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New comment by BizarroLand in "YouTuber Davie504 slapped with ridiculous copyright claim [video]"

BizarroLand — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:10:33 +0000

idk. I can imagine them getting close, but there will always be some part of me that knows that if the artist were making that song they might have chosen something different, that it's not them.

I don't want to hear Linger-er by the CrAInberries

New comment by BizarroLand in "WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale"

BizarroLand — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:54:01 +0000

Some people still care about it, or want a possibly shared experience over one that can only be experienced once by one person

New comment by BizarroLand in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

BizarroLand — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:05:03 +0000

Even that doesn't mean that the patty is JUST beef. Thanks to legalese, the only thing a claim like that would guarantee is that the beef portion of the hamburger patty is "100% PURE ALL-AMERICAN BEEF".

It could be 99% filler and not be a lie.

New comment by BizarroLand in "Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11"

BizarroLand — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:39:32 +0000

There's a LTT video that came out recently that showed Linux using 4-6gb less in equivalent use cases across the board, if that is helpful.

New comment by BizarroLand in "Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)"

BizarroLand — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:03:43 +0000

I haven't heard the 6 months single version. The one I heard was "6 or more friends" instead.

New comment by BizarroLand in "You Don't Want to Time Travel"

BizarroLand — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:59:07 +0000

Ok, but if you could time travel in the 4th dimension while remaining static in the third, you could do some really cool things assuming you survived the initial testing.

Sell your services as a space launch platform. It should be trivial to build a program to tell you how long to time skip a space vehicle for it to be safely free floating when it comes out of the time skip, and if you can do that for less than the cost of the rocket fuel needed to launch to space, then you're golden.

You could even scour the trillions of different start/stop conditions available to you to possibly land a base on the moon fully stocked with food/air/water/power/people, and if it worked once you could also restock them as needed.

(Of course, getting back would be its own can of worms, but still)

All I'm saying is, if you use your imagination you can come up with a good use case for practically anything.

New comment by BizarroLand in "Degrees of Wealth"

BizarroLand — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:10:31 +0000

There's a dramatic difference in having the kind of money that allows you to look forward to retirement and having the kind of money that allows you to alleviate the boredom of you and your closest 5 friends by taking a 6 week retreat to Bali.

New comment by BizarroLand in "Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast"

BizarroLand — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:18:30 +0000

Call it the Cheeto in Charge Manufacturing Center and you'll get a fastpass

New comment by BizarroLand in "Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast"

BizarroLand — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:17:06 +0000

The real expense is in rebuilding the city every cycle

New comment by BizarroLand in "Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11"

BizarroLand — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:11:04 +0000

CachyOS was using 3.25gb of ram while streaming video at 4k on my system.

My Windows work PC is currently using 28.2 gigs to have outlook, teams and 6 browser tabs open.

New comment by BizarroLand in "ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine"

BizarroLand — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:25:27 +0000

That's not exactly true, they can be "unlocked" but not many people have tested and verified that the unlocked memory is stable and/or useful.

But the cards themselves are extremely limited in function, necessitating either board level work to reconnect the electrically disconnected traces or transplanting the hardware to a new board. It's anything but plug and play.

https://niconiconi.neocities.org/tech-notes/nvidia-cmp-170hx...

New comment by BizarroLand in "The most official water costs $120k a gallon"

BizarroLand — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:25:12 +0000

Makes me want to go to the ocean and start filtering out water somehow.

New comment by BizarroLand in "Show HN: A Persistent AI RPG Engine Built with React SPA and Supabase"

BizarroLand — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:49:24 +0000

If you have enough positive score you can vouch for flagged comments. There seems to me to be an epidemic of people going around downvoting and flagging people who are promoting their own things, I assume in an attempt to damage their attempt to promote themselves.

I vouched for your comment, hopefully it's ungreyed out for you.

New comment by BizarroLand in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

BizarroLand — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:38:31 +0000

Huh. TIL. That boggles the mind though. Makes me wonder where it came from, or if perhaps its source was somehow killed off or otherwise destroyed, or if perhaps there is a reservoir somewhere that we simply are not aware of?

New comment by BizarroLand in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

BizarroLand — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:39:03 +0000

I think what you're not getting is being a disagreeable jerk on the internet is bad.

You think me carefully explaining exactly why your post was downvoted is a "nonsensical point". Well, I wasn't explaining it to you. I was saying it in your general direction so that the other passers by can learn from your folly.

New comment by BizarroLand in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

BizarroLand — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:37:39 +0000

It's dumb to overlook the "founding fathers" based on what we now perceive as their personal failings. Once the dead are gone, they're gone. It's ok to rifle through their spiritual corpses for the few nuggets of useful material in them and leave the rest to the trash pile of history.

New comment by BizarroLand in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

BizarroLand — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:02:17 +0000

If we gave every living human on the planet the polio vaccine as soon as they were able to receive it, it would still exist in the wild somewhere.

If new generations are not also given the vaccine, it will eventually return.

Probably the same with HIV, although I could see it being somewhat more difficult for that to make a resurgence. If we inoculated the entire human race against it, it could possibly eradicate HIV for several generations, if not permanently.

New comment by BizarroLand in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

BizarroLand — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:22:31 +0000

If you're mistaking my writing for AI then you need to calibrate your AI detection algorithm. 100% human response, and at the same time yet another attempt on your behalf to poison the well. Strange. It's almost like you don't want to engage with people as equals.

New comment by BizarroLand in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

BizarroLand — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:49:49 +0000

This is a textbook example of a logical fallacy called "poisoning the well", implying that because a user has a crass username that their opinions do not deserve to be treated with the same value as someone who posts under their feasibly real world name.

To be rational, you should take opinions as written, not considering the writer, and debate them on their merits alone.

Not that their opinion was rational, as we have not conclusively proved the existence of the soul. That being said, the negative emphasis of your reply probably deserved a rude comeback.

Gruff, annoyed responses to people enjoying a mutated racoon is not acceptable behavior. It's weird.

In my opinion, taking offense at whimsy is weak sauce and deserves to be replied to as such.

I realize you can say that my opinion doesn't matter since my username is bizarroland, and I do come from a strange place, but that's still my opinion and I'll stand by it.

New comment by BizarroLand in "Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations"

BizarroLand — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:34:14 +0000

Microslop extended 10 for another year since so many people are still using it.

Lots of good distros out there, many that are gaming forward as well, though.