Maybe if I had a few years to reorganise myself, and that’s a big maybe. I’ve never much cared for money, power, and I’m empathetic to a fault, but being in different environments causes people to change.

The biggest challenge would be staying in touch with the population. You would need a good team of people that represent the interests of human existence and happiness. At that point it’s sounding closer to a democracy anyway.

From there, there’s obvious moves. Find the biggest sources of misery and damage, reform or just straight up tear it out and start again. You’d need to move moderately slow, moving quickly destabilizes people too much and that is often not worth the cost. Raise social safety nets, try to turn the system from working to survive into one where working to get nice shit.

I feel like I might bankrupt whichever system I’m put in charge of though. Economics was never my strong suit, and I probably would start ignoring economic realities in favour of human existence.

Clair was much more of a vibes based hiring and management process. Crazy how letting creatives do their thing results in interesting content people want to experience.

This reads like a young man who hasn’t learned how to do things for his own enjoyment yet.

I agree with this assessment of battery technology, I’m curious what your thoughts on storage through other means, such as dams, kinetic batteries, heat batteries, that style of thing? I understand that it’d be a massive undertaking, but if we really put our nose to the grindstone we might be able to pull off a good amount of power storage through methods that already exist.

I’m not personally in the business of killing people, but situations and circumstances cause people to change what they believe is right and wrong. I do believe that sometimes killing people is a valid route to meaningful change. I don’t think this is what happened here, I think some kid got a good shot in and is going to have to deal with the consequences of what his family and country did to him for a while.

Regardless of all of that, I can’t help but see this event in context of America. Like you have a bunch of people getting fed crazy shit 24/7, in a society that is so deeply entrenched in gun culture that you physically cannot de-escalate, these things will happen. The fact it happened to a dude that was very publically advocating for people to have rights to firearms, it feels about the same as a person purposely stepping on a rake. Dude kind of did this to himself somewhat.

Is it literally just DNS filtering? If you change your phone DNS it might just straight up work again.

Ditto, I figured it was one of those dance step guides.

Evil is a point of view, Anakin. The modders and the developers are identical in almost every aspect.

It’s alright, we send someone out every few years to give it a bit of a wind up, like a grandfather clock.

I too have configured a wsus server, that was about the experience I had.

Oh that’s the burning vitriol for all things of the infernal depths yes

IT people hate computers

I’m going off the top of my head here:

Okay so you know the concept of evaporative cooling for the new AI data centres? It’s hugely wasteful, and definitely not the only way to accomplish the goal, but it’s cheaper. I feel like if we actually figured out all the bullshit of that calibre and just outlawed it, we’d make a significant start towards improvement and only marginally impact the bank statements of a few ultra rich billionaires.

Stop allowing people to dump exhaust and waste untreated into the air and otherwise in the environment, full stop. Full illegal, if you violate it the entire company is dissolved. That’ll suck for shipping, manufacturing, fuck it. We need to actually stop this to achieve some kind of meaningful change. Go back to sails and windmills if we need to, we achieved global industry and shipping before the internal combustion engine existed, we can do it again.

Phase out fossil fuels. It’ll suck a bit, fuck it. Increase reliance on public transport and population density. Make it so you don’t need individual transport to accomplish basic necessities for the vast majority of people.

Ramp up public collaborative research into batteries, power storage, carbon capture, climate science. At this point we’re playing catch up, we need everything we can to try to rectify this shit storm like yesterday.

I know, it just bothers me how little they’re trying to hide it.

Why are the kids technologically illiterate and undersexed until it comes to matters of government control? I’m not usually into tin foil hats, but this doesn’t feel like the kids are the primary concern here.

I feel like if I turned around in that place I would knock over several mountains of paper.

God I had coworkers that had never used a vr headset claiming the metaverse was going to be the next big thing. I wish common sense was common.

I miss community servers terribly.

I first played it when I was like 30, I think that it doesn’t rely on either age or medium enough to ruin the experience. It’s not perfect, the storyline can be a touch flimsy here and there, but the core experience is amazing.

Also the runtime is like 120 hours. Still a big commitment.

Same, I went for a walk just to feel it. It was for about 5 minutes, I was fine, but it was definitely something that could kill you if you were in it for too long.