TheHarpyEagle @ Theharpyeagle @lemmy.world

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Really hoping that we see more stuff like Second Wind, though that took some real name recognition (and I suspect some pre-planning) to pull off.

Very genuine question: why do cops never use taser guns for situations like this? Presumably they knew the weapon was a knife, so no risk of a shootout.

This is one of my biggest (hopefully irrational) fears. My dog is not violent but she is reactive, there's no way she wouldn't be shot dead if police ever had occasion to come into our house.

So much this, even if we saw automation replace millions of jobs tomorrow, it would take years for any meaningful shift to support those out of work. On the other hand, even some conservatives are interested in 32 hour work weeks. Baby steps are the most we can realistically hope for.

Honestly that mod torpedoing the whole movement with a dumb interview and forcing the rebrand to work reform was probably one of the best things that could've happened.

Right, but the wild west was tamed by increasing regulation, which is precisely what crypto fans want to avoid. The truth is, though, most people won't trust crypto without some kind of centralized authority guaranteeing that their money is safe, whether that be a government or a private entity. This pretty quickly materialized with the NFT craze, which saw the vast majority of NFTs were created on the same two sites, with only the biggest names having their own domains and redundant storage for their images.

As a huge fan of these games... absolutely. I keep coming back because I love the characters so much and the story arcs within each game can be fairly satisfying, but the overarching plot is a complete mess.

She has a great followup to the evermore video on her Pateron that I highly recommend just getting a month for.

Her doing an entire section with the porg mask and not mentioning it once is top tier content.

I keep thinking "surely I won't watch the entirety of this Vampire Diaries video yet again." 5 hours later...

It feels incredibly gross to just say "generated CSAM is a-ok, grab your hog and go nuts", but I can't really say that it should be illegal if no child was harmed in the training of the model. The idea that it could be a gateway to real abuse comes to mind, but that's a slippery slope that leads to "video games cause school shootings" type of logic.

I don't know, it's a very tough thing to untangle. I guess I'd just want to know if someone was doing that so I could stay far, far away from them.

The problem is that snake oil stuff was (mostly) solved not because snake oil salesmen decided to be nice and close up shop, but because regulations and laws were put in place to protect people from them.

Likewise, we've seen crypto get hit with pretty much every issue that has ever afflicted fiat over the entire history of money. The only reason we've seen anyone get punished for it is because governments still have some jurisdiction over crypto traded by their citizens. People will say "but smart contracts!", but the only proven way to be safe with those is to verify the code is both bug-free and not malicious, and that's a lot to ask of someone trying to buy dog food. A lot of exploits have been executed on contracts that were marked safe by audit companies.

I think the idea as a concept is interesting, as I don't exactly trust the government or banks either, but I trust random black box companies and individuals a lot less.

Proton is a godsend. Some games can be a little unstable, but I've yet to find one that doesn't work at all. Even was able to install and mod a game from 2000. For what doesn't work on Proton, Lutris can hopefully handle. Takes a little doing sometimes but I got Battlenet/WoW working almost prefectly with CurseForge.

Nvidia drivers are a huge pain in the ass, though, and haven't played nice with Wayland in my experience.

I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

I really cannot force myself to care about rally numbers one way or the other. It's just the number of people lining up to suck a politician's dick, not the number of people what will vote for them.

The third amendment protects against forced quartering of soldiers in reaction to the British Quartering Acts, which required colonies to feed and house British soldiers. Of course the soldier in this case is (hopefully) not forcing himself into this house, but I think the humor more comes from the fact that we hardly think or talk about that amendment anymore (as opposed to the first, second, fifth, etc.)

I had a mechanic say I was "scary" when I wore a mask into his shop (before telling me my mask was killing me). So yeah, I do not trust these people to judge in good faith.

I love that there's something in our monkey brain that is just enamored with moving water.

The number of times I've actually seen that justification for not wearing a seatbelt...

I just watched a video of that process, it's really incredible. I don't know much about how the skin works, does the dermis just regrow under the epidermis? I imagine it sort of repairs inwards from the edges of the wound using the epidermis as support, is that correct?

I'm really glad people like you are doing out there. I imagine you get used to it, but I feel squeamish just looking at the graft, not to mention the injury that required it!