The Conquest of Bread -
The inherent flaws in feudalism and capitalism
I think I got most of the errors, let me know if I missed any. -steele
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Monday, 16 September 2024
quote [ @ManofLowMoralFiber
22 hours ago I, for one, cannot believe that the full body pool submersion quench method had negative consequences. ] Wish I had a job where companies sent me free welding lasers.
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quote [ “I’m master of my own fate,” he says. “Independent thinker.” ]
Since it resurfaced in a messy, non-consensual way here's a great interview with the creator from last year. Also, addiction.
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quote [ With an average of 1 in every 5 Asians having a gambling problem, the silent gambling epidemic in Asian communities is more destructive than most assume. Yet... ]
It's been awhile. ?
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quote [ September’s full moon delivers a rare trifecta for lunar enthusiasts: a supermoon, a partial eclipse and a harvest moon ]
To the moon glow in September
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Sunday, 15 September 2024
quote [ An analysis of how three weird-but-widespread game controllers shaped the way we play. Nobody ever considered how weird a Wiimote is. ]
Game over! pass the controller
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quote [ From the work of chronobiologists, we know that our bodies – our blood, breath, bones, saliva and skeletal muscle – change at night. […] Many of these changes appear to be tied not to sleep but to darkness. Scientists are beginning to understand that our brains are also altered at night, most notably as they cycle through a series of sleep stages. ]
Interesting biological infos on brains and bodies in the dark.
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Saturday, 14 September 2024
quote [ I have seen a number of projects made with Adventure Game Studio which do not offer Linux build, even though the engine does ]
Apparently, on downloading older games, you can run them on other systems than windows via the ported engine by placing the extracted game files in the folder once you have a build of the engine. Way better than relying on WINE.
Note that to get the actual game files from a windows installer, you might need a tool like Innoextract. (Thumb)
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quote [ Labelled a “cretin” and “imbecile” in his lifetime, the Swiss artist Gottfried Mind had profound talents when it came to drafting the feline form. Kirsten Tambling reconstructs the biography of this elusive figure, whose savant-like qualities inspired later French Realists, early psychiatric theorists, and Romantic visions of the artist as outsider. ]
A feline form on a frosted pane
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Friday, 13 September 2024
quote [ [The] shopping comparison service had broken competition rules — hitting Alphabet, Google’s parent, with an at-the-time record-breaking […] penalty […].
[…] By September 2018, [Apple] had had to wire $15 billion in back taxes and penalties to the EU […]. However, in July 2020 Apple (and Ireland) won an appeal when the General Court annulled the EU’s decision. […] The Commission appealed that reversal and on Tuesday the CJEU set aside the General Court’s judgment ]
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quote [ Author Kris Butler reveals how Temperance advocates mapped bars to discourage their spread. ]
Maps and geography, beer and methedrine
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