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  • This Is Biden’s Soft Landing, and He Deserves Some Credit

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  • Cats understand 'naughty'

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  • I left out a crockpot of mostly eaten mac and cheese on the counter. I was on the couch half-asleep when I heard my keys (which were next to this crockpot) jingle. I didn't say anything, I just turned my head and saw my cat running for cover as if it had just tripped the alarms during a heist gone wrong. How do I interpret this in any way other than my cat knowing what it was doing was naughty?

  • Jeff Bezos Is Moving to Miami After 29 Years in Seattle

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  • It's also a state where your primary residence is shielded if you need to declare bankruptcy...

  • Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won't come into the office 3 times a week

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  • I think you have the right idea but came to the wrong conclusion. Why would anyone buy office space if there is no value in employees coming to the office? Hint: they wouldn't.

    Edited to add: these properties may become a liability on their books which would impact their ability to apply for or pay for loans, as well as other negatives for the company.

  • Tesla cuts Model 3 and Model Y prices in the U.S. after car deliveries fall

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  • Seems like anything you buy is somewhat of a gamble. Internal combustion engines/gasoline could be gone or (more likely) far less desirable in 10 years. As manufacturers begin switching to primarily electric cars, finding parts/labor for these vehicles may become challenging. With a hybrid, I wonder if you carry all the same risks (as far as the long term value of the vehicle) as a normal gasoline-powered car.

    But maybe the timeline for this is more like 20 years.

  • Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

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  • You can see how those two things are a little different though, right?

    No, not really. Contrary to your point, Bethesda has worked quite closely with Xbox a number of times (especially back in the oblivion days) and Sony has never been interested in Bethesda's ideas about games (support for Skyrim was abysmal on PlayStation and mods on PS3/4 were a joke).

    Is MS a huge jerk for yanking starfield out of the hands of the majority of console gamers? Yeah totally, but Sony is also a huge jerk (and has been) for a long time when it comes to negotiating exclusivity deals, which they have been able to do because they are the number 1 console. It's really not hard to extrapolate how much leverage Sony has over the industry when you see that they have sold 75% more consoles than xbox (35 vs 20 million units sold PS5/XS). I believe the previous gen was even worse. The outcry over this would have been much smaller if the roles were reversed, because it would have just been business as usual for every gamer.

  • Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

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  • Since the starfield exclusivity thing started, this point has always stuck with me: PlayStation owners buy PlayStation because of the expectation that they will get the best exclusives (and even most other games first). It was so bizarre to see them so brazenly attack Xbox over making starfield exclusive. They couldn't see that they were beneficiaries of these same tactics for so long that they just accepted it as "the way it is." Logically, why would you ever buy an Xbox if PlayStation gets better exclusives and the other great games first? No one should be surprised when TES6 is Xbox/PC exclusive.

  • South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children in a first for country's courts

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  • But doctors are required to report anything that they identify as an immediate physical threat (e.g., to the patient or because of the patient). I found out recently that this is entirely subjective - different doctors have different ideas about what constitutes a threat. So, in a lot of ways, no, medical secrecy may not protect you if you tell the wrong doctor.

  • Migrants’ DNA Is Fueling a Massive Expansion of the FBI’s Genetic Database

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  • We already have DNA tests for that which don't require a whole database? A comprehensive DNA database could be used for extreme evil, such as mass systemic genocide or eugenics.

  • My love affair with Little Mac is forbidden

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  • It's because we like the challenge. Also how salty people get when they lose to my f-tier character.

  • Pokemon Company "having conversations" about how to ensure game quality with regular releases

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  • I haven't checked in on it for a long time but I remember kindred fates also looking promising.

  • Is there a business in your town, which you are 100% sure is a front?

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  • There's a restaurant in my hometown of Lexington, KY called ""Frank and Dino's." It's owned by Carlo Baccarezza who has ties John Gotti, who was Italian mafia. He's a horrible person and has been sued by former employees of the restaurant for discrimination.

    He opened this place just before the pandemic. It's supposed to be a fine-ish dining establishment with authentic Italian. The prices are high, but the food is terrible. It might be passable for someone who doesn't know authentic Italian. In any case, the restaurant sits empty most of the day, and it doesn't make sense to me why you would open a place like this and just allow it to have a terrible reputation that's mostly empty day in and day out.

  • Florida congresswoman — a former DNC chair — is months late disclosing family stock sale. Again.

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  • There's a paywall on the article, so maybe there are details there that I'm missing. I also wasn't very politically aware until ~2016. Out of curiosity, can you elaborate on why this person caused hillary to lose in 2016? I always assumed it was overconfidence on her part (e.g., not even bothering to campaign in Wisconsin) and then the report from James Comey literally days before the election that tanked her.

  • [Update] Can you rate my build?

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  • I agree with the comments about the HDD being a questionable choice. My question would be if 1000W is really required for this build. Usually I see 1000W for multi-GPU builds. Your process is 180W and your GPU is 355W. It seems like you could easily get away with 750-800W and save some cash. Maybe that could go into larger SSD?

  • [Update] Can you rate my build?

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  • I agree with the comments about the HDD being a questionable choice. My question would be if 1000W is really required for this build. Usually I see 1000W for multi-GPU builds. Your process is 180W and your GPU is 355W. It seems like you could easily get away with 750-800W and save some cash. Maybe that could go into larger SSD?

  • Reddit CEO Digs In Heels As User Outrage Engulfs Website

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  • Not entirely sure what the commenter was referring to, but it might be about tracking (Firefox has great anti-tracking and privacy tech). The real money on the web comes from ads, and specifically targeted ads. Targeted ads require that advertisement companies like Facebook and Google track you and build a profile based on your activity. Companies like reddit make money by helping to build these profiles and by delivering ads.

    If you can still be targeted by ads, the powers that be will continue to try and "make a buck" off the internet. If there is a market for targeted ads, it is likely that a service will be monetized for the sake of profit, which typically leads to situations like what we've seen with reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc... Privacy is essentially an ad-business killer in the modern web.

  • Does lemmy.world really have 26000 users already?

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  • The rationale appears to be that they don't have the moderation tools necessary to deal with an unvetted userbase. Lemmy.world doesn't require any prior user verification, so anyone can join (just like reddit). Beehaw claims that they were receiving a large amount of trolls or other negative traffic from lemmy.world and shitjustworks, so they have temporarily defederated these instances.

    This may change if better modding tools come around.

  • Planets will have levels

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  • I've played Skyrim since release, but the mod that keeps things interesting for me is undoubtedly Requiem. Requiem uses unleveled world similar to this, but the encounter zone difficulty is hidden from the player. While this is fairly immersive, I think it's frustrating for new players. "Why can't I kill draugr? Why are mages one shotting me?" Etc.. So this is probably a design choice to make the game accessible.