I’ve used it for years, though lately more so because I like RetroAchevements and they sometimes require it. Most stand alone emulators do work, too, but it varies.

Between that and shaders (when I’m in the mood, e.g. CRT Halcyon on a game like Super Metroid) makes it a favorite.

I think old age has hit me… I do this, windows down (though not too loud) and more than happy to make eye contact with people while I sing along. I’ve taken to smiling, thumbs upping good driving behavior, etc, since I feel everyone around me is miserable in 2025.

I found success just saying Alexa wasn’t working and a bunch of stuff uses it. Not even that far from correct, at least?

“Remember memes… though half a weeks gone by. Remember memes, even if work makes you cry. For even if it’s far away, the weekends in my heart. I sing my silly songs to you each time we make meme art…”

Marketing weirdly effective, for one. They pump a large portion of their budgets into hype and they make just enough back to keep going. It’s like the same people who watch an ad for a fast food place and go even though it’s never as advertised.

And most isn’t direct marketing. They very much pay influencers to buy this slop and worse. You pay a half million to a guy to make something look popular and it becomes popular. It’s very annoying.

So funny I read this post right after my 3yo dishes l ate all her broccoli, her brothers broccoli, and seconds on… broccoli. Didn’t finish her rice, though.

I think she might actually like fruits and veggies?

That said, I think a good trick is to style the performative foods as Japanese bento style because kids are kinda easily swayed by look and feel of food, so if it’s cute or cool they are more likely to eat it. We’re planning on doing that anyway, mostly cause my wife was raised in Japan where that was common.

Another thing to keep in mind is parents are often the role models, so liking or disliking things will matter. If you hate fruits and veggies, they’ll notice.

Hey now, I’m sure there’s someone on LinkedIn suggesting this exact thing with layers of corporate speak.

This would be a good thing in the timeline where governments actually gave a shit and we had universal basic income for everyone. No human should have to slave away for 8+ hours a day just to survive when most work can be automated.

I thought that too until today, it’s never clear until a quarter of the Internet is down randomly.

Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I’ve been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren’t even that important when there isn’t a national outage lol).

My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey’s pawed AWS into non existence.

Oh that makes sense, the codes probably open source. Those goons probably have minimal experience actually developing an app from scratch.

Maybe it’s my eyesight but I never noticed it graining. The only thing I remember is that the lighting isn’t ever as good. I did play a majority of it on the desktop, but that was mostly for ultra wide mod… over the shoulder games always make me kinda claustrophobic.

Oh no this one I know is real, I just mean, imagine how incredibly unlikely a story it’d be if they joined Lemmy or a Piefed instance.

They don’t really fit bluesky either but it’s popular enough I can see them try, lol

Edit: or wait, did you mean Truth Social being federated? Cause that’d be Not the Onion material lol

I beg to differ, I found the first one to play weirdly well on it. Didn’t play the second. I often used it as an example of what the deck can do, since it was smooth.

Now we need a parody article telling us the Whitehouse started hosting a fediverse instance. For once I don’t think people would eat that onion, lol

There’s a larger counter literature that has repeatedly debunked those claims since the 90s. Meta-analyses basically confirm it’s mostly cherry picking, because there’re issues with causation (violent kids like violent games) and issues conflating emotional arousal and violence (e.g. when studied long term kids chill out after 2hrs even if in the moment they’re getting intense).

There may still be good reason to bar very young kids from it, much as we do with horror movies and such. Not making them violent so much as giving them nightmares, though. True for squeamish adults too, lol.

Literally right now, my daughter and I split an ice cream cookie sandwich after a long day of cleaning. It’s the simple things.

Hmm… maybe. The state of the world has been pretty awful for the past year so I imagine that plays a part. Aside from trolls, lots of us are on edge as the whole world seems to tilt right with propaganda and AI.

That said, I like us.

I browse bluesky too and find I actually prefer Lemmy because it’s a bit more self-policing… Like regarding AI slop, bluesky is fucking rampant with it, like Trump dressed as a clown or Newsom with abs, it’s fucking awful. Lemmy has a couple communities for AI but on average, you try that shit and you’ll get publicly shamed. That could be considered mean, but I appreciate it (especially if it’s AI I can’t even tell).

Good examples from others but I also want to bring up microaggressions. Basically, small things that add up, like a white woman gripping her bag tightly when a black man enters an elevator, or a white man crossing the street because a Latino guy is approaching who looks a little “gangy.” Usually they aren’t that progressive (e.g. they support diversity but critical race theory is a bridge too far).

That said, prejudice is something we all have and is part of human nature. It protects us historically from things like snakes and spiders who may not be venomous but on the off chance they are, better safe than sorry. Prejudice leads to stereotypes, stereotypes lead to discrimination. Conscious effort is needed to overcome that, and progressives do that better than not but no one is fully immune to your natural instincts.

I didn’t mean to make any claim, lol, 5 seconds would be nothing and I’m trying to be funny in the vain it no O2 being not a big deal at 5 seconds.

We had an ozone crisis before, although it is serious if it’s something closer to an hour. People got sunburned in 15 minutes quite easily, though, and skin cancer is linked to it.

The atmosphere does block a lot of cosmic ray junk, but that’s a collective effort. I forget the details, but think very high frequency gamma rays. But that’s not ozone alone.