The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France
I know that DNA encodes proteins. Truthfully, everything besides that (including ‘what are proteins’) mostly wooshes over my head, but that’s not relevant because whenever I search this question I never even find it addressed anywhere....
This is pretty much the underpinning question of the entire field of evolutionary developmental biology, so naturally any answer is going to be a bit surface level, and I get out of my depth fairly rapidly to be honest. Still, it is quite interesting.
So to my knowledge, something like nose shape likely comes down to some of those regulatory genes controlling where the cells that will eventually be forming the cartilage get placed relative to the skull etc.
make reapportion something that happens every 10 years with the census
That’s… the current state of affairs? New apportionments of Rep seats to states take effect on the 4th year of each decade and have done so consistently since 1933 and in particular the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act. It also does little for the major structural issues with voting, which are much more about voting method and the drawing of voting district lines.
It’s the typical phrasing of social pressures to not stand out in Scandinavia, drawing from a book where the author phrases the “rules” somewhat as a legal code. Tall poppy syndrome is an overlapping idea that might be more familiar to English speakers.
I’d say this is a fairly good spot to focus an investigation. Buddhism can sometimes be orientalized and idealized by westerners, and it’s not good to let that blind us to when someone like Ashin Wirathu claims it in order to stoke Islamophobia, Imperial Japan used it in nationalist propaganda, or some traditions use it to denigrate women.
Any belief system will likely have some power-hungry bastards try to use it in these kinds of ways, I think.
Personally I do usually see myself as a secular buddhist - I am agnostic on the truth of the longer arcs most schools draw regarding rebirth etc., but I know experiences within a human lifetime include suffering, change, the pain of grasping etc. which the teachings offer some understanding of and tools for dealing with that have helped me. And from the suttas I’ve read, that appears to be the thing the Sakyamuni Buddha returned to a fair bit - the purpose of practice is to reduce suffering, not metaphysical musings.
There are so many things being tracked all the time in the game for puzzles and the power arm. Yet despites literally tracking sunshadows for some puzzle completion for example it runs almost smoothly with (in my 170h) no crashes. On a 6 yo portable console??...
The conservative group Project Veritas and its former leader are taking the unusual step of publicly acknowledging that claims of ballot mishandling at a Pennsylvania post office in 2020 were untrue....
It’s genuinely funny to me that one of O’Keefe’s major sins in the eyes of his conservative donors was being such a theater kid he staged a musical hagiography of himself.
That phrasing refers to a very broad set of movements and individuals. The usual core beliefs are:
Legislation in their jurisdiction and the government’s authority to enforce it is in some way defective.
People in their jurisdiction can opt out of laws and government, and live only under “natural law”.
People have to perform a set of legal procedures (spells, effectively) in order to achieve that.
Exactly why and how law/government authority is defective, how they understand natural law, what the spells are that they have to cast - all of these are extremely variable both between jurisdictions and between individuals.
Primarily it’s a set of grifters charging money for courses and materials to learn about these beliefs from whoever they can convince. Sometimes, as in Germany, it’s a group of neo-Nazis plotting to reinstate the Kaiser.
I am not asking this to be transphobic or anything but I had this debate with myself at 2 o’clock in the morning and every time I remember it I can’t focus....
If I describe someone as a “tall man” or “clever man”, do those qualifiers/subcategorizations call into question whether he is a “man”?
If they don’t, I’m genuinely interested in hearing what distinction you apparently see between those two and saying he is a “trans man”.
Interesting. I guess for me the “trans” bit just isn’t as strongly coupled to the person - that it’s natural to use “man” for such a person in general, and it’s a context (e.g. healthcare or the politics of it) that can make the subcategory be relevant.
Also outside of perhaps the EU, are there any legal enforcement mechanisms to hold them accountable for lying about it, if an audit showed that they were?
It becomes inherently difficult to make datasets actually anonymous the more data points they have about a given individual - it doesn’t much matter whether names and such are listed data points if they can be inferred from the rest. This investigation by Svea Eckert and Andreas Dewes, for instance, managed to identify a named German member of parliament (Valerie Wilms) and other public functionaries within a data set on web browsing habits they received from data brokers.
Most countries do have data privacy legislation and relevant regulatory/enforcement agencies, but the data brokerage business is big and intensely international so the picture on audits is kind of unavoidably complicated.
FIDE has two competitive circuits - the open circuit where men and women (cis or trans) can compete, and the women’s circuit. Players can (and commonly do) compete in both circuits. Ultimately the goal of the women’s circuit is to boost recruitment of female players and make competitive chess less of a boys’ club. Opinions are divided on whether it’s the most effective method.
The recent decision affects AMAB people who want to play in the women’s circuit, but does not bar them from the open circuit.
