Wait a second… how can they enforce this legislation when a VPN is masking the user’s location? How do they know a user using a VPN is from Utah?

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but aren’t the users they’re trying to regulate the exact subsection of users that they don’t have the ability to identify as being citizens of Utah?

Like if a user appears to be in Utah, then they’re probably not using a vpn. And if the user appears to be from out of state, then they could be using a vpn, but also Utah law doesn’t apply to those people because they’re not from Utah (as far as they know)… So essentially this law can’t actually apply to… anyone?

Big websites will only have to do it for a little while though, a month perhaps. If suddenly Utah can’t reach youtube or Netflix… Constituents will complain, the citizens simply won’t have it, and then the legislators have a problem.

If this is some sort of hybrid battery that could be possible… Super capacitors take the initial charge, pass it on to the flow battery. But as far as I know, absorbing or releasing a lot of energy quickly is just not what flow batteries do, it’s their biggest limitation.

Does Linkin Park get a badge? Has anyone ever proven that Linkin Park is human? All their songs sound suspiciously the same…

What about Nickelback?

My answer will likely always be World of Warcraft. I played in my 20s and I played a lot. At some point when I typed /played, the number I got back exceed 1 year of in game time. I vowed never to look again out of shame. I this day I do not know what my total play time is.

It only needs to fly once. Honestly, it’d probably work.

But hey, I’m sure it’s all irrelevant, I mean who would ever want to vindictively drone strike Seattle…

It’s crazy, I haven’t bought a console in a while, so I’ve actually never spent more than $50 on a single controller. That said, I already think I’m going to buy this.

I was really impressed when I used a steam controller at pax years ago, but didn’t end up pulling the trigger, my usb Xbox controller was good enough. But that controller has some significant stick drift now, and I have had situations where I really wished it was wireless.

Honestly, I just have a good feeling about this device. I don’t know if it’ll be as reliable as items like my Logitech mouse for instance, but I’m hoping it lives up to that.

I want to believe you’re joking, I really do…

I mean sure, publicly “who knows”, but the relevant indicators are pointing to “imminently”.

That’s exactly the attitude the author was warning against. “Trust me, I know better, this is nothing”

Sigh… That timeline adjustment didn’t go in the direction I was hoping.

I guess it was inevitable, the science showed that these quantum effects are real, so it was just a matter of time before these machines really work.

Time to rethink and replace everything.

Are we talking about GL Tron right now?

Mobile is the only place where it matters. On a desktop, in a browser, you can use plugins to kill shorts, but there’s no workaround like that on mobile.

tbh, the concept of tiktok-style videos is really good for science and small useful info bits.

What? That’s… absurd.

I mean in the context of science, how is a tiktok style short video in any way superior to a longer form video? I mean there’s some really great science content on YouTube, vertasium, smarter every day, 3 blue 1 brown, minute physics, etc. But if you only watch a short snippet of video, what you’re cutting out is the entire scientific method, the part where they ask the questions, investigate, form a hypothesis, explain some experiments. Invariably, the short skips right to a conclusion, without any of the context. It’s like providing the right answer on math homework without showing your work, it’s functionally useless. It’s like science candy, it tastes great, but has zero nutritional value.

I can’t see any way to avoid concluding that YouTube shorts are terrible for science.

My gut instinct is that the acceleration only makes it easier.

That’s exactly what Putin has been doing for years. Unfortunately Putin is pulling it off quite well.

We’re just going to take Ukraine, and then likely whatever country looks easiest to take next. But if anyone else got involved in these conflicts I will totally launch my nukes all over the place! You just watch, I’ll do it, I’m fuckin nuts!

Don’t even think about sending troops, because that would add fuel to an already dangerous situation (that we manufactured and could totally end at any time).

None of them can be saved? That seems statistically unlikely.

But back up a bit, that comment I made is a general truth, it doesn’t just apply to this situation. When someone is wrong, you correct them, that’s generally just the right course of action.

Exactly, and these platforms are only mainstream now, many of them had much smaller userbases before the X takeover of Twitter.

There’s nothing wrong with preaching to Nazis. Sure, most aren’t likely to really listen, but they are the people who need to hear this most.

You don’t write people off because they’re wrong, you correct them.

I read “Alright let’s see pictures of your super nice rack”

And then I clicked before bothering to read the rest of the sentence.

Was not disappointed though.