abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 83 points 10 months ago

Nobody was busted, this is a clickbait post. Even the article just says they hired 2 cosplayers as entertainers, company never pretended that they were robots.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Huh. Thanks. I didn't even know he was a libertarian, only knew him as an atheist skeptic guy (besides the illusionists part). And according to Wikipedia, seems he's no longer a libertarian:

In a 2024 interview, he said he renounced his libertarianism […] adding "Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, 'It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,' and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate."

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago (20 children)

Why Penn Jillette though? Is he for some reason popular with libertarians?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"E Ink" is a company, producing displays with a very specific proprietary technology. I think you mean to say more "e-paper", which is a generic term for "paper-like" displays. And unfortunately, right now the only real competition is RLCD (reflective LCD), which is arguably not paper-like enough to qualify. Yes, it's reflective, but other than that, it's just a higher density Game Boy screen. Which is great and all, but it can't compete with E Ink in a lot of aspects. It doesn't have retention, you gotta power the screen, so no signage and stuff. It has LCD-grade bad viewing angles.

RLCDs are cool for certain uses though. For example, I sometimes choose to play on my AGS-001 over my Analogue Pocket if I'm outside in bright daylight.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

When the other candidate's performance is "rock bottom", "low" is a massive step up. Not doing the listed things shouldn't raise the evaluation to "high", because that's the bare minimum.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Afaik, this is false. There actually are flushable wet wipes that dissolve in water just like regular TP, but a little slower. Just make sure to check it for yourself and don't rely on what the packaging says.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Like, "be manly, suck it up, don't cry" kind of stuff?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I grew up in a Muslim country and I hate these. They are always either too strong or too weak. And they somehow always leak (no idea why).

Wet wipes ftw.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

What does this imply, exactly? They aren't responsible?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Looks like a scorpion, tbh.

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