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Khanzarate

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  • Canadian man in ICE custody says he thought agents were only focusing on ‘criminals and murderers’

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  • While they did manage to find something to check off the right forms as "is criminal", those were years ago, and had no reason to do anything about it now, and no reason to suspect he would reoffend, given the nature of the crimes.

    So no, they're in the wrong.

  • TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states

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  • Nah they're made aware.

    I mean, I guess a state could've passed the law, saying "hey, leave newborns at fire stations" and not informed the fire house, but it seems far more likely that they are informed.

    But States either have designated boxes, or you hand the child over to them directly. You don't just leave it in front of the firehouse door.

  • An Alberta man wanted MAID. Instead, he died in a Catholic hospital, waiting to be transferred

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  • So, in Quebec, according to this article, they passed a law requiring facilities to let it happen on-site.

    That's all that needs to happen, a hospital has any specific equipment on hand, and be willing to let in a doctor who is OK with it.

    I agree with you, that no individual person should be forced to kill someone, but a hospital isn't a person and doesn't have feelings. There's a very reasonable chance someone works there who would have been OK with providing MAID, but doesn't, and even if 100% of the doctors there weren't OK with it, it's a lot simpler to have a doctor travel than it is to arrange a whole new bed, ambulance, on-site doctor, and family.

    To me at least, that IS negligence. It's not a violation of any individual's beliefs that MAID happens in their general vicinity, and it's just not true that requiring a facility to allow it results in requiring individuals to perform it.

    Also, less relevant, it's not necessarily that the vehicle can't keep the patient alive, it's just that there is a chance of the patient passing at any time, and that time might be during transport in an ambulance that is designed for emergencies first and doesn't accommodate families.

  • Is it possible to pay someone to create an excel sheet for me?

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  • The answer is yes, this is exactly what sites like fiverr are for.

    That is, if you value your time more than your money for this, because there's probably a way to still semi-automate it and avoid some of the work. But yes, fiverr.

  • Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better

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  • I think humanizing them is a fairly trivial thing, in this sort of context.

    Yes, it's true, it didn't "lie" about health.

    But it has the same result as someone lying, it's another bulletpoint in the list of reasons not to trust AI, even if it pulls from the right sources and presents information generally correctly, it may in fact just not present information it could have presented because the sources it learned from have done so in a way that would get those sources deemed "liars".

    Could write that out every time, I suppose, but people will say their dog is trying to trick them when he goes to the bowl 5 minutes after dinner, or goes to their partner for the same, and everyone understands the dog isn't actually attempting to deceive them, and just wants more.

    Same thing, to me at least. It lied, but in a similar way to how my dog lies, not in the way a human can lie.

  • Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!

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  • No, they're definitely also expanding.

    Not all of them, certainly, but there are a few plans for new factories. Samsung, for instance, is rolling out a new chip factory, if you want something to search.

  • Zero lies or exaggerations detected.

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  • On Wikipedia, I see 19 (16 murders and 3 things associated with the murders).

    Trump has 34 last I checked.

  • Dr. Oz begs Americans to take the measles vaccine as infections soar

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  • I'm sorry, I more meant anything supporting he did that, specifically.

    I'm finding articles about how X thing he did isn't fully legitimate because it doesn't have the research, he peddled it anyway, or how X thing he claimed was completely baseless, but nothing indicating he ever stole authorship or paid off some group to falsely be listed as an author.

  • Dr. Oz begs Americans to take the measles vaccine as infections soar

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  • You got a source for that, by chance?

  • Dr. Oz begs Americans to take the measles vaccine as infections soar

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  • Nah that's Dr. Phil.

    Dr. Oz is a medical doctor and actually has contributed to medical science in a significant way, too. He's done at least one successful heart transplant that I know about and helped make the LVAD.

    Comparing him to Dr. Phil, though, all we really learn is that real and fake doctors can peddle bullshit and misinformation on TV.

  • Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!

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  • Simple, dissolve the whole package in one gallon of water, and then the solution is 110 times as potent as it should be.

    Round up to 128 because watering it down a little more won't hurt you, and that simplifies the math. You put one ounce of that gallon of solution into a second gallon of water, and you're ready to drink. Repeat with a new gallon of tap water mixed with an ounce of your solution as needed.

  • UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs

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  • It usually does, but it doesn't have to.

  • Why do servers and supercomputers primarily run on Linux and not on some Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon OS?

