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  • What video game have you always wanted to play but havent yet?

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    I think the one on Switch (if it's part of the classics catalog) is also the N64 version run through an emulator, so either option should have the same content.
  • Caring for a leaf bug

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    How about put the fucking bug back outside where it has everything it needs to live without some idiot thinking its a pet.
  • External SSD Recommendations?

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    how much was it?
  • What would you do if you could transform into an invisible tiger?

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    I will keep eating deer until I am a very round invisible tiger indeed! All deer are bastards (ADAB)
  • Do kids these days even have textbooks, or is it all on Chromebooks?

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    In germany its still textbooks
  • R1, R2 and R3 are endlessly confusing to me.

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    LSB and RSB are so much better in my opinion. They actually have meaning so you don't have to remeber an arbitrary number.
  • Reading Emails

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    Thank you for sharing!
  • Not ALL the time.

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  • Which are not magical, or new.

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    Heat pumps are basically magical, given that they're one of two ways to use energy to cool something and they can add more heat energy to a desired place than they use to do it. But yes, evaporative cooling is better than air conditioning in certain contexts
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    I don't care as long as the writing is good or the gameplay is good enough to ignore the bad writing.
  • Why do some many things come with their own wifi module

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    ZigBee is way better and I'll be doing that next time. I didn't fully understand it all when I bought bulbs 5 years ago and wifi was easier. But now the network is crazy large and iot is just asking to get broken into or data leaked.
  • What background music pairs well with watching True Crime stuff?

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    riiiiight?!
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    I mean... yeah. What other message do you want to hear? Like, grand theories on socioeconomic stratification are great and all, but they aren't very relevant for individuals' lives. What is relevant for individuals' lives are things they can actually do. Get a job. Get a better job. Negotiate a higher salary. Build out a social network. Learn a new skill. Start a new business. You might call this "bootstrapping", but it is clearly possible because millions of people do it every day. One individual improving their own lives doesn't solve overarching trends of social inequity. But Social inequity also doesn't mean that it is impossible for individuals to improve their own lives.
  • i accidentally defiled a corpse, what do i do?

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    ewww....
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    So, linux was designed cohesively. It has different mostly-modular parts, because its core design and being based on the incredibly slow crawl on unix allowed for that. You can get a high level overview, because it's develoent sort of requires that, and tge people who make it value that transparency. It's done when it's done and does new things when someone needs it to do new things. Compatibility is a virtue, and the design philosophy didnt really have many conflicts. The system is for the user (or administrator). It has roots in universities and the deeper you go, the more prestigious the names signed next to each line of code are. If you dig down deep enough, you can probably find atlas' shoulders, alan turing's left hand, ada lovelace's knees, al kwarizimi's toenails. Windows was originally slapped together by a teenager in his garage. For several years an actual slogan for the design team was "windows isn't done 'til lotus[notes] won't run". Compatibility was frequently cut. On purpose. For profits. Because of the way the design worked, and the supremely capitalist design philosophy, nobody but the less-of-a-sex-criminal bill got a full high level view of the thing. And that was before 95. Features, selling points, shit to out on the box. There are updates, yes, but editions are discrete, svheduled, and ship with specific features that must be printed on the box at any cost. At about the turn of the century, with fifteen years and ten superfund sites of tech debt, they redesigned the whole system's low level pieces. Except not really; only kind of some of them. But enough that it broke a shit ton of compatibility and massively improved stability. Nobody working on it sees the whole system. They see what they're assigned. Even if you were to wholly understand it, that knowledge would be obsolete and mostly useless within five years. You literally can't understand it as well as linux. It doesn't make sense. It isnt designed rationally. It's frequently designed malevolently. Even the people who mqke it barely know what they're working on. Don't try.
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    Yes, I gather that Stalin was the iron fist type, rising though pure ruthlessness, That gives him too much credit. Stalin was relatively inconsequential in the rise and initial rule of the Bolsheviks, which happened under Lenin with Trotsky as a strong second in command. He just managed to palace intrigue his way to the top after Lenin died. He did keep his power by purging everyone all the time, which is another thing that seems to work better on humans than pure rationality would suggest it should. People were never risk-tolerant enough to stop him, but also never risk-averse enough to avoid working for him, probably out of hubris. I’m currently working with a German guy, and am trying to.figure out how to broach the subject of how did common, decent people become so indoctrinated to an extreme right ideology. I'm going to recommend Ordinary Men, which is a book cataloging and analysing accounts of members of one of the battalions responsible for machine gunning people into ditches. A random German won't necessarily be super into history. A random Israeli is liable to say it had nothing to do with fascism and everyone is always against the Jews specifically. History is still going on there, and there's no objectivity.
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