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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups
  • Also between 30% gay/lesbian and 29% bisexual, only 41% are straight 🥴

    (Ignoring asexuals, etc.)

  • Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups
  • they estimated 21% of the population are trans, lol I wish 😂

  • The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell
  • Haha I love this. It breaks my brain, but the end result is so much simpler :D

  • Fun bites
  • thank you, great antipasta <3

  • Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base
  • Yea, the organisation was also founded in the 90s, so Microsoft was the default for everything.

  • Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base
  • 5000 employees, 10b valuation. We use Google docs. We’re not “China Telecom” big, but I doubt anyone would call us small. I think most young companies are happy on google docs.

    And on the flip-side my dozen-employee workplace runs on Microsoft Outlook/OneDrive/Teams 🙃

  • Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base
  • According to StatCounter tablets never breached 7% market share, and even that was in 2014. Nowadays they are below 2%. Windows's lost userbase seems to be mostly about people using their phones for everything.

  • Bad advice for scientists
  • there is also Where is Libgen which is apparently also powered by Wikidata

  • Sorry bout your heart
  • If anyone's interested in that time period, James Clavell's excellent Shogun novel is set a few decades into the process. (Before the shogunate rose into power, banned Christianity and massacred tens of thousands of Christian converts 😐)

  • Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared
  • FB itself for a community group, and Messenger for my family group chat 🤷

    The group now has a presence on Discord, but there are still 26 times as many members on FB. In Hungary many people still use FB as their main social network. At most they also use Instagram, but that obviously doesn't work for closed discussion groups.

  • Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)
  • I'm an EU citizen living in the UK, but only signed the UK one because I'm not putting my passport ID into petitions O.o

  • Hottie without a body
  • Thanks! :)

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  • Thanks!

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  • What is the original dialogue?

  • Anamorphic Art
  • For me it immediately starts downloading the file instead of opening in the browser as PDF. Maybe it's already in your download folder?

    The relevant images are:

    spoiler (NSFW)

    a distorted-looking etching of limbs, but you can't really tell what's going on the anamorphosis shows two people having sex, with their genitals in full view

  • www.theguardian.com ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

    The long read: Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffering?

    ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
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    www.theguardian.com The curious case of Captain Tom: how did the feelgood story of lockdown turn sour?

    His fundraising efforts offered a glimmer of light in a world darkened by Covid. But now his family are portrayed as freeloaders and a garden building created in his name faces enforced demolition

    The curious case of Captain Tom: how did the feelgood story of lockdown turn sour?
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    www.theguardian.com ‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped

    The long read: Migrants from the Philippines make up a huge percentage of domestic workers around the world. But when their employers are abusive, visa restrictions force them to choose between enduring more suffering or becoming illegal

    ‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped
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    www.theguardian.com Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

    For 15 years, Brent Lee spent hours each day consuming ‘truther’ content online. Then he logged off. Can he convince his former friends to question their worldview?

    Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs
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    Study suggests 95% of NFT collections are worthless
    dappgambl.com 95% of NFTs are Dead - Trends, Predictions &amp; Statistics 2023

    Are NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens) dead? Maybe so. We analysed over 60.000 NFTs to find out which ones are still valuable.

    95% of NFTs are Dead - Trends, Predictions &amp; Statistics 2023

    > Of the 73,257 NFT collections we identified, an eye-watering 69,795 of them have a market cap of 0 Ether (ETH).

    > This statistic effectively means that 95% of people holding NFT collections are currently holding onto worthless investments. Having looked into those figures, we would estimate that 95% to include over 23 million people who’s investments are now worthless.

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    www.theguardian.com The Balkans’ alternative postal system: an ad-hoc courier’s tale

    The long read: Across this fractured region, informal networks rule. So if you need to send something, ask someone who’s already going that way

    The Balkans’ alternative postal system: an ad-hoc courier’s tale

    I admittedly don't know much about its historical background, but I found this a fascinating read about the legacy of the nineties' Bosnian war that is still acutely felt throughout the region.

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    [OldPost] Clips from the 2022-11-05 developer livestream

    Following ChthonVII's idea, I'm mirroring my probably only interesting post on the subreddit :D

    --- Finally got around to watch the 2-hours long GW1 segment of the recent Extra Life 2022 ArenaNet livestream. The devs had a lot of interesting insights and amusing anecdotes, so I made a bunch of clips - sharing them here in case someone else haven't had the time to watch the whole thing.

    The participants were:

    • Bobby Stein - writing team lead

    • Darrin Claypool - level designer

    • Colin Johanson - game designer

    The clips in order of appearance:

    A few more bits that were too short to worth clipping:

    • Early in development there were no professions, you could slot any skill.

    • They spent 4-5 months working on Sorrow's Furnace compared to their usual couple of weeks per zone.

    • GW1 development team was around 70-80 at launch, and peaked around 100 with EotN. (GW2 had 350 developers at launch.)

    Twitch only allows max. 1 min long clips, so sometimes I had to cut off an interesting follow-up - if you want to see how a clip continued, click Watch Full Video.

    PS.: For the story of the hideous leopard-print couch go to this timestamp in the VoD :D

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