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KingOfTheBailey
2hr ago
My current strategy for Gleba is to think about it later. I'm not yet sure if it's going to be fun or "fun", but I'm hoping for the former.
No_one
2hr ago
Gleba is really driving me nuts. Unless you do pure bot logistics, the entire thing is a nightmare to automate.
It's deeply irrational trying to do it, but the whole thing has so many edge cases. E.g. I converted all my spoiled vegetation into nutrients. But that means the mechanical nutrient cycle starter plants can't provide nutrients to even start everything else.
etc.
Muninn
2hr ago
I am enjoying Songs of a Lost World immensely thus far. The themes of aging, sadness, and loss speak directly to my experiences, even more so since 2024 has turned into another, "buckle up, buckaroos," kind of year of sweeping changes for me personally. I'm thrilled that The Cure has released an album this damn good in this day and age (and with multiple vinyl and cassette versions to boot!) and it's quite the poignant experience to listen to something that is so on point to my middle-aged self and that also makes my inner Goth Kid squee in delight.
No_one
2hr ago
The implementation I'm using - stable diffusion - is written in Python, leaks memory like a sieve and basically somehow eats up 32 gb of ram even though the process only ever uses up to 16 gb.
The only practical thing to do while it's running is shitposting, I've found.
TequilaMockingbird
2hr ago
Maybe, but he also endorsed Biden back in 2016, at which point does it matter?
LateMechanic
2hr ago
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/president-donald-j-trump-free-speech-policy-initiative So it's from Dec 2022, during the twitter files? Part of what seems strange is that he's aged appreciably since then, particularly after the shooting. Biden from 2-3 years ago also practically seems like AI when you're used to seeing him now.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2hr ago
Flashbacks to Planetary Annihilation ruining the best part of Supreme Commander by making bases guaranteed messy
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
2hr ago
To further ignite your AI epistemic crisis, I would suggest Egon Cholakian and reading about John Westbrook / Daphne Westbrook on the 4chan archive.
No_one
2hr ago
I mean, assuming you have a career and a family, you can moderate your heart's desire for freedom and also your gaming time. If you do some planning and analysis off-game, you can probably complete the game in 2-3 months of 1-2 hours in the evenings.
I think the devs are obsessed with the quality of the code and design in the game to such a degree that they believe 3D will never allow such precision and control of the player's viewpoint. I think they're right.
You can always just do a grid. Even if player POV was in a 3d grid, that'd still be improved. And 3d has way more options.
Especially in space, 2d just looks fucking weird. We are all flatlanders down here but up there?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2hr ago
Glad I could be of service.
How did you find out about your bomb range? How common are those? I’m in Texas, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few nearby…
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
2hr ago
You don't need cops on every corner. They just patrol and shut down the businesses and chase people out of parks and such (just like they did during COVID). Hotheads with guns are irrelevant, there won't be enough of them and you can just have the cops shoot each of them with a rifle.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
2hr ago
Yeah I looked at it, looked for the telltale glitches around his lips, tried to listen into the audio pattern. And it sounded slightly off to me, just a little bit. Presumably it's because he's speaking from a teleprompter.
On balance, I'd trust community notes more than my own eyeballing at this point.
2rafa
2hr ago
I don’t think it’s clear to Putin at all that Trump will offer him a better deal than Biden. If Trump thinks he’s been shortchanged then he’s liable to reverse his position quickly.
TequilaMockingbird
2hr ago
For what its worth my experience mirriors yours. My eldest is 9 years old and i remember that when they first started eating solid food ground beef was something like 3 dollars a pound, today it's closer to 8.
My admittedly imperfect impression is that that the prices of food and gas have more than doubled since 2016. Yet the official line continues to be that inflation is minimal or an illusion.
Is anyone else here old enough to remember the 5 dollar foot-long promotion at Subway? What does a large Itallian BMT cost you today?
What are the factions and members of those factions (both actual politicians and thought leaders/influencers) of the incoming Trump administration? Trump has developed quite a large tent while he was out of office but I think they will have some big fights once they actually need to do things and not simply criticize the democrats. (?) are people where I'm unsure where to categorize
Tech right: Musk, Thiel, Yarvin(?)
Podcast bro: Joe Rogan, Theo Von, RFK (?)
Populist/Pro-worker right (Is this category even real?): Vance(?), Hawley, Tucker(?), Matt Walsh
Trump loyalist: Bannon, Miller, Trump Jr. (?)
Neocons/Deficit Hawks/Old GOP: Kushner, McConnell, Senate republicans that held their nose and supported Trump despite clearly hating him, Ben Shapiro
Are there any categories I'm missing? Is anyone placed wrong? Am I missing any key people? I also want news and podcasts to follow from each faction, here is my list so far, and I'm open for suggestions.
Tech right: A lot of the big and more intellectually interesting right wing accounts on X, Pirate Wires podcast, I'd guess most right wing people here are in this category
Podcast bro: JRE when he invites political people
Populist/Pro-worker right (Is this category even real?): Tucker(?)
