Seriously Pierre is only marginally better than the faceless mega corp trying to put him out of business.

Just to be clear a collapsing AMOC is projected to slow the gulf stream but not stop it.

It’s still very very bad though.

That’s why the increase in gathered telemetry correlates with a decrease in updates that break things.

I think ties have fallen out of fashion. At least in business dress. Button up shirt, nice slacks and a sport coat, all tailored. You have to specify black tie if you want people in fancy dress.

The resident Canada geese in my neighborhood are pretty chill. The only time I got lip was when I went out the back door and there was a goose, a gander and a gosling right there within a few feet. I received an angry honk as they shooed their gosling away from the stupid ape.

I like Fudge dice, but understand if people want higher variance than that. I do like that characters tend to succeed at things they are good at (but not always) and fail at things they are bad at (but not always). Some people liken this to diceless, but my experience is that it’s just enough variance to keep you on your toes and add drama.

The variance on a single d20 is miserable after playing games with better probability curves.

Thiel for sure thinks he’s John Galt.

Fruit loops.

I’ll see myself out.

They were originally developed as translation software, after all.

Ben’s heart is in the right place. But he is an idiot.

I know he doesn’t bill himself as a journalist, but I was taught to not make someone else’s story about yourself. Once he inserted himself into the mix and started doing antics he crossed a line, imo, and his legal troubles got magnified and he arguably made the legal issues for the Mansell’s worse.

The video where AFPD is fucking with him and he gets arrested and then talks to the detective instead of lawyering up immediately had me shouting at the screen. Don’t talk to the cops, people. Never talk to the cops, jfc.

I know lawyers are unpopular and expensive, but this is actually a case that needed them.

So they knew it was there and decided not to send it to the market where it would be possibly illegal. This is pretty brazen and I cannot imagine what they are thinking would come from this that would make the reputational impact worthwhile.

I love how all their proposed solutions are similarly disconnected from reality. Like “Let’s just give the poors a big break on income taxes”. Income taxes on lower-income families are already low, plus if nobody has a job in the AI dystopia then what do income taxes matter?

Certainly coming as no surprise to any queer person over the age of, say, 35 or so. Old enough to remember when gays were social pariahs and our only sponsors were like lube companies and condom manufacturers. Then as it became less acceptable to shit on LGBT people companies started ‘supporting’ pride. Bravely speaking out only once it risked nothing. And predictably when the fascists decide to punish companies for providing their support all these ‘trailblazers’ muzzle themselves with the least surprising amount of alacrity. They were never allies and never interested in anything but our dollars. Fuck the lot of them. We can see who our friends are.

They are borderline exploits that you don’t really need to know unless you want to break the game in kind of unfun ways. You probably wouldn’t find them on your own. But for completions sake the LDS shuffle is Space Age specific and it involves stacking a ton of low density structure productiviy bonuses to create a lossless recycling loop that breaks the quality system severely. Fluid voiding is a way to automatically delete unwanted fluids (you can do it in vanilla or space age). You can always manually delete fluids but by design you can’t automate that process - except you can actually do it by exploiting a combination of behaviors.

I imagine the LDS shuffle and maybe fluid voiding will be targeted as well.

Y’all motherfuckers need dildos.

With flared bases. Or big ol’ balls.

I grew up with a computer in the 80s and for years i would stare at the keyboard while mentally keeping track of what I was typing.

I took keyboarding in middle school and learned to touch type but it took years of practice to break the habits I formed as a child.

Now I’ll be typing something and my husband will walk in so I’ll pause and look over to see what he needs. One time he said “don’t stop on my account” so I started typing again while staring at him.

I can hold a full conversation while doing this but have to slow down to around 60wpm to avoid transcribing the conversation.

TIL. I get this when I’m off my meds. Never knew there was a name for it.

I was going to mention that there’s probably a lot of people who don’t know what e621 is, but then I remembered what community I was in.