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  • Canadian thanksgiving was last weekend

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  • (I might have my facts skewed but that’s what I took away from my history classes 20 years ago)

    I don't think the typhoid blankets your referring to (at least that's what I assume you meant by "gifts that would harm them") were specifically given on the "first" thanksgiving, but you're absolutely right that it happened. Even if the first thanksgiving was 100% as advertised (which it probably wasn't) then it was a short-lived and tiny amount of human decency in what was otherwise a straight up genocide. Nevermind that the story was more about the natives helping the settlers than vice-versa, so really we're just celebrating the time our victims were nice to us while we were still getting ramped up on eradicating their people

  • Starfield was the best-selling game of September, instantly becoming the 7th best-selling game of 2023 year-to-date.

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  • I confess, as a total scifi nerd - I fucking loved the over engineered doors in this game lol - I swear I think they hired a whole team whose job was to do nothing but make doors lol

  • This took me so long to create. Linux kernel sanders

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  • I'm American, and I also don't get it lol

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  • The trouble with all these technologies is that on paper they're super exciting, but honestly name one company in existence today you'd actually trust enough to purchase it from?

    Idk about you, but I can't think of any, and I wouldn't trust my govt to handle it either tbh

  • Starfield was the best-selling game of September, instantly becoming the 7th best-selling game of 2023 year-to-date.

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  • As someone who basically finished it (was putting off the final mission until I wrapped up the side quests, but then got bored and haven't bothered to pick it back up to finish it) I think waiting for a sale is the best choice

    For one thing, by then there will be mods, and this game desperately needs some mods to make it better, lots of QoL issues or half-assed gameplay that could be improved by mods

    But it also is pretty much as you describe, it's a fine game, but nothing to really get excited about. I had some fun with it, I also got bored of it pretty quickly. And for a game whose story is literallt built around the concept of Newgame+, there's very little reason to actually do one, because there aren't many different routes you can go - you can really only play as "Savior of the Galaxy", every other playstyle you might try leaves you actively fighting against the game

    If I picked it up for less than $40, id call it money well spent on an alright game that can kill a week or two of evenings, but for full price I'm left feeling a bit ripped off

  • Starfield was the best-selling game of September, instantly becoming the 7th best-selling game of 2023 year-to-date.

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  • I'd argue it's the exact opposite - it's pretty good by Bethesda standards (in that it's relatively stable with lots of the kinds of content Bethesda likes to add), but bad by most other standards

  • What’s a good place to get engagement rings that *arent diamond?

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  • My wife's engagement ring is also Moissanite and she loves it. It looks like a $20k ring to anyone but a jeweler (honestly I regret going with as big of a stone as I did, but my wife loves it), but I "only" spent $2.5k on it

    Plus Moissanite is harder and has a higher brilliance than diamond. A great alternative for people who don't want to waste money on diamonds, but still want a "traditional" ring

  • “Netflix effect” is back as studios license old shows to competitors again

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  • Right now Hulu is the only streaming a service I'm willing to pay for, mainly because they have all my favorite series and TV shows are a removed to pirate just because of the disk space

  • Salary Needed To Buy a Home In The US

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  • Which, having literally just bought a home, is a supremely optimistic rate to get right now. We spent $10k buying down our interest and only managed 6.9%

  • What cheap tool/gadget do you use that greatly improves your daily life?

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  • +1 for victorinox, until I got my current knife, I exclusively used these

  • New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer

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  • At that point though, you may as well start regulating the purchase of lumber, since it sounds like you could just as easily make the printed components in a basic workshop as with a 3d printer

  • New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer

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  • if you actually think that's possible, then I have a challenge for you: make a functioning gun out of cheese

    Sounds like something Mythbusters would've taken on back in the day lol

  • Salary Needed To Buy a Home In The US

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  • Yeah that could be it, or maybe they're doing the math as literally "is your monthly take home less than the cost of the monthly payments". In which case I could see 180 qualifying, but that isn't how any sane person would define affordability lol

  • Weezer straight up writing ads for audible.com

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  • And if you're a pirate, or if you happen to have a lot of Audiobook CDs, or if you have a bunch of books on audible and want to free them, AudiobookShelf is an amazing self hosted solution for Audiobook libraries

  • its the end of the rule as we know it

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  • At least for me, that was ongoing when I was in elementary school, so I'd still count that as part of "this generation"

    Gen Z and younger at least got to not have to worry about that though, you're right

  • The DOJ Is Cracking Down on the Dumbest Form of Climate Denialism

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  • Didn't even have to read the article to know it would be about rolling coal

    Hope the idiots get fined to hell and back

  • Salary Needed To Buy a Home In The US

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  • There must be something wrong with the math that they used here, because I'm familiar with a few of these markets and have a higher salary than what is listed and definetely couldn't buy a house in those markets without it being more expensive than would be responsible - both in terms of down payment and monthly cost

    For example, I think you'd need a lot more than 180k to buy a house in LA

  • Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI "Actors" in Crowd Scene

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  • For the folks saying this is nothing new and nbd - Id watch the animated version first lol

    I don't have any issue with CGI extras in general (plenty of movies have done it well), but this shit is just bad lol

  • But cat domesticated us

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  • Hell. Even today cats are great for pest control, my cats go nuts if there's a fly in the house until they get it

    Granted, a cat leaping across the room constantly to try and get it is way more annoying than the fly itself, but still lol