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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I’m sorry dude but in the gentlest way possible, you’re relying on conspiracy theories to avoid confronting reality and justify your beliefs. It’s exactly the same as what q-anon and trump nutters do. I realise that its a coping mechanism to help you deal with the state of things but you can’t change anything for the better if you can’t engage with reality.

    I know shit feels hopeless now but I promise there’s things you can do now that will genuinely improve life for yourself and the people you care about. Join communities, volunteer for causes you believe in, get involved in protests, and try and form those social bonds that help break people away from conservative and maga centric thinking. If you think about it, regardless of whether what you believe is true or not, these are still things that will improve life for people who are suffering now.



  • Same here except I have the ultimate pro wireless v1 its been easily the best controller I’ve ever owned, the one downside for me is that I’m not a huge fan of non-removable batteries but considering how good the rest of the controller is, I’ll give it a concession on that. Additionally I personally prefer snappy tactile D pads over the mushy membrane one they went for but again, it’s something I don’t mind terribly, just personal preferance.

    I actually recommended an 8bitdo wired controller to a colleague because they had bought 3 turtle beach Xbox controllers in the last year because each ended up with severe stick drift and customer support shafted them. So far as I know he’s used it non-stop for about a year and a half now with zero problems and he told me before how good a controller it is.



  • Agreed. Designing in a feature that presents users with something that’s deliberately designed to be as distracting and attention grabbing as possible during a time when they should have their undivided attention on driving is asking for trouble.

    On that note, LED billboards run up along the side of roads should be illegal and at very least have dimmers to prevent them from blinding drivers at night.





  • As with many types of license, they usually only get checked when you’re caught misbehaving.

    If you’re caught not picking up your dogs poo, you’re asked “have you got a licence for that dog”. At which point, if you say no, then you get another charge or two slapped on as well. If you lie and say yes you can get yet another charge slapped on for lying to law enforcement.

    Its basically another layer of incentive to follow the law and get a license or the penalties may be higher as a result.







  • Hot Swapping batteries is actually surprisingly good for the life of the battery if done well.

    Rapid charging the battery does do permenant damage over time especially if you fast charge every time. Whereas if you can hot swap a battery and have a suitable stockpile of them you can trickle charge the battery over a couple of hours instead of 30 mins and prolong the overall lifespan of the battery. Even slowing down the charge rate to 1 hour reduces wear on the battery significantly. Plus, without time pressure from a customer, more time could be taken to replace damaged cells or blocks in a battery so that one pack will more effectively use the whole battery up instead of throwing away perfectly good cells.