Trump loyalist: Bannon's War Room
Neocons/Deficit Hawks: Wall Street Journal opinions, Fox, the token conservative on places like the NYT opinion articles
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
2hr ago
Skull size is a pretty clear signal for Erectus, I'm happy with skull size variations implying intelligence difference, ceteris paribus. I'm happy with a broad trend of rising intelligence under selection pressure. I do believe in evolution and genetics. But I don't believe that we can precisely chart IQ rising and falling over thousands of years like OP's charts suggest. The level of confidence is too high.
DNA methylation is absolutely relevant to working out which genes are expressed, it's a way of determining epigenetics.
The human body is a very complex piece of machinery that we don't fully understand. This article suggests that the heart can store memories (which are transferred with transplants) which I didn't believe in at all prior to this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306987719307145
When dealing with such a complex system, with many facets barely known to us, we should be cautious before reaching conclusions - especially if there's no way to test them.
KingOfTheBailey
2hr ago
It's Factorio but more, where each flavor of "more" is different in its own way. If the base game came out in the early 2000's, the DLC would be one of those really good expansions whose purchase would be thoroughly justified, like TA: Core Contingency or SC: Brood War.
I cobbled together a space platform and set forth. Thoroughly underestimated my fuel and ammo needs and got smashed to bits by asteroids while traveling. Now I'm stuck on a volcanic hellscape where none of the production chains make sense, I didn't bring enough stuff, my base back home isn't really set up for remote construction, and I'm having a great time.
I'm having my first moment of AI-related epistemic crisis. I've been provided the link to this clip, and I legitimately can't tell if it's real or not. I'm pretty sure AI gen is good enough to generate a video like this, so the obvious first choice would be to search for other sources repeating the content and providing additional context. I've done so and found nothing, which raises my concern that it isn't real; I'd expect this to be everywhere if it were genuine.
Does it even matter? If it's generated, then who's it generated by: his supporters or his own campaign, as a way of field-testing proposals? Why not generate a ton of these and see which go viral, then simply do those? As a private citizen, why not generate these as a way to influence your leader, by demonstrating a possible avenue they could choose to take? Could we be on the cusp of AI-accelerated populism?
[EDIT] - nope, looks like it's genuine. Search failure on my part. Hot damn!
MathWizard
Good things are good
2hr ago
I think framing the objection as "this law is technically worded in a way that allows parents to get away with making porn of their own children if they exploit this loophole, we should make it stricter to fix that loophole" would not get someone chastised as being pro-pedo. You're generally allowed to make things more strict. Even if it's obvious that in practice a jury would just handwave the discrepancy and convict them anyway.
AppleyOrange
2hr ago
Put up some quotes that compare the two campaigns.
JLoBiafra
2hr ago
Is the 16 years old gambit being used to cover up the fact that they really just wznted some good old fag bashing?
JLoBiafra
3hr ago
I didn't Notice any eliding of the Chris Hansen angle. I think our biases are informing our perception.
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
3hr ago
Old people lose their teeth due to periodontitis, not cavities, usually.
One of my neighbors asked me if I gave my child fluoride pills now that we live on well water. I stifled a gasp and asked her to describe what she was giving her kid. Apparently her dentists said kids without city water need fluoride and this kid takes fluoride pills--like swallows them. I asked the woman if she understood how they work and she admitted she didn't know. Rather than kill the party I said it was interesting and went straight home and re-researched the topic to make sure I actually understood what I thought I understood: fluoride is a topical treatment to help re-build tooth enamel.
Not only did I remember how the stuff works and learned a bit more, but I discovered that it's insanely difficult to get good information. It's almost all propaganda that says, "fluoride prevents cavities! Trust us!" Effectively, fluoride ionizes existing chemicals in the mouth to boost enamel creation, which is a natural process. There is literally no benefit to consuming fluoride and it's clearly a dangerous chemical to ingest in large quantities. (https://journals.lww.com/jpcd/fulltext/2020/10020/how_fluoride_protects_dental_enamel_from.3.aspx)
I also learned that the guidelines for public water fluoridation had recently been dropped from 1 mg/L to 0.7 mg/L (https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/about/community-water-fluoridation-recommendations.html) and that there is actually a problem called fluorosis that will ruin your teeth. And besides...who even drinks tap-water anymore (except us Motters) amiright? It's looking bad for water fluoridation!
The thing that blew me away was the oft repeated claim that fluoridation lowers cavities by 30%. The best I could find was that health experts in the 80's found the addition of some fluoride to the water resulted in fewer cavities across the population but I found no evidence where it discussed the actual effect per individual. It really seems like a case of bad numeracy to me, where no one bothers to ask, "30% of what? how?" and everyone just presumes they'll have 30% fewer cavities if they even think about it that hard.
I feel like the real problem here is a lack of scientific curiosity on the part of dentists who just swallow the fluoride story in large breathless gulps.
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