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Vagueposting is a different beast. There’s almost never any intention of informing etc; it’s just: QT a trending semi-controversial topic, tack on something like “imagine not knowi…

I wonder if Apple will be able to bridge the biggest gap between their hardware and Meta’s: the price gap The new Ray Ban AR glasses retail at a Meta subsidized $800 - has Apple ev…

Eye of the Temple has some of the coolest VR-specific movement tricks I’ve ever seen. If you’re getting close to your IRL boundary, it sets up a rolling log as part of a puzzle. To…

This isn’t just good news for the oldies. Gen Z in particular seems at first glance to be balding earlier and at higher rates. I had no idea what the heck “Norwood” meant until som…

FWIW, American Descendants of Slaves (ADoS) have an average European genetic admixture of ~24%.[1] 1. https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5

Pretty sure Trump won the national popular vote this last time around though? And there’s a strong (politically neutral) argument that Clinton could have pulled off an EC win in 20…

-American women are winning hard at college -Chinese men once said in a survey that they feel threatened by high achieving women -Therefore men as a group are most at fault for the…

>> Who would go to Mars without a way back? For a reasonable chance of being forever immortalized as one of the first humans to step foot on another planet? Granted, I myself will …

I wish there was a sane and humane way of shutting off the infinite supply of out-of-state (and, increasingly, international) transients. Our homeless programs here in Portland are…

If this wasn’t a cynical joke, I sincerely beg you to cover your eyes, plug your ears, and never again ask how the sausage is made. The older I get, the more I can empathize with C…

Remember about a decade ago, when you’d read about YouTube’s algorithm creating an “alt-right pipeline”? Without making any judgments on the alt-right label, it was absolutely a re…

Your frustration is understandable, particularly in this situation where the critical failures weren’t the fault of outsourced engineers. But we really need to pump the brakes on t…

When the Democrats hold power, this crisis will be exploited to enact heavy taxes on 401ks and the like (recent think tank white papers are creating ground work for this). When the…

Yep, once your brain gets over the immediate novelty of VR, it’s very difficult to get back that “Ready Player One” feeling due to the absence of sensory feedback. If/once they get…

Same thing with my nephew, though he did pick up on the cars. He also was very confused by the “Ronald Reagan? The ACTOR??” joke but immediately thought that BTTF2 Mogul-Biff was s…

Seems like a fun afternoon project to get this hooked into one of the Skyrim TTS mods. I previously messed around with elevenlabs, but it had too much latency and would be somewhat…

The think-tank -> influencer/trad media pipeline has been optimized to the point where it successfully has captured the long tail of most potential public political discourse. On v…

What is causing the healthcare staffing issues? Is this all still related to Covid? Every single healthcare and adjacent person I’ve spoken to in the past year and a half has nigh-…

Can’t speak for the grandparent poster, but I’ve heard/read enough casual claims of “donating plasma reduces microplastic load in the blood” that it’s been somewhere in the far bac…

Interesting point about gaming input latency: I haven’t been really interested in twitchy flatscreen FPS since the early days of Overwatch 1 and my VR stuff is mostly bottlenecked …

Is there a term for people who aren’t especially sensitive to refresh rates? I notice a difference in frame times fairly easily due to the stuttering, but can barely tell the diffe…

I’m confused why the authors of the original study pegged education as only explaining 5% of the gap, functionally unchanged since the 70s when the labor market was far more favora…

Apropos of nothing else, it sure has been…interesting to witness nearly all of the big name right wing (and many of the larger fringe right wing) accounts on X immediately abandon …