jaaake

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[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Completely agree. In fact, if he dies before then, it's likely to have the opposite effect.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It also gives them a free tax write off that's specifically designed for you to not be able to claim.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Genuinely think this format is a great way to write character backstory. Not any of the content beneath the headers, that's for the DM and player to flesh out during sessions. The Nickelodeon Board of Directors are the big bad for one campaign, the guy who framed you for arson is just chillin in the pub you walked into, etc. Work out the details like it's an improv scene.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The problem is definitely bigger than just him. That doesn't mean that the world won't instantly become a better place once he's dead.

I do hope that there's some kind of mask off, smoking gun situation (that doesn't require any more suffering than has already happened) that causes his followers to realize they have been deceived and prevents them from voting so stupidly again. I realize how unrealistic this sounds, but it is my fantasy.

After WW2, Germany taught its citizens the truth about the atrocities that Hitler and his party committed. A nationalist party didn't start to get a foothold there again until the population that lived through the previous one had almost completely died off. That's 80 years of progress and growth that could hopefully get the US back on track. If we can stop things now before they get to holocaust/world war levels, maybe next time the fascists take hold, it'll be even less catastrophic than the current situation in the US. A few more of those cycles and we (as a global society, because clearly everyone reading this will be long dead) can get to our Star Trek utopia.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Lack of empathy is the core root cause of SO MANY right wing causes. It kills me because empathy itself is the core teaching of Christianity. If they were actually good Christians, they would live their lives undo the credo "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Anyway, I find Satanists (TST, specifically) and Leftists far more empathetic.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, Eagles Of Death Metal are a band.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm definitely gonna need a translation of this into something comprehensible to those of us that only understand classical computing. I get the evolution of binary and logic gates from mechanical computing, to vacuum tubes, to semiconductors, to nanometer miniaturized transistors. I understand (but could not possibly write) how machine language has increasing layers of complexity and eventually becomes human interpretable instructions. I understand shared cache and multiple cores and how that formed a generational leap over clock speed.

I have no idea what the fuck this article is talking about. At all.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The issue isn't storing each individual ID, it's all of the networking operations that are done and total things that are stored/cached per user in each chat. All of those things are handled and stored as efficiently as possible. Sure they could set it to any number, but 256 is a nice round one when considering everything that is happening and the use cases involved. They have user research data and probably see that 128 is too close to a group size that happens with some regularity, but group sizes very rarely get close to 256, and 512 is right out.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure how regional it is, but in Southern California, I've heard cajón mean both box and drawer. It might be a specific type of box? Like a wooden box made out of pallet wood.

 

Nobody likes voting for the “lesser of two evils.” Casting a vote in favor of someone who is diametrically opposed to your viewpoint(s) absolutely sucks. The shitty reality is that we aren’t going to change the electoral process in the next two months.

If you don’t see either major candidate as a champion that you can support, it seems more beneficial to see it as selecting your enemy for the next four years. I would rather fight against someone that I have a chance of changing. At minimum I would rather protest against someone that I think has a lower chance of authorizing lethal force against a march that I attend.

Voting for a 3rd presidential candidate (or not voting at all), is letting someone else make that decision for you.

That said, we have got to get out of this constant cycle of only having two options. There’s too much money at a national level to start there. We’ve got to start local and get third party candidates into offices at a city level, then state, then national. It’s going to take a long time and it should have happened so very long ago. We can’t change the past, we can only change the future. The only time to start changing the future is in the present.

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