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Kraiden
Kraiden @ Kraiden @kbin.earth
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Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • TIL

    • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • Electric kettles (or hot water jugs depending on where you are) are just not a thing there. Apparently it has something to do with your 110v AC system. They don't boil as fast, and so never really took off. Just a little factoid that blew my mind, considering how commonplace they are everywhere else.

    • Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda DLCs of all time

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  • worst Bethesda DLC's released of all time

    Are we including Horse Armor here?

    • If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine?

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  • It's all you can eat though, so there's that

    • What do you want to do when you retire?

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  • Make good, free games. I want to be financially stable enough that I can just make cool stuff and give it away, and not worry about trying to monetize it, or protect it from pirates. I just want to create for the sake of creating. I've got no interest in starting a business/company/indie studio/whatever the fuck else it is people think I should be doing. Added bonus, if anybody ever takes issue with something I've made, I can happily tell them where to stick it. It's free, you have no right to complain

    • Celebrate Pokémon Emerald’s 20th with Stunning Art ROM Hack

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  • It's just a rom hack, so I don't see why not?

    • Celebrate Pokémon Emerald’s 20th with Stunning Art ROM Hack

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    • Celebrate Pokémon Emerald’s 20th with Stunning Art ROM Hack

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  • For everyone hating on the inconsistency of the art, I'm willing to bet it was a deliberate choice.

    The inconsistency adds to the charm, and means that anyone who was a fan of it can submit art, regardless of skill level.

    I've never seen it applied to a game before but it's more obvious when compared to something like Shrek Retold

    • Wikipedia user banned for ‘alleged trolling, doxxing’ of Hong Kong reporters

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  • Thanks for the reminder!

    • Tabasco on pizza: Yay or Nay?

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  • Personally, Tabasco in the bin. Hot sauce on cold pizza the morning after? Breakfast of champions

    • US Gov to explore requiring 3d printer manufacturers and software developers to contain controls to prevent users from manufacturing firearms components

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  • Yes, because it's so difficult to get a gun in America any other way /s

    • Out of curiosity is there a FOSS (add-free) short form video type social media?

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  • Developer bailed on it, and it got dumped on someone without the resources to carry on with it, so they've put it into maintenance mode until February next year IIRC? Then it will be gone.

    Honestly I'm just glad they're actually doing the maintenance thing instead of just vanishing overnight, or just leaving everything in limbo, which seems to be a problem in this space.

    None of that is correct. I was thinking of Firefish

    • If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be?

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  • I just want every keyboard to have a home and end button (I'm a coder, and my current keyboard doesn't have them, and I have to set a binding in every. single. thing.)

    • Is it really just ageing/ getting older? How is this supposed to work? How is everyone else doing this?

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  • I think you have enough people saying that this isn't normal, but...

    You're in your mid 20's and you cannot bend over to tie your shoes!? How old is your GP? Sounds like they need to think about retirement... or a career change.

    Also just want to second what someone else in here said: Get tested for celiacs disease

    • ‘Silent killer’: Russia boosts grinding Donbas advance with chemical warfare

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  • I had to read it a few times. It's confusing

    • City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack

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    • City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack

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  • This effect is to get [Ross] to stop downloading and disclosing stolen criminal records to protect public safety.

    Why him specifically? That's a lot of effort to stop one guy doing what literally anybody with some time and willpower could do? Surely they have bigger problems right now? Fucking pathetic.

    • Kamala’s interview was a masterclass in dodging traps set by Trump

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  • it was for me

    • Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’

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  • The fediverse is too new and niche to say that with certainty.

    The legality is likely untested and certainly not enforced by pubspec yet.

    I don't know enough to speak to the technicalities with certainty, but my surface level understanding is that that is exactly how it works, and it is one of the known flaws of the fediverse as it currently exists.

    You might be making a statement, but server B is just a node and, frankly, doesn't care. If you federate with them, you federate with everyone they federate with as well.

    It's uncomfortably like an STD in that regard.

    • Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’

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  • No. Threads federation should be treated the same way as a wolf joining a "sheep's right to not be eaten" meeting. Deeply unsettling, highly suspicious, and troubling. Facebook does NOT want the fediverse to succeed, and any claim to the contrary is fucking sus.