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  1. Comment on Boeing's Starliner to return to ISS in cargo-only capacity for now in ~space

  3. Comment on Which grand strategy are you? in ~misc

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    For a lot of the questions I felt like none of the available options are how I believe things should be handled, since B was largely about self-interest, and C was a bit too aggressive and...

    For a lot of the questions I felt like none of the available options are how I believe things should be handled, since B was largely about self-interest, and C was a bit too aggressive and hawkish. For question 6, "Engage where it matters, not everywhere”, was most in line with my own feelings on how things should be handled overall... but only if what "matters" isn't purely self-interest, it's upholding human life, rights, and dignity, and "engage" was not the military kind (unless it's to help defend against an aggressor, a la Ukraine). So something in between B and C was what I wanted to answer for most of them, but that wasn't an option.

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  5. Comment on Want to get a 3D printer for miniatures that work well with open source software in ~hobbies

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    That's a bit unfair to Elegoo, is it not? I can't speak to their filament printers, but AFAIK they're widely considered the best resin printers. Every time I research resin printers, which is what...

    That's a bit unfair to Elegoo, is it not? I can't speak to their filament printers, but AFAIK they're widely considered the best resin printers. Every time I research resin printers, which is what I want to eventually get for myself, everyone seems to be recommending theirs over any others.

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  6. Comment on As the war in Ukraine rages on, many Finns are getting reacquainted with the country's remarkable network of väestönsuoja, or civil defense shelters in ~life

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    NP. And yeah, so long as it's just select quotes for providing additional context, opinions/criticism, or a summary of the article, AFAIK, it's generally considered fine so long as people don't go...

    NP. And yeah, so long as it's just select quotes for providing additional context, opinions/criticism, or a summary of the article, AFAIK, it's generally considered fine so long as people don't go overboard. Exactly what percentage of an article is actually allowed to be copied and still have it be considered "fair use" and avoid copyright infringement is probably a bit of a grey area and varies depending on the article length/complexity. Although I have yet to see any of the regular article quoting users on Tildes take it so far that Deimos has had to step in. The only time I've seen him do that is when an entire article was being copied into a comment with no additional commentary.

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  7. Comment on As the war in Ukraine rages on, many Finns are getting reacquainted with the country's remarkable network of väestönsuoja, or civil defense shelters in ~life

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    Archive links of paywalled articles being submitted as topic links has been forbidden, and those of us with link editing permissions have been instructed to swap them to their original source (or...

    Archive links of paywalled articles being submitted as topic links has been forbidden, and those of us with link editing permissions have been instructed to swap them to their original source (or a legal copy of the article like those on MSN/Yahoo News/etc).

    But archive links shared in comments is generally considered fine, AFAIK, likely since in that case it's the person making the comment that takes on any potential liability, not Tildes itself. IANAL though, I'm just going off what I've been told isn't allowed. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    p.s. Worth noting is that copying whole articles (paywalled or not) into topic text or comments has also been forbidden as well.

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  9. Comment on Tildes Book Club Discussion - November 2025 - We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis Taylor in ~books

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    Oooh, no, I haven't but they sound right up my alley. Thanks for bringing them to my attention. Added both to my read list!

    Oooh, no, I haven't but they sound right up my alley. Thanks for bringing them to my attention. Added both to my read list!

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  10. Comment on As US-based company Lyten prepares to restart battery production, Northvolt's downfall has cast a chill over Sweden's ambitions to reindustrialize around clean technology in ~finance

  11. Comment on As the war in Ukraine rages on, many Finns are getting reacquainted with the country's remarkable network of väestönsuoja, or civil defense shelters in ~life

  12. Comment on Tildes Book Club Discussion - November 2025 - We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis Taylor in ~books

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    I've actually thought about this a surprising amount over the years, even before reading Bobiverse. Well over a decade ago I actually even made a scifi TTRPG game setting/system with a buddy of...

    Would you undergo the same form of immortality?

    I've actually thought about this a surprising amount over the years, even before reading Bobiverse. Well over a decade ago I actually even made a scifi TTRPG game setting/system with a buddy of mine that had body transfers and mind backup/restoration as major components to it. And given the same opportunity in real life, I would absolutely take it, even if it meant death to my original "self" and resulted in a mind clone that gets to live on in my place.

    One of the things I hate most about life is how short it is, how I won't have time to learn everything I want to learn, consume all the media I want to consume, and won't get a chance to see where humanity goes in another 100-1k-10k+ years. So if I could give the gift of being free from those limitations, even to a mind clone of myself, I would take that opportunity without hesitation.

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  13. Comment on We bought an old house in the Japanese countryside in ~life.home_improvement

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    YVW. And yeah, Jesse is actually a blacksmith by trade and seems like a pretty skilled all-around handyman/carpenter too. And Mika also seems pretty damn handy as well, so that certainly helps. :P

    YVW. And yeah, Jesse is actually a blacksmith by trade and seems like a pretty skilled all-around handyman/carpenter too. And Mika also seems pretty damn handy as well, so that certainly helps. :P

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  14. Comment on We bought an old house in the Japanese countryside in ~life.home_improvement

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    Yeah, I'm curious why they decided on that property too... especially since they just sunk a bunch of money into renovating their rental akiya, and seem to really like the community there and...

