DeepThought42

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DeepThought42,

I really want to believe this is true, but the last time I thought “There’s no way the country would elect Trump”, they did. :|

DeepThought42,

Very much looking forward to testing this.

DeepThought42,

Trump and his minions keep talking about “evidence”, but based on their many court losses over the years due to a lack of it I don’t think that word means what they think it means.

DeepThought42,

PVC paneling for inside the home. Great. Just what we need. More plastic. :|

DeepThought42, (edited )

Time to put away the pitchforks. It’s not what the title and description might suggest. This is just an exposé by Johnny Harris on the history and overreaches of the intelligence apparatus here in the US .

Aside from the one line of text in the description, at no point does the video attempt to repudiate the great orange troll.

DeepThought42,

The title and description were taken direction from the YT video by OP. I suspect that they were intended to lure those on YT who might be more sympathetic to the idea of a “Deep State” as expounded upon by those on the far right in hopes to enlighten some about what the real deep state looks like. It’s fair to say that Lemmy, at least this instance, tends to lean the other way, so perhaps a different title would have been more appropriate here.

DeepThought42,

From my experience 4chan is not a place for any sort of serious discussions. From what I saw there it’s about trying to shock, disgust, and/or troll people as much as possible.

Reddit lost what little interest I had remaining when they announced they would be selling our content to train LLMs. To be clear, they were already on a downward spiral before then with their ever increasing focus on monetizing the platform as much as possible, but the “AI” business was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.

DeepThought42,

Also made the jump multiple times so far, when the servers were cooperating. While everything visual is pretty much just placeholders for now and it’s clear a lot more work is needed, it’s still very encouraging to experience the JP actually working and allowing transit from Stanton to Pyro and back again.

DeepThought42,

I wish the media wasn’t so focused on stuff like this. It’s only feeding their egos and driving them to even further to out compete each other in the worlds biggest a-hole contest.

DeepThought42,

X4 - Foundations. I’ve played over a thousand hours of this game, and cursed it’s name through much of that gameplay. On the surface it’s a passable first-person space-flight simulator (in the loosest sense of the term) with combat, trading, and various missions. It also supports higher tier empire building and strategy, which I’ve found the most compelling, but that aspect is often at odds with it’s first-person nature. I grit my teeth every time I’ve had to interrupt the act of building out a new station or coordinate an assault on an enemy system in order to personally save a single transport ship from a pirate/Xenon/Kha’ak attack because no matter how good or how many NPC escorts I hire they are never adequate. And if you lose a ship, good luck figuring how which station or trade routes it was servicing. The one saving grace was the ability to pause the game in order to do things like designing a station or directing ships without the concern of being interrupted. Naturally, this drags out the game significantly.

Other major detractors are the clunky, thoroughly inadequate UI (yes, there are mods that help, but they never go far enough) and the laughably bad missions. However, I must stop myself here or I will end up writing a lengthy thesis on this game.

Suffice it to say, it’s a flawed, but oddly addictive game.

DeepThought42,

During the course of the investigation into the shooting, deputy Herandez resigned from the force.

Good. So now maybe they should look into their hiring and retention policies to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

DeepThought42,

The Supreme Court is the final appeals court, so it makes sense that they can be asked to review cases like this. However, in this case I certainly hope they do the logical thing and pass on hearing this case since the appeals court clearly got it right.

DeepThought42,

They have to know that if they reject the sound logic of the lower courts then their heads could be literally on the line, if not from the current president, possibly the next.

DeepThought42,

It’s scary how close they came to pulling that conspiracy off.

DeepThought42,

Good to be reminded of this again, thanks. I just wish that it didn’t feel so … relevant.

DeepThought42,

It’s the tried and true method of sticking your head in the sand and hoping the problem goes away.

DeepThought42,

I suspect Putin got what we wanted out of that interview, so Carlson is probably safe saying he was “annoyed”. Still he should be careful to avoid stairs, upper story windows, planes, and ingesting anything he didn’t make himself for the next few years to be on the safe side.

DeepThought42,

Yes, yes I was kidding, but also pointing out the dangers of getting too chummy with a dictator. Their moods can be fickle and their friends can quickly become enemies or liabilities.

DeepThought42,

Pong on the Atari 2600.

DeepThought42,

Good news it seems, but we’ll have to wait to see what the SCOTUS says.

DeepThought42,

Watched the documentary. Good stuff, thanks for posting that link. While I can’t say I anything new except for some details I either didn’t know, or had forgotten, is was a good reminder of the events surrounding the 1/6 insurrection. It’s a good reminder of why Trump should never be President again, but we’ll have to see what the courts and the voters say about that.

Also, Robert Ray’s (Former Trump Attorney) arguments became almost comical as the documentary played. I almost laughed out loud at hearing some of the mental gymnastics he was trying to perform in saying that Trump shouldn’t be convicted because of the first amendment right to free speech.

DeepThought42,

They can keep him.

DeepThought42,

As others have said, the full, medical transition of children isn’t really a thing. Therefor my response is entirely limited to the psychological and limited medical support parents should give to a child while the child matures to the point where full medical transition can then be possible.

That said, I would conditionally consider it child abuse if a parent has the means to help their child mitigate their gender dysphoria issues, but refuses to do so. Where I would not consider it abuse is when there are major financial (i.e. the parents are poor), logistical (they live in a remote area with limited/no internet connectivity), or safety issues (the child or families lives become jeopardized should others in their community learn of the child’s apparent gender change) that would prohibit an otherwise willing parent from doing all that can be done to help their child in this regard. I would still expect a parent to do what they can, but if they cannot help the child, say for example receive all the necessary psychiatric help and/or medications then I would not necessarily fault the parents.

DeepThought42,

Good stuff. Looking forward to both the new EVA mechanic and the new interaction system.

Also, great to see more self deprecating humor from CIG.

DeepThought42,

While growing up my family’s home had heating stoves capable of burning both wood and coal. While we primarily burned wood, coal would sometimes be used, particularly on nights when it was really cold out as it tended to burn hotter and usually burned longer than wood of the same volume.

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