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TIL: males have 25% more neurons in the visual cortex than females
  • Yes, but to be more exact, men get in more expensive accidents, and women get into more frequent cheaper accidents. I assume it has to do more with risk taking.

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    What should I do about my brother?
  • As far as I can tell from reading your telling, he has a history of committing violence against women and lying about past events. I hope you recognize this as dangerous.

    This doesn't mean you can't try to help him, but understand that there are risks.

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    The Eurogamer 100
  • I thought the story in ac Odyssey was very unique with how it prioritized the morality of the time and contrasted it with our modern day morality, and I spent plenty of hours really enjoying that world. Probably my favorite large open world to date (but that is entirely personal preference). I do think Mario kart 8 is the best kart racer ever, and definitely deserves to be on the list for that alone.

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    Advertiser exodus from X gathers pace with 26% ‘planning to cut spending’
  • I completely agree with you. An interesting aspect to this is that when it was still Twitter, Apple was one of the biggest marketers on the site. This was because all of the other online ad venders were direct competitors (google with phones, and Facebook with virtual reality). So having a place that isn't google/meta to pump ad dollars makes sense to some businesses, or at least it did before the percentage of Nazi content rose so much.

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    Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code
  • Or the code is the operating system that the application is running on, or the code is the firmware that is operating the GPU that is crunching the numbers to make the neural net, or the code is the friends we made along the way.

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    Top US college says diversity slumps after affirmative action ban
  • But if the pool of candidates between the races were equal, why did fewer black candidates make it in? Is the new system racist against against black candidates, are black people less deserving of slots, or is there something that happens pre-applying for college that makes black candidates less appealing?

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    Top US college says diversity slumps after affirmative action ban
  • So the question then becomes, why are there less black candidates that can get in when race blind? Are black people just dumber? Or has the system they grew up in acted on them in a way that disadvantaged them? Because if we agree with the former, we are racists, and if we agree on the latter, well then it's unfair to them because the system actively worked against them.

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    Top US college says diversity slumps after affirmative action ban
  • I agree that income matters more than race. Obviously. But they cut out considering race, and then less black people made it through the admission process. You can't say that you are a big fan of the process AND you wish there were different outcomes.

    Black people experience racism that has disadvantaged them, and it seems silly to think that we shouldn't acknowledge that in processes that could give them a leg up.

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    Top US college says diversity slumps after affirmative action ban
  • They had a way of weighting a person's background as a part of their application. So imagine 2 students: -4.0 through high school, AP classes, a bunch of extra curriculars, great test scores -3.8 through high school, one AP class, no extra curriculars (because of family responsibilities), great test scores.

    If the second student is a black student coming from a disadvantaged community, they legally can't consider that in their admission process.

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    PlayStation’s ‘Concord’ Did Not Break 700 Players On Steam On Launch Day
  • This is one of the problems of growing up in a different age. This was advertised, but are you any of the places they promoted it? It was the main game in a state of play, they bought ad space on steam, and I assume it was advertised elsewhere where I wouldn't have seen it. But not everybody is watching TV anymore, and we are on Lemmy. Probably not the best place to judge what's being advertised to the masses lol.

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    This is sort of adorable
  • I'm a huge fan of creating a meme about another person, and using a drawing like this. It allows the person to remain anonymous.

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