Parking minimums are the stupidest regulation to ever exist, especially given the entire regulation is based on very little data and evidence of parking requirements.
How the fuck did “buy your neighbouring building, tear it down, and pave surface level parking lots” become the norm to start a business?
The sporting goods store graph should have gotten whoever made it the statistician equivalent of disbarred. The line they made is literally perpendicular to the actual line between the two points!
It’s diceless. All characters have access to all abilities, as long as they’re willing to pay the cost. Being good at something just means it has less or no cost. If you take on enough cost and don’t get it down the safe ways, your character permadies.
This is a reflection of the fact that the player characters are gods of world ending power who can do anything… but it’s hard. Maybe your character can blow up the moon if they so choose. But that’s a lot easier than remembering to eat breakfast every day. That’s right, the gods of the void have (a disability that’s an allegory for) autism and ADHD.
Agreed, we’re about half a year and halfway through Abomination Vaults right now. Using PF2e with Foundry VTT has been amazing, especially with all the built-in automation.
The thing I like most about Pathfinder is how well documented their rules are. 5e had a bunch of hand wavy DM-fiat rules, while PF2e typically has a rule for almost everything.
Yeah we tried a few other systems after our main 5e campaign ended. Ars Magica, Lancer, WH40k Wrath and Glory, Blades in the Dark, Cyberpunk Red. My group is not one for roleplaying much, so we prefer crunchy systems. Lancer was great for that, and so is Pathfinder 2e.
Several friends and I are also being run through PF2e while using Foundry and it’s been incredible. We’ve all casually played 5e in the past, but the learning curve for PF2e has been quick and short. And, like you said, much easier to find an answer to really specific or strange situations overall. Makes for a really solid experience as a player.
It’d because D&D 5E was fundamentally broken, and so much of the rules are just hacky ways to solve it. Things like bonus action weren’t designed well from the start, with them having to have a hacky “one spell per turn” rule, which can be avoided with certain methods, and things like that.
Pathfinder 2E has such a solid foundation that it doesn’t need all the hacky crap to work, which makes it so much easier to understand. There’s no bonus actions or anything, just three actions per turn that you handle everything from movement to combat, and anything else, with. It let’s it be “more complex” while also being easier to understand.
the thing is, while not having babies is good for the planet, it is really bad or even a huge crisis for the economy depending on how it is set up as most economies are set up so that you people take care of the old
Please consider kids in foster care before adopting. Adoption is a huge problem in the USA and doesn’t always consider the child’s needs over the potential buyers. ); <3
I’m not sure where in my comment I said “but not kids in the foster system, screw them”. I imagine theres probably some hyper-literal reading of the word “adopt” that somehow excludes foster kids, but was it really necessary to read my comment that way? Is this a legitimate misunderstanding, or are you just really eager to have something to be mad at?
Figured by the use of a heart and kind language it wouldn’t feel like an attack, but I suppose this is still text and some folks are more sensitive to things. My attempt was to add and not to take away from your post. I’m sorry it felt any other way.
The following is a statement of intentional hyperbole and is in no way meant to be construed as a statement of fact:
I swear to God that any slack jawed meth head can be a foster parent, but if you want to adopt, you better be in your mid-thirties, Christian, married to your original opposite sex spouse for a period of no less than forty years, possess no fewer than five Ivy League degrees, own a house with a structural footprint of at least two hundred thousand square feet free of mortgage, have monthly income of seven figures, preferably eight, never have even heard of alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine, never have a speeding ticket, possess perfect teeth, even your still intact and pearly white wisdom teeth, be a leader of your community, state, nation, and have a permanent seat at the UN security council, and oh yeah, please give us fifty thousand dollars in fees up front before we find reason to reject you.
Back to reality: I did raise a child by myself. I would NEVER have been allowed to adopt her. We endured my failed marriage, several years of poverty making potatoes stretch past their prime to survive type stuff. She lived, grew up, attended and graduated from an ivy, got a six figure job out of school, and is generally a happy person who still voluntarily speaks to me. She’s artistic and caring and giving. The kind of person others like to be around. But were it not my sperm that contributed to her existence, I would never have been allowed anywhere near her.
