TheRealKuni

There’s a fascinating book series, a trilogy beginning with Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett. The magic system is sort of like writing software that effects the physical world.

At a certain point in this series, a group of people learn to link their minds, and they talk about how impossible it becomes to hate people when you’re able to completely empathize with them, their experiences, their weaknesses, etc.

That part really stuck with me.

Wow I knew the circuit wasn’t up to FIA Grade 1, but it’s really let itself go since Formula 1 stopped racing there.

(Seriously though this looks beautiful.)

Man I firmly disagree. Working from home is the best thing to happen to me.

But isolation can suck. I have other social avenues.

Indeed!

Awesome. I loved those games.

I also loved playing Doom on the thing when I installed Linux on it briefly. 🤣

The one near me that does this had this gem recently:

“I studied dad jokes in college - I majored in sighence”

Not surprising, the same way /r/atheism was, for a while at least, more like /r/antichristianity. Part of the identity is opposition to “the enemy.”

Personally I think that part of the identity is unhelpful, and focus is better put on the identity being about what makes it the better choice. Like Dems losing in 2016 and 2024 because a good chunk of their messaging was “look how bad Trump is,” which only served to broadcast Trump even more.

(That’s not to say that complaints aren’t valid, it’s just a poor way to structure an identity.)

Ad-free subscription services that actually benefit the creators are exceedingly rare.

Believe it or not, YouTube Premium is one of them. A Premium view is worth more than an ad-supported view to a creator.

(Obviously Patreon is better, as they can’t make a living off of only Premium views because it’s a smaller group; the population of ad-supported users is much much larger. But YouTube Premium does benefit the creators more than ad-supported YouTube does.)

Isn’t it funny how news bias bubbles work? The articles about the update causing SSD failures were everywhere on Lemmy. But after thousands of hours of testing from Microsoft, Phison, and various journalism outlets, the issue isn’t replicable. But I haven’t seen that reported on here at all because it doesn’t make Microsoft look bad.

Microsoft is plenty bad, we don’t need to massage data to make them seem even worse.

(To be fair I wasn’t on Lemmy much this weekend, it’s possible I just missed this.)

Fuck yeah!

I had installed it anyway and it had some pretty severe texture issues, I’m looking forward to trying it out!

and not being made under exploitive labour conditions.

It’s that last one that’ll get you.

How dare you make such a dangerous wish.

There are plenty of men’s pants with just the front and rear pockets!

Yeah! Last time I go into a store called “Destination XL.”

(I’m joking, I saw the rest of your comments about this.)

Man I miss Mock the Week.

(I know this wasn’t Mock the Week, it’s just what I know Dara from.)

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stoooooooo.

That’s the way I like it. 😁

That and public libraries (though we’re trying to kill those now).

And in my experience I would recommend Canada. Although traffic in Toronto is terrible.

Pretty much every restaurant in the US will give you free tap water (with ice in it, even). At some places they’ll even just bring it to the table before you ask.

But I wouldn’t recommend the US in general.

He’s on the phone a lot with full brightness. Whatever app he uses most burns it’s UI in.