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People on The Straight Dope joking about food waste:
Dear Abby gave this weight-loss advice: âRegardless of what your mother told you, cleaning your plate is not going to help any starving children in Africa.â
Not wholly truthful piece of advice since food waste does have a climate impact which in turn causes famines. When I was a kid I foodwasted so much. I never wanted to finish my plates even with more than half left and I still feel guilty about that. Since I grew up I got way better about it. I canât remember even one time doing it. Thatâs mostly due to having more control over what gets put on my plate in the first place.
Although Iâve had food go bad in the fridge or pantry. Preventing that is the next level.
I read a comic book and the characters started talking about how protein-rich and healthy eggs were and I was like nope:
Eggs: Who Says They Arenât Healthy or Safe? | NutritionFacts.org
Is there a name for the âI hadnât heard of it so it canât have existedâ behavior we see from online jerks? Like how there are names for sealioning and dogpiling and gishgalloping.
If your favorite movie happens to be a Christmas movie, youâre still allowed to pick another Christmas movie to be your âfavorite Christmas movieâ, a movie you feel scratch that particular genre better for you. But in my case itâs one and the same: Seven Times Lucky from 2004.â„ïž
In this study, we cultured bacteria of public health importance found on wristbands, determined whether there is a correlation between wristband material and prevalence, and tested three household disinfectants for efficacy in reducing bacteria on wristbands made of plastic, rubber, metal, and cloth, using standard microbiological assays.
paperinformation?paperid=125218 at Scirp
Great study (and horrific results) but also the watch itself is an issue, Iâm thinking? Itâs already known that you should never bring electronics to iffy places since most gadgets have a temperature range where bacteria thrives.
Iâm not Desi but I know enough that the original name was a WTF when the first set came out, and Iâm glad they changed it. But I always wondered how the original name came about. Were WotC trolled from within? But apparently itâs from a sanskrit word for âtomorrowâ or âartâ thatâs romanized similarly but pronounced differently:
Avishkar: Why We Changed the Name of a Plane
climate-change-will-stop-when-we at Theclimatebrink
Stop emissions â Stop warming
Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze | Life and style | The Guardian
I love crystal gems but this sucks:
The miners are usually paid between 17 and 23 cents per kilogram for rose quartz
Labor exploitation.
I remember reading (mightâve been in The Undercover Economist) the proposal that the one industry that would have a lot to gain to lobby for climate regulation wouldâve been the insurance industry. Obviously that didnât happen:
climate-change-and-insurance-a-growing at Volts
(Also⊠ânet zeroâ? We need net negative, even.)
Maria Malmer Stenergard: uppmanar de svenskar som eventuellt befinner sig i Syrien att snarast möjligt lÀmna landet
Jimmie Ă kesson: âett bra tillfĂ€lle att Ă„ka ditâ.
à kesson Àr avhumaniserande som vanligt.
Our own âalliesâ, Turkey and Israel, attacking Syria đ°
Is there generic support for OPDS in Mihon?
Edda pĂ„ SVT playâ„ïž
en-hyllning-till-sven-bertil-taube at Svtplay
Magic removed the âconga lineâ rule:
Revising the earlier example under the new rules, my 5/5 attacker gets blocked by your 3/3 and your 4/4. Itâs now the declare blockers step, after blockers are declared, our last opportunity to do anything before combat damage is dealt. I pass priority. You have that Giant Growth in hand. You can still save the creature of your choice. Weâll say you want to save that 3/3, probably for the same reason I wanted it gone, so you pump it up to a 6/6. We move on to combat damage, and now I get to assign my creatureâs 5 damage any way I want. Most likely, Iâll take out your 4/4, as itâs the best I can do. But maybe I have, you know ⊠plans and would rather deal 3 damage to the 6/6 and 2 damage to the 4/4. Thatâs okay, too.
So now double blocking is even weaker than it was. And some of my favorite cards (tricks that give one toughness or prevent one damage) are now unplayably weak. But theyâve apparently playtested this inhouse for a full year.
I love Star Wars.
The Galactic Empire kills the innocents on Alderaan (with an âthe Galactic Empire has a right to defend itselfâ rhetoric thatâs all too familiar these days).
Luke destroys a weapon (the Death Star) just hours before that weapon would fire on the Yavin base.
Later, he learns that Darth Vader is someone very much like himself. On Dagobah itâs his own face under that mask.
In the throne room, he ends up throwing away his own sword, like Obi-Wan had done before him.
Wars do not make one great. Destroy weapons.
This is for people who think âPlease donât edit Andor, itâs already perfect⊠Iâd take it as movies though.â
This is Andor season one, rearranged into four movies of roughly two hours each, removing no content whatsoever, just focused on each of the four main arcs and rearranging some scenes to keep as much relevant content as possible contained to those arcsâ movies, for slightly easier focus and consumption.
Neat!
