Buddahriffic @ Buddahriffic @lemmy.world

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I haven't read the piece but apparently he didn't even go into the why.

I'm curious how effective those bans have been. Is free porn difficult to access in states that have added verification laws or has it only affected the larger players that get attention while the ones that most people don't usually think immediately of fly under the radar?

I'll choose chaos. Picard, Riker, and Q.

When these things "take over", are they a) causing distress that just makes the host do things it wouldn't normally, b) taking control by producing hormones that alter behaviour, c) physically taking over the body by replacing nerves/muscles with mycelium and overriding anything the host's brain is trying to do, or d) taking over the brain of the host itself?

I'm not sure which option is the worst one. Each sounds just like a different level of "your body isn't yours anymore" hell.

The razors that I know of are rife for abuse but particularly that one when dealing with a group of people who are experts at generating plausible deniability.

They are pseudo logic.

He punched a guy in 2015 over available food options, which got him fired from BBC. His popularity didn't take that much of a hit from this incident despite him clearly being in the wrong (Hammond and May both left BBC with him and they started a new show The Grand Tour, which wasn't as popular as Top Gear, but was still popular.

Then, in 2022, he wrote an opinion piece for the Sun about how much he hates Megan Merkle and included a bit where he said she should be paraded naked through the town. Amazon decided to not start any new projects with him after this, though they continued with the plans to wind down The Grand Tour which had already been established.

He's got a farming show now, so he wasn't cancelled over this, despite burning some bridges.

There was an observatory that was picking up these mysterious spikes in radiation that they couldn't explain. They thought it might be something new but couldn't see any events on other spectrums that would go along with this random event.

Eventually they figured out that the spikes were caused by people opening the microwave in the break room while it was still going.

So I don't do that anymore after hearing that story.

Lol back when games were simpler, they were harder because one of the few ways they could make a game harder was to reduce the amount of leeway you had from needing to do pixel perfect moves.

Plus a lot of older games didn't even have save points, so you either beat it in one sitting, left it on and hoped the power didn't go out or no one else wanted to use the system.

Oh and arcade games were often tuned to let you have fun for a bit then suddenly get way harder so you'd lose and need to put quarters in if you didn't want to start over from the beginning and ports to consoles often kept these mechanics. I remember noticing the pattern in mortal Kombat, where I wasn't very good at the game (in hindsight) but could consistently win one match only to lose the next one, continue and repeat until I ran out of continues.

In Canada, there's a last month deposit that is paid at whatever the rate is when the rental begins but counts at whatever rate the last month ends up at. This is to cancel out the interest the landlord should owe on the deposit.

Imo all safety studies should be duplicated, with one run by someone that wants the study to give a safe and effective conclusion and another run by someone who wants the study to give a dangerous or ineffective conclusion. Both studies monitored by neutral parties that are rewarded based on how long the studies stand up for. And no NDAs (or at least no NDAs that don't expire once the product hits the market) so that all three can be vocal about any issues they had with how the others wanted things run.

And criminal charges for any kind of corruption.

Without reading any study information, I bet in studies like these, there's a way to opt out and be given a proven one (at least assuming there aren't concerns about how they'd interact with the experimental ones, though I'd also expect those to be understood from the safety studies).

The opt out option wouldn't even make that participant's contribution worthless because someone begging to no longer do the study would be a good indicator that the pain med isn't working well. "Time between administering drug and requesting exit from study" could even be used as an indicator to see if there's any significant difference between the placebo and study drug, where the proven painkiller group acts as the control instead of the placebo group.

Though I don't know how these studies account for different pain tolerance levels and different amounts of pain from the procedure, which could even vary for people getting the exact same procedure, since there will be variance between exact location of cuts and such. There would probably be some placebo group members that won't complain of pain and proven painkiller group members that do complain (some just wanting more drugs, some experiencing pain, imagined or real, and some behaving as if they are in pain despite not feeling it).

It's both sad and hilarious that it's hard to tell if this is legit or just some fun trolling.

Does grapheneOS have paid devs or is it all volunteer work? And if they do pay devs, how do they get the money to pay them?

And as a follow up question to this, are there any container apps to run those apps that won't work in a way that they think they are running on stock android?

I'd be slightly curious about why a child would make that particular dying wish, why they think anyone really has the power to either grant (if the wish is to say it without anyone thinking badly of them) or prevent that wish (if they just want to be able to say it, they already can), but mostly just lose any sympathy I might have had for the kid because I wouldn't expect any good answer to that first question.

If the authors believed magic and the gods to be real, would ancient works like The Epic of Gilgamesh or The Iliad count as science fiction?

Any time some weird thing results in the refresh rate being set incorrectly, it is pretty noticable to me. Though it might be more about the pixel response time being tuned for the max refresh rate and thus the screen looking a bit darker at lower refresh rates (because the pixels get closer to returning to black before the next frame comes in).

Just speculating on the reason but I definitely notice it when it's wrong.

It depends on why you want to avoid being wrong.

If it's just about being a good person by your own standards, then I'd agree that you can follow a moral code that doesn't line up with any community you're a part of.

If you want to avoid your communities turning on you, which could mean anything from silent looks of disapproval, reduced willingness to cooperate with you, complete shunning/exile/boycott, being targeted for others' immoral acts, or legal consequences, then it's a good idea to at least be aware of the differences between your personal morality and that of those around you.

And even if it's relatively safe to follow your own moral code today, that doesn't mean it will still be tomorrow. Even for "sins" committed today.

Yeah, words aren't determined by dictionary committees or English teachers. They are determined by people using and understanding them.

All languages (other than ones designed deliberately, like Esperanto, Klingon, and Tolkien's elvish) started from the same root and diverged when populations reduced regular contact and all words and grammars were made up along the way.

If a shortcut creates ambiguity, then the only way to avoid that ambiguity is to avoid the shortcut.

You can try to define it a certain way, but it won't work if it depends on people seeing your definition because most people won't see it. And even if they did see it, they'd need to agree with it.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of interpreting single letters as the name of the letter instead of the sound, unless it's an initial. I don't feel strongly enough to complain about it if I see someone use "u" instead of "you", but your post made me realize I don't even think of "why" when I see y, I just think "yes", though context probably affects that.