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Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't on the Play Store
I love AAAAXY! Favorite game available on Android.
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Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't on the Play Store
I love AAAAXY! Favorite game available on Android.
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Firefox gang raise
My favorite is the last one. Not the one on the left, but this one:
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went to my first protest today :33
Gee, people in the US need to be this cautious when protesting? Where I live it's totally fine to just casually show up at protests, take selfies, talk to people and whatnot.
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Property and liability are important!
That got me. It really does sound like what a "lawyer" would write.
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Peak security
Almost the same thing happened to me. I accidentally fucked up the internet connection in my home while in Japan, and I had to video call my mom to have her fix it. It was a pain for both of us, but thankfully it went rather smoothly. Thank you mom!
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obligatory: https://qntm.org/abolish
Before I read this article, I also thought it would be a great idea to get rid of timezones entirely and just use UTC for everything. To quote from the link, (please forgive me for being lazy and not formatting it correctly)
Abolishing time zones brings many benefits, I hope. It also:
As long as humans live in more than one part of the world, solar time is always going to be subjective. Abolishing time zones only exacerbates this problem.
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SanDisk's Name is Now Mud
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Me too! I was thinking, "Why would any brand rebrand themselves to Mud? That is even worse than Twitter rebranding to X!"
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Ive bought two
Assuming that the 80-pound (36.3 kg) stainless steel block is a solid cube, its side length would only be 16.6 cm (6.5 inches). (The density of the most common stainless steel (304) is 7930 kg/m^3.) Not nearly as big as the picture suggests. Still, it seems like it would be an awesome addition to my kitchen.
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Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy
To people thinking of enforcing UTC around the globe:
obligatory: https://qntm.org/abolish
Before I read this article, I also thought it would be a great idea to get rid of timezones entirely and just use UTC for everything. To quote from the link,
Abolishing time zones brings many benefits, I hope. It also:
- causes the question “What time is it there?” to be useless/unanswerable
- necessitates significant changes to the way in which normal people talk about time
- convolutes timetables, where present
- means “days” (of the week) are no longer the same as “days”
- complicates both secular and religious law
- is a staggering inconvenience for a minimum of five billion people
- makes it near-impossible to reason about time in other parts of the world
- does not mean everybody gets up at the same time, goes to work at the same time, or goes to bed at the same time
- is not simpler.
As long as humans live in more than one part of the world, solar time is always going to be subjective. Abolishing time zones only exacerbates this problem.
(copied from one of my 9-month old comments)
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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
I tried to preach why Google sharing your browsing history with ad partners is bad, but most of my friends don't seem to care. :(
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my bombass lunch today for ¥616 (~US$3.94)
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Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before
AAAAXY. AAAAXY is a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces. You can take a walk on a Möbius strip, try to find the platform with your train at the train station, and play a piano that makes the Shepard tone. It will be a bit confusing at first, but I promise it will eventually get fun.
It's not on Steam, but it's available for download on the website for free. Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Also on F-Droid and FlatHub. give it a try im begging you
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Xi says China will ‘surely be reunified’ with self-ruled Taiwan in New Year’s address
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Yes, they've been saying that since forever.
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Do the research
因噎廢食 (īnyēfèishí)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9B%A0%E5%99%8E%E5%BB%A2%E9%A3%9F
This is a Chinese proverb meaning "to avoid something essential because of a slight risk of making a mistake." Literally it means "to not eat due to the risk of choking on food."
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The agony of indecision
Severance is great. I watched it on my 3-month trial to Apple TV.
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I wish more people clean URLs before sharing it to others.
Agreed. Recently youtube started adding tracking parameters (?si=) to their share links. I always clean them up.
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What does the world think of India?
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Poland pushes for EU to scrap daylight saving time
Instead of DST, why didn't we just shift working hours one hour earlier in winter? (I am in favor of getting rid of DST. I'm just asking why we decided to shift the clock instead of shifting working hours)
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Anti-foreigner sentiments are on the rise as Japan faces a population crisis
It's actually scary how quick they're rising. I live in Japan, and I once heard them at a intersection nearby on a car giving a speech. I hated how they speak. They sounded like they were heavily appealing to the emotion and used a lot of sentence final particles like ne, in a tone that sounded half-aggressive and also... very conservative in a way. They were talking some shit about how Japanese people should come first and that we should "protect Japan", as if there was some sort of foreign force trying to tear Japan down to pieces. What's worse was that there were actually people cheering for them. I actually wanted to go downstairs to shout at them but I restrained myself from doing that. I still sort of regret not going there to shout at them.
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Russian banks say they've run out of yuan as Chinese firms pull away from the nation
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What's "Taiwan's advice"? What did Taiwan tell China about Russia?