    Yeah, I'm curious why they decided on that property too... especially since they just sunk a bunch of money into renovating their rental akiya, and seem to really like the community there and their neighbors. I was kinda hoping that they would just end up buying the rental, TBH. But I guess maybe the owners don't want to sell it to them, or something. :(

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  15. Comment on Alton Brown is back! Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 1: The Big Bird in ~food

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    Yeah, I've done that in the past using Feedbro. I even used to use the ?channel_id=UC... -> ?playlist_id=UULF... trick to get rid of Shorts from the feeds too. But I just have so many damn channel...

    Yeah, I've done that in the past using Feedbro. I even used to use the ?channel_id=UC... -> ?playlist_id=UULF... trick to get rid of Shorts from the feeds too. But I just have so many damn channel subscriptions, with more being added nearly every day, that it's a nightmare to manage them all through RSS since everything has to be done manually. So I've gone back to just using the internal YouTube Notifications system again ever since I found the Firefox extension Hide Youtube-Shorts which actually properly removes all Shorts from the site, even in the Notifications dropdown.

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  16. Comment on Alton Brown is back! Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 1: The Big Bird in ~food

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    Heh, yeah, I mean I have very little doubt that it will do incredibly well either, but you never know. Kids these days, and all that! p.s. Thanks for sharing the Heat Eaters episode, BTW. I got...

    Heh, yeah, I mean I have very little doubt that it will do incredibly well either, but you never know. Kids these days, and all that!

    p.s. Thanks for sharing the Heat Eaters episode, BTW. I got pretty burned out on watching Hot Ones, so haven't been keeping up with First We Feast in a long while. If YouTube actually had a damn way to only get notification for certain series on a channel I probably wouldn't have missed that episode though since I love Esther Choi.

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  17. Comment on Alton Brown is back! Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 1: The Big Bird in ~food

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    Ditto. Alton/Good Eats teaching me the science behind various cooking techniques, and the underlying reasons "why" things were actually better done a certain way, has made me a much better cook in...

    Ditto. Alton/Good Eats teaching me the science behind various cooking techniques, and the underlying reasons "why" things were actually better done a certain way, has made me a much better cook in the long run as well. J Kenji Lopez-Alt/Serious Eats, who I also love, are the more modern equivalent, but I genuinely miss the humour that went along with Good Eats. So I'm really really glad that Alton is back with this new series. :)

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  18. Comment on Looking for a non-smart watch recommendation in ~tech

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    Nice. I've had my Bip U Pro since 2021 and love it too! I've used it every day, every workout (to track my heartrate and cals burned), and every night (to track my sleep quality) since I bought...

    Nice. I've had my Bip U Pro since 2021 and love it too! I've used it every day, every workout (to track my heartrate and cals burned), and every night (to track my sleep quality) since I bought it, and almost 5 years later I am still getting 3-4 days battery life out of it before it needs a recharge. Sadly, the button/dial on the side started failing a few days ago though, so I literally just got a Bip 6 to replace it this morning.

    The Bip 6 is basically the new Bip U Pro model, and about the same price as the Bip U Pro was (it's on sale for $91 CAD on Amazon right now). However, it's got an even bigger, brighter, higher resolution screen (side by side pic) and is packed with way more smart watch features too (like phone call answering with a built in mic), so @BlindCarpenter probably won't be interested in it. Although, like you said, pretty much all the "smart" features can actually be turned off in the settings, so it can essentially be rendered a "dumb" watch with only step tracking if that's what they want. And one of the models, which I was also strongly considering getting, the Active 2, has a circular watch face so looks even more like a traditional watch (and is on sale for $112 CAD, or $139 for the Pro version that comes with a leather strap and Sapphire Glass screen).

    But for anyone actually looking for a budget, fully-functional smart watch, I highly highly recommend checking out Amazfit's watches. I genuinely don't know how they manage to charge so little for them, especially considering they stack up to Apple Watches in terms of sensors, have like 90% of the same features, have WAAAAAAY better battery life (10-12 days vs 1-2 days), and all for $500-1000 less than them.

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  19. Comment on We bought an old house in the Japanese countryside in ~life.home_improvement

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    Their Blog post about it, for those who prefer reading: https://www.maigomika.com/we-bought-an-old-house-in-the-japanese-countryside/ Although the blog post is worth reading after watching the...

    Their Blog post about it, for those who prefer reading:
    https://www.maigomika.com/we-bought-an-old-house-in-the-japanese-countryside/

    Although the blog post is worth reading after watching the video anyways, IMO, since it also has more info about the lengthy legal process they had to go through to acquire the property, thanks to the complex Japanese inheritance laws... Which is why there are so many akiya (abandoned) houses scattered all over the country in the first place.

    p.s. I highly recommend watching some of the other videos on their channel too, starting with their first. They're super relaxing, IMO.

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