So I haven’t played since sixth edition… are squirrels that are ‘tokens’ considered permanents? I seem to recall the squirrels shenanigans involving doubling each turn, so if you had enough to block eldrazi, you could have enough to survive the annihilator as well.

As a thought experiment, what do you think would have happened if they wound down their involvement with the u.s., and actually tried to come to their own arrangement with Iran? Maybe a united front of the OPEC countries would have been enough to give the middle finger to any country that supplied Israel with weapons…

Get in bed with china, make their own deals with African nations and india to get industrial capabilities up and running, and we’d see a very large and sudden swelling of the global south.

Are you me?

Dailies, and other similar grinds, are one of the worst crimes against humanity in mmos. Surely we can move beyond the ‘take twenty hours to level up your character so you can progress’ idea that crystallized in jrpgs and now sits in the center of the late game experience like a giant aragog sucking your enjoyment. Let me just log in and raid, gorramit!

Okay, look, I loved my grandparents, but spending time with them at the end was horrifying and I really would have watched paint dry in preference.

Kids, dogs, and partner could also have some time off my hands by taking care of certain limited tasks. Cooking, cleaning, wiping ass… Don’t tell me you want to cook every breakfast, lunch, and dinner compared to playing a board game with the dog while the android dices your onions and peppers and the partner and kids take a nap on the ceiling.

What kind of engineer? Because while the physical world, with all of its mechanical and civil and aerospace engineers, has its shit figured out with professional standards and very clearly defined responsibilities and duties, the world of social engineers, tire engineers, procurement engineers, supply chain engineers, sandwich engineers, project engineers, lead engineers, and yes, software engineers, definitely is a little too loose with any definition for me to care that these ceos were once ‘engineers.’

If I had the golden shoed horse and the bouncing armadillo, I could rule the world.

I loved this movie as a kid. It still weirds me out seeing the (probably true) ways of looking at chel now that I’m an adult on the internet.

Ah, have we gotten to the reddit ‘reference another popular post I just read’ level now? Sweet.

Thankfully, we’re currently reaching the offense side of the pendulum, where defenses haven’t caught up yet and made a stalemate. The $20,000 drones that are being used are going to overwhelm the $4,000,000 missiles used to stop them.

Perhaps america will get just enough of a kick in the teeth for our government to reel itself in and take care of our war criminals and profiteers… /cue_maniacal_laughter at that thought ever actually happening.

Roald dahl wasn’t a good guy? I always loved his books as a kid. I even had a lot of sympathy for him after reading the partial biography about his experiences in boarding school.

Well, we had politicians doing covid parties, dumb christians doing retreats, fucking foolish rejects crying that they were told to stay home for two weeks because it was just so important that they can make the run to their local hardware store to pick up the 5 gallon bucket to fill with their carbonated and sugary beverages…

When people can override basic logic about avoiding contagion because it ‘owns the libs,’ then it’s definitely going to be overridden when it’s something that ‘means something’ in their life, such as a kid’s competitions.

I find compassion for my patients, even as I hope they die and all their idiocy dies with them… swiftly. I’m tired of living in a world that is actively being made worse by their ilk.

Huh. That’s an interesting idea.

When all you have is a hammer…

It’s just too fucking bad he has a nail gun formed of sycophantic war criminals in addition to the hammer.

That has to be faked, right? The casually displayed beer at the end is just too much of a giveaway.

Beat the rap, but not the ride. Fuck these bastards. Anyone who has ever been to court, whether criminal or civil, knows that it will fuck with you. Even if you’re completely innocent, the possibility that you will face the worst consequences of your life looms over you for months and years. I wish we had some way of getting justice against ‘bad’ arrests. Sure, a domestic violence case may fall through if the victim doesn’t want to testify, and the cop there doesn’t need to be thrown out of his job, but when a case is dropped or prosecution doesn’t even take the case? If a cop arrests someone for protesting, and then they’re simply released after 24 hours or so? That cop needs to go. And if most of a cohort of arrested folks have charges dropped, there needs to be ejections all the way up the chain of command that let it happen. We can reform the system by swiftly throwing out every cop like that, and I bet it wouldn’t take more than a year or two in this environment.

Never going to happen, but let me dream.

Yes.

To comment on what you said, how is it people can argue all day long like morons and dig into their beliefs, but somehow AI manages to change peoples minds and get them to think differently? What exactly is it doing?

Acting like a servant, confidante, therapist/authority figure, and your best friend, while appearing to be competent and knowledgeable about everything that passes through your mind. And it does it in a way that no human could mimic, because it doesn’t have it’s own thoughts, doesn’t get tired, and is never gone when you come looking for it.

A chatbot can agree with you a hundred times over and simply move you along one step at a time in those hundred times. A human would lose their shit and walk away groaning the moment you try to tell them that the sky is actually down, and the ground ‘up,’ and it’s all just a matter of perspective.

Positive affirmations are very much embedded in the core of a person’s psyche. Chatbots are nearly obsequious in how much they will fawn over the user.

Sue successfully? Probably slim, but there’s a chance, seeing as it could be brought in the district of columbia.

Personal opinion? Fuck the entire body of sitting senators and representatives right now. If we had elected representatives who would hold their fellows accountable when they propose insane, or regressive, or asshole spewed, or corporate fucked legislation (and you can imagine whatever you’d like for how they could hold them accountable), then we would have long ago run out of or stopped sending pieces of shit in. They can all sit there and take the interruption that this marine and people like him bring to their ‘business’ or ‘work’ as congressmen. Removing him is uncalled for and they deserve every bit of their power and influence (money) being removed from them!

Legalish (I’m no lawyer, obviously) opinion? The marine was interrupting a government meeting, which means he was not welcome any longer in the building/space where the meeting was taking place, and when you are not welcome in a space the people who are allowed to be in that space can use force to remove you from said space if you do not leave (roughly… there’s obviously a lot more to it than that, especially in government settings). The individuals involved in the melee here weren’t using anything besides pushing/pulling, so it’s unlikely you’d see much success with an ‘excessive force’ lawsuit. I think if they had used a taser, or a baton, or even pepper spray there would be a good, strong case to be made, because he wasn’t doing anything but trying to not be moved and it would be pretty apparent to a jury that there was no call for any of those. Even punches or strikes of some kind would be more likely to win… but you’d have to make your case in front of a very sympathetic jury for what we saw to go very far in an excessive force case.