I got a paper letter (from Karolinska Huddinge) that ended with a typed out long URL to a PDF continuation of the letter. Penny wise I guess, to save on toner, but the back of my paper letter was blank and the PDF was just one page. The URL spanned two lines of printed text.
Min dygnsrytm har blivit förskjuten och jag sover till nio, tio pÄ förmiddagen vilket för mig Àr mycket sent. Tycker det Àr skavigt att det Àr sÄ, kÀnner mig groggy hela dagarna.
Now, what I loved about Andor was that it was literature, not just laser pop. It was like Sartre or Kafka or Harlan County in the galaxy. Skeleton Crew is just empty laser pop, not only compared to Andor (everything would be) but compared to any of the shows. But itâs the most well-executed laser pop weâve seen Star Wars do on the small screen or maybe in any format.
Itâs too early to say just two episodes in. But this is great so far.
Ă h nej, nu ska Ă€ven MP âbli mindre wokeâ. đ°
Jag vill inte tillbaka till anti-PKâhetsen som rĂ„dde under 80-talet eller anti-SJWâhetsen frĂ„n Gamergate.
Overton-fönstret skenar högerut igen utan att ha hÀmtat sig emellan.
Jag vill försöka vara omtÀnksam utan tÀvling, medveten utan lösenord.
SM-33:
Okay all caught up! Iâve seen both episodes now đđ»
One episode in to Skeleton Crew and Iâm putting it S-tier just under Andor, ahead of A-tier shows like The Acolyte and B-tier shows like Ahsoka and Obi-Wan. I love Star Wars. But, Iâm not giving my final grade until the showâs over!
Here are some things all romance comics have: class assignments being posted, seating arrangements, finding a kitten, getting lost at a field day hike and/or ghost walk, not being used to a modern phone so you get help set up a Line/Lime/LiâŻe/Gnutella account, class rep elections, rooftop date, umbrella sharing, one person gets a cold but it only lasts one day and you get taken care of and the other person brings your notes, something happens to the outdoor shoes, culture festival, doing a maid cafĂ©, becoming friends with the rival, sports festival, wall slam, flashback to seeing the relationship from the other persons pov, aquarium date, easily winning a doll that looks like either party at a trendy crane game, buying matching strap charms for your bags, mom loves your crush, dad not so much, Christmas date, separated over new years watching Kohaku with the parents, good luck shrine visit, Valentine and white day chocolates, cherry blossom viewing, beach day, summer festival, camping trip and/or onsen, study group at âWacDonaldsâ, not wanting to say first names, quiz results being posted, having to decide which uni to apply to, celebratory ramen
Is Twitter still a thing? I briefly followed Mike Mearls and Scott McCloud via RSS (and when Twitter shut off their RSS feeds I used a scraper) but I unsubscribed to them like seven years ago and since then Iâve never been on there (and I never had my own account).
Going there now seems like it redirects to an old bank site from the 90s?!
I canât care about every single web forum online! I donât wanna spend my time thinking about them.
Dinosaur Comics - September 25th, 2023 - awesome fun times!
Bookmarking this one:
Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles - Introduction
2024 South Korean martial law - Wikipedia
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This was in the news. No relation to the Matrix by Element/Riot.im, this is some other chat also named Matrix.
International operation takes down another encrypted messaging service used by criminals | Europol
Feathered dinos!
The Monster of Partridge Creek (Literature) - TV Tropes
Check out page five!
According to it, good players will get the most points out of aiming at T20 (that is the triple ring of the 20 wedge), mediocre players at T19, and bad players at single 8 near the bullseye and near 16.
I havenât played darts since I was a kid (I came to think of it as I reread Liar Game just now). Our board had a concentric circles bullseye on the back and we used that when we were very young but then we were quickly switched over to the traditional wedge side, which didnât make sense to me and I hated when I accidentally hit the wires.
vattenfall-avbryter-klimatsatsning-att-fanga-in-koldioxid at Www
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This video (made by the Approval voting guys, a rival to my preferred STAR voting) also shows clearly how IRV sucks:
How our voting system (and IRV) betrays your favourite candidate - YouTube
Or rather, I thought it showed it clearly but judging from the YouTube comment thread below, people didnât get it. âWhatâs the problem, the most popular party wonâ they say.
The problem was that ranking ideal over good-enough caused the bad party to win. In every scenario, the same amount of people voted for the bad party, which wasnât enough for bad when people voted good>ideal>bad, since then good-enough still won. But when people voted ideal>good>bad, that inadvertently caused the bad party to win without actually being more popular on its own merits. That was the problem. It leads to people in IRV being punished for honestly preferring their ideal candidate.
This is why âFavorite-betrayal Criteriaâ is a good election criteria and why STAR is the best system, and why even Approval voting (advocates for which made that video) is better than IRV.
The worst thing that can happen in a STAR election is that everyone bullet votesâbut that scenario is isomorphic to Approval voting! So since Approval voting is good enough, STAR is great.
