I assume the timing is to provide the maximum boost for conservatives in elections, by winding up their base with bullshit conspiracy theories. π
27.08.2025 13:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@kenwarren.bsky.social
TTRPG player/forever DM. Mostly 5e. Occasional mapmaker. Left of liberal. Other interests include photography, 3D printing, sf/fantasy. He/him.
I assume the timing is to provide the maximum boost for conservatives in elections, by winding up their base with bullshit conspiracy theories. π
27.08.2025 13:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It would be nice if there were some small emphasis on ethics in there as well.
02.08.2025 05:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I've lived in D.C. for the better part of two decades. Nearly my whole adult life. Something folks aren't talking about--a giant elephant in the room--is the amount of "brand protection" going on right now.
I don't mean fear of Trump or political persecution, although those can overlap.
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I have the book he painted that first one for: Neq the Sword, Piers Anthony, 1975. π
05.07.2025 01:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Quite nice. It reminds me of various small islands all over the world, which are surrounded completely or almost completely by sheer cliffs.
19.06.2025 05:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I would just like to point out that the use of a βdiamond plateβ vinyl wrap on the vehicle is pretty much peak stupidity.
14.06.2025 21:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And yet the LAPD has said the demonstrations remain peaceful. π
My assumption at this point is that Mango Mussolini is hoping for some excuse for a massacre, because that will make his birthday really special. (Mostly, but not entirely, sarcastic, there. π)
My dad grew up in cow country, so I learned it as βuseless as tits on a bull.β π
16.03.2025 23:37 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Sumo kitteh?
14.03.2025 22:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That may be what the org chart says, but I donβt think there can be any doubt that Musky is calling the shots.
21.02.2025 14:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Don't panic, that is what they want. They want us to panic and scatter.
21.01.2025 13:47 β π 36 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1I would assume that the author of that article doesnβt know anyone with ADHD, because otherwise theyβd probably be missing some important body parts. π
Oh, and I *very* much hope that that study was wildly misinterpreted by the author. Because if it wasnβt, itβs almost certainly utter bunk. π‘
Lol.
Thankfully, it doesnβt wake me up, doesnβt make me sleepy, just gives me a couple of hours of better executive function.
Finland's two-year test of universal basic income concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and benefits recipients' mental and financial wellbeing bit.ly/32k19J8
SHOCKING NEWS THAT WILL SHOCK YOU!
29.08.2024 17:25 β π 3175 π 1207 π¬ 63 π 106Quick reminder that if you see a product that looks like it was designed for profoundly lazy people, do NOT make fun of it because its likely the original intention was to help disabled people and it is being mass marketed to lower production costs by volume.
31.08.2024 17:33 β π 14 π 6 π¬ 3 π 0Every few months thereβd be a really big bang somewhere (not near enough to seriously harm the party, though). And of course surviving in a snowy wasteland was, ahem, challenging. π
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I ran a Gamma World campaign set in a nuclear winter a few years after the bombs started to fall. It featured (among other things) autonomous bombardment satellites that were still in operation.
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Current estimates say that every prompt you give a generative "AI" systemβ not each session, every PROMPTβ is like pouring a 16 oz bottle of water onto the ground.
This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up⦠and then looking horrified
I believe that account has claimed to be a Ben Shapiro sock puppet.
What a shock, amirite?!