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New comment by BaseBaal in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

BaseBaal — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:46:14 +0000

From the newest releases page I stumbled into "Some Nigerian fertility cults" by Percy Amaury Talbot & am enjoying it so far.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78684

New comment by BaseBaal in "The UK's Answer to DARPA Wants to Rewire the Human Brain"

BaseBaal — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:05:16 +0000

https://archive.is/4kiwg

New comment by BaseBaal in "Why Not Venus?"

BaseBaal — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:39:30 +0000

Anyone who saw Night of the Living Dead knows this won't end well.

New comment by BaseBaal in "Keep Android Open"

BaseBaal — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:18:14 +0000

Vector Pinball is a must have.

New comment by BaseBaal in "Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed"

BaseBaal — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:42:53 +0000

For the lazy it basically means as embryos our anus forms before our mouths do. So we have to talk out our asses before we even leave the womb!

New comment by BaseBaal in "Ban passengers playing loud music on public transport, say Tories"

BaseBaal — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:16:31 +0000

Forget cones of shame, what we need are cones of silence.

New comment by BaseBaal in "Building a computer in the 90s (2019)"

BaseBaal — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:58:06 +0000

90's me was poring over TigerDirect[0] catalogs like they were porn.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerDirect

New comment by BaseBaal in "LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises"

BaseBaal — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:41:13 +0000

Is it just me or does that sound like Garfield?

New comment by BaseBaal in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

BaseBaal — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:24:42 +0000

Which sects of Buddhism? Just curious to read further about them.

New comment by BaseBaal in "36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens"

BaseBaal — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:40:20 +0000

Thanks, that helped.

New comment by BaseBaal in "36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens"

BaseBaal — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:58:52 +0000

Mind boggling. Wish they included images of the scale compared to our sun, solar system, galaxy etc to help me wrap my head around this beast.

New comment by BaseBaal in "1910: The year the modern world lost its mind"

BaseBaal — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:29:04 +0000

I vaguely remember reading somewhere about people seeing warriors on horseback for the first time calling them four legged demons or some such thing. I wonder what it would take to elicit that type of panicked response today?

New comment by BaseBaal in "1910: The year the modern world lost its mind"

BaseBaal — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:46:09 +0000

Even if the ruling class was high off their tits on whatever substance probably had little to do with anything. Most likely the drug that had the most influence was, and still is, the lust for power.

New comment by BaseBaal in "Basic Social Skills Guide"

BaseBaal — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:30:45 +0000

Extremely fanatic soccer "fans", aka hooligans. Basically just an excuse to be antisocial.

New comment by BaseBaal in "Fight Chat Control"

BaseBaal — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:22:28 +0000

I think it's more apathy than an actual desire for more mass surveillance. People don't care until they are directly, negatively affected. Same as it ever was.

New comment by BaseBaal in "The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report"

BaseBaal — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:02:06 +0000

Can usually report anonymously so this shouldn't be an issue. If there's no mechanism for that then yeah I'd consider keeping my mouth shut if it doesn't involve me directly (like the body is in my home somehow).

New comment by BaseBaal in "Basic Social Skills Guide"

BaseBaal — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:41:54 +0000

The problem with this is when the convo goes beyond the initial common phrase. The response is likely to go more in depth. Then you're stuck nodding awkwardly, laughing awkwardly or just fudging it further... Awkwardly. Personally if it's a sport I'm not into I'll just admit that and explain why. The conversation will usually naturally move on and you won't seem phony.

New comment by BaseBaal in "Officially acquiring all 47 original Commodore trademarks"

BaseBaal — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:46:43 +0000

https://xcancel.com/wearecommodore/status/195131008839385917...

New comment by BaseBaal in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

BaseBaal — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:43:37 +0000

Robots used in care homes for elderly people may help with loneliness, especially for those with no family or friends that visit.

New comment by BaseBaal in "Show HN: Minecrack – A simple, offline Minesweeper game for Android"

BaseBaal — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:15:45 +0000

A couple suggestions/requests:

Ability to tap numbers after flagging all the surrounding mines to reveal the safe adjacent tiles.

Tap to reveal, long tap to flag. It's kinda awkward having to switch to "flag mode".