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  • Good stuff, read about this in 50 Years of Text Games, will be nice to check this out

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  • The Mirror website is cancer. I use NoScript and it won't load without allowing about 50 fuckkng scripts. MSN too. I avoid both but occasionally click on a link from elsewhere

  • Warring drug gangs turn up the heat on Sweden’s government
  • There were 103 murders in Greater London last year, which also has a population of just under 10 million and of course is a dense urban environment with a lot of inequality. Of those, 67 were stabbed and only 8 were shot.

    Bomb/grenade attacks are almost unheard of in the UK, outside of terrorist incidents.

    I don't mean to attack Sweden which is an admirable country in many ways, and I wish the UK would adopt many of its policies. It's precisely because it's such a well run country that the increase in violent crime is so shocking

  • Warring drug gangs turn up the heat on Sweden’s government
  • Yeah idk, I have family in Helsinborg. A car bomb outside elderly relatives flat - in a nice part of a nice town - someone shot dead in another relative's street, the police station was attacked with a hand grenade... Last year when we arrived to visit a main shopping street was blocked off after a bombing in a flat. Yeah it's still a nice country and I haven't literally witnessed any of these incidents, but criminal violence honestly feels closer there than at home in London

  • FOX News Host Calls Zeta Phi Beta A "Colored Sorority"
  • It has a very specific meaning in South Africa that doesn't apply anywhere else

  • Google set to purge the Play Store of low-quality apps
  • Really? I shouldn't be surprised but that's depressing. I'm happy to pay for good apps mind

  • Google set to purge the Play Store of low-quality apps
  • Thing is, there actually are some good basic apps out there. Things like pomodoro timers with no ads or tracking. Super basic but useful, and hard yobfind because they get buried below other 'slick' versions stuffed with ads and trackers.

  • Best way to transfer local files to my Android device.
  • I just went through this trying to transfer 23GB of music samples - tens of thousands of files in nested folders - to an Android phone to use with Koala Sampler. Tried USB, KDE Connect, Onedrive, all failed at some point, couldn't handle merging, or some other problem. Syncthing was the answer and it was pretty quick too.

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  • Scottish?

  • List of my favorite android apps
  • On Android, Mull offers more extensions, unless that's changed recently

  • List of my favorite android apps
  • You didn't specify open source so I'll post a mixture...

    GrayJay (YouTube and other streaming video) RiMusic (YT music streamer) Easy Noise (white noise for sleeping) Peristyle (wallpaper changer)

  • Konami Renews Trademark For Axelay, A top SNES Shoot ‘Em Up Game
  • Eh call me when they make a new Gun Nac

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    Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle
  • Level playing fields for women and girls aren't served by allowing competition from people who haven't always been female. Its not fair on cis women to have to compete against people who've had advantages from going through puberty while male.

    The purpose of women's sport isn't to be inclusive of women, its to be exclusive of men. And its not that it's too much work to include some trans women on the basis of ability, it's that it's just impossible. Do they include only those who aren't likely to win? Maybe some that can win, but not by too much? What about a champion male who's recently transitioned and would shatter the world record, making it unattainable for any cis woman for years to come, maybe ever? There's no way of making those judgements, no matter how much work is done.

    Its the same principle as banning performance enhancing drugs. Some clean athletes might beat some drug using athletes, but we don't try to figure that out, we just ban drugs. And puberty as a male is getting a few years if hormone-induced muscle gain that isn't fully lost even post-transition, even on hormone blocking drugs.

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    Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle
  • No, not any woman stronger than the average for women, because by definition the leading woman will always be stronger than other women.

    At the same time, plenty of cis men are weaker than the average female athlete, but we don't let them compete.

    We exclude all males as a category, including former males, because on average they have an unfair advantage. Attempting to make exceptions based on individual performance isn't feasible.

    Effectively, women's sports are like amateur vs pro competition. You don't let an ex pro play in an amateur match, even if they're not as strong as they once were.

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    Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle
  • Literally the only reason we have a separate category of women's sports is because, on average, women are physically weaker than men. If both sexes could compete against each other, women would barely exist in elite sports. If that wasn't the case, there'd be no justification for excluding cis men from women's sports. After all, being male is "just another advantage" like being tall, right?

    On average, cis women are physically weaker than trans women also, and so the same logic applies.

    The only equitable solution I can see is a third category of trans sports, where trans people compete against each other

  • What is something creative that you do but don't get paid for?
  • I made a track for my game, yeah, but using UGEtracker which is built into GB Studio. It's not the easiest to use tbh so it wasn't that fun.

    LSDJ sounds very cool, have you checked out the DirtyWave M8? I ran the cheap version (Anbernic console with a dongle) but I couldn't get over the learning curve. Now I have a Polyend Tracker Mini which I really like

    BTW I'm not really a programmer either, GB Studio simplifies things a lot and it's free if you want to check it out

  • What is something creative that you do but don't get paid for?
  • Make Gameboy games. Make music. Cook

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