BlemboTheThird @ BlemboTheThird @lemmy.ca

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Exercises on lichess are one of my favorite ways to kill time. Haven't played a real game in years but I love the low pressure of running through little scenarios, even if I can't always grasp why the computer thinks a particular line is optimal lol

(And you can do a bunch of them offline)

Maybe I just have wack taste buds but i think the morningstar faux fried chicken patties are pretty good. But they're basically a giant veggie nuggie so idk

They're not even into supporting their first generation of VR titles, hard to imagine they'd ever bother with PC

They're still taking something they didn't make and selling it as though they did. I have every right to write and film a Batman movie, spend as much time I want making it professional, and then show it to people, as long as I don't charge them for it. That doesn't give Fox or whoever the right to take my movie and charge for it instead. Even if I did break the law by making people pay for it, the actual owners would only be entitled to that money, not to go make mroe money off of it themselves. It's still my work even if it uses concepts invented by someone else.

There's a reason every franchise under the sun has mountains of fanart and fanfic without the companies that own them trying to take control of it: it's blatantly illegal.

This girls team was winning because the boys haven't gone through puberty yet. Not saying it was ok to ban them, but it's false to claim that differences in bone mass and muscle density are imaginary. It just doesn't happen until after puberty.

And chess isn't exactly segregated by gender. The women's league exists to make women in chess more visible, to make it easier to pursue sponsorships, and to encourage more women to join the game. But women are free to compete in the "men's" category (which is actually called the "open" category), and often do. The reasons women haven't gotten to the top of it yet are cultural; women are discouraged from starting to play the game at a young age as all the top players do, and so far fewer women attempt the climb in the first place. But it will happen eventually.

Now if you want to talk about how transphobic FIDE is, there's some real merit in those accusations. Their rules around people who are transitioning are nonsensical, punishing people for absolutely no reason. But the women's league itself exists for good reasons.

No, that is exactly the over-broad, willy-nilly, tossed-around definition they were talking about. Gaslighting has a much more insidious context than simply making someone question themselves. It means doing it on purpose; intentionally lying to someone and trying to convince them that they're crazy. Like if I said I was going to the grocery and then when I came back with nothing, I insisted I never said that. Or if i borrowed $50 and when it came time to pay you back, I try to tell you I only borrowed $25. It's inherently deceptive and cruel.

Calling them "the aughts" is also the best way I've found to refer to that decade

Bofa --> both of

Yeah this is news to me, I've never watched it but I remember reading that it had trans characters

The Index's lighthouse tracking was actually a selling point for me. My first VR experience was a Quest 2 and I was surprised at how often my hands lost tracking; playing Alyx and trying to grab ammo was incredibly frustrating.

I'm not saying that piracy, as a general concept, results in zero losses for a company. There are people who would have paid to see a thing, who won't thanks to piracy. I am saying that there is also a ton of stuff I would never pay to see, but would happily watch if it were free. Having some interest in a thing isn't the same as being willing to pay for it.

Hell, there's also stuff that I saw thanks to piracy that I wound up liking so much I went back and paid for a copy. In that sense, companies can make money through piracy. The point is that piracy isn't taking something like theft is, it's copying something.

That's not what I said at all.

This doesn't get said enough. Piracy is only damaging if I would have paid to get the thing in the first place. If I'm pirating something that I would have avoided entirely had I needed to pay, literally no one is taking any losses.

Won't work. Guarantee the courts will rule that embryos are only children in cases where medical personnel can be prosecuted. Aka only when they want.

Turns out logic doesn't apply in cases where the ruling isn't based on logic.

I wanna agree but in this particular case they all had those traits even before the show started (timeline-wise)

Ehh. Mighta been born that way (even that's debatable) but definitely not anymore. Tendi is the ass-kicking heir to a pirate dynasty, Rutherford is an insanely talented and obsessive engineer, Beckett seems borderline unbeatable in hand-to-hand combat and explicitly dodges promotions, and Boimler is Boimler.

there was a landmine around the corner. had to be done.

nah, it was only able to parse bold, italic, and strikethrough correctly. oh well, lucky me i don't find the rest of it super important

I just switched from browser to Voyager like two days ago. Markedly easier on my hand, doesn't have a weird halting scroll like Jerboa, and no ads like Sync. So far, would recommend.

important distinction that it wasn't the legislature that repealed abortion rights. it was a couple of true believers, unconcerned about reelection, that the party cheated the system to get them onto the supreme court. if they'd known their nominees were lying about their stances on roe, i doubt they'd have been confirmed.