Cruelty Squad, underneath it's sewer candy aesthetic, is premised on this idea: that you're a gig economy hitman. The reason you can replay missions is because your targets are so rich they can't actually be killed, and are replaced by new clones (or something equivalent) after every mission.
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A tremendous amount of issues in the world stem from people not understanding what abuse is and passing it on to others as "the way it has to be."
I started painting in my late 30s and love it, and get regular compliments and good natured critiques of my work. I have never cried about it, and if someone thought I needed to be torn down to improve, they would no longer be in my life. But I don't hold any delusions that I'm making high art either.
People tend to have a really shitty grasp of context and nuance. People also do use AI becaue they want to skip the work and go straight to rewards. These all stem from the same issue: lack of care. We've been trained to see the world like rich people: devoid of empathy, compassion, and care. It takes time and energy to understand your situation and formulate a proper reaponse. Sometimes art is a struggle and it takes time and energy to overcome your limits or figure out what it is you actually want from the work. Properly offering good critique requires empathy, and it requires the time and energy to dedicate to the critique.
It's easy to cruelly criticize. It's easy to throw out slop. It's easy to just let the machine do it.
I'd never noticed that in this order, it's almost π!
Off by 0.001 and some change; that coincidence is going to haunt me.
🧐: 0 is the origin of time, the big bang (if you believe in that kind if thing)
The problem then is figuring out when earth (and then human) time starts, but we can just add some arbitrary offsets that feel right and everyone agrees on.
Xenu makes a dollar
Don't trust the birds or limes
Thats why I shit
In liminal spaces and times
I don't know about hexbears rules, but cunt (or c%%t to y'all) is just a dirty word for vulva, on par with dick or cock. UK folks use it as an insult pretty commonly, and Americans seem to have elevated to the Worst Word now, somehow replacing fuck (f%%k) as the supreme curse word.
A lot of woman reclaim it and use it as praise, like calling someone "cunty" to mean like "confident" and "motivated." or to say someone is "serving cunt" is similar: being very powerful and confident in a femme way.
I do not think it is anti-trans, though I am a cis-man so this is second hand. The trans women I know and see, though, use phrases lie "serving cunt" frequently, particularly among each other. A bit of vulgar femme talk, "hanging with the girls" kind of language, I would think is actually quite reassuring and helps one to feel accepted as a woman.
Obviously, calling a trans-man "cunty" would be a very different kind of situation though, and i hope folks here can recognize that.
How can sole maintainers work with multi-billion corporations without being taken advantage of?
They can't, thats why GPL is noncommercial. Capitalism is an exploitative system that relies on power imbalance. As soon as MS reached out, he should have made it clear they can't even look at his code for ideas without a contract and payment. He shouldn't have told them anything else without a contract. Papers with legal claims on them are the only language business speaks.
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It isn't just about intuition as randomly judged by how you or anyone else feels about it. Humans do a lot of things on 0 to 100 and 0 to 10 scales. Literally the basis of the metric system. But all measurements are arbitrary comparisons to some target object: "the meter".
So a temperature scale that closely aligns the 0 to 100 scale to the minimum and maximum commonly experienced surface temperature of the planet we live on is going to feel more natural to use than one which aligns to the boiling point of water, something we don't usually encounter in nature.
Now we do encounter boiling liquids, and hotter, in labs and in kitchens, which is why C probably feels natural to scientists and people who cook a lot.
But the resolution of it isn't particularly intuitive. What does 1\100th of the aggregate temperature of boiling water have to do with anything? Why a linear scale? It takes more energy to add 1°C of heat to an ice cube than to the equivalent amount of 20°C ("room temperature") water.
Measurements are about both precision and repeatability, but also about conveying information in an easily understandable way. Sometimes those goals conflict, particularly when a scale of measurement is used in both informal and formal settings.
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"Includes" was the wrong word, its like the opposite of hyperbole here. The range humans can survive in is roughly 0 to 100 in F, the full range of the scale. The range in Centigrade is roughly -17 to 30. It isnt that it "includes" it, the entire useful portion of the meter is dedicated to it.
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Yeah, it begs my blood pressure too. I usually say masala chai to avoid redundancy and be specific to the kind of chai, but garam masala just means hot spice blend, similar to melange. Spice Melange is the name for the magic spice in Dune, but Dune is called Arrakis by the native people (which probably just means sand dune in the Freman language.)
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100F was originally set to roughly human body temperature. 0 was the freezing point of a brine mixture (water, salt, and ammonium) meant to be similar to sea water. It was used because the temperature would self-stabilize at a particular temperature, which was defined as 0 degrees.
That's why its "humanistic," the scale roughly includes the temperature range we can survive in, and provides decent granularity within that range. Metric based everything on pure water, which is pretty arbitrary also, as evidenced by both scales being redefined as more precise and repeatable means of defining measured units have become available.
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Gotta love how everyone forgot about Newton in all this. Enjoy your instantly well-cooked hand, which is also made of meat.
You have to remember that 99% of people talking about "dystopian" novels mean the Hunger Games and Divergent books, maybe also Harry Potter. Dystopian YA novels were best sellers in the US for like a decade, so most peoples' image of a dystopian protagonist is a teenager with limited responsibilities outside "growing up" and "overcoming the system." And after your "youthful rebellion" against the oppressive nightmare system, you can become a cop protecting it!
If you wonder why Americans are so bad at all this stuff, it's because generations of us were raised on fake revolution stories.
It's a fair bit of work to set up, but I replaced Keep with Obsidian.
I suppose you could just pay for obsidian sync and then basically have parity. I do not. I use syncthing to sync my notebooks (vaults in obsidian terms) between my devices.
To get my existing notes, I used Google Takeout to get a copy of all my data, but you can just ask for the Keep data. They'll send you a bunch of json files, which I was able to extract the text of my notes from pretty easily and copy into Obsidian notes.
Alas! I fear we cannot stay here longer,' said Aragorn. He looked towards the mountains and held up his sword. 'Farewell, Gandalf!' he cried. 'Did I not say to you: if you pass the doors of Moria, beware? Alas that I spoke true! What hope have we without you?'
He turned to the Company. 'We must do without hope,' he said. 'At least we may yet be avenged. Let us gird ourselves and weep no more! Come! We have a long road, and much to do.'
"Aid seekers" is a damn strange way to spell "starving children"
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So if sunlight hurts vampires, but moonlight doesn't (but moonlight is reflected sunlight) then does that mean the moon absorbs all holy light, and only reflects unholy light? Sunlight, we must assume, is composed of a random mix of all wavelengths and divinities of light. Therefore, can a vampire's reflection be seen if the vampire is illuminated by moonlight? Only if using a non-silver mirror? What about office fluorescent light, the most evil light of all?
I'll just put this with all the other fire.
I miss the 90s because in 1999 I was 14, the Matrix and System Shock 2 had just come out, and the radio was nothing but optimistic pop and dance music. It was a time of high optimism, there was a real feeling that the new millennium was ours, that we were going to make the world better. Life was never going to feel like that again.
Then Bush, then 9/11. In 2 years I went from starry eyed high-school naif to being a politically engaged college student. It's hard after that to separate my feeling about whether the world (USA society specifically) really did get worse or if I was just old and politically aware enough then to notice.
It certainly feels like things declined pretty steadily. I think a lot of us were lured into comforting nostalgia by Obama. A nice little warm dose of return to the good days of before Bush! It put us to sleep like warm milk. Then waking up to realize that Bush-ism never ended.