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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 10:25:25 JST of nothing @maijing @RustyCrab @sun I rarely agree much with Scott Adams, but I find him tolerable and interesting to read, which is a category of poster I really like to follow. Too much agreement = nothing to say. Intolerable disagreement = unpleasant to read, even to rebuke.
1. the Chauvin trial was completely fine because jury trials are sacred and I've been on a jury before and it was quite the experience and if you did jury duty you'd know that too. Yeah there was a lot wrong about the case but maybe the jury saw something in him.
then when Trump gets convicted: JUSTICE IS DEAD. AMERICA IS DEAD. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY ANYMORE
2. the Secret Service has all of these "my dog my homework so I was redoing it on crayon when the assassin walked by that's why I didn't see him" excuses, and Scott's take is: see? It's like Dilbert! They're all just super incompetent! Haha you guys are silly for seeing malice here.
Lately he's been replying to crazy people (NPR listeners) and telling them that they're brainwashed, like https://nitter.poast.org/ScottAdamsSays/status/1816894080624054538 -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 09:32:26 JST of nothing @sun it's that *any* specific complaint, even if it's happened before, is still happening right now to the complainer. Inflation's been a lot worse before, but inflation still sucks.
I think perspective's good if your complaints are getting apocalyptic, if you're saying things like "with 80% of USD printed in the last four years we're all doomed society is going to completely collapse". No, Austria's nice now. Things can get better.
Perspective doesn't always work: in 2020 people recalled the Spanish Flu only to scaremonger off of it, not to observe that it was extremely serious and still didn't end the world. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 09:23:38 JST of nothing @sun works the same way
A: AHH MY LEG IS BROKEN
B: people get their legs broken all the time
A: MY BROKEN LEG IS HURTING ME RIGHT NOW
but, whether advice is helpful depends on what you're suffering from. I agree that historical perspective like this would help a lot if someone's OD'ing on political news. Here's a crazy thing that happened to early Americans:
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 09:13:16 JST of nothing @sun
A: wow this is cool, I like this
B: that's old
A: it's new to me -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 07:06:30 JST of nothing @lina @Hoss @abner I didn't like the pig but with the glasses it works. Oozes personality. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 04:46:21 JST of nothing @kaia for more surprise urine, read Spider Robinson! This SF author has is fond of scenarios such as
>boy goes to the bathroom but the toilet is TOO FULL, the water is right at the rim, he just has no choice but to pee in the sink instead. ... but actually, isn't that fine? What's the difference?
and
>modern home appears in primitive wilderness somehow, and to primitive man the sink is "obviously" the place you're supposed to pee. This has no connection to the story at all but I hope you liked it. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 03:26:58 JST of nothing @sun @icedquinn it probably has better static typing than Elixir since it's Rust-inspired rather than Ruby-inspired, but I am gatekept:
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 06:10:50 JST of nothing @kaia @hj there's an obvious overt meaning, but why would you deny the subliminal meaning? Maybe the graphic artist hates Germans and snuck this past. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 06:08:33 JST of nothing @kaia @hj
Q: one of these flags has white borders. Should I use a non-white background so it's distinct?
A: nah, let's have a blue cross stabbing into the heart of the German flag, like a sword's grip and guard -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 05:39:34 JST of nothing @sickburnbro Generals getting "fired" is just giving them a comfy retirement to a generous pension. Military officers are so heavily indoctrinated on submission to civilian authority, and have such enormous benefits to lose, IMO it'd take an apocalypse to make them do anything to anybody.
But I'm in the "useless woke retards" camp. The highest ranks are all political anyway, they could also get compromised or just be evil strivers who want to play politics. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 05:31:58 JST of nothing @sickburnbro wow, the prosecutor's throwing herself in front of "America's military generals" to protect them from Trump's vile attacks!
How does this play to the left who think those generals are accessories to genocide?
How does that play to the right who think the generals are useless woke retards? -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 05:41:52 JST of nothing @lain @sun and the "exposure" is always in the context of spending most of your time doing literally nothing, - waiting in halls, waiting to eat, waiting for class to start, waiting for the day to end, waiting to get permission to go pee, waiting for the bus, waiting for noise to die down, waiting for others to finish. What you learn can't be focused on a productive task but has to be squeezed into information that can easily tested. You can't have high standards because too many people won't meet them. You can't ask questions that get real answers because it'd mean too much discussion outside what's on the test. In any conflict the real crime was always against classroom order and, actually, you're worse than the instigator for 'escalating' and not letting the conflict die out as soon as the instigator was done abusing you.
