Time being a physical dimension in spacetime that can stretch and squish and ‘now’ isn’t the same for every observer is probably the least intuitive one I know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

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Yeah 4 and 5 are lots of fun but I wouldn’t want to deal the the in game monetization bs for like the first year on 6 until they release a version that has all the game stuff included

Is it Taco Tuesday already?

If you’ve ever read the beginning of Moby Dick the preacher in the first chapter with the fire and brimstone preaching represents similar evangelical Calvinist denom preachers popularized around the 1700s during the great awakening. Probably the most popular example was Johnathan Edwards evangelical Calvinist/puritan “sinners in the hands of an angry god” from 1741.

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One has a flat head the other has a plus sign head like the difference between crocodiles and alligators or ravens and writing desks

It’s kinda a weird way to phrase it like one caused the other, btc had been trading at 60-70k usd for around 2.5 months from around a month before the US+Israel war against Iran started

People under the stairs - Acid Raindrops

https://youtu.be/Dm6hcG5GT24

Cleric is still an evil class, just lawful evil vs the chaotic evil alignment of US’s govt

Tromaville, nightvale

I use user tags if someone is just being a blockhead, but I’ll block them if they’re being harmful running apologetics for some heinous shit or pushing obvious misinformation

They are guessing machines, predicting the next token. At best it’s equivalent to the language center of the brain, but it still needs many capabilities like logical reasoning to weight and evaluate different actions and outcomes wrt values or goals to not just mimic the behavior of thinking agents. It’s one of many steps in a long line of experimentation and engineering building towards AGI but we still have no idea how close it really is, maybe 10 years, 50 years, 500 years, etc. They are useful for specific tasks like a hammer or newspaper or search engine, but because of all the fear based investing to not miss the next big thing people with more money than brains invested heavily without understanding the limitations or actually capabilities of the technology.

There are scientific targets and experiments being run

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis-ii-science/

100% there is a big political component to the effort, but there are also data that we can’t get without getting farther from Earth

Discworld is great and so many series within it to start with, guards! Guards!, the color of magic, mort, etc really enjoyable to read. My second fav after LOTR for fantasy.

Edit: a couple more fun ones are the forgotten realms/sword coast/icewind Dale/etc d&d setting books like drizzt by r.a. Salvatore and the Diablo novelization series by Richard knaak that reads a bit like Conan the barbarian or berserk

There’s 1 listener supported classical station and 1 listener supported news station, the rest are garbage constant ads or worse

Also happy to take Harvey Weinstein’s money for most of his movies & asking him to apologize when caught assaulting multiple performers. He’s made some good movies but he’s also a creep, an asshole, and a bit of a fucking idiot tool.

More of the atheists I know have actually read to Bible compared to the Christians I know who read some of the new testament maybe part of some gospels, some acts, revelations and psalms. It’s pretty vile & gross to force religion on people, but I don’t think this is going to have the impact they expect it to without also allowing clergy to lie about what it means when it says you should stone people to death for working on the Sabbath or all the pro slavery laws and parables.

You use rotating passwords, challenge/response phrases, secret handshakes, etc. Even without this dystopian nightmare scenario it’s good to at least have a crisis/I’m in danger secret word or phrase with family members in case someone needs help without making the situation more dangerous.