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GraniteM

@ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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  • Peer Pressure (Azul Crescent's silly scribbles)

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  • My dad is an alcoholic and I'm convinced that I've inherited certain vulnerabilities to addiction. I've never had a problem with alcohol, but by God, when I get into a regular full-caf coffee habit, and then I miss one or two cups, the withdrawal symptoms hit me hard. I've been trying to slowly lower my ratio, but it's hard to even contemplate going totally decaf when I've got a retail job and I'm a little scared of trying to deal with customers and withdrawal headaches at the same time.

  • Adventuring Gold

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  • the only beer was "fish beer".

  • "✦ Would you like help with that?"

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  • He said "I don't know when."

  • Pick your champion

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  • YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable

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  • What now?

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  • And "Jamake Highwater" got exposed like ten years before they hired him to consult for Voyager! What the actual fuck?!

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  • Boom! Big bada boom!

  • Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you

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  • Not for nothing, but couldn't this be used to have AI play a game for 80,000 simulated hours and flag all the bugs? Human playtesters are important and have value, but no human should have to do the work of criss-crossing an enormous game map thousands of times just to see if the character model gets stuck on a random vertex sticking out somewhere, and yet it seems to be a distressingly common occurrence in more than a few games I've played.

  • What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

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  • That's certainly one of the points that I needed to learn about. There are certainly genetic diseases like congenital heart defects or hemophilia. But then there are genetic differences that might seem maladaptive under certain given circumstances, but wouldn't be any issue at all or might even confer advantages under different societal contexts. And then there are the straightforward differences that eugenics-obsessed regimes like to define as undesirable, like having the wrong hair, eye, or skin color, and then use that as an excuse to persecute whomever they want to. The whole thing is irreparably fucked.

  • What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

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  • When I was a freshman in college I thought "Surely nobody would want to inherit genetic diseases, and why wouldn't we want to to try and make people just naturally live longer, healthier lives?" but then I did even the tiniest bit of research on how eugenics actually worked and I completely abandoned that line of thinking.

  • Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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  • Polls show deep public skepticism of Trump’s case on Iran

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  • I'd like to run a poll of as many Americans as could be managed, and ask them if we should maintain diplomatic relations with... and then list a series of real and fictional nations. I suspect we'd get something like 25 to 30% who think we should cut off diplomatic ties with Narnia, Wakanda, and Oz.

  • Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise'

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  • What phrases/sentences instantly reveal someone as a chud?

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  • I was telling a customer that he had to wear a mask to enter my place of business during COVID masking mandates, and he got furious and called me a "white privilege redneck libtard" and I'm just astonished at that particular combination of words to angrily shout.

  • A broken clock is still right twice a day.

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  • Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump will try to ‘steal’ midterm elections

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  • 2000 Presidential Election:

    Popular vote: 50,456,002 (Bush) / 50,999,897 (Gore)

    Bush won because the margin was so narrow. He lost the popular vote but eked out an electoral college win because of Florida.

    Per Wikipedia:

    Bush carried Florida by only 537 votes out of 5.96 million cast in the state (a margin of 0.009%).

    Nader took 97,488 votes. If less than one percent of Nader voters had gone for Gore, Gore would have won the state, and who knows what timeline we'd be living in now.

    Elections can be stolen when the margin is that narrow. When the margin is wide, it's impossible to steal.

  • Joe Biden warns that Donald Trump will try to ‘steal’ midterm elections

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  • 1964, Presidential Election (LBJ vs Goldwater):

    Johnson won 61% of the popular vote. Even if there had been a concerted effort to rig the election against Johnson, it would have had to be so widespread and obvious that it would have been either stopped immediately, or it would have resulted in a new civil war. Getting that many people voting the right way should be the goal; make the margin of victory so wide as to be impossible to overcome via subtle chicanery.

    If they still try to steal the election in those circumstances, then there will be violence, which is the only other option for changing government, so we might as well try having the election before the violence.

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  • Training goals

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  • But what if the gorillas stopped sitting around and actually worked to build muscle mass? We've never actually seen a gorilla that was trying to get as big and as strong as he could.

  • James Talarico beating Jasmine Crockett in Texas Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, poll shows

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  • In the primary campaign your opposition is Jack Hopeful, a member of your own party. Never forget that you will need the support of all your party after the primary and never let your supporters forget it!

    This is a very touchy, difficult matter, particularly in a volunteer organization. You are certain to have loyal supporters who are simple souls, unable to think in terms other than black and white. To them Jack Hopeful is the ENEMY - they will commit excesses through misguided zeal. So also will some of Mr. Hopeful's supporters. Bad blood breeds more bad blood; in short order you can have a situation which is completely out of hand, which splits the party wide open, and which will render it impossible for your man to win in the finals.

    Since the nomination is valueless in itself, being merely a necessary means to an end, you must prevent this at all costs.

    --Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government