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Kepabar ,

I’ll always prefer SML 1.

But I do fondly remember this.

Kepabar ,

I think it’s a combination of nostalgia and the fact that SML1 had levels, enemies and music that were super unique compared to other Mario games before or after.

SML2 is a better game on the technical side of things but nothing in it blew me away or was memorable enough for me to recall with super clarity like I do with 1.

Kepabar ,

Nope.

Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads (www.androidauthority.com)

Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through...

Kepabar ,

I have a Samsung TV and it’s kind of irritating that it does this same thing. Any option you leave selected for a few seconds will start playing a sample

It’s frustrating to have to go hunt for a safe place to put my cursor so my TV doesn’t start playing something I don’t want it to.

Kepabar ,

18 billion yearly profit last I checked.

Not enough.

Never enough.

Kepabar ,

The rural population isn’t the issue, it’s suburbia which is where the majority of the US population lives.

It’s not dense enough for public transportation to be viable and it’s zoned in a way that makes pedestrian traffic a non starter.

Suburbia causes a lot of problems. I understand why it exists - owning a house with a yard is nice. I personally wouldn’t want to give that up to live in an urban environment if I didn’t have to

Kepabar ,

Man, I barely graduated from high school because I saw the entire thing as busy work.

My grade in any class was dependant on how much the tests were weighed versus any class or homework. Sleeping or reading through class was my usual.

Now that I’m older I see the value in building the discipline needed to do that sort of busy work because if I don’t my house falls apart and such, so there’s that.

I wish it didn’t take me so long to learn it though.

Kepabar ,

No one does that.

Kepabar ,

President has wide latitude in matters like this. Air strikes in this context are legal for him. He can even deploy troops as long as their deployment isn’t longer then 60 days.

Kepabar ,

Because they can be slotted in to work existing machinery without retooling the entire plant.

Kepabar ,

Working long solo sessions of people leaving me the fuck alone tends to be correlated with me getting projects done.

Kepabar ,

I kinda would have been, but I had a dictionary at home so didn’t use the library one much.

Kepabar ,

Yeah, but I’m talking about if this happened to me when I was a kid.

Kepabar ,

The programs these churches run are typically filling in gaps in social programs that the government doesn’t have the political mandate to enact.

If these churches were taxed you’d see their charities diminished while the funding went to some pork belly spending project, or at the very least not related to what services the church is suddenly not providing.

Not all government spending is a net positive.

Kepabar ,

Bashforever.com

Kepabar ,

Wouldn’t know, have ublock.

Kepabar ,

That critical mass will never come because people don’t feel the data has been stolen from them.

Rather, it’s traded in exchange for whatever online services they use.

And to them it’s a decent trade.

Kepabar ,

Solution is stop using delivery services.

Kepabar , (edited )

My Plex is ready.

Kepabar ,

I think the per capita measurement of pollution for China is not really an apples to apples comparison to other first world nations as so much of their population lives in poverty.

Appeals court allows California law to go into effect, restricting concealed carry in public places (www.cnn.com)

A US appeals court Saturday paved the way for a California law banning the concealed carry of firearms in “sensitive places” to go into effect January 1, despite a federal judge’s ruling that it is “repugnant to the Second Amendment.”...

Kepabar ,

It certainly happens.

Just last week I saw a video where a man ran up with a gun to start a robbery. A woman whipped a handgun out of her purse and shot him.

The idea that personal firearms can’t be used for self defense is a silly argument.

Kepabar ,

I think the issue in the US is that there are so many guns per capita and the population is so anti authority that it will take generations of confiscation before you’ll get a majority of personal firearms out of personal hands.

And in the meantime you’ve removed the right for individuals to have the opportunity to defend themselves in dangerous situations.

Kepabar ,

It’s no different, both scenarios are threats to your life until the point the trigger is pulled (then it goes from threat to attempt).

Kepabar ,

Good. Influencers are a plague.

Kepabar ,

I am convinced the goal was to provoke a strong response from Israel. The reason is they knew the strong response from Israel would be disproportional and would damage relations between Israel and the rest of the ME.

Israel was approaching normalized relations with most of the major Arab nations around it, most importantly SA. Normalized relations with Israel would likely mean significantly less political and economical support coming to Hamas. Without outside resources Hamas is neutered.

So, seeing the real possibility of a large reduction in their economic and political power in the horizon they took desperate action to stop it, knowing full well the outcome.

Kepabar ,

A lot of people.

Kepabar ,

Eh, I’m here to relax and have fun.

Not be told I’m a piece of shit who deserves to be executed because I had the audacity to be born every ten minutes.

