You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.

from my time in windows, i think you can do win+R and that will open the run dialogue, them try gpedit in there. (quick edit: it appears that windows Home editions dont allow you to use gpedit, only Pro editions, so read the next bit i guess)

I'd definitely recommend using the tool Winaero Tweaker instead, which not only can disable Copilot in a single click, but has so many features inside which can make windows just a little bit less insane to use, including removing telemetry, and even reverting some UI changes (though controversial i think 11 does look better than 10. coughs)

it's simply a frontend to gpedit and regedit as you kindaaa shouldnt be going in there and changing things yourself as things might break.

heres a fun thing you can do as well: try installing it by opening your terminal, and typing "winget install winaero.tweaker". which is Windows' built in package manager. you can also use "winget upgrade winaero.tweaker" to keep it up to date (really a good thing to do as Microsoft loves changing things around) or "winget upgrade --all" to update everything on your computer which winget supports.

it's a very handy (though extremely shitty) tool that will get you used to the main difference between windows and Linux, if you ever plan on switching. Its also just pretty convenient, you can even use it to install Microsoft Store stuff without an account, and was my preferred way to install anything while using Windows anyway.

also linux package management is so much better there's no "installer wizards" that demand your attention and need to do it you jusy start the install and it does it and can even install/update multiple things in parallel

fantasy is when currency is referred to as "gold" and sci fi is when currency is referred to as "credits"

Little world-building question: In a fantasy world where giant bugs and other such arthropods (like, the size of things like cows or wolves, not kaiju-sized like Humans-B-Gone's macrovolutes) are a thing, what do you think would be the best kinds for a civilization to try and domesticate, whether for resources or riding?

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.....That is waaaaaayyyyyyy too broad a question, lmao. Insects alone are like 75% of *ALL ANIMALS,* period. If you bring in the other arthropods, that brings it up to more like *85%*.

Vertebrates, by contrast, comprise just 5% of all species on Earth. Half of that is fish.

If arthropods were giant, there would not *just* be suitable equivalents for the existing vertebrates we've domesticated (caterpillar leather; cockroach or jumping spider milk; ant hunters, guards, and mousers; wasp versions of homing pigeons and falcons; scarab and dragonfly flying mounts; ants are already excellent shepherds to aphids; and worker ants of many species already lay trophic eggs just for eating). There would be unimaginably vast potential for things we've never domesticated anything for!

Mountains of silk, honey, wax, paper, shellac, etc. etc. etc. are just the beginning. We've got nasute termite glue; we've got durable buildings and furniture constructed by bagworms and caddisfly larvae; we've got ants and termites farming fungi, or possibly trainable to do all of our farming for us; we've got bees for exploring and sniffing out any resources we can think of (we already can train them to detect drugs and cancer)!!! And forget plastic and metal for most uses when we have all this renewable chitin armor.

This is just the tip of iceberg. It would take me a series of novels to even scratch the surface, here!

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it is. sincerely really weird that 2016 nostalgia is a trend. like i knew this day would come but not for specifically 2016. the meme that year was about how this was the worst year ever for most people

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“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.

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I did my PhD in a fish lab, and one time I was emailing a fish company, and the guy emailed me back with the signature “Best fishes,” followed by these guys

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if one of my friends told me they were in a time loop i owuld believe them. they wouldnt even have to repeat what imabout to say right back at me while i say it. im loyal

nobody in the tags understands, I don't Need a time loop code I Am Loyal. you are not like me

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