TIRM
7m ago
Cops is not staged. There's enough drunk and high people acting poorly to 'candid camera' make 37 solid seasons.
Yes on all points, but Cops is great and it is a travesty they took it off air. There's so many great situations that keep coming up: prostitute turns out to be a guy, guy with no shirt on is drunk or high and thinks he can fight the cops, any time they get out the police dogs, etc, etc, I could go on. Did you know that a German shepherd can outswim an adult man, grab ahold of his leg and drag him back to shore where the cops are waiting for him? I do, and I've seen it on Cops.
Our culture is poorer for losing Cops.
TIRM
1d ago
Old people get everything. Legal discrimination in their favor, government paid health care, recent proposals to cut their property taxes. Whatever they want.
TIRM
1d ago
Then you'd wrongly judge me and most other adult men my age. Yes, I have a knife clipped to my pants. No, I've never stabbed anyone or planned to do so.
This premeditation mind reading is certainly something.
TIRM
1d ago
There is a critical flaw that competitive games need to avoid: a competitor or team purposefully running out the clock rather than trying to play. Such as passing the ball back and forth with no serious attempt to advance or a combat sport in which one person constantly disengages and retreats. Most sports have rules contrived to prevent this boring lack of play. Combat sports have scoring penalizing "timidity" and allowing referees to stop the fight and forfeit someone who consistently refuses to engage. But the refs don't have to since no one would do that knowing the consequences.
Soccer lacks such wise game rules and reaps the expected outcome. It is a poorly designed game that allows and enables this sort of bad gameplay. You are ahead or tied and can't accept risking a loss due to how the tournament is structured? Then burn time passing the ball back and forth. Spend half an hour doing effectively nothing. Fans and interesting gameplay be damned.
Not bankrupt but merely feeling the fiscal burden of replacing cameras. And yes, they'd try to crack down on camera breaking.
TIRM
1d ago
Morrowind has some level scaling. It is just handled so well you'd never notice. More likely to spawn tougher monsters and more likely to spawn better random loot based on character level. But also lots of fixed items and all named npcs are fixed.
TIRM
1d ago
And destroying the physical cameras is less than useless; in some cases Flock ends up paid twice
Sure, but on the limit some level of destruction will work. Will your city council replace the cameras 4 times each? 10? At some point it will be untenable. Flock is happy to replace the cameras and bill the city according to the "Camera Protection Plan". The city has some limit on what they will spend.
TIRM
5d ago
If they are spending over half their their total food costs, then it could well be valid. Many times per week splurging, yet somehow too poor to save money.
TIRM
5d ago
Half remembering a stat from the radio this morning: around 70% of their goals occur after the 75th minute of a game.
TIRM
5d ago
You type in variable names? Like every letter manually? I type in the first letter or two and hit tab. It automatically fills in or a drop down menu shows me the names starting with that.
Same thing with file paths. First few letters, tab, first few letters, tab.
TIRM
5d ago
Juniors should be incapable of operating at the scope and scale of seniors. Their tasks must be small in scope and complexity to have a hope of success. Fortunately seniors can guide them through such work.
Some people are going to learn these lessons the hard way.
TIRM
5d ago
They rattled off some stats on the radio about young people's spending habits. Spending over half their food costs on eating out, etc. Don't have money to save for a mortgage but instead spend profligately in ways gen x and boomers did not.
TIRM
7d ago
they would not deem it in their own interests to allow Russia to proceed with building a large GPU farm even if it were a true and certain fact that Russia would retaliate with nuclear weapons to the destruction of that GPU farm
Huh. So it is. I must have misremembered.
Who is the poster child of this AI safetyism, advocating for bombing data centers, seizing the means of compute
That would be Eliezer "melt the GPUs" Yudkowsky. Including bombing Chinese Russian data centers if they won't cooperate. He founded MIRI in order to work on and spread his ideology. He is a crank in my opinion. He has some influence on some people. But clearly not enough to start WW3 with the Chinese Russia or whomever to stop them from training more LLMs.
TIRM
8d ago
I know the most hardcore anti-transers will say the only thing that matters is your birth sex.
The median position if I had to vaguely estimate society's views. Certainly not the median position on reddit or other online spaces which are far outside the cultural mainstream.
TIRM
11d ago
In the Bladerunner sequel replicants get bonuses at work and spend it on expensive luxury goods. Artificial beings programmed to work and consume.
TIRM
11d ago
TIRM
11d ago
According to reddit Trump is a rapist. Adjudicated civilly liable for rape or whatever phrasing they use. We're far past that in the minds of his opponents.
Including the particle accelerator I linked above. They sold the idea to congress on a budget. Then blew by that budget repeatedly asking for more and more money. Then were cut off.
More examples: For around $20 billion you can make zero particle accelerators and zero miles of Californian high speed rail*. So for about twice the cost of fuck all they made reusable rockets. I'd say that's a good deal.
*I'm only counting the cost so far. The total cost for zero miles of high speed rail will balloon past 100 or 200 billion longer term depending on which estimates you use and assuming they keep running the money furnace that is the high speed rail project. Someone is getting that money so I predict they'll keep destroying billions this way.
From my fond memories of Cops: "white guy with no shirt on" is a reoccurring character. Usually in a trailer park, sometimes a crappy apartment. He never makes it to the end free of cuffs.
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