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  1. Comment on What is the framework being used for these types of websites (fmhy.pages.dev)? in ~comp

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    I assume this is largely Vitepress doing the work, judging from the package.json files in these projects. Edit: ah I see I didn’t refresh this thread before posting

    I assume this is largely Vitepress doing the work, judging from the package.json files in these projects.

    Edit: ah I see I didn’t refresh this thread before posting

    3 votes

  2. Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance

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    It reminds me of this NYT article from a few years ago(gift article), about a man who built a $6.5mil house in rural KY with a bunker to weather out a civil war during the obama years. A deranged...

    It reminds me of this NYT article from a few years ago(gift article), about a man who built a $6.5mil house in rural KY with a bunker to weather out a civil war during the obama years. A deranged man from OH drove to his house, broke in and killed his daughter, likely because he had a bunker.

    12 votes

  3. Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud in ~tech

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    Need a spreadsheet for this? And two sentences to say the same thing? Also, looking at the table they posted, there were 5 correct answers, not 6? Off topic, sorry

    As we can see in the image above, there are only six correct answers out of 43 guesses. We put these numbers in a spreadsheet, which showed that only 13.95% of the answers were correct.

    Need a spreadsheet for this? And two sentences to say the same thing? Also, looking at the table they posted, there were 5 correct answers, not 6?

    Off topic, sorry

    14 votes

  4. Comment on Recommend me some deep dive YouTube videos / Portland trip recs! in ~travel

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    I don't think I see any video recommendations for your flight yet. Here are a couple: LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching. It's probably not what you are expecting. Day In The Life of The...

    I don't think I see any video recommendations for your flight yet. Here are a couple:

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 26 in ~society

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    Exactly. Trump backpedals from nothing. He is a narcissist who only wants the person in front of him to like him. 99% of the time, it's awful people around him. He just had a phone call with Walz,...

    Exactly. Trump backpedals from nothing. He is a narcissist who only wants the person in front of him to like him. 99% of the time, it's awful people around him. He just had a phone call with Walz, and so he's doing something Walz asked him to do. But he's not even fully into it, and there is no real action to back up his words (things are "changing", but there is no sign that anything on the ground is actually any better).

    8 votes

  6. Comment on FBI investigating MN Signal groups tracking US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kash Patel says in ~society

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    It seems like the issue isn’t the security of the app, but security of the groups. Which briar would be subject to as well. If you start a small group chat with people you mostly know, like...

    It seems like the issue isn’t the security of the app, but security of the groups. Which briar would be subject to as well. If you start a small group chat with people you mostly know, like neighbors on your block, great. But then one person thinks it’s a good idea to invite another person one block over. Still fine, even if not everyone else knows that person. Do that n times and suddenly your network is full of people who don’t really know each other. Coupled with Signals option to constantly change the username, no one has any idea who is talking or in the group.

    28 votes

  7. Comment on What's something you've moved on from? in ~talk

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    I wasn’t horrible, and never aggressive, but I would occasionally speed maybe 20mph over speed limit on a few particular roads in my city that had limited intersections. And the baseline 5mph over...

    I wasn’t horrible, and never aggressive, but I would occasionally speed maybe 20mph over speed limit on a few particular roads in my city that had limited intersections. And the baseline 5mph over the limit just everywhere.

    Then my wife became pregnant and I realized I had nowhere to be that was so important that I should risk anyone’s life just to arrive a minute or two earlier.

    And I always think, if I hit a kid in my neighborhood, am I going to say “I was only driving 5mph over?”

    12 votes

  8. Comment on Highguard | Official launch showcase in ~games

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    Ah, that makes sense. I hadn’t heard of it (I don’t swim in those lakes as noted earlier) but the little video I did see gave me the impression this is just a bunch of stitched together unity...

    Ah, that makes sense. I hadn’t heard of it (I don’t swim in those lakes as noted earlier) but the little video I did see gave me the impression this is just a bunch of stitched together unity assets. But not like in a fun way. Palworld at least had the balls to dip into the Nintendo pond, though again I’m not super familiar with it.

    So I was right in assuming that “comments turned off” means “we know this is crap”.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Highguard | Official launch showcase in ~games

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    Looks like any other game, though I only watched 5 minutes and I’m very much not the target market anymore. But I mostly wanted to ask if it’s common for these kind of promotional videos to have...

