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I've seen those trucks with a bunch of cars packed on top, something like that (minus truck) could totally fit in a train cargo container.

In fact I think there's a missed opportunity for EVs to partner with long distance public transit.

The main limitations of electric cars is distance, but if people knew they could go across the state or several states comfortably without their car, they might be more willing to take a electric car for city driving.

There was a weird incident in class where a good amount of my classmates, including some who were POC, believed that black people were biologically more aggressive based on anecdotal experience.

I'm white but I was arguing against this because it made no sense. As a possible explanation I argued that black communities are typically poorer because of history (slavery, segregation, ect) and that poor and desperate communities are whats more likely to be violent.

It seemed to get them to pause for a moment. I'm sure I wasn't as nuanced as I'd be now but I was a dumb reactionary teenager talking to dumb reactionary teenagers.

You would like Global Workspace Theory, basically says your consciousness is the result of components of the brain broadcasting their information to the whole.

I also like Integrated Information Theory which measures the conscious experience of a system by how integrated it is, which means that you can't reduce the system to the sum of it's parts without losing the emergent properties.

Rule of thumb is that Computers love base 2 numbers (2,4,8,16,ect) and hate prime numbers 7 and higher.

Yeah I love Foundry, but I'm convinced the DM needs technical knowledge to use it. I ran a server for non tech savvy DM and it was like working customer service.

With plenty of investment you can get the tabletop to be almost exactly what you want it to be, and for a popular system like 5e you can make it as automated as a Baldurs Gate game. You just need to download a lot of modules to get there and customize a lot of settings. Without that it just becomes a less intuitive Roll20.

And I must stress from experience, never offer to host/troubleshoot a server for someone else, especially if the DM likes to complain or can't handle minor technical setbacks.

You can drive 13 hours from R'lyeh and still be in R'lyeh, the euclidean mind cannot comprehend this.

This is my brain:

        [Chalmers rings Skinner's doorbell. Skinner opens the door.]
    Chalmers: Well, Seymour, I made it, despite your directions.
    Skinner: Ah, Superintendent Chalmers, welcome. I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon!
    Chalmers: Yeah.
    [Chalmers enters. In the dining room, he sits at the table and places a bottle in an ice bucket, while Skinner runs to the kitchen, only to find his roast is burnt, and gasps in horror.]
    Skinner: Oh, egads! My roast is ruined! [Chalmers' knocking on the kitchen door can be heard] But what if... I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking? [chuckles] Delightfully devilish, Seymour.
    [Skinner begins to climb through the window, but Chalmers enters the kitchen and catches Skinner trying to leave.]
    Chalmers: Ah-!
    [Accompanied by a montage of scenes of Skinner and Chalmers from previous episodes, the theme song to an imaginary sitcom called "Skinner and the Superintendent" then plays:]

        Skinner with his crazy explanations,
        The superintendent's gonna need his medication,
        When he hears Skinner's lame exaggerations,
        There'll be trouble in town tonight!
        Chalmers:SEEEEEYMOOUUURRR!!!

    [The scene goes back to Skinner's kitchen]
    Skinner: Superintendent! I was just...uh---just stretching my calves on the windowsill. Isometric exercise! Care to join me?
    [Smoke can be seen coming out of Skinner's oven]
    Chalmers: Why is there smoke coming out of your oven, Seymour? [points to the oven]
    Skinner: Uh... ooh! That isn't smoke, it's steam! Steam from the steamed clams we're having. [Massages his belly] Mmmm, steamed clams!
    [Once a suspicious Chalmers leaves the kitchen, Skinner breathes a sigh of relief, climbs out the window, and runs across the street to Krusty Burger, where he buys hamburgers and French fries to replace his burnt roast. The scene cuts to the dining room, where Skinner comes from the kitchen with the fast food on a silver tray.]
    Skinner: Superintendent, I hope you're ready for mouthwatering hamburgers.
    Chalmers: I thought we were having steamed clams.
    Skinner: Oh no, I said 'steamed hams'. That's what I call hamburgers.
    Chalmers: You call hamburgers 'steamed hams'?
    Skinner: Yes! It's a regional dialect.
    Chalmers: Uh-huh. Eh, what region?
    Skinner: Uh...upstate New York?
    Chalmers: Really? Well, I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams'.
    Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.
    Chalmers: I see.
    [Chalmers takes a bite out of a burger and chews it a little, while Skinner sips his drink.]
    Chalmers: You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger.
    Skinner: Hohoho, no! Patented Skinner Burgers. Old family recipe!
    Chalmers: For steamed hams?
    Skinner: Yes.
    Chalmers: Yes, and you call them steamed hams, despite the fact they are obviously grilled? [opens one of the burgers and exposes the patty's grilled pattern to Skinner]
    Skinner: Y- Uh.. you know, the... One thing I should... excuse me for one second.
    Chalmers: Of course.
    [Skinner enters and leaves the kitchen swiftly upon seeing it is now on fire]
    Skinner: [pretends to yawn] Well, that was wonderful. A good time was had by all. I'm pooped.
    Chalmers: Yes, I should be-- [notices the intense light coming from the burning kitchen] GOOD LORD, WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE!?
    Skinner: Aurora Borealis?
    Chalmers: Ah- Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?
    Skinner: Yes.
    Chalmers: ...May I see it?
    Skinner: ...No.
    [They exit the house as the kitchen fire grows larger.]
    Agnes (voice): SEYMOUR, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!
    Skinner (looking up): No, mother, it's just the Northern Lights.
    Chalmers: Well, Seymour, you are an odd fellow, but I must say... you steam a good ham.
    [As Chalmers begins heading home, Agnes starts screaming for help, causing Chalmers to look back towards the house. Skinner gives him a thumbs up and a fake smile, causing him to keep walking away. Once Chalmers is out of sight, Skinner rushes back into the house to deal with the fire.]
    Agnes (voice): HEEEELP!!! HEEEELP!!
  

