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Rhaedas, to memes in Should of built a better foundation
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The only issue with this adaptation of a great comic is that it infers the Confederacy was a well built structure that depended on that one small thing. The Confederacy didn't exist that long, it even didn't have a single flag version for longer than a year or so. Change it to the southern states' economy and it makes more sense.

Rhaedas, to memes in Should of built a better foundation
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It's certainly a chaotic mess, but perhaps knowing the original subject of the comic tarnishes my take on it being used for other things in the same way. Analogies are often tricky.

Rhaedas, to memes in No doubts
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You're right in that it's not meant to have an answer as it's normally told philosophically. But the biological and evolutionary answer is that there is no dividing line to give that answer because species don't change with individuals but with large populations over great amounts of time. We see those lines because we find fossils of things related to but different enough to others to call them a different name. And the real mind blower is that almost all creatures that did exist never left fossils to find.

The false dilemma of the chicken and the egg shares the same misunderstanding that the "missing link" fallacy does. There's no line between things except over time and thousands of generations.

Rhaedas, to memes in No doubts
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What comes between chickens and their non-chicken ancestors? The problem is in our human need to classify everything into different neat boxes, when it's an actual long and continuous process. In short, the "dilemma" created is more of an argument about what separates species, and that's a hell of a rabbit hole with no single answer.

But the answer is the egg, since a chicken born from that egg is different than its parents.

Rhaedas, to memes in Paradox how could you
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I've played some action games in the teens and was fine with it. Maybe lower frame rate at low resolution (1080) isn't as apparent as the high 4K, but I've never understood why people can't play with frame rates still far faster than film (if it's truly refreshing the frames completely and not ripping the picture of course). I suppose this argument goes the same direction as the vinyl/CD one, with both opinions dead sure they're right.

If the game is handling variations of frame rates during play badly, that's a different story. The goal is for the player to not realize there's a change and stay focused on the game.

Rhaedas, to memes in Even my mom is a better pirate.
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"But you do know who I am."

"Yes. Because you don't use a VPN, dumbass."

Rhaedas, to memes in Well I feel better now.
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They know how to take a reservation, they just don't know how to keep a reservation.

Rhaedas, to memes in Threw out my back... While walking?
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What will always get you is doing something unusual. When working, always have a safe procedure for moving and be very careful when doing things a different way. When at home or at leisure, don't go beyond the limits of what you're used to doing without planning and prep. And know those limits! I've pulled my back a few times before and I wasn't doing anything more than usual, but I was doing it differently, and it got me.

Rhaedas, to memes in How do y'all say GIF?
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Those who say it with a hard G must also say JFEG using the same logic. I'm fine with someone saying it either way, it's been around so long that I think the choices tend to be regional (aka BBS era).

Rhaedas, to AskKbin in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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I had created a Lemmy account at the beginning, not having a clue about things (like so many of us). Then I ran into someone suggesting Kbin - had to search around to figure out where it was and how to get it. The early stock UI for Kbin won me over vs. Lemmy's, even though the content was (more or less) the same. With lots of scripting to customize the looks further and with features those scripts or default that Lemmy users are asking for at the moment, I'm very happy here.

Am I getting the same as any other Lemmy user? I think it comes and goes (it seems to vary between Lemmy instances too), but that's a matter of maturing the federation workings, and I get plenty as it is so it's not like there's nothing to see. Plus when I need more things to look at I can jump over to the microfeed tab and get lots to read as well from Mastadon.

Rhaedas, (edited ) to AskKbin in Kbin federation change?
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Maybe to avoid repeated questions like this there should be a set place on at least the home page to have a notice of potential issues. Sort of like a status of the general system, since there's a lot more going on under the hood than just a webpage loading. As far as real estate for such, right top under the settings seems fine for a line or so of text or something.

And it turns out that's exactly what is done. Just saw a notice about a planned outage tomorrow posted. I do think it should be at the top and not below all the subscription/magazine info though, and maybe a bit more "flashy" with an obvious border contrast or something.

Another edit: Okay, someone is either reading this and liking the idea, or it's total coincidence and they figured out it would look better.

Rhaedas, to RedditMigration in My Reddit GDPR Request took 20 days, this is what it looks like
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I accidentally wandered into a Reddit thread via Googling something (it's everywhere) and noticed I had gotten mine as well in a message. Looking through it I don't know how useful it really is to have other than for posterity, but the sad part was in thinking that it was just my comments with no context, and those discussion chains are all but lost. Some probably have missing parts due to deletions, and of course they all would require going to Reddit to even read, unless I can just use the URL to maybe find it in an outside archive?

I know it's more than just Huffman behind all this, but I keep thinking of the quote that one person can make a difference. That difference isn't always a good one, and burning things down is always easier than building.

Rhaedas, to RedditMigration in Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B
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Two tildes (~~) on each side does a strikethrough.

Rhaedas, to RedditMigration in Lemmy lets you edit the title of your post
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I had learned about this a week or so ago, and the concern about the ability was that since the title does appear in the URL as well, how would that affect potential falsification and abuse. Well, in seeing this post about it again, I thought I'd experiment. Assuming your original title just mentioned Lemmy I edited the URL, and lo and behold it goes to this same page. So then I thought, is that title part even important? I cut off the URL after the 114218 number. It still goes here. So I guess everything after the post number is ignored, which means there's no problem at all.

Rhaedas, to RedditMigration in I'm no climate scientist, but it looks to me like we might have skipped over oops.
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!@ OverTheCliff (referring to the Lemmings nickname)

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