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(So the persistence of 20th-century feature mixes in the HZD world ends up telling a story about social organization that’s wildly at odds with the actual text of the game. I suspect it’s mostly good intentions poorly implemented but it’s unsettling when you think too much about it.)
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(Also after 2-3 generations if you’ve evenly distributed phenotypes across the initial decanting and there’s no social mores against marrying people who look different from you, most people are just gonna look Brazilian!)
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I assume that this was primarily a cost/time saving measure (if you want all of your voice actors to have matching regional accents then you’re hiring a dialect coach and the talent can’t just record from home) but yeah, it took me out of the game when I noticed it.
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I dunno man. Every whack job is a weird unique snowflake when you scratch their surface (what’s the point of being a conspiracist if you can’t assemble your own boutique reality to live in?) but their actual actions (when they act) tend to be grimly similar.
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DHS is currently terrorizing minority communities across the country in SA style black baggings and assaults by groups of unidentified goons in government attire. Many of the victims are American citizens themselves and they still end up with trumped up charges.
I am trying to identify a theme here
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Ooh, I will definitely check this out. “Movies made for less than a day’s worth of petty cash expenses from the preproduction budget of a Star War” is one of my favorite mini-genres! (“El Mariachi” is of course the modern granddaddy of the genre, but “Versus” is up there too.)
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Hah, fair.
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Okay I need to schedule a trip back to PDX soon.
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!!!
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I’m sure there are at least one or two who are in the biz because they _inherited_ money, but I would peg the over/under of people who _became_ millionaires via voice acting at 1 and take the under.
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Yeah, AIUI those are fine. It’s just the airtight stuff you need to avoid like the plague.
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(The swim google thing is pretty in the weeds, but if you god forbid take a tear gas canister or other projectiles to the fact, they’re a good way to do serious eye damage due to the sudden suction.)
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Of the many groups of people with their own private gas leak that convinced them that the Trump in their head was completely on their side, many are more tragic but nearly none are as annoying as the would-be new model trustbusters.
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Anyway the moral of the story is: you're never too old to have an extremely minor celebrity interaction!
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(I'm being coy about the name because it feels like there's implicit omerta about a somewhat famous person showing up to their college reunion but anyone who knows where I went to school can probably fill in the blanks.)
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I am aware.
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End of the day I'm really not against the hasidim having the kind of community they want to have, but jfc not in the middle of the largest city in the country. I forget which rebbe it was that was recently exhorting his followers to move to Kiryas Joel but I approve.
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Thankfully no. It was mostly a pretty gratifying postmortem to write: considering the scope of the failure of our primary cloud provider, we had very few things go wrong.
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Some shit went down yesterday. Even giants stumble. The harder they come...
status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...
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TRIGGER WARNINGS, FAINE. TRIGGER WARNINGS.
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If I want to listen to gibbering idiots I would set the dogs on if they were ever on my property I will just fire up YT, tyvm
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A difficult problem! If only someone had thought deeply and rigorously about it!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian...
(I know _you_ know this, but man it's amazing how many people don't even now.)
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Don't worry, you won't have to. It won't be a _better_ regime.
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"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots fights one on twelve."
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“Community self-policing” you say? Currently quite a bit of that going on in Northern Ireland; can’t say as I like the look of it much.
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This. I get the moral and theoretical case for various forms of “abolition” but if you can’t explain in under a paragraph what stops your proposed replacement for a professional police force from just being an _amateur_ police force then I don’t see why I should take you seriously.
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The current consensus seems
to be that Sinwar dropped 10/7 as a fait accompli with no more warning to his allies than his enemies. Frankly hard to blame them for turning down his invitation for them to commit suicide on his behalf under the circumstances.
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In short, NYC is more expensive to live in that most places in the US--with one glaring exception, namely transportation. It already costs only $135/month to get around here--much cheaper than a car payment and insurance. Why spend our resources worrying about the one cost of living we do well?
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Heh, fair. But who knows how much of that was a song and dance act for Mashayoshi Son. The investors wanted crazy, he gave them crazy!
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My recollection is that S&F was de facto dead by court judgment by the time BdB took office: the PBA etc let it go because it was clear they’d never win on any conceivable appeal.
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The thing is, once its absurd debts are written off and insane opex pruned back and it’s just a normal real estate company, wework is likely to be tidily profitable. It was never going to be the hockey stick SoftBank wanted but carefully managed it’s an unglamorous money maker.
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And yeah as mentioned else-thread, two straight terms of treading water on housing policy as rents doubled.
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Seemed to be a nice guy with his heart in the right place but he ran a notoriously messy shop, he absolutely botched the response to the NYPD riots, and he clearly got bored with the job early on (hence the ridiculous presidential campaign).
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I’m still a little sad that Neumann didn’t manage to buy WeWork back from bankruptcy with the money that SoftBank paid him to go away. It would have been the funniest thing ever!
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FUCKING
Y I K E S
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This should be a postmortem for the _ages_.
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My guess is that people are trying to log in to AWS services with Google/Gmail credentials and reporting the failure as an AWS problem?
But who knows: there really does seem to be a real issue at cloudflare and I cannot even imagine how that ended up sharing fate w/ GCP's control plane.