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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

What could possibly be in the vaccines that would be worse than your child no longer existing?

The article says the man is a Mennonite, which means he probably believes in an afterlife. In his mind his child still exists and he'll get to see her again when he passes and spends eternity there.

I pretty firmly believe that afterlife beliefs account for a pretty significant distortion of values in people and helps explain a large number of frankly insane behaviours. Preventing deaths becomes much less important when there's an eternal paradise waiting for you and the "real" risk is doing something that bars you from going there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Work, home, online (anonymous), online (WoW friends), online (Elite Dangerous friends), online (Street Fighter friends), IRL friends.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Some people prefer it.

I maintain a small piece of Windows software and originally just provided an installer, but I received enough requests for it that now when I publish releases I provide both an installer and a zipped portable build.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

...are you calling first person shooters "shmups"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Your laptop uses an iGPU. The "i" stands for integrated, as it's built into the same package as the CPU.

The alternative, a dGPU, is a discrete part, separate from other components.

They're saying that your situation is becoming increasingly common. People can do the gaming they want to without a dGPU more easily as time goes by.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd argue that Li should be red and Hg should be yellow.

Elemental mercury in liquid form is fairly safe. It needs to get into your blood in order to be a problem, and even if some does stick to your tongue and get swallowed the digestive absorption is extremely low.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It is insane to me when people complain about the failure of a public service to turn a profit as if that's some kind of bad or unexpected outcome.

Services cost money to operate for the benefit of those using them. That is literally the point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

must know Java, go, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, or rust

Depending on the division you ended up in at the company I work you might need one or more of MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, VB.NET, Terraform, Groovyscript, or PowerBuilder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

But if they consistently win it still alter the political landscape such that someone else will have a better chance of enacting actual change in the future.

The two party system is garbage, but if one of the two current parties lost its ability to win entirely then a different second option could appear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Hunted a quematrice, for the glory of the Empire!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would be a subset of "urban commercial", right? Somewhere in the range of half to three-quarters of it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Like pcpartpicker, but for everything!

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