I had a dream, but I swear it was a plot from a light novel, but I can't for the life of me remember which one.
It starts out as an isekai where the MC is transported into an RTS, and he uses his power to win the RTS battles he's in (pretty normal so far), but the second part turns into this sorta heist where the MC and these two kids who are also part of his retuine are sneaking into this mob run daycare (or something) to steal some incriminating evidence, and in the end the MC has to use his special skills and high stats to steamroll over all the mobsters and escape with the kids and the evidence.
It was a pretty cool dream, honestly.
It starts out as an isekai where the MC is transported into an RTS, and he uses his power to win the RTS battles he's in (pretty normal so far), but the second part turns into this sorta heist where the MC and these two kids who are also part of his retuine are sneaking into this mob run daycare (or something) to steal some incriminating evidence, and in the end the MC has to use his special skills and high stats to steamroll over all the mobsters and escape with the kids and the evidence.
It was a pretty cool dream, honestly.
I doubt that'd change from year to year unless someone was like "Good news everybody! We've finally found a cure for fatal gunshot wounds! All those murders are now just attempted murders!" and everyone cheers and throws confetti
It's a magic trick on several levels.
first, there's more than one crime, so homocide numbers don't actually mean anything in the context of crime overall. There's thefts, there's assaults, there's burglaries, there's robberies, people don't want crimes occurring, there's no particular focus on murder. The fact that one particular crime drops doesn't mean crime is dropping, it just means that the one is down.
Second, of the remaining crimes, a lot of them specifically have been messed with in ways that make the numbers go down but not the number of crimes. In California the cops won't even come if the dollar amount of thefts is below a certain threshold, so why even bother reporting it? The number of crimes reported goes down while the number of crimes goes up.
Finally, the negative consequences of government policy are resulting in more crimes that nobody with a heart is going to report. There are tent cities showing up in previously wealthy cities around the world as people are driven from their homes by poverty (while friends of politicians become richer than ever). They gotta go somewhere, most people aren't so heartless as to report the giant mass of various crimes that is this.
Meanwhile, the powers that be push news stories like this, hoping people believe the newspapers instead of their eyes and ears. All it's doing in my opinion is driving newspapers our of business because nobody wants to pay to be lied to.
first, there's more than one crime, so homocide numbers don't actually mean anything in the context of crime overall. There's thefts, there's assaults, there's burglaries, there's robberies, people don't want crimes occurring, there's no particular focus on murder. The fact that one particular crime drops doesn't mean crime is dropping, it just means that the one is down.
Second, of the remaining crimes, a lot of them specifically have been messed with in ways that make the numbers go down but not the number of crimes. In California the cops won't even come if the dollar amount of thefts is below a certain threshold, so why even bother reporting it? The number of crimes reported goes down while the number of crimes goes up.
Finally, the negative consequences of government policy are resulting in more crimes that nobody with a heart is going to report. There are tent cities showing up in previously wealthy cities around the world as people are driven from their homes by poverty (while friends of politicians become richer than ever). They gotta go somewhere, most people aren't so heartless as to report the giant mass of various crimes that is this.
Meanwhile, the powers that be push news stories like this, hoping people believe the newspapers instead of their eyes and ears. All it's doing in my opinion is driving newspapers our of business because nobody wants to pay to be lied to.
Giving foreigners control of your military never ended a nation. I mean, other than all the ones that actually tried to...
When people are like "Oh, we're making sure we make banned books available to little kids!", I always think "Banned books like Mein Kampf?"
That's true, which is why it's so terrible that people go "oh, you're enjoying your personal life in ways I don't agree with? Maybe your employer would like to hear about this!" -- unless you're doing something associated with your job, of course you aren't in work mode and you shouldn't be because we aren't owned and operated slaves of our job 24/7.
https://youtu.be/p20v8vBwJ8A?si=iBOCv70BPEiQgXti
Put together by a politician but nonetheless one of the best discussions of debt I've seen. Talks about knock on effects, compares current stats to other examples, it's great. The discussion about what the liberals and NDP did in the past with healthcare when the money ran out is important.
Put together by a politician but nonetheless one of the best discussions of debt I've seen. Talks about knock on effects, compares current stats to other examples, it's great. The discussion about what the liberals and NDP did in the past with healthcare when the money ran out is important.
If it did then it'd also entitle you to an owners share of the losses. I think most wagies would think twice about that when the other side of the equation was in play.
I read some articles on the topic, but they struck me as deeply authoritarian. People talking as if they have a practical ability, a right, and a moral duty to try to control all speech on earth.
There's a whole spectrum of people I disagree with on the fediverse. From people I violently disagree with and can't easily coexist with to people I disagree with but respect and would invite over for a beer irl, and the fediverse is largely about choice. I follow folks who I can tolerate, and those people post things and repost things, and sometimes I fly a bit too close to the sun and need to unfollow someone who is filling my feed with something just a bit too out there, but there's no global algorithm playing Jerry Springer so typically I see mostly stuff I can tolerate just fine and I can tweak things to keep it that way.
The people I disagree with need to be here. First because I disagree with most everyone on something including myself at times so I'd be awfully lonely if voices I disagree with disappeared, but second because it's vital to the health of discourse.
