All of Shakespeare

I’d actually expect it to be that way more often than not. If you’re poor you can’t spend recklessly, and if you have a big enough income there’s much less reason to budget much.

Look, I respect anyone who has the courage to peacefully share their beliefs, even if I disagree with those beliefs. It’s a tough thing to do, and it’s rare that you know if had any effect at all.

I do think the way you’re going about it is not good, especially here. I suggest getting to know the people here better before evangelizing much more. It will be more effective, and make you come across as a bit less of a dick. Lemmy users are majority atheist, with at best an academic view of religion. Try to understand that perspective first, so you can talk to people instead of talking at them.

In most cases, yes. But it is better for carrying dirty stuff, and the canopy can be taken off of you need to carry something huge.

Still worse for most uses, plus utes and SUVs are way too big to be practical most of the time.

I’m not gonna bother with saying that the other losses that you’re discounting can be just as tragic as losing a romantic partner. Everyone else here has said it probably better than I could.

What I’ll bring up is that not only are there more kinds of revenge motivation than the loss of someone close to you, there are more motivations than just revenge. For other kinds of revenge, what about wounded honour? A hunter who’s prey keeps escaping them might feel the need to finally end that hunt before they can look themselves in the eye. That’s its own form of revenge arc, and it can make just as powerful a story as avenging the loss of a loved one. And for non revenge motivations, there’s far too many to list, but here’s a start

• duty
• repaying a debt to the world
• self improvement
• survival (usually more of a side character motive compared to a hero protagonist, but still good)
• seeking admiration (from people in general or from a few important people)

Mindustry: an automation tower defense game

Shattered pixel dungeon: a classic Roguelike dungeon crawler

Slay the spire: a deck builder Roguelike. Probably one of the most popular in the whole Roguelike genre

Peglin: a lot like slay the spire, but plinko instead of cards

There was a guy who tried something similar. He got the custom number plate “null”, hoping the database would record any entries of his plate as null not "null" so it would not go back to him. Ended up doing the opposite, and he got all the tickets from whenever the cop didn’t record the plate.

I’d like to think I wouldn’t, but my chances probably aren’t any better than the average person. I don’t think I’d ever get anywhere near the worst leaders in history, but I wouldn’t count on me being perfectly incorruptible.

But even if I was, that wouldn’t be enough. Either I’d have to run the entire government myself, which is impossible, or I’d have to reliably find other incorruptible people to work for me and replace me when I die, which will never be reliable enough. If I didn’t find incorruptible people, what’s to stop them getting bribed into not letting me do anything until I let the corrupt people have their way?

AH is better. It’s all artificial hype, there’s nothing intelligent about it

I’ve got a reason for you: it’s profitable for there to be some scarcity.

So Russia is invading? That alone, pretty much regardless of the reason, is enough to side with Ukraine.

But that reason, even if true, is one of the stupidest reasons to invade. A softer, more propaganda focused approach would be both far more effective and far less costly, in both lives and resources. So either Russian leadership is so useless that an invasion is the best they can come up with, or they’re invading to take over Ukraine. Incompetent to the point of malice, or malice. Take your pick.

LOTR. Especially the themes for the shire and the rohirrim.

And based on what Marx said, likely due to an opioid overdose.

It’s interesting to see nazi flags as the people criticizing the “socialist” countries, when the nazi party called themselves the “national socialist” party. They were only slightly worse at doing the socialism part than China and ussr

The point is “Russia can’t do the bad things because America does all the bad things and Russia isn’t America”. Because America being evil and Russia being evil are mutually exclusive of course.

What about an inverse centaur? Is it just a horse minotaur, or is the human head replaced by the front half of a horse?

• Literally yesterday I started playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and just the prologue hit me.

• The end of Karlach’s story in Baldurs Gate 3

I have a few thoughts on this. For context, I’m a Christian with equally big interests in science and theology.

A. Remember that scripture wasn’t written to us 21st century people. It was written in a context, in a language, at a time, for a culture, all different from what we have today. So for us to understand scripture we have to understand the context surrounding when it was written. This means hypothetical differences also need to go through this filter. For your examples of Native Americans or bacteria, what would the early Israelites have done with this information? I’d say it would have been seen as a weird side detail likely wouldn’t have survived being part of an oral tradition. Especially the bit about bacteria, since they didn’t have a word for it.

B. I don’t think that’s the point of the Bible. The way I describe it is “God’s biography”. A bunch of authors all wrote their part to try to communicate who God is and what he has done. These authors all had the chance to live close to God, and got pointers on topics to write about, then they all write about God.

C. I’ve had a similar conversation with some of my friends. We were playing “that’s a question” (party board game about guessing what answer this specific player will choose), and the question of “would you prove God’s existence/nonexistence?” came up. We’re all Christian, so we were talking about proving that God does exist, and we basically came to the answer that God has clearly built the world in a way that does not absolutely prove his existence, so he must have chosen to not prove it for some reason. Our best guess was that if it was proven, a lot of people would follow him out of obligation instead of love.

The only time I’ve seen real use from an ai tool is at work, we are using it to get data from an invoice/quote/etc from the pdf that we get emailed to data that we can put in the database. It’s not a perfect solution, but there isn’t really anything else we can find other than getting people to do it, which is slower and more expensive.

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