Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
52m ago
Is it still a military success if Congress defunds the war Vietnam style?
This will be the greatest gift the Democrats can give the Republicans. Giving them a way out of it while owning all the nasty second order effects from stopping the war with not defanged Iran is a blessing some of them pray for.
I won't say it is 5D chess (mostly because it is advanced stupid), but some of the messes Trump has created put Dems into unenviable position because cleanup requires more effort and capital than shitting on something. And they have mandate and power.
Don't regulate AI and bubble pops - you had mandate to regulate it, and you piss off your base.
Regulate AI and bubble pops - you caused recession.
Regulate AI and China wins - congrats USA lost the tech race of 21st century.
Defund Iran war - congrats - you own nuclear armed Iran and their ability to extort the global economy.
Prolong Iran war - the democrats base will be pissed off beyond everything possible (although I will find amusing the mental gymnastics their die hard partisans will make to justify it).
The cost of living will keep rising. AI will cause unemployment, stopping AI will cause unemployment.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
TVs are dirt cheap, the economy is chugging just fine (as are most physical products, at least the ones without ram). Not only that, but this is the root of rising standards of living.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
So our only hope is ASI to emerge in under Elon's control. In that case there will be some cause for optimism for the west's fate.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Since Trump managed to piss huge cultural advantage, why do you think democrats won't do the same? 2028 are far from over.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
No. Just codex in the cli. It could harvest whatever is needed.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
which will start a constitutional crisis whereby judges will only be confirmed when the same party controls both the Presidency and Senate.
That is called disfunction, not constitutional crisis. Maybe more harmful in the long run but perfectly constitutional.
I am not even sure what constitutional crisis could look in the USA. Almost everything is constitutional if you control 2 branches of the government. So the only possible constitutional one that doesn't involve the states and their rights is if we have standoff between scotus and congress on one side and executive on the other.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
According to some scholars they started with Bork. To protect the holy cow of abortion.
Lizzardspawn
3d ago
My amazing story with AI today. My order of the sinking star savegame was corrupted after opening my steam copy save with the pirated one which was on lower version. There was no backup and there was severe data loss. So I just described what kind of state the world was in and to try and rebuild it when recovery was impossible - and the bastard (sol 6.1 low) one shotted it.
We are in uncharted territory, and I just can't predict the way the dice will roll. So in which direction did your P(doom) moved this week?
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
You are right. corrected.
Ok. Poland is the one refusing to share the load with the problematic refugees - the ones usually born east of America, west of Thailand and south of Istanbul.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
Himalaya + local model for trash management.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
The books are mostly portraits of neuroticism. "Neurotic about not being attractive because they are Asian. Neurotic about only being attractive because they are Asian. Neurotic about being too Asian. Neurotic about not being Asian enough. Neurotic about taking after their mothers. Neurotic about not living up to their mother’s expectations. Three of the books feature visits to therapists."
You are not describing Asian women, you are describing modern women in general. Just replace asian with something else and this template will fit almost any single or middle and above class woman in a big city.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
Reading the article I am overjoyed to learn that St. Petersburg is not a slavic city.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
'I'm white and imagining my white norms and priors unto this very non-white family in a very non-white predicament'.
The mother is Ukrainian, the father is Russian. The only thing whiter than this coupling is flying over the apls in the winter.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
Let me sidetrack a bit - this is a total breakdown of the social fabric. The fact that you could have 3 children and yet not have grandparents, neighbors, friends, extended family to which you could leave the kids for a couple of days is telling of how thin and meager our social circles have become. When I grew up it was - take your pajamas you will be sleeping at X (one family one floor under us, with kid my age). Or for 48 hours or less when I was above 15 - it was - you are on your own buddy, here is some cash, you know where the grocery store is.
This may be police overreaction (although a week is probably a bit too much), but is overreaction to a problem that shouldn't exist at all.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
It doesn't mean anything more than My Immortal or
I don't like Amy Lee either, but it was a hit at the time.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
I mean in some cases it is necessary like literal wars or a group actively holding hostile views against another and opposes thier rights on the basis of prejudice.
Interesting choice of exceptions that makes me think your first post here is not entirely in good faith or high effort.
Culture war is here because sizable minority of people wizened up on exactly how destructive entryism is, how many slippery slopes were even slipperier and because the culture they were growing up with was under attack and destroyed at any step.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
the shooter fired one shot in a moment of emotion and it can be credibly claimed to be a freak accident it hit the guy at all.
A person trained to use firearm, draw the weapon, pointed it at another person at short range, pulled the trigger and by some "freak accident" the other person died. Can you point at the freaky part, because that is the expected outcome?
Freak accident is if he was shooting at him with airsoft gun and a stray bullet from a gang shooting 3 blocks away fired at ballistic trajectory somehow hit him in the neck at the same time.
Lizzardspawn
11d ago
They would have made killing in selling merch armbands. But credit where credit is due - it looks badass af.
Lizzardspawn
11d ago
Anyone following the new logo for the Atlanta Falcons saga?
The memes are hilarious.
Lizzardspawn
11d ago
Local AI, DMZ for external agents and you still can.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
What exactly was outstanding? The stupid story? The destruction of the worldbuilding of part 1? The mediocre gameplay? The totally irrelevant paragon system? The humanoid reaver?
The only quality thing was the writing in the loyalty missions.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
There were settings in the menu to pause on many types of events which turned the combat into turn based one effectively. It even had - show dice rolls in the console.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
This was a studio whose last quality game was Dragon Age 1. It was in 2009. ME2 and 3 had high production values, but were mostly my little pony friendship is magic simulators with non equestrian characters. And their absolute peak was 26 years ago.
There is nothing left to grief for. So I feel the only thing appropriate in this case - indifference. The same thing I will feel when Martin and Rothfuss die with their opuses unfinished.
Take Mass Effect - the combat there was never enjoyable interesting or challenging. So why having so much of it? In a studio of a thousand people not a single soul dared to say - this bland gears of war lite just doesn't work? (It didn't work in gears of war too, but that is different topic).
Veilguard didn't kill the company. The company was already dead. Bloated budgets, bloated games, bloated teams, bloated production. To make bank they had to abandon their RPG roots and try and chase all kinds of audiences. And they failed. There was no spark in any of their games.
So i will install Baldur's gate 2 again, couple of high res mods, pour a glass of whiskey and drink for and age of gaming gone with the wind.
That's not how it works. Obama got lots of flak for staying in Afghanistan and Biden for leaving it. Last person who touched it is to blame. This is not only in IT.
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