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Comment Re: Cancelled for saying the truth (Score 1) 34

there's no difference in IQ test results for races once proper adjustments (income, education, etc) are made.

What the ... "proper adjustments" ??? So I guess Polynesians are no heavier than Sri Lankans once you adjust for waist size?
What a bizzare abuse of logic to suggest these are independent measurements.

Comment Re:Browser games (Score 1) 10

These days with WebAssembly anything can be made to run in a browser. There are C to WebAssembly compilers out there that do most of the hard work - it's how DOSBox runs in a browser (archive.org has a collection of DOS games playable in a browser - it's just DOSBox in the end) as many other runtimes like ScummVM and such.

Many games are simply being retarged for WebAssembly - and many game engines have already been ported making the retarget fairly low effort.

Comment Re: Cancelled for saying the truth (Score 4, Informative) 34

Watson made assertions that he could not support or prove.

Support yes, prove no.
You could say that about the double helix. Nobel prizes are typically awarded many years after the event because they are awarded for ideas, and have to wait for others to prove them. You don't get a Nobel by waiting for proof.
      Watson took some well-founded observations on racial and gender differences, (some observations more scientific than others), and sided heavily on genetics in the nature vs nurture debate.

Consider in the US how Jews have made massively disproportionate contributions to science and creative arts. How much of the reason for that is cultural vs genetic? I don't know, but I'm not shocked that a geneticist said it has a strong genetic component.

Comment Re:Rosalind Franklin discovered it (Score 4, Interesting) 34

That makes a nice story for obvious culture-war reasons, but the reality is less movie-worthy. The photo was taken by Gosling and the significance
recognised by Watkins. Franklin might possibly have shared the Nobel if the was still alive in 1962, when it was awarded. But she was not.

According to a later account by Raymond Gosling, although Photo 51 was an exceptionally clear diffraction pattern of the "B" form of DNA, Franklin was more interested in solving the diffraction pattern of the "A" form of DNA, so she put Gosling's Photo 51 to the side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re: Cancelled for saying the truth (Score 3, Insightful) 34

Watson made assertions that he could not support or prove. As a scientist, he refused to put up or shut up, and lost a great deal of his reputation out of his own stubborness and philosophically anti-science behavior.

Goes to show that nobody is perfect, and even with great genes you can be a useless tit.

Comment Re:How Legit? (Score 4, Informative) 32

> but how much does it really happen?

A lot. Like, a LOT a lot.

Maybe you would like some other videos if that's your preferred media?

Roblox Situation is Worse Than You Think
Roblox: How to Destroy Your $83,000,000,000 Company Overnight - A Deep Dive
Roblox, Take a Seat (ft: Chris Hansen)

Roblox has had problems with child exploitation too, for years now; Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers and their follow-up, Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
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Comment Re:Want vs. Need. (Score 1) 160

You are discussing - ranting about, really - what should be.

The rest of us are discussing what is.

The original claim is that people aren't buying the F-150 Lightning because (paraphrasing) people want mid-size trucks and not fill-size trucks. That claim is refuted by pointing out that mid-size trucks already exist, they do not sell very well, and in fact full-size trucks are overwhelmingly popular.

Now you come in with your righteous indignation that because, in your view, people don't actually make full use of full-size trucks, they should not be buying full-size trucks. Notwithstanding that the majority of these trucks actually ARE used as trucks - because the cultural bubble that exists entirely up your ass along with your head is not representative of the entire world - the very real popularity of these vehicles is not dependent on what people actually do with them.

I'll say it again just to be crystal clear: It does not matter if you think they should not be popular, the fact is they are popular. Reality does not give a shit what your opinion is.
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Comment Re: What exactly is "Steam" anyway? (Score 1) 160

I think one valid complaint is the use of DRMs.

I am in every way anti-DRM, but it's ubiquitous. A lot of publishers won't publish on GOG for this reason. I agree that Epic is arguing in bad faith. The enemy of my enemy is convenient, nothing more, so I am not delusional about Epic but I still enjoy their actions.

They are basically throwing money to become relevant enough that they can be profitable without having to throw money. If that ever happens, you can be sure that there will be no more free games.

TBH I usually forget to go look at the free games they are typically so underwhelming, though there have been some legitimate greats too.

Meanwhile Steam is sustainable and superior on features.

There are only two features of Steam beyond buying installing games which I care about, and one of them sucks. I like that it handles updates for me, but that is also the bad one, because practically none of the updates are differential. I want them to make that easier so that publishers actually do it. I know that it requires significant support from publishers when they use packed data files, but even that is something that could be addressed. (If the files are compressed individually instead of using compressed archives, then binary patches are feasible.) The other feature is Proton. Anything else including friends, achievements, and even reviews is all optional to me. I enjoy some of those features, but I would still use Steam without them.

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