(Actually thatâs the second worst thing. The worst thing is if the electorate sucks and votes for a jerk. And thatâs unfortunately very likely. Get better, electorate!)
I advocate for STAR voting (as in, Iâm unaffiliated with any origanization, I just tell people how I think itâs the best system) and it irks me when people say IRV is âa step in the right directionâ or âbetter than nothingâ as this page shows:
STAR Voting and Ranked Choice - Pros and Cons
Although that second line Iâm not sure I think should be green. âUnderdogâ candidates arenât always heroes in a time like ours when the far right is so mobilized. STAR voting is the best in letting the electorate express themselves nuancedly and clearly, and letting those choices be reflected in the outcome, but⊠the electorate kinda sucks!
Jag önskar att C och V kunde sÀtta sig till bords och hamra ut vad som skaver, nu nÀr Andersson kört S höger om C. Jag förstÄr att man kan tycka V har ett sunkigt förflutet (jag tÀnker dÄ frÀmst pÄ Ribbentrop-tiden) och att dom har gjort galna grejer Àven i nÀrtid. Jag gillar inte heller dom. Men SD Àr vÀrre Àn V. Det bara Àr sÄ. Och SD Àr sÄ stora nu (tack vare att vÄra oansvariga nyhetsmedia hela tiden försöker legitimera dom) att det blir svÄrt att ignorera deras antites V dÄ. Och det Àr ocksÄ vÄra oansvariga nyhetsmedia som försöker (och kanske kommer lyckas) att blÄsa upp konflikten inom C och undergrÀva förtroendet för dom som vill nÀrma sig det vÀnstra blocket.
SjÀlv röstade jag pÄ V i mÄnga Är men har bytt tillbaka till MP. Vi har inte rÄd med nÄn bensinpopulism, Àr mitt resonemang dÀr. Ekonomiskt skulle jag gÀrna stÀlla mig vÀnster om V, om alla partier, men det Àr en kompetensfrÄga ocksÄ och V har gjort mig besviken för mÄnga gÄnger med cement och bensin. Jag kan byta tillbaka nÀr dom tar klimatet pÄ allvar.
S, jag hatar S för hur nÀra dom ligger Tidönazisterna. För hur dom urholkar arbetsrÀtten och facket, och eldar pÄ segregation och frÀmlingsfientlighet. Men att hata nÄn som Àr nÀra Tidö innebÀr ÀndÄ att dom Àr det bÀsta alternativet till Tidö. Jag skulle hellre se V+MP+C Àn V+MP+C+S, men det kÀnns lÄngsökt nu nÀr högervindarna blÄser sÄ starkt. Och V+MP+C+S Àr bÀttre Àn Tidö. Det bara Àr sÄ. Inte med stor marginal men tillrÀckligt stor för att jag ska bry mig och engagera mig.
Det Àr mÄnga som hatar blockpolitiken i vÄrt land men jag ser det som en lyx pÄ mÄnga sÀtt. SÀg att jag tycker MP Àr bÀst sÄ jag röstar pÄ dom. DÄ Àr min röst inte bortkastad för i bÀsta fall fÄr jag mitt parti och i vÀrsta fall hjÀlpte jag ÀndÄ till att motverka det blÄbruna blocket. Till och med kantpartierna som inte aldrig fÄtt sitta i regering, dom bidrar ÀndÄ till att motverka det motsatta blocket. Blocksystemet ökar expressiviteten hos vÀljarbasen jÀmfört med ett tvÄpartiland. DÀrför var ocksÄ Alliansen pÄ sin tid en jÀttebra idé (för dom. Den gynnade dom. Det var dÄligt för oss andra som hatar deras politik) för det ger vÀljarna ett nyanserat alternativ; varje röst pÄ ett blockparti bÄde hjÀlper blocket som helhet och hjÀlper till att forma nyanserna och proportionerna i blockets politik.
Om jag bodde i ett land som USA dĂ€r executive styrs helt av ett parti dĂ„ skulle det inte gĂ„. Om jag röstar pĂ„ Greens (vilket jag föresprĂ„kade 2000 och 2004âdet var dumt av mig) Ă€r det som att hjĂ€lpa Bush. Men sĂ„ Ă€r det tack och lov inte hĂ€r. SĂ„ lĂ€nge jag lyckas rösta över fyraprocentspĂ€rren förstĂ„s.
Jag har tidigare sagt att jag till och med hellre skulle se en koalition av alla dom sju normala partierna Àn SD. (Det var innan Tidö, och nu kommer KD och M fÄ svÄrt att tvÀtta bort geggan och rehabilitera sig.) SÄ onormala tycker jag SD Àr. Att C vill likstÀlla dom med V Àr vansinnigt.
AlltsÄ, frÄn majoritetens förtryck bevara oss. Alla Ätta partier stÄr höger om vad jag vill, om vad jag tror vi akut behöver. Folk Àr m.ao. vÀldigt vilseledda. Ska vi ha demokrati sÄ behöver vi ett bÀttre medialandskap. Eller jag vet inte vad.
