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  • What game do you personally have the most hours played in?

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  • I'm on the Distant Worlds 3 expedition. I've been relying on the carrier shuttling to keep pace. I wanted to try flying myself form waypoint 12 to 13. Something like 8,000ly in a week. I'm still heading to my second POI along the way, 4kly from wp 12, 4kly to poi 2, and then it's another 4kly to wp 13. I've been going 7 days out of 10 available before they go to wp 14. They're all undiscovered systems so it's hard to convince myself to just honk and scan and leave without at least mapping bio signs... For science. And just like that, it became a family road trip "vacation"

    I'm no noob, either. 1300 hours and several of prior 5-10kly exploration trips. 50ly jump range and the neeeeed to scan

  • Do you ever just sit and listen to music, or do you have to be doing something else at the same time?

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  • I do it. I miss having linear, defined "playlists" we used to call listening to an album. So, duh, you can still do it. I play curated playlists when I'm driving. If something catches my attention, I go to that song's album (please don't be a single, please don't be a single). If the album plays through well, I'll probably give it a go at home.

    Granted, sitting still is not my strong suit, so it's not all that common. Video games are my main TV/couch thing if solo. I always have some other chore or project nagging me. But damn, is it relaxing to lightly hit a thc vape and play deadmau5

  • Do you ever just sit and listen to music, or do you have to be doing something else at the same time?

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  • "I'm gonna vape instead of drink and play the same games"

    [cuuuuhhhhh]

    reclines, opens music app

  • What are some words where the "opposite" one means the same thing?

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  • Valuable member of society

    Invaluable member of society

    Neither case leads to a tangible valuation of the member as both have positive meanings. Invaluable is sort of like valuable+1, but both are just invaluable superlatives.

  • What device never needed a 'Smart' version?

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  • I'd actually add that one of the biggest uses for so many "unnecessary" devices is opening up ability/convenience to people with various disabilities. Practically every worthless "as seen on TV" gadget has a niche use for someone. Jar openers help arthritis. Pouring gadgets help people with reduced motor control. Smart bulbs help people who are in pain whenever they get up.

  • What device never needed a 'Smart' version?

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  • All of those have uses.

    They add convenience in various ways. It's kinda neat that my fridge can text me to say the door is open or the filter is due (but I don't have it connected).

    Smart watches have barely anything to do with telling time; they're remote terminals for your phone for communication in both directions. Think like not holding you phone while exercising, checking if a text is urgent, tracking your steps, or dismissing timers. I don't have one.

    Smart bulbs let you have much more control over your lighting. Have 6 overhead lights over your TV room? Shut the opens over the screen, dim the rest. You can't do that with a normal switch on a single circuit, like most homes will have. Best you can do is dim them all together with a dimmer switch. Sure, it also let's people be extra lazy by not getting up at all. I don't have any.

    It's really easy to see how these smart features add convenience. I hate them because they usually come with atrocious security and privacy flaws. Worse, many are specifically sold as spying devices under the guise of convenience. THAT is why when smart devices are the only/best option, I don't connect them. And if setup seems to demand connectivity, I change my wifi password, connect and setup, then change it back.

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    What is your favorite conspiracy theory?

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  • What would be the benefit of Russians promoting cuxk porn? Or do you just mean it was promoted via consumption?

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    What is your favorite conspiracy theory?

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  • All 3 items are evidence it happened.

    The Soviets did not object to the claim.

    The landing was broadcast live by radio waves, not from a film reel.

    No, no hobbyist has a capable laser with narrow-enough collimation and, more importantly, a sensor sensitive enough to detect the reflection. But many scientific groups in other countries have the equipment to do so to verify or dispute the claim. It's used to measure the distance to the moon precisely.

  • A slice of a meteorite believed to contain 4,500,000,000-year-old material

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  • The comment reply to one of your comment replies explains it. Yes, to some degree, it's really the "last formed" date, but everything besides helium and hydrogen atoms had to be formed over time after the big bang by fusing inside stars. Even carbon.

    https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/comment/26154715

  • Few places nowadays is it legal to lay around & do whatever you want outdoors, usually getting cited for loitering or something. Thank goodness for beaches, we're mostly free here.

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  • I've been there. It felt so odd being able to go to a government park, after sunset, against the water, and just have it be filled with people (like 100 people in sight, across the 600ft of lakefront I could see). When does it officially close, like 10pm? One cop-type was making rounds in the parking lot but not actually enforcing anything. There were occasional fireworks. I'm sure there are altercations sometimes, but the most I saw in my hour there was unruly kids (10 year olds). It was so peaceful.

    I come from the coast where there is only private land and government land that closes dusk to dawn.

  • Few places nowadays is it legal to lay around & do whatever you want outdoors, usually getting cited for loitering or something. Thank goodness for beaches, we're mostly free here.

