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Fascism. They looove the taste of boot leather.

The Romans devalued their currency too. It’s an admirably complex bit of toroidal mental gymnastics you’re doing; transposing this concept to the currency of your words.

All that happens is more gpus spin up though. Just more waste. It’s indefensible.

Yeah I also don’t notice it if we’re friends. It’s the assumption of familiarity that bugs me/feels disrespectful, I think…

“Bro” or any variation thereof that assumes familiarity where none exists.

The artifice offends.

A quick scan reveals I’ve never committed a vehicular homicide, and do not engage in activities that are statistically likely to improve the odds that I will commit a vehicular homicide. I’m fine with with jailing someone who’d risk everyone around them with death and dismemberment for their entertainment.

There is no such thing as an “instinct to drive dangerously”, it’s called “a choice”.

Annnnnd fuck that choice.

Bad AND selfish. In generous quantities.

That’s why all of us Americans can quickly tell when someone is just trying to start shit when they get angry online…

The abysmal state of your union somewhat belies your stated ability to “tell when someone is just trying to start shit”. Someone started shit quite some time ago, friend. They continue to do so and I don’t see any evidence that the body politic is even remotely aware.

I’m just saying the American shit detection algorithm might not be as sophisticated as you’re making it out to be.

“Yes, an electronic brain,” said Frankie, “a simple one would suffice.”

“A simple one!” wailed Arthur.

“Yeah,” said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, “you’d just have to program it to say What? and I don’t understand and Where’s the tea? Who’d know the difference?”

…and it happened in a vacuum, just all by itself.

Ok but your not speaking to a Chinese, but to a Canadian, so don’t make me laugh any harder than you already have or I’ll need to go see a doctor for free.

Imagine how much more successful any given business might be by simply… ignoring Twitter.

Doesn’t America also have near universal healthcare then

Lol wut. Not even remotely.

For sure. It was great. I’ve played every entry in the series and those 2 are the memorable ones.

Invisible war was awful but the hellfire boltcaster was immensely fun to use on the Templars lol.

I generally abstract to docker anything I don’t want to bother with and just have it work.

If I’m working on something that requires lots of back and forth syncing between host and container, I’ll run that on bare metal and have it talk to things in docker.

Ie: working on an app or a website or something in language of choice on framework of choice, but postgres and redis are living in docker. Just the app I’m messing with and it’s direct dependencies run outside.

Huh. And here, as a Canadian, I just always wondered why the most obnoxious Americans I’ve ever met had such gigantic heads.

I guess I just thought it was all the bovine growth hormones or something…

Belly laughs in Niagara.

I’m from the 90s Internet. Geocities. Tripod. Webrings. My awesome gothy co-worker staying late after work to update her vampire fan-fiction site because hardly anyone had a computer and the boss let her use the company’s windows 95 machine.

We are categorically lazier as a culture now than then. I expect things to enshittify further until we collectively take responsibility and accountability for our own culture, engagement and entertainment online. As we used to. We need more stupid web tricks, this place used to have all sorts of public art and weird monuments to human quirkiness.

Until they take away from us the ability to purchase a 10$ domain, use DNS, and make HTML forbidden knowledge, anyone can be out there contributing. I realize, however, that most will not; I’ve recently started getting wide eyed stares of amazement because I have my own domain and use it for my email address, so we seem to be sliding further…

Not sure how we fix this.

It’s most similar to factorio imo, but has a bit more depth to it (though both have depth in different areas). There’s a bit more emphasis on the 3rd dimension in the gameplay than factorio, and less than satisfactory. I think it threads the needle between the 2: more orderly than satisfactory, more chaotic than factorio.

One you convert a star system into a Dyson sphere, you gotta get FTL, there’s MOAR STARS to sphere up.

My favorite thing to do was to make Faberge egg style spheres around my systems.

Also: mecha.

Of note: I played this some time ago, and there wasn’t an adversary system in it yet. I see they have added one so, cool, but I don’t have any opinions to add about it’s quality and effects on gameplay. It was fun enough for me on “passive robot star farmer” mode, and remains one of the few games where I took a screenshot of how cool I thought something looked.

I peaked with Dyson sphere program.