I don’t know, a future where people are selling milk jugs of gasoline by the side of the road out of a stand sounds pretty third-world to me.

That is a good point, though I think people often underestimate what “life threatening” temperatures are.  Now it doesn’t fall under the “rule of twos” but 65* is life threatening overnight, as is 85* in the shade.  People tend to equate “comfortable to walk to the store” as being a survivable temperature and that’s…

I think the most important thing is what NOT to include, and what to prioritize.

Honestly, I think the floor will come up, but the ceiling will remain in human hands. Bloggers who have a unique insight or entertaining writing style will be fine. Games that have a unique artistic vision and writing style, whether that’s Borderlands or Danganronpa, will be just fine too, because you can’t automate…

For most of human history that’s how most art was created. The idea that all art should be profitable and that it should all be owned by someone is what is killing culture.

This is my entire take more or less. ALL artists stand on each other’s shoulders. All art IS is the process of taking a combination of all art up to that point, cultural touchstones and the own unique viewpoint of the artist to make something. Is Shakespeare “not art” because he took stories from the cultural canon…

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again, if “just doing your job” is “quiet quitting” then giving sub-inflation raises or increasing insurance costs is “quiet firing”

It’s disgusting that people want a totally neutral party to cancel not their service, but simply protection from attackers. It’s like pressuring the fire department to stop protecting a business you don’t like so someone can go burn it down. All it does is empower mob veto, it’s not actually doing anything except…

Somehow I am both surprised and not surprised.  I mean he’s always LOOKED like that kind of guy, but on the other hand he’s also famously religious.  It’s also unfortunate because his behavior is quite likely a result of the brain injury he suffered which totally changed his personality and he’s been reported to be…

that’s a good point, in addition I am not sure that it’s right to try to force them to withdraw protection.  It’s not actually removing their hosting, it’s analagous to threatening the fire department if they stop a fire at a business you don’t like, that’s not how fire departments are supposed to operate, pressuring…

Intent isn’t the problem, the problem is prosecutors don’t want to admit that even an innocent citizen is reasonably likely to suffer death on the basis of an anonymous tip if cops show up.

Because that would require that prosecutors admit that even if you are totally innocent a false police claim is something “a reasonable person should know is likely to result in death” and that would require them to admit that police are likely to kill someone doing nothing wrong only on the say-so of an anonymous…

That’s a good way to end up with a sociopathic tech billionaire like that one woman from Watch_Dogs: Legion-- the game’s plot made so little impression on me I forgot her name, the one that runs Broca Tech and makes all the AIs out of people.

I hate the framing of this as “quitting” as if you’re not doing your job for merely doing your job.  It’s pure corporate propaganda.  If this is “silent quitting” then requiring unpaid overtime (from salaried employees) or not giving a COL raise is “silent firing”

The problem is that over time, every generation of what’s “realistic” becomes out-dated really rapidly. And sure, we MAY be getting to the endgame there, where graphics are realistic enough that they won’t get meaningfully better because our eyes don’t see in more fidelity but even then there are many barriers left to…

Something important to note in cases like this, is that stopping aderall cold turkey is not dangerous the way that some drugs can be. Sudden discontinuation of benzodiazapines (xanax, valium, etc) and gabapentinoids (gabapentin, pregabalin, etc), barbituates (though almost no one is prescribed those anymore) and some…

Cops should have some way of confirming they’re actually police, and while not everyone has a lawyer (and you SHOULD always carry a business card for a criminal defense lawyer) not having an existing attorney-client relationship doesn’t matter in this case.  THEY don’t know you don’t have a lawyer, and you should not…

Only places I know of that serve them are in San Deigo, vegas and New Orleans, sadly.

A lot of it has to do with cooking, or lack thereof. reheated spam is pretty awful, pan-fried it becomes a whole new dish, same with cubed in scrambled eggs. Vienna sausages benefit from a bold sauce, like being drenched in BBQ.

it is indeed!  Though sadly unless it’s one of the chain that features it, even most tiki bars don’t stock Gardenia mix.  I don’t think the last local tiki bar I went to does.  I know it was one of Don’s originals but I’m not sure if the revival is patented or if other mixologists don’t use it out of respect to the…