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I take your point, but for me at least the disgust is more in the way the different situations are used (and characterized) by the author. Freezing all alien life is obviously horr…

Yes, the final chapter. Aside from it being biologically impossible to repopulate from a single couple, it was not really portrayed ambiguously. I don't care to reread it, but from…

Tbh the torture scenes are not nearly as disturbing as the underage incest. It's like "Saw" vs. a pedo flick from the 70s. Especially weird since the latter is portrayed like some …

There's a big psychological difference between the noise level in a transitory space like an office parking lot and the same noise level at a suburban home. Nobody wants their back…

Apparently it did, but it was turned off by default since it could have a performance impact on slower machines.

It creeps in when you treat the political compass website as an objective and reliable barometer of political bias.

God, I wish people would stop using that political compass site as the basis for any sort of analysis. It's a useful metaphor, but that specific site and the test on it is complete…

The article doesn't even mention Skyrim. To add that to the title plus the username itself but not the fact he was innocent is a wild choice.

The first scenario reminds me of the 2023 LessWrong story "A Disneyland without Children": https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pk9mofif2jWbc6Tv3/fiction-a-... It's a dynamic we already…

Plus the current admin is extremely hostile towards wind power projects.

Maybe it's semantics, but I feel like local QoL concerns (mainly noise and electric bills, plus an overblown focus on water) are the primary driver for in-community resistance. Sho…

I'm not up on the Maverick, but the comparison chart for the Slate EV feels pretty misleading: - the Slate's range is now 205 miles across the board, not 150/240 - both the REO and…

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Migicovsky wrote an article on it: https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-... That said, I'm happy with my Pebble on iPhone (though I'd be happi er if it had f…

On a practical level, politeness, complete sentences, capitalization, etc., seem weakly correlated with higher-quality answers. This is less true than in the early days, but more r…

Biden did both, at least at first. Age (and refusal to recognize it) hobbled him in the end, but during his term he was one of the more effective presidents of the last several dec…

It's kind of what happens when an electorate empowers a pathologically lying corrupt criminal to head of state and gives their craven sycophants legislative majorities.

If only iOS didn't gatekeep some of its most useful functions, that would be great.

Historically speaking, isn't the core of most revolutions the product of "elite overproduction" -- educated young people expecting to secure a high status position who are instead …

I played on desktop and it seemed pretty impossible tbh. They veer around unpredictably when bumped, and explode long before you can plausibly bump them into a pool. Limiting that …

Cute! But the car challenges in Tier 8 feel undoable -- they're a bear to "steer" and can't seem to go more than a short distance before bursting into flames.

I wonder how plausible it would be to deduce where a given webcam is (some combination of IP data, context clues, visible landmarks, maybe face searching) and then contact the owne…

The current admin has been hostile to many things with mainstream cultural support (food aid, renewable energy, basic diversity, free speech) while championing unpopular/fringe ide…

I'm amazed that the big models haven't come under more ideological pressure as more and more people use them, especially in the US. There was that conflict with Anthropic over mili…

I ran into something like this a few months ago. There was this new indie game, Idols of Ash, that had just released and was blowing up on streaming. I googled it and found what lo…