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  1. Comment on Test your medical knowledge with daily clinical scenarios in ~health

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    Why are cookies a requirement to play?

    Why are cookies a requirement to play?

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Finland tears up nuclear weapons ban in NATO shift – decision clears way for Helsinki to receive, transport and facilitate movement of nuclear weapons on its territory in ~society

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    Pretty easy to understand when you realize his base is largely uneducated, think nukes and nuclear war are a good thing because "we won dubya dubya too" with them, that there can be no...

    Pretty easy to understand when you realize his base is largely uneducated, think nukes and nuclear war are a good thing because "we won dubya dubya too" with them, that there can be no consequences/attacks on the US, and on and on. Fucking chickenhawks.

    16 votes

  3. Comment on Yum Brands sells Pizza Hut to private equity firm LongRange Capital and Yum China for $2.7 billion in ~food

  4. Comment on Front HVAC not working in minivan in ~transport

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    This is almost assuredly the correct answer. Pretty much all vehicles use blend doors to switch the airflow from the heater core or the AC evaporator to control warm/cool demands. The heat-only...

    This is almost assuredly the correct answer.
    Pretty much all vehicles use blend doors to switch the airflow from the heater core or the AC evaporator to control warm/cool demands. The heat-only part a year ago is almost certainly a blend door issue.
    In multi-zone systems like this each area will have its own door and blower motor. Being no air coming through now, it is likely the blower motor or something related (fuse, resistor, etc mentioned above).

    The caveat here is that systems like these are complex and have complex electronics to control them, so could just as easily be a failure in the electronics/board that controls the system.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Proton sponsors far-right French YouTuber, claims lack of awareness in response to backlash in ~society

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    So considering you undoubtedly do not own the ISP you're making this comment through, did not create the chip used to process it, mine the silica for the glass in your screen, run on a treadmill...
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    So considering you undoubtedly do not own the ISP you're making this comment through, did not create the chip used to process it, mine the silica for the glass in your screen, run on a treadmill to produce the electricity necessary to do so, grow the food you consumed to have the energy to make the comment, (on and on ad nauseam)... what are the terrorist organizations, environmental disaster creators, and wars you effectively funded to make said comment?

    5 votes

  7. Comment on What do you think of robots in the military? in ~tech

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    Worth noting that only H.W. and Carter did any actual military service. The former having been in an actual war and the latter an accomplished, if not war experienced, submariner. Reagan was a...

    I want to point out that politicians do often have military backgrounds, for example George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter all had military service.

    Worth noting that only H.W. and Carter did any actual military service. The former having been in an actual war and the latter an accomplished, if not war experienced, submariner.
    Reagan was a pencil pusher and W got his daddy to get him a cushy job flying planes that were removed from service so he didn't have to leave the US and got to do so despite being an utter shit pilot.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on Denmark wants to test whether weight-loss drugs can help get more people into work, adding a new economic dimension to the debate over obesity treatments in ~health

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    Just to assist: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/denmark-to-study-whether-wegovy-can-get-more-people-working

    edit: also the article is behind a paywall and archive.ph doesn't work, so we're having a bit of a reddity "didn't read the article" discussion here

    Just to assist: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/denmark-to-study-whether-wegovy-can-get-more-people-working

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in ~games

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    Does a new grocery store chain preemptively buy every radish for the next several years, before having any way to store the radishes, both physically and with the infrastructure that can support...

    Does a new grocery store chain preemptively buy every radish for the next several years, before having any way to store the radishes, both physically and with the infrastructure that can support it, in the hopes that they'll generate enough demand for the radishes that they'll all be sold for profits that aren't actually mathematically possible?

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in ~games

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    To add, loss-lead to what? None of the other handheld PC makers seem to have any post-sale profit makers. Steam could sell the Deck at a loss because they know you are likely to buy games on Steam.

    I think the handheld PC market is small enough that loss-leading is essentially impossible.

    To add, loss-lead to what? None of the other handheld PC makers seem to have any post-sale profit makers. Steam could sell the Deck at a loss because they know you are likely to buy games on Steam.

    14 votes

  14. Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in ~games

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    The Decks have been out of stock for a few months now so it's with the restock that the new pricing was announced. Others will certainly follow suit once stock runs out or they'll simply decide...
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    The Decks have been out of stock for a few months now so it's with the restock that the new pricing was announced. Others will certainly follow suit once stock runs out or they'll simply decide that there isn't a market for the price increase and stop producing them. Glad I got my OLED 1TB Limited Edition (I really wanted the translucent case) back when it launched.

    Remember kids, the reason RAM/electronics are so much more expensive is because not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made to be installed in data centers that haven't been built that are powered by infrastructure that will never paid for by the companies that use it to satisfy a demand that isn't there in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.

    71 votes

  15. Comment on Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says in ~society

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    Delaware has been completely Democrat controlled since 2009.

    Delaware has been completely Democrat controlled since 2009.

    7 votes

  16. Comment on Erin Brockovich launches a crowdsourced AI data center map in ~tech

  19. Comment on Ferrari unveils its first all-electric car, the four-door Luce in ~transport

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    I'm one of the older people here and I recall the DeLorean when new and liked it then. It wasn't a great car, but interesting designs rarely are. When the Cybertruck was announced I wanted one...

    I'm one of the older people here and I recall the DeLorean when new and liked it then. It wasn't a great car, but interesting designs rarely are. When the Cybertruck was announced I wanted one specifically because it looked like DeLorean made a pickup. Then the price doubled/tripled before production, Muskrat came out publicly as a nazi, and it's only gotten worse from there with its utter shit quality.

    13 votes

  20. Comment on Ferrari unveils its first all-electric car, the four-door Luce in ~transport

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    On the one hand, yes. On the other, not a great example as the SU7 looks like different headlights on a Tesla/standard EV car shape and is heavily part of China's can-I-copy-your-homework design...

    On the one hand, yes.
    On the other, not a great example as the SU7 looks like different headlights on a Tesla/standard EV car shape and is heavily part of China's can-I-copy-your-homework design language.

    4 votes