bradbeattie

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[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Steam Deck support?

[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Don't forget you can ignore publishers.

Ignore 2k

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoGames/curation is also useful.

[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dug up the paper in question for anyone curious: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216. At a cursory glance, I'm not seeing any of the referenced concerns. But, y'know, down vote away I guess.

[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago (34 children)

Following the trail of your comment: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets does indeed cite https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216, but I'd love it if you could provide more details on your criticisms of methodology.

[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 35 points 9 months ago (10 children)

If the camera really does need to be that thick for lens reasons, couldn't we at least make the rest of the body bigger with more battery?

[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago

Steam still lists Civ7 as requiring a third-party account and stays off my wishlist while it does.

[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 25 points 9 months ago

Speaking of unhelpful, eurogamer.net is littered with ads. They add no value to the original Reddit post (https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1emb4ch/valve_is_finally_addressing_bad_reviews_issue/).

[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just hold off for now. They might take your money, shut it down, and mandate that you buy "Industrial Annihilation: Titans" for an extra $15.

[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Probably worth distinguishing the cross-party ERRE survey from the LPC push-poll that was mydemocracy.ca.

Compare as an example the quality of questions and their inherent biases:

The former asked people to rate how much they agreed with statements like

  • Independent candidates should be able to be elected to Parliament
  • The current electoral system adequately reflects voters' intentions
  • Seats should be allocated in proportion to the percentage of votes received by each political party
  • Voters should elect local candidates to represent them in Parliament
  • The current electoral system should be changed

Whereas the latter asked more loaded questions:

  • There should be parties in Parliament that represent the views of all Canadians, even if some are radical or extreme.
  • Governments should have to negotiate their policy decisions with other parties in Parliament, even if it is less clear who is accountable for the resulting policy.
  • It is better for several parties to have to govern together than for one party to make all the decisions in government, even if it takes longer for government to get things done.
[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

I'm actively working on building something for this. In the interim, most phones have something akin to a voice recorder with transcriptions.

[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

Its the same "power corrupts" story again and again. Karina Gould gave an impassioned speech on electoral reform (http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/house/sitting-64/hansard#Int-8963139). But after replacing Maryam Monsef as Minister of Democratic Institutions, her views suddenly became far more simplistic. In a 2017 interview on CBC's Metro Morning, she was asked "Why is it important that people at the very least believe every vote counts?". She replies "Because they do. … We literally count them: 1, 2, 3, 4, up to the majority that wins."

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