Well there’s a focus on American events, American billionaires, and the distinctly American flavour of extreme policing

A lot of people are against it because they see it as the first step towards evil, but I still think we should have some sort of recommendation algorithm. New content discovery on Lemmy is way too manual for normies like me.

The sign-up process should be streamlined. It’s really intimidating to have to choose an instance when you don’t even understand what the heck that is. And then there’s the manual account validation. I’m not sure what the solution is but we might want to find one.

And we need to do something about the extremists. They have a right to exist, but the abnormally high prevalence of American-coded communist/anarcho-communist content that just casually talks about executing the rich and the like is weird and intimidating even to me, a decidedly left-wing person. Americans, who are famously doubtful of communism, probably run away from the platform seeing that. And as for non-Americans… Well the proportion of content that’s specifically about American politics is even higher than on Reddit, which is saying something.

More focus on open-world titles and games as a service? Every time I think they’ve hit the bottom, they manage to dig deeper.

Oh, you don’t need the music to need to shout. The high ceiling achieves that by itself. Echo, space to fill, or something. Not to knowledgeable about acoustics.

I really wish they made restaurants with low ceilings. You take the tallest people who are likely to come, you add maybe 30 cm, and that’s more than high enough, right? No, they’ve gotta have ceilings so high they could genuinely fit two floors in the one they have. It’s a waste of space, too.

Honestly they should lend their branding to an energy drink brand. Wouldn’t it sell well?

Kinda nice but I would have never guessed

How do you do another level?

The bad part isn’t the number of votes. That’s barely relevant.

The bad part is what happens when the budget bill doesn’t pass. There are two valid possibilities:

• The previous year’s budget is provisionally renewed as-is until an agreement is reached
• The non-passing of the bill acts as a vote of no confidence against the government and elections are held. In the mean time, the previous year’s budget is provisionally renewed as-is.

Shutting down funding for government services is an incredibly dumb way to handle it.

You think they can’t redirect their ludicrous police forces (including ICE) to brutalize millions? Don’t underestimate fascism.

The soot.

They’re a terrible gift. I have a zillion candles they I keep around and can’t quite get around to throwing away

Very post-apocalyptic picture. Excellent.

Maybe there should be a mechanism for merging communities across instances.

If two communities set out with the same goal in a community and one of them didn’t get very popular, wouldn’t it be nice if they could come to an agreement to merge the communities and share the hosting burden?

I wish it were true, but no, not really.

Sometimes they’re desaturated.

Sometimes they’re 3:4.

Sometimes they’re straight-up black and white.

Changing something about the appearance of of the image is done often. But I don’t think blurry would do unless it’s a really short flashback. It would either look like a mistake (camera not in focus for instance), not be intense enough to be apparent on smaller or lower resolution TVs, or be distracting and annoying to the viewer (say, some sort of foveated motion blur).

Because my PC is an entertainment box. I don’t want to turn it into a problem to solve.

Also, Nvidia.

I’ve played it once in the past. Just the normal poker with five cards in your hand and you get two rounds of changing cards.

It was fun.

I lost 2 imaginary dollars.

I guess, but at that point I can do that in your average JRPG or something. I feel like it would be more fun with people. Unless they’re paying the Texas game with all the cards in the middle. That one is complicated and you only have two cards of yours and I really don’t have fun with it.

I don’t get slot machines. They’re not even slightly fun.

I wish casinos had fun games with small bets. Like, I don’t know, poker where you can play several hands with 20 dollars.

But as it stands, I don’t think I’ll ever visit a casino again. It’s either boring slots or you need to be rich to play the “real” games.

Uh, high school science teacher. Never really looked it up until today but considering there’s science on the reverse effect (less oxygen for slower aging), I’d say it’s probably not bullshit.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/decrease-oxygen-boost-longevity