AI is starting to get really smart

Clearly this shows that North Korea is the peak example of a successful society, and that the rest of the world should aspire to mimic them in all their wise practices.

I live in the US, and I have dozens of people from my contacts who have it installed. I don’t know how many are actively using it, but it’s definitely a common app for people to have.

Telegram is a messaging app, if you install it you’ll be presented with a list of people from your contact list that have it installed as well. You can message these people through the app, and that’s about it.

Telegram also supports group chats, and several apps/etc use these group chats for support and discussion. There are also some group chats used for illegal activity, but you can’t discover these through the app itself. You would have to get in touch with these groups on another website, and be given an invite link to their telegram chat. The only thing that makes telegram more popular for illegal activity (afaik) is that you can have private group chats without government/telegram oversight.

insane platforms like Telegram

Is telegram considered insane? It’s basically just a messaging app that people can form group chats in.

Yes, but Duck and Scotch are both brands here. So you can buy Duck brand duct-tape or Scotch brand Duct-tape. They’re priced about the same but the Duck brand is much worse than Scotch.

I’m mostly complaining about their clear packaging tapes though, that’s where the Duck brand tape is truly awful.

Not the best source, but there was a reddit survey with about 1000 people, and it was roughly 1:2 for standing vs wiping.

Interestingly enough there wasn’t much difference between men and women when it came to standing vs sitting.

Roughly 1 in 3 people stand while wiping.

On the toilet paper debate, as far as I can tell it largely has to do with whether people stand up or sit down to wipe. People who stand up want the paper unrolling on the front (because they can’t easily reach under the roll), while people who sit down and wipe can go either way.

For my petty hill, “Duck” brand tape is awful and should never be bought. It’s just slightly above generic dollar brand tape in quality, and should absolutely never be bought if you have any other options. Go with Scotch or anything else really.

You can kinda already do that, apps like rdx, Stealth, and Geddit pull reddit content without using the API. You can’t vote/comment, but you can still follow communities that have worthwhile content.

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I’m not sure how it is in the larger cities, but a lot of the US is car centric. Since a lot of people with cars drive, it means that you see a higher percentage of people who can’t afford cars in public transportation. That leads to more sketchy stuff happening on public transports, which leads to more people who have the option avoiding it.

Yeah, every browser being chrome sucks, but it’s also so much better than being forced to focus any website development around IE compatibility.

I agree it’s stupid, but it’s basically just people living through the success of others. Same thing happens with sports teams, people have “their team” and the team’s success/failure can dramatically affect how they feel.

The catch with Libby is that usually all the good books have hold times. This isn’t an issue when you’ve been using Libby for awhile, you put a bunch of books on hold and you reach a point where you always have something available. But it can take weeks/months as a new user to get to that point where you are constantly having waitlisted books coming available.

I’d be worried that picking jellyfish might cause you to lose your brain as well. Which would be pretty inconvenient outside of preparing you for a career in politics.

Slice & Dice is 60-100MB (depending on what version you get), and I’ve been playing it for hours a week for 3 years now.

I linked the itch.io page, but It’s also on play store/app store/steam for cheaper.

True, DCC is fantastic. Guess it slipped my mind because it’s been awhile.

Mother of Learning is another high recommendation, but I’d definitely rank it as a masterpiece (although the audiobook can be rough with some of the female voices).

I’ve been reading some litrpg-genre books, and a lot of the better books in that genre are extremely enjoyable despite obvious literary flaws.

Some top recommendations are He Who Fights with Monsters and Defiance of the Fall.

Slice & Dice is the best game I’ve ever gotten on my phone, I bought it over Thanksgiving in 2021 and haven’t stopped playing it since. It’s similar to deck builders, but dice based.

It’s $7 on mobile, but has a good free to try demo. So you can see if you like it for free. It’s also available on Steam and itch.io

The game is still in active development, but the dev only releases updates every 1-1.5 years. The updates are absolutely massive though and add a ton of content.