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Comment · 2 years ago
If an animal were imparted enough energy to be thrown into space, it would not get there intact.
Comment · 2 years ago
Broccoli and kale are both brassica oleracea and are included under cabbage (another cultivar of the species). It has support for aliases though, so I don't get why it doesn't use that in this case. Broccoli is my archetypal brassica and I always get hung up when it isn't there.
Comment · 2 years ago
For anyone reading this thread, I strongly recommend The Other Wind. It's a wonderfully emotional book about loss and about the importance of everyone in the endeavor to fix the world.
Comment · 3 years ago
How does this relate to the GP comment?
Comment · 3 years ago
That's the point, it's the entrance to their sales funnel. Convince people that they're dirty and broken, then sell them the cure.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Bullshit, you're just being curmudgeonly. Hades, Horizon Zero Dawn, Baldur's Gate 3, lots of clever little indie games like One Shot, music like Rujnuj and Mana, and way more.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm fairly certain it also does some traffic correlation by IP or similar. Probably on the logic that if someone else in your household (sharing the same gateway) likes a video you might too. Of course this also ends up associating things I open in a private window or with NewPipe with my account.
Comment · 3 years ago
You're welcome to explain the concept of a legal system to a lion, if you think it would work.
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Comment · 3 years ago
You haven't accounted for endianness yet. After all, your left is my right when we're facing each other. Perhaps orient hands vertically and the upper one is the more significant set of bits.

Also, for cases when one hand is unavailable, I propose a companion 6-bit encoding UTF-HAND where the multi-gesture sequences begin at 0x20.

This should be adopted into sign languages, it would make a more culturally diverse alternative to standard single-alphabet finger spelling :)

Comment · 3 years ago
I go in slightly different directions on both of your proposals. I think intellectual property in general should be eliminated, though I think copyright is a good olace to start. As for the artistic endowment, I think that the task of deciding what counts as an artistic endeavor is an intractable problem and that universal basic income is much more simple and equitable.

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