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by labster 2y ago
Nah, secret GM rolls are best done behind a screen to increase the dramatic tension for the players.
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by labster 2y ago
Certainly they are disruptors in this space.
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by labster 2y ago
There are multiple companies in Japan that specialize in quitting people’s jobs by proxy. I assume it helps because you can’t illegally threaten a person through a witness. https://soranews24.com/2024/11/13/ja
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by labster 2y ago
Normally I assume that privatization is always bad, but can you honestly look at Artemis, Orion, and the fucking Lunar Gateway and think, oh yes more of that please? Commercial space produced almost all successes of the past decade. (That s
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by labster 2y ago
Maybe it wasn’t named so that long after people like me pass from memory for good, people will still speak of Rebecca and of the love we showed her.
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by labster 2y ago
Los Angeles had an extensive electric train system operated by Pacific Electric in the 1920s, but eventually they were all removed to improve motor traffic, and because the owners sold all of the real estate that the Red Cars made more attr
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by labster 2y ago
Devices to add stickers to packages was a solved problem before food allergy warning labels existed. In the 1980s supermarkets made money adding price stickers to every item of inventory, then changing the prices for sales. Meanwhile the fo
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by labster 2y ago
Neither do I
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by labster 2y ago
The US courts have ruled that there are time, place, and manner limits on freedom of speech.
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by labster 2y ago
They exist, though few in number. They’re the ones loudly complaining that you can’t tell a (racist) “joke” any more.
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by labster 2y ago
Consistency is the hobgoblin of minor planets
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by labster 2y ago
No, it’s always the same joke, in a thousand variations on a theme.
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by labster 2y ago
I believe that it only tries to DWIM with arithmetic and geometric sequences, and gives up otherwise. Of course there’s nothing keeping you from writing a module that would override infix:... in the local scope with a lookup in OEIS.
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by labster 2y ago
Make Poyias Great Again
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by labster 2y ago
New strat just dropped
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by labster 2y ago
No, the purges will take out the entire senior leadership of the Democratic Party. You need to stop thinking like it’s 2020 and start thinking like it’s 1932.
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by labster 2y ago
Don’t worry, the purges will begin soon enough.
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by labster 2y ago
Governors can be killed by executive order. It’s an official action so under the new Supreme Court ruling the President can’t be prosecuted. Anyone who carries out the order can be pardoned. The courts can of course reverse the executive or
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by labster 2y ago
Eight year old proceeds to pour oil and water into a vacuum cleaner.
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by labster 2y ago
Generally as lies wrapped in lies. You can use the same techniques to push a falsehood as well. Which is not to say Rand did not actually believe her message — she did, which is why the books are so effective. But they have given the upper
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by labster 2y ago
As someone who writes fiction, I’d like to note that one often needs to write really complex lies in order to effectively transmit a single truth. You can’t just tell people anything, you have to prepare the mind to receive the knowledge.
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by labster 2y ago
The fact that the rabbit hole exists at all means that our hope for instant, reliable answers is likely doomed. Avoiding politics entirely, I could ask “does gravity curve spacetime?”, and while “yes” is a reasonably accurate answer, so is
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by labster 2y ago
Finally, a “breaks one’s silence” headline that’s not a celebrity posting something on social media.
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by labster 2y ago
Do they forget that? I thought that was one of the most well known facts about the incident.
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by labster 2y ago
Are those blunders or accents? From my point of view you spelled diarrhea incorrectly, unlike how our lord and savior Noah Webster taught us. Maybe language is fine if it conveys the intended meaning.
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by labster 2y ago
I would honestly be astonished if a 4 English department PhD students who were all native speakers of English could all not spell onomatopoeia. I’d expect 2 of the 4 could in the absolute worst case. Spelling is simply not as hard as rememb
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by labster 2y ago
So move the moderation decisions onto the end user? Somehow this doesn’t feel like progress.
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by labster 2y ago
We could go the Reddit route and have monobook.en.wikipedia.org
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by labster 2y ago
People creating an account just to browse isn’t great for the WMF either. You don’t get the pages cached by Varnish and hit the Mediawiki servers directly. There’s still parser cache, but it’s still more load while logged in.
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by labster 2y ago
> The previous skin, Vector, had been the default look on Wikipedia for 12 years. It was time for a better desktop experience. So, when is the better desktop experience coming? I kid, I kid. Well, kind of. There are features of Vector202

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