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Did he cheat at other games too? I knew of the Path of Exile 2 incident, but I'd hardly call that a zero-skill game.

The problem is Google's AI results get even simple factual questions wrong all the time. Earlier today, I searched "pixel 10 wifi 7" because I was confused that GSMArena showed my …

> Libraries that were made independently usually fit together like a glove because they are all just maps/vectors in -> maps/vectors out. This is also the biggest weakness of Cloju…

This is so sad to read. Knowing that the people actively making every aspect of life more monetized and addictive are acutely aware of the harm they create, yet are motivated by su…

To be fair, risk calculus does not appear to be this administration's strong suit.

I think you would be hard-pressed to find any human who has been 100 pounds overweight for any amount of time that doesn't have an obesity-related comorbidity. Hypertension, sleep …

If you haven't used it, how can you judge its quality level?

A top "5 in the world" city is obviously an outlier. It seems self-evident that simply turning off street lights in the vast majority of cities will not cause them to become world-…

That's heavily dependent on regional/cultural factors. Among a younger and (mostly) gayer demographic, the once-feared "C-word" is very commonly used, especially in its adjective f…

Physics is the poster child of a discipline that knows its foundations are wrong. Basically every physicist understands that our current theories are full of holes and a new way of…

Anyone from Portland who can explain the dirt/gravel roads shown in the Eastmoreland/Errol Heights area? For example, on Malden between 45th and 52nd. Street View shows these are r…

During a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in my youth, we portaged through Party Lake. I am sad to report no revelry occurred. However, Mud Lake definitely lived up to its na…

Right, I didn't mean to imply it was a US-only phenomenon -- plenty of countries have fundamental rights enshrined in their constitutions, with varying degrees of difficulty to ame…

> Many democratic countries have similar fundamental laws that are explicitly hard to change or bypass. What exactly constitutes "hard to change"? In many countries, fundamental fr…

The snippet you quoted does not support that objection, though. It is clear from context that the "book bans" referred to are in the realm of public education.

I don't follow your objection. Banning books on sexuality from public schools threatens sexual education in those same schools. That is true even if individual parents can purchase…

> The drivers don't trust the apps, and the app doesn't trust the drivers, so the thing has to be held together by surveillance and micromanagement. Exactly. And a large dose of ga…

Heat pumps are something like 5-6x as efficient as resistive electric heaters. So no surprise that your bill would be lower. Of course, heating an entire house with (non-heat-pump)…

Microbial growth on wood is really only an issue when conditions are right -- namely, when the wood is wet for an extended period of time. Washing wood utensils immediately after u…

The "decent reasons" just sounds like snobbery or a reason to feel superior. Cars are cars, whether manual, automatic, CVT, whatever. Why should bikes be any different? I'm a big f…

Except scooters are literally motorcycles? From Wikipedia: > A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, .... Scooters are often legally moto…

Just because something is obvious or inevitable doesn't preclude it from being newsworthy. It almost makes it more newsworthy: "look, it finally happened!"

Sure. I was necessarily speaking in generalities. There are always exceptions.

To add to this, all it takes is one piece of legislation or one court order for the private registry to end up in the government's hands. Gun owners who fear a government-run regis…

The interesting thing is that some of the "new" taboo words are only taboo for certain groups of people. The N-word has been reclaimed by people of color, but remains taboo for oth…