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Yeah, they got WOPR playing Tic-Tac-Toe against itself. It blasted through a bunch of games, each one a stalemate. It then started playing Global Thermonuclear War and eventually reached the same conclusion, saying:

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

How about a nice game of chess?

Wow, what do you have against giraffes?

Olympic Blvd and Flower St, Los Angeles. We’re looking at 717 Olympic (717 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015), an apartment building.

“Protected” from discrimination, etc. I understand what you mean. Maybe that’s not a great word to use in this case, but it’s not lawful to use that grouping method for these purposes — good or bad. It can (and has) been used to worsen such a demographic’s situation instead of help.

Perhaps, but what are you getting at?

If it’s that they’re white and born in the USA, it doesn’t matter. If they’re Latino because of ancestry, it’s well established in US law that that’s covered by “national origin.” They’re still a protected group.

The applicable laws protect “language minorities” or discuss “race, color, or national origin.” The race vs ethnicity argument isn’t legally relevant since the scope is broader than that.

I remember! There were several. This is a different one, I think, but someone converted one of them to HTML5:

https://archive.org/details/urinalgame

I start work at 9:00 most days, as do most of my coworkers. Earlier this month, at 6:54 one morning, I was emailed an invitation for a meeting at 8:00. I was later asked why I didn’t attend.

I’m not sure if I’d say I was angry, but I definitely wasn’t happy about it. That’s not just an email, to be fair, but still feels like it counts.

I wasn’t the one you asked, but: dryers tend to take much longer than washers — sometimes twice as long. I frequently find myself leaving wet clothes in the washer while I wait for the previous dryer load to finish, so that I can then put another load in the washer.

In short: so you never have to wait for a dryer to finish and thus can sustain maximum laundry throughput.

Why should vegans not be able to make and eat the same recipes/foods as everyone else? There are countless reasons to replace individual ingredients vs inventing a whole new set of foods. People are increasingly into these products for some reason (myself included). Healthiness is another issue, but that’s always going to be a concern for all lifestyles.

Literally the best tea ever. Smells like a campfire. Which reminds me — I need to order more.

There are also specialized tools for breaking car windows that you can keep in your glove compartment for emergencies.

Definitely do this! I have bought these for myself and all of my family members thanks to the Mythbusters car submerging episode and news stories like these.

But also, be aware that they may not work at all on modern cars as many have switched to laminated glass for the side windows. Even Adam Savage has spoken about how this invalidates his recommendations and makes cars less safe in certain circumstances.

https://www.acg.aaa.com/connect/blogs/4c/auto/car-escape-tool-laminated-window-glass

Recently saw this on Lemmy, too. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/35078257

This is a result of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 226, “Ejection Mitigation” in the US. It doesn’t explicitly require laminated glass, but the requirements it imposes leave basically no alternative.

Had the same thought, so I used a proxy/frontend alternative. Screenshots here, no account needed:

https://xcancel.com/AI_NoGuardrails/status/1995766117860864410

And the original link via the same site:

https://xcancel.com/AI_NoGuardrails/status/1995876118990323983

Yes, it was cancelled by Riot, who acquired the studio a while back. The original founders bought it back, hired much of their old team, and changed the development strategy.

https://hytale.com/news/2025/11/hytale-is-saved

https://hytale.com/news/2025/11/hytale-early-access-january-13-2026

Look promising, but we’ll see!

Unless there’s a type of aphid I can’t remember and also can’t find online, there aren’t many aphids that can make a sound audible to humans, and those that can are extremely quiet and don’t really “sing.” Are you thinking of cicadas or something similar?

Hiding a post removes it from your view in most places. It does not affect anyone else — only your perspective. If you want it gone, your best bet is just to delete it or edit it with new context (e.g., that the situation has changed) and leave it.

Yeah, there is way too much slopslop.

Assuming you mean the one from the original post and not a movie in which someone gets slapped with a fire extinguisher, it’s “Spring Breakers” (2012).

https://imdb.com/title/tt2101441/parentalguide/#violence

Hi, former coworker. I don’t know if we ever spoke, but I somehow recognized your name on the Port87 page, haha. Good luck with the project!

Two points on the same axis would be collinear: they lie on the same line (the shared axis). Any curves or other shapes between them would need their own classification.

Adjacent or they’re on a spectrum or gradient or something?

Adjacency describes being neighbors, like adjacent sides of a polygon sharing a vertex. This is inapplicable to just a pair of points.

Gradients are slopes/rate of change. The points are both on the same axis (there is no slope), and it’s only two points, so this probably isn’t what you want.

Spectrums are just ranges of values. These points could lie within a spectrum or define a spectrum’s range, but that’s not a description of their relative geometric relationship, just a way to use it.