This is what I want to do:
android_11_on_the_light_phone_2 at Reddit
If that works on Light Phone III, thatâs the solution for me here.
I canceled the Light Phone preorder. Iâm sad about it because it still feels like least bad in many ways. But not good enough. None of the ones that exist are good enough. I hate iPad and InkPalm too, and Linode/Akamai. Everything is bad, everything feels gross and untrustworthy. Iâm sad that we could let the tech world get so bad. (Edit: cancelled the cancellation, see thread.)
SVT pronounced the ship äŒéč3 (YÄ« PĂ©ng SÄnâthe fabulous bird three, I guess âRoc 3â since the pĂ©ng is also a big mythological bird) as âYĂŹ PĂšng TrĂ©ââthey were saying 3 as a Swedish three, even though they were speaking English. That means cut and collide philosophy (äčçą°ćČ). Or I dunno, it can mean lots of things, the way the Swedish guy was saying âtrĂ©â, the number 3 with such a Stockholm accent, while otherwise trying to mix English and Chinese, was just extra weird.
Thatâs not to make light of the kind of climate waste involved in sabotaging internet cables:
2024 Baltic Sea submarine cable disruptions - Wikipedia
Martin Luther makes me sick. Everytime someone mentions him I think of how fucked up he was:
Martin Luther and antisemitism - Wikipedia
Iâve been playing the non-deluxe version of Super Mario Unlimited:
Romhacking.net - Hacks - Super Mario Unlimited - Deluxe
Itâs one of my fave NES games (my very faves are Clu Clu Land, Draculaâs Curse, and DuckTales. Tetris and Dr Mario would be up there but they have versions on other platforms that I prefer) and Iâve made it to level 4-5 currently, but now Iâm thinking of starting over with the deluxe version.
The Baduk game was fun because I (playing white giving two stones) started out making some huge mistakes including a mistimed tengen grab and a lost corner fight and a couple of loose elephant jumpsâand all three of those mistakesâ aji ended up being useful and good. Like, the two stones I lost in my NE corner ended up giving me aji to win ten stones center east.
Happy accidents đ€·đ»ââïž
A good day for me. Counting that iffy game, I won Magic 3â0 Before Magic, we played two rounds of Yahtzee (1â1) and one game of Rebirth which I narrowly won. Then I won one game of Focus and one of Baduk, and we lost two attempts of Sail.
Heck, Iâve said that one advantage Rebirth had over Kingdom Builder is how with KB it was like pulling teeth but when Rebirth hits the table people have been happy and having fun. Even though thereâs more than a few rough corner cases đ
But I canât say the same for Focus. Itâs in my top three of games along Ghosts and Baduk, but (like Kingdom Builder) no-one of my friends seem to like it!
Okay so hereâs the situation!
Playing Magic, Halo eats two mountains for a Fireblast on my Wild Mongrel, pulling two mana into the pool first. I play a Circular Logic on his Fireblast, and he grumbles and takes the four damage from the Jackal Pup blocking my Wild Mongrel.
I go to my second main and heâs like uh wait I couldâve used the mana I had in my pool to pay for the Circular Logic. Yeah, I forgot that too! đđ»ââïž Luckily itâs a no-stakes kitchen table game so it doesnât matter that I wouldnât let him take that back!
I wonder how many good people are in prisons, proportionately. Many of the most evil acts (financially exploiting the enviroment and the populace) are not illegal.
Capital and wealth concentration is also power, is the problem. More money means more influence and vice versa.
Men stora delar av vĂ€nstern nu verkar Ă€ndĂ„ ta marknadskapitalismens permisser som axiom och vill bara lappa den med ex vis dividender eller sĂ€nkt bensinpris. Hela den fascistiska tripartitismen bygger ocksĂ„ pĂ„ det: âArbetssköparna Ă€r bra, dom behöver bara hĂ„llas i schack lite.â
Nu Ă€r det hĂ€r ett sidospĂ„r pĂ„ ett sidospĂ„r men jag tyckte det blev mer intressant Ă€n ursprungsfrĂ„gan sĂ„ jag uppskattar det. Den reaktionĂ€ra âkristnaâ högern i USA och Italien har ocksĂ„ en stor del av sitt upphov i att under marknadskapitalismen sĂ€kra resurser för sig sjĂ€lva. âRösta pĂ„ skattesĂ€nkningar för dom rika sĂ„ skyddar vi er mot bögarnaââmodellen. đ€Šđ»ââïž
Jag skulle vilja gÄ mer till roten av det onda och tÀnka helt annorlunda kring resurser och arbetsuppgifter. Det skulle ju ha varit bra om vi hade gjort det redan innan automatiseringens tidevarv för nu kommer det bli hÄrigt.
Maybe I should lay off the song.link links. I donât wanna advertise DRM services.
I said baby yes hello!
But Iâm gonna need a windows machine to add the files (unless thereâs a way to do it with dd or cat).
GBA Frotz - (Computer) - GameBrew
Book before tabs,
brain becomes scraps.
Tabs before book,
youâre off the hook.
Maybe there is a z8 player for my 2DS?
So here are the three Z-machine interpreters in F-droid that I know of:
And for all three apps, scrolling is awkward and thereâs no paging up and down.
The Fictionarium fork of Fabularium might address this but I donât have the repo URL for it.
Parchment works even in airplane mode just as long as I can load it in there while Iâm online. Itâs the least featureful and convenient of these apps, and it frustratingly disables the pageup/pagedown keys, and it keeps popping away my keyboard, but at least it does work and is my best bet for now.
I just watched through all ten seasons of Friends with French subs on and theyâve replaced some of Chandlerâs bad jokes with good ones. Which gets weird in the episode where Rachel is supposed to be sick of his bad jokes but theyâre hilarious instead. The original: knock-knock-whoâs-there: âpick me and Iâll tell you at the weddingâ. The replacement whoâs-there: âYour best pick for the wedding!â So much funnier!
I love it
The Swedish subtitles on Gilmore Girls are wild. The translator understands every joke (which is rare for a translator), but have translated the punny jokey English into straight non-jokey Swedish.
Elvingâs Musingâs on Amazing Spider-Man:
Zeb Wells has worked on-and-off as a freelance writer on a variety of Marvel titles in the 2000s and contributed small issues in titles like Tangled Web before becoming part of the Brand New Day writing team, where he wrote the controversial story âShedâ and a better regarded Rhino story, he also wrote miniseries and tie-ins elsewhere, before taking a hiatus from Marvel to the world of Web Animation (Robot Chicken among others) only to return in the late 2010s as part of Jonathan Hickmanâs writing team where he wrote Hellions, a largely humor-based title focused on Kieron Gillenâs version of Mr. Sinister as an over-the-top dandy, and a team of anti-heroes.
I really did hate Shed, but I really loved Hellions, and there was also an amazing run on The New Mutants in there.
Hellions took characters I didnât care about and made it an azaming run. Psylocke is now one of my faves mostly because of that run.
So Iâm finally catching up on Wellsâ ASM. Just got through âDead Languageâ. I like this run. As per ushe when Reddit is hating Iâm left scratching my head because I like it. Always been a Felicia fan đ€·đ»ââïž
My first Marvel comic was Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #76, a heartbreaking Felicia issue.
From looking at a bunch of his work, Wellsâ work focuses a lot on a sense of mean-spirited humor, apparent in the Robot Chicken cartoons which is often ugly and mean-spirited in the early MAD comics vein but without actually being great art or great writing as the MAD comics were. His work on Hellions is a cast of amoral aâholes and murderers, so his mean-spirited approach is entirely fitting there, since the point is to keep audiences at a remove and not have them identify with the characters too much.
I felt like Hellions did have heart, unlike Robot Chicken.
His work on Spider-Man comics is a little different in that itâs been a lot more overly serious and violent in comparison.
Yeah, I remember reading Shed (another serious and violent Spidey story) and thinking âis this really the same writer?â Thatâs why I hesitated picking up his ASM.
Whereas Wellsâ first issue is redolent of the worst kind of âmystery boxâ storytelling.
Yeah. For one issue. Then the run immediately moved on to normal super hero antics until finally unpacking the mystery box a few months later in one arc.
While this review makes a lot of good points the main complaint is that of an Peter/MJ shipper. đđ»ââïž
Sometimes I forget how much I hated the âOne More Dayâ retcon and wish it had never happened. Not just for Mary Jane but for all the other stuff that happened before it. Resetting characters to their âiconic rootsâ is fine for DC but thatâs not what I want from Marvel.
One More Day got rid of something good and it did it in a really dumb way. Whenever editors and writers would talk about how they hated the marriage Iâd be a little nauseated how callous that sounded.
But itâs been 17 years since it happened. DC comics have rebooted five times since One More Day. I sometimes forget what a third rail it is.
Now that it did happen, we can finally see Peter and Felicia make it work, is the silver lining.
Have there been even better runs, whether with Peter Parker or with other Spider characters? Sure. But Iâm having fun. From my current stack of comics itâs one I turn to most gladly and have the hardest time putting down.
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Incarceration does not effectively reduce recidivism.
Prison doesnât work.
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The QR code for my train tickets has more pixels than my phoneâs screen đ€Šđ»ââïž
Really hated how Across the Spider-Verse made many of my spidey faves (like Miguel) cruel and dumb. The whole idea of a canon disruption / âgotta let the tragedy happenâ goes against what makes Spidey cool.
It sucks a little bit that this is the situation and they know about it, that takes away some from the âwhyyy me!â / hope against hope that I love about Spidey.
It sucks a lot that they wanted to be actively complicit in this.
