KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
5d ago
If you went over the side it'd only delay the inevitable.
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
It would need either a lot of commentary and explanation, or it would just be an anthology of know the workplace rules memes.
KingOfTheBailey
8d ago
Birth just enough of them so there are people to do the hard and risky jobs, and let everything else be done by women. One man can impregnate hundreds of women after all, so even gradually reducing the male:female ratio to less than 2:10 should be more than sufficient to keep up the population.
That's more than twice as generous as Sally Miller Gearhart's proposal to maintain the proportion of men at 10% of the human race.
KingOfTheBailey
9d ago
It's funny how well the psyop worked in F1, when there have been so many efforts over the years to get women into gaming and none of it ever stuck. It seems like such an obvious formula too.
KingOfTheBailey
9d ago
Petrol in remote areas needs additives put in it to stop them sniffing it and suffering brain damage.
You sometimes see the internet racists post the "don't sleep on the road" PSA video, which aired in Australia's Northern Territories. It's one of those things that I really would have expected to be so absurd to be a racist fabrication, but sadly it seems to be real.
I'm not here to promote it. I think that if we're not very careful, existing prediction markets risk stumbling into incentivizing that by default, and this is a bad thing. Prediction markets might be fine among intelligent and conscientious forecasters, but I think they're another entry on the very long list of "good-sounding ideas that go badly when you roll them out society-wide".
KingOfTheBailey
15d ago
It's worse than that, because it also allows insider trading on literally anything you can stand up a market for, and you can also use them to directly incentivize specific behaviors without individually bribing someone or having a causal link back to the act to the person who funded it. And people complained about stochastic terrorism!
KingOfTheBailey
16d ago
Australian gambling industry
That'd be an interesting effortpost if ever you have the time. What's the main gambling people do over there?
KingOfTheBailey
18d ago
KingOfTheBailey
23d ago
I once helped a friend bury a family pet. He had told his young son what had happened: that she was sick and the vets couldn't figure out why, and that the kindest thing to do was to put her down so she wouldn't suffer any more. The vet had prepared a pawprint and a little jar of her fur as mementos. We each helped dig the hole in the back yard, each of us said a couple of words about how we liked her, and we put something heavy on top of the soil so the dog wouldn't dig her back up.
KingOfTheBailey
24d ago
I never found faith. Hopefully God can forgive that little design flaw in my wetware, if He is indeed out there.
KingOfTheBailey
26d ago
How does a zoomer choose a Star Control reference for a username?
KingOfTheBailey
26d ago
Oh, great. We're now at the age where we have to explain who John Carmack is.
KingOfTheBailey
28d ago
In addition to frame tension, where is the center of gravity of the two-dancer system as you bring your follow around yourself and back out? A good swing-out shouldn't need that much additional energy each time around once you've got the rhythm going.
The Protoss SC2 campaign is just "there are N locations each guarded by progressively stronger groups of enemies" over and over again. It's tiresome. And if the writers had the balls to keep Kerrigan human and have some amount of control over the Zerg, and reckon with what she did as the Queen of Blades, then the back half of HotS would have been much more interesting.
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