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HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to gaming in You know what? I'll just wait...
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With the recent track record of AAA game studios and their milking of long-running series, it might not even be worth pirating.

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to memes in What's up, my fellow trees?
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It’s not impressive to attach green plastic bits to camouflage a cell tower (which IMO makes it uglier and more noticeable than just a bare antenna mast).

It would be extremely impressive if they could actually derive the required power from onboard photovoltaics though!

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to comicstrips in Strange times...
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Fun fact: Strawberry is called an accessory fruit because its seeds are on the outside, so the seeds themselves are the real “fruits” (in the same way each grain of rice or wheat is itself a fruit, well technically the fruit consists of the grain plus the outer pod/husk that gets removed when harvested). The red flesh we like to eat is the accessory fruit because it in itself does not contain seeds.

Raspberries and blackberries are called aggregate fruits because they’re essentially many fruits attached together as a single structure. Actually, a strawberry is called an aggregate accessory fruit because it has many “fruits” directly attached to an accessory structure.

HiddenLayer5, to comicstrips in Strange times...
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First rule of working in the psych ward: Don’t join a psych gang.

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to comicstrips in Strange times...
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Vegetable is also exclusively a culinary definition. Vegetables are essentially any edible plant structure that are not sweet and aren’t the seeds directly (which are grains or nuts). Typically vegetables are flowers, leaves, stems, or roots, but some non-sweet fruits like cucumbers, peppers, and green beans are also squarely in the vegetable category despite definitely being fruits, no reason they can’t be both.

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to memes in Everytime
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“Yes but what did you do to de-escalate the situation?”

Reading this and all these other comments I wonder if at least part of it is just petty bullshit by the school administration, like “How dare the two of you create more work for us at our jobs for which we have licenses! You both need to be punished for that!”

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to fuck_cars in Rishi Sunak diverts £8.3 Billion from high speed rail to... fixing potholes
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It might sound crazy, but a coast to coast high speed rail line could potentially be conceivable in Canada if we really went all in on rail. We only really have one or two major cities for each of the interior provinces and BC, so just draw a line connecting all of them. There’s not that much in the way outside those cities, and this corridor could connect to the Montreal-Quebéc corridor, and then further on toward the east coast where it again only has to connect a few major cities.

The biggest problem would be BC though, we have a ton of mountains over here which might require some serious tunneling.

Perhaps we could colocate it with the Trans Canada Highway corridor?

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to fuck_cars in 280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
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CityNerd also has a video on speed governors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBSkLrYbLk0

It’s also not unheard of either. IIRC Japan had speed governors on their cars for a time, which limited them to their national highway speed of 100 km/h (which is still very fast to be fair).

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to fuck_cars in 280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
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Yeah, unfortunately speed limits don’t mean anything and studies show that drivers pretty much always drive as fast as they think they can regardless. The issue is that North America has stroads which are highly conducive to driving fast, damn near highway speeds. If we had the narrow, potentially tile or even cobblestone local streets that European and Asian cities have it would be less of a problem because those conditions directly promote lower speeds and more attentive driving.

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to memes in data loss
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I’ve legit once killed a hard drive by absentmindedly standing it up on its edge and then accidentally knocking it over on a hard table. It would seem to work for about two minutes when turned on and then would suddenly turn off and you can hear the read write head abruptly returning to the home position.

So you’re telling me I experienced loss for real?!

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Useless messenger
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I just use Discord from my browser where it’s at least sandboxed and doesn’t have access to my filesystem.

Since it’s an electron app anyway it’s basically the same as the app.

HiddenLayer5, to linuxmemes in Bye bye edge
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Reject modernity, return to having a single 120v power switch on the front of the computer!

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to fuck_cars in 280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
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My biggest issue with scooters is that the sidewalks on most streets in North America are way too narrow to safely use them while others are walking, and we’re seriously lacking in dedicated bike lanes. Both of which are issues with the prioritization of car infrastructure over all else as opposed to problems with scooters themselves. Since scooters cannot safely run on the road but is still too fast for exclusively pedestrian paths. Where there are dedicated bike lanes in my city, scooters share them with bikes perfectly fine.

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Linux mint = best beginner distro
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Out of the mainstream distros what might end up getting bought by Google or even Microsoft, Ubuntu seems to me like the most likely candidate.

I mean, RedHat was once the even more likely candidate, but

HiddenLayer5, (edited ) to memes in Everytime
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Can any Americans confirm or refute whether US schools actually punish you for getting beaten up regardless of whether you tried to defend yourself? It sounds way too stupid to be true yet I hear about it again and again.

Also what the hell happened to Stand Your Ground that the US is so infamous for? That doesn’t apply to children who are victims of assault and battery?

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