lemillionsocks @ lemillionsocks @beehaw.org

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Yeah Buffalo is technically east coast because it's ny but as a great lake city it has a lot more in common culturally and layout wise with a lot of midwestern cities. I visited st louis a few years ago and was also taken back at how some neighborhoods were essentially just buffalo(but with weird gated streets).

Yeah a lot of that first wave of steam machine fueled linux gaming is filled with buggy games with dropped support, that dont run on modern hardware. Im sure there is an easier way for them to support native linux gaming, but given how mac gaming is supported Im fine with them supporting linux by making sure proton works and accepting bug reports from proton users.

I wonder if it's a software or hardware issue on your end that might be causing it.

Been using proton since it started and it's definitely not always as seamless and requires tweaking or going to protondb and checking bug reports, changing your proton version, and etc, but generally it has worked with me on multiple iterations of hardware.

A competing interest creating fake grass roots campaigns to point out how unhealthy the competition is doesnt surprise me in the least, but that said I think even without it some of the dip can likely be applied to the novelty wearing off and the expectations of infinite growth.

An impossible burger tastes fine for a veggie burger, but at the end of the day it isnt beef. Combine that with the unfortunate fact that plant based impossible style meat alternatives are more expensive, and inflation and you just have fewer people looking to splurge on something for the novelty.

Personally I dont think I'll ever stop eating meat all the way, but I do try to reduce my daily consumption so it isnt an all the time thing. When I do have a meatless day it's usually better served by having actual meatless(or vastly reduced) cuisine and not fake meat. So pizza, pasta with various cheeses, falafel, hummus dip snacks, rice and beans, bean burrito, arroz con gandules, vegetarian curry, veggy noodles, and etc. Likewise Ive talked to vegans and vegetarians who just no longer like meat and prefer their veggie burger taste like a bean patty instead of something that fake bleeds.

Dont get me wrong I agree that plant proteins and lab grown meats are important for eventually reducing meat consumption overall which is better for the environment. Meat eaters like myself would have an easier time eating less meat if there was an easy meat alternative. I just think that there are genuine organic reasons behind the drop in addition to the propoganda and I wonder how much of this now is the other side pulling their own astro turfing because they should be having the exponential and infinite growth that our market seems to demand and anything less than that is failure.

Initial adoption of "impossible" and alternatives was rapid and sudden so I wonder how much of this dip can be ascribed to the age old capitalist issue of expanding too rapidly and then falling off once the novelty wears off.

But yeah in short: Oh yeah big meat is definitely astroturfing, but I suspect there are more factors at play in the sales dips we're seeing.

I feel like something that nimby's fail to also understand when it comes to the missing middle housing is that it doesnt even have to look like mid or low rises and thick apartment blocks. For example if you look at the more populated parts of buffalo NY there are apartments spread out here and there but a good chunk of the housing is houses with lawns on good looking tree lined streets.

Now these houses are close together, in some districts they dont even have a driveway(or its barely wide enough between houses for a car to get through), but theyre still nice looking 19th to early 20th century houses with nice wood work and detail. Many of these houses are also stealthily multifamily homes. A lot of these houses were built with an upstairs and downstairs unit in mind.

So you have neighborhoods that could fit the criteria and look "suburban" but are secretly more dense than expected. And thats the big issue with the housing crisis. Its not that central downtown areas dont have enough towers, or that single family homes exist in major cites, it's that as soon as you get into an inner suburb the density falls to like 2,000 to 4,000 per square mile. You could still have nice houses, trees, parks, and be detached and have driveways and still maintain an easy density of 10,000-16,000 within walking distance of a nice little main street.

Think of how de-congested the housing market in NYC would be if there were little cities around it(besides yonkers and NJ side of the river). If Nassau county and westchester didnt immediately drop off a cliff densitywise? Again it could still be full of trees and parks and golf courses and grass lined streets, and detatched houses, but it would just be plotted a little closer together and have a slightly more urban flair to it.

I was posting about the ending of part 2 of the first season, but season 2 overall is enjoyable. So far its been a flashback to Gojo's school days and its been well put together.

