Yeah, I can make gluten free recipes easily enough, but I wouldn't cook for anyone with remotely serious Celiac in my kitchen. I've just used too much flour here and I know I can't guarantee there hasn't been cross-contamination.

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Zeus posted...

I probably have several times in the past already -- because this feels like something we've talked about at length multiple times already -- although you would need to cite a specific instance of when you asked it.

And your answer was...?

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Pretty sure you could get enough data to use your phone as a wifi hotspot for most business needs for a lot less than $99/month, and without blocking your windshield like an idiot. This guy was obviously just trying to be funny.

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