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Do gamers actually like the look of gaming computers and accessories?

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  • I'm pretty sure the trend didn't come from nowhere, although like every other fashion most adherents wouldn't have necessarily chosen it in a vacuum.

    Whether that makes the preference less valid is an interesting question of it's own.

    • China's foreign minister tells EU that Beijing cannot afford Russia to lose in Ukraine, media reports

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  • The second paragraph added some important context, if you skimmed over it.

    • If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

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  • Yes it would. Looking back I think the time machine wouldn't buy us more than those few years, though. The things that made it accessible, fun and (sometimes artificially, unnaturally) useful were the exact same things that made it easy to repurpose into the monstrosity it gradually became.

    The Wild West period was scattered and had shitty accessibility. Companies like Google inevitably arrived to make the process of browsing smoother, but as of 2010 hadn't started being evil yet. The alternate timeline that doesn't suck probably would have involved email growing directly into a version of ActivityPub in the 90's and website dominance being bypassed entirely. (Although ISP struggles would have taken on a whole new dimension)

    • ‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics

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  • (and you need to understand that every tipping point is just an arbitrary line that climate scientists draw to try to draw people’s attention to the problem)

    No, it's really not.

    • What's a really popular TV show you just couldn't get into?

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  • I would put those in a completely separate category, actually. They're both older and more real than the "engineered compilation of random unscripted moments" type of thing.

    I have no recommendations, unfortunately, haha.

    • A small tax imposed on plastic bags led Orthodox Jews to lasting hostility against measures to protect the environment, a study found. They see policies against plastic as elite contempt

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  • Before that, they had to be more moderate to get by. It was terrible! /s

    • If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

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  • Oh, I definitely see the irony, if you want to call it that. Pwning is far more fun when I control it and it's just for a laugh.

    • China's foreign minister tells EU that Beijing cannot afford Russia to lose in Ukraine, media reports

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  • Maybe.

    To be clear this is an outlet for pro-Ukrainian propaganda with stories that have quite often never been verified or repeated. I get it, they're fighting a war for survival, but I still will take it with a grain of salt especially when it sounds unlikely.

    • Mexico Is Showing the World How to Stand Up to Donald Trump

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  • When Canada retaliated to Trump's "liberation day" tariffs, she basically threw us under the bus and said we should have more respect.

    I think Jacobin is seeing what they want to here.

    • Exclusive: BRICS to launch guarantee fund to boost investment in member nations, sources say

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  • As usual with BRICS projects, I'll believe it when it's both functioning and of any significant size.

    • ‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics

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  • The typical Lemming will be poorer but fine, unless it triggers other human disasters like a nuclear exchange. The lower classes of Bangladesh, less so, and 95%+ of coral reefs are fucked.

    • ‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics

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  • Sort of? I don't think he mentioned tipping points anywhere in there, it was pretty non-specific and ranty, but if we've passed a tipping point it becomes less a matter of applying a brake and more of actively causing massive climate change in the other direction. Failing that, the warming trend and other shifts will stop when the Earth reaches a new balance and no sooner.

    Nobody really knows where those tipping points are. The Paris thresholds were our expert's best guesses for a "safe" amount of warming.

    • If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

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  • That's where I'd go too. It was really the calm before the storm.

    • If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

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  • Security is a lot better in most respects. Used to be most traffic on the Internet wasn’t encrypted.

    This is so true, although I kind of wish I had more time to fully explore the prank potential. The shit I could have convinced people of with a spoofed Wikipedia article...

    • Firefighters and Police are socialism. Change my mind.

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  • About which definition of the word to use, or that one possible definition applies?

    • China's foreign minister tells EU that Beijing cannot afford Russia to lose in Ukraine, media reports

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  • I feel like Russian support is pretty much a rounding error when it comes to Chinese power.

    • China's foreign minister tells EU that Beijing cannot afford Russia to lose in Ukraine, media reports

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  • If this is true, the EU better be figuring out how to change that price calculus for them.

    Which makes me doubt an open admission actually did happen, since China would understand the possibility for blowback.

    • What's your best tip or hack for camping?

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  • Honestly good to have in general if you live in a place that's sometimes night.

    • A small tax imposed on plastic bags led Orthodox Jews to lasting hostility against measures to protect the environment, a study found. They see policies against plastic as elite contempt

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  • I'm guessing strict gender rules about who does the washing up and a very zealous interpretation of ritual purity rules has something to do with the preference for disposables, as well.

    Whether that falls under self-righteously lazy, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.

    • Non-Americans, what's it like when you're sick and need to go to the doctor?

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  • Ah, look at that post history. Openly fascist troll, never mind.