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Justice Department accuses Visa of debit network monopoly that impacts price of 'nearly everything’ (www.cnbc.com)
Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows (insider-gaming.com)
Something must be going on at Ubisoft. They cancelled their Tokyo Game Show stream without any explanation as well.
I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. (lemmy.world)
What does "blackpilled" mean?
I’m not hip to the lingo
Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida asks that modders please don't run amok with 'offensive or inappropriate' shenanigans now the game's on PC (www.pcgamer.com)
What is the oldest (optional) element of your daily routine?
So not bathroom related tasks, but more like some arbitrary thing you must and always do daily....
Caitlin Clark’s Instagram Account Flooded With Negative Comments After She Liked Taylor Swift’s Endorsement of Kamala Harris (www.mediaite.com)
They are making it clear: announce your support for Harris, get harassed.
Wild times in a wild world
M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable (lemmy.world)
It’s impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing
Dry Skin (i.imgur.com)
To be more useful, robots need to become lazier. (www.technologyreview.com)
Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread
How to deal with exhaustion?
I, probably like many others, am struggling with exhaustion that seem hard to shake. It kills my hobbies and interests one by one, it makes doom scrolling and watching stupid shows seem like the only valid activities I can handle....
Man pages maintenance suspended (lwn.net)
From: Alejandro Colomar...
Seeing the decrease in the % of Outlast players who achieved basic game progress achievements, I find it amusing to think about those who chickened out mid-game and never returned.
Then I get back into the game with my heart pounding....
Dozens of ‘high-risk’ viruses discovered on fur farms in China (english.elpais.com)
Coronaviruses, influenzas and other potentially dangerous pathogens infect raccoon dogs, mink, and foxes bred for the fur trade...
Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests (hechingerreport.org)
Does AI actually help students learn? A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale....
The space between the wall and the toilet in my hotel room.
Fortunately the gentleman at the front desk allowed me to switch rooms. For $200 a night, I’d like to not hit my head on the wall when standing up.
Deficiencies
Do you have experiences where your family members are so much engaged in doing something/sports that the their skill of "lets just sit and have a talk" is nonexistent?
Everytime when I visiti parents home it seems that don’t care I’m even there. They have their “sports routines”, which cannot be stopped. It happens to others too. Most topics revolt around what matches they had, with whom and watch matches in TV. Whenever they go to some holidays they look for sports hall for playing....
I thought I was giving my kids the best childhood ever until my 4-year-old asked why we didn't own a 'bigger golf cart' (www.businessinsider.com)
‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration (www.theguardian.com)
Lots here, but these are the juicy parts:...
Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?
It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him....
San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave (www.siliconrepublic.com)
How can I organize my ebook collection without file duplication?
I am seeking advice regarding my ebook collection on a Linux system, which is stored on an external drive and sorted into categories. However, there are still many unsorted ebooks. I have tried using Calibre for organization, but it creates duplicate files during import on my main drive where I don’t want to keep any media. I...
Are You Sure Your House Is Worth That Much? Climate risk is still not being priced into American homeownership. (www.theatlantic.com)
Down with under-screen fingerprint sensors!
One of my favorite aspects of folding phones is the return of the fingerprint sensors built directly into the power button. This is objectively the ideal design, for reasons I assume I don’t have to explain....
Are you seeing the propaganda? (USA). The machine is in high gear. The election is over, the right person already won, everybody voted for him/her, and if you disagree then you are criminally insane.
No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. (www.theverge.com)
What is this plug on my wall for?
Noticed this plug on my wall from when I moved into this house, and I just started wondering again about what it’s actually for. This is in the UK, if that helps. It’s on a big bulky box hanging on the wall below my desk next to two regular plug sockets....
does it make sense to ask your soon to be former coworkers if they'll work there in 2 years?
the idea is to use your soon to be former job as a fallback option....
How does Ohio have stock for the new cannabis stores that just opened?
They just passed the law and somehow they already have weed in stock?
Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco (www.wired.com)
I know this is PatientGamers, but can we discuss how even the current generation of consoles seems to ask for patience as they aren't that many games 4 years after their release?
Stumbled upon this video, which kind of summarizes the issue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJxaIP8F3K8...