Not entirely accurate. Shit hits the fan before this changes too much and we are in much debt. Also infrastructure is somewhat of a fixed cost. I.e. being fewer people does not reduce infrastructure emissions.
Antinatalism isn’t ab answer to the problem, but might be a reasonable reaction.
That being said I do not want to advocate for having more children or put the blame for the systemic issues on the individuals suffering from them.
some infrastructure, but by no means all. But I think my stance has always been closer to “if they wanted me to bring in additional players, they should’ve made the game more fun to play”
For the time being, most countries can get a younger population by letting in immigrants (who are statistically younger). Would probably result in a softer landing than otherwise.
Debt and money are make-believe anyway. Just tokens in a game we play called capitalism.
I’m not sure about the infrastructure claim. Generally, if infrastructure is used less, it requires less maintenance.
50% of all habital land is already being used by humans and being degraded, which doesn’t seem sustainable, especially since so much of the world still lives in poverty. World population doubles every 61 years, so it seems like it would be nearly impossible to stay on the current trajectory for much longer.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
Population decline will be the socio-economic epoch which finally puts an end to obligate growth capitalism, and the initial demographic crisis will force us to reprioritize how we use resources and technology to support aging populations. Historical materialism goes brrrrrr.
Refusing to make children for the capitalist machine is just good praxis.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Killing_of_Timothy_Russell_and… – two homeless black people were pulled over for a traffic stop, they were not searched and were let go. As they departed, police claimed they heard shots fired from the vehicle as it passed them (later determined to be a backfire) prompting the beginning of a 22-mile police chase. When Russell eventually pulled into a parking lot, the pair were shot to death by thirteen officers who fired 137 shots at the pair. It’s unclear where the pizza comes into it, but police alleged they saw a firearm in the vehicle (none was found).
Mark Venuti: wc.arizona.edu/papers/94/108/01_92_m.html – allegedly suicide-by-cop, he was carrying a Bible over his head and after being shot, charged at the officers yelling at them to shoot him again.
Khiel Coppin: courthousenews.com/brooklyn-mom-of-2-sons-killed-… – Khiel was mentally ill and allegedly told police he had a gun. Police later also killed his brother in a separate altercation, in apparent retaliation for bad press over the killing of Khiel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Douglas_Zerby – a neighbour mistook the hose nozzle for a gun and called police; officers did not check what he was holding and fired without warning, killing him.
Levar Jones: www.11alive.com/article/news/…/101-464504897 – Levar, a black man, was shot and wounded by an officer at a traffic stop while retrieving his licence from his vehicle. His dashcam captured the entire incident. The officer was convicted of aggravated assault and battery and imprisoned for five years, and Levar received a $285,000 settlement.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Killing_of_John_Crawford_III – shot and killed while holding a BB gun, captured on surveillance footage. A second person suffered a fatal heart attack while fleeing from the shooting.
David Loveless: policebrutality.info/…/man-arrested-for-pointing-… – Arrested and charged with two counts of “assault on a law enforcement officer by intimidation” for allegedly pointing his finger like a gun at officers. David denied pointing his fingers at anyone. The officers involved had previously testified against David’s son in a robbery case, giving him motive to threaten them. I can’t find further information on whether David was convicted of these charges.
Rumain Brisbon: www.dangerousobjects.org/rumain-brisbon (link includes sources) – Note: This site catalogues multiple examples of unarmed black people being subject to shooting or police brutality, with a focus on the harmless objects that were the catalyst of the police response.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey – Charles, a behavioral therapist, was retrieving his autistic patient Arnaldo Rios-Soto who had run away from a group home, when police encountered them during an unrelated search for an armed suicidal man. Arnaldo naturally did not respond to police orders. Kinsey, while lying on the ground with his hands in the air and attempting to negotiate between police and his patient, was shot when officer Jonathan Aledda mistook the toy truck Arnaldo held to be a gun – interestingly, Jonathan says he was aiming at Arnaldo, who he thought was holding Charles hostage, but shot Charles instead. Jonathan was arrested in 2017 and found guilty of culpable negligence in 2019, at which point he was fired, but his conviction was overturned in 2022.
weird about the pizza thing—i apologize to readers for the slight misinformation there (obviously this is not my meme but i do still stand by its rhetorical value).
