Ice(frozen water, right?) is food? In which culture?
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New research suggests it is slightly about the medium (for the kids, idk about adults it wasn’t discussed). Physical books are better for attention span, apparently because they have “friction”, i.e., you have to turn the page yourself so you “work” for the information, which makes information “valuable” so you hold onto it.
I guess we can have crank-powered e-readers where you have to work to turn the page?
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Not The Onion•US man issues challenge to disprove his claim of having world’s smallest penis to raise micropenis awarenessEnglish
4·4 months agoGet good needs a definition? Learn -> (hypothesize -> practice -> look at results/ask for feedback -> improve hypothesis), repeat?
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Lemmy Shitpost•Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."
23·4 months agoI need everyone to look at what you can do with HTML5 “game engines”. You want mouse poisiton? You want to know if the mouse is in on the page or not? Internet speed? Audio card codec?
If a 13 years old using the free version of construct3 can do it, capitalism can do it.
Guys you heard it here first: You can drink alcohol for 16 hours everyday and it’s not addiction.
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A Boring Dystopia•Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...
3·4 months agoWere carrier pigeons not successful? Just because something is discontinued, doesn’t mean it was not successful for its time when it was deployed?
I still would never watch someone do sports but the other day I had this idea: Children sports must be more exciting to watch because children grow -> they have to adapt to their new arm length on the match day! Whoops his aim is off by 2 cm today, can he adapt in time??!
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Dev says "false DMCA" from Microsoft got their sandbox game removed from Steam over apparent Minecraft copyright, all because of a screenshot of birch treesEnglish
91·4 months agoWhy “can’t you”? Why would academic research be impossible?
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Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•If Paris were Los Angeles, the war in Ukraine would be near MemphisEnglish
1·4 months agoEvery person (who is not deemed invalid, criminals cannot vote haha what if they change the law right?) gets to vote + Everyone’s vote counts the same = If you have one child your family has 3 votes, if your neighbor has 4 children they have 6 votes. In a democratic event, if they can come to an agreement, they choose what happens without your input.
Maybe in the next generation your children will out-procreate their children, then you get to decide without your neighbor’s input. How isn’t it fuck-based?
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Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•If Paris were Los Angeles, the war in Ukraine would be near MemphisEnglish
24·4 months agoThis is a real problem though. Democracy is a fuck-based system. Uneducated people fuck without protection more ofthen than educated people, which gives them more voting power. Minorities (mental or otherwise) are only protected if the big-fuckers want it, since by design majority wins.
I used to believe art could be used to gaze into the zeitgeist of their production times.
Then I realized what you have just said. If someone in the future looks at hollywood productions, they’ll have very wrong ideas about how people live nowadays. Like, it will be comically wrong. You could throw a dice to select a verb from a dictionary and you’d be more correct.
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Games•Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go aheadEnglish
1·5 months agoThis is about steam. Post another thing for epic if you want. Whataboutism is not a good look. Two things can be bad at the same time. One thing can be “better” than something else while still being bad.
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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevantEnglish
21·5 months agoSounds more plausible than some of the tech talking points.
They “just” need the expantional growth to be linear? If we can wish to change maths, we can change our own biology!
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Not The Onion•Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, WEnglish
3·5 months agoEuropea (continent) is not one guy or his friends (guys). It has EU in it, UK in it, some ideologically opposing countries etc. Russia is in this continent. Turkey too!
I wasn’t in those statistics (open seas) until i was 24.
I’m pretty sure my cousin (6 y.o) looks like a 46 y.o to the credit card firms because he plays on his father’s phone.
Most people are children (western countries have weird age pyramids but that’s nothing compared to Asia), that’s my reasoning. I’m very suprised I’m wrong.
My head canon: Most gamers are children: their parents who have no interest in their kids’ hobbies buy the “biggest game” to show their affection.
AI is not complicated (hard but solvable with time and effort), it’s complex(easy but numerous and their interactions make it hard)?
sigmoid(aX+b) is not that complicated
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World News@quokk.au•Denmark deploys F-35A stealth fighters over Greenland supported by French tanker
54·5 months agoGonna be very effective when the US hits that kill switch and shows the world you shouldn’t buy anything from US if you want to own stuff.




Italy is left of Bernie? I’m apparently ignorant, can you please tell me where is that intersection of “left of Bernie” and “adult children lives at home”?
Maybe I don’t understand left of Bernie: Is he far right so left of him is still right?