Foundry VTT is amazing. Been running Kingmaker for almost 2 years on it with the official module (very slow pace, 1-2 sessions a month). I’d argue it’s basically mandatory if you’re serious about online TTRPGs.

“You can’t have programs that do multiple things! Any program that is multi-use is ebil. Standardized syntax and functionality between different related systems? NO! PROGRAM DO ONE THING!”

Adam Something, is that you?

That chemical can be very deadly. If enough of it gets into your airway, it can cause asphyxiation.

The GMan has broken containment and is now wandering through our timeline, inserting people into the right points to change the future. I guess this explains the whacky wild ride we’re currently on.

Yup. This is the solution to US control of cashless transactions. The sooner the digital euro can be agreed upon, standardized and rolled out at the EU level, the better.

As a Romanian in a country still outside the Eurozone, I hope there’s provisions to allow us to use it for RON transactions while our economy is still too much of a mess to join.

Why write more than necessary? Surely 26 = 26 is enough.

I edit PDFs all the time for work. It’s a pain in the ass, but perfectly doable. Trying to prevent people from editing files by making it annoying is not in any way a sane strategy.

Altered Carbon is a great little sci-fi show that explores what might happen in such a scenario. According to the writer, the slow accumulation of money making money would trend to infinite, leaving a world that makes what we have now look like an egalitarian utopia by comparison.

The point here isn’t that genai is ethical: the point is that Ponzi schemes are a very specific kind of crime which doesn’t really map to genai.

Let’s assume that all genai is theft. That still wouldn’t make it a Ponzi scheme. Ponzi schemes are, very specifically, when an investment company sends money to new investors from their old investments while lying and claiming it’s from profit from the new investment, in order to keep new investors coming in.

The specific crime that all genai companies are very clearly and obviously guilty of is copyright infringement. Making the internet worse is unfortunately not a crime.

In a hypothetical well-crafted treaty (which I agree Russia would never sign) there would be penalties attached to breaking the conditions. Sanction snap-backs, for example.

Should have read the fine print my friend

My brother had a similar thing, and decided to just start shaving off everything and embracing the baldness. He’s been rockin’ the bald look ever since quite happily.

Not much better at all, tbh. The problems are systemic, not individual. Another Zucc or Thiel would step up.

I’m here in Romania right now, the child of a Romanian who managed to get out during communism. I’m trying to help push the country ever so slightly towards fixing all these ancient systemic issues. It’s hard goddamn work getting even the smallest reform done, but somebody’s gotta do it.

A Pole finds a magic lamp, rubs it, and out pops a genie. He’s given 3 wishes.

“For my first wish, I want Poland to be raided by the Mongols”.

The Mongolian horde arrives after a month, burns and pillages the countryside, and then they go home.

“For my second wish, I want Poland to be raided by the Mongols”

Another month passes, and then the horde returns, burning and pillaging all the villages that had barely had time to be rebuilt. The genie asks:

“I think I know what your third wish is going to be. My question is: why? What have your countryman done to deserve such a thing?”

“We may be raided 3 times, but the Mongols have to go through Russia 6 times!”

One must imagine sisyphis happy

Just FYI, this conversation isn’t about the US. Also, that comparison is fucked in so many ways.

Here’s an absolute classic unix koan about the terminal:

One evening, Master Foo and Nubi attended a gathering of programmers who had met to learn from each other. One of the programmers asked Nubi to what school he and his master belonged. Upon being told they were followers of the Great Way of Unix, the programmer grew scornful.

“The command-line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed. “Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a graphical user interface.”

Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at the master’s hand.

“I don’t understand you!” said the programmer.

Master Foo remained silent, and pointed at an image of the Buddha. Then he pointed at a window.

“What are you trying to tell me?” asked the programmer.

Master Foo pointed at the programmer’s head. Then he pointed at a rock.

“Why can’t you make yourself clear?” demanded the programmer.

Master Foo frowned thoughtfully, tapped the programmer twice on the nose, and dropped him in a nearby trashcan.

As the programmer was attempting to extricate himself from the garbage, the dog wandered over and piddled on him.

At that moment, the programmer achieved enlightenment

Source: https://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer.html

2017-2018 should have been the wakeup call, considering Trump was openly treating NATO as a protection racket in his first term. The EU didn’t take it seriously enough at the time, and now we’re paying the price for trying to ride it out instead of preparing from that point.