When it's done to bad people, sure. When done to him it obviously wasn't a bad thing because it was rigged and unfair and all that, because obviously he couldn't do any wrong.
(That's a sarcastic rendering of what I believe to be his logic)
When it's done to bad people, sure. When done to him it obviously wasn't a bad thing because it was rigged and unfair and all that, because obviously he couldn't do any wrong.
(That's a sarcastic rendering of what I believe to be his logic)
If you do not act you are not absolved of morality because you had a choice. You made a choice and your morals were tested.
You hold the opinion that deliberate inaction is an action in itself, that the worth of lives can be quantified and from that conclude that a failure to reduce a loss in life is tantamount to condemning those lives to death. That conclusion is valid under those premises, but the point of the dilemma is that not everybody agrees with those premises.
That's the other option, of course: If your employees are happy, they don't need to form a union to press complaints.
Maybe they just forgot to brainwash them with anti-union propaganda
They were also rare. To effectively pull off horse archery, you needed good horses, good riders that also happened to be good archers (both of which weren't trivial on their own, let alone combined) and good coordination. Bows are more effective the closer you are, so to get the most out of your arrows, you'll want to close in, but then you also need to wheel off again without your riders getting in each other's way, so you needed to drill maneuvers for that.
So you either need to have a sufficiently large body of soldiers with the leisure to train both archery and riding instead of working the fields, or you needed a society that treats them as basic skills anyway and only needed training in the military application. Nomadic peoples like the Scythians or Mongols often had the former, so they were notable sources of dangerous mounted archery, particularly where the raising and support of a professional army wasn't feasible. Rome had the Equites Sagitarii, but they were part of the distinct social class we would call Knights, so not your rank-and-file soldier (and those were already more professional than later levy- or retinue-based militaries).
So if we were concerned about accuracy*, these units should be expensive and require good management to make the most of them, but be very dangerous too. The point about open / closed terrain certainly fits as well.
What's a bit more foggy is how games usually handle bow effectiveness at range, but that's its own topic.
*I do care about accuracy, but not at any cost - games need to be fun too, and that's worth sacrificing some accuracy for.
Trivium found on Wikipedia:
The guy that commercialised it was a teetotaller and wanted it to be called Root Tea, but because his target market were miners in Pennsylvania, he opted to call it Root Beer instead.
From my understanding, that title would be more accurate too, as it is produced from molasses with extract rather than grain mash, but my source is "skimmed Wikipedia" on both topics, so you should probably default to skepticism.
Either way, it apparently doesn't taste like beer, comes in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic* variants, usually doesn't contain caffeine and has a ton of flavours and variants from all over the world. If you care, you probably can find some.
*The process does involve fermentation, so I assume it will contain some ethanol still, even if it's below the threshold for the "non-alcoholic" label, in case that's an issue for you.
Prevent them from taking over the world
Announcing the new "Royal Stables" DLC: "Marauders & Massacres" is sure to spice up your medieval farm simulation!
I mean, only England seems to be highlighted. I don't know mug, I don't know if I've ever tried root beer, I don't think I'd miss it.
Still, there are some nice things I like from England - Games Workshop, for instance, some Internet buddies, probably more things I'm not aware of...
I guess I could find people that enjoy root beer (or are in dire need of potable hydration of any sort) and see about donating it to them. I could sell some through local retailers and restaurants to cover the expenses.
Skirmishers as in "Light Cavalry", designed to catch closing archery and ride them down? I'm not big on RTS (I suck at multitasking), but I'm always fascinated by gamified implementations of historical dynamics.
I don't suppose they also support "recruit auxiliary specialists" as option?
Sounds like they did the lookups by hand actually
Peaceful protests build the sense of consensus and unity. Violent solutions can't succeed without both popular support and enough participants to make a difference, but if everybody's scared of standing alone they're doomed. Sudden upheaval is likely to make more people oppose the change, because most people like stability.
