Jrockwar

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[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't think it's only men either, but it's worth considering the implications and potential causes for what is being said here.

We have had not decades but centuries of macho culture, where mental health is a taboo for men because "I strong, me no cry" and we know that mental health struggles go underreported on men. This is just adding more evidence to a symptom that we already know, of a society that hasn't been able to course correct because it's too set in tradition to allow those who need help to seek it without feeling like garbage.

While I'm not saying this is a problem exclusive to men, I think the causes and effects on women and men are rather different. We've now known for a while that women with mental health issues or disorders tend to go undiagnosed (even more so than unreported). The case of autism is particularly blatant, as women only started to get diagnosed in a meaningful proportion in the 80s (despite autism not being sex- or gender-driven). https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/identity/autistic-women-and-girls

Similarly, that underdiagnosing came from the stereotyping of gender roles and the fact that being quiet and pretty equated being "feminine", which is "good", so can't be autistic, because autistic is bad.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I once had the great idea of drinking a litre of beetroot juice, which I had read is amazing for sports recovery because of something something helping blood carrying more oxygen or something like that.

Instant diarrhea, and on top of it, beetroot tinted it looked just like blood, so up until I realised what was going on and the fact that it actually wasn't blood, that was a scary experience.

I don't know whether beetroot is known to cause diarrhea or it was just my body noping the juice out of it, but I have steered clear of beetroot juice ever since!

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I think the opposite. They will learn not to hold primaries because that goes against their interests.

They'll keep trying the Hillary / Kamala strategy until they get lucky or the US is done for good and the notion of a government becomes pointless.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 147 points 3 months ago (13 children)

I think this means we can make a torrent client with a built in function that uses 0.1% of 1 CPU core to train an ML model on anything you download. You can download anything legally with it then. 👌

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Still, being able to argue they're not for profit is what typically has protected emulators from being sued to oblivion (and with Nintendo, even that's risky)...

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

I don't agree - to me, it feels the article is not about generations but about society. For example, take the fact that right now aesthetics are shaped by algorithms, and anyone from any generation needs to tailor their photography to what the algorithm likes. This is not a "gen z bad, millennial good" complaint - this is cross-generation and the complaint here is "we're all letting corporations dictate our tastes like never before".

The other points such as FOMO, Monetization of human relationships (influencers), can be similarly linked to social interactions being primarily corporate controlled.

I don't think it's fair to dismiss those issues as "things young people like", nor to put the blame on them and say "these issues are caused by how young people interact socially".

FOMO is a genuine cause for anxiety and it's a direct consequence of a modern society where social media exists - not something that Millenials, Gen Z or Gen Alpha like or are responsible for.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

In different ways. For example, it's very rare for a car to explode in a collision, other than in movies.

One of the reasons that make hydrogen difficult to work with in this sense is that hydrogen (H₂) molecules are so small that they can permeate most materials, such as steel. Then it can get somewhat easily to wherever there is a spark, and chaos ensues. Annoyingly you don't even need 100% Hydrogen for that to happen, as it can ignite with a concentration of just 4%.

After we stopped using Hydrogen mostly as a consequence of Hindenburg's accident, it's taken years to perfect hydrogen fuel cells to a safety standard that can be used in cars. As far as I know, its use has been limited to rockets/space propulsion otherwise (where you can just throw millions at the problem to make it safer).

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean it's your money, but if you already have a portable handheld with better screen, better battery, and that can run the whole of the steam catalogue... why spend $450 (or whatever) on the Mario Machine, is it just for the exclusives?

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What are you smoking?

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only 6M €? For an event of that size that feels a lot cheaper than I would have thought.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

A console in 2025 "runs at a stable 30" fps and that's good news? Of course this is slightly faster than a mobile chip from 10 years ago, but that's an incredibly low bar to set.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

Carl Pei and Pete Lau. They both co-founded OnePlus, Carl Pei later founded Nothing.

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