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November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The newly-announced Steam Frame allegedly runs SteamOS on ARM, and will support running games “standalone” (ARM emulation?), so there's some more hope on that front.
Headset Tech Specs* General Processor 4 nm Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Architecture: ARM64 RAM 16GB Unified LPDDR5X RAM Storage 256GB / 1TB UFS storage options microSD card slot for expanded storage Power Rechargeable 21.6 Wh Li-ion battery One USB-C 2.0 port in the rear, for charging and data Charge with USB-C, 45W Modular Headstrap Headstrap includes integrated dual audio drivers and and rechargeable battery on rear. Headstrap weight: 245g Core module can be separated from headstrap, for other headstrap solutions. Steam Frame is a PC!  It runs SteamOS Quick suspend/resume. Cloud saves. All the features of SteamOS that make for a great user experience are now available in VR. Just like any SteamOS device, install your own apps, open a browser, do what you want: It's your PC, you can do what you want with it.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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I'm suddenly reminded of this classic.
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Literally this, except the bullet holes are the various cueing strategies poor readers learn and the unshot areas are the phonics that poor readers don't learn.
The classic demonstration of “survivorship bias”, showing the locations of bullet holes in WW2 bombers returning from missions. The naïve, survivorship-bias-prone response to this would be to reinforce the areas with red dots; however, the reality is that the areas with red dots are where reinforcement is *not* necessary, because the plane can obviously survive being shot in those places. Instead, it's the areas *without* bullet holes that need reinforced, because the planes shot there are the ones that don't make it home.
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Best part of living in Reno: dozens of AYCE sushi joints, all with pretty good (or better) quality, and nearly all of 'em cost less than $40/person even with tip. And this one even throws in free sake (cheap sake, sure, but still sake).
Top row, left to right: - A partially-visible glass of water with lemon and ice - My “Be Kind Rewind!” hat, obtained from the Blockbuster store in Bend, OR, USA - A sake cup and carafe (I don't know what the technical term for the poury thingy is so I'm calling it a carafe) - Regular and low-sodium soy sauces in more poury thingies Bottom row, left to right: - A plate of ginger, “wasabi” (it's almost certainly just ordinary horseradish with green food coloring), and a small dish of regular soy sauce + wasabi + a slice of ginger for dipping - A plate of assorted nigiri; worth mentioning are the “Mickey Mouse” and “Donald Duck”, which are salmon and tuna (respectively, or maybe the other way around) nigiri topped with crab and other stuff — allegedly a Reno invention, which I'm inclined to believe since just about every sushi restaurant here offers 'em on the menu - A plate with unagi nigiri, a “Sakura” roll, and a “Hot Bae” roll; both rolls include yellowtail, my favorite fish for sushi The bill, from Tokyo Sushi in Reno, NV, USA: 1 Adult AYCE Lunch $28.95 1 Water $0.00 1 Free sake $0.00 Subtotal: $28.95 Tax: $2.39 Total: $31.34 (I ended up paying $40 flat in cash, plus a little extra in the sushi chefs' jar, as is customary)
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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2022 ain't when big tech started building massive datacenters; that started happening at least a decade or so earlier, when The Cloud™ became the buzzword of the day.

Meanwhile, that significant j‌ump lines up with the biggest US inflation spike since 1981.
Consumer Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average + Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices: All-Items HICP for Euro Area (19 Countries) Both overlaid graphs show a large spike in inflation in 2022.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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“HOLY FOR KING SHIRTBALLS” in the style of a Zohran Mamdani campaign ad
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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“Wow.” says Calvin's dad, while reading the dictionary entry that Merriam-Webster posted below. “Based.”
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I mean in this case “pretty close” is within millimeters or less. I snagged one of these to load up with music and plug into my truck's stereo, and it's basically just a type-A connector with a little blob of plastic on the end and a flash chip inside.
A Sandisk 8GB flash drive, tiny and cute as a button, and loaded up with Niel Cicierega's entire discography, various Ace Combat + Airforce Delta soundtracks, “80's remixes” of pop songs, and other musical oddities.
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The above screenshot, with a pertinent section of it circled to highlight how the original poster of said screenshot is evidently incapable of reading his own sources before citing them.
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Dawn French eating Pokémon would be consistent with Pokémon lore, though.
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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*desire to throw deku nut at owl's face intensifies*
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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These were my favorite by far. I used to have a recurring Amazon order for a case of these every month. They were that good.

Alas, it's been years since I've last seen 'em in stores.
A can of Monster™ Dragon Tea white tea
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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41 Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers; 42 for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink; 43 a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me. 44 `Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee? 45 `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of these, the least, ye did [it] not to me. 46 And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.' -- Matthew 25:41-46 YLT
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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A Venn diagram of What, The, and Fuck, encapsulating my comprehension of the quoted post's video.
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Here you go :)
A Costco receipt for one slice of pepperoni pizza, one hot dog combo, and one strawberry/vanilla sundae.
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“Hey, I have seen this one.” says Marty McFly, in response to news that's probably relevant to Doc Brown's ability to source microchips for his DeLorean-turned-time-machine. “This is a classic.”
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Bluesky the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say “I like pancakes” and somebody will say “So you hate waffles?” No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Either Level 3 is borked or I'll have to come to terms with my robot identity.
Level 3 of neal.fun/not-a-robot, showing an “Enter the text below” captcha, except the text failed to generate so the level is impossible to complete.
October 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Nice! Pretty sure that's faster than I am; had to get formally tested for my first job (law enforcement clerical) and only got 71, but that was 15 years ago lol

Tried on my phone and got 58wpm@97%. Not bad for my fat thumbs.
monkeytype.com typing test, performed on an Android phone with a third-party keyboard. wpm: 58 acc: 94% test type: time 30 english raw: 70 characters: 146/5/0/0 consistency: 81% time: 30s
October 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Which of course is impossible to see because the Bluesky app hates images with transparent backgrounds lmao
The above image, but screenshotted because Bluesky and transparent images go together like peanut butter and gasoline.
October 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The logo in the top-left corner of that website includes the “EST. 1919”.
TFC logo, including “EST. 1919” and “INC. 2021”.
October 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Reminds me a lot of the goofy-looking-and-sounding spherical explosions from Star Fox 64.
October 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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This exact situation is why God blessed the world with Firefox + Tree Style Tabs.
“Damn, bitch, you live like this?” Max asks Roxanne after seeing she uses Chrome with hundreds of open tabs even though pretty much every other modern browser has had vertical tabs for years now and would be able to handle this situation without looking absolutely batfuck insane.
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Jonathan Frakes gaslights you in the form of a meme.
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM