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hydroptic,

Oh don’t you worry, we’ll probably get a nuclear war within the next few decades, it just won’t be caused by an evil AI

hydroptic,

The biggest threat from AI isn’t it going all Skynet on us, but how rich people will use it to the detriment of the rest of us.

hydroptic,

Hey I said wrong answers only

hydroptic,

Usul has called a small one! Again, it is not the legend

hydroptic,

Heeeeere wormy wormy, nice wormy. I have some spice for you

hydroptic,

tagged this post NSFW

Not Safe for Worms?

hydroptic,

A lot of it won’t happen on its own though. While direct deaths from climate-related things (floods, fires, wet bulb events, whatever) will happen, you can bet your ass that there’ll be a lot of murderizing too.

hydroptic,

Nice, thanks. What’s your impression of it?

hydroptic,

Whaa, that sounds like an interesting premise at least. Whats the name of the game?

hydroptic, (edited )

Ah nice, thanks. Might not be a good game for my poor Steam Deck then, it’s a terrific system but a CPU & GPU powerhouse it ain’t.

I have a weird “mixed” connection to the eastern block. I’m Finnish but in my 40’s, so my childhood’s Finland was in some ways a hybrid between a “fully capitalist” market economy and some more socialist features (and not just social democracy) thanks to us having to walk a bit of a tightrope with the Soviets so we could stay independent.

But eg. a surprising amount of the “Socialist cube” concrete houses you see especially in the former East Germany, but also in some other parts of the Eastern Bloc, were actully made from Finnish concrete elements. We also built a zillion of them with the same ideology behind it: functional / brutalist rather than anything fancy, which means they were affordable for everyone and cheap to build. I’ve lived a huge chunk of my life in some Socialist cube or another

hydroptic,

Wait, wait, wait: is this seriously what JWs believe? I honestly don’t know much about them except that they’re somehow weird.

Also fun (???) tidbit, that “But we can take comfort in knowing” phrase.

hydroptic,

free will is sort of like the Prime Directive in Star Trek if you want to be charitable

This is a hilarious way of putting it, and as someone who hasn’t been all that steeped in christianity to be very familiar with it, that actually told me a lot 😄

hydroptic,
hydroptic,

All I did was say to my wife, “that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehova!”

hydroptic, (edited )

Getting XCom flashbacks

XCom allows you to flashbang toddlers‽

hydroptic, (edited )

The people inside the house look like they all have dark hair. Maybe in the original it’s angels guiding and protecting righteous immigration cops while they’re arresting dangerous illegal immigrants (ie flashbanging toddlers)?

edit: nope lol it’s jehova’s witnesses: “During the great tribulation, Gog of Magog’s forces may try to assault us in our homes. But we can take comfort in knowing that Jesus and his angels are aware of what is happening and will defend us”

hydroptic,

I did an image search and you were right, it’s jehova’s witnesses: wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2022240

“During the great tribulation, Gog of Magog’s forces may try to assault us in our homes. But we can take comfort in knowing that Jesus and his angels are aware of what is happening and will defend us”

Allrighty then.

hydroptic, (edited )

Shit, I had no idea. That sounds like a fairly anxiety-inducing way to live.

Around the Cretaceous period when I was in elementary school, I had a classmate who was in the JW and their life did sort of seem pretty drab compared to the rest of us, at least based on what they talked about, but I guess it’s no surprise that they didn’t much venture into the whole Armageddon thing for example, being 7–9yo at the time.

hydroptic,

You’re really asking whether commutativity of multiplication has ever helped anyone? Because that’s what this is.

And yes it has helped me eg. estimate things or whatever along the years – but of course it’s not going to be some sort of magical mathematics trick where just by reversing the numbers it’ll always make things easier to calculate in your head

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