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  • Those flatearth weirdos would rather admit that the Earth is hollow than that it's a normal (albeit flawed) full sphere.

  • Julie and their son are démodé - Juma shows us the future! Glory! Fashion! Grass in the butt!

    EDIT: what am I saying, mon Dieu? I didn't realise Julie was going for a retro look!

    Such acclaimed design deserves to be celebrated for more than just a fade!

  • Ooooo, look at mr. “I’m sane” over here!

    I am sane. I SWEAR I AM SANE! /me grabs the kitchen knife CAN'T YOU SEE IT? I'M SANER THAN EVERYONE ELSE HERE!!!!

    [I couldn't help but play along with the joke, sorry.]

  • If the technical boundary collapsed, put a human-made boundary in its place. You have the right to have some peace of mind and quiet; make yourself unavailable for at least a good chunk of the day, and make sure your folks know you're unavailable. And why.

    That's how I remain sane.

  • The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name. Cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name "thagomizer" in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education.

    I love everything about this.

  • My guess is that the taste of non-avian dinos would vary quite a bit:

    • large herbivores would probably taste similar to beef, venison and cheval, except really gamey. Because it's what people who ate ostrich say about its meat, it isn't chicken-like at all.
    • smaller ones could perhaps taste like birds? Specially if omnivorous.
  • Not surprised with the lobbying group.

    Ross did an amazing job addressing the babble in the statement. Specially because he's being extra careful on saying things to the best of his knowledge - note how he doesn't say "it's false", or "it's a lie", but rather "a German lawyer thinks this is false" and "this sounds like a lie"; gotta respect that.

    Some additional comments:

    The first paragraph of the lobbying group's statement might sound like an introduction, but it's already a straw man - it's clearly misleading the reader on what Stop Killing Games is about.

    as the protections we put in place

    Excuse me?

    1. Sod off with this "THINK ON PROTEKSHUN!" idiotic argument;
    2. let us not forget the main concern when it comes to data protection are companies harvesting data so they can sell it to their "affiliate partners" (i.e. data vultures eager who'll use it for targetted spam).

    Note #1 is a cancer way more widespread than just the gaming industry. Every fucking bloody time some megacorpo wants to fight against some sane customer protection law, they babble shite like this. And it always sounds like "a user/customer is not a rational human being, it's irrational trash, and if you let it do what it wants it'll cause itself harm, so We need to protect those filthy things. And how convenient, the way to protect this filth against itself magically aligns with our financial interests!"

    these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.

    This is not even a fallacy. Not even bullshit. It's simply to be a lying bastard, and to call the readers bloody muppets by proxy.

    1M+ sign European Citizen's Initiative "Stop Destroying Videogames": Help us protect gamers' consumer rights!

    I think it would be sensible if the word "gamer" was replaced with "citizen" here. Because it's what politicians care about.

  • I was almost mentioning that.

    By Darwin, Huxley and Haldane: why are our playgrounds the same organs as the garbage ducts? Why???

  • If my analysis is correct, the people in the Ukrainian government do know that Putin and Trump are on the same team. And they're trying to break it, by exploiting the fact Trump has a huge ego and a small brain. That's why Podolyak is framing the attacks as humiliating Trump.

    After Zelenskyy was humiliated in the White House no less, he must know these people are Demons right?

    When fighting a devil, sometimes you need to make a deal with another.

  • Leosqualo da Vinci? Johaainnes Vermeer? 鳍白石 / Qí Báishí? ...Pi-cação?

  • Time to cancel my Crunchyroll subscription. Oh wait I don't have one, I simply torrent my series.

    Seriously now. The anime fansubbing scene is one that makes me genuinely happy. It shows me there are plenty amateurs out there that are as good or better than plenty professionals like me.

  • I don’t see what the problem is with using AI for translations. if the translations are good enough and cheap enough, they should be used.

    Because machine translations for any large chunk of text are consistently awful: they don't get references right, they often miss the point of the original utterance, they ignore cultural context, so goes on. It's like wiping your arse with an old sock - sure, you could do it in a pinch, but you definitively don't want to do it regularly!

    If they’re not good enough, another business can offer better translations as a differentiator.

    That "business" is called watching pirated anime with fan subs, made by people who genuinely enjoy anime and want others to enjoy it too.

