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Ecco the dolphin

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I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.

Sometimes I turn into a bird.

  • Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz

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  • Yes, and Americans know this is true but they forget how it might change their perspective of the world.

    Its like that old joke: two fish meet in the ocean. The first fish says "hey how are ya, how's the water?" And the second fish says, "what's water?"

    Most of the people I know are working class and can't travel overseas for vacation (if they even can afford to have one). Seeing it on TV is completely different than experiencing it.

  • Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz

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  • There exists cities where the streets are older than America itself.

    The locals feel pressure to allow automobile traffic down these roads, and where space allows they generally do. It feels out of place.

    I have been to cities like this. I have driven cars in places like this (i lived internationally for a while) and it doesn't feel right. I don't have money to travel now, but if I did, I would just walk.

    There are cities that people still live in that predate the concept of street addresses and post offices and I have met them, and have had no idea what to put down on the bullshit forms at my bullshit job for their address.

    The world is large.

  • What is something you dont care to understand or "get"?

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  • Oh. I misunderstood. "Learn to swim" didn't read as a survival thing to me, I assumed it meant "swim quickly for sport" not "avoid drowning". I took it for granted not everyone knows how to do this.

    The down votes are still funny.

  • LLMs can unmask anonymous internet users for $1–4 each, matching 67% of pseudonymous Hacker News accounts to real LinkedIn profiles at 90% precision

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  • This headline sucks.

    They made a model of accounts that willingly linked their hackernews profiles to their linked-ins and made a model base on that (n= approx 990)

    They could "deanonymise" about 67% of those accounts from that n=990 candidate pool (alpha=.1) using their model (they already knew who they were, otherwise how could they verify a correct match?).

    When they threw in a bunch of accounts that had nothing to do with those first accounts (89k total accounts) accuracy dropped to around 55%-45% depending on choice of technique.

    1. first thing, those hn accts they trained on weren't trying to be anonymous. They linked to their linked in profile. So, lie on the internet I guess

    2. this is just a starting point anyway, cheap and fast. That's what to worry about. $1-$4 per account you're trying to doxx like this.

    Just an interesting paper.

  • What is something you dont care to understand or "get"?

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  • I love that two people felt the need to down vote you for this.

  • Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses

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  • They need someone to review and tag the recorded footage to train AI models.

    No moment is private when wearing these glasses. I'm glad they haven't caught on where I live.

  • Trump Admits He Has No War Plan in Bombshell Letter

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  • I'd like to expand on this thought. Its been bothering me.

    Even when we "lose" wars we Americans do not experience the destruction we impart on other nations.

    We bombed a school. No american school children will die in this war, but Iranian children already have.

    Americans will disapprove of this war but it will only affect them in limited ways, making large protests feel foolish when many are trying to scrape by to make rent, and we live under a dictator.

    I don't know what there is to be done. It makes me sick.

  • New York sues video game developer Valve, says its 'loot boxes' are gambling

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  • Does that make sense to you? It's a bit complex, so I can understand if maybe that's a bit tough to fully comprehend.

    Are you attempting to be condescending when you couldn't figure out whether it was New York city or New York state bringing the suit? How embarrassing for you.

    Anyway, what valve is doing is supporting a nascent gambling scene involving 3rd party resales of loot box stuff, and the loot boxes themselves are basically gambling. Its not something that should be normalized. They are profiting off this and there are children involved. Normally I don't think "save the children" arguments have much weight to them but this is a solved problem: we regulate gambling industries.

    Please understand: I use steam. I think its awesome. I'm hyped to play my steam games on Linux. But steam is in the wrong here imo.

    And yes, there are bigger evils in the world, but this is still a worthwhile case. [Sentence redacted, privacy]. This shit is gambling and it needs regulation.

  • New York sues video game developer Valve, says its 'loot boxes' are gambling

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  • NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - New York's attorney general sued Valve

    First sentence of the article. The state of New York is suing valve.

    Valve has customers in New York so they are allowed to do so, I imagine.

    Idk are laws even real anymore?

  • TIL drinking, smoking, games, etc are all "social lubricants" for making conversations easier.

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  • Mine doesn't talk at all, did u get the premium model or something? Is there like a manual?

  • Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar

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  • While your statement is true, I was only pointing out they don't have the first amendment.

    (Yes, it is bad the police seized this stuff)

  • Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar

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  • This happened in Australia

  • Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment"

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  • On selling services to law enforcement: I disagree. You would want your E2E encryption platform to be respected and recognized by law enforcement, so they don't just think "oink oink, only criminals use this service, this guy must be a criminal!"

    I recommend this defcon talk if you haven't watched it (I think its the right one, TOR developer talks about why he teaches federal agencies how to use TOR)

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    People should be protesting and boycotting products and services linked to Pedophiles.

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    1. Bill Gates doesn't work for Microsoft anymore.

    2. I'm not comfortable giving my money to companies run by pedophiles. I think most people don't like doing that. This isn't a court of law - we're not sending them to prison. You're allowed to say "where there's smoke there's fire" and do something else with your dollars.

    This shit is so prevalent its going to be hard, but I can act on the information I do have, so can you.

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar Assaulted by Protester at Town Hall Meeting

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  • Straight into my adblocker

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  • I always just assumed I was too weird to effectively algorithmicly advertise to. I'm far away from the average American by a lot of measures and my interests are very niche.

    When I get suggestions or ads they feel like they are for someone else a lot (I like your blowjob machine example, many ads assume I'm male and lonely even though I'm a woman. Maybe that demographic is so lucrative and I'm so hard to sell to that I get those ads)

  • Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations

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  • hold on homie I have a meme for this already

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    If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.

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  • I'm going to take a different stance to a lot of the posters here.

    Your friend may be showing signs of undiagnosed mental illness.

    If you value him, listen to him and confront him when he has broken away from reality. But don't argue with him. Be firm in your disagreements but don't argue.

    Be supportive of him if you can. Make sure he has a support network (parents siblings others)

    Sometimes mental illness does not manifest until early adulthood.

    Know your limits. Care for yourself.

  • PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop"

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  • fwiw I'm running Debian 12 and had no issues getting steam to run, and all games I've tried run great (with a few exceptions but not many).

    I really really wouldn't recommend Debian as an OS for games. It's a server/workstation OS. I use it because I like Debian, not because it's a good idea.

    I remember changing my grub config to pass arguments to the kernel for gaming performance. I bet you wouldn't need to do this on a distro designed for gaming like Bazzite.