Buddahriffic

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Being combatitive with them, deserved or not, will result in them being combatitive right back. Being gracious when they admit they aren't on the right track might mean they'll be more open to listening next time around. And, more importantly, it might mean being able to solve this current issue.

You're right that it's bigger than the next 4 years. But it's bigger than the GOP, too. It's the latest iteration of a conflict that's been going on probably since before recorded history: some people want to control and rule everyone else, some are OK with it (or even support it), some want to prevent those people from gaining control and seek that power to keep it out of their hands (and in many cases end up becoming what they wanted to avoid), and others just want to be left alone to do their own thing (which might not hurt anyone or might make life worse for anyone around them). I don't see any end to this struggle, the only thing that changes is who has power right now and how hot is the conflict.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Is there a playability list for AAA games that shows which ones are worth playing?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

So you'd rather those who are changing their minds because they are feeling the pain driven back to supporting this shit?

What does a path out of this look like to you, considering about 1/3 of the US voted for this (or seems plausible that that amount voted for it)?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if a drone that can fire silly string or fishing line could reliably jam up propellers.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I was surprised to see the 9070 xt at about double the 6800 xt performance in benchmarks, once ones with both of those started coming out.

I got it because I also see that if China does follow through with an attack on Taiwan, PC components are going to become very hard to find and very expensive while all of that production capacity is replaced. And depending on how things go after that, this might be the last GPU I ever buy.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I wonder if there's any footage of any of them shoving the women and children out of the way to get on a lifeboat.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I wish it used a 5 star system instead of binary yes/no. I don't like that "yeah, it's a decent game" and "holy shit this game will change how you see games going forward" get weighed the same. A game that everyone kinda likes will have a similar rating to a game everyone loves.

Would also be nice if they had a "shows promise but it isn't quite there yet". Or a way of using ratings to encourage devs to address issues, and maybe a mechanism where certain issues can be tied to a review and then the dev can mark the issue as "addressed" to make those reviews expire with a notice to the user that the game might be much better for them now. It sucks to see a game with a bunch of negative reviews addressing an issue that was since fixed.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Or just redid Tony's lines to something like, "no, for the last time, your polygon car idea sounds fucking stupid. When we block your number, it means we aren't interested, not that you need to get new numbers."

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Technically they all end up up someone's ass when used properly.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We don't absorb everything completely, so some passes through unabsorbed. Some are passed via bile or mucous production, like manganese, copper, and zinc. Others are passed via urine. Some are passed via sweat. Selenium, when experiencing selenium toxicity, will even pass through your breath.

Other than the last one, most of those eventually end up going down the drain, either in the toilet, down the shower drain, or when we do our laundry. Though some portion ends up as dust.

And to be thorough, there's also bleeding as a pathway to losing nutrients, as well as injuries (or surgeries) involving losing flesh, tears, spit/boogers, hair loss, lactation, finger nail and skin loss, reproductive fluids, blistering, and mensturation. And corpse disposal, though the amount of nutrients we shed throughout our lives dwarfs what's left at the end.

I think each one of those are ones that, due to our way of life and how it's changed since our hunter gatherer days, less of it ends up back in the nutrient cycle.

But I was mistaken to put the emphasis on shit and it was an interesting dive to understand that better. Thanks for challenging that :)

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I believe there were also files like "yoursong.mp3 .exe" (not sure how this will render, but lots of spaces before the .exe so it would be hidden by the UI even if extensions weren't hidden).

Custom icons didn't help either, since they could just use the default icon for the spoofed file type. Though using a different program that changed the icon would negate that and make any of them obvious.

Also helps to use a method other than double clicking the file to open it, like drag and drop. Which was my usual flow with mp3s anyways because I generally added them to my massive playlist and double clicking risked replacing my playlist (that might have not been saved in forever) with a playlist with just that single song.

I liked it when winamp added the media library. Took me forever to rate my songs, but eventually my "new song flow" was move the new album folder to the artist's folder in my music folder then tell winamp to rescan for new files, and then import my 3+ star or unrated songs as my playlist, played on shuffle. And occasionally grab a new format plugin if the album was encoded as something new and rescan until the new songs show up. Then give any noise or gag tracks 1 or 2 stars so they don't make it to my main list after the first listen.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Similar story, my ex had health issues most of her life and her doctors kept missing what was going on, partially because they didn't believe her about some things. One doctor deciding to investigate instead of dismissing saved her life when he found out her birth control was killing her, though her gp at the time still wanted her to finish the course.

That same gp also didn't believe she was actually dislocating her limbs until she finally just did it in front of him and he changed his tune right away (though still didn't really help).

Later she had a new better gp as well as a good idea of what chronic issue she had, but he still resisted when she was pushing for a diagnosis. I just came along for one appointment and when he said something like "this isn't a clear sign that you have ", I asked what evidence was he considering that pointed at her not having it. He then admitted he didn't know much about the condition and would do some research. After doing some reading, he was quick to give her a referral to a clinic that specialized in the condition because apparently he needed to be asked about his reasoning from a man to even bother learning about the condition that matched her experience very well and that she was later diagnosed with a severe form of.

I think AIs will be great for diagnosis because they will be able to cut out the biases doctors have against ever suspecting a rare case or giving women any consideration deeper than "stress".

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