[-] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, it is. I have no idea if the guy is telling the truth though, about being the guy responsible. Unfortunate that he shares a name with the Ubisoft executive.

EDIT: Alright, looking at the rest of his responses, he has got to just be a random guy, joking around, hahaha.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

I have yet to find a paywalled article, where putting archive.is/ in front of the link, doesn't solve that problem.

Doing that for this article, gave me this link: https://archive.md/KBTlE

Although in the case of this article, you'll have to request the desktop version, if you're using a phone, because otherwise their Read Next box will cover some of the text at the end.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

post is too unfortunately

they don't think it be like it is but it do

[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago

Bruh. Also, if you're gonna make something up, why tf would you choose the phrasing of "combat-aged men"? Weird as hell.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago

In the same vein, with my family I've been using the analogy of "Imagine that all law enforcement had a key to your home, and they could enter at any time and look through your things, but you wouldn't even know it if they did, or if they took photos or recorded videos of your place to take with them. Their argument is that the only way to keep you and your stuff safe from the bad guys is for the good guys to have access. But because the good guys now have access, it's also easier for the bad guys to get in, because now there's all these extra keys to your home out there, which might fall into the hands of the bad guys."

Not a perfect analogy, but it seems to make them consider the issue from a more personal angle. And for those that argue, "Well, I don't have anything to hide.", I usually counter with "Then why do you close your curtains/blinds when you change your clothes or get out of the shower?" With my dad who grew up during the World War II, it also helped to mention that a law like this, once on the books, will not be easy to overturn, and while he might be fine with our current regime having access to all his data, that might not be the case with future authorities.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago

Interesting, and good for the dev!

But it's early access and 40 euros, so not for me at the moment. Still, for those curious, here's the direct link to Steam.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think what the person on Twitter wrote is in response to Rowling going off on a rant about cisgender female boxer, Imane Khelif (from Algeria), in the Olympics, and insisting that she's a man. Rowling's tweet here. There's an article here that outlines the response from the Olympics, and the other female boxer, Italian boxer Angela Carini, who lost to Imane Khelif.

Carini, however, said to reporters after the match: “I wish her to carry on until the end and that she can be happy … I am not here to judge or pass judgment. If an athlete is this way, and in that sense it’s not right or it is right, it’s not up to me to decide.”

And as that article also notes:

It’s also worth noting that it is illegal to be transgender in Algeria – so to peddle the information that the country would send a trans athlete to compete in the Olympics would frankly be laughable if it wasn’t so maddening.

Edit: Forgot to link to the article.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's supposed to be angels. Abraham Lincoln also used the phrase "the better angels of our nature" in his first inaugural address in 1861, in a plea to avoid civil war.

EDIT: I also don't see the spelling mistake that OP is talking about.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

I was curious too, so I went to the Wikipedia page:

The goal is to attain liberation in the body, by sealing in the energy of bindu in the head so that it is not lost.

Haṭha yoga is a branch of the largely spiritual practice of yoga, though it makes use of physical techniques; it was developed in medieval times, much later than the meditative and devotional forms of yoga. Its goals however are similar: siddhis or magical powers, and mukti, liberation. In Haṭha yoga, liberation was often supposed to be attainable in the body, made immortal through the practices of Haṭha yoga. Among its techniques were mudrās, meant to seal in or control energies such as kundalini and bindu. Khecarī mudrā is one such technique.

tl;dr - A spiritual practice of yoga in Hindu metaphysics.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they look like they're upside down, what the hell. lmao

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Oh, man, this really makes me want to re-read the entire series again.

I've recently gotten into audiobooks for the first time in my life. I wonder if there's a quality production of His Dark Materials.

[-] [email protected] 116 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

YouTube video of the incident here for those not familiar with Jack Karlson.

There's also a Wikipedia page.

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