I don’t use it, but I’ve seen the video that a woman posted on LinkedIn of her sig heiling to prove that Elon didn’t make the “same gesture.” I’m convinced some people are just using it like regular social media, even if it makes them unemployable.

If you’re still curious: I’m a Data Analyst, I’m always curious! You’re getting absolutely railed on your connection charges; that’s like $4.88CAD a day!? I recently resigned with our provider so we only have 21 days of usage, we’re in summer, and we have a 5 bed, 3 bath two-storey home with solar panels for 4 adults and a child: [image: 6301a8ec-6faa-4f8a-a094-17385b3b9474.jpeg] Factoring in the exchange rate, $1CAD ~= $1.12AUD; just makes the comparison even worse. My state’s energy composition locally is ~35% renewables, mostly wind and solar, with the rest being a mix of natural gas, black & brown coal. As an aside, our feed-in tariff (i.e. how much we get paid to export excess solar into our grid) has absolutely cratered over the last few years: down from ~15c during COVID to only ~3.3c this year - it really incentivises us to explore solar batteries as an option.

Anything you put into your search box in Windows will be used in marketing against you.

I’d be picking them bones, know what I’m saying?

Ladkris is sold everywhere, it's a nice treat and common for Christmas gifts. If you are in the UK, think Hotel Chocolate. In America, Godiva.

You sound just like people from the UK who talk about not liking the word fookin' used in jokes because they don't talk like that.

I wonder if they recommend 32 because 16gb is the minimum for maxed settings vanilla but they know everyone will have 2000 mods installed eventually and they are accounting for that.

OK... So when does the burnt out phase end??? Is it like a "build the studio and it'll happen" sort of thing? I can't really judge that well, burn out and all...

Tutoring psych right now - another big thing is the debrief. It needs to be something you can’t do without lying, something important enough to be worth lying about, and you must debrief the participants at the end. I really doubt the researchers went back and messaged every single person that interacted with them revealing the lie.

"We could hang ourselves... We'd get an erection" "...An erection?!"

True, but to be fair, if I'd been watching Mr. Rogers as a kid and Big Bird showed up, ripped his own head off, and revealed a middle-aged man hiding inside, I probably would have been traumatized.

For sure. But I’ve repeatedly raised the point of how we need defensive infrastructure here in hopes that someone has the means and know-how to implement it. Additionally, this meme is more so about Reddit’s complicity with these groups’ bots (both as a company and as the userbase) and only taking action when somebody openly admits to using malicious bots.

I started programming as a kid way back in the ZX Spectrum days, and that one had even less memory than that. You can do a surprising large amount of functionality if you're hand-coding assembly (I actually made a mine-sweeper clone for the Spectrum like that). Even nowadays, there is the whole domain of microcontrollers, some of which are insanelly tiny (for example, the ATTiny202 which has 2KB flash and 128 Bytes of RAM) and you can do a surprising amount of functionality even in C since modern C compilers are extremelly efficient. (That said, that 202 is the extreme low end and barelly useful, but I do have an automated plant watering system I designed - complete with low battery detection and signalling - running on an ATTiny45, an older chip with twice as much flash and RAM). In my experience, if there is no UI on a screen (graphical elements tend to use quite a bit of memory plus if you're doing animation you need an in-memory buffer the size of the video memory to get double-buffering for smoothness and just that buffer can add up a lot of memory depending on resolution and bytes per pixel), using a compiled language which can optimize for size (like C) and not dragging in a ton of oversized libraries as dependencies, you can do a ton of functionality in very little memory - there are quite complex functional elements out there (like full TCP/IP stacks) that fit in a few KB of memory.

10€ is ~18AUD There's cheaper burgers, but I wouldn't really call them burgers with the cheap frozen patties and bread. It's definitely on the cheaper side though, as i've paid 14€ for a burger in the past. So I guess it's pretty much the same.

That’s probably because early Germanic languages formed the base of the early English language, even before we “added” a ton of French and other shit through (actual and) cultural conquest. If you look through language roots, English splits from Germanic at some point close enough to make the rules logical going from English to German but probably not the other way around, idk.

I was there for 4 Seattle subreddits, lol. ...there were FOUR?! jfc... They were trolls, I'm pretty sure Rainier was a legit Russian troll. Wow, that just activated a bunch of unpleasant memories. Yeah, I concur, that guy was a legitimate Russian troll, and yeah Doug I remeber being the most ludicrous infuriating asshat. As for the bicyclists, I think they might be doing this type of shit (same as in this thread). I'm not 100% that they're legit bicyclists. Every actual avid bicyclist I ever knew irl is basically the exact opposite of a person who would... you know, spend all their time on an internet forum? Granted, this was about a decade ago now, but... I remember actually having to explain the concept of an internet forum to a few of them... 'wait, its like a blog, but ... its like... everyone's blog?'. As for the troll tactic, yep that defines it perfectly. Manipulate social dynamics by identifying and trolling influential thought leaders, as opposed to just bullying randos. Make group cohesion impossible with constant petty drama bullshit to defame people. ... pretty sure the internet was basically a mistske at this point rofl.

Me in highschool. Man I thought I'd have those friends forever. It was really cool how socializing wasn't so high-stakes back then. I kinda knew everybody of all sorts there, and could hold a conversation with almost anyone. Once I had to move away to the middle of nowhere after graduation, and they got jobs and stuff, I was left with one (1) single friend that actively sought to catch up with me regularly. He earned the top spot of "best friend." The rest just forgot I existed because I decided to drop Facebook. (And I provided alternative methods to reach me.) My once best pal would usually respond to "How's it going man? :D" with "Work." That's it. I realize one of the biggest fantasies we see through our screens and on our pages is a group of fellows with unbreakable bonds. From sitcoms to superheroes, and now even tabletop gaming, I think we all just want a group we can struggle and rejoice together with, and that's become such a coveted grail of a thing. But the world is designed to isolate and busy and fatigue us as adults, and everything has gotten so socially tense and high stakes it's hard to form anything with new people beyond mere acquaintanceship, because you can never be sure who people really are anymore. Lol sorry I didn't mean to get all deep there lol...

But think of the free, cheapest pizza around you'll get to share with all your colleagues once a year! A $1 slice for everyone, yay! We really care about you!

There are always going to be bad men trying to commit aggression, so one should be grateful that there are other men who counter that. If you want to turn this into a man-problem, then why stop there? You might as well turn this into a human-problem. Turning this into a gender issue rather than focusing on the bad people specifically, is an arbitrary (and toxic) way of framing the issue.