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magiccupcake

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  • Is it ethical to buy Subnautica 2, now that it is released in early access?

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  • Well kinda

    It depends on the number of sales, but for the deal that was made, 0 sales nets them as much as 12 million!

    Only after 12 million sales do they come out of the red.

  • Is it ethical to buy Subnautica 2, now that it is released in early access?

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  • A lawsuit forced krafton to rehire the fired devs, and extended the the payout period based on sales.

    So ironically, for maximum hurt for krafton, you should buy the game to force a larger payout.

  • Dating has gotten so expensive that nearly half of U.S. singles say it’s no longer worth it, as the average night out approaches $200

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  • Where are they gonna go? We destroyed most of our third places, or made them so expensive to extract maximum profits.

    Dinner is expensive, movies are expensive, small friendly local shops have been disappearing in favor of sterile corporate ones.

    For a lot of people the only option would then be a home, which doesn't work great for a lot of reasons.

  • Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase

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  • I bought a ps5, and like what exclusives?

    Since 2020 I bought like 6 games? (At least ones that aren't remasters)

    Horizon forbidden West, god of war Ragnarok, ghost of yotei, GT7, Spider-Man2, and returnal.

    Of these only 2 are still exclusives.

    Not great value for a ps5, I thought I'd be buying more single player exclusives but there just aren't that many.

    Even if Sony locks down future titles to being exclusive, they are not making enough to justify a console over a pc.

  • Happy May 4th!

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  • As someone doing my PhD on this topic, there aren't even any theories really competing with dark matter, and dark matter fits what we see in the universe quite well.

    That being said, we're still quite in the dark on what dark matter is, but we're pretty sure its there.

  • Aaaaaaaaaa

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  • Yeah your just missing two key facts here. One, yeah europe is still getting warmer, AMOC hasn't collapsed. Two, the conditions for maintaining a convective current are significantly easier than starting one. So if AMOC collapses and Greenland ice stops melting, there's no guarantee AMOC will restart. And even if it does, it could take centuries.

  • Aaaaaaaaaa

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  • AMOC is weakening because of salinity changes, not temperature. There's still a lot of glacier ice on Greenland that melt and disrupt the current.

    AMOC carries a lot of heat that is not likely to be replaced if it fails. Atmosphere convection doesn't have the heat capacity, so only logical conclusion is that temperatures in europe must drop. And based on research people have done, it's not gonna be a small amount.

    If you want a fun math (and a little physics) exercise, we can estimate how much heat AMOC carries from the equator to northern europe, and also try to see how much air it's heating in the atmosphere. From here it gets a bit more complicated as we have to estimate the the incoming solar radiation and earths radiative cooling. But from there you could compare estimated temperatures with and without AMOC heating.

  • Why don't spaceships rotate to cause artificial gravity?

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  • Yes, but the smaller the ship, the worse the Coriolis force will be. Imagine a 10m corridor with opposing gravity on each end, and no gravity in the middle. Travelling across would be extremely disorienting.

  • California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park

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  • No it's not the same.

    People taking down speed limits signs cause they want to go faster does not warrant the same response as people complaining that an intersection is unsafe and trying to improve it, and only because the city is basically ignoring them.

  • California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park

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  • Nah, this road is a fucking textbook example of a bad neighborhood intersection.

    Wide straight road with a hill on one side leads to unsafe driving speeds. Combined with parking at the intersection making visibility low for anyone crossing the intersection (cars, pedestrians, and bikes all included!)

    This intersection needs intervention, and a stop sign is a bare minimum solution. Speed bumps and daylighting would also be justified.

    We know we build unsafe intersections, we don't need a traffic study to confirm it, especially if you have a large number of residents with the same complaint.

  • California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park

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  • If 50 people sign a petition, you don't need to do a study. Just put in the fucking stop sign.

  • Most Americans would rather live in a big house in a car-based community than a small house in a walking-based community.

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  • Yeah that's kind of ridiculous.

    But if we're being honest, most Americans don't even have access to a corner store.

    My newest grocery store is a 2 mile bike ride away. It's not awful, but it's also not that great. And my friends in apartments I've visited are even worse. I am at least lucky that the main road I have has a multi-use path that makes it tolerable.

  • Most Americans would rather live in a big house in a car-based community than a small house in a walking-based community.

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  • In many places in the us, apartments are built in such a way where they come with all the negatives, but also without many of the upsides that apartments should have.

    I know several people who live in apartments, but there still isn't anywhere to walk to anyways!

    Sure you might be able to, but if it requires crossing 80m of asphalt just to cross a street no one is going to do it.

  • AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

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  • I love this bit especially

    Insurers, he said, are already lobbying state-level insurance regulators to win a carve-out in business insurance liability policies so they are not obligated to cover AI-related workflows. "That kills the whole system," Deeks said. Smiley added: "The question here is if it's all so great, why are the insurance underwriters going to great lengths to prohibit coverage for these things? They're generally pretty good at risk profiling."

  • How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged?

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  • It matters to me because the sheer number of these morons who are being exploited by the rich are actively making my life and the lives the people I care about worse. To do nothing about it is to admit defeat and accept this as the way of the world. I don't want to do that, I'd rather at least try something, even knowing the likelyhood is low.

    And I don't think pure doomerism is helpful either. By encouraging against any kind of deprogramming, you tacitly make it easier for the morons to spread without resistance.

  • How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged?

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  • We're still doing it too. Pretty much all of our modern telescopes, like JWST, are built by defense contractors who then use the expertise and technologies they develop for military applications.

  • How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged?

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  • In the current age of the Internet that doesn't work. It used to be people were afraid of being shunned by their community as then they would have nothing. Now with social media there are echo chambers that amplify views deserving of shunning and give refuge to those who would otherwise be shunned.

    But deprogramming people like this is hard, and won't always work. So I won't blame anyone for shunning people like this, but just know it's not really solving anything.

  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • by definition, half of people pay less than the average.

    I hate to be nitpicky, but that's not what the average is. In averages a small population of people who spend way more can bring averages above the median (which is the split between halves of the population).

    For cars in particular I prefer using medians as they are much more likely to be aligned to what most people experience.

  • If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

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  • Averages can mess this with this kind of statistics, where small group of people can bring up the average cost significantly.

    Gas is also expensive, my wife spends about $130 a month a gas alone. They are also likely factoring in all costs too, including personal property taxes (which where I live gets much more costly if the vehicle is worth over 20k), and all maintenance. So things like tire changes, replacement batteries, oil changes, and everything else, averaged over the lifetime of the car.

    You won't see most of these with an electric car at nearly the same cost. Electric cars see much lower operating costs, but only if you can afford it, and can charge it cheaply. Many people I know can't as they live in apartments and would have no way to charge an electric car.

    For us personally, looking at buying a new electric over my wife's paid off car, increases in personal property taxes and insurance negate much if the financial savings of having a lower operating expenses. Combined with a high initial cost of the vehicles it doesn't save anything financially.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    magiccupcake @lemmy.world

    STUDY: How Cars Are Making Us All Depressed (Even If We Don't Drive) — Streetsblog USA

    usa.streetsblog.org /2020/10/28/study-how-cars-are-making-us-all-depressed-even-if-we-dont-drive
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
    magiccupcake @lemmy.world

    Somebody is having a fun day

  • Deep Rock Galactic @lemmy.world
    magiccupcake @lemmy.world

    So now that season 4 has been out a bit, what are your thoughts?