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Free gifts rule!
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    Wirlocke
    2d ago 100%

    That's part of it but it's not that we don't know how, it's that google search is ruined now.

    Paid advertisements floating to the top, search engine optimization completely ruining any form of categorization, a deluge of spam websites that pump out irrelevant articles full of keywords (ironically now using GPT to make more articles).

    If you want to actually get real people talking you have to append "reddit" to the end. But now Reddit is also becoming shitty for search.

    Nowadays people realize if all you get from google search is ai and social media, then why not skip the middle man? Hence people using ai and even Tiktok in place of Google.

    I personally use Claude to ask for niche questions and it actually gets to the point answering what I'm asking. (I double check using the terms it gives me to read more on Wikipedia and ect.)

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  • Anon's gf is native american
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    Wirlocke
    4d ago 100%

    It's like an awful combination of a boomer making a flirtatious "joke" and the hyper nerdy language of The Big Bang Theory show.

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  • Anon has a plan
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    Wirlocke
    7d ago 100%

    And it's a hilarious coincidence that it resulted in the southern most point being Antarctica, as it just happens to be the only continent without bears.

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  • 500 Hours in MS Paint
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    Wirlocke
    1w ago 100%

    I get annoyed when people say things like "big deal, just do xyz yourself, why are you complaining?" . Because making a clear and comprehensive game is WOTC's job they are being paid for with our money!

    If the system has a flaw, it's their job to fix it, if they don't they're doing a bad job.

    That being said, 5.5e has been pretty cleaned up in this aspect. I'm honestly shocked at how they both added new fun systems and codified a lot of vague mechanics.

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    I've probably lite(rule)y done this 🙏
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    Wirlocke
    1w ago 100%

    I feel like an average person or group of people are of average intelligence.

    But huge masses of people? They begin to adopt emergent traits that cancel out individual intelligence. It's why foot traffic can be modelled as a liquid. Or why the entire field of economics can exist.

    This makes large public masses have predictable behavior that's exploitable by grifters, demagogues, and propaganda.

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  • Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price
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    Wirlocke
    3w ago 100%

    If he was that competent why would he resort to openly pumping and dumping meme coins in public just prior to this stunt.

    He has some dangerous strings he can pull, but that doesn't make him a good puppet master.

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  • Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price
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    Wirlocke
    3w ago 96%

    Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure he gave an outlandish bid for Twitter to manipulate it's stock prices when he pulled put, but he was sued into following through.

    I don't think he ever wanted to buy it, or at least he wanted to crash it's value to come back and buy it on the cheap.

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  • Everett True encourages voting (September 27, 1912)
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    Wirlocke
    3w ago 100%

    Ultimately I believe you can't claim to be an activist if you are promoting inaction.

    If voting doesn't matter then vote and do more. Doing less to change things is functionally conservative no matter how you spin it.

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  • CBS News says it will be up to Vance and Walz to fact-check each other in veep debate
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    Wirlocke
    3w ago 100%

    This would he concerning if I wasn't convince that Walz would sit him down and correct him like a disappointed father.

    If anyone could make a politician seem like a child to their face it'd be him, and especially if that politician is Vance.

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    Do you like them? I don't find them all that funny.
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    Wirlocke
    4w ago 100%

    I don't find them funny but more amazed that we've distilled the concept into an immortal simple symbol.

    Like kilroy or the cool S, loss will ironically never be lost :.|:;

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  • I'm a dude, and I agree
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    Wirlocke
    4w ago 95%

    I feel the specificity is to drive home the point to the target of this message. You can generalize advice to be more accurate and apply to more people, but it'll be as wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle.

    People are really great at excluding themselves from general advice like "don't worry about judgement", they need to feel like the message is tailored to their own experiences.

    You can definitely recycle the message with a male or gender neutral tone, but that'll lead to different conversations. Sometimes people don't want to speak out to a generic broad audience, they want a more specific conversation.

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  • Do all these former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good?
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    Wirlocke
    1mo ago 100%

    From a game theory perspective, a trumper discouraged to vote is worth 1 vote, a flipped Republican vote is worth 2 votes.

    So the appeal to the right makes sense if it works, because every vote from that camp is also a negative vote from Trump.

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  • Do all these former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good?
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    1mo ago 100%

    I have the hope that she'll end up being more progressive after votes are counted.

    Partially because she has Walz which is a good sign, but mostly I'm hoping for hopes sake. 🤞

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    Men losing their mind
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    Wirlocke
    1mo ago 81%

    Good lord the discourse here is about as well as the man or bear discussions.

    Something I notice is how everytime someone makes these kinds of criticisms, the counterarguments turn into a pit of semantics and extropolations. As if the original post was a massive research thesis rather than just women venting frustration over the entitlement and danger they're subjected to daily.

    You gotta look past the specific wording to see the overarching societal themes, emotions, and issues. It's like those magic eye pictures.

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  • I'm a Tans Pan Girl who's a little ENBY but still she/her. Obligatory I like programming, D&D, and MTG. I made the transition (heh) from Reddit and it's been surprisingly smooth. I initially set up base in Sh.itjust.works but after seeing 196 and SapphicArt (please post more there) I moved to Blahaj. I was worried there wouldn't be enough content or gay energy for my 12 hour work day but the 196 rule is ingenious for quickly populating a social network.

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