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lobut,

I think a lot of these “cab companies” use the tips to pay the drivers now and take more for themselves.

lobut,

I don’t know why in sci-fi or other fiction, I love it when they use Terra. Not sure why I find that more believable.

lobut,

I love the 24 hour clock and living in London, UK I used it all the time. However, I remember one time I bought movie tickets at lunch for 17:30 and my brain thought it was for 7:30pm and I called my friend at the last moment saying: “you have to leave work early if we’re gonna make it!”

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Just like how the Supreme Court justices wouldn’t take away Roe V Wade …

lobut,

I just bought it based on this alone. Early-access and FPS games aren’t typically my thing, but I like the cut of this person’s jib.

lobut,

Most people know now, but for those that don’t:

en.wikipedia.org/…/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_wo…

It says it’s attributed to Ernest Hemingway but that claim seems unlikely.

The claim of Hemingway’s authorship originates in an unsubstantiated anecdote about a wager among him and other writers. Hemingway is said to have claimed he could write a short story only six words short. In a 1991 letter to Canadian humorist John Robert Colombo, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke recounts: “He’s [Hemingway] supposed to have won a $10 bet (no small sum in the '20s) from his fellow writers. They paid up without a word. … Here it is. I still can’t think of it without crying— FOR SALE. BABY SHOES. NEVER WORN.”[1]

lobut,

I wonder how his listeners can keep hearing this same message for years?

lobut,

It’s great but I’ve had greater sensitivity in my finger tips after trying to get used to it. Then typing hurt so I had to switch to a trackball and just regular vertical mouse. I miss the gestures for virtual desktops.

lobut,

I’d have loved it if Conan O’Brien and an Andy/Jordan combo.

Conan has the loving meanness you need for a taskmaster.

lobut,

I feel like an idiot. I read “bear” and tilted my phone and squinted and all that. Time to go sleep.

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    “The Art of the Deal”

    He has 'em right where he wants them. Any minute now they’ll fold!

    lobut,

    I can imagine it’s just really hot in there with the computers and monitors going.

    lobut,

    Carbonara

    lobut,

    Crash Course too!

    www.youtube.com/

    www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 - Crash Course World History was one of my favourites.

    lobut,

    He’s got terrible takes. I don’t like seeing his face or hearing his voice. Why is he in television? Only good thing about Inside the NBA going down is that we won’t see Draymond on it.

    lobut,

    Yup. I’ve just been purchasing games without the Verified tag now because I’ll just be like: “yeah that seems like it’d work and it typically does”.

    I made the mistake of installing Stardew Valley on it for 1.6. Oof, I’m playing it everywhere. Very bad when you can’t handle your addictions well.

    lobut, (edited )

    Don’t be embarrassed that you thought better of someone. That’s their failure, not yours.

    lobut, (edited )

    Yeah, I think the only take away is that they’re not Trump sycophants like Aileen Cannon.

    It’s not quite the needed win, but it’s still something :/

    lobut,

    I don’t understand what this is trying to say. The cybertruck is a disaster and I think that social distancing was for COVID right?

    Also, I think there’s something called the Flynn Effect and it’s that in general kids are getting smarter with each generation (I think?).

    lobut,

    Yup, I didn’t buy the Steam Deck to do 4K ray tracing at 120FPS. I bought it so I can pick up any Steam Deck Verified game and play it without relative issue. Being able to suspend the game immediately and just knowing things work beats fiddling with Windows on a handheld.

    lobut,

    My geophysicist friend laughed at me for a little long when I said “I’m a computer scientist”.

    I never took that degree/job position or whatever seriously anyway. I’ve always giggled at software engineering too. I just call myself a programmer.

    lobut,

    lol, okay that made me chuckle … I liked that.

    Although, we both eventually got into the jobs for what we studied for. We’ve made that jokes both in university and when we got into respective fields.

    New “Recall” feature in Windows 11 is a privacy nightmare (www.theverge.com)

    The new “Recall” feature really does look good on paper, but the taking in mind that it catalogues almost everything you do on your computer, it could turn out to be a privacy nightmare. “logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and...

    lobut, (edited )

    I mean … I saw that for some reason when I logged into Windows 11 yesterday it had the NBA score in the bottom left. Who the hell asked if I wanted that?

    Went back to my Linux/Mint box as I rarely use my windows one but that pissed me right off.

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    How much of that is the NHS getting now? /s

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