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US VP Harris to meet Netanyahu this week at White House
  • There will be two candidates to choose from who are going to collectively get 90+ percent of the vote. You can vote for the lesser of 2 evils or waste your vote on third party.

  • US VP Harris to meet Netanyahu this week at White House
  • Yes but that's the "things are bad (Harris), so might as well make them worse (Trump)" attitude.

  • Ubisoft: Setting sail with Skull and Bones on Steam this August 22
  • Make it free to play and sell cosmetics, only way a game like this has a chance.

  • People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account
  • Yeah if I were depending on Twitter I would have been informing people of my plans to move for months now.

  • People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account
  • Yeah wouldn't be bad. Could be an official source to cite.

  • Isn't "MAGA" an admission that currently, America is NOT great?
  • To be fair any extreme tends to be miserable.

  • The internet has entered its Kamala Harris ‘coconut tree’ era
  • I'm American and this is the first I've heard of it. And it doesn't make any sense so far.

  • Does Kamala Harris have a chance and
  • Yep there are a lot of Republican single issue voters, guns rights and abortion bans are two of the biggest of those issues.

    But damned if the Democrats don't do it to themselves nearly every time, I'm surprised Biden didn't.

  • Asus ROG Ally X Review - IGN [9/10]
  • They never even finished updating all the Windows applets for Windows 7/8/10 AFAIK.

  • MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against Biden
  • Those people aren't going to let go of their anti-Biden identity that easily, we will probably still see those decals for years.

  • What's the best reason to vote for Trump?
  • I guarantee you it will be another one of those deals where Ukraine gives up their land to Russia, and those deals are pointless because Ukraine won't accept them.

  • What song would cause you to do this to yourself ?
  • The dance monkey song.

  • Kids and their computers these days.
  • I love computers, they are consistent and literal and logical. Can't say the same for most people.

  • Kids and their computers these days.
  • That sounds worse than venereal. :O

  • Donald Trump says he 'took a bullet for democracy'
  • That's it we are breaking up.

  • What opinions do you have that you consider (shallow && pedantic)?
  • I have a friend that pronounces it as "jury".

  • OneDrive deleted my files!
  • Your files are now my files. Pray I continue to let you access them.

  • What's something you used to dislike that you have come to enjoy?
  • Alan Jackson, Chris Stapleton, and Jamey Johnson are a few of the mainstream country artists that I still like.

  • Bad news: Playstation is starting to block their games from running on Proton. Playstation Overlay is blocked on Linux in Ghost of Tsushima. The same thing happened with the Concord beta.
  • Back in PS3 days Sony were the ones that let you install any hard drive you wanted, didn't make you pay for multiplayer, and let you install Linux on your PS3.

    But now they are worse overall.

  • kotaku.com 60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows

    A report shows that while the industry is growing, its biggest competition is Fortnite, GTA, Call of Duty, and Roblox

    60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows

    This data will probably only lead to more live service games. :|

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    technology @lemm.ee dan1101 @lemm.ee
    www.wired.com Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates

    In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating AI-generated images depicting middle school classmates.

    Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates

    This is strange to me. Did the students create the deepfake nudes or did software create those nudes? A normal image editor program won't just create explicit material on its own, the user has to do it with a mouse/tablet/whatever. But AI algorithms will. Even if the kids were giving the instructions to AI, why isn't the software and/or the company that runs it at least somewhat liable for creating child porn?

    Suppose the students drew the nudes themselves, but they were really bad stick figure drawings with a name beside them to say who it's supposed to be? Is that illegal? What if they were really good artists and the drawing looked like a photo? At what point is the art considered good enough to be illegal?

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    www.wired.com Why Teslas Totaled in the US Are Mysteriously Reincarnated in Ukraine

    Ukraine’s fearless and expert EV mechanics bring electric vehicles declared unfixable in the US and Canada back to life on the other side of the world.

