davidyul.bsky.social
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Not sure if it's cause or effect, but the bottom of the population pyramid for the US tightens noticeably as birth control pills make their way onto the scene, which will give a higher mean age for the population as a whole. But it's a noisy signal since immigration plays a large role too.
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It's been 8 months and 364 days, enough is enough!
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The Google A.I. is nothing more than something to scroll through in hopes of hitting their core service.
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Genuinely awesome world-building, great jokes, the role George Carlin was born for (sorry, Bill & Ted, this is his best).
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"Now, if you’re not intimately familiar with the online discourse about birth control, Schwarze’s claim may seem a bit unhinged, and it is."
I'm dying. 🤣
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=kezg...
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I dunno, he looks like a cupcake enthusiast to me.
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I agree, but I gotta say, between Newsom waking up and whatever the heck happened to Kristol, this month has been a weird one.
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A friend of mine caught Google AI saying June 17 was Monday and the day after June 15. When I tried to replicate there was no AI on the search. 🤷
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Probably wasn't clear on 2, but main treasure is very hidden, some token win that owner can afford to lose is in a less defended place as insurance. This plays well with time pressure as PCs may not feel they have time to check more thoroughly
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Two thoughts:
1. This should depend on what the builder/person paying the builder had in mind. It should reflect their personality
2. I have fun hiding most of the treasure but putting a portion of it in a difficult enough place as a "shiny decoy"
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But yeah, if you're looking for a really clever and intricate trap, I have fewer ideas (mostly because whenever I do it, it takes a long time, which was your original point).
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It doesn't have to be fatal. Digging a deep pit and filling it with reliably tough pointy things is tough. A shallow ditch and wooden/bamboo stakes can still disable.*
*The stakes (pardon the pun) are lower for this in systems where PC performance doesn't degrade with HP loss/injury
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"I wish that I could wish for X"
Genie: "That's a meta-wish, to grant those you need to find yourself a meta-genie."
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It's subject to worldbuilding choices, but in general the idea of a magic trap wearing out over time sits just fine with me.
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Got distracted for a minute, but I'd be remiss not to supply the link:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/tariffs-no...
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As an aside, traps that draw unwanted attention can be very simple to work out and can be a lot of fun, since you have the anticipation/dread of what the fallout is going to be before the payoff/resolution.
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For more complicated traps, like an arrow trap, I sometimes assign a check to the trap to see if it even works when sprung. Especially if it's overly complicated for the materials/technology used. I can see a tripwire/crossbow setup working, but it's not likely to be 100%
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I was thinking simpler, like pit traps, concealed ditches, etc. Especially in lower-fantasy settings where horses are likely to be present and especially vulnerable to these kinds of countermeasures.
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JP: [...] "And as you described, Trump likes tariffs and any idea about tariffs, he's very likely to approve. And so they're approving conflicting ideas."
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PK: "So this kind of gets to a question of who is actually deciding? We know that Trump personally is deciding kind of the big stuff, or whoever the last person he talked to is deciding that." [...]
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This is the theory that was floated in the context of tariffs by Paul Krugman and Joey Politano during their May 17 interview.
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I largely prefer to use simple traps drawn from history, but every now and then it's fun to do an Indiana Jones-style trap and then, boom, exactly what you're talking about.
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Either way, I'll take up running.
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I remember, pre-9-11, an older friend of mine who lived in Tsawwassen would go for a run into Point Roberts several times a week, not even having to break stride but only to wave to the border guards as they said "Hey, Leroy".
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I too will look this up in the morning, but thank you!
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Real question: How does she make enough silk to do this so often?
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Already remembering me screaming at the trailer: "Why did the law of conservation of momentum break down?", "How do [puny] nuclear weapons move the Earth?", what is this?
I think I probably need to just smoke some weed and watch it and see if it's silly fun.
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I'm about to read the article, and normally I don't comment before I do, but being a young adult when this was a new movie, it looked very stupid and skip-able and I didn't watch it.
That said, I'm a huge fan of you're Blank Check eps, so I will read the article now and reconsider the film after.
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HOW IN THE EVER-LOVING *word* DO YOU MESS UP BioWare?!!*
*This was roughly my question a long time ago about EA and a certain Will Wright property
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Best use of time travel that I have ever seen suggested. Also, imagine all of the *kills a man, lights a cigar, makes a witty quip* scenes... we'd be drowning in them.
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Just finished the podcast. My favorite moment was your reaction to the question/comment on China. Even before you started laughing I was picturing a "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"-style spit-take.
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80s buddy-cop movies have taught me that you while you will likely die a week before retirement, you will be avenged by the end of act 3.
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"Jacked" is still permitted, right?
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I believe America has ordered this combo from the menu before.
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I agree. Should have read "I am a statistically representative cross-section of the Jedi".
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After chatting with a plant ethologist about their research at a joint philosophy/biology conference, the latter became a lot more plausible to me.
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4 in a sense that's close to 1/A. The right kind of relations* between system and world are required for knowledge/understanding, but consciousness might not be necessary
*Thinking various things discussed in externalist approaches to epistemology here
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The montage for his FFIA Lifetime Achievement award celebration is going to be something else.
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Life lesson: Try not to overindulge in Wikus from District 9 vibes.
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*touches earpiece* I'm getting an update... it appears that the cats have gained the upper hand but the marines are withdrawing in good order.
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I wonder if the cabbie's opinion will be suspiciously similar to Tom Friedman's priors.
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After extensive focus group testing we have announced our new project: "Two Cats"
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The idea that ideological diversity and not uh big accounts talking sports etc is what keeps people on Twitter…. 😭
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Stretchin' hard, sir! Will slay foes and ennui.