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@ takeheart @lemmy.world

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  • New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison

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  • It's well known that the judiciary at the time was very lenient towards right wing extremists. His time in jail was rather cozy and gave him time to develop and write down more of his ideological underpinnings. And come up with a more comprehensive plan for taking over.

    That's why I find it very worrisome when people like Donald Trump get what amounts to a slap on the wrist for staging an insurrection. Not just that but they actually put him on the ballot again 😱. And this time the people propping him up in the background came up with an elaborate plan for claiming the election and then completely restructuring the executive authoritarian style (aka Project 2025).

  • Music concerts should get quieter

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  • Went to a local rock concert once. Had to go into the middle of the crowd to fetch a friend and alert him of something that had happened. The music was unbearably loud for me. Noticed that virtually everyone was wearing ear plugs.

    Found it absurd. Why not lower the volume instead and have people forego the plugs? Less noise pollution in the local area too. After the concert was over I asked some participants about it. Everyone claimed they liked the loudness or that it was necessary somehow. My impression: they liked to keep up with the appearances of being hardcore, it being for tough folks. But they didn't want the actual hearing damage.

  • How come it seems that there are little to no serial killers who are women in the modern age? Are they not caught or is it just the men that make the news?

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  • This is true for serial killers in general though. Murders tend to be premeditated. If you are planning a murder you'll look for ways to maximize your success and minimize the chance of getting caught. In modern times you don't have to rely on pure strength; there's a plethora of workarounds from drugs to guns. The actual desire to end a human life (usual enabled by some form of psychopathy) is the limiting factor. A serial killer personality type doesn't throw the towel just because they are physically weak.

    Guess what I'm saying is: there isn't a large contingent of women out there that would suddenly turn serial killers if they were to physically become stronger.

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    From Kursk to Kursk: Putin’s attempt to project an image as Russia’s ‘protector’ has been punctured throughout his 25 years in power

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  • It's true but the title doesn't seem onion-y to me.

  • [Help] Steam Deck settings for dummies

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  • Ideally you'll adjust both in game settings and deck settings for each game with in-game settings taking precedence as they give you access to fine tuning custom tailored to that game. The deck settings are great to tinker with when you want longer battery life especially. If it's inside the dock and charging while you play you needn't worry much about optimization (frame rate limit, heat limit, half rate shading, etc.) and can leave it at the sensible defaults.

    The Steam Deck per-game control layout is very helpful for games that don't come with native controller support or those that don't let you rebind controls inside the game itself.

    I don't own the games you mention, so I can't suggest specifics but my general way of setting up a game is:

    1. install the game and get it running at all
    2. use in-game options to find a resolution and layout comfortable from your preferred playing posture/position
    3. enable frame rate overlay in the steam settings
    4. start with default or auto detect settings for graphics or look up what others recommend online in sites like protondb. if you hit a comfortable frame rate (40-60+ for me personally) keep increasing the graphics quality settings in game as long it remains fluid to play. Don't need to do it all in one session. I usually minimally increment the graphics settings at the start of each gaming session and simply revert once it's no longer fluid.

  • The unpleasantness of mosquito bites is not something useful for mosquitoes, but it is useful for the ones who suffer it

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  • While mosquito bites are unpleasant in themselves due to the itching and swelling I don't think it's common for cultures to have worked out the causal relationship between mosquitos and diseases like malaria. But I'd be happily educated otherwise.

  • Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive?

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  • For gluten free products: the whole production chain needs to use different tools or be sealed off from the rest. You can generally use the same mill, kneader, oven, tray for barley, wheat, rye, etc without meticulous cleaning in between. But if you want it to be gluten free you now need to either do that expensive cleaning or more realistically have an entirely separate set of machinery and ensure it never gets in contact with your main line.

  • How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up.

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  • Here in Germany it has been revealed that the church set up a whole network shuffling around offenders (or sending them away to south america) and muddling traces. It's even been shown that the former pope knew about such cases. It's systemic.

    Basically it's a combination of supposed moral authority, intransparency, and mutual cover ups. People are willing to look the other way a lot when they perceive of someone as having a higher mission or great social standing. That includes law enforcement. Think of Donald Trump who's a fraudster-racist-rapist-insurrectionist and yet the MAGA crowd loves him. Maybe celibacy plays into it as well, sexual urges don't stop just because you don a robe.

    Younger people are less and less religious with each generation. So at least from that angle the problem might eventually go away.

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    Just shilling away

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  • My guess is that his team set it up this way as aid to focus on economic issues instead of personal attacks and self aggrandization. But Trump's gonna Trump and he said as much in the Interview 🫠.

  • US to resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia

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  • Saudi Arabi is hostile to Iran (as is Israel) too.

  • Innovation

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  • The wheel (for transportation) is really a concomitant of stable roads existing. Really wheels only work on flat, paved surfaces. The "invention" of the wheel isn't the stroke of genius that pop culture likes to portray it as. It's just something that follows from having the right environment. The Romans for instance built and maintained widespread road networks throughout Europe to quickly move troops to the front lines. It turns out that those roads also were a tremendous boon for traders and travellers using carts.

    Comic's still funny though.

  • Flameshot, an Open Source screenshot software

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  • I often use this over KDE's inbuilt screenshot tool because this one has a quick way to crop a screenshot

  • What sort of 12th dimensional chess game is she playing?

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  • Nice, the 3 panels work in pretty much any order (some are better).

  • EVIL GUY

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  • Too many games I've seen conflate being evil with being a jerk. Few games let you play the 'long game' where you are specifically nice and cooperative to deceive and manipulate. I think this partly due to decisions being made modular and point to point. Your overall morality then is calculated as some form of average of all the decisions you made. Mass effect series comes to mind.

    But if you want to play as a scheming villain the opposite should be the case: you set your primary long term goal (eg taking over a country or institution) and then your actions are chosen in the vein of that goal. And those actions might in isolation actually be seen as beneficial or benign. But you ultimately do them to gain trust or deceive.

  • Poor guy

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  • Ime it's not only the quality/style of music but being compressed and transmitted over phone line (which is optimized for human voice) and also often being way too loud (sudden shock plus clipped dynamic range).

  • Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not

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  • Law terminology specifically can seem pretty archaic because there's a high need for terms to be stable over time. In other fields and everyday speech terms can change over time. There's contracts signed decades or even centuries ago that are still binding today. So it's practical in a sense if the words within and those used to discuss legal dealings don't change over time.

  • lemmy test how ur client handles long posts

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  • Eternity on Android passes with flying colors.

  • I'm still worthy

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  • I'm the opposite of this picture. It's like I have to relearn the game each time and fluid play takes a long time to return.

    Funnily enough my muscle memory persists to some degree though. So for instance if a particularly tough enemy is charging me I might push a specific key without actually knowing what it does. Afterwards I have to reason and rediscover what I was trying to accomplish and bind that action to the key I pressed.

  • Just not his thing.

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  • You can see that it's symmetrical and that they used 6 diametrical cuts to make 12 pieces. So 2 are missing.

    Not that it matters much, but this little dishonesty just adds to the zaniness of the whole ad.

  • Horoscopes actually tell the personality of someone.

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  • In my experience the big problem is not people self ascribing personality types but type casting others. When you expect others to have certain traits you also treat them accordingly.

    I can't believe she has trouble speaking in front of crowds, she's a lion after all.

    Then again horoscopes aren't unified or anything and you can just cherry pick from different sources and cultures to believe anything.