    Why Teslas Totaled in the US Are Mysteriously Reincarnated in Ukraine

    The Ukranian guy in this article didn't like spending $400 a month on fuel for his Jeep. So he spent $53,000 getting a wrecked Tesla imported and fixed, so he could pay about $50 a month to charge the Tesla.

    Now he just has to drive the Tesla for 12 years to break even on fuel costs. Good move. :|

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    Green dragonfly

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    That's no moon!

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    How do you feel about valet parking?

    Valet parking seems to be getting more common at some city locations that don't have a good parking situation.

    How do you feel about valet parking? Doesn't bother you in the least, will do it if you have to, will never do it, something else?

    Personally I don't like some random person driving my car.

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    What does cigarette smoking do for people?

    I've never smoked, but I've been around people that do. What do people feel during/after smoking? It doesn't seem to make people high or hallucinate or anything. It maybe mildly relaxes them?

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    UC Vanguard and Freestar Rangers questlines question

    I've been getting diverted on sidequests, capturing ships, and exploration too much.

    But I really don't want to do the Constellation questline yet, I've seen some spoilers and I'm not ready for that . I'm thinking of concentrating on the UC Vanguard or Freestar Collective questlines. Can I complete those without interfering with the Constellation questline?

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    Crimson Fleet Captain ship

    Just went through a Starfield experience that sort of awed me. Wanted to capture some pirate ships, I took a mission from Freestar Rangers mission terminal to destroy a "Crimson Fleet Captain." I thought it was a person, but that's the name of a ship.

    Engaged the ship, battle was fairly easy, took out their engines with EM weapons and boarded the ship. I was immediately blown away by how big and full of stuff the ship was. I've got a couple class B ships, but this one was probably 5 times the size of my Aegis. There were rooms after rooms, a few big open areas, several kitchens and sitting areas, a medical bay, storerooms, weapon rooms, armor mannequins, and a medium size trek-like bridge. The ship had at least 3 levels, and had probably 10-15 pirates to fight. Got to the captain's chair and was able to sit in it because I had leveled up my pilot skill enough. The ship was mine! I did this sort of thing last week with a smaller but impressive ship, but wasn't able to sit in the chair because my pilot skill was too low, so I had to abandon it.

    All the time I was fighting my way through the ship I was saying "oh my god" to myself as I saw how much bigger this ship was than the ones I was used to.

    For all it's shortcomings Starfield really nailed the ships, they are very unique and even compare very favorably to ships from Space Engineers, Empyrion, and Elite Dangerous. Elite Dangerous ships might give them some design competition but you can't walk around in them IIRC.

    ETA: The ship is apparently originally a Crossbow III, it's not all that huge but compared to the starter ship it's massive: https://inara.cz/starfield/ship/1984/

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    Biden administration/NHTSA supporting Mass. right to repair law again

    www.wired.com A Controversial Right-to-Repair Car Law Makes a Surprising U-Turn

    The Biden administration has changed its mind about a Massachusetts state law giving mechanics and car owners access to more diagnostic data.

    A Controversial Right-to-Repair Car Law Makes a Surprising U-Turn

    >Car manufacturers could comply with the law “by using short-range wireless protocols, such as via Bluetooth,” to give owners or independent shops authorized by owners access to the information they need to diagnose issues with and repair vehicles, the letter says.

    Hopefully no manufacturers are allowing changes to the vehicle wirelessly. It should be read-only.

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    www.theguardian.com Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves

    Breakthrough raises hopes that musicality of natural speech can be restored in patients with disabling neurological conditions

    Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves

    Sound clip is pretty creepy.

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    Our entire existence may be a sort of stable spacetime bubble that can pop at any moment.

    Like ants nesting on a river bank, some only live a few days. A colony could live for many ant generations on a riverbank but when a big flood comes their entire world is wiped out.

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    Has anyone ever written something with a fat Sharpie and put the cap back on without getting ink on their hands?

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