Piers @ Piers @beehaw.org

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Most roguelikes either have no story or keep it out of the way.

That's actually both very doable and marketable.

This is the article/report about US politics that I just can't process into my brain as being anything but intentional satire but I can't seem to see anything to indicate this is anything other than a real article on a straight news website. Does anyone have any further context about newsrepublic that would help?

I remember the first time as not-an-American that I saw someone angrily ranting about "republicans" and I was very confused.

She says I should go regardless

Then you should go. No doubt there have been or will be situations where you carry a heavier share of the load between you to support her needs. Equal partnership does not require things to be exactly 50/50 at all times in order to be fair and for both partners to feel supported. It's also important to respect your partner's own autonomous ability to make decisions about what they want for themselves and to express those choices. If they tell you they want to support you in some way that is important to you, you should take them at their word.

Because people like to do stuff using a graphical UI but since that varies drastically from one distro to another all the instructions and support is reliant on doing stuff from the command line. That almost was solved by Ubuntu becoming ubiquitous but then they lost the plot.

Y'know what, I actually need a typing exercise right now, so since you didn't ask for it at all, here's a transcript:

Lady in blue jacket: "Well I travel abroad a lot, well when we go abroads you don't get as much mileage too them... to it, and therefore your gonna use more petrol and then they say: 'oh you... so many miles' right? Well you're not doing that, you're not gonna do the mileage what they say you're gonna do because the kilomolametres are not the same as the mileage; it's shorter!"

Lady taking goods from a market stall and stashing them under her shawl whilst talking: "It's the Treaty as Rome as my husband would say, everything's been defs-decimalised, it's horrible, I can't bare it."

Man in blue jumpsuit: "We're losing a-all our national heritage in't we?

Presenter: "Like what?"

MBJ: "Well like, y'know, the money's all changed, the decimalisation, all the weights being changed, measurements and everything. And I think y'know, we're an island on our own y'know and let's face it; we once ruled the world didn't we? Y'know? And now we're just being part of a community. I don't agree with it at all."

Enthusiastic German guy: "It is much better. Much better, much easier."

Worried looking Irish lady: "What?"

EGG: "The kilometres"

WLIL: "What's 'the kilometers'?

EGG: "Instead of m-miles. It's goes in tens and thousands of... Thous-thousand metre is a 1 kilometre yes?"

Present: "Do you know what a kilometer is?"

London underground employee: "No."

Man with bobble on his hat: "Well 8...80...80 kilometres is 50 mile an hour."

WLIL: "Oh rubbish!"

EGG: "What the rubbish? What you talking rubbish?"

WLIL: "Rubbish! That's what it is! Why don't they leave everything alone... With their kilometre's and their... so, oh for God's sakes!"

Presenter: "But kilometres are nice and round. I mean..."

WLIL: "Oh sure."

EGG "Yes! She don't know."

WLL: "I don't! I don't want to know either!"

Cheerful lady on mobility scooter: "It doesn't much matter to me, I only go 4 miles an hour and I don't really worry very much about either!"

Former solder: "I got a little old saying, it may not be at it... any beneficent for people like you. We had a little bloke with a moustache like that. His name was Chamberlain, he was the Prime Minister. He daid 'Now we're gonna fight a war to make it a better land to live in.' That was for me, it was 19 years of age. Did 10 years in the war, come back here and now everybody wants to change the way that I went and fought for! It ain't right, I want it as it is now! What I really nearly sacrificed my life for!"

Itch.io had a big game jam on the theme of bees a little while ago so I'm sure if you poke around on there for a while you'll find stuff that scratches your itch.

There's a wonderful BBC archive video on YouTube of a 1978 video interviewing people on the streets of Britain about switching to Kilometres. Fascinating to see the attitudes and level of knowledge about it from the time.

https://youtu.be/ykthWUdkhu0

I find that if something is under one foot people will often use CM (and would definitely use MM for anything really small.) So lengths tend to be: miles, meters, foot & inches, cm, mm.

But we do tend to round to the nearest half degree when discussing temperature in the UK. Do people do that with temps in the US or just round to the nearest degree? If it's the later then the two are similarly granular in practise.

They do. Just look at how much money the US government throws at Musk's various projects for a start.

A deeper insight that is worth developing is that the amount of money a person requires to be able to live a vaguely secure and stable life is the minimum baseline cost of hiring that person as a full-time employee. As a result any time a government is required to step in to provide financial support to an individual in full-time employment in order for them to get by, that is the government paying that person's wages for the company for the economic benefit of that company that person works for and is exactly equivalent to if that business was paying the full cost to secure that employee and then was just randomly being handed money from the government. Financial benefits from the state to employed people is just a handout to those people's employers but structured to look like social support so people don't get uppity and demand wealth owners spend less on yachts and more on paying the actual cost of the labour that produces the wealth in the first place.

They are wrong, as dismantling the current system would also benefit them. It would benefit every single person alive. Even the true owner class.

One huge lie that helps sustain the current system is the idea that the wealth class are acting in their own best interests. They may often mistakenly think that they are but their lives would be better and their minds calmer if things worked differently. We all understand intuitively that children do not perfectly understand the impact their actions will have on their own wellbeing and that they require guidance to avoid falling into harm and to grow to have the skills to make better judgements for themselves. What we miss is that we often tend to think that those better judgement skills magically snap into place in adulthood and are perfectly evenly functional across all situations for all people. A moment's reflection makes it very clear that cannot possibly be true. All of us do foolish things that direct us away from our own best interests to some degree and frequency and we can often clearly see when others do so but are blind to it. This is just as true of some idiot billionaire ruining their own home as it is for anyone else. They are no more infallible than any of us.

If you’re unable to login on Firefox:

I also had trouble signing back in again on Edge.

To fix it I had to delete the Beehaw.org cookies using the following method:

• Click the menu (three dots) button.
• In the menu that then opens click "Settings".
• Click "Cookies and site permissions" in the list on the left.
• Click "Manage and delete cookies and site data" at the top of the list in the centre.
• Click "See all cookies and site data". This is located fourth option from the top. The last option in the first block of options in the centre.
• Type "beehaw.org" in the "Search cookies" box at the top right (or just scroll through the list until you find it.)
• Click the chevron/down arrow on the right hand side of the beehaw.org entry. Then click all the little trashcan icons next to the beehaw.org cookies to delete them (I had two, but now only have one. Make sure they are only the ones marked beehaw or you may delete cookies from other sites if you chose to scroll rather than search.)
• Can't remember if I used "ctrl + F5" on the log in page to cleanly refresh it but it probably wouldn't hurt.-

If you're in the UK, next-time you're forced to do a cull, try to see if you can find (or just start) a Bookcycle/Shelfcycle nearby. There aren't many yet but they're growing. It's a charity explicitly designed to do a better job of valuing donated books than existing infrastructure. They worked out that places like schools in developing worlds can often make great use of the books that other charity shops would destroy because they don't sell quickly in UK charity book shops. So Bookcycle sells the ones that would to raise funds to send the ones that wouldn't as a donation to communities that would value them. They try really hard not to destroy any book that someone might still find value in somewhere.