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  • Seems like double standards to me ¯(ツ)/¯

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  • Not sure if something new is coming out covering the legends, but presumably people aren't taking issue with things building off known IP, just that most sequels today are cheap cash grabs of objectively lower quality than the original. Most works coming out about Arthurian legends now tend to be a new analysis applied to the existing story, thus introducing new themes and adding layers, not just doing simple mimicry. But maybe I'm not aware of the specific media you're referring to.

  • Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

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  • I agree to a certain extent, but also would point out that the longer something exists, the more likely it is to be exploited by capital and then just be objectively worse. A lot of the good things are still there, just pushed aside and hidden by people with ulterior motives. Plenty of queer youth still find a lot of community and comfort online when it's absent in their lives. There is definitely something to be said about how things shape people vs how people shape things though.

  • IIIIIGGGGGGOOOOOOOORRRRRRR!

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  • As far as the detect magic thing goes, I think it depends a bit on the individual setting. I'm usually not playing in official WOTC settings, but per the PHB, a single cast of a low level spell can be 10-50 gp. A mercenary is 2 gp a day. Let's say for whatever reason that a spell caster was willing to take a midrange single spell cast payment for an entire day of work since it's a prestigious position, you're still looking at 30gp a day. That's equivalent to 15 mercenaries. That's just for a single spell caster who has 10 minutes of a spell that has a range of 30 ft, and can be blocked by the thickness of most castle walls. I don't know pricing difference for different wizard levels, but let's just say that you have level 1 wizards cast it as a ritual and have 2 wizards so they are switching off sentry/casting every 10 minutes. They work in shifts, so to be covered 24/7 you're looking at 3 8-hr shifts for two wizards per shift. So now you're employing 6 wizards, and you're still only getting 30 ft at a time. You could station them only in your treasury or whatever other important room, or you could have them walk the grounds on patrol. Unless you're switching to multiple sets patrolling you still won't be able to cover the full grounds all at once. At a certain point, security is just security theatre. Locks are a deterrent more than anything, so unless the person under attack is very very wealthy or is actively making high powered enemies, they probably don't actually need that level of security. I would guess that a place with less than 20 guards would not opt for that level of security. Anti-magic fields are not unheard of, and the above is certainly a thing that can be done, but I don't think most jails or bandit camps will have that level of security. Probably not even local mayors or city leaders.

    If I was running a security heavy coronation or something, maybe the above would be relevant and the wizards would have something conferring invisibility, so the path they take would be unknown and random every time. Maybe they party heard through some rumors of an opening for a wizard position at the castle, though the monarch doesn't have a court wizard so they'd have a chance to know it's for security or something secret at least.

    It might also be that it's unfun to make a heist where the shapeshifter is useless for stealth because every inch is covered by detect magic, or even if not every inch it adds unnecessary overhead of "where's the wizard casting now?" because someone has their familiar watching them anyway. No one is stopping you though, and I could definitely see it being fun to do for a big event.

    As far as the guard thing goes, it probably depends on what is being guarded. A bandit camp in the woods will probably be accustomed to lots of animals. Maybe a castle grounds with a garden too. I think unless the location is known to house the Crown Jewels or something, the guards are probably just bored and aren't on high alert for those kind of things, especially if the PC is passing on stealth/nature checks to act natural. If a guard saw a butterfly in the middle of the castle in a room with no windows, that's cause for suspicion in a way that just seeing a butterfly outside would not be. Maybe a monarch would have overly zealous guards though.

    Most pricing info from roll20: https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Expenses

  • James Talarico Wins Texas Democratic Senate Primary

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  • You are not mistaken. I have them tagged due to that same behavior. Some Lemmy clients allow tagging of users. I know voyager is a popular option that does. You might already know that and just didn't think their previous comments warranted tagging, but just fyi.

  • AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

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  • What do you mean steal it? The article makes it clear that the errors are likely the result of AI hallucinations that arose during translation and that accounts that have submitted multiple articles with these errors will be subject to additional review or banning from this program. It seems likely that underpaid people using AI to translate things aren't paying as much attention to the output as Wikipedia expects.

  • We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch

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  • I know it's not as fancy as other IDEs, but it is still my go to for anything that I plan to perfect within a week or two. It's also my go to for txt files. Anyone that is savvy enough for notepad++ could get a lot of use out of it in my opinion.

  • A stolen Gemini API key turned a $180 bill into $82,000 in two days

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  • Yes, I saw that, I just didn't see them say that's what happened to them. If that's what happened then this should be an open and shut case. Like I said initially, Google is a bad company doing bad things and this change was an objectively greedy and evil thing.

