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  1. Comment on I want to talk about sailing! in ~hobbies

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    ...i grew up on the coast and used to sail + race dinghies back in high school + college; moved inland and instead got into simulator racing in the mid-2000s, which scratched the itch surprisingly...

    ...i grew up on the coast and used to sail + race dinghies back in high school + college; moved inland and instead got into simulator racing in the mid-2000s, which scratched the itch surprisingly well, but ultimately ran short of hobby time so i have no idea how the simulator scene has since evolved...

    2 votes

  2. Comment on RIP Cybertruck. You were unloved, unwanted, and utterly absurd. in ~transport

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    ...twitter was a cesspool before his takeover; elon just made it official...

    ...twitter was a cesspool before his takeover; elon just made it official...

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production in Texas next year in ~transport

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    ...talking to a coworker with family + friends working at the tesla facility, they're all wearing kinesthetic sensor arrays now, training robots to take over their work as production shifts to...

    ...talking to a coworker with family + friends working at the tesla facility, they're all wearing kinesthetic sensor arrays now, training robots to take over their work as production shifts to cybercabs...

    (and apparently encouraging employees to buy cybercabs to lease out for passive income while they're working? some weird thing like that)

    ...odds of a cybertruck featuring in the inevitable back to the future remake?..

    6 votes

  4. Comment on The American suburbs are better than you think in ~life

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    ...urban densities suck my soul; i need liberty, open space, and the real world apart from people to thrive... ...i know some folks engage social intercourse at an intimate level and thrive within...

    ...urban densities suck my soul; i need liberty, open space, and the real world apart from people to thrive...

    ...i know some folks engage social intercourse at an intimate level and thrive within that urban substrate, but to me it's a blight upon humanity and the natural world, both, to filter personal engagement and blot out the environment with boundaries and artifice, consumption and refuse, property and obligation and the foulest temperament of civilisation writ large...

    ...i work in the city not-by-choice, in a trophy studio set within the most-desirable new-urban development selected for trendy marketability, and each morning fills me with dread and contempt for the day ahead...horses for courses, i don't doubt that urban folks feel similarly alienated by pastoral environments and communities; i'd hoped that the telepresence revolution ushered by the pandemic would free us both from shackling place to commerce and association, but the engines of real estate determined that their cut of status quo is worth tamping one-third of humanity's production and quality of life...

    ...anyway, how are you?..

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Discoverable servers on Discord will have summaries, public messages will be open for search indexing in ~tech

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    ...f*ck if i know; something related to auto-patches, maybe...

    ...f*ck if i know; something related to auto-patches, maybe...

  6. Comment on Discoverable servers on Discord will have summaries, public messages will be open for search indexing in ~tech

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    ...i have to use discord due to resources adopting it as their sole platform, but i really don't like it... (and why do i have to install another 'helper application' every. f*cking. time. it starts?)

    ...i have to use discord due to resources adopting it as their sole platform, but i really don't like it...

    (and why do i have to install another 'helper application' every. f*cking. time. it starts?)

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Contender for the most non-viable startup: Reflect Orbital in ~tech

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    🎵disco inferno🎶

    🎵disco inferno🎶

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Proposal: For sensitive topics, if a thread is intended for a particular demographic, there needs another thread open for everyone to discuss without having to join the targeted thread in ~tildes

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    ...boundaries are exclusionary by design, defining insiders and outsiders regardless of whether those comprise ideas, affiliations, or individuals; they're a conscientious choice to close dialog...

    ...boundaries are exclusionary by design, defining insiders and outsiders regardless of whether those comprise ideas, affiliations, or individuals; they're a conscientious choice to close dialog to outsiders, declaring a space which doesn't respect their participation...

    ...i won't speak for tildes design remit but functionally it appears to support a tolerant, non-exclusionary interpretation of mutual respect...

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Proposal: For sensitive topics, if a thread is intended for a particular demographic, there needs another thread open for everyone to discuss without having to join the targeted thread in ~tildes

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    ...i question whether boundaries are antithetical to the foundational principle of an open forum designed to engender mutual respect in public discourse...

    ...i question whether boundaries are antithetical to the foundational principle of an open forum designed to engender mutual respect in public discourse...

