Wirlocke

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So just allow Hitler to take over europe and make an ethnostate through mass exodus?

If you're talking about the nukes, I agree, they were unnecessary as Axis Japan was already on the decline.

But to argue the entire war was preventable by just displacing jewish people is naive and borders on antisemitic.

There might've been ways to prevent the war from starting, like not destroying Germany's economy as a scapegoat for WW1 would have done a lot.

But after the Nazis siezed power there's nothing you could do to diplomacy the Nazis into being peaceful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's part of it but it's not that we don't know how, it's that google search is ruined now.

Paid advertisements floating to the top, search engine optimization completely ruining any form of categorization, a deluge of spam websites that pump out irrelevant articles full of keywords (ironically now using GPT to make more articles).

If you want to actually get real people talking you have to append "reddit" to the end. But now Reddit is also becoming shitty for search.

Nowadays people realize if all you get from google search is ai and social media, then why not skip the middle man? Hence people using ai and even Tiktok in place of Google.

I personally use Claude to ask for niche questions and it actually gets to the point answering what I'm asking. (I double check using the terms it gives me to read more on Wikipedia and ect.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It's like an awful combination of a boomer making a flirtatious "joke" and the hyper nerdy language of The Big Bang Theory show.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And it's a hilarious coincidence that it resulted in the southern most point being Antarctica, as it just happens to be the only continent without bears.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I get annoyed when people say things like "big deal, just do xyz yourself, why are you complaining?" . Because making a clear and comprehensive game is WOTC's job they are being paid for with our money!

If the system has a flaw, it's their job to fix it, if they don't they're doing a bad job.

That being said, 5.5e has been pretty cleaned up in this aspect. I'm honestly shocked at how they both added new fun systems and codified a lot of vague mechanics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like an average person or group of people are of average intelligence.

But huge masses of people? They begin to adopt emergent traits that cancel out individual intelligence. It's why foot traffic can be modelled as a liquid. Or why the entire field of economics can exist.

This makes large public masses have predictable behavior that's exploitable by grifters, demagogues, and propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

If he was that competent why would he resort to openly pumping and dumping meme coins in public just prior to this stunt.

He has some dangerous strings he can pull, but that doesn't make him a good puppet master.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure he gave an outlandish bid for Twitter to manipulate it's stock prices when he pulled put, but he was sued into following through.

I don't think he ever wanted to buy it, or at least he wanted to crash it's value to come back and buy it on the cheap.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There are multiple cases where pure chance and human hesitation prevented all out nuclear bombardment in the Cold War.

So for that alone we are extremely lucky.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

This would he concerning if I wasn't convince that Walz would sit him down and correct him like a disappointed father.

If anyone could make a politician seem like a child to their face it'd be him, and especially if that politician is Vance.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Humans have advanced far but hardly changed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I don't find them funny but more amazed that we've distilled the concept into an immortal simple symbol.

Like kilroy or the cool S, loss will ironically never be lost ~~:.|:;~~

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