Cabbage in the sky
JunoCam : Processing - Mission Juno
The propaganda / misinfo flow is so strong these days. Thatâs my election analysis: that itâs the GQP, that itâs the infocalypse.
The arc of the moral universe is long.
I really donât know where it bends towards.
I can only walk one step at a time.
Justice is our beacon.
Och nu nĂ€r Paludan har blivit dömd Ă€r det unket hur Svergies Radio och SVT pushar för hur âfelâ som âexperterâ tycker att domen Ă€r. Isf Ă€r jag ocksĂ„ en âexpertâ. đ€Šđ»ââïž
Och nu har regeringen genast stoppat planerade 140 TWh i vindkraft. Dom kan inte förstÄ. Det Àr enda förklaringen. Dom behandlar klimatet som en leksak, som nÄt som gÄr att förhandla med och skjuta upp som om det vore ett brobygge eller en tunnelbanestation. Det Àr omÀnskligt som dom hÄller pÄ. Det Àr dom som Àr dom konstiga. Det Àr sÄ otroligt vansinnigt. Deras gamla teori att kÀrnkraften ska fixa allt visade sig ju inte stÀmma. SÄ det Àr orimligt att dom dyker ner i vansinnets trÀsk sÄhÀr. Den mÀngden vindkraft dom slÀcker ner, med bara ett par dagars betÀnketid efter senaste utspelet frÄn militÀren, motsvarar den ström som det skulle krÀvas sjutton kÀrnkraftverk för att alstra. 2022, jag förstod att det var ett ödesval men jag ville inte ta in det, jag vill inte ta in det. Det Àr som om vi har Zodiakmördaren och Hannibal Lecter pÄ tronen. Det Àr ett beteende som inte gÄr att hantera eller helt uppfatta.
Det har gĂ„tt tre dagar sen militĂ€ren sa att deras radar eller vad fan det nu Ă€r skulle strula lite om vi hade vĂ€derkvarnar dĂ€r. Tre dagar tog det för regeringen att klippa 140 TWh. Och kalla det för âett givet beslutâ. Vi Ă€r slungna i en soptippsvĂ€rld. Det gĂ„r inte att ha det sĂ„ hĂ€r. Det gĂ„r inte att tĂ€nka, allt snurrar. Vi lever i en helvetesvĂ€rld. I vansinnets grĂ„ zon dĂ€r allt bara Ă€r sprutande brus av lögner och förstörelse.
Det hÀr Àr samma regering som trotsar riksdagsbeslutet att stoppa import av rysk fossilgas, en import som bara har ökat sen krigsutbrottet, en import som förstör jorden och fyller ryska krigskassan. Det beslutet var den nittonde maj 2022. Men att stoppa vÄr egen vindkraft kan dom göra pÄ tre dagar. Det hÀr Àr myrornas krig. Det hÀr Àr den kvÀvande askhögen.
FrÄn 2022:
Moderaternas nÀrings- och energipolitisk talesperson Carl-Oskar Bohlin motiverar beslutet att inte stödja MP-förslaget med att man inte vill ge legitimitet till MP:s politik.
â Det Ă€r miljöpartistiskt plakatpolitik. Den politik som de driver i Sverige har skapat gasberoendet i Europa.
Vad var det i förslaget som var miljöpartistiskt och dÄligt?
â Deras lösning Ă€r att ensidigt bygga ut vĂ€derberoende kraftproduktion, dĂ„ blir man beroende av gaskraftverk som backup, det kan vi inte stĂ€lla oss bakom.
Det hÀr Àr hockeylagspolitik, prestigepolitik. Vi kan inte ha det sÄhÀr. Det gÄr inte. Det funkar inte. Det hÀr Àr en omöjlighet. Dom leker med verkligheten.
Kingdom Builder / Rebirth comparison thread:
Rebirth feels like a worse version of Kingdom Builder. | Rebirth
A long board game day with Halo, we played 2p games for seven and a half hours!
First we winchester drafted Shadows over Innistrad (w/o EMN). Normally when we winchester draft six boosters (and donât worry, environmentalists, we used cube cards not fresh boosters), the decks get super weak and almost always need three colors but Halo got a really fast Boros deck with a few bombs. I drafted really poorly, committing to Jund super early. I had more synergies (I had plenty of delirium cards and a few madness cardsâwhy are the mechanics of this block so ableistly named) but that wasnât enough so I ended up losing 1â2. But⊠That one win, the first of our three games, felt really good because there were so many on board traps that I spotted and didnât fall in. First, I knew that he had a Stern Constable so even though I was tempted to use Arlinn Kordâs +1 ability on my Kessig Dire Swine for the win, I instead used the +0 ability to get a wolf token and went to my attack phase, so he tapped down my swine, and in my second main I got rid of his tapper, rather than any of his big creatures, with my Murderous Compulsion. Then, when he alpha struck on the back swing, he was hoping that I wouldnât realize how he could drain with his Wayward Disciple but I made sure that when I blocked, none of his creatures would die while still covering all of his tramplers. That felt like a galaxy brain play. Less using my own resources well and more being really aware of what he was bringing to bear. Fun fun fun.â„ïž Leaving me with 1 point of life so I could swing back for those last points. He had both a Fiery Temper and an Explosive Apparatus but only mana for one of them, since I had killed his discard outlet. Then I lost the other two games, getting choked on red in the second game and flooding out on the thirdâhe also played really well and his deck was just way better and tighter. 1â2.