Kepabar ,

Why does everyone keep saying child poverty?

Like, do children in other countries have some sort of massive wealth I’m not aware of?

Kepabar ,

Just because things don’t turn out how you hoped doesn’t mean you didn’t make the right decision at the time with the information that was available.

Too often we judge past actions only through the lens of hindsight. It’s useful for learning what went wrong but it’s not useful for judging if something was the right decision or not.

Kepabar ,

It was all part of an effort to economically hurt Russia in response to the war.

Best case scenario was Russia deciding the hit to their economy was not worth the war and back pedaling. No one realistically thought this was going to happen though.

The next best case scenario was for the changes in quality of life for the average Russian would create enough internal pressure that the war would be called off.

This hasn’t happened yet but internal support for the war has been dropping over the last year and some of that is attributed to the dismal state of the Russian economy, which is a direct result of things like Lush pulling out.

euronews.com/…/russians-support-of-ukraine-war-co…

And even if neither of these come up fruition, the more Russias economy is damaged the harder it is to fund their war effort. This gives Ukraine a bit more breathing room in their war effort.

While the effect of a single company like Lush is unnoticed, it’s the collective effect of everything from these pullouts, to trade sanctions and other soft power diplomatic plays which total up to a noticable effect.

Kepabar ,

If anything, that supports the idea that the poll numbers should be even harder against the war than they are reported.

Kepabar ,

It’s well documented that the leadership of both sides had some difficulty getting their soldiers to go back to fighting after the truce.

The average soldier did not want to fight. Leadership had to threaten charges of desertions and treason to get them back to fighting.

Kepabar ,

Stormlight Archives vibes.

Kepabar ,

One of the reasons I’m against the current immigration policy of the US is it creates this under caste of people who can be exploited heavily by certain industries.

While in this example technically all citizens lack the same protections, the carve out in these laws always just happens to align with whatever industries rely heavily on migrant workers.

Federal judge blocks California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places (apnews.com)

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones....

Kepabar ,

No one said ignore mass shootings.

Just gun control in areas it’s unpopular.

There are other methods of attacking the problem than gun control. They won’t be as effective, but they will be more tolerated by the average American voter.

Take the Florida governorship. DeSantis won out by the skin of his teeth the first go around.

The reason Andrew Gilliam lost was he kept going on about bringing an assault weapons ban to Florida. Such a ban would have never made it though the legislature, so it was an empty promise on top of an unpopular one.

So he shot himself in the foot for no gain and we have been stuck with pudding fingers ever since

Democrats need to understand to pick their battles and read the room.

Kepabar ,

From my example it’s clear the average Florida voter doesn’t want an assault weapons ban, that’s for sure.

Kepabar ,

Aside from some fish which evolved with no eyes (which is kind of cool), the only other thing you are likely to find down there is a dead body that everyone decided was too dangerous to recover.

Kepabar ,

I’ll tell you that it’s super nice to be able to watch things with other people in the car while you are all waiting on the car to charge.

Also, you don’t have to hold a phone and the screen is better.

Kepabar ,

S2 was ordered before all of S1 even aired.

Kepabar ,

Nah, a stone can be a deadly weapon. Even one.

Head trauma is no joke is.

Kepabar ,

I mean, if you are here making a claim then it’s your responsibility to come up with evidence to support it.

Telling someone to go research your claim is bad Internet etiquette.

If you don’t feel like doing that, fine, then just don’t engage.

Kepabar ,

Then why are you bothering at all?

Like, if you don’t think anyone is going to believe anything you say, why are you bothering to debate?

Kepabar ,

Trump won’t be able to withdraw from NATO; Congress is currently revoking the Presidents ability to unilaterally leave the alliance specifically in case Trump or another like him is elected.

Leaving NATO will now require an act of Congress, which makes it much more difficult for any president to do so.

Kepabar ,

Emigration is to leave, I think you mean immigration.

Kepabar ,

Holy shit, boingboing.net?

That’s a site I haven’t heard of in a long time.

It was one of the first websites I remember regularly visiting in the 90s, and looks like they haven’t changed much since.

That’s cool.

Kepabar ,

The actual information you want for troubleshooting is in the mini dump and it’s actually super useful.

Tracking down the cause of a Windows BSOD is pretty easy.

Kepabar ,

I’m excited for it for the same reasons.

I don’t have skill in art or coding.

But AI platforms have let me produce things that work for my personal needs that would be beyond my abilities before starting the project.

Who's winning the war in Ukraine?

The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...

Kepabar ,

Do I need sources for the failed invasion of Kyiv?

Everyone knows about it.

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