I’m not into swords at all but I imagine it’s a lot easier to rake the edge of the blade across a surface if it’s angled away like a scimitar and more likely to just thwap something perpendicularly with a straight blade. ‘Papercut theory’ of sorts

Why buy a Hublot when you can get in on Trump’s latest Aliexpress drop instead? It can even pass as a Rolex at 20 feet

Amazon search is so bad because we wind up having to doomscroll to find that damn thing we’re looking for. Like putting milk in the back of the grocery store. You can type ‘Adidas’ and wind up digging through Nikes

Most search engines suck in that regard because they eschew exclusionary results in favor of delivering a decent amount of results, even if the prompt is specifically intended to be exclusionary in nature. Even google, you can wrap three distinct words in quotes or put + in front of them or whatever, and Google will still give you results with more common spellings of those distinct words and deliver results that omit 1 or more of those words, despite you very clearly wanting those 3 exact words all in one result.

Shopping for specific things like that, I tend to use a relevant retailer with robust filters. For example, light bulbs, I go to Home Depot, add those requirements via filter (click the box for correct base, correct size, color temperature, wattage/lumens), comparison shop the results, find a couple I want, and search the actual part number in google to find the best retailer. Seems tedious but actually cuts down on time as I’m not wading through irrelevant results (which often outnumber relevant results 10 to 1 when using a text prompt as opposed to filters)

They all suck in their own unique ways. Automotive tires are a leading source of microplastics so EVs aren’t exactly a darling angel, but getting to work has become a 500 billion a year industry in America and framed in such a way that people are debating which car is better for the environment when they’re all horrible compared to mass transit. Because capitalism thrives on frivolity and consumption. That’s the real crux

Maybe a mix of both. That’s a heaping pile of information on our infrastructure and population density and everything in between, and if they can start building individual profiles that’s even more. Imagine something like Russia having this on Ukraine or vice versa, war would be so one-sided in either direction, which bridges to hit and which to take, you name it.

Tik Tok: here’s my GPS coords, entire photo album, oh, and you’ll need all my contacts too. You want access to my calendar? Sure why not

True, but he still needs to relax and unwind by making all caps posts on Truth for 3 hours. Probably upends his morning routine of rolling out of bed at 10AM for a noon tee time

For real, they need to schedule it earlier in the day before his adderall wears off and he turns into a wall-eyed stammering zombie

Yay more projection

Trump asked FCC to revoke ABC’s broadcasting license due to his so-called ‘mistreatment’ at the debate and he was soundly rebuked

So do they think attempting to censor media outlets good or bad? Beats the hell out of me

Nowadays 2 seconds is an eternity considering M.2 drive speed and DDR4 bandwidth. Baldur’s Gate 1 for example, nothing is compressed and load times are in single digit milliseconds. Sure BG1 is loading like 1/8th the stuff but load times are 1/300th

There’s actually a program people use for D2R to unpack textures and it cuts load time significantly, but the install and the uncompressed files have a massive footprint

Most games, most textures are compressed, which leads to something like Diablo 2’s remake having ridiculous load times considering it’s a simple reskin of a 20 year old game. That 30GB footprint probably gets unpacked to something twice the size, and if you’re caching literally every single thing for the sake of smoothness (flight sims rarely have loading screens when you enter another country’s airspace or a different biome), and a little bit of overhead for OS etc, gonna need heaps of RAM

I heard they’re drafting a resolution to sheepishly ask the US ‘why the big cars?’

Advisors in meeting: “We have a clear path to 270 as long as they focus on single issue voters who care most ab-”

Trump interrupts everyone to talk about how boring this meeting is, invites everyone to order McDonald’s with him.

JD rubs chin pensively, thinking about a single issue to focus on, something easy which does not involve walking into a donut shop

JD has a really weird fixation on cats. Cat ladies, grilling cats, cats cats cats. Has JD ever bummed a cat? We’ll never know but it makes me wonder

The day of a new patch in WoW I said in general chat “wow, they finally put a confirmation when you type /gquit , crazy how long it took” and sit in town and watch peoples guild names disappear

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Better yet do some low speed low elevation bullshit in their airspace in desolate bumfuck nowheresville and let the locals relay it. Who did that? Nobody really knows

I think the way to win is to understand the algorithm and juke it for good stuff. I saw an ad for THC gummies a while back, free sample, so I started reading the comments, clicked through to the site, backed out, read the comments again, then clicked back in and got a free sample. I spent so much time messing around with this random ad that the next thing I knew, every ad was for free THC gummies (just pay shipping but cheaper than actually buying from Cycling Frog or wherever). Eventually it reverts back towards a mean but if you see something cool you can def trick the whole algorithm to only hand you that cool stuff

Facebook still has that but they obscured it in favor of their dumb algorithm whipping up totally random things and ads.

To get to it click the 3 lines or ‘more’, then find ‘feeds’ and select that, then choose groups or friends or whatnot, and it’ll show you those posts sorted by most recent. No way to make this default.

But the algorithm is so dumb because it takes into account how long you pause on a post and seems to weigh that higher than other things - for example if you see an ad you hate, for like a slot machine game app, and you click ‘see less ads like this’, the amount of time you spend clicking through menu options while on that ad will make the algorithm give you more ads tangentially related to slot machine apps, despite you basically saying “I hate these kind of ads”. Really dumb algorithm. Even reporting some fly-by-night obvious scam ad impersonating a brand will lead you to see only those type of scam ads. Really really dumb.

Even you pausing over the post you did in order to take a screenshot, that’ll make you see more of those types of things

No, anything Google shows you is kosher and totally symbiotic. A website being shown on Google is at the site owner’s discretion - if they allow search engines to crawl they get the benefit of exposure, and the search engine gets the benefit of having relevant hits and ad revenue and all that. Most sites want click-throughs so it’s usually in their best interest to let search engines list their sites.

Google isn’t exploiting anyone, kinda the opposite, since site owners don’t pay for any ads or exposure (but that exposure has so much value that they’ll pay for SEO). Site owners can decline and Google abides. Anything on Google is on Google with consent.