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This is what unranked modes are for, generally, and when there is no equivalent unranked mode that's definitely a failure of the game. Csgo had that issue for a looooooooong time as well.

There are also other legitimate reasons. The drunk account can be one (since even unranked modes often use skill based matchmaking), or the actual practice one (I feel for my alternate universe teammates in which I didn't use a smurf to learn how to play more than one char in league).

Bu5 I do feel like the negative impact from people using smurfs for ego boost or to be an asshole in some way far outweighs the upsides, sadly.

Funnily enough palm oil is, in isolation, one of the more environmentally friendly oils (based on land and water use). This is probably in direct relation with it being cheap. Switching to other oils is still better because the deforestation of rain forest being so much worse overall, but the real solution as is so often the case has to be lower plant oil use in general.

Being misinformed by it is, as I said, a user issue. But the amount of times that googling for half an hour did not get me an inch closer to the solution and then I asked chatgpt and it just lists me a bunch of ideas one of which inevitably sets me off on the right path (sometimes it's even completely right in its solution, but that's more 50/50) is greater than 2. It's a tool that has its uses. Claiming it doesn't because most people are too skill issued to use it as such doesn't change the narrow but very useful use case these things have. Far too narrow to sustain this bubble, but that shouldn't be news for anyone here.

There's an insane degree of irony in calling me a slopper or whatever while you're displaying a fundamental unwillingness to critically engage

It really isn't but sure. If you're dumb enough to assume what it spits out is gospel it's dogshit for that purpose too, but that's a user issue. Not like random stackoverflow answers are always exactly what you need either lol

Research in the sense of researching a problem you're having or getting an idea of how to start an implementation for something is a great use case and pretty much the only one I regularly use them for. Search engines usually fail to produce anything useful when describing the problem requires complec grammar.

Research in an academic sense yea they're horrible.

This isn't really anything special about germany btw, the very concept of retirement depends upon this - even when it's entirely private retirement funds. The difference with those is mainly that instead of everyone not getting shit, a lot of people just don't get to retire at all so the ones that were able to save up money can. Which is almost what we have now anyway, except all retirees at least get some small amount. Money in your account is only worth something as long as someone else is willing to work for that money, and that will always depend on the size of the workforce. It's not a germany problem, it's not even a capitalism problem (just the inequality created by it is).

Later retirement age is the one thing I'm not vehemently against, in part because it seems inevitable, in part also because medical science advancing makes it more feasible (and also increases the time people have after retirement).

Thanks, now I know a little more about ancient greek demographics! Well it still seems to be mainly about greeks in africa, but some exchange both ways seems inevitable when it's that prominent.

...the first search result being about a community that in its largest part started existing in 1923 is relevant to ancient history?

I mean I don't know enough about ancient demographics to comment on whether there would feasibly be more than an extremely tiny minority of sub-saharan africans in ancient greece, but claiming someone didn't search and then providing an irrelevant search result has a certain irony to it.

It's some capital G Gamer take from the same people hating on walking sims, has been a while since I've seen that though. Loud fringe idiots, as usual.

Fuck the generalization but I highly suspect it's mostly just a tumblr thing/kinda general meme to lead with will...

Switched almost exactly one year ago. I have a win 10 dualboot for some things (mainly occasional lol/tft, and osu tournaments because for some reason that stutters under wine on my pc even though it runs perfectly fine on my laptop).

The nicest thing is not constantly being annoyed by my OS. I'm forced to use win 11 at work and my god I hate it. Whenever I boot into win 10 at home I also want to rip my hair out, granted it was a lot better on my previous install where I bothered to debloat it.

I'm not really a fan of how "hidden" program installs (at least through package managers) are, but it's all in the same place and windows programs have been moving there anyway, putting everything in appdata, and to make it worse it's often split up and there's random registry entries. So I'm not really bothered by it.

I also have some minor issues with kde, like it deciding to regularly reorder search results (seriously I search for "disc" and always launch discord, but the top spot rotates between discord and discover, so I misclick whenever it changes). Also ever since plasma 6.5 my clipboard has been semi-broken, "copy to clipboard" buttons in the browser don't work, and screenshots don't automatically go into the clipboard either until I click the button for it. If anyone has a fix for either of those things I'd love to hear it.

I also didn't know i needed a dropdown terminal until I had a dropdown terminal and now I can't live without it.

The ending animation of season 2, ep1 of which aired this week (or last weekend or something)

They can all be shit but one can still be more shit than the other. I don't want to lose one eye but I'd rather that than go fully blind.

Though the argument here is more that "we are the better colonizer, trust us bro" should never be taken as a reason to want a new colonizer to take over.