They call me Stew

A) Yes.

B) We've lost some of the ways they treated wool to make it less hot.

C) I like my linen shirt...

We need to fix climate change so I can dress like a Zouave without being a heat casualty.

P.S. Probably can't be done while camouflage is necessary, but as a dress uniform...

The Supreme Court recognized that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right by 1857, so I'm not sure "reinvented" is accurate.

Violent J for President or Supreme Court. He grew as a person in ways few of us have.

Violent J and Dolly Parton need to team up somehow...

TL;DR Violent J for Senate

(Page from a 1979 internal IBM training manual) A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION.

(The same page before, edited using pastes of letters and words from the original document) A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND IT WILL FAIL YOU YOU WERE WARNED YOU DID NOT LISTEN THEREFORE A COMPUTER SHALL MAKE ALL YOUR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS FOREVER MAY YOU BURN IN HELL OF YOUR OWN MAKING

How we started-> Where we're at now

Actually, if one considers the political conditions which allowed Trump to ascend to the throne and carry out his reign of madness, it is far more accurate to say Trump is working to finish the job Bin Laden started.

AI is enshittification, so I don't think it will avoid shit.

How many of them sell to their local city?

We don't eat that many soy beans.

And plant some sort of illegal weapon.

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The thing about AI is that it ultimately doesn't matter how realistic it gets, or looks, or sounds, or seems - those are all red herrings. The problem at its heart is that nothing it produces comes from a real person, and it therefore has no aesthetic value. That's it. No more needs to be said.

As I've said over and over again for decades, one of the greatest enablers of evil in the world is the refusal of useful idiots to understand how legal precedent works. Now Trump is very clearly demonstrating to y'all why the government should never have had any of the powers he's exploiting.

Between a lot of people have had bad experiences with a teachers union keeping bad teachers in classrooms, and the unions doing nothing about stagnating teacher pay, maybe we would be better off without them.

A look at Antichrist prophecies by an actual theologian (as opposed to a Thiel-origin): archive.is/SGZcS

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVd: Spinning Plates This is the fourth thread of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who make up a majority of all of the humans who hav…

This week on the blog: More Peasants! This time the focus is on the work of peasant women, beginning with textile production.

Keeping a household in clothes was, it turns out, very much a full-time job.

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Th
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These are problems caused by the "war on drugs."

@sarahtaber.bsky.social is right there!

The number of space launches has grown exponentially and the cost has plummeted. We are poised for a golden age of space exploration.

The cash bail thing is a no-sell to a lot of folks who are interested in ending highway robbery (civil forfeiture) and demilitarizing law enforcement.

Yeah, the feds don't need basically any of that, except maybe the tax records, and I'm not sure about that.

Decanter of Endless Water - Equipment - Archives of Nethys: Pathfinder 2nd Edition Database This item looks like an ordinary glass flask full of water. The stopper can’t be removed unless you speak one of the item’s three command words, each of which causes water to pour forth in a different way. Pulling the stopper straight out creates fresh water, and rotating it as you pull creates salt water. Any effect of the decanter lasts until the decanter is plugged (with its own stopper, a finger, or the like).<br /><br /><b>Activate</b> <span class='action' title='Single Action' role='img' aria-label='Single Action'>[one-action]</span> command, Interact; <b>Effect</b> Speaking “stream,” you cause water to pour out at a rate of 1 gallon per round.<br /><br /><b>Activate</b> <span class='action' title='Single Action' role='img' aria-label='Single Action'>[one-action]</span> command, Interact; <b>Effect</b> Speaking “fountain,” you cause water to pour out in a 5-foot-long stream at a rate of 5 gallons per round.<br /><br /><b>Activate</b> <span class='action' title='Single Action' role='img' aria-label='Single Action'>[one-action]</span> command, Interact; <b>Effect</b> Speaking “geyser,” you cause a powerful deluge of water to erupt at a rate of 15 gallons per round. You can direct the stream at a creature, subjecting it to the effects of <a style="text-decoration:underline" href="Spells.aspx?ID=154"><i>hydraulic push</i></a> (spell attack roll +15). You can repeat this once per round as long as the geyser continues, spending an Interact action to direct the geyser each time.

It does only get you one small oasis in a desert, true.

"A decanter in every villa" would get some expansion, but I'm not sure it would really expand grain production.

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Wait, 150 gallons per minute is definitely enough to irrigate quite a bit.

I did enjoy that in Mistborn.

Also true! I am not up to date, and I feel like more world builders need to read ACOUP and Think about what this or that bit of magic really does.

Summon Elemental? Save a week worth of charcoal!

Decanter of Endless water would be locale altering in Morocco, but nearly useless in Vermont.

I feel like D&D did a poor job explaining how Rare people who even get to level 1 really are.

The average poleis would, I think, have about 3 clerics who get to level 4, and maybe one who gets higher.

Yes, their God actually Listens to them, but they cannot ask for enough on a societal level...

And even a simple cantrip, Mending, is world changing if everyone knows it. So many resources devoted to repair/replacement, poof! unecessary!

That cast bronze plow that "normally" wouldn't even be made because it comes apart so fast? Now it lasts for centuries!

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I think you're vastly underestimating the number of people who want fireballs.

But I do agree that basically everyone in Greece wanted more rain.

Sanderson has done some solid work, but I know approximately nothing about Cosmere.

Is there a good spot to go to learn more?

We’re three decades past the resounding failure of abstinence only sex education and yet too many so-called progressives still buy into the fundamentally wrong idea that we protect kids by keeping them ignorant through censorship rather than empowering them with information