Mantergeistmann
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I feel like there's a Russell Conjugation to be had here: "I stand by my convictions in the name of justice, you are irritatingly stubborn, he is a bullying Karen subverting the justice process."
Although I will add that 12 Angry Men did indeed involve logic and reason as well as stubbornness and emotion, but I'd imagine very few people think of their own behavior or a verdict they agree with as ever not being logical.
Mantergeistmann
7hr ago
It's not an overpopulation problem if enough people get killed in the wars. I mean, you've got other demographic problems them, but no longer overpopulation.
Mantergeistmann
8hr ago
Not if enough men die in the wars.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
"People are okay with nudity when there's a fig leaf covering the genitals, but are outraged when the leaf isn't there!"
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
And then a lot of them get abused by NIMBYs grasping for any veto-points they can find.
Was it here that someone mentioned that green projects run into some of the worst NIBMY obstructionism?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Even during the decades of single-party house/congress control, the Presidency was swapping sides pretty regularly.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I'm very fortunate the last year or two has been good to stocks, as aeeing my 401k index fund performance has given my partner the courage to set up an auto-deposit/auto-invest into an IRA. It also probably helps that as of now, it's still a very small amount compared to the overall retirement picture, so it doesn't feel like it's risking loss of a significant amount.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
In fact, we now have a richly-established norm of NGOs and activists suing the federal government and so that their political allies who run the government can settle. Welcome to the world you made.
If I recall, that used to be a major issue with shipbuilding. Might still be, even.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
The "$1776 million" is, astonishingly, missing from most headlines, which is almost as insane to me.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
That's... pretty clever, actually. What's the best way to acquire them? Do you just get them from your local bank, or what?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I've seen it in the US in the past, I'm pretty sure, but it's certainly not universal.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Sometimes the fraud systems flag you, no card.
For me, that's more likely (both to happen and to have immediate requirement) when I'm traveling, hence (one of the reasons for) keeping a nominal but not bank-breaking "emergency cash" in my wallet. Plus multiple cards, including with differing institutions.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
What, in case you get Isekai'd to a fantasy realm?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
They're entirely opposed to "Red Tribe, called America".
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Korea is one of those weird economies/markets that's classified as both emerging and developed, depending on who's doing it, right?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
I try to always keep $40-50 as a minimum on my person (separate from my spending cash in my wallet).
As far as cash in the house beyond that? None. The situations where I will need cash in an instant and a check/electronic venmo/run to the ATM won't work are... basically just an EMP/solar flare situation that I for some reason can't wait out for restoration. Maybe that happens, I run out of food in a week, there's still no government response, but the stores have product they're willing to sell for cash only?
Perhaps I'm unimaginative, but it just seems too unlikely to be worth worrying about for me personally. Not that there'd be any harm in keeping extra cash in house, though, so it's not a terrible idea just for things I haven't thought of and/or convenience.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Considering getting back into League of Legends. I stop whenever I remember how much I hated playing against other humans.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Hah. I lost it a long time ago. Possibly in a move, possibly thrown out after water damage. Possibly given away to a younger cousin?
Still remember when my cousins and I were opening packs, and I got a second holographic Charizard and had to give it away to another cousin out of "fairness". Was pretty bitter at the time, but it was definitely the thing to do in hindsight.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
I'm honestly sad that most of the large D&D subreddits have banned anything with a whiff of AI, because I think it would be nice if there was a space for non-slop AI-assisted products for D&D. Instead we have /r/dndai which is 50% sexy elf girls, and 100% slop.
It's always entertaining to me when the large D&D subreddits are so hostile to AI character portraits... apparently everyone forgot that the truly virtuous way to get a character portrait was to google some vague traits and grab the first thing on image search that was kind of like what you had in mind.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
The Abyss was deemed ineligible for the Oscar for best visual effects because it used CGI.
Did it not win?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
At least some people do care about how art gets made. (Others don't, of course. It's an issue that people at large are genuinely split on.)
To be cynical, how many of them only care because it's become somewhat polarized? If it had instead gone the route of "AI is left-aligned, because it allows the poor and underprivileged without money or time for training to create art and collaborate", and anyone against AI was getting pilloried on social media in certain circles, I have a hunch that there'd be some (but not all) reversing their dtance.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Solid response. Objection withdrawn. Carry on.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
"Lord, protect me from my friends sympathetic press; I can handle my enemies on my own."
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
this seems like just about the most macabre kind of hair-splitting I've ever encountered
Yes, but it's still important. There is a significant value in truth and precision. If nothing else, it prevents people from saying, "Aha! You were lying or exaggerating about this, clearly I can disregard the rest of your claims equally!"
If you're not prepared to stand behind a claim, you shouldn't make it.
The most "bleak sci-fi" thing I've seen in a while was images of the absolute spiderwebs of spent drone fiberoptic cables covering forests and fields and towns.
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