I also loved this brutal letter to Weiss in The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/business/793525/bari-weiss-cbs-news-glass-cliff
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I don’t know, to me it seemed like one of the more straightforward ‘hidden word’ ones. “cantab” is a dead giveaway, if I don’t know the meaning of a word but it contains simpler words, my spidey sense immediately goes off.
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Buy European@feddit.uk•Europe Finally Embraces Air Conditioning as Heat Waves Hit HardEnglish
3·6 months agoOnly if you don’t clean the filters.
This is actually doing a disservice to all the work paleontologists do in reconstructing. There was indeed a time where there was too much stretching over bones, but this is something they are now very aware of. Also keep in mind reptiles, avians and and mammals have a very different relationship between bones and body. It’s mainly mammals that tend to add a lot of bulk like that.
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Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Ukraine’s F-16 Destroys Russian Su-35 in First Air Battle, Backed by Swedish AWACS
2·8 months agoWe’ll need to see in real life (and hopefully that doesn’t happen), but in theory an F35 would have fired at a 4(.5) Gen aircraft before it was even detected.
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On SteamEnglish
1·1 year agoHow’s the gameplay in terms of role-playing and freedom to tackle quests? Any hidden choices or missions with many different solutions? Or is it more like Witcher 3 with clear choices resulting in a small number of quest paths at most?
It’s a reverse DeSantis
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda can't just switch engines because the current one is "perfectly tuned" to make the studio's RPGs
42·1 year agoI do think they have a point: there’s not many other engines I can think of that are quite as ‘tangible’ as theirs. Every object has its physical place in the world and can be picked up, manipulated,… in a way that’s unlike other engines where the world just feels more static.
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Global News@lemmy.zip•USA | California governor vetoes bill requiring speeding alerts in new cars
7·1 year agoWe have this in Europe for new cars, and the issue everyone expects is that cars are terrible at accurately knowing the speed limit. Current cars often can already show what they think the speed limit is, but it’s often inaccurate due to missing a sign or road crossing, or any other software/image recognition problems. Which means you’re bound to get false positives, causing drivers to turn off the warnings each time.
The only upside is that we might get another epically long Milo Rossi debunking
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Pierre Poilievre says minors should not have access to puberty blockers
22·2 years agoPeer-reviewed NYT op-Eds (/s)
It’s a fake ad created as a joke in Top Gear by Jeremy Clarkson
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Futurology@futurology.today•CATL expects to sell batteries at $60 kWh or less in mid-2024, that 12 months ago it sold for $125 kWh. With further predicted price falls, this will knock $5,000 off the cost to make EVs by 2025.English
1·2 years agoThe 5000 refers to cars with bigger batteries than a 10.000 dollar car. Those might go down to 7 or 8 K, but new cars sold in Europe or the US will not likely go back down to below 15k. The necessary safety and environmental requirements, and minimum expectations on comfort, features and performance will likely keep prices relatively high-ish. Even the Citroën Ami is still 9k, and that’s a 2 person city car with low range, barely any features, and loads of cost cutting. Awesome car, though.
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Solarpunk technology@slrpnk.net•MIT Passive Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water, scales down to the size of a suitcase.
8·2 years ago200 is on the high end, and not all of it needs to be desalinated
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Gaming@beehaw.org•What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations?
6·2 years agoUnpopular opinion because it’s so recent, but I think Starfield is/will be in this category
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Taylor Swift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech•Country Singer Chely Wright Calls New York Times Op-Ed Speculating About Taylor Swift’s Sexuality “Upsetting”
5·2 years agoNYT has some serious issues with LGBTQ+ topics. The whole trans saga was atrocious.
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Anarchism and Social Ecology@slrpnk.net•it's an election year. don't vote shame.
14·2 years agoI’m just an outsider, but it seems to me that in 2016, many people on the left/anarchist /socialist/liberal whatever weren’t enthusiastic about Clinton and didn’t vote or voted third party. This led to Trump winning and subsequently nominate enough Supreme Court justices to set back abortion rights 50 years among many other things that probably are worse than whatever Clinton could have done.
You can express your preferences in primaries, local elections, in movements to change voting laws, but once candidates in a first past the post system are locked in, it’s intentional ignorance to pretend like it won’t be one of the two major party candidates that will win, and not voting for one helps the other one. If you’re okay with that, fine, but don’t pretend that not voting is a neutral act. You’re giving away your voice to whoever is voting one of the two major candidates, and I assure you the right does not care about their candidate’s past or unsavory aspects.
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The Onion@midwest.social•Max’s New Triple-Platinum Plan Allows Customers To Permanently Delete Movie Or TV SeriesEnglish
7·2 years agoThat’s already what this one does
I’m gonna read that as ‘disemballed’, which just means they lose all their golf ballls






It’s a tweet from 2017