There are all kinds of hugbox out there for people who want them. They are extremely diverse in the types of people on them. The one consistent thing is that the level of discourse is much lower as a bunch of people who already agree just yell at the walls about how bad "the other" who isn't around is.
Fact is, sometimes people I disagree with have something meaningful to say. Sometimes I might straight-up agree, or I might agree but in a different way than they imagine, or I might disagree but I learn something by the interplay of ideas. The last thing I want is to have them silenced because I don't like what they have to say.
There's a whole spectrum of people I disagree with on the fediverse. From people I violently disagree with and can't easily coexist with to people I disagree with but respect and would invite over for a beer irl, and the fediverse is largely about choice. I follow folks who I can tolerate, and those people post things and repost things, and sometimes I fly a bit too close to the sun and need to unfollow someone who is filling my feed with something just a bit too out there, but there's no global algorithm playing Jerry Springer so typically I see mostly stuff I can tolerate just fine and I can tweak things to keep it that way.
The people I disagree with need to be here. First because I disagree with most everyone on something including myself at times so I'd be awfully lonely if voices I disagree with disappeared, but second because it's vital to the health of discourse.
There are all kinds of hugbox out there for people who want them. They are extremely diverse in the types of people on them. The one consistent thing is that the level of discourse is much lower as a bunch of people who already agree just yell at the walls about how bad "the other" who isn't around is.
Fact is, sometimes people I disagree with have something meaningful to say. Sometimes I might straight-up agree, or I might agree but in a different way than they imagine, or I might disagree but I learn something by the interplay of ideas. The last thing I want is to have them silenced because I don't like what they have to say.
My wi-fi reset at 4am and it brought up an old copy of my lotide instance with a bunch of exploding-heads posts.
Man, I miss exploding-heads and wolfballs. The threadiverse is just a bunch of judgemental authoritarian redditors without it. "Defederate threads! Defederate Nazis! Defederate alt-right! Defederate the unacceptable form of feminists!" Boring.....
Man, I miss exploding-heads and wolfballs. The threadiverse is just a bunch of judgemental authoritarian redditors without it. "Defederate threads! Defederate Nazis! Defederate alt-right! Defederate the unacceptable form of feminists!" Boring.....
People who are lower on the social ladder tend to end up where they can walk. Most crime happens in the areas around where criminals live and less happens where they can't walk to. It's pretty unfair when you think about it, but that's life.
Most train stations are set up so you can walk to them easily, but most airports are in industrial areas or out of town so it isn't as easy to walk there.
Most train stations are set up so you can walk to them easily, but most airports are in industrial areas or out of town so it isn't as easy to walk there.
You can remove easy mode if you want, but I'm gonna cheatengine myself over 9000 in all my stats because I'm old and bad at video games and want to pretend I finished a game despite only having 5 minutes at a time.
"Sometimes I feel like climate change is just me, five friends, and the most powerful industrialized governments and megacorporations on earth versus the evil commoners who want to feed their families and heat their homes in winter"
Exodos is SSS tier.
Holy crap, it lets you play over 7000 MS-DOS games, and it catalogues the settings required to make the games work so they all start with a click. The full version is a whopping 1TB(!!!!!), the lite version only contains metadata and is still 6GB, and when you go to install a game it downloads it using bittorrent from no doubt legal sources.
It even lists some of those old shareware games everyone has forgotten.
People who aren't old as the hills might not know this, but even if you had a top tier computer back in the 90s, you didn't have any guarantee that a game would run. I was subscribed to gaming magazines back then (as was the style at the time) and you'd have a game that didn't claim to need anything special, and it'd crash on startup -- completely dead, never to run. Same with some shareware, the stars aligned and it didn't want to run and it didn't matter what you did with your config.sys or autoexec.bat it wasn't running, so that's incredible that even for the old shareware stuff you can just click, download, and play.
https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html
Holy crap, it lets you play over 7000 MS-DOS games, and it catalogues the settings required to make the games work so they all start with a click. The full version is a whopping 1TB(!!!!!), the lite version only contains metadata and is still 6GB, and when you go to install a game it downloads it using bittorrent from no doubt legal sources.
It even lists some of those old shareware games everyone has forgotten.
People who aren't old as the hills might not know this, but even if you had a top tier computer back in the 90s, you didn't have any guarantee that a game would run. I was subscribed to gaming magazines back then (as was the style at the time) and you'd have a game that didn't claim to need anything special, and it'd crash on startup -- completely dead, never to run. Same with some shareware, the stars aligned and it didn't want to run and it didn't matter what you did with your config.sys or autoexec.bat it wasn't running, so that's incredible that even for the old shareware stuff you can just click, download, and play.
https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html
You muted me last time I bothered digging up actual data, so I'll just leave it at "ok."
I get a kick out of the idea that Canadian hospitals overflowing is because of COVID.
Oh geez, damn that COVID! it's been in our hospitals for going on 20 years now! If only that last 15% got vaccinated, everything would be different!
Oh geez, damn that COVID! it's been in our hospitals for going on 20 years now! If only that last 15% got vaccinated, everything would be different!
I had a dream once where the drill sergeant from full metal jacket screamed in my face: "half of all armies that go to war lost. Do your think the only reason is that they weren't trying hard enough?"