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  • Yeah, I've never seen anybody else talking or complaining about yet. Very peculiar, and I haven't got a clue what could be up with my phone specifically that could be causing that.

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    Merry 9/11 and Happy Holidays - New General Megathread for the 11th-13th of September 2024
  • Android, and as far as I know, everything's up to date. It's really bizarre.

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  • Does the site just straight up not work on mobile for anyone else? I can only sign in when using an adblock browser, I can't filter posts or communities, search doesn't work, and hitting next keeps me on the same page.

  • My brother in suffering you are a relic of a fallen feudal slave state who is kept relevant as an anti-communist propaganda icon by the American state.
  • (if I recall correctly, wikipedia even has a page just for Tibetan torture methods)

    Would you happen to have a link handy? A cursory google search yields nothing but the expected anti-Maoist trash

  • I saw an operating steam train on the weekend and I get why autistic people like them so much now
  • It's always a head trip being reminded that the engines from Thomas the Tank Engine are all real

  • I saw an operating steam train on the weekend and I get why autistic people like them so much now
  • I might be going to see Santa Fe 3751 next month, and I'm so jazzed about it

  • The NYT has an article about moms who stateboard with their kids. There are lots of photos.
  • Jesus Christ, how embarrassing. This kind of behavior is so baffling to me. I've been verging on poor for a good bit of my life, and I've earned money by working with my hands more often than not (and thank fucking god I'm not doing that anymore for the foreseeable future.) If I had Tim Pool's money, nobody would ever see my happy ass again.

    At any rate, yeah, I never could get a grip on it. Never got a handle on roller blades either. Got pretty good with four-wheelers though lol

    I've always been crap at sports in general, even things that I should've logically been good at, like wrestling (I'm a large lad.) I don't know if it's the ADHD or what, but not being able to get good at something right away often leads me to quit from sheer embarrassment.

  • The NYT has an article about moms who stateboard with their kids. There are lots of photos.
  • That all sounds utterly fascinating, and also cause for me to once again bemoan my utter lack of coordination and balance

    I never could get a grip on skateboarding as a kid. Alas

  • Poorly trained recruits contribute to loss of Ukrainian territory on eastern front, commanders say
  • Exactly, no accountability, no citation, no critical analysis, not even basic questions like "How in shit's name would the MOD be able to derive anything like an accurate casualty projection in this situation."

    Like I get that articles like these aren't meant for people who tend to actually think about what they're reading, but goddamn, it's just gossamer thin.

  • Poorly trained recruits contribute to loss of Ukrainian territory on eastern front, commanders say
  • Adding to Ukraine’s woes are Russia’s huge advantage in manpower and its willingness to accept staggering losses in return for capturing small objectives

    Do we even have reliable casualty numbers for the Russians (i.e. that don't come from Ukrainian reports) or is this just the usual 'Russians have no regard for human life and rely on human wave tactics' trope

    Edit:

    The offensive has also come at a huge cost to Moscow, with an estimated 70,000 troops lost in two months, according to the U.K. Defense Ministry which posted the projection last month on X

    That explains that I guess

  • Got my kufiya in the mail today
  • Hirbawi is fantastic, I bought mine in the same pattern ages ago, and it comes with me on every desert camping trip I take (back when I wasn't too lazy to do that)

  • If you think this game is just about player choice and not making a statement on the military idk what to tell you
  • Spec Ops: The Line, beyond being a pretty good game with a lot to say about the average gamer's enjoyment of military shooter power fantasies, also introduced me to my favorite band, the Black Angels, and I'll be forever grateful to it for that.

  • lol, why are gamers so anal about iron sights
  • That screenshot is from IMFDB I'm guessing? I'm not saying this isn't also a gamer thing, but those guys are a special kind of anal retentive.

  • normal country
  • Imagine being so invested in your own make-believe auctoritas that you're willing to traumatize a young girl falling asleep on a boring ass school field trip (something that has definitely never happened before and isn't a trope in hundreds of cartoons)

  • Venting: I hate how unaccountable every website/app is
  • Absolutely correct, but I don't think she was talking about phone reps there, I think she directed that towards upper management types, who absolutely are wastes of space who rarely if ever do any actual work.

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    I told my girlfriend she's not that attractive, but I'd still marry her. Why is she crying?
  • We really don't need to be drawing this out any further than we already have

  • dutch is a serious language
  • I've got a buddy who spent some time in southern Africa, and his Afrikaans impression always cracks me up. He says Afrikaaner men especially sound like angry vikings talking with mouthfuls of shit

  • To Protect Consumers, Biden Cracks Down on 'Corporate Tricks' Like Hard-To-Cancel Services | Common Dreams
  • Which, you know, grand, it's about time these things were made less maddeningly frustrating. But this should be a footnote in a grand restructuring plan of...basically everything, at this point, or we die. That they're pushing this as its own thing, and that this article suggests it as a compelling reason to vote Democrat lest the Republicans kill it in its crib, is beyond insane.

  • Did anyone else find their Spanish classes in High School entirely useless?
  • I'm having to take four quarters of Spanish for my bachelors, and my high school Spanish classes left me feeling entirely unprepared. Worse still, I only took it for one abbreviated semester in continuation school. Wish me luck everybody, I'm totally screwed!

    Edit: I tell a lie, I also took it in the 7th grade. Suddenly feeling much more prepared.

  • A bit of technical support please?

    Hey all. I don't know if it's a faux pas to put help requests here, but I've got an issue with a basically brand new AIO cooler in the PC I just put together, and since I'd rather die than ask this on reddit, I figured I'd take a shot and ask my favorite people before throwing up my hands and sending it in for warranty service (again).

    So long story short, it was briefly functional when I got it, then crapped out, so I sent it in to be "fixed". I got it back the other day, and reinstalled it and booted up the system today. Pump came on after a minute or so, CPU was running at a good temp, and I was all ready to install my OS. But, I dicked up the BIOS settings and had to reset CMOS to fix it. After that, the pump and the radiator fans wouldn't come on and weren't detected by the motherboard (I should note that this is exactly what happened the first time). Tried it on every fan header on the board, nothing. No amount of fiddling with the fan settings in BIOS could get it working.

    Would anybody who's inclined to help my silly ass have any advice, or should I just insist that the clowns who sold it to me just replace it this time?

    Edit: Forgot to note, the pump appears to be functioning, but none of the three fans are spinning

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