  • As I mentioned in another thread, São Paulo state's customer protection organ is basically telling people to not buy Nintendo. Indirectly, with pretty words, but that's what it's doing.

    [IANAL] Also, note some stuff in the Switch 2 user agreement is legally invalid in Brazil. Nintendo is shielding itself with an "ackshyually we don't sell it in Brazil lol lmao", that's why Procon - SP is calling it out.

  • 22 yards in a chain

    What. I had to websearch this because it sounds too silly, but apparently it's true.

    But, really, even if it used saner numbers (like 12:3:24:8:3), it still feels nothing like a "metric dozenal" would look like. It's missing the two things the metric system did right:

    1. All prefixes are unit-agnostic, like they were numbers. For example you can plop "kilo" = 10³ on weight (kilogram), length (kilometre), volume (kilolitre), energy, (kilojoule), etc.
    2. All prefixes must be an integer power of the base. For example you could make a 10⁸ prefix, even if there's none, and it would be OK; but you can't make, say, a 10^(2.447) = 300 one.
  • Metric "dozenalisation" would be perfectly viable, and metric-dozenal units would still look nothing like USA units.

    I'll use length for the example. All of them in base 10, just for clarity. (Also the name of the units would be different, but I'm not changing them for this example.)

    • metric-decimal: 10⁻³ km = 10⁻² hm = 10⁻¹ dam = 10⁰m = 10¹dm = 10²cm = 10³mm
    • metric-dozenal: 12⁻³ km = 12⁻²hm = 12⁻¹ dam = 12⁰m = 12¹dm = 12²cm = 12³mm
    • USA units: 1/1760mi = 1yd = 3ft = 312 in = 3126 P = 312612 p

    Are you noticing what the USA units do? They don't stick to a base.

  • People are focusing on the Excel part, I'll focus on the maths.

    I wish our societies picked base-12 instead of base-10. Divisions in base-12 give you repeating digits less often, and being able to split exactly by 3, 6, 9 and 12₁₀=10₁₂ is far more useful than doing it for 5 and 10₁₀=A₁₂.

    Plus 4chan would stop arguing if 0.999... = 1. It would argue instead if 0.BBB... = 1.

  • Agreed. It's the best of both worlds: retro-inspired games can pick what the retro games did right, and still add modern improvements.

  • Peer reviewed by my neighbour's dog. She'd probably add "even if you see no threat, and even if you don't give a fuck about humans, it's better to bark anyway just to be safe". Except in posh paper speech.

  • I hope so, too. Their current situation isn't currently the best (a lot of them went away in the late 10s, simply because people were using them less); I'm kind of hoping to see a revival, but that's at the mercy of the STF, so I can't completely rule out that the situation will evolve exactly like in the UK. It's "let's wait and see", you know?

    I'm also wondering the impact of that on chatrooms, that used to be extremely popular here.

  • When something similar happened in the UK, it was pretty much exclusively smaller/niche forums, run by volunteers and donations, that went offline.

    [Warning, IANAL] I am really not sure if the experience is transposable for two reasons:

    1. UK follows Saxon tribal law, while Brazil follows Roman civil law. I am not sure but I believe the former requires both sides to dig up precedents, and that puts a heavier burden on the smaller side of a legal litigation. While in the later, if you show "ackshyually in that older case the defendant was deemed guilty", all the judge will say is "so? What is written is what matters; if the defendant violated the law or not.".
    2. The Americas in general are notorious for sloppy law enforcement. Specially Brazil. Doubly so when both parties are random nobodies.

    So there's still a huge room for smaller forums to survive, or even thrive. It all depends on how the STF enforces it. For example it might take into account that a team of volunteers has less liability because their ability to remove random junk from the internet is lower than some megacorpo from the middle of nowhere.

    Additionally, it might be possible the legislative screeches at the judiciary, and releases some additional law that does practically the same as that article 19, except it doesn't leave room for the judiciary to claim it's unconstitutional. Because, like, as I said the judiciary is a bit too powerful, but the other powers still can fight back, specially the legislative.

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    When you find the perfect instance for you.

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    Kika's play time be like:

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    Litterbox woes - how to solve them?

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    Isekai - ani.social community to discuss stories with characters being transported or reincarnated into another world

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