cuckmaster69

xbox controllers didn't even work for me half the time on windows. switch controllers are hit or miss, but for some reason ps5 and ps4 controllers have worked flawlessly for me, just plug n play on linux. windows my ps5 controller was fine except the bluetooth would glitch after about an hour

i mean, it's an article on america. there's other articles about other countries. i think people like to see that specifically americans are facing consequences for global actions taken by the us president, which makes this one rise to the top over any other specific country's similar articles.

just kinda boring to see this take on every post about america facing the consequences of their actions these days. like, maybe you could link to an article focusing on the global systemic impact, and we can have that discussion. instead it's like everything that points out that americans are unhappy has this constant comment section being like "HOLY SHIT AMERICANS ONLY THINK ABOUT THEMSELVES". which is totally understandable, but like, what do you expect to happen? there's an impeachment and JD vance takes over and instantly things are solved? or do you expect a significant margin of the population of the continental united states to rise up and storm the capitol in a way that's somehow more cohesive and effective than the last time there was a violent coup attempt at the US capitol?

inb4 something something the french protest and everyone makes fun of them, and "NO BUT I EXPECT YOU TO DO MORE THAN THIS PEACEFUL PROTEST BULLSHIT"

the only times i've had trouble playing a game on linux are when the developer specifically fucks with it so it won't run on linux. the main reason for that is kernel-level anticheat software, which, from what i've heard, doesn't really help with cheating much anyways. my computer is my computer, i don't need microsoft or some game company going into my kernel. can't wait for some drm company to get hacked and have windows gamers up in arms because they got ransomewared.

damn finally someone on the same page as me. we used to own things, now they're being rented to us at a premium.

companies are returning us to mainframe infrastructure so they can rent it out at the most optimized-price-gouging fashion. nvidia's just hedging their bets for when their taint-guzzling ai gambit inevitably splatters into the irrevocable shards of what's left of the US economy.

honestly, given the rest of his comments, i'm not giving the benefit of the doubt on sarcasm anymore. if you're this upset about a ban from a community you've never interacted with, then it seems odd to be upset enough to document things this thoroughly and make a drama based post about it. you can't drop sarcasm like that whilst ostensibly acting genuinely in a manner befitting that which you're professing to mock via sarcasm.

Edit to add: the reason sarcasm works is because people are supposed to be on the same page about things. reputation matters in interpersonal sarcasm, e.g. i can make much more sarcastic deadpan jokes in a group of friends whilst i wouldn't do the same when i'm talking to a random person in public. on the internet, and especially on a federated network, it is difficult to assume a reputation when many instances interact. thus it seems reasonable to assume that, given what i've seen on this thread, he's not being sarcastic.

well, if you're comparing your income to the average, then yes, anything that substantially puts you out of the average would be pertinent for a comparison

how many kids do you have and how much of your income is going towards their education/childcare?

lol cringe

Okay, I can see how you would interpret the source that way. It certainly does use statistical data to approximate deaths. It feels a bit disingenuous to state it as "its estimated that 600,000 people would have died by now". That makes it sound like it's just a number pulled from estimates of how much things cost, at least in my opinion.

One of the studies on Malaria was able to create "near-real-time projections" for 2025 malaria cases. A projection doesn't mean the same thing as an estimate. You can can estimate that 50 out of 100 coin tosses would be heads, and you'd probably be right, but if you projected it, you'd have to measure the dimensions of the specific coin, control for wind, etc, and while you still might be wrong, you'd likely be less wrong than merely estimating based on the two possible outcomes and a glancing observation that the coin is roughly symmetric/evenly distributed.

In this study we synthesised the most up-to-date information of all-funder volumes of key malaria control interventions (ITN, IRS, ACT, SMC) with PMI data on planned volumes and spatial targeting of funding in 2025 to derive near-real-time projections of malaria control intervention coverage in Africa under two scenarios: a business-as-usual scenario in which PMI commodities procured and distributed as previously planned versus a ‘no-PMI’ scenario in which PMI funding and technical assistance is absent. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.25323072v1

Not really sure where you got that from, given that the article and the article's source of the tracker they are using has pretty clear language indicating that these are 600,000 recorded deaths that can be directly attributed to the reduction in aid. Where are you getting this?

i mean, albinoblacksheep, newgrounds, and ebaums world were things before and around the time of youtube; iirc the main thing youtube had was a clean design and a decent video player that handled buffering without stuttering. it made it easier for people to just upload a video and share it. ebaumsworld kind of had that i think, but the site layout was a mess and i'm pretty sure i remember them basically just stealing the content of other sites like albinoblacksheep