Peaceful protests that get gradually more frustrated are more likely to support more drastic measures than a sudden upheaval. Whether or not you believe peaceful protests will fix anything, they're the best solution that's viable right now.
Toxicity is Gender Neutral 🙌
But someone that blatantly argues for Russia's benefit probably has some ulterior motives. Doesn't have to be deep throating Putin, money will probably do.
I'm actually gaming on nvidia! Didn't take any tinkering either. I got the Nvidia version of Nobara, which many steam games "just work" on.
That's not to say I didn't start tinkering anyway, but new games I install and just run work fine.
I work in our service department myself (not as support tech though), but obviously, all tickets are supposed to go through 1st level. I don't wanna be the dick skipping queue, so I did then one time I had an issue.
There's a unique feeling of satisfaction to submitting a ticket with basically all the 1st level troubleshooting in the notes, allowing the tech to immediately escalate it to a 2nd level team. One quick call, one check I didn't know about, already prepared the escalation notes while it ran. Never have I heard our support sound so cheerful.
If it's five people throwing them, they're terrorists. If it's five million, they're a problem. (Depending on the size of country and military, I'm pulling numbers out my arse to exemplify a point, not as accurate measures).
Numbers matter. If you have enough people on your side and willing to join the throwing for your cocktails to make a difference, that might work for you. But if most of the populace are scared to lose more than they stand to gain, you'll end up with the brave throwers arrested or killed, the media denouncing their "undemocratic" acts and possibly the people even more afraid to do anything.
Any revolutionary movement will need to hit a point of critical mass that allows it to succeed. It's hard to gauge just when that point is reached, but if you misjudge, you'll end up another failed insurrection.
I rambled for too long about this lol.
The fuck you did! Making the world a little less dumb, one ramble at a time, is a good thing. We don't all need to be specialists in everything, but a brief summary like this contributes to our general knowledge and is a net positive.
I don't think auto-scaling can scale to resources that don't exist. Besides, I'm not sure how many people with both the competence and the spine to advise Musk when he's doing A Stupid again still remain at the company.
Which part and period of Sparta? Which social stratum? It makes a huge difference whether you're a Spartiate, a free non-citizen or one of the 85% of society that were public slaves, subject to all sorts of violence and abuse and probably fighting for your survival so hard that there isn't a whole lot of room for sexual self-determination or expression.
Also, that shield seems to small for hoplite.
Reduce
Reuse <- You are here
Recycle
Not using it at all would be better, sure, but if you don't have that option for whatever reason, reusing it is the next best thing. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
I think that's a question of perspective. We, judging from hindisght and with access to more Information, can tell that. But the people signing up out of a misguided desire to serve probably didn't. Their motivation - regardless of result - was probably to do the right thing, which is a sentiment that Trump evidently doesn't just not understand, but doesn't even seem aware of. "What's in it for them?" betrays a fundamental ignorance of even the concept that his ilk leverage to get people fighting their wars.
Guess someone ought to do something about these terrorists - isn't that what the War on Terror is about?
(Sarcasm)
Oh absolutely, provided you're versed enough to understand the resource limitations, the need to prepare scaling solutions and have the willingness to admit that your in-house resources might not be enough. I'm not confident Musk ticks any of these boxes, let alone all of them.
And a competent team can only do so much. He ripped out data center servers, against his competent sysadmins' advice.
The broker handling our apartment on the owner's behalf told us the owner was opposed to pets, but couldn't legally prohibit us from getting an indoor cat with a wink and the previous tenants had one too. Apparently she didn't kick up a fuss - unlike the neighbour, who must be very happy to live in an area where I know of at least five different cats in the vicinity, given that she deeply hates cats.
Accessible through my corporate network. Fun thing, that.
Having seen Excel used creatively, I think it's an exaggeration. It would make collaboration entirely impossible. I assume they have several smaller ones, with more or less - but not exactly - the same layout as it has been adapted for new use cases, and the only way to transfer records from one to the other is to manually copy and paste the info to the relevant cells, but mind the order you do it in and double check, or the Frankenstein's Macro running half the logic will crash.
