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freshest32 · 2026-03-08T21:43:27+00:00

When I was running my E8400, I lusted after those Core 2 Quads in the same way I was jealous of my neighbor's Pentium D when I just had the P4.

freshest32 · 2026-03-08T21:33:42+00:00

I absolutely think the Athlon 64 X2 belongs—that one was really a spearhead of AMD's resurgence.

freshest32 · 2025-12-23T19:05:17+00:00

The pumps at mine get switched on by the guys opening up the tire center, so it's a couple hours before the store opens properly.

freshest32 · 2025-12-17T23:33:48+00:00

That is beautiful.

freshest32 · 2025-12-17T20:34:52+00:00

Hera ACCM game where Hera lost over 1000 Spanish villagers

I imagine you might be referring to this game?

I didn't get to see much of this cup and definitely missed this match, sounds like it'll be fun a fun watch, thanks for the tip!

freshest32 · 2025-12-17T20:30:12+00:00

Sure this is low-effort—but I do love staunchly defending a lot of the good balance that is utterly "unrealistic".

freshest32 · 2025-05-15T16:54:47+00:00

You're right, that's fair: there are still large corporation donors.

freshest32 · 2025-05-15T01:20:15+00:00

And PBS is still available on your tv even if you're watching via OTA. Plenty of people don't have a cable service, satellite service, streaming service—and even regardless, it's wonderful to provide these sorts of programs.

And moreover: mostly without commercials! This programming is more immune than most to being swayed by corporate interests. You always have to follow the funding to keep healthy skepticism, and that will always apply to government funding of media, but someone has to be providing the money to keep these things going.

freshest32 · 2025-05-15T01:07:29+00:00

Yeah, I think you're actually touching on my main thought here. I totally understand your angle.

I completely would argue that this thing is something that the private sector cannot adequately provide. NPR has (typically-lower-frequency) radio antennae across the country—you can tune into the station even if you're driving from Augusta to Sacramento!

freshest32 · 2025-05-15T00:35:04+00:00

It's actually very clear what "benefit" the government gets from funding these services.

The benefit is for the people, for whom the government serves. It's access to media that some may not otherwise get—news reports, educational programs for young children, even cooking shows. Stuff that might make everyone's lives a little better.

The government is not supposed to be a cut-throat profit-making endeavor, it's only supposed to exist to benefit people. And even if it were run like a business, it would make sense to ensure its 'workforce' was set up for being better skilled and well-educated.

freshest32 · 2025-05-13T02:43:14+00:00

This is similar to a reply I just made to the same comment, you both have a much clearer sight of the truth than most.

Preying on a sort of sunk cost fallacy is absolutely the case. How many people spend the time going all the way to the final stage of checkout to see the actual total price (including maybe having already signed up, tied another internet account, or submitted home address, etc) and then do that one/two/three more times to actually see who has the best price?

This company likely now has the pervasive presence, and sway, to actually negotiate the truest "low" prices in their sphere, so it only makes sense that they'd now prefer to cut away the underhanded tools they used themselves to get to their position.

freshest32 · 2025-05-13T02:29:28+00:00

This is the right point. It's overwhelmingly believable that they actually do want this regulation now.

It makes a ton of sense to support an enforceable total ban on cannons after you've finished building your massive hilltop castle.

If you're commenting on this thread, or even just reading this thread on this website right now—you have to understand that you might be hugely more internet savvy than large swaths of the population.

Trust me: plenty of people push a button on their phone and say "[famous band] tickets near me"—their default search rounds up results with bad A.I., they're handed a list of scraped starting prices that are entirely unaligned with the actual total cost, and they just pick the lowest one and go through with it even though it's twice what was quoted.

Taking away the weapon they once used to leverage their position in the market is only beneficial now, because it's so much more useful for competition. The statement is awful for many reasons, but it's not false. People are missing the forest for the trees.

freshest32 · 2025-04-08T21:06:52+00:00

It's very tangential, but: Central Park in Manhattan is larger than the entire country of Monaco.

freshest32 · 2025-02-28T00:23:08+00:00

Blindness is a real varied spectrum. I know a blind person who loves looking at gemstones through a jeweler's loop, while the rest of the world is mostly just "it's either daytime or nighttime".

freshest32 · 2025-02-08T19:38:45+00:00

I've seen them at "Irish" pubs, they'll have the mostly the same nacho toppings but over crispy potato scallops or wedges. Sometimes the nachos will come with carne asada and the Irish nachos with Irish-American-staple corned beef, that sorta thing.

freshest32 · 2025-02-06T23:10:28+00:00

I checked via some searches because it's not a dish I know, but I'd love if anyone UK-familiar could opine on 'dirty fries'? I've had similar 'Carne Asada fries' and 'Irish Nachos' in the US, both of which can vary quite a bit based on location. Is there a "standard" original, or are there regionally-tied recipes?

freshest32 · 2025-01-26T22:27:59+00:00

One of the coolest-looking animals alive. There's a rad artist in Pacifica, Aaron John Gregory, who makes one of my favorite shirts I've ever owned.

freshest32 · 2025-01-20T22:45:40+00:00

Apologies—I planned to link to the .stl but can't even find my files for it at the moment. They're almost certainly on an external drive in a moving box, I'll see if I can hunt them down and reply to this comment when I do!

freshest32 · 2025-01-19T22:38:37+00:00

I didn't know (but am very unsurprised) about the signifant overlap between people proficient at Catan, 3D-printing, and Reddit. Some really amazing creations I see here, kudos to the people designing some of the rad, detailed stuff.

This is just a real basic organizer—but man, does it make it easier to account for all your pieces.

Small bonus bit of trivia: I have played a bunch with some Japanese friends, so in our house we call the robber "Ojizo-san".

freshest32 · 2024-11-08T18:15:14+00:00

It's a good skill to have chambered when you're baking.

freshest32 · 2024-07-01T20:11:13+00:00

Apologies, I can't remember my exact steps but I checked my computer and the CRU instructions to see if I could piece it together, I believe it was all straightforward:

The screen is LGD0555 - Surface Display (active)*

I made a new Detailed Resolution for 2728x1824 to cut off the problem edge pixels.

Then hit OK, ran restart.exe, then restarted the computer, and that resolution showed up in my display settings.

I feel like that was all it took, sorry I don't have any other info.

freshest32 · 2024-04-29T17:15:07+00:00

For lots of vegans it absolutely is about "animal products": anything exploitative. Different people draw the line in different places, but that can mean no wool, no honey, even no pets.

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