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  1. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    Yes, in order to satisfy the rules of the thread I will accept these unorthodox roommates.

    Yes, in order to satisfy the rules of the thread I will accept these unorthodox roommates.

    5 votes

  2. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    Buy up all the Moai heads held in museums and private collections and send them back home.

    Buy up all the Moai heads held in museums and private collections and send them back home.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on An AI that turns any book into a text adventure game in ~books

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    Wizards never arrive late nor early, but sometimes they arrive out of any logical order or causality.

    Wizards never arrive late nor early, but sometimes they arrive out of any logical order or causality.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on US President Donald Trump’s 100% China tariff triggers $20b wipeout, 1.6m crypto traders liquidated in ~finance

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    I suspect nobody has a 100% definitive explanation as to why, but crypto price movements tend to roughly correlate with that of the US stock market.

    I suspect nobody has a 100% definitive explanation as to why, but crypto price movements tend to roughly correlate with that of the US stock market.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on 2025 Physics Nobel awarded to three scientists for work on quantum computing (in the 1980s) in ~science

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    I can see it. The original special relativity paper might have been a good paper, but it's historic because of the field of study that was built on its foundation.

    I can see it. The original special relativity paper might have been a good paper, but it's historic because of the field of study that was built on its foundation.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Outrage over American Eagle's 'great jeans' ad was a conservative media creation in ~society

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    Seems like a news aggregator in the genre of ground news would show this story as being majority reported in only right wing media.

    Seems like a news aggregator in the genre of ground news would show this story as being majority reported in only right wing media.

    10 votes

  7. Comment on A better way to watch YouTube in ~tech

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    That was my exact problem with it: I'd discover some topic, fill my watch history with that thing, then a month later when I'd lost interest my feed was full of that one topic and I'd have to...

    That was my exact problem with it: I'd discover some topic, fill my watch history with that thing, then a month later when I'd lost interest my feed was full of that one topic and I'd have to clear my history out to find something new. It just rabbit holes you too much.

    These days I have history off, I watch something in my sub feed and discover things in the recommendations below that first video. It's not perfect but it works.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store in ~tech

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    I assume this can just be passed around as an APK instead, right?

    I assume this can just be passed around as an APK instead, right?

    5 votes

  9. Comment on Giant sinkhole in Chilean mining town haunts residents, three years on in ~enviro

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    How do you even fix a sinkhole like this? I imagine just filling it in wouldn't remove the threat of it growing, since there could be further pockets underground that could still collapse....

    How do you even fix a sinkhole like this? I imagine just filling it in wouldn't remove the threat of it growing, since there could be further pockets underground that could still collapse. Especially under the weight of new material.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    When they say that observing a quantum object collapses its state, that's caused by the physical act of measuring it, not by the particle somehow knowing that a person has perceived it.

    When they say that observing a quantum object collapses its state, that's caused by the physical act of measuring it, not by the particle somehow knowing that a person has perceived it.

    27 votes

  11. Comment on Elon Musk plans to take on Wikipedia with 'Grokipedia' in ~tech

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    There's going to be a cottage industry of YouTubers finding ridiculous hallucinations in articles and making fun of them

    There's going to be a cottage industry of YouTubers finding ridiculous hallucinations in articles and making fun of them

    7 votes

  12. Comment on Elon Musk plans to take on Wikipedia with 'Grokipedia' in ~tech

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    " The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; "

    " The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; "

    12 votes

  13. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    You have piqued my interest, what role does it play in post-ottoman myths?

    You have piqued my interest, what role does it play in post-ottoman myths?

    14 votes

  14. Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech

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    I'm starting to wish I worked at a VPN provider. Business must be booming these days.

    I'm starting to wish I worked at a VPN provider. Business must be booming these days.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Jimmy Kimmel to return to ABC on Tuesday after show’s controversial suspension in ~tv

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    Still good to boycott for moral reasons in cases like this where you don't need to do a ton of investigating to know where you stand. And simply avoid the pitfalls of point 4 by pirating.

    Still good to boycott for moral reasons in cases like this where you don't need to do a ton of investigating to know where you stand. And simply avoid the pitfalls of point 4 by pirating.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Tesla influencers tried Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving, crashed before sixty miles in ~transport

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    I think the reasoning for wanting it to be optical-only is that if they figure it out, it can be rolled out to every consumer Tesla vehicle (a lot of cars!) via a software patch, and suddenly you...

    I think the reasoning for wanting it to be optical-only is that if they figure it out, it can be rolled out to every consumer Tesla vehicle (a lot of cars!) via a software patch, and suddenly you have a fleet of a million potential autonomous Tesla Ubers already on the road. Dwarfing waymo and others in numbers. Doesn't look to me like that's ever happening, but what do I know

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Flight fares surge after US President Donald Trump's surprising H-1B visa move; ‘Extremely bad situation’ in ~society

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    He seems to enjoy deliberately causing economic harm to make people come grovelling.

    He seems to enjoy deliberately causing economic harm to make people come grovelling.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on Is anyone else having trouble focusing? What strategies do you use to help with focus? in ~society

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    Limit any social media or news doomscrolling to predefined hours of the day, even if it's still approximately the same amount of scrolling time as you did before. Exercise, socialise, hydrate, eat...

    • Limit any social media or news doomscrolling to predefined hours of the day, even if it's still approximately the same amount of scrolling time as you did before.

    • Exercise, socialise, hydrate, eat well, sleep 8+ hours at consistent times.

    • Volunteer or get involved in something local. Let yourself see the small ways people are making things better. Become part of it, even if "it" is just picking up litter.

    • Do harder tasks earlier in the day and save the easier stuff for later when you're tired.

    • Romanticise your process.

    • If you have trouble getting started, complete one or two super easy tasks to gain some momentum.

    • Don't give up hope and give yourself some grace when you falter.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Fat Bear Week is here early, and the bears are fat and playful in ~enviro

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    I've put the house and the wife and kids on the outcome of this, so hopefully the disgraceful cheating scandal that tarnished last year's contest is over and done with.

    I've put the house and the wife and kids on the outcome of this, so hopefully the disgraceful cheating scandal that tarnished last year's contest is over and done with.

    8 votes

  20. Comment on Jimmy Kimmel pulled “indefinitely” by ABC after Charlie Kirk comments in ~tv

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    Cling tight to community. Shelter and help each other, share resources and information, organise. Grassroots political resistance starts with groups of people coming together just to survive and...

    Cling tight to community. Shelter and help each other, share resources and information, organise. Grassroots political resistance starts with groups of people coming together just to survive and pull through. And don't lose hope.

    6 votes