There are benefits, but the point of comparison isn't "no benefits", it's the benefits you would've gotten in the alternative. The tall dude on the Angry Joe show, describing a movie that he got something out of, described the experience as like enjoying a "second harvest" - eating shit that has indigested food in it, so that you can get nutrition from those little bits of food. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 05:19:13 JST of nothing @lain dead or incapacitated, with legal corners cut due to the emergency, which they hoped to excuse after the fact when he got better, but he's not getting better and their first 'safer' attempt at AI fakery has scared them off of attempting the less-safe version.
If I were guilty of this I would push really hard on a worse theory, like "we have Joe Biden locked in a basement under guard because we wanted to coup him, and you'll only see him after we're satisfied that he's given up and will go with the plan", so that I could disprove it: haha, it's nothing actually, we just honorably lied for a bit to retain stability of government. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:51:01 JST of nothing @sun
a. there's a different allocation of badness in the conditions. Mass loneliness and child labor are both a single bad thing to put on a list of bad conditions, but don't have the same effect on general human happiness the same way.
b. there's a different point of comparison. Just like the coldest you might ever feel is in the middle of a desert at 100+F because your body had adapted to 130F and the temperature changed much faster than you're used to, the west remember really good times and now have mediocre times, whereas the non-west remember abysmal times and now have sub-mediocre times.
c. depression is an independent variable from bad conditions, and observing it in a society is like observing rampant endemic disease in a body: such disease is not the cause of ill health, but its growth is an opportunistic response to the immune system's collapse. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 05:07:15 JST of nothing Fuck. Phone spammers found a name that looked familiar so I actually picked it up.
Now my voice has been stolen, is getting replicated by AI, and now is going to be used to social engineer into my accounts. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 03:44:45 JST of nothing @snacks
1. the DS launch title looks like white panties in this image
2. I got over carpal tunnel syndrome, so I don't have it anymore. And although management perpetually tries to multiclass others into Data Entry Technician (they gain power and Excel visualizations from it), it's surprisingly easy to rebel against if you have a real job you can always say you need to get back to.
3. only speedrunners most like Prime?
4. the rumble pak was alright -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 05:04:12 JST of nothing @SilverDeth @p no network outages. No lag. No mess with joining a chat, joining a group, getting the perms right. It wasn't without its problems but you could solve them and learn from them.
There's been much progress that's less absolute advancement and more "dubious sidegrade", French press (1850s), K-cup machines (2004). Safety razor (1870), Gillette disposable multi-blade razors (1998). Kick scooter (1817), e-scooter (2000s). lan-party StarCraft (1998), online-only StarCraft II (2010). -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 19:35:14 JST of nothing @gnarley_boot @Diceynes @cjd occasionally someone will attribute some insane evil to Hitler like
"Behead cats. Throw cats against the wall. Break a cat's neck and drink it's blood. I just really hate cats." -- Mein Kampf
and then I open a copy of Mein Kampf, ctrl-f cats, and Hitler has an anecdote about how he saved a stray cat from a gutter and kept it as a pet for a summer devoted to arguing with Social Democrats and how his wordless cooperation with the cat reminded him that the default state of men is also cooperation and deepened his affection for the German people.
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 18:48:27 JST of nothing @LukeAlmighty @Jens_Rasmussen another option is to make it a very obvious timer in the game. The original System Shock had a difficulty level with this: in 10 hours, Shodan wins. That's generous but just having a timer at all added a lot of stress to a game where you can just keep going back to medical/energy centers to top up.
In a fantasy setting it could be astrological. When the planets finish aligning the Demon King's final spell will start. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 18:23:45 JST of nothing @Jens_Rasmussen @LukeAlmighty reminds me of ADOM where there's a secret mechanic that every cat you kill causes a particular boss to get stronger. Secret mechanics can be fun like that, but a final boss mechanic that violates genre expectations and is easily spoiled and that you can't fix without a new game, that'd be irritating even if it were spoiled immediately and even if the timer were very generous. I'd stop wanting to engage the rest of the game.
But, the final boss having an "evil quest" to counter yours is cool, and not often done.
Exile III/Avernum 3 had cities get overrun and destroyed over the course of the game if you didn't intervene to save them.