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must be doing software rendering

Could try running it under mangohud. Dunno if that indicates the renderer being used, but I'd guess that it likely does, and would let you test that theory.

One Windows user here had some problem with very low FPS in the game, and found that limiting FPS in the Nvidia software resolved it. I'm suppose that it's not impossible that it's some bug in the game that you're also tripping.

https://www.swim-central.uk/what-age-should-children-learn-to-swim/

In England, swimming becomes a part of the national curriculum around Year 3 or 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_1_(education)

Year 1 is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. It is usually the first year of compulsory education and incorporates students aged between five and seven.

Hmm. So she probably should have had swimming instruction by that age.

If so, wastewater concentration levels should remain high.

“B-but the old testament said…”

While the strongest Biblical criticisms of homosexuality are in the Old Testament, such criticism is also not exclusive to the Old Testament.

e.g. the Book of Romans is part of the New Testament:

Romans 1:26-27:

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Any time you find a statistic that uses the term "real" on income, they're making that adjustment.

Here's Real Median Household Income in the United States.

I use my computer for so many things and I have about 200 applications on my computer. I don’t know why, but it bothers me that everything happens on this one machine as well as seeing so many app icons (even grouped into folders).

If what you want is organization from a workflow standpoint, I think that you'd have an easier time just using some form of launching system that doesn't show a single monolithic menu of all your installed executables. Either have a launcher that permits breaking up stuff by task and lets you customize those groups, or just use a non-menu-based launching system.

I mean, /usr/bin on my system has 2694 entries. I don't see them, though, since I'm launching software via bash or tofi, so...shrugs

VMs can have uses, but I'd mostly either use them for software compatibility, or to isolate things for security reasons. They wouldn't be high on my list of tools to organize workflow.

Or are electronics getting to an unattainable price point? What 8 year old has $400+ for a console and $60 per game?

The Nintendo Entertainment System launched at $179 in 1983.

In 2025 dollars, that's $573.45.

Super Mario Bros. 3

which I think is probably the best NES game

ran for $50 in 1990. That's $122 in 2025 dollars.

If I ever need to unload 40 tons of illicitly-obtained meat, I'll be going to you, Mr. Semi.

I'm not familiar with tvorog, but a quick search turns up this:

https://delifo.net/cottage-cheese-vs-tvorog/

I guess that's a positive.

Yeah, i mean if someone really wants to decapitate someone they can just go to the next best hardware store and get a chainsaw.

https://archive.is/52YjV#selection-515.0-533.242

Butter knife 'an offensive weapon'

A butter knife can be an offensive weapon, the High Court ruled yesterday.

The decision came in the rejection of an appeal by Charlie Brooker, of Welling, Kent, who had been convicted under the Criminal Justice Act of carrying a bladed instrument.

Mark Hardie, appearing for Brooker, argued that the knife had no handle, sharp edges or points and therefore could not fall foul of a law intended to protect people from dangerous weapons.

But Lord Justice Laws, sitting with Mr Justice David Steel, disagreed. He said: "I would accept that a sharp or pointed blade was the paradigm case - however the words of the statute are unqualified and refer to any article that has a blade."

I will bet you that Parliament would be willing to impose a ban on possession of a chainsaw without just cause.

This "Ninja sword" is apparently a straight sword:

2.4. The legal definition that we tested as part of this consultation was as follows:

A fixed bladed article with a blade between 14-24 inches (the length of the blade being the straight-line distance from the top of the handle to the tip of the blade) with:

(i) A single straight cutting edge; and;

It sounds like most katanas and such, what I think people probably normally think of when they think of a "ninja sword", are already banned under existing legislation, as they're curved-edge, rather than straight-edge:

https://www.katanamart.co.uk/content/27-uk-samurai-sword-law

Samurai and other curved Swords

On April 6th 2008 a law came into effect banning samurai and other curved swords with a blade length of 50 cm or more; there are some exceptions for registered martial artists, re-enactors and even certain genuine Japanese swords.

Here is to the law:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/import-controls-on-offensive-weapons#importing-knives-swords-and-other-offensive-weapons-into-the-uk

An amendment to this act was passed, which came into effect on the 1st of August 2008. It allows curved and samurai swords which are handmade using traditional forging/production methods to be sold without a license.

Apparently the Japanese did use straight swords for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokut%C5%8D

Maybe the issue here is that importers avoided their previous restrictions by selling straight swords, and they're making a new class to catch those and for God-knows-what-reason are calling it a "Ninja sword".