It’s a pretty shit decision as far as I can see, but it’s good to make judgments on the facts.
My only experience is with methylphenidate (the generic term for Ritalin), but I’ve not found anything like that personally.
In fact, I’d say I’ve felt more like myself and able to actively choose what I do than I was. This is related to also working through depression, but getting medicated has allowed me to much more often weigh up long term goals like exercise vs stimulating activities like video games and make an actual choice. Before, almost every such time I’d default to the stimulation because it took all my willpower for the day not to.
Miles Morales is Puerto Rican and the flag has previously featured in the Morales home/Miles’ living areas in the game series. This time they used a Cuban one by mistake.
It’s only 1 year ago Biden signed legislation forcing the railroad unions back to work with only 1 day of paid sick leave per worker per year. While as the author says it “One party is capable of rallying to labor’s side”, that feels very much like putting the bar on the ground.
This is such a weird situation. Overall it’s nothing bad, as they say they’re still well ahead of the original promised release date, but at the same time they had already said in a past update how the EU copies “are already with [the fulfillment company]”....
It’s an unfortunate situation, for sure. I’m glad to have found a digital option to play around with the new spirits and aspects while the red tape is resolved on my physical copy. Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine is so far my favourite of the Incarna spirits, but there’s still tons of things left to try. My limited plays of Dances Up Earthquakes indicate it’s definitely as brain-burning as the preview made it look.
As a package, I feel they slot in well next to Jagged Earth.
Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine - like I said my favourite among the Incarnas so far. The value you get from catching Invaders alone means you see the island kinda differently than most spirits. Control powers become really handy for setting yourself up, and powers with 1 damage can let you abduct entire Cities if used right. At the same time, you’re always needing to think about Growth letting pieces escape and planning where you could put them. Your teamwork unique power Reach From the Infinite Darkness is both a really neat tool there and can be a great help to spirits like Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds who have bigger mobility and range limitations.
Dances Up Earthquakes - Definitely a spirit I feel I need more experience with to really get. The core concept of needing to play some cards now to set up quake tokens and get Defend, and some to the future to get your Major power effects and big innate damage out works out interestingly, but seeing the good combos needs more experience than I’ve picked up I think.
Ember-Eyed Behemoth - I’ve not gotten many plays of this one, but it seems like a solid straightforward offense spirit with opportunities for mastery around its particular timing and mobility constraints.
Hearth-Vigil - A really solid defensive spirit, who with some planning can marshal a lot of counterattack damage and/or destroy Invaders added by a Build as they go up. I find I really appreciate that Fortify Heart and Hearth gives Dahan in your lands immunity to destruction/damage by event, since those few times I’ve taken a lot of losses to disease as Thunderspeaker it’s felt pretty bad.
Relentless Gaze of the Sun - Another I’ve not gotten many plays of. The Repeat mechanic seems solid, and particularly nice to combo with control-focused teammates, a bit like Lure of the Deep Wilderness.
Towering Roots of the Jungle - I was kinda looking forward to this one but haven’t particularly felt the spark of connection yet. Rushing to an empowered Incarna is particularly easy for it, but empowering also only suppresses Builds in one land. If you can draft a blight-removal or moving power it’s quite handy for improving the defensive uses of Vitality. If your heartland does Ravage into a Blight, it creates a kinda neat sacrifice combo where when the Invaders deal damage, Heart-Tree Guards the Land means Dahan are immune to damage, then you can choose the Incarna as the presence lost to Blight meaning the Dahan get to damage the Invaders back after all.
Wandering Voice Keens Delirium - A pretty interesting approach to control play. The amount of Strife you spit out really is extreme and comes with pushes by default thanks to Senseless Roaming. The Incarna limiting where Dahan get to participate in Ravage means you can’t really play too defensively with Strife, but have to look for some damage powers too. Mind-Shattering Song is a solid innate to help with that and can be targeted from the incarna or normal sacred sites. Turmoil’s Touch is a teamwork unique that I find particularly interesting - 0 cost, targeted spirits can pay 1 energy or discard a card to Take the top minor power and put it into their discard pile, and Wandering Voice can do likewise. Obviously it’s less directly helpful than something like Gift of Power which offers a choice of cards for relevancy, but even if you only use them once the improvements to your Reclaim cycles can really help the more card-starved spirits. If the card Taken is really bad, you have a natural pick for Forgetting when you gain a Major.
Wounded Waters Bleeding - Definitely conceptually interesting, with a lot of choices to make through each game. Similar to Starlight Seeks its Form it feels like you want to Forget a solid portion of your uniques in the early game. You can choose to forgo board presence instead but that can be pretty limiting for your range and ability to affect the island. Once you heal though, destroyed presence is less of an issue than for most spirits. So far I’ve tended towards Roiling Waters builds and Beasts-focused power drafts personally. The ability to gather Blight from turn 2 has neat applications both to prevent cascades and for power targeting.
