I played hundreds of hours of WC2 and WC3 over LAN in college, awesome games. Starcraft too. I mean quotes and terms from WC RTS games haven’t entered the modern lexicon the way that “zerg” has but they’re part of the same cultural continuum and are important to understanding how we got here.

Edit: also, WoW was huge but it’s where Blizzard lost their way and will always be tainted in my mind. RTS is more my scene than those sleazy MMOs

I was just getting used to PS/2 connectors replacing serial mice and keyboards and then friggin USB comes along…

I seem to remember Leisure Suit Larry verified age using trivia questions that only older people would answer correctly. I know this because at 8 years old I guessed enough of them on my father’s friends computer to play it.

Elon collecting signatures from demographics least likely to vote, or starlink being used in many districts as the network uplink for insecure machines

Are sources available on these claims, particularly the first one specifically it being the least likely voter demographic? I keep seeing this stuff talked about but also hand-waving that it’s been debunked and I’ve been too wrapped up with life to investigate. I’m not hopeful that credible and clear evidence will show up enough to get widespread attention about vote hacking but I wouldn’t be opposed to hearing more come out either.

Fyi schizophrenia is distinct and very different from multiple personality disorder. Don’t feel bad though I’ve heard people with psych degrees using it similarly.

Aww, Australia has one, why cant we?

https://www.threeblueducks.com/caper-festival-opening-night/

I like how the portrait of Karl Dandleton is a pretty girl

This thing has been reminding me it exists every few years for the past 2 decades.

The earliest tests done on residual samples from the Red Cross date back to December 13th and they show a small but significant positive caseload at that time. To my knowledge no other testing was done on earlier samples so in theory it could have been present before that in the US.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7799215/

Even with researchers testing samples that were taken before Covid was known about, the earliest US cases seem to be mid-December.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Serologic testing of U.S. blood donations to identify SARS-CoV-2-reactive antibodies%3A December 2019-January 2020&author=SV Basavaraju&author=ME Patton&author=K Grimm&publication_year=2020&journal=Clin Infect Dis&volume=72

I mean if Putin knows their secrets, shouldn’t the American people?

Someone check to see if HL has purchased tunnel boring equipment recently

I’ve met a handful of Nigerian students from different parts of the country and they all spoke English as a first language. Also, the US is on there, we don’t have an official language either.

No Nigeria for English? Lagos is the largest English speaking city in the world.

Yeah, maybe. Compare the list against a list of unlikely voters. Would be tricky to make sure no attempted double votes were cast. The theory is that these people were voted for, by mail? Or that an inside worker at the polls fed the votes into the machines? In the 2nd case maybe investigators could look at the times the “bullet ballot” votes were cast to see if there were irregularities indicating trouble, like them being clustered around certain times of day.

They had pledged to vote though, I would assume the vast majority of them would have done just that, so how are they “ghost voters?” I feel like I’m missing something here.

I wish Lemmy natively supported the tagging feature you mention but I’m otherwise pretty happy with the web interface. I generally keep app downloads to a minimum. Which app do you use, I hear people mention the tagging feature more and more lately.

I mean I definitely do but it’s hard to imagine this is insider information considering the distance from the issue being reported on.

Ah yes, for all the most accurate and insightful news about the US election’s consequences I always turn to Pakistani news outlets.

I mean laugh at your neighbors house on fire if you want but the embers are blowing everywhere.