    1 vote

  10. Comment on These snakes can cartwheel away from danger. Scientists just uncovered how the slithering creatures perform their acrobatic rolls. in ~science

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    ...clicked through hoping for hoop snakes, left disappointed by a one-legged run...

    ...clicked through hoping for hoop snakes, left disappointed by a one-legged run...

    4 votes

  11. Comment on I survived the certificate expiration of October 19th 2026 and all I got was to make a silly shitpost in ~tildes

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    ...yeah, i just clicked through the warning and kept accessing the site as usual; browsers which don't allow that are kicked to the curb...

    ...yeah, i just clicked through the warning and kept accessing the site as usual; browsers which don't allow that are kicked to the curb...

  12. Comment on Maybe there was an egg cartel after all in ~food

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    ...i do not; the hobby-chicken-farmer i most recently worked with left our firm a couple of months ago... ...when my grandparents kept chickens, they'd raise the roosters for meat and always said...

    ...i do not; the hobby-chicken-farmer i most recently worked with left our firm a couple of months ago...

    ...when my grandparents kept chickens, they'd raise the roosters for meat and always said it was a challenge to keep them from killing each other...

    6 votes

  13. Comment on Inside the Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction in ~comp

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    ...you might enjoy jon stokes' inside the machine while you're at it...

    ...you might enjoy jon stokes' inside the machine while you're at it...

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Squadron 42 | Official wishlist trailer in ~games

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    ...i supported the project back in the summer of 2012 (before it was publicly announced), just after my main machine died, and resolved to wait until the single-player game goes beta before...

    ...i supported the project back in the summer of 2012 (before it was publicly announced), just after my main machine died, and resolved to wait until the single-player game goes beta before building a replacement...

    ...fourteen years later i've learned to meet most of my personal computing needs with just an ipad, but i was fairly engaged in its early development cycle before backing off about twelve years ago to await a mature flight model with the beta release, which i've loosely followed real progress since: it's very, very close, i'm still skeptical of a full retail release next spring but i'm finally making plans to build my machine...

    ...i warned them early-on that building the project around a massively-multiplayer engine would drag down everything in its wake, and it has, but to their credit cloud imperium leveraged novel technical innovations to address those seemingly-insurmountable back-end challenges and it's finally borne fruit on the single-player side...

  15. Comment on Maybe there was an egg cartel after all in ~food

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    ...i don't use eggs, but i work with folks who raise their own and also engage local cooperatives, so i know respectfully-farmed eggs are out there, although i have no idea about commercial...

    ...i don't use eggs, but i work with folks who raise their own and also engage local cooperatives, so i know respectfully-farmed eggs are out there, although i have no idea about commercial distribution beyond small-scale natural food stores...

    26 votes

  16. Comment on Summer Eternal presents: Red Rooster, an incendiary RPG in ~games

  17. Comment on Recommend me music similar to that of Tool? in ~music

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    ... are stunning but i can't associate the impressionistic smear of their analog soundscapes with the likes of tool's technical virtuosity, not even anthem for no state part III which is about as...

    ...godspeed are stunning but i can't associate the impressionistic smear of their analog soundscapes with the likes of tool's technical virtuosity, not even anthem for no state part III which is about as rock as godspeed you! black emperor gets...

    (contender for the best concert i've ever witnessed, though)

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Summer Eternal presents: Red Rooster, an incendiary RPG in ~games

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    ...criminal-justice narrative fetishes are something i just can't abide anymore, enough to turn me off disco elysium despite its laudable reputation, so i'm disappointed to read them leaning into...

    ...criminal-justice narrative fetishes are something i just can't abide anymore, enough to turn me off disco elysium despite its laudable reputation, so i'm disappointed to read them leaning into the trope again...

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Exploring Appendix N in ~games.tabletop

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    ...you're in for a rare treat: he's an exceptionally gifted poet, and i don't use the term metaphorically...

    ...you're in for a rare treat: he's an exceptionally gifted poet, and i don't use the term metaphorically...

    1 vote

  20. Comment on The dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 in ~comp

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    ...classic had accumulated a lot of cruft by the time it was put to pasture, but its core user interface and filesystem paradigms were demonstrably superior to NeXTstep, which has never really...

    ...classic had accumulated a lot of cruft by the time it was put to pasture, but its core user interface and filesystem paradigms were demonstrably superior to NeXTstep, which has never really caught up...

    1 vote