Of the many new Aspects, the ones that stick out in my memory are Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves’ ones. Unconstrained is a neat variant that makes Sharp Fangs less sensitive to those same Blight targeting issues, but also makes your creation of Beasts a bit more constrained. I’ve not yet played any games with Encircle but it looks to tap into some of the feel of a good Shroud of Silent Mist offensive - smothering the Invaders by putting Beasts in neighbouring lands rather than concentrating them in the land you’re targeting.
I’m interested in hearing what cooperative games people are playing, old or new. My group has had Bloc by Bloc out on the table a few times. That is pretty fun for us, but I’m wanting to add some more cooperative titles to the library.
I think it’s the transition from a broad search pattern to a focused get-ahead-of-Dracula formation that’s the trickiest step to learn for me on the Hunter side. It always feels like there’s just a bit too many options open for me to surge forward and box him in.
I’d say the key insight with quantum computing is that its algorithms are about choreographing interference patterns among qubits such that wrong answers cancel each other out but right answers reinforce one another. It’s not just a matter of trying possibilities in parallel or “running different probabilities simultaneously” - the qubits’ states are complex combinations of 0 and 1 states, and they interact with and change one another. Simulating those interactions on a classical computer requires exponentially growing amounts of memory space and time as the quantum computation gets bigger. Trying to divide-and-conquer this simulation over multiple classical computers runs into the need for different parts of the circuit to know about each others’ state, limiting how much work can be sectioned off to be done by each computer in the group.
The extreme version of this is called the Alchemy/Enchantment loop where you feed two skill-improving skills into one another. But be aware, this is the kind of thing that can end up taking the fun out of a game for some people.
Also, it’s worth being aware that because of the way later Elder Scrolls games scale enemies, any time you’re working on a noncombat skill the draugr are training.
We were overdue (lemmy.world)
How does DNA decide the shape of the body?
I know that DNA encodes proteins. Truthfully, everything besides that (including ‘what are proteins’) mostly wooshes over my head, but that’s not relevant because whenever I search this question I never even find it addressed anywhere....
Some of my iterations are delightfully recursive (lemmy.world)
Minority rule is threatening American democracy like never before (www.motherjones.com)
Denmark to conscript women into armed forces for first time (www.aljazeera.com)
How do atheists who direct all their ire against religious belief think about religions that don't emphasis le believing things, e.g. Zen?
Just how the f*CK did Nintendo developed tears of the kingdom?
There are so many things being tracked all the time in the game for puzzles and the power arm. Yet despites literally tracking sunshadows for some puzzle completion for example it runs almost smoothly with (in my 170h) no crashes. On a 6 yo portable console??...
Project Veritas admits there was no evidence of election fraud at Pennsylvania post office in 2020 (apnews.com)
The conservative group Project Veritas and its former leader are taking the unusual step of publicly acknowledging that claims of ballot mishandling at a Pennsylvania post office in 2020 were untrue....
What’s a “sovereign citizen “?
Came across this recently and I can barely understand what’s about.
Would magically turning all trans people into the gender they want to be be unethical?
I am not asking this to be transphobic or anything but I had this debate with myself at 2 o’clock in the morning and every time I remember it I can’t focus....
Have companies that claim to anonymize the data gathered on individuals ever been independently audited to verify that?
Also outside of perhaps the EU, are there any legal enforcement mechanisms to hold them accountable for lying about it, if an audit showed that they were?
The BBC Found One (1) Trans Woman Impacted by Trans Ban in Chess (www.assignedmedia.org)
having difficulties explaining ADHD to loved ones
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‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy (www.nature.com)
Insomniac on Spider-Man 2's release (lemmy.zip)
Moderate Democrats get behind temporary speaker fix (www.semafor.com)
Biden’s UAW Rally Exposes the Bankruptcy of Trump’s Populism (nymag.com)
GtG posts another update about the EU-delay for Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate, will affect retail copies, too (www.backerkit.com)
This is such a weird situation. Overall it’s nothing bad, as they say they’re still well ahead of the original promised release date, but at the same time they had already said in a past update how the EU copies “are already with [the fulfillment company]”....
What Are Your Favorite Cooperative Games?
I’m interested in hearing what cooperative games people are playing, old or new. My group has had Bloc by Bloc out on the table a few times. That is pretty fun for us, but I’m wanting to add some more cooperative titles to the library.
Why can't multiple computers be linked to run different probabilities simultaneously to accomplish the same as a quantum computer?
The title says it all. If qubits can be in the position of a 1 and 0, why can’t multiple computers using 1s and 0s accomplish the same thing?
In skyrim which of the three skills should I raise first to max?
Smithing, alchemy and enchanting.