Then we played Rebirth, the first time either of us tried the Ireland side. Wow, itâs a huge step up in complexity just because there are just that many more things to remember. Scotland: âScore my tile, maybe get a castle and itâs no big deal if I forget because that can be adjusted later, and maybe get a cathedral card and thatâs the one thing I really need to remember.â On the Ireland side I need to remember tile scoring and castles just the same, but also I really need to remember to use tower powers and to check whether I scored one or more of the eight public goals. So while the Scotland side is a really accessible game and Iâm so grateful that theyâre still making games that arenât that hard to learn, the Ireland side is definitively nerds only. But it was really fun! First game I had a plan and I managed to execute on it and win by a huge margin. Second game I was a little more overwhelmed, fell behind on castles (I had four to his eight), so I only won by a less than twenty point margin. 2â0. The Ireland side is really fun. This is one of my favorite games right now and I hope hope hope it has legs.
Then one game of Radlands! He showed the power of âunderpoweredâ camps like Obelisk and Warehouse, paring them with a Training Camp and a lot of punk-generating cards. Both Obelisk and Warehouse are slated to be removed in the expansion for being underpowered but we see Warehouse as one of the very strongest camps, and weâve had many games won by Obelisk too. My own setup was no slouch: I had a Reactor combining with both Mulcher and Railgun. But then I played like a kratt, forgetting to mulch before I blew the Reactor.đ€Šđ»ââïž He had a huge card advantage which I managed to pare down with both the Reactor followed by Radiation, but he could rebuild and in the end he won with Vera, Muse, and Argo on the table. 0â1.
We played three games of Scrabble Together after that. First we tried a house rule (to make the game harder) that Halo suggested: twenty goals, no helpers, and then if we canât beat the twenty goals, our âscoreâ is how many goals we did manage to do. But then we forgot to count.đ€Šđ»ââïž I liked the house rule because his other ideas for how to make the game harder (playing to more goals) wouldâve made the game longer. But then maybe we donât really need a rule to make the game more difficult right now. We usually do win when playing the game rules-as-written (which we did for our second and third game of this tonight), but itâs still an interesting time getting there. Itâs sort of like a sudoku; you always win but itâs fun getting there. And itâs not guaranteed that youâll winâthere were some tense moments. Iâm really digging this game. Itâs just fun playing classic games and this is a more accessible version. My recommendation is for people who are super geeky on Scrabble but want to play with people who arenât, this is a good game to level the playing field and have fun together. Whereas for people who arenât already Scrabble-heads, there are other tile layers that might make more sense like Rebirth or Qwirkle. L, W, W.
Then we played another Knizia, âThrowing Sevensâ, a simple push-your-luck dice game. I happened to win but itâs a mostly random game. 1â0.
That led us to discussing Dix Mille, and as Iâm so confused on how that works compared to King of Tokyo, I was like âenh, letâs just play King of Tokyoâ even though it really doesnât make sense on two players. It was one of the games we played all the time when we first became friends back in 2011, but neither of us had played it since 2012, 2013 or so shortly after Power Up first came out. Even though the game was dumb on two players I really had a fun time. It came down to the die on the last turn and Halo managed to win, and to win by collecting twenty stars even! Good job! 0â1.
After that, we had less than one hour left so we brought out Mottainai. I played pretty sneakily since he zerg rushed five works in the Gift Shop including a Flag and a Scroll for fifteen points total⊠but I had a Lampshade, giving me three points on the table + fifteen on backorders. I had been tayloring aggressively for metal and clay; especially clay since I also had a clay on sales (although, since that sale wasnât covered it ended up being unnecessary with the lampshade since Halo never sold any clay himself). But that only goes to show how even with poor board control itâs possible to win with good fundamentals. 1â0.
Finally a game of Go where Halo played much better than he has been playing lately. It made me really happy to see. He outplayed me in five different fights leading to a win of over a hundred points. 0â1. (In our latest series of games where Iâm white giving him two stones, this makes it 2â2 overall, since I had a 2â1 lead going into tonight.) It was just a return to form for him and I was so happy to see it.
Overall a very even night where we won five games each, plus the coop Scrabble Together which we lost one and won two. (If counting the magic game as one match instead of three games, we wouldâve won four games each outside of the coop games.) Great day.
How I teach the âMottainaiâ card game
Det kan bli sĂ„ att resultaten i det amerikanska presidentvalet dröjer flera mĂ„nader den hĂ€r gĂ„ngen. đ°
Generallöjtnant Carl-Johan Edström sÀger till SVT att vindkraftverken kan pÄverka övervakningssystemen negativt och fördröja upptÀckten av hot.
