Conservatives tend to be some mix of stupid, cruel, and willfully ignorant. You have to be or the worldview falls apart.

That was what the AI lovers promised. Use AI to hire fewer people. This is not surprising, except in that maybe it’s unexpected the companies using AI didn’t fail yet.

This is an important point. There’s a big difference between guys with guns telling you what you can say, and a local get-together. Sometimes people act like they should be able to say whatever they want wherever they want, even if they’re like standing in someone else’s house

First, the security concerns here are massive.

Second, they really think we’re stupid. That we’re all so incompetent that we can’t manage our finances or write an email without help. That really says a lot about CEOs and the other people pushing for this slop.

I use keepassxc. It does the job.

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Probably get more return on resources investing in therapy to address phobias, in that case.

That doesn’t sound much different than a traditional vaccine, unless you can self administer it

Oh, hard to pick! Maria was a good fight. I finished it by parrying her with the pistol, and then missed the critical attack so I just bonked her and she fell over. Still counts!

Moon presence was also pretty cool, and felt like it was a few tweaks from being Really Hard. It does that move where your health goes down to 1 and you have to rally it all back! Luckily for me the axe is good for rallying, and the boss is very generous about waiting for you. Elden Ring feels like it wouldn’t have given such a long recovery opening!

I finished it and the dlc! The orphan was tricky. I don’t think anything took more than five tries though. Hunter’s axe is MVP.

Definitely a good game. Interesting setting.

Tried a bit of a new game with the cane sword and it’s way less solid.

I vote in every election. New York has ranked choice for some things now, which is nice. The way judges are picked is pretty bad, though.

I don’t enjoy it. I think it’s sad when people get addicted to it.

I don’t even like big random factors in games. One of the things I like about the dark souls franchise is there’s very little randomness. You never win or lose because “lol critical hit”, like you might in something closer to D&D

Conservatism is just in-groups to protect and out-groups to behind. They don’t care about consistency or fairness.

I think there’s something with age and lead poisoning that makes people short sighted, easily manipulated with emotional appeals, and short tempered.

I wonder how many people would change their answer if it was highlighted they’re in the set of people that may die. Even though it’s long odds, people are more intuitive than rational with things like that.

Microsoft should never have been allowed to buy LinkedIn. It should be split off.

That’s an important detail. Clicking through, it says

A first date in our study means one shared starter, two main courses and two removedtails. For each restaurant, we pulled the median starter, main and removedtail price from the menu. For each city, we took the median across all fully-priced restaurants.

That’s extremely heavy for a first date. It’s a poor strategy for several reasons to go that hard the first time you’re meeting someone.

As a real cheapskate, you should keep an eye out for places give them out for free. There’s an LGBT center near me with a giant basket for free, and a free clinic a longer walk away that gives them out and also does free STI tests.

I think there’s something analogous to parasites or cancer in large organizations. People who are bad for the health of the organization, through things like creating too many inefficient meetings or stifling useful behavior, accumulate in time. They’re not so egregious that the immune response kicks them out, but they adapt to the system and fatten themselves up at the expense of the host.

You know the archetype. The “product guy” who’s always looking busy with a spreadsheet, but mostly just slows down meetings.

I remember thinking it was cool when Doom loaded with R_Init: Init DOOM refresh daemon