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Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread

As someone who grew up playing games like World of Warcraft and other AAA titles, I’ve seen how the gaming industry has evolved over the years—and not always for the better. One of the most disturbing trends is the rise of gacha games, which are, at their core, thinly veiled gambling systems targeting younger players. And I...

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The only reason those industry boards exist is due to an implicit or explicit threat of government regulation.

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It’s probably shitware that a list of which would make the issue seem less scary. “FartCameraXxX” “SkibidiKeyboard - Says skibidi every button press! V1.2”

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My uncle had a dog for about 10 years. Took him camping every weekend and would chill out by the truck all day. No issues. One random dog came up and peed on the truck tire once. Dog said “wait what you can do that?” and for the rest of his life pissed on the truck. It was a mindvirus.

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I was pretty distraught after the announcement, but within a few hours as the wave of support built, I came out of the hole and started feeling positive. So glad that the support fell behind so quickly.

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I used to do inversion, but was swayed by James Hoffman’s taste experiments and concluding method.

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Seriously. Can NYT Op-Ed run 100% “Trump should drop out” articles every time he does something far more disqualifying? They’ll never run another opinion again.

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My guess is these were underperforming problem employees that they wanted to drop. This provided an easy out to skip a PIP and severance. A company the size of wells fargo there are going to be way more people than 14 using a jiggler. If it were a blanket 1-strike, it would be a lot more folks gone.

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Well if it’s real, it will be a no brainer Nobel prize, so it certainly won’t be the last we hear of it in that case.

Sticky trick: new glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals (www.theguardian.com)

The insect glue, produced from edible oils, was inspired by plants such as sundews that use the strategy to capture their prey. A key advantage of physical pesticides over toxic pesticides is that pests are highly unlikely to evolve resistance, as this would require them to develop much larger and stronger bodies, while bigger...

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A new non-toxic pesticide can be valuable regardless of the journalist who wrote an article.

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Fussy parents though they may be, 7% of emergency visits is wildly high. Like… How is it possibly that high?

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Is this a big deal in terms of allowing people to more easily quit their jobs and take new ones?

Now do healthcare.

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I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter

Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)

Data from two research firms and figures published by Musk and X suggest a deteriorating situation for X by some metrics. Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square,” but in number of users it continues to lag far behind social media rivals that focus on video, such as Instagram and TikTok....

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Totally on your page, but what you’re describing sounds kinda like times square.

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Not sure I get it. Is this a parody of an ad campaign I haven’t seen?

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This is how it used to be and scalpers would line up as early as needed while the common person would be out of luck.

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I’ll take $35/mo cash to tell Blue Cross BlueShield where to shove their prior-auths on decades old drugs with generics.

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I’m glad the pranksters realized when it would be going too far and pulled back. Making a mockery of a fool is one thing, but hugely contributing to disinformation fervor is another.

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I still don’t understand how the “hot coffee” debunking isn’t known world round by this point.

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I had similar vibes to our wedding. It was in an old-barn turned reception hall attached to a strip mall. We had 2 half-kegs and 2 cases of wine bought direct from the winery. The strip mall had a liquor store so folks who wanted to go nuts “snuck over” (as if we cared). People similarly said it was their favorite wedding.

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This is the very definition of Model Collapse.

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What’s the interest payment/cost for this kinda service? I’ve fortunately never been in a position to need it.

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Ahh, okay. So a financial gun pointed to your head. This has certainly no chance of going awry.

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I guess we can ignore the bipartisan report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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February was the month we finally broke and said “absolutely no more schedule eating out”. We were getting eaten alive (pun intended) in our budget by lunch costs that add up so much faster than they used to.

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What do you mean about “/ root directory, eg /usr/bin/bash”? / is /, just the top-most directory

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I find the references to file extension kinda confusing. Extensions mean a lot less in Linux cli, but I can tell youre just using them for examples. Maybe give more concrete examples instead.

ls *.sh to list all the files ending in .sh

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“set a timer for X minutes” And “set an alarm for X AM” are super helpful

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3 taps to set an arbitrary timer or alarm? No chance.

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You can’t effectively use an education if products overtly lie about their contents/effects or are contaminated.

California is forging ahead with food waste recycling. But is it too much, too fast? (apnews.com)

Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it’s widely accepted next year’s ambitious waste-reduction targets won’t be met....

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I get you, but I think the implication is the infrastructure was set up too fast, before the public sentiment was there to use it. This is why recycling efforts (including this) should be state funded.

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Pretty sure the text in the image is satire

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We had one installed this past summer. Went with a top of the line Bryant and I don’t have any regrets. This winter natural gas prices shot up and even on below freezing days, the heat pump just does its job at keeping the house a consistent temp.

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One day I realized I could take a picture of the bag before I tossed it or put it back in the freezer, and my life has been so much better.

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Take a picture the first time you pull it out of the garbage, so you don’t have to go back in for a 3rd or 4th time.

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I, too, have ADHD

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I see a pretty stark difference between people who married young and had kids right away, vs people who married young and enjoyed their time for a while before having kids. The ones who had kids seem weird to me, never got a chance to goof off in their 20s and figure out who they are. The ones who waited feel more normal. But that’s just my experience.

They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens (www.techspot.com)

They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician’s cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens::undefined

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

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If that’s how LoL wanted their game to work, that’s how they would make it work

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Oh, ok. Carry on.

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