They all have kind of bad pacing. Takes too long to get to the good parts, spends too much time walking back and forth or driving around. The core gameplay is meh- it’s more about levels and gear stats than like strategy or execution. It takes too long to get enough skill points to do interesting things.

Unless they address that stuff, I’m going to wait for the game to be in the bargain bin.

Ok, glad he came around to realize Trump is a deceitful fool. My question is what has been learned more generally? Are people like this going to fall for maga2?

When the official justice system fails people, some of them will take matters into their own hands. Frankly it’s surprising there isn’t more political violence targeting police and corrupt judges.

And remember, jury nullification exists.

This is good advice. I used to really push how late I’d stay up and then get jolted awake by my alarm. Felt like trash.

Now I go to bed like 9.5 hours before I have to get up (midnight -> 930) and usually wake up before the alarm. Feels great.

I set alarms for my bedtime to train myself into it. Like, alarm goes off at 11pm and I start winding down whatever I’m doing (video games, usually). Now I just do it naturally.

But as you said, how do you actually do the thing?

I’ve luckily never had problems with executive function, so I can’t really imagine clearly what it’s like to not be able to just make a decision and execute. One of my friends swears by medication, because they got diagnosed as an adult with ADHD.

Ok well better late than never, I guess, that Christians start pointing out how un-christian Trump is. But I doubt they’ll connect the rest of the dots and reject the cruelty of conservatism altogether

chaque nuit, je vais au lit et mon chat va s’asseyer sur mon clavier. le clavier fait du bruit (parce que tous les clés sont pressées). je me lève et je dis “fais-tu quoi ??”. le chat me dit “mreow?”. je prends le chat et retourne au lit, et maintenant le chat veut dormir sur le lit. pourquoi le chat doit fais ça ? je ne sais pas. pendant la journée il dort sur le lit. c’est pas que je dois le prendre.

(désolé, je ne parle pas français, mais je veux le pratiquer)

This is true. The book “why does he do that” is a fascinating look into how abusive people (mostly but not always men) operate.

If you leave your house regularly this has a number of disadvantages. I can fit my phone in my pocket but most laptops are too large. I can operate a phone with one hand (eg: on the subway). 911 services I think work better with an actual phone. Gps stuff may also work better.

That’s just stuff off the top of my head.

Trump doesn’t really know or care about what words mean. He cares about how words feel.

Unfortunately, many people are the same way.

My understanding is that a lot of venture capitalist funding is driven by gut feel and personal connection. Like, they’ll tell you that they’re the vanguard of the future with a vision, but most of the time they’re just cliquey bros going “dude, sick” and burning money.

There’s an anecdote in the book “the cold start problem” about how zoom got funding even though the guys funding it thought it was a solved problem, that a new video company wouldn’t go anywhere, but the zoom guy was their bro so they gave him millions of dollars.

I feel like it’s possible some future will look back at this the way we look at feudalism. Just like, that’s such a bad system , why did people put up with it?

This is pretty much it.

There’s a discord for a local community I’m in, but I have most of the channels muted.

Deleted my Facebook stuff years ago. Deleted Twitter. Never had tiktok.

I sometimes use YouTube but like not on purpose. I’ll search for a specific song, Simpsons clip, video game “how the fuck do you climb that cliff?” thing, etc. I avoid influencers and all that. It’s in and out like an excursion into The Zone from roadside picnic or whatever.

I really intensely dislike video tutorials that could have been a paragraph or two. Like, you can just tell me fire breath stacks with poison mist instead of making a double Wadsworth constant video. Sometimes video is useful, if it’s like here’s how you can navigate this maze" or something. But a lot of the time it’s not.

This was verbatim what I was thinking when I saw this

Is this going to turn into conservatives freaking out and just eating salt shakers to prove how not-woke they are?

It’s really annoying how every attempt to make things better seems to be met with “fuck you I refuse to acknowledge anything beyond my short term comfort”

I feel like you find less intelligence in the right wing because their positions are stupid.

Like, you have to be a fool to believe conspiracy theories or racist nonsense.

Right? Like I don’t care for basketball but I’m not like “it’s a sin they’re so tall” or “how dare they throw things”.

But I guess it’s easy to latch onto an out group and hate them instead of dealing with real problems.

Related thought: why is it so rare for someone to threaten to shoot up billionaires or their boss that’s stealing their wages or the factory owner that’s dumping mercury in their water or the factory owner that’s employing children or the cops that murder people on video or any number of things.

The assumption that you should only do things that are profitable is faulty. I don’t want to live in a world where that’s true, and if you thought about it longer you probably also don’t. Assuming you like books, art, music, culture, etc.

I think what happened here is I went off topic and was making a complaint about cars in general and how all the space they take up is annoying, but you stayed on topic and are talking more specifically about self driving cars and waymo. So given that I see what you’re saying.

I will say that building parking structures (is: homes for cars) instead of homes for people feels kind of bad.

Cars being parked idle all day isn’t necessarily going to be a bad thing,

My complaint specifically was about cars parked on the street where I’d rather have a bike lane, wider sidewalk, outdoor dining, or almost anything else other than a parked car taking up that space.

That seems… Fine, on a skim. Plausible.

But like… are we sure we come out ahead spending decades on machine vision and self driving versus just having more human taxi drivers, and spending the money on the end goals we actually want?

I guess that’s a shit job, driving taxis at weird times and places, and doesn’t scale super well. But machine vision and self driving seems to be a decades long project.

Related: I’m not really comfortable with critical infrastructure (eg: transit) being privately owned and operated. So that might be a problem.

Though the political will being absent for anything good remains a problem, too.

Do you imagine these self driving cars are not owned by individuals, and go off to some dedicated place when not in use? That’s marginally better than "everyone owns their own car that spends most of the time idle. I try to ride a bike here in the city and there’s so much space given up to cars parked on the street.

It sounds grotesquely inefficient to have a car pick up guy 1 and drive him to the train, a car pick up his neighbor guy 2 and drive him to the train, a car pick up the guy on their corner and drive him to the station. Which I guess is what we’re doing today, except the cars get parked at both ends idle all day. So maybe it would be an improvement.

But it can’t be the end-state. We should still be working towards denser, walkable, living spaces. I don’t want to continue with the idea that the suburbs are ok.