ExtravagantEnzyme

joined 9 months ago
[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A band that is slept on hard and legit my favorite active punk band is Get Dead. Their album Dancing With The Curse is unreal cover to cover. Only 32 minutes long, but it's a god damn classic. My favorites on it are Hard Times, Stickup, and Confrontation.

Fat Mike first turned em down, then they dosed his drink with Lucy at the after party, and he signed em in the morning! The signer was a hiphop lyricist originally, which you can hear in how it rides the beat at times, but he was meant for punk rock!

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Smash Karts is a lot of fun, it's pretty much online Mario Kart deathmatches! There's also capture the flag, hat holder, and a few other games layered in too. Worth a try the next time you want to game along side a boringish video.

Edit: Here's a link

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 92 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yep, he definitely got suicided. It without question was a staged murder setup to lead investigators to deem it as such...

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Chubbyemu all damn day! If anyone is unfamiliar, do yourself a favor and get nerdy with Dr. Hsu. He's a clinical pharmacist and toxicologist, which gives him an solid knowledge base to breakdown medical case studies in a very detailed yet simple way. Highly recommended!

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Based in my limited understanding of psychology, it's about role reversal. Meaning, they are in a position which gives them quite a bit of control in their day-to-day life. This is why in the show Billions, the DA of NYC is into BDSM. He has a level of control over others that's quite immense. This over time leads to him enjoying being taken advantage of in the bedroom. But again, I've only studied a limited amount of psychology, and the rationale behind each person's choice to be dominated will have some variation, as it's psychological. But this is the general idea behind the Dom/Sub preference.

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Well, this was the case maybe 5 years ago, if not 10+ years back. Linux Mint, Ubuntu, PopOS, Fedora, and ElementaryOS can all be run via a GUI. Additionally, you're comment about programs is baseless. If you switch from Windows to Mac guess what will have to happen, you'll have to start using similar but not the same programs. However, using a VM or Wine isn't hard whatsoever thanks to YT walkthroughs. It's 10 to 20 minutes of guided clicking and then you're running Windows programs on Linux.

96% of the top 1,000,000 servers online and 100% of super computers run Linux. But people are creatures of habit and when compounded with a statement like this riddled with half truths, it only makes most folks more hesitant to switch. 4.1% of PCs run a common Linux distro, 1.9% run ChromeOS, and 6.4% run an "unknown" OS, which is widely believed to be Linux as well. So 12.4% of PC's run some form of Linux and with the SteamOS release around the corner, this will breach 15% for sure. But okay, we're a bunch of loons who like owning the equipment we bought and enjoy the financial + security + privacy perks of open sourced software. If nothing else, I hope you feel better. Take care!

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 42 points 1 month ago (12 children)

The irony with Microsoft business decision here seems limitless. 10-14-25 is the date Windows 10 will no longer be officially supported. This just so happens to also be the date for International E-Waste day as well as KDE's birthday. To me this is hillarious and makes me wonder why the hell Microsoft didn't do even a tiny bit of looking into what else takes place on 10-14. Hopefully this will help 2025 actually be the year of the Linux desktop we've been waiting for!

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Ok, conspiracy hat on...Maybe Snowden was the only NSA contributor with the sole purpose of making tracking citizens harder!

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Most likely an infrastructure issue due to the massive increase in network load. It's finals week for many college students, plus the iOS integration and Sora. Definitely a solid 1, 2, 3 punch OpenAI wasn't ready for it seems.

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You're not wrong there, hopefully the pathogen is sequenced soon and researchers start working on an approach to prevent further spread and treat those already infected.

The fact the numbers are like this in a remote area of Africa demonstrates when it gets to a more dense population, it will only get worse. More viral infections means more mutations. A virus will always mutate, it's how they survive. These mutations almost always result in a novel version of the virus better adept to spread in the host's population. There's also a good portion of these new versions which are no longer infectious as well. It's basically a numbers game for the virus.

But Disease X by definition will always start in one specific area, then spread throughout the population.

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Disease X is actually a concept. In academia, Disease X is covered in infectious disease focused courses, it is a placeholder concept referring to a pandemic pathogen which has not yet been characterized. Its purpose is to encourage proactive thinking and research about pathogens that could cause a pandemic. To see the term thrown around is pretty wild, but hopefully it's a bit of an overzealous or incorrect use of it. Not even sure if there's enough data available yet to classify it as Disease X, but it's R~o~ value is steadily on the rise, which is always concerning for a novel pathogen.

 

Amazon workers and their allies are participating in a series of global actions aimed at holding the online retailer “accountable for labor abuses, environmental degradation, and threats to democracy,” according to the labor group UNI Global Union.

Dubbed “Make Amazon Pay,” the campaign is set to last from November 29 to December 2 and will include strikes and protests across six continents, according to the group—and is timed to disrupt Black Friday (or “Make Amazon Pay Day”) and Cyber Monday, two of the busiest online shopping days of the year.

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 91 points 2 months ago

Ya, and the reason I've never been in a car accident is cause I'm a fantastic driver, not because I've never owned a car...

 

Most voters don’t vote for—often don’t even consider voting for—third parties because they view voting for a third party as helping the establishment party they most hate. Disenchanted Democrats continue to vote for Democrats because they don’t want Republicans; disenchanted Republicans continue to vote for Republicans because they don’t want Democrats. Both are trapped by fear and loathing.

Disenchanted Republicans should dialogue and pair up with disenchanted Democrats and both vote for third party or independent candidates. That is, instead of you and a friend canceling out each other’s votes, one self-loathingly voting for Harris and the other for Trump, you vote for the third-party candidates you actually want. You both get to vote your preference without helping the candidate you most dislike.

VotePact frees up votes in pairs from each of the establishment parties. This liberates the voters to push the lever for their actual preference from among those on the ballot, rather than just pick the “least bad” of the two majors. It doesn’t change the balance between the establishment parties, but “syphons off” votes from them equally. The pair could each vote for different candidates, or they could vote for the same candidate. If the latter, it could open the path to an actual electoral victory for an enterprising independent candidate.

We’re trying to free people from the fear of voting for candidates that actually represent their beliefs. Over the years, real independents, principled progressives, libertarians, authentic conservatives, and others have been unrelentingly manipulated by the establishments of the two major parties. They should wake up to the fact that they can join together, rather than be kept apart by establishment party apparatchiks who exploit their fear to maintain the ruling duopoly. It can lead to an independent or emerging party candidate winning.

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