    Looks like any other game, though I only watched 5 minutes and I’m very much not the target market anymore. But I mostly wanted to ask if it’s common for these kind of promotional videos to have comments turned off?

    6 votes

  10. Comment on Federal officers kill another citizen in Minneapolis, National Guard activated in ~society

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    Go one step further and follow the old "every accusation is a confession" for anything that comes from the GOP. Really, just listen to about anything they say, think about this phrase, and it...

    Go one step further and follow the old "every accusation is a confession" for anything that comes from the GOP. Really, just listen to about anything they say, think about this phrase, and it seems to fit.

    7 votes

  11. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I don't know if it's still an issue, but a few years ago when i was more into FVTT there would be posts about those oracle instances suddenly just closing/being deleted an inaccessible without...

    I don't know if it's still an issue, but a few years ago when i was more into FVTT there would be posts about those oracle instances suddenly just closing/being deleted an inaccessible without warning. That basically "you get what you pay for". Did you see those conversations and were they recent at all? Obviously you haven't had that happen, but do you make backups?

  12. Comment on Minnesota's general strike on Friday Jan 23rd, 2026 in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement presence in ~society

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    There was also a Women's March planned for tuesday, which I actually was available to do, but it lost the wind in it's sails when this Friday march picked up steam. It's a bummer because that was...

    There was also a Women's March planned for tuesday, which I actually was available to do, but it lost the wind in it's sails when this Friday march picked up steam. It's a bummer because that was like 15 degrees above zero. I can't get away from kids tomorrow and am not going to bring them out in this weather for a protest (or at all).

    4 votes

  13. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    How did you play your first session, assuming you are setting up FVTT after the fact? FVTT is a bottomless hole of plugins, so watch out. Conventional wisdom is to just play with the barebones for...

    How did you play your first session, assuming you are setting up FVTT after the fact?

    FVTT is a bottomless hole of plugins, so watch out. Conventional wisdom is to just play with the barebones for a bit, and slowly add plugins that make sense. Rather than just going through all the options and adding them before you need them.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum in ~society

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    NYT states that he wrote it himself, without aides.

    NYT states that he wrote it himself, without aides.

    14 votes

  15. Comment on What small thing made a big impact on you? in ~talk

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  17. Comment on What small thing made a big impact on you? in ~talk

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    In high school I had started going “goth-lite” with dark baggy clothes and mildly obscene slogans on shirts etc. for maybe 9th and 10th grade. One day, my grandpa, who would be up for the summer,...

    In high school I had started going “goth-lite” with dark baggy clothes and mildly obscene slogans on shirts etc. for maybe 9th and 10th grade.

    One day, my grandpa, who would be up for the summer, was washing his car (which happened every other day) in his very high waisted white shorts and yellow polo, nonchalantly said “I think you look better in brighter colors” as I walked by.

    I can’t really remember if it immediately hit me, or it happened over like a month, but I basically switched my whole persona before school started in the fall again. I wasn’t wearing my grandpas clothes or anything, but just normal jeans and positive slogans (or really, absence of graphics on tees). I really started to switch from “kid with some like friends” to “kid that sort of knows everybody and gets along with everybody”.

    And I think about that moment probably every week. I had good grandparents and I’m sure I was just impacted by his perception of me. But I’m surprised at the degree of it.

    17 votes

  18. Comment on Prior Lake woman arrested with bag of drugs labeled ‘Definitely not a bag full of drugs’ in ~news

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    Prior Lake News Compass is a pretty niche pick. If you're from Prior Lake, hello from the twin cities.

    Prior Lake News Compass is a pretty niche pick. If you're from Prior Lake, hello from the twin cities.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on ‘Sell America’ returns to Wall Street after Donald Trump ups the ante against Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve in ~society

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    I don’t think he hates America. He doesn’t think about it at all. He just wants the person in front of him to like him, and unfortunately the people in front of him are the worst people. Worse,...

    I don’t think he hates America. He doesn’t think about it at all. He just wants the person in front of him to like him, and unfortunately the people in front of him are the worst people. Worse, probably most of the time it’s Stephen Miller.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shoots and kills a woman during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown in ~society

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    Minneapolis kids had school closed a few days into the new school year due to the shooting at Annunciation, and now again a few days into the second half of the year. Insanity

    Minneapolis kids had school closed a few days into the new school year due to the shooting at Annunciation, and now again a few days into the second half of the year.

    Insanity

    11 votes