Men alltsÄ. Dom i sig hjÀlper ju till att motverka det största hotet av alla, klimathotet.
Iff means a mutual if, or an âif but only ifâ. I would want a word for âx if y, and maybe x without y, but y is super unlikely and so is x but if there is y then for sure xâ, something that really emphasizes the unlikeliness of x.
Jag brukar sÀga dataspel med a ist för or (vilket Àr nyare enligt korpus, det hette dataspel först) men det blir ibland förvirrande för nÀr jag skulle köpa Zelda dÄ blev han i affÀren sur för det finns ju inte till Windows.
Ew, Iâm so off the baby toy aesthetics and I donât like that it looks like shell scripts.
There are good things about node/tree languages like this; I use XML and s-expressions for plenty of things and theyâre both node based. So Iâm not discarding the entire thing.
Personally Iâm probably going to to reach for s-expressions or YAML sooner than this. I use both of those every day. I like YAML more and more actually, now that Iâve got better tooling for it than I had in my YAML-hating days.
Another bad thing about kdl is that the syntax highlighting on its own web page canât render the slashdash comments.
Mx Tool Box is part of why there are so many freakouts around this because people go there to troubleshoot and one of the things they see is this scam blacklist. Even though there might be some other issue like reverse DNS.
Thirteen years ago, an email thread about them:
Perhaps if you had solid arguments for needing to charge for removals you would have been taken seriously. But when every other blocklist manages to do free removals without any problems you need to come up with some pretty damn solid arguments.
Their cheapest option is 45 CHF per year and only if I commit to two full years. That wouldâve been more than I pay for the entire server. (Not to imply that I considered giving in. That was never on the table.)
Itâs a slippery slope, too, because paying to one extortionist would be one thing and then every single one of the sixty blocklists Iâm green on would also start charging the same amount.
Someone on irc://oftc.net/linode pointed out how Wikipediaâs criticism of this scam got deleted:
Comparison of DNS blacklists - Wikipedia
I used the Mario example to say that it was different than books or movies where the protagonist lives to the end, not to say that it was the same as in D&D.
In some games you can respawn as the same character in the same game world. Just try again; sometimes on the same screen like Celeste, other times having to start all over on world 1â1 like Mario.
Other games you lose it all. The entire game world goes away and that was your one chance at exploring it and you lose it if your character dies. Like Nethack.
In between are games where the game world doesnât go away and you donât even have to start over your exploration of it, you can keep learning more and more. More clues, more about the culture, the locations, the people there, the obstacles and monsters, but your character does go away and you have to start over building it up. Some people play D&D like that.
There are also games where you canât die, where you can just explore the entire game from beginning to end with the same character safely. Like Sam & Max Hit the Road, or Gone Home.
All popular. In different ways, for different people or different moods, for different reasons. You can play roleplaying games in any of these modes, too.
So I just donât buy:
People who want to play out a fantasy movie, or fantasy movie franchise even. Thatâs a social and demographic issue. No one wants to watch Frodo die to a random wolf attack while trudging through The Old Forest. And only a relatively small number of people want to play as him as heâs ripped to shreds by those wolves. This is true regardless how reliable and well communicated the information is on the creatures in monster book is.
as a universal truth.
The topic was how some ways of presenting encounter building had some pros and cons and could be one factor leading to a serve-up-encounters playstyle, which in turn has pros and cons.
If Iâm trying to come up with a charitable reading of why you suddenly went âno-one wants to watch a main char death from a random wolf attackâ in a discussion about whether or not the way the PF2e Bestiary presents encounter difficulty can be a significant impact on how GMs design their games, I guess saying that âthis is what the people want, regardlessâ is a way to reassert your orthogonality claim from the other direction: implying âpeople want to be served up safe encounters regardless of what knowledge the monster book gives their GMs, so itâs not because of the knowledge that that playstyle happens. The knowledge just makes the playstyle better.â
After I had already been making the case against the latter half of that, thinking that the knowledge does afford that playstyle, making it not orthogonalâŠ
âŠI disagreed with the former (âpeople want to beâŠâ) with the rot13âd examples from fiction and the Mario example from games.
(And arguably the way published adventures are set up are a bigger influence on how these games are gamemastered, even for homebrew since modules influence a gamesâ culture. I was so happy about Lost Mines of Phandelver which was so exploratory, and so sad when they switched to more scripted event-by-event setups like Dragons of Stormwreck Isle.)
(The uncharitable but more immediate reading wouldâve been âSandra, no-one likes your game where you can die from random wolf attacks so get with the programâ. But Iâm not worried about that because I know my game got better after adapting this style. I went from having to drag people to the gaming table kicking and screaming once a year, to people showing up twice a week for years, sometimes even calling me to schedule it, before we got our calendar app.)