The case definitely involved an incident of “police thought they saw a firearm that didn’t exist”, it just doesn’t say anywhere in the Wikipedia article that what they thought they saw was actually another object. Maybe it’s true, but it’s a piece of trivia from an external article that just didn’t make the Wikipedia page.
Only the VPN and emails work on Linux via the bridge. The calendar doesn’t work, ProtonDrive is only supported through rclone by emulating the macOS client, it’s clunky and incomplete.
Unfortunately, just like any private company, it can be bought or sold or just have new owners after the old ones die.
As a company, those great things they do for consumers can change on a whim, especially with new management and sudden need for revenue.
I mean, I remember people saying similar things about Gmail when it was invite only and had 1gb of storage. “It’s the best, why would you use anything else?”
All this time later, not feeling those same things so much, you know?
Proton’s services have been fully open source and regularly audited for years now. Until an audit reveals something or they start locking things down, they are a great option. You shouldn’t refuse to use a service because they might change their mind one day. Unless you expect everyone to roll their own everything.
Gmail was never open source. It was just very ahead of its time with its integrations/offerings.
You shouldn’t refuse to use a service because they might change their mind one day.
Sadly, when it comes to privacy, yes you should. Because privacy today does not equal privacy tomorrow. You can’t magic all your data out of their systems if things change. That’s the issue. I can take their privacy promises today, but if those promises can be changed on a whim by new owners… what good is that privacy promise? It isn’t.
Proton sells privacy. A privacy that can be rescinded.
Unless you expect everyone to roll their own everything.
I know it’s kind of an elitist attitude, but yeah, I fucking do. If they’re really concerned about their privacy.
Ed Snowden didn’t roll up to Glenn Greenwald and go “Yeah, just use any off-the-shelf messaging service that says its private.” No, he made Greenwald roll up his own.
So you expect the average person to host their own email, cloud file storage, VPN, and web calendar?
Nope, just people who care about their privacy.
You have to live in reality dude. I mean, are you hosting your own instance (I see you have a blahaj account)? Do you not have any logins online on sites that are closed or you don’t control? Do you pay an ISP and let them handle your traffic? Do you use any streaming services? Do you use Steam or play console games?
I am living in reality, and you’re literally making my argument for me.
Just because I understand the implications doesn’t mean I’m a privacy nut myself. I understand the limitations of privacy on the internet, which is why I felt the need to comment on the idea that as long as someone else controls it, it’s not really private. It’s much like cryptocurrency in that respect “Not your keys, not your crypto.”
I’m not saying everyone should do this, but people who are using services like ProtonMail who think they’re a panacea are fucking naive and really should be considering better options if they’re that concerned.
The only way to have real privacy is to disconnect from it all, own your own hardware, and internet connection. I don’t mean renting one from Xfinity. I mean literally owning your own infrastructure. It’s nearly impossible unless you’re ridiculously rich and incredibly tech savvy. Even with that, your data will still pass through other infrastructure not owned by you.
Yet people are dumping money into privacy services whose privacy rules can be changed at any time.
It’s great they’re all open source, but you’re still putting your data on their servers. If the business changes hands, or just changes how they operate, you only have their word that your data is removed, if you want to remove it.
That’s the point I’m making. If you really want online privacy, you’re going to have to go real far to get it, and putting your faith in third parties is just the same game we’ve been playing for decades already. When you give you data to a business, it’s no longer “your” data, it is now a business record.
