I’m also a little sad about it. I still think it is a “net positive”, and I try not let let “the perfect be the enemy of the good”. Yes, in a “perfect” world, he reformed, went into remission, and started working to remediate all the suffering and damage he had caused.

https://imgur.com/D4DsUtX still works for me (US; no VPN)

I agree that it probably should be legal-ish. I think maximum curb gaps are a great idea, and minimum curb gaps are probably a good idea in areas where curb cleaning might frequently overlap with parking. But smarts and cycles should almost always be allowed to double-up within the same F-150-sized space.

right wheels need to be within 12" of the curb

park nose first

rear passenger wheel still more than 12" from curb -> ticket.

I agree that the status of violence being monopolized is a net good for society, it fact I tend to agree that it may actually be the most important distinction between “civilization” and not.

That said, state violence needs to be intensely reviewed and unjust or overuse of it should be rectified. The U.S. idea of qualified immunity tends to be eliminated, and in the few cases where it is justified can be replaced with a much more narrow policy/practice. And that’s just to start.

Also, restrained violence in defense of self or others, including resisting unjust state violence, is universally acceptable. It’s necessity shows problems with how the monopolizer of violence is imperfectly dispensing violence, which must be expected from an imperfect actor.

Bah, there’s a LOT of devices that could talk to my father’s phone over the LAN if they were programmed that way. But, they aren’t. They report to a wall-known “cloud” server, and the app on his phone checks that same server for the latest status or to relay command/control.

Nice advantage: can get status / send commands even when he is not on the LAN. Bad disadvantage: when the rural Internet blinks out (like every time it rains) he can’t tell the robo-vac which rooms to start cleaning.

It’s a sin I had to scroll this far down to find the Silicon Valley reference.

We’d know our impact, but we might still keep unsustainably stealing angular momentum, for a variety of reasons.

Similar to we know we need to stop extracting fossil fuels, but we do it anyway.

We already monitor the length of a day to figure out when to add leap seconds, if we do start using a significant portion, we’d know. (Of course, we know we are lighting the world on fire by selling LNG and letting people have private jets, and still haven’t stopped.)

I remember the video saying that the airline they engaged with for the study and one other airline were already implementing the changes voluntarily.

While I agree that the right leaders and policies continue to be important, even on this very specific issue, I believe we’ll see an improvement without another round of voting.

Good news: We should see fewer CONtrails soon; https://nebula.tv/videos/simonclark-how-airlines-can-halve-their-climate-impact (or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoOVqQ5sa08 )

Vidiverse search isn’t working on the instance I use. You gotta link to “1944 Gaslight” for the underprivileged?

Ah, a fellow GPB enjoyer, spreading the Truth about gas lamping.

/s

I remember this wording from Rick and Morty, but does it also predate that?

I reject the claim that natural is good. Appeal to Nature is a common logical fallacy.

I’ve been using it on my laptop, and it’s been doing weird things that my X11 never did. It’s like rescaling or antialiasing or doing something with the fonts in my terminal while I’m using it. But, enough works that I’m gonna stick with it for now.

Also, I’m not able to use my preferred window manager XMonad under Wayland so far. Maybe at some point there will be a way to combine Wayland, KDE Plasma, and real window manager simply. (But, KDE Plasma has been getting more and more hostile to alternative window managers even on X11; I can’t been able to cleanly close my user session in months.)

Jury nullification exists because juries can aquit for any reason. They are encouraged to acquit based on facts and “shadow of a doubt” (criminal) or “preponderance of evidence” (civil). But, they can also acquit for other reasons, and if they are doing it because the law, or it’s application in this case, is unjust, that is jury nullification (of the law).

… the best kind of correct.

Are the new winners listed of the Indie Game Awards site?

I’m not going to uninstall or demand a refund, but I fully support the Indie Game Awards decision on this and will not refer to CO:E33 as a winner of any of the Indie Game Awards. I will still call it IMO the best JRPG in many years, but I thought that before it started receiving awards.

I hope this event serves to scare game studios of all sizes from the mere appearance of using AI at ANY scale or part of the process. Hell, I hope it causes the whole damn bubble to burst, but it’s just not that important.

I would also accept any other recognizable, removable media. Even a generic USB stick would be more relevant than a floppy disk.