I'm curious, is there actually so many 42's in the system? (more than 69 sounds unlikely)

What if the LLM is getting tripped up because 42 is always referred to as the answer to "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything".

So you ask it a question like give a number between 1-100, it answers 42 because that's the answer to "Everything", according to it's training data.

Something similar happened to Gemini. Google discouraged Gemini from giving unsafe advice because it's unethical. Then Gemini refused to answer questions about C++ because it's considered "unsafe" (referring to memory management). But Gemini thinks C++ is "unsafe" (the normal meaning), therefore it's unethical. It's like those jailbreak tricks but from its own training set.

One eery thing though is that in one of his books he described police placing "fish people" into concentration camps, this being right before the Holocaust.

Obviously racists will come up with similar end goals, and it's not like concentration camps didn't exist before, but it's still feels like a bizarre coincidence.

I think the idea with Thanos vs Hulk is that their strength gap wasn't as far apart (presumably Hulk is stronger) but Thanos was using actual fighting and boxing techniques, whereas hulk usually just smashes. Like how a skinny martial artist can take on someone much stronger than them, technique makes a huge difference.

That said I felt really robbed we never got a BannerHulk rematch with Thanos. Him being intelligent would've let him actually train his technique over the timeskip and complete the character arc.

If you want barebones Windows I'd suggest you cough cough obtain Windows 10 LTSC.

It's got most the bloatware cut out, you just have to reenable the old style picture viewer.

Though when I eventually make a new PC, I'm probably just gonna use Linux Mint because I hear running Windows games/software isn't nearly as bad nowadays, thanks Steam.

So one Question I'm always asked. Who would win in a fight? Who would win in a fight if Galactus fought The Hulk, or if Thor fought Iron Man? And there's one answer to all of that. It's so simple, anyone should know this. The person who'd win in a fight is the person that the scriptwriter wants to win!

-Stan Lee

That's how my brain used to work.

Now I have two methods depending on how much I care.

Either I need all available options and have them listed out like a spreadsheet, then I'll painstakingly determine which ones I like based on critera and using my feelings like a vague sensor.

Or if I don't have time for that I'll use an algorithm of some kind, like Spotify's Smart Shuffle, then I'll determine what I like based on this new "optimized" list.

Because I can't just like a random disconnected thing, no no no, I need to make sure it's something I will definitely like and maybe incorporate into my identity.

Culture victory is almost impossible without mods. Even if you get past how cryptic it is, other civs basically have free reign to stall you if they focus at all on culture.

Funny thing is though, I got a culture victory as Gilgamesh... because I nuked Greece. I was going for war victory so it was really funny to launch a nuke at the greek capital then suddenly jump to the culture victory cutscene.

Japan has a similar worldview to Americans because there's been multiple points in history where we brute forced our ways on them, conveniently at times where their old ways were losing faith.

Forcing Japans borders open while they remained isolated with outdated weaponry, and the end of WW2.

Capitalism was drilled into their culture until it's teeth sunk in and they had their economic boom.

As someone who grew up with a friend that constantly made edgy Nazi "jokes" and was also a Brony, this is chillingly accurate.

From what I know, most raptors had feathers and that's where birds came from.

The broader group of theropods, including the T-Rex, had a precursor to feathers literally called "Dinofuzz".

All other kinds of dinosaurs I believe are actually scaly like we thought.

That "rated 3 and up" is killing me.

Finally a solution for those jobless deadbeat infants.