...provided it runs on CrowdStrike-protected systems. I would expect the site's operator to make sure to avoid that if they can help it.
Germany uses lower quotation marks too
Traitors against the people, so yeah
Pageant Predator?
I think it's time to expand the Clown-Empire and add ClownSocialServices.lol and ClownFlare to its Vassals.
What do we call the head of state? The Witish Clown?
I was supporting your point. I forget that comments are seen as counterargument by default.
But you're right, my comment would have been more useful in reply to the other person.
The latter has been taken over by ElMu and his shenanigans, the former was originally a Twitter-internal project for a decentralised social media interfacing protocol, got forked out from Twitter in 2021 (the year before Musk took over Twitter), has a lot of Ex-Twitter people on it and promises to do a lot of things a lot better than either Twitter (now X) and offer a little more resilience against things like moderator abuse.
Curiously, that last bit is the first time I've seen a reasonable use case for Blockchain: Your content can be stored on arbitrary servers and migrated to others. Your identity is tied to keys that can be used to verify your content is actually yours. The info where the public half of the key and all your content are stored is recorded in a public, distributed, append-only ledger, where each entry verifies the integrity of the previous one. Thus, once you're registered on that, no single moderator can arbitrarily ban you anymore. (Pretty sure there's a hole in that logic, but I'm not versed enough to confidently assert as much.)
Of course, there's a caveat: To discover content, you need an index ("relay") of all the content feeds. That takes some of the content aggregation load off your individual content servers and makes hosting them easier. However, it shifts the content moderation / federation power from the individual instances to the shared index: If a given index blocks your content, people using it won't see your content.
In theory anyone can host their own relay and everyone can choose which relay they want their content feed to use. In practice, hosting a relay is resource-intensive, bsky have a solid headstart and probably more resources, and their app also obviously uses their own index by default, so if you do want to create a "competitor"/alternative index, you'll have a lot of catching up to do. They even state that expectation: "In all likelihood, there may be a few large full-network providers" ^src^
Which is basically a small-scale version of Google and Bing (and the AT Protocol Overview explicitly uses that comparison): Sure, you can make your own search engine, but if Google is the default everywhere, has a lot of storage and computing power to serve more requests and has way more indexed content, why would people use yours instead? Thus, if you want your content to be seen by many people, you have to play by the big relays' rules.
Much decentral. Very open.
(I'm being snarky here, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt: They probably do mean to make self-hosting your personal data and content easier, and it's easier for custom feeds to use single, big relays to draw from rather than doing the indexing and collation themselves. However, it provides them with a lot of leverage and just because they call themselves a "public benefit corporation" doesn't mean I trust them not to start enshittifying for profit at some point.)
Laws should follow and codify ethics, not dictate them. If a transgression (such as not reporting CSA to the relevant authorities) is not already banned by law, that doesn't mean it's fine. It means the law needs to be amended.
For sure. There are many kinds of toxicity. Toxic gasses may affect you differently than inhaling silica dust, biological neurotoxins or rigid gender norms.
Wait, you've had a skull grow on you? You're boned
I prefer Mastodon to what is ultimately still a for-profit corporation ("public benefit" notwithstanding), but both are better than Twatter.
I used to sneer at the kids in my class that used it. Must have been fairly shortly after it launched, something like fourteen to fifteen years ago. I'm still grappling with a certain inertia when it comes to switching away from something I have relied on for so long, but I'm coming around to the idea of giving DDG a try at least (irrational as it is, I've been reluctant to even try - I suspect out of fear of liking it and having to change).
Past Me would be exasperated that Present Me is even toying with the idea. But then, Past Me had a lot of stupid takes anyway.
For being mean to him? He's a kid throwing around words he heard but doesn't understand. It means doing something bad to people, and that's enough for him. More worrying is the second point - it might be enough for his cult too. I fear things are going to get ugly.