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I hated writing pointless essays about topics I don't care about, and yet I still like to research and debate.

Why is Chrome 121 versions ahead of Android?

I think the main point here is not to actually claim that Jesus inspired Marx or something like that, but to counter all the fascists and turbocapitalists using Jesus's name to justify the horrific things they are doing.

Also, don't forget the story where he told his disciples to go fish again, and they returned with a boat so gull of fish that it almost sank.

It's safe to say that Jesus was not opposed to eating at least fish.

Depending on how exactly the laws are worded, they might even get away without paying fines. Many traffic codes define that only the driver (not the owner of the car) can be fined, and these robo taxis don't have drivers.

They'd just migrate to some EU alternative: https://alternativeto.net/software/squarespace/?origin=eu

Might not be super easy and they might not get the same results, bit if there's no squarespace it will do.

Traditional worm-type malware doesn't really exist on windows anymore either.

If the USA switches off cloud services for the EU, that's a short-term problem. Really bad short term, but after a month or so everything is back up and running.

Especially considering that the Iraq situation has no urgency. It was developing for at least a decade. There was and is more than enough time to go the official route.

I find that not very hard to keep track, honestly. They usually don't have a lot of them.

And in any case, the player can just say when they have one.

The problem with this argument is that first off, the GM can’t know your character sheet front-to-back because they’re not playing your character, so they probably don’t know if even a 1 will pass the DC they’ve set.

The GM should know exceptional stats of their player. Yes, I might not know some rarely relevant stat of my players, I but surely know how well the rogue stealths, how well the elf bowman arches, how well the mage spells and how hard the barbarian hits.

And even if I don't, the players can tell me the stat before a potential check.

And you absolutely could not avoid a fight and just walk away from the situation with plausible deniability because you “only insulted them”.

If you offend someone so hard that there's a possibility of physical harm and/or death from it, and that person survives that insult, I'm quite sure most people wouldn't just let that slide.

If the action is something that can never fail, there shouldn't be a skill check.

You don't roll dice on sitting down at a table, so if you are a perfect lock picker who always succeeds at picking locks, no dice should be thrown.

The Lockpicking Lawyer doesn't play with dice either.

If you can't fail a skill check, there should be no roll. Same as most DMs won't make you do a skill check for "I sit down on a chair".

Rolling dice implies that there's a chance of failure.

Failed skill checks on 1 break d&d by making skilled people fail regularly just as less skilled people do.

Nope. 1/20 is much less regular than 5/20 or even 19/20. More skill doesn't mean it always works, only that your chances are higher. And if you are skilled enough that it always works, then there should be no roll.

Didn't know these were on Lemmy! Love it!

First error to correct:

We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information errors and deleting errors information.

Except that most of that is still in effect.

Especially poor people still spend 12+ hours a day working, and even for middle class people it's quite common that both parents work 10+h a day.

Average work hours per year have gone up by ~10% since 1980.

And when it comes to the jobs: While we like to pat ourselves on our back about how creative our work has become, we are essentially still doing factory work, just on a desk with a computer instead of in the factory with a welding torch.

Most of the work that most of the people do is still the same mundane, formulaic toiling away.

Modern education is focussed on teaching kids to learn stuff they don't care for at exactly the time it's asked for. Same as at work. If I have to learn a new framework for a project, I have to learn it right now, no matter if I feel like it or not. My boss is not going to wait around until I naturally feel like learning what's needed for the job.

That's why it's ok that we forget all but the basics the instant we graduate from school.

This is a nice idea, in theory, but once it touches reality, it falls apart, mainly for two reasons.

• Not everyone is high-IQ neurotypical with high intrinsic motivation.

As an extreme example, put someone with ADHD into a Montessori/Walddorf/Unschooling setup (three well-known systems that do pretty much exactly what you are demanding) and that kid will fail hard. That's the reports you read of 10yo unschooled kids who never cared for learning to read and who are now having an incredibly hard time learning anything at all, because material for that age group expects the kids to be able to read.

• The most important thing to learn at school is not the subjects/material

Apart from the very basics (reading/writing/basic math), 95% of the content taught at school can be (and is) safely forgotten once you leave school. There are more than enough reports on the fact that adults fail most school tests if they have to repeat them a few years after leaving school.

And that's ok, because what school really teaches you is how to efficiently learn material you don't care about no matter if you have motivation for it right now or not.

That's necessary to prepare the kids for higher education and work.

When I have to work on a new project with e.g. a new framework or some new stuff I don't yet know, then my boss won't wait around until I naturally accidentally find the interest to spend time learning the material. No, the project has a deadline in two weeks and until then I need to learn what's necessary and do what needs to be done, no matter if I feel like it or not.

And that lession, which is much more important than the subjects you learn in school, is not taught at all by free-form student-driven learning systems like Montessori, Walddorf or Unschooling.

I can't remember when I last saw fireflies. They used to be quite common 25 years ago when I was a kid. Damn, time flies and I'm getting old. And fire apparently doesn't fly any more.

This is sadly it. If it gets niche enough, there's no way around Reddit.

I completely replaced Reddit with Lemmy for political topics, for wasting time, for doom scrolling and so on. But when I need information about a niche topic (e.g. how to overclock the 15yo netbook I recently got), there's just no way around Reddit.

That's the difference between 50k monthly active users and 360mio weekly active users. There are dozens of subreddits that have more active users than all of Lemmy combined...

Sadly, the big exodus is still pending.

Or luckily, considering how badly Lemmy instances scale. If a few million users were to migrate over to Lemmy, probably the whole system would just collapse.