I read the manga week to week too, but I think the scanlation combined with the fact that the power systems and stuff going on get a little convoluted make it hard to follow for me week to week. I imagine with a more official translation and a binge it would be better so Im curious how it'll hold up with the anime catches up.

they could easily just put them on the side or top and bottom, but yeah a lot of sites do that thing where the article loads and then the javascript catches up and you lose your place as the article shifts around and ads and videos start loading

I cant remember internet ads being good ever. From the malware and infinite popup spawning sites of the 90s and early 00s, to those old obtrusive flash based ads(PUNCH OSAMA BIN LADEN AND WIN A FREE GBA!). That said there were those sites that just had some tasteful banner ads here and there that kept things running and it feels those are getting less and less common with ads even on mainstream sites being intrusive.

Internet ads have been a cesspool for so long and then webowners wonder why people block them.

I feel like some responsibility also lies on the way ads are delivered. Even on the more respectable web they use ad services that use a combination of targeted tracking, and random nonsense that gets spooned in by the ad company without much input from the actual website.

Some people would still be entitled and complain, but I feel like most people would be more likely to whitelist sites and live with it if ads were like simple banner ads.

Yeah Ive lived in places that if you look on a map and type stores, restaurants, and etc it's technically walkable. In practice it's narrow sidewalks straddling 45 mph roads with cars that are darting in and out of entrances. Whenever you have to cross the street you gotta pray the 45 mph car doesnt come into a right on red too hot and slam ya.

Then after crossing 4 lanes, feeling the wind of dangerously close traffic, and walking past car centric not that great scenery you arrive at your destination. A parkinglot but from the outside. So now you gotta dart past the parkinglot road where drivers are at their worst and finally passed the parking lot before getting into the store.

It's doable but its not easy or enjoyable, and honestly kinda dangerous when you consider your surroundings, the speed at which cars are traveling, and how due to lack of pedestrian traffic they also dont expect you to be there crossing the street.

The flat part I can believe. I have those old school style coil electric stoves with the little grease bowls under the coils and light wiping is fine, a deep cleaning is a pain in the butt.

Theres no reason induction cant just have normal buttons and knobs though(and some even do theyre out there I googled after seeing this thread)

I believe Sega has removed the DRM off of some of their Yakuza games after a while on steam, so I imagine this should drop off soon too.

I hate the trend of appliances and new devices moving away from old fashioned buttons and dials. My drier recently glitched out and unlike my old school ones that had physical switches to adjust, but new one is just digital tap sensors. I could pause it by opening the door, but in order to get it out of whatever glitch it got stuck in I had to literally pull the plug.

I have heard they have induction stoves that arent digital nonsense though.

Yeah lots of "high resolution" videos with low bitrates that are essentially worse than dvd quality but already scaled the window size is bigger.

Gives me police squad vibes.

Cigarette? Yes it is.

It does get easier after the first major purge. We're still a relatively small site so most of the porn comes from the same few places. I do agree though that it would be nice and easy to just block it.

I also wish there was some more granular control with how instances populate your front page either all or subscribed. As it is the meme instances tend to drown out a lot of everything else.

Not just canceled. Removed from the platform. They have a product that they already paid for that is part of a franchise that has diehard fans who will watch and rewatch even if they dont like it, but somehow it is more profitable to scrub the internet of its existence.

Holy cow 2001.

Gotta love how the republicans try to make it seem like theyre giving you freedom of choice. If they really wanted to lift the burden of paid insurance companies and offer choice they would offer a public government option to people. Instead theyre offering something that's essentially just throwing your money away, unless you like get hit by a car and break every bone in your body(even then the likely high deductible and limited network and lack of hospitalization coverage will still bankrupt you).

It reminds me of the conversation I was having with my family recently about how the big bad NY dems are taking away their CHOICE to use fossil fuels and its like no theyre phasing it out and offering subsidies for people to use alternatives. Theyre requiring new construction to be all electric, and then eventually theyre phasing out being able to buy a new gas furnace over a heat pump(which will also use less energy to run most of the year than your gas stove and also double as central air in the summer). Even then you can still keep and repair what you have it's just a matter of when it's finally time to make that expensive replacement you'll have to replace it with something good.

Theres also fear mongering about them taking away smokers, grills, and firepits which I cant find anything other than right wing sites mentioning it cause "california did it" but then when I google california they didnt lose their grills either.

Wonder how long before these things start automatically mailing you a ticket because they calculated your speed between camera stops and determined you were going 3-5mph over the limit on the highway and if the "well it was used to catch a criminal" crowd will be as accepting of this technology then

We've already got numerous examples of how these ai models and face recognition models tend to have biases or are fed data that accidentally has a racial bias. Its not a stretch of the imagination to see how this can go wrong.