everything you say is true.

But thinking that cities will redesign their streets without public pressure? I doubt it.

comparison is the thief of joy

Just a hunch, since technological advancements seem to hit the public realm much faster in places like China, in the cities especially. I don’t know what the laws are like there, but I’ve heard rumors that there is less government regulations for technologies that can benefit the general public, like drones and automated metros. Oh yeah, and how could I forget about the robots they show off at conventions, to take the place of receptionists and other customer-facing positions.

Minecraft is the most popular best selling game of all time, and the single-player mode is still being updated. Granted, many people play on multiplayer servers, but still.

At the very least, you can still pirate it and play cracked multiplayer with friends.

I made the mistake of buying the game year ago, and bought a bunch of DLC at 50% or greater sales, and now the sunken cost fallacy has taken hold on me, and I still want to buy more . . . . (at least I’m broke so I can’t right now hehehaha)

Overcooked, Liars Bar, Ready or Not, Schedule 1, Elden Ring, Jackbox, etc . . . . . All work great as multiplayer titles on linux. There’s a great trove of fun games that don’t require kernel level anticheat because the the community of players isn’t as toxic.

it’ll definitely get the greenlight in countries like China before anywhere in the west, I believe

Oh no worries, I am writing a Cisco networking exam in about a month, so I’ve actually studied subnets and addressing a good amount, but I don’t mind the refresher!

I was just speaking more generally, in terms of programming, where integers and strings are different data types, yet you can store numbers as a string, which I always found interesting.

interesting . . In my head, I think of ip addresses like just decimal values or integers separated by periods, but clearly a decimal value isn’t processed as such by a computer. To think that IP addresses are simply strings is pretty interesting to my amateur mind, because for all my life I thought of them as technical computer jargon that isn’t the same as what I used to think strings were: words!

Okay, I’m learning networking but have no idea what this means

My guess is that, whoever wrote the article on intellinews (the author isn’t mentioned by name, red flag #1), was referencing the date they saw a related social media post, which prompted them to create this alarmist bullshit for ad revenue.

In this false article, they directly mention ‘The development, which was confirmed by Spanish marine scientists at El Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, has triggered widespread alarm among climate scientists due to its potential to accelerate global warming and destabilise weather patterns worldwide.’

So yes, several of the authors in the Rising Surface Salinity article are from Institut de Ciències del Mar, like Estrella Olmedo and Verónica González‐Gambau, for example.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500440122

Dubious article that misrepresents the study it references, and even relies on ‘social media posts’ for certain claims. What a joke.

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Could be. I ride on the sidewalk on roads like the one in this post, but my head is on a swivel to make sure turning cars aren’t taken by surprise.

Glad the kid wasn’t killed, but saddened that Kitchener, while possessing some great cycling routes, completely ghosts on infrastructure where it’s needed. If I were that kid, I’d ride on the sidewalk on that kind of street.

I’ve switched to OpenTracks, and short of the (imo) needless social media functions, it’s great!

“Detachment 201: the Executive Innovation Corps”

Lol, as if AI technology in the military hasn’t been in the public zietgiest for at least the past 40 years

Funny, I’m trying to think of the amount of times my 8 year old daughter asked me to switch to windows because Linux has too many issues, and I’ve got nothing.

The real copium is thinking Linux is poverty, just to feel good about windows.

Quality copypasta!