Some people are screaming. Most are not. And the words, from those screaming, are cheap. The silence of actions continues to be, and likely will continue to be, deafening.

that’s perfect. chef’s kiss.

Instead of getting the new world order we wanted, mom says this is the new world order we already have at home.

Huh, I already built my own (very janky) Python wrapper around OpenSCAD’s horrible syntax and editor, but that looks like a much better solution. Thanks!

Not for long!

It’ll keep working too, maybe until it encourages you so much you have a heart attack and die, because you know, it’s AI, it doesn’t have any knowledge or accountability and it certainly doesn’t have any concern for human life.

This is intentional genocide.

Very, very clearly, even by their own admissions, if you put even the slightest effort to read between the lines they basically say it themselves. And anyone who says otherwise is spreading propaganda (some unwittingly, with willful ignorance, but still propaganda).

And they know exactly what they’re doing. They’ve been targeting reporters and journalists since the very beginning, to minimize reporting on this. Even early in the war, the ones who were reporting from a “safe” distance far from any so-called “militants” get “accidentally” fired upon. They’ve blocked humanitarian efforts at every step of the way. They’ve done drone strikes on aid convoys, including the flotilla with Greta Thunberg, more than once.

I think the outrage from the public at Israel’s actions could be stronger, but it’s already more than strong enough to justify that something serious should be done. And it isn’t. And it won’t be. And I don’t think more public outrage is going to change that. I think the public needs to start asking hard questions about their own governments and political leaders and why they still support Israel. Because it’s not an accident, and it’s not a secret, that Israel still receives overwhelming international support in what they’re doing. Perhaps with a few cautionary finger-shakes and a sternly worded letter or two, but the money and the logistical and political support continues to flow almost completely unabated. This completely crosses party lines, it’s something almost all the economic and political power of the western world is supporting.

We’re all complicit, even if we don’t realize it, even if we don’t have any obvious choices available that would prevent it. Ignorance, willful or otherwise, is not a defense. I don’t think it’s within my power as an individual to do anything to stop this, but I can at least choose not to be ignorant about it, to see what we have wrought and admit what we are responsible for. And I can encourage other people to see it too. I will remember what the Palestinian people were before now, and I hope that as many of them survive as possible to continue being that, and more in the decades and centuries ahead.

Wow that’s quite an inferiority complex you’ve got there, yet you’re so specific and selective about choosing exactly who you have to feel inferior to.

People have it hard everywhere bro. You want to pretend you’re the worst off out of all of us and cry “poor me” that’s your call, but it’s not going to get you anywhere. At the same time, plenty of “western” white men (and white women) are having a real shitty time in Ukraine right now for example, probably a significantly worse time than you’ll ever have. So enjoy what you’ve got, count your blessings, and stop trying to count other people’s and compare them to your own. It’s a foolish, pointless game that you’ll always lose. You’ll never win the race. You’ll never be first place. There’s always someone better off than you. And there’s always someone worse off.

Well, I’m not going to pretend stuff’s not going to get real weird for a werewolf, but I can clarify some of the orbital mechanics a bit.

First of all, the moon still has all its normal phases from orbit and in pretty much the same durations. For the moon to always be full, you would have to be permanently between the sun and the moon, which is not where an orbit will typically put you. A couple ways you could do this: You could orbit the sun instead, or at least orbit closer to it than Earth does. From Venus’s orbit, both Earth and our Moon are always “full”. Or you could set yourself up at a lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun.

The other less simple way you could achieve an always-full or at least frequently-full moon is to get into what’s known as sun-synchronous orbit.

The simplest way though, might be to just land on the Moon’s surface. The terminator between day and night on the moon’s surface only moves at about 9.6 miles per hour, even slower the closer you get to the poles. An athletic werewolf could probably jog to keep up, and stay permanently on the “full” day side.

Would make a nice server for self-hosting things locally (including potentially game servers) if you’re into any of that. That graphics card is definitely going to hold it back for anything else gaming-related, though.

The problem is you have failed at least one, probably both, of the foundational rules of any capitalist society.

First rule of capitalism: Be rich. Second rule of capitalism: Don’t be poor.

An Abrams tank is designed to win today’s wars. An all-trebuchet doctrine is designed to win all future wars.

Oh PLEASE let them completely enshittify the entire financial system. If anything will ever completely free the world from money’s tyrannical yoke, it will be tech billionaires’ incompetent attempts to “disrupt” and “improve” it.

If the person making it didn’t giggle and know exactly what they were doing when they did that, then I will lose all faith in this world.

Very smart people may have programmed them, but they only programmed how they learn, not what they learn. Then they used all the dumb people to train them. Limitless numbers of dumb people. The entire collective works of all humanity’s dumbest people. This is their entire educational corpus. We have educated them with the world’s most dramatic demonstrations of stupidity and ignorance, and then we told them “now try and be smart” and act surprised when they are exactly as stupid as the rest of us always have been. That’s exactly what we have trained them to be. These are not superintelligences. These are our own reflection.

Sometimes I’m open, but I also lie a lot, to keep the AI bots and advertising algorithms guessing. What’s real and what’s fake? Who knows, we live in a post-truth world anyway.

If that’s what you learned from your economics degree, you’re part of the problem. Spend a lot more time on business ethics, moral philosophy and humanities, maybe get some degrees in that too before you start feeling like you’re qualified deciding how the world ought to work.

Situationally. I carefully consider the developer in question to try and judge the risk of failure, while also considering the chances that my contribution will actually make any meaningful difference to the likely outcome.

Basically, if it’s a passionate and seemingly competent indie dev working on something that I personally want to see become a reality in the world, I might throw some early money their way despite the obvious risk. If it’s a tentative and inexperienced indie dev with goals too big I’ll probably wait and see. If it’s some AAA publisher who don’t actually NEED the money and have a high chance of fucking everything up anyway, they can shove their preorder and preorder bonuses right up their own ass where they belong.

would they have first amendment rights ?

If you want the answer to this, try to imagine an AI with second amendment rights.