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Takatakatakatakatak @ bandario @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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  • I disagree. I will not under any circumstances be advertised to in my own home.

    I'm happy to pay for your goods and services, but if you break that agreement our relationship is immediately concluded. The penalty for breaking the original terms of our agreement is that I will take what I originally paid for in perpetuity. You had your chance.

    Same rules apply for attempting to renegotiate the rules whilst the ball is in play: see Amazon's new trend of attempting to charge an additional monthly fee of the same amount as the initial service to access documentaries etc. They're finished.

  • Neither of them represents an acceptable choice to lead a party. That's kind of my point.

    If these are the only two viable candidates then something is completely broken and needs to change.

  • I don't understand how they can possibly put Biden forward again. He's well past losing his marbles. Way too old to run imo. It's disgraceful.

  • Great, good, gorgonzola. We don't do that here.

    These type of articles are designed to try and normalise this behaviour. Not having it. Price is on the menu and is tax inclusive. Get fucked.

  • That's generally how it's used in Australia. There will be an existing suburb named 'generic suburb', and developers will come and build a new housing development full of cookie cutter houses on 300m2 blocks with their gutters near touching eachother and call it 'generic suburb heights' as an attempt to give the schmucks that buy there some sort of feeling of prestige over the older neighbourhood with larger block sizes and more human compatible dwellings.

    Other guy in here nailed it with the British origins but for some reason he's been downvoted.

  • To be clear, is he in hot water over what he said about the ADL? Or the fact that Nazi's are proliferating on his platform and advertisers don't like it?

  • Rated by whom? The schmucks that drive them? Bought and paid for auto reviewers? Their opinion isn't worth dick to me. Have you seen how poorly the panels match up on these things? They look like bad highschool metal shop projects on the outside and prototypes on the inside.

    Nevermind the pure smug coming out of the exhaust on these cars.

    Yeah, I'm super sure that the thousands of tonnes of raw earth that has to be processed by enormous mining equipment, and then refined through absolutely filthy chemical processes to extract the lithium, cobalt and magnesium required for just a handful of battery cells represents a net good for the planet. Just peachy.

    All good though, because all of the raw materials are then only shipped to the other side of the world on ships powered by literal sludge to be manufactured into by batteries by China with zero environmental regulation and all waste products flowing straight into the ocean, before shipping the manufactured cells back across the world on more sludge powered ships.

    Eventually, these lean, green, zero emission machines end up zipping around pumping out smug before it goes home to get charged by a power grid that is still 60% fossil fuel based. So, instead of the combustion of fossil fuels occurring under your bonnet, it occurs at the coal fired power plant down the road allowing you to recharge your battery with all the inefficiencies that entails and convince yourself you are somehow saving the planet.

    University of Liege researcher Damien Ernst said in 2019 that the typical EV would have to travel nearly 700,000 km before it emitted less CO2 than a comparable gasoline vehicle.

    After he accepted a bunch of dirty cash from the auto industry, he later revised his figures down to about 15,000km. That's a fairly major revision and if it smells like bribery that's because it was.

    If you genuinely want to reduce carbon emissions, kill yourself. It's the most effective way to save the planet.

  • God damn, this comment slaps.

  • I feel your frustration. I played New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) on an emulator recently and then New Super Mario Bros. 2 (2012). They've literally been selling the same game over and over again for full price for 15 years.

    I guess I just take this in another direction. I don't yearn for some new fangled mario with better graphics, I just accept that I'm not going to pay for the same product over and over again.

  • You clearly feel a lot more strongly about this than I do.

    Life is too short to play bad games. Mario wonder wasn't a bad game for me.

    If your gripe is more with nintendo's increasingly poor value proposition, predatory consumer practices and litigious bullshit then there's more of a conversation to be had. I'd suggest your best revenge tools at this point are called Yuzu and Ryujinx.

  • Perhaps I'm missing the point here. What's wrong with Mario wonder?

    3D Mario games have all sucked imo. It's a game that works best in 2D.

  • Not a bad idea with the kayaks. I just bought a couple of old style geoff barker kayaks/ canoes from an old bloke who does that as a hobby. The old style fibreglass kayaks really lend themselves to easy and quality repair jobs. I felt like we both got a win out of the sale.

    They're pretty fun on the water compared to my old plastic behemoths. So easy to load and unload and takes almost zero energy input to paddle. Bloody easy to tip them over though!

  • I can ignore a lot of things if the game still feels good: microtransactions being jammed down my throat I can ignore as long as they are not pay to win. Game modes that don't interest me, I can ignore (they even give you the option to uninstall JUST warzone if you don't play it).

    The saga of COD's super aggressive SBMM and active manipulation of the result of 1v1 encounters over the last 12 months I cannot abide. Dropped frames in the middle of a close quarters battle whilst their algorithm decides which player should come out on top to maintain engagement? Nope! If this is the direction that play is headed they are beyond redemption.

    Myself and many others are out here hungering for an arcade shooter that rewards player skill and movement mastery. It's only a matter of time until someone gets that formula right and takes a huge chunk out of the COD franchise.

    Xdefiant, The Finals, Unrecord, Marathon are all possibilities, but you can't play any of them right now.

    It's a bloody sad year for gaming imo - I prefer to play online multiplayer but since I got bored of BF 2042 and swore off of COD altogether, I am spending my time playing some of the great single player games from the last couple of years instead.

  • It's a bummer that there's nothing comparable as competition that actually has a playerbase.

    There's a few on the horizon but as of right now it's a wasteland.

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2976712/

    It's significant. Biggest effect is on efficacy of drug metabolism. There are many such studies.

    One size does not fit all here owing to differences in expression of metabolising enzymes and drug transport mechanisms.

    No, the Japanese are not aliens but they may require far less of a given drug than a westerner, or far more. This affects the likelihood to experience side effects for any given compound, and their severity.

    It's fairly ironic to make this change for Japan whilst elsewhere in the world with more racially mixed populations there has been a push in the opposite direction: a recognition that you cannot assume the results of a trial carried out on white male subjects will apply to those of African descent for example.

    It's not just drug treatments either. There are many aspects of medical care which have suffered from a lack of specificity and systemic bias.

  • If you're considering a side hustle, the best one is preparing yourself to apply for a job that pays a living wage.

    We shouldn't have to work in our downtime to live a good life.

  • I know enough to believe this isn't a great idea.

    Genetic variation in target populations can result in different outcomes for a variety of treatments and is worth testing specifically.

  • I'm not in the USA. I think after shipping was included the Unicomp came out at almost $400AUD - it's just not feasible. Similar for ebay sales from USA.

    I've consoled myself with an 8bitDo retro keyboard. It's pretty slick! Obviously not buckling spring, but it is wireless and has a volume knob. It really does remind me of a vic20 keyboard in feel.

  • Score.

    I'm so desperate to get hold of one.

    The irony is, I threw literally hundreds of them into skip bins in the late 90's doing IT work and didn't think anything of it.

    Live and learn. The hoarders got it right.