Sorry that talking about the reality of it means I should go out into the woods myself or something. You can accept the reality without feeling the need to do it yourself, you know? It’s why such services are pointless because they can’t actually offer you a permanent promise of privacy.
@SnotFlickerman what do you work at facebook or something? this kinda privacy doomerism is honestly way worse than any false promises by nordvpn or whatever.
nobody should evaluate security or privacy by looking at something and saying 'is this perfect?' because of course it isnt. security is all about understanding the risks youre taking, and choosing to accept risks that are manageable - and that's absolutely something like proton can help you do
Never forget, Facebook (now Meta) had the chance to federate with Friendica but closed the tap ~2015, once more people started joining Friendica. Their mission is to make money, not friends.
It’s kind of hard to pin down the histories of these things, since they aren’t written about in any blogs that I can find, but here’s a GitHub PR referencing this issue:
Since the Facebook connectors aren’t supported anymore, they are now removed. Statusnet has been renamed to GNU Social and the API documentation has been updated.
Well firstly Mr. Founder, your employees mostly AREN'T SHAREHOLDERS! Why would they care about other people's profits? They work at Panera, not as part of some start-up. Their individual work isn't going to meaningfully impact on whether or not Panera closes their stores and they lose their jobs. So why should they give a shit? Do YOU care about how viable their wages are? Maybe you should make all your employees shareholders and they've have some incentive to want the stock to rise?
“Panera Bread founder not motivated to share profits with employees is mystified by the fact that employees aren’t motivated to make and share profits for other people.”
This guy’s a CEO, a capitalist and founder of a major brand and corporation. He’s fully aware of, practices and preaches the “virtues” of profit-driven capitalism. Capitalism is, at it’s most basic level, the philosophy of “what’s in it for me”? Why do they think that the same thing is not true for their employees?
People can and do perform work that is not profit/money motivated. People work for passion, for community, for family, for creativity, etc. They generally do not perform such works at a fucking Panera Bread. And they sure as shit do not do it to further line the pockets of their fucking shareholders.
Lol sure, but wealthy straight cis white men have always had full right to marry, arms, or vote. Every other group of people has had to argue for those freedoms, while others are considered the "default person".
Do trans people vote for someone that will allow them Healthcare or the one calling their existance pedophilia? That's not a choice, but it's a position many trans people are uniquely in. Just as black Americans had to argue for their freedom, to vote, to self protection. Just as women have to vote and own property. Just as queer folk have to marry.
Indifference to these situations means you're rights are so taken for granted that they will never be stripped away, so you are afforded the luxury of swing both parties the same
Yeah, Missouri republicans tried to make it illegal to get trans related healthcare even as an adult if you had autism. But sure both sides are the same. I guess from their ivory bunker.
Yeah, shit like this is a big part of why I haven’t sought diagnosis or help for my autism or gender shit even though they’re ruining my fucking life. Hahahahahahahelpme
My reaction to this post is about the same as it would be if an alien came up to me and just started garbling noises at me. I have no fucking clue what any of this is supposed to mean
So basically 4chan is capable of manifesting the worst of every community on there, this is mocking what the trans community on 4chan is. It contains everything from debunked theories from a sexologist that doesn’t believe in bisexuality to incel bullshit
The worst part about 4chan culture is how they bully people for things that don’t actually matter. It’s ok to make fun of someone in a way they’re fine with, but the viciousness with which they attack for things that cause no harm is disgusting. I personally believe you should only be cruel to those that harm people intentionally, with people simply disliking something out of taste not counting as harm.
It’s tasteless to wear tacky clothing, but people shouldn’t care if the person wore it just to make others upset. It’s evil to wear nazi clothing to try and anger people, so bullying and ostracizing them is totally justified.
Don’t bully people who wear fursuits, bully people who molest animals. Don’t bully people who like hentai, bully people who like loli hentai. Don’t bully ignorant free market liberals, bully the social darwinists who think people deserve their suffering. Don’t hate trans rapists for being trans, hate them for being rapists. Hate people for things that are inherently immoral, and don’t generalize to things that aren’t.
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