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SilentStorms ,

These don’t look too dissimilar to things I’d doodle when I was 6. Interesting how kids always kinda draw the same.

U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Don’t Know Why. (foreignpolicy.com)

In the past several weeks, I have watched dozens of sleek U.S. military planes descend over Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I live. They were the first flights to land since gangs blockaded and halted commercial air traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that the aircraft contained...

SilentStorms ,

There’s something off to me about the media exclusively referring to them as gangs.

I feel like if they were in another part of the world they’d be calling them paramilitaries or militant groups.

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I get mine from Soulseek. I can usually find what I’m looking for.

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How noob-friendly are those servers? Haven’t played since it’s era, but I’d be interested in booting it up again. I’d imagine I’d just get constantly wrecked by dudes who have been playing consistently for 20 years.

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I can’t believe there’s people in here that don’t understand that this is a joke.

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Not interested in this one specifically, but I’m stoked that this device category is taking off. Can’t wait to see what’s available in a few years as manufacturers figure out what works/doesn’t work.

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There’s a self-hosted option for Torrentio that I admittedly haven’t set up but am saving for when it inevitably becomes useless

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Or their recent “iPhones save lives” thing they’ve been doing recently with the satellite connectivity.

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Pharmaceutical companies will not supply those kinds of drugs for executions, because they understandably don’t want their products associated with killing people.

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Dear Mr. President,

There are too many Balkan countries. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.

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I worked with a ‘McCool’

He said introducing himself was a pickup line

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Can you share your process for doing that? I’ve been trying to figure out how to live (or close to live) translate TV and radio, but a lot of the tools I’ve come across seem to be geared towards cross-language conversations.

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Protestors will almost always allow emergency vehicles through their roadblocks.

People always bring this up, but the reality is they just don’t want protests to cause the most minor of inconveniences for them.

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You can get a Z Flip 3 for like $300 on eBay.

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They’ve also had a lot of the bitterness bred out of them since the 90s. The ones I’ve eaten recently are less bad than I remember as a kid.

They’re still bad tho

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I think people that see these numbers as low does not realize that tons of people don’t work in front of a screen full-time, and the average would include children and the elderly

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I love it. Its like the videos my friends and I would watch on Newgrounds and early Youtube.

Let kids like weird stupid stuff.

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It’s crazy how everyone is suddenly in favour of IP law.

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Yeah, they definitely do.

Is there a sponsor block situation for Podcasts?

I’m happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there’s some other way to make it work. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.

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I wish this existed. I figure it’s a matter of time before someone develops a ML solution.

I usually just try to hunt down bootleg feeds. I can usually find one, or a Patreon feed that someone has shared.

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It seems a lot of people came here because they’re too reddit for reddit.

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The wording on this is kinda weird, enemy to who?

Do I think China is an enemy of the US? Yes.

Do I think they’re an enemy to me personally and my values? Ehhh… not really. They do stuff I like and stuff I don’t like.

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Not to mention the overwhelming amounts of unimaginable suffering you would see.

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That’s the punchline of this joke. You can’t. They’re all like this.

Stop pretending the free market provides infinite choices that we can jump to if we don’t like something. That’s not a thing outside of like, some consumer goods.

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I can’t even think of a meme that 4chan hasn’t come up with in the past decade (new racial slurs don’t count)

Back in 2009 they were the bleeding edge for shitposts though

Edit: am illiterate

SilentStorms ,

Yeah, edited

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I also choose this guy’s overused jokes.

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He still had influence on current leadership. Just recently he was giving his shit takes on Gaza. For that reason alone it’s pretty great that he’s dead.

The world is also just a slightly better place without him in it.

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Henry Kissinger, a war criminal whose policies led to millions of deaths, finally died at 100

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What a pleasant surprise

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We definitely have similar taste.

You’d probably like ‘The City & The City’ by China Mieville

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Ouchie my bones

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This combined with the other guy’s “get a proper night’s rest” is a tough one. I always try to read for a half hour, but end up getting absorbed and reading for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. I think I need to start reading drier books.

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That’s a shame. I have a copy from 1918. It’s really fun to flip through every once in a while.

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I mean it makes sense, I remember around 2006 everyone referred to the SNES as “retro” and no one questioned it. That’s a smaller time gap than 360 era to now.

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That is true, it was the first truly modern console generation.

Ultimately I think retro gaming is rooted in nostalgia. People will always gravitate to the consoles they grew up with, making them “retro.” Probably why those rereleases do well.

I’m curious to see what happens in 10-15 years when games-as-a-service hits that point, and how the retrogaming community deals with that. With games like Halo 3 being a stretch now, I can’t imagine a world where Fortnite and Super Mario World exist in the same category.

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Latin looks like weird french, Greek has triangles and math symbols and shit.

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Expecting every display to not have dead pixel or 2 is incredibly wasteful. So many perfectly good monitors and TVs would end up as scrap if the manufacturer had to pull every single one. Mountains of ewaste.

This expectation of excessive perfection and uniformity is really damaging.

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It’s literally not noticable if you’re looking at it from a reasonable distance. I’m not talking about a cluster.

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It’s funny how everyone pretends to give a fuck about environmentalism until they’re faced with the most minor of minor inconveniences.

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Whatever man, I’ll enjoy my functionally identical display while you’re fucking around with returns and wondering why there’s so much ewaste on this planet.

I’d love to have your superhuman eyesight that can detect a dead pixel on a 4K TV from 10 feet away.

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lol

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I hate greedy corporations as much as the next guy, but manufacturers are not going to up their QC to include single dead pixels and take a hit to their profit margin. They’d increase prices, by a lot.

Maybe there’s a market for displays that meet this standard for the nitpickers, and sell the ones that fail at a discount, but they’d definitely be a premium.

SilentStorms ,

Correct about Sunday, but a two-day weekend didn’t become a thing until organized labour fought for it in the 20s, and wasn’t codified into law until 1940.

BBC: The woman who successfully sued the website that matched her with a paedophile explains how she forced the site to close down. 'Alice', or A.M. as she was known in court says she feels "vindic... (www.bbc.co.uk)

BBC: The woman who successfully sued the website that matched her with a paedophile explains how she forced the site to close down. ‘Alice’, or A.M. as she was known in court says she feels "vindic…::“Alice” speaks exclusively to the BBC after her successful lawsuit against Omegle forced it offline.

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I miss when Omegle was just text based. I made a friend from Czechia on there back in 2011.

Opening up video chats was asking for this to happen.

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ChatRoulette is still around, which is nuts. That place was a cesspit 10 years ago, can’t imagine now.

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What’s with all the news from Chicago in this community?

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That game is awesome. I still boot it up every couple years.

I don’t even need great graphics, just use modern CPU power to ramp up the simulation complexity and that’s an easy buy from me. Probably won’t happen though, it was pretty niche even for it’s time. It wasn’t really even a game, just a piece of software that was fun to mess around with.

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