Crazy meat lovers most certainly are that extreme. Addicts are at least a bit more likely to admit they have a problem.

I can’t wait!

Is Windows open-source yet? Then who cares?

On lemmy, downvotes are as much a badge of honor as upvotes. Chase the controversy! That’s what the design incentivizes.

Yeah, it’s pretty cognitively dissonant to hold those doctrines, because the Bible is so full of self-contradiction that every Bible-believer necessarily has to pick and choose which doctrines they adopt.

Plus, by their own measures, their obsession with the book really is a form of idolatry, or bibliolatry as they call it.

That’s exactly what they say. The Chick comics go so far as to call the Catholic church the antichrist. They’re kind of hilarious.

As long as the Bible remains the way it is, this will keep happening. And as long as churches keep propping up doctrines like sola sciptura and biblical inerrancy, modifications to passages in the Bible will remain a niche thing.

Which game was this?

No, cheat codes as debugging tools is like 25% of the story at best. That may be how they got their start, but it completely misses how they were very much a wider cultural phenomenon for some time.

In 007 there’s a cheat to make everyone’s heads comically bigger. In Tomb Raider, entering a cheat input incorrectly causes Lara to explode. In Heretic, if you enter cheats from Doom you’ll get the opposite of the intended effect. In Gauntlet: Dark Legacy there is an entire litany of secret character models you can play as, if you choose the right character and give them the right name. There’s a cheat that turns Banjo-Kazooie into a washing machine. Another one that initiates a zombie mode in Scott Pilgrim. There was a golfing game where hitting the ball 100 times and then inputting a shortened version of the Konami code generated a completely different Fantasy Zone minigame.

Do those sound like helpful debugging tools?

There was a time when entire websites were devoted to cheat codes and easter eggs (of course the most enduring ones were the broader sites that included whole walkthroughs like GameFAQs), and entire books would be published just for cheat codes.

Ultimately cheat codes were far more about easter eggs and unique game experiences than they were for debugging purposes - especially since as plenty of people have already pointed out, it wasn’t long before better debugging tools were invented anyway.

The end of the day it was just a trend. People had interest in these things, then interest subsided.

Uhh, that doesn’t add up. Cheat codes started getting used less, as far back as the PS1 generation - long before dlc existed. It was a pretty rapid shift from that point on.

It’s weird hearing incorrect things about history from people who were evidently not born yet, when I was there. How do I go back?

That’s not what the data says.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10003493/

And then they become incubators for new zoonotic diseases and kickoff the next global pandemic. What could possibly go wrong.

This is how enshittification perpetuates.

Not necessarily. It is known that some vitamins can have differing effects depending on whether they’re in whole food form, or in a supplement.

Haven’t read the article yet, but my suspicion would be more correlation than causation. Those industrially manufactured ascorbic acids virtually always end up in highly processed foods, and that’s what is more likely the main harm.

If it’s not open source as much as reasonably possible, it’s ultimately no better than Android. Kind of annoyed that distinctions need to be made between “real” Linux and “fake” Linux.

It’s time to bring back this stuff!

This is also exactly my problem with minimalist systems. That, and things being hardcoded in a way I don’t like and not having any reasonable recourse to change it.

I work in pharmacy, and what I see between prescription prices and insurance adjudication processes… it’s a fucking eugenics program, plain and simple. I feel awful for people who need insulin and adhd medication in particular.

Oh of course, if we just magically got rid of about a thousand people, everything would be better. Wow, great problem solving. Totally not a completely useless comment.

Cars are not the only form of transportation with accessibility in mind.

But what there is far far more of is people whose health is in dangerous territory, in part, because they are too sedentary, which is something owed in large part to the advent of industrialism including the rise of motor vehicle transportation.

If you never bike, 5280 ft feels like a lot. If you bike at least 3 days a week for even just two weeks, 5280 ft is already not even a warm up.