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  • Another issue is that information is easy enough to find that people don't bother to remember things as much anymore, since they can just look up the majority of stuff on Wikipedia or something if they ever need to know it. It leads to people having a smaller pool of background knowledge, which makes them easier to mislead.

  • Why the long face?

  • Microsoft was screwing over consumers before Google was even founded.

  • That's the thing. We think 2 steps forward 1 step back is making progress, but the steps forward are tiny, and the steps back are huge.

  • Huh, that's interesting. Though, how do you pick MLK specifically out of a recording of an orgy, let alone definitively enough for it to be damning to his reputation?

  • But they were writing the letter under the guise of just being some guy. I'd believe the government could make the public think I'm some sexual deviant, but not a random person writing a letter to me.

  • Is there something I'm missing, or is this letter nothing more than an old-timey version of modern internet comments and conservative "LGBTQ+ people are somehow pedophiles!" claims that are as outlandish as they are unfounded? Like, how is claiming a reverend has secret massive orgies he's clearly not having going to get him to kill himself? He probably just read this, said "Well that's a load of nonsense." and threw it away without another thought.

  • Maybe I'm basic, but I love exposition over pretty much all else. I watched the entirety of Adventure Time despite not really being a fan of the humor or the main characters just because I craved more information about the history of Ooo.

  • Did you get the chocolate cake shake with it?

  • Toxicity isn't as simple as "toxic = toxic + toxic." While some byproducts of plastic breakdown are toxic, the bacteria are further dissolving those as well, going until they get glucose, as they wouldn't be able to eat it if that wasn't the end product. There are probably still some toxic byproducts that get excreted rather than broken down, but plastic breakdown already releases toxins under normal conditions, so that's already a problem we're going to have to tackle. If these bacteria can get past the first issue of breaking it down in the first place, then that's a net positive.

  • I mean, the bleak thing is that the world works through people making deals with murderers to not be murdered, instead allowing other people to be murdered. I don't give a shit about her gender, I just want a story about a good person winning in spite of corruption, not a bad person winning because of it.

  • The robot was my favorite. I liked making him blow up and come back.

  • As bleak as it is, given the high amount of other political opponents that died, the fact that she didn't is likely an indication of how nice she plays with the people doing the murdering. I'm hopeful that she's just good at dodging assassins, though!

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  • I tried so hard as a kid to sing the entire list in one breath, but never made it...

  • Makes sense. I've always been disappointed that instead of using better processing power to make bigger, more complex games, we used it to make the same games with more complex animations and details. I don't want a game that only differs from its predecessors through use of graphical upgrades like individual blades of grass swaying in the wind, or the character starting to sweat in relation to their exertion; I want games with PS1-PS2 graphics and animation quality, but with complex gameplay that the consoles of that era could only dream of being able to handle.

  • I've always felt that republicans were the ones to push pronouns mattering, to the point of obstinance; they frequently get worked up about people's genders, and refuse to use pronouns that differ from what they believe to be the "correct" ones for a person. The lefter people understand that pronouns really only matter to the person who identifies with them, so we're fine calling people whatever they want, since it's their choice and we don't really care what they choose in the end.

  • I was my parents' dedicated cop watcher since I was 8, and this is definitely a big one that a lot of people overlook. It's one of the easiest features of even an unmarked police vehicle to spot from behind if you know to look for the folded light's mounting hardware. My wife is always surprised at how quickly I can spot a cop from long distance, and it's often because I spot something strange sticking out of the drivers' side mirror.

  • Yeah. Obviously if a candidate is a criminal that should invalidate them in the eyes of any sane voter, but really the bar should be a lot higher for anyone to be happy with their choice. The real motivation shouldn't be to vote for the lesser of 2 evils and call it good enough, it should be to literally fight back against corruption until we have options we actually like. Obviously it's too late for that in this election, but we should already be getting started in the fights to get someone worthwhile in the 2028 elections.

  • This looks really cool - I put in my beta tester registration!