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  • They could, if they wanted to. This is somewhat an example of "if it isn't broken, don't fix it".

    A lot of that is the fact that Linux is run incredibly lean. Replicating that isn't cheap. They absolutely can, but since Linux is free and they can even modify it to suit their needs, its far simpler to do that.

    Android is the best example. Google wanted a phone OS, so they bought Android Inc, who was making one. They could've spun up their own with their own talent, hired more, etc, but just absorbed one instead. That talent was making a phone OS based on Linux, because, again, they could've delved into the details of OS creation, but it was far easier to take a free OS, change the bits you want changed (like adding touchscreen support, which to my knowledge, wasn't in the Linux version Android started with), and run with the new version you've made.

    It's also worth pointing out that Google has spent a lot of money on Android, and other large companies spend a lot on developing their own custom Linux Distro. It's not like they have one software engineer for Android who downloaded Linux once and changed it. These companies are willing to do what you describe, they just didn't have to reinvent the wheel. The Linux kernel, thanks to the community behind it, is incredibly secure and efficient, and there just wasn't any reason to change it or copy it when it exists and is free to use.

  • So much potential!

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  • All that sounds great.

    I personally like a good tank Tarrasque. The encounter is more puzzle than combat. The players are hardly noticed until they deal something like 10% of its HP. With a solid regen, that's a significant scratch.

    Of course, this version would be boring in a vacuum, so there's a time pressure of it destroying a city.

    This naturally gives it three stages. Stage 1, players are basically safe. They can try strategies, do shenanigans, and the Tarrasque will be at worst impeded, but likely relatively unaffected. The goal is just to get its attention at all. Any turns it spends targeting the players are turns the city is safe. Maybe give the city a magical artillery piece that needs to be set up.

    Stage 2, they've delayed the city's destruction. Now the problem is the Tarrasque is looking their way. Their main goal shifts to some form of "survive". A clever party can lure the Tarrasque out of the city, perhaps into a trap if they had time. A lot of actions are spent maneuvering, escaping, setting up the trap if it exists. It's likely the Tarrasque fully heals during this stage, although that doesn't make it revert to stage 1. It may do so if it cannot get to them in any way, like a flyer 300' up.

    Stage 3 is whenever it catches them or springs a trap. This is a final fight. Unless they straight up run away, this is when the big damage comes out, when that artillery may show up, when the trap springs. If they cannot do consistent damage, they will run out of resources and lose. If they can, they'll win, job well done, they get the keys to the city, a celebration, all that.

  • Setup rule

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  • Well you see there's no flash drive drivers preinstalled so you actually need to start here to get Windows, and then insert an Ethernet cable into one of the esophageal ports to establish internet. From there, you can upgrade to XP, and if your key verifies you can do an OTA upgrade to service pack 1 which has WiFi if you spread your fingers out.

    Once you do that, you'll have a browser that can connect to Microsoft services and you'll be able to insert a flash drive up your nose to begin standard installation.

  • So much potential!

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  • True I forgot that detail. Sacred flame would do fine, as well.

    Those level 1 aarakocran clerics might die by being tapped and falling the whole distance but they'll bag a tarrasque no problem.

    As for the 2024 Tarrasque, they downgraded it to resistance against physical damage, instead of immunity to nonmagic physical. I mean, it's nice that it resists magical physical, now, but any source of advantage to cancel the disadvantage of being in long range lets you kill with any bow/crossbow.

    Repeating would still be ideal, for ammo usage, but it needed its regeneration back. At least if you needed 100 aarakocran to start reducing its HP meaningfully, it'd be beyond the scope of "first time player who thought flying sounded cool".

  • So much potential!

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  • Not with Wish, that's for sure.

    Ive heard it said that anything past level 15 or so, they just didn't intend for real gameplay, and I have to agree. The Tarrasque is defeated with a Fly spell and a bow, Wish can technically be used for other things but really is just Lesser Wish from older editions, only spell replication, and capstones tend to be meh and really feel tacked on most of the time.

  • So much potential!

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  • RAW, it's not replicating a spell, so the effect weakens you, 1/3rd chance it burns out, all that, except the DM doesn't rule on possibility, since it is called out as possible.

    I treat every effect that specifically call out Wish as removing it as using Wish to replicate a spell. Unless the intent was to only allow a Wishing magic item to work, it'd be pretty ridiculous otherwise.

  • Any RPGs that take into account when you reload a save? Or that break the 4th wall like this?

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  • Yes.

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