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  • I understand mutual aid as a concept, but my local anarchist groups seem happy to just do random mutual aid. They will just stand on a corner, distribute food to anyone that comes by and say "great job team!" It feels ineffectual and the lack of planning really hobbles them. I suggested doing a more organized approach and they were all "you can do that if you want", which I already knew I could do. I was wondering if WE should maybe be a little more organized and they just aren't interested. They'll do a toy drive and then just go to a random park to give them out. It feels more like a random act of kindness group than a group trying to build parallel systems of power. I understand that it may just be my local groups, but I would love to hear about other groups experiences. Is there maybe a more anarchist friendly way of organizing that I'm not privy to? I can do some reading if necessary. I'm not really an anarchist, but I believe mutual aid is important, I'd just like to see it done more purposefully. Is your mutual aid group a chapter of one I'd be familiar with? I'd be interested in trying a different group if it felt more helpful.

  • A stolen Gemini API key turned a $180 bill into $82,000 in two days

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  • Google is a bad company with bad policies, but I'd love to have them explain what caused the compromise. They dispute that it was uploaded publicly to GitHub, but don't seem to provide any information as to what happened. They also didn't have 2fa on, which is strange to hear because AWS (they're using Google) required 2fa on all accounts at least a year ago, regardless of permissions if memory serves. Really sorry to hear this happened to them, and the fact you can't set a hard cap on spend makes Google the party ultimately responsible here, but I'd appreciate having more information on the actual cause.

  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • I get where you're coming from, but I think it's important that ars has held this person accountable. They have a journalistic standard they are sticking to, which is that there should be no AI use, and there are repercussions for people who don't abide. There's not an extremely large cohort that is willing to spend more to avoid AI, but I am certainly part of it, and seeing ars hold this person accountable helps me know that I can trust and patronize them ethically. There are businesses out there unwilling to acquiesce to an AI first narrative, and I'm just worried that elements of doomerism are going to make people unwilling to believe those companies when they have every reason to believe them.

  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • There's an assumption that there has been an increased workload requested of them that I don't have a reason to believe. That person has been a writer for them for years and since they don't use AI as a rule, I don't know why they would have increased expected output from their staff. I'm not saying that never happens, I just don't believe that's what happened in this case as there is no evidence to suggest that. I appreciate you explaining that comment though.

  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • What was the damned if you don't in this scenario? Seems more like damned if do, best if you don't in this situation.

  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • I don't work at Ars, and maybe you know something I don't, but I have seen nothing to suggest that they're one of the companies doing that. It seems like they are pretty open about how they do not allow AI to be used in the process. Have they said something to indicate otherwise and I just misssed it?

  • Fascists are cretins, but also, what weirdos

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  • Had they narrowed it to just #2 they'd at least have international support. This reads like someone did really poorly in their language class and is hoping toppling the government will allow them to get back at their teacher.

  • Flavor Flav to host Las Vegas event for winning US women’s Olympic ice hockey team

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  • I don't want to write an in depth comment without receipts, but I swear I watched a breadtuber deep dive into how he put those women in horrible situations, and they also touched on his personal life. I cannot for the life of me find the video though, but the information I remember is pretty damning. If anyone knows what I'm referring to, please post a link. I'm not trying to dismiss this act if it's a genuine thing, but I would love to know I'm not hallucinating this video.

  • Pentagon and Scouting America reach deal to keep ties after Hegseth's anti-DEI push

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  • Men's US Hockey Star Immediately Betrayed by Trump

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  • Tkachuk said he understood why women's players could feel insulted by that comment... "I mean, I get it," he said. "We support them, they support us.

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    He's giving big "I'm sorry you feel that way" energy. Hope all of these assholes are shunned by Canada.

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • If you're looking at people in developed countries where more kids doesn't necessarily mean more labor, the difference can also be somewhat explained by religion and quality of life concerns. Extremely religious people in the us, who tend to be less educated and have lower incomes, may not believe in contraception and believe that "god will provide". That may sound like an exaggeration, but I personally know someone with 7 kids who cannot afford to feed them but thinks that they will go to hell if they use condoms and denying their husband is also a sin somehow. They just talk about how god intended for their family to struggle. That's not a mindset you generally see in high income families.

    The other factor is quality of life (and yes, education). If you're making enough to afford a home and a good education for 1-2 children, you may be looking to give your child a good life and a good springboard for their future. If you know that no matter what you do, you will never be able to afford a college education for your child, then that makes having a child "less expensive" in that regard. You know you won't be able to afford sports or extracurricular activity equipment, or new clothes, so while a family earning more may spend a smaller percentage of their income on any single child, the resources they are expecting to be able to provide them increase. A lot of low income families may have the approach that if a child is fed they've done the thing. Check mark on parenting for the day. If that's the approach to parenting then it's less resource intensive than a more involved approach that some high income families may have. I want to be clear that this is not a moral failing or some kind of judgement being passed. I think a lot of people don't realize the day to day of very low income families. There are still people in the US raising families with no access to electricity or even running water. They have a very different background and understanding of what a family looks like. I don't think they are inherently evil for having more kids and being unable to provide for them in the way others may expect, but I also think that's not an excuse to allow children to live in unsafe conditions. I legitimately believe that if we had better education in low income and rural areas that you'd see this disparity drop, as they learn the different options education can provide and strive to ensure their own children get the best education and support possible.

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