Annoyingly I’ve used them for a number of years as a good way to make internet comments flow a bit more. However I find myself doing it less and less now because I’m worried people are just going to think I’m using an AI if they see an em dash.

(You just long press dash on android to get to it, opt+shift+dash on Mac, and the admittedly Byzantine alt+0151 on windows. Can’t remember iOS off the top of my head, but I think it’s similar to android)

Why would they start telling the truth now?

i.e. Helping others modify their own devices

You’re splitting hairs

Gary Bowser got fucked by Nintendo for doing shit to a device he bought. Got sentenced for nearly 4 years, now owes like $15m

Well a whole new genre of potential apocalypses has been unlocked then

gives famous example off the top of my head

Well this isn’t as important as that

…?

Well that’s objectively false, the tampon tax one is a pretty famous example.

This is how you start a war with Scotland

I think every petition that’s ever been through the website has got the “lol try harder” response at 10k.

No one pays attention to that one.

Oh so you’re telling me that my storage unit is actually incredibly well optimised for space efficiency?

Nice!

100,000 means they are forced to debate it in parliament.

If we get to that point, email your MP and tell them to show up

Ah apologies, I missed that. STV is good too, the Scottish use that and it results in good representation for everyone

Go on Elon, just another line of ket and you’ll get your revenge

AI datacenters are very far from the typical electrical load of a cloud datacenter, no existing data center has planned appropriately for this because we’re only now discovering the bad effects it’s having on the grid

Funnily enough AC usage is very easily modelled because it’s a well understood distributed load, directly linked to weather. Plus large modern buildings should be built with grid aware AC that adjusts load based on grid demand anyway. I know Siemens and Ericsson both have commercial solutions for that, so I imagine there’s more I don’t know about.

Souls games.

I really want to like them too, but they seemingly aren’t compatible with how I play games. I need to be able to put a game down for a couple of weeks and not feel like I’m back at square one because the specific muscle memory for that game has gone.

Just kinda kills the fun when the game is effectively telling me to get good, when I don’t actually have the amount of free time IRL necessary to do that.

Versus FPTP, which funnels votes to 2 big parties, forces strategic voting and discards everyone else’s opinions?

Ranked choice allows the politicians in a country to see what people actually want. There’s been countless elections in my country where I’d have voted Green if I knew that vote would then be transferred to the party of my preference, rather than effectively being a vote for the party I like least (as a third party vote is in FPTP).

If the incoming government knows the only reason they got in was down to a load of transferred green votes, they would be pressured to push for a policy agenda more skewed in that direction and in theory should result in a government more representative of the people that voted for it

Funny, we had similar in our ostensibly actually left wing party in the UK a few years ago. We have a democratic leadership process and the labour membership elected an actually left-of-centre leader

Reports followed Jeremy Corbyn’s run as leader of the party that the BlaIrite wing (centre right part of the party) did everything in their power to sabotage him.

Social liberals are almost as megalomaniac as standard conservatives, it sadly seems. If they don’t get to be in charge, no one does, in their eyes.

Have you heard of the Nuremberg trials?

There is a very strong set precedent that “I was just following orders” does not come close to cutting it.

Cede conservatives a fraction of an inch and they will take a hundred miles.

First they came for…

Shame they’re not santanists

Great guitarist