I keep FW by my bedside and only read it while at my most sleep delerious. Seems to help!

Fun song too!

🐍: Anything you share with me is strictly confidential! (Doctor-patient privilege)

I used to work in a computer lab, open plan, where we all had CRTs. I sat across from the main DB admin, who had TWO monitors for all the work he was doing (wild stuff to have dual CRTs back in those days.) Due to the layout, my monitor sat in-between his, facing the opposite way of course. I loved degaussing my monitor because:

1. It would degauss both of his and
2. The EM fields were so strong between them that my monitor's image would flip entirely upside down before snapping back into frame while making just the craziest electronic noises, colors dancing all over the screen. Gorgeous stuff! I wonder if anyone has tried to recreate a degaussing effect using shaders to simulate the process?

It's amazing how much still gets through, but at least I'm not scrolling past a dozen "news" stories between every meme or comic post.

Well, I guess they aren't a sea krait anymore, blabber mouth!

manul!

Yeah, basically this. 9/11 fundamentally changed the American psyche and ushered in a massive ramp-up of the neoliberal system. Covid didn't really change a whole lot of anything (the biggest problem with it in many ways) but did utterly and fully convince me that we're doomed as a species.

Nothing has ever illuminated for me so clearly that an unmanageable number of people are too stupid, hateful, or whatever else to work together to overcome an existential crisis. A significant amount of people would rather feel correct and kill all of us than work out their issues. So if humanity is like 30-40% evil, and about 40-50% "neutral" (aka myopically self-interested but not actively violent or hateful), that leaves only 10% "goodness" at most. And I'm sorry but a group that's only 10% good doesn't deserve to go on running things.

Yeah, I've been really impressed with Gloomwood but I am already tired of the fishery (level 1) and wish the EA would come with a jump-ahead feature. It's looking to be a very good game on release, I'm quite excited for it.

Timberborn sucked me in hard for about a week. I love watching the little beavers run around, and building hydro systems is a lot of fun! I sort of fell off trying some of the more difficult scenarios with the Iron Teeth. Dealing with harsher water conditions ends up being a lot slower and getting established become very repetitive and dull waiting for enough resources to come in to do anything. I hope they add more end-game options and challenges.

I also got really into Against the Storm, another city builder that also has beavers, but which is cleverly mixed with roguelike and boardgame elements to improve on replay value.

Oh cool, radioactive flooding, that's fine. At least they don't last long!

Brb, posting this in the polycule group chat. (Shouldn't that also be a square? Lol)

No worries! You're probably right that it's better not to assume, and it's good of you to provide some different options.

If by more learning you mean learning

ollama run deepseek-r1:7b

Then yeah, it's a pretty steep curve!

If you're a developer then you can also search "$MyFavDevEnv use local ai ollama" to find guides on setting up. I'm using Continue extension for VS Codium (or Code) but there's easy to use modules for Vim and Emacs and probably everything else as well.

The main problem is leveling your expectations. The full Deepseek is a 671b (that's billions of parameters) and the model weights (the thing you download when you pull an AI) are 404GB in size. You need so much RAM available to run one of those.

They make distilled models though, which are much smaller but still useful. The 14b is 9GB and runs fine with only 16GB of ram. They obviously aren't as impressive as the cloud hosted big versions though.

So are there thousands of trump cultists ruining america (by strategicaly placing themselves in positions of power like voting volunteers, judges, sheriffs, and so on) or not?

Are you suggesting 100 million people voted for Trump and then went home to celebrate but otherwise didn't do any fascist stuff? Didn't take over any PTA's to get books banned (documented) or take over any courts (some supreme ones even, perhaps) so that laws could be overturned and election decisions quickly made in Trump's favor?

That 30-ish% (or more) of Americans like and support fascism is a real problem. Its been a real problem for... roughly all of human history that 1/3 of us are selfish monsters that lack empathy.

Trump stole the election. He announced he would, his lackeys did extensive voter suppression work, and then he bragged about doing it afterwards. He didn't win a fair election, and it's disgusting that the narratives have fully blown past that.

The wealthiest people on Earth believe that we're in an "end game" of some sort, and that now is the time to do everything in their considerable power to consolidate rule before the big collapse sets in. This isn't an America problem, it's a World Class War and the USA isnt even the first battlefield, just currently the most visible failure of the lower classes to fight back.

I missed the origin of this meme, what a vid though! I really need to attend more city council meetings, and I definitely need to open any addresses to them with "'sup bootlickers?"

I like how Moomin and Momma have the same worry lines over their eyes, momma even has an extra set. Very cute how they align with the different parents. Tove really learned how to express "so tired of my husband's BS" with just 6 little lines.

Wow, "stories" about speculations about ads; what a world we're living in.

And no, I'm pretty sure Wario doesn't pay taxes. Considering that his first appearance he was a thieving villain and in his first full game, his whole deal is stealing enough treasure from pirates to buy his own kingdom.

I'm surprised they didn't tie this back into the Musky SNL appearance. I wish they had, because then my musk-filter would have hidden this from me.

I'm an USAian and that was my first thought too! "Put some branston on that and it'd be an alright lunch." Seriously though, at least put some mayo on there or something, my mouth is dry just looking at it.