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[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck I thought men were featherless bipeds?

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Just wow bug free code y'all smh

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

No shade to OP. Something like this isn't likey to trip BS alarms unless youre already aware of how big this should be. and it's the kinda thing that isn't sexy enough to grab public attention, which lends some credence.

like, I read a headline like, "FUSION MAKES POWER NOW, FUSION POWER PLANTS EXPECTED NEXT YEAR" and I know it's BS. But part of that is the way it promises to affect your life, and it does do in terms of Fusion, which enough people would recognize so as to make their eyeballs valuable.

This article has neither of those really. So yeah. No shade.

(Edit: guess the words "magical equation" is a pretty quick tip off too lol)

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Pop sci

The direct article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927650524001130 (Jan 2025)

Reddit chatter about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1fbl3aw/on_the_same_origin_of_quantum_physics_and_general/

Might be LLM bunk. If you're consuming science news, then first: I recommend PBS Spacetime and second: if a quantum gravity was actually formulated, you'd hear about it there first. It might actually be exciting enough to make CNN.

More to the point though: this sorta thing is too good to be true. Plenty of things are, and are still real. But even still they bear a second glance. This one doesn't pass the sniff test.

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Reminder that the 30% steam tax is absolutely greed. Gabe is a libertarian and charges it because he can get away with it. It makes games worse by affecting the equation measuring what is profitable to make. Gabe doesn't care about that, and that should be taken into account when considering if you actually trust him.

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

It's for me that car is for me

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Shot in the dark, but would anyone be willing to share a deadlock invite?

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't you want to buy more during a plunge anyway? But low sell high and all that

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

The affect of the microwave would fall off exponentially with distance. So like if it has X power at Y feet away, and you go out to 2Y feet away, the affect would be quartered. The affect on a drone isn't going to do much, even if it really messes with your wifi close up.

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Flavored tobacco was literally marketed to children, to get them addicted to cigarettes from an early age. The "protect the children" arguments are often used to ban things that made no impact or even positive impact in children's lives (DnD, sexual equality). Or it's used to justify surveillance and overreach (porn bans and she verification laws)

These aren't equivalent.

[–] off_brand_@beehaw.org 8 points 4 months ago

$7, but you a only spend $10 at a time! It ain't gonna be 10 quests or 5 quests. It's gonna be like 3 or six so you'll be left with $9 in coins and feel like you're wasting cash if you don't spend another $10 to buy some other creation club shit.

God I fucking hate the premium currency tactic.

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