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  • It's actually BURNlNG MAN land with a typo'd lowercase L that's gonna unnoticed but it's too late to change the records now.

    (burning Man is on BLM land and happens to also be where the land speed record is currently held - salt lake city salt flats weren't big enough, apparently)

  • Few places nowadays is it legal to lay around & do whatever you want outdoors, usually getting cited for loitering or something. Thank goodness for beaches, we're mostly free here.

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  • It's not perfect, but there are cleaners with enzymes that really fight dairy spill smell. They're primarily marketed here as pet odor destroyers. A spilled spring latte came back to haunt my car carpet in the summer despite my best cleaning efforts initially. I sprayed with the enzymatic cleaner and cut it in half within a few days. I sprayed again a week later and got rid of most of it. If it sits for a few days in the heat, I could smell it upon entering, but it easily got evacuated with open windows for a minute. Like 4 years later it's still there very faintly, but now it has to sit for like a week in the summer and it's only identifiable because I know what it is.

  • Earth… just 5 minutes ago

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  • Neat. The thumbnail seems to update, too. The card view was different than the thread header. Almost feels unreal to see the cloud flow because I haven't seen such an image set before.

  • What Are ‘Scientology Runs’ and Why Is Gen Z So Obsessed With Them?

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  • "some kids are doing something I haven't seen before, whole generation must be obsessed"

  • What’s on your bucket list?

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  • It's so weird. Take pictures because it won't happen like this again. Don't take pictures because you don't have time. It doesn't matter if it's 1 minute or 4 minutes, your brain will only experience 30 seconds. While I wasted time on pictures, it was still a neat learning experience after the fact. There was a particular solar prominence we all saw, but orientation indicated where the photo was taken (trusting reported locations and that "up is up" in the photo).

    The one I saw has mixed memories. I brought 10x50 bincoluars so my view ended up being very similar to good photos that came out of it. I can't tell which are my memories and which are memories of high end photos.

    I traveled 7 hours each way to see it. Because cloud cover was predicted, I left myself the option to either go east or north for the best sky forecast. Still, the loss of sunlight does have a slight cloud-clearing effect. We had a high altitude haze but it was fine enough.

    I barely remember it happening. It doesn't go night time dark, but rather twilight dark. Everything went quiet. Even cars stopped driving. The whispy tails of the corona were so foreign to see.

    And as you finish reading this stream of consciousness I've written, it's over.

    I can't wait for the next one.

  • How does a person tell if it is an AI photo/video? I grew up in the age of cgi and bad cgi. Is there certain stuff you look for besides something being completely faked?

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  • The tire thing is becoming the only type of error I can reliably catch. Look into the details to check for consistency in patterns. Radial patterns such as spokes in a wheel. Symmetry across left and right features. If there's multiples of an object, look for difference between them. Generated images keep copying source material, but it doesn't understand the rules. Yes, there are times where things aren't symmetrical or two items are slightly different models/versions, but there's a point where if two things are very very similar, there probably won't be a a weird difference.

    Plus, not only are models getting better at generating images, but users are wising up as well and are using real pictures as the base. Generators will still tweak details into mild fantasy, but it's drastically reduced. In the above blondie onlyfans military pics, I'm not seeing any vehicle detail issues. At least, none with the nose of a HMMV and I'm not familiar with the Toyota land cruiser. But then the question is, why is "she" in a land cruiser? I'm not aware of any regular US service using Toyota but there's one that played a role in the Kabul airport... Taking? Evacuation? Even if the original post mentioned that honored truck, it's missing the door graphic that seems to be original. Even still, the one pictured is pristine.

    And this is why AI wins. It's the gish gallop of imagery. It takes so much effort to examine, check, and report errors that it all spreads like wildfire before the first rebuttal gets posted.

  • What was going on in Africa during WW2?

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  • Cape of Good Hope (Capetown)? That's obviously there, but that's the item I remember form school in regards to global sail routes

  • Phone charges should plug into the top of the phone not the bottom.

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  • Pixel 7 here. It doesn't go upside down for me. Yes, I get the tappable rotate icon as well. Still only upside up or sideways.

  • Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

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  • I suspected as much. The only car I've ever seen with a coffee symbol. That alert can be disabled in the settings. At least, it's easy in the turbo gen 2 fusions (2013-2020) with the single dial gauge and dual screens in the dash. Not sure if the 2.5l gen 2 (or any gen 1) has that alert in the more basic single screen dash.

    Gen 2 is a great car otherwise because it's a rebadged EU Mondeo.

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    trying to remember how to draw // remembering I never figured out how to draw people

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Watching "They Live!" has opened my eyes to how often the movie is referenced, as if I put on the same sunglasses

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    If you're sweating in a hot shower, you can't tell