quantian.bsky.social
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They are almost certainly using “stats” in context here not as an abbreviation for, like, “statistics”, but as an abbreviation for “racial crime stats”.
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Early frontrunners so far include J.B. Pritzker, Bill Kristol, and the substack YIMBY guy from George Mason
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I Live In A Swing State And My Vote Must Be Catered To, God Damn It.
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I liked him previously because he seemed evil and principled but it turns out that he’s evil and craven so it’s back to square one
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I can't believe Bluesky user PISS SHITTER lacks a nuanced engagement with contemporary accounts and the current academic consensus on the collapse Weimar Germany
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My attempts to generate "black and white photograph of Mickey Mouse speaking at a rally at Nuremberg in 1934, as shoot by Leni Riefenstahl" are being unfairly censored by Grok, so much for maximally truth-seeking AI
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Tragically even the most concessionary of long-term loans can’t fix negative EBITDA driven by surging opex. Nothing could have been done.
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it's where you plan your $200,000 dream wedding on a large farm that fell on hard times in the late 1860's
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This is the incorrect contrarian Bioware hot take, I'm sorry. The correct contrarian Bioware hot take is that Andromeda is the best Mass Effect game.
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Larian also has offices in Poland! Getting in on that sweet sweet cheap labor (you will also note they generally hired cheap British stage/TV actors nobody had heard of instead of overpriced US VA talent)
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I thought Dragon Age was in the Austin studio and Mass Effect was in Canada?
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To be fair to Bioware, I think you might just not be able to make huge 100-hour single player AAA games on American dev salaries anymore, you need to do it in Poland or Japan on local salaries or charge $120 like GTA6 will
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Of the recent marquee titles they’ve released, Veilguard, Andromeda, Anthem, ME3, and DA2 have been either disappointments or straight up bad. Only Inquisition was any good, that’s not a great track record.
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We're unbelievably fucked if this is the bench of competent people
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Who, the Lebanese guy?
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"Dumping tea into the harbor is counterproductive and will only harm the standing of patriots when consumers see how prices increase"
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lol Armand once got super pissed at me for saying vandalizing Teslas was clearly an effective tactic given how Elon was crying about it nonstop, Le loves scolding you when hit dogs holler too loudly
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They love the idea that if someone is smart enough they can automatically win all arguments. Are you familiar with Big Yud's AI box experiment, where he claimed he could (roleplaying as an AI) convince any human to release him? The results will not surprise you. rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_...
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Nothing less than a bottle of the finest PlumpJack Cabernet would suffice here
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i read the whole thing when it first came out and these people are so high on their own supply they make Elon look like a teetotaler
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I would love to know more about this but am completely unwilling to structure and send a search query on Bluesky for “trump furry handcuffs” or variants thereof
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this is 100% a Skill Issue on her part, I have fewer followers than she does and my recent tweets have a reach consistently around 100k or so.
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This sounds insane to say but the 99th percentile post-tax is 120k GBP, if you spend half your salary on a mortgage that only buys you about 700 square feet of studio in Central London (and you need to live in London to get that salary). In the US a 1%er could buy that in Manhattan in cash!
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the thing about the UK is 1. property prices are so high (functionally the entire country is SF-level), 2. top end incomes are so low even at the 95th+ percentile, and 3. financing terms are so harsh, that you can literally be a top 1% wage earner and not able to afford to *mortgage* a home!
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Stephen Wolfram, the world cries out for you to derive a fast N-dimensional cellular automata simulation algorithm for dungeon management,
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It would be a nightmare to make because by definition you’re creating a ton of content that goes unused on every playthrough, and I don’t think there’s a huge market for people who want to play a Lotka-Volterra ODE, but it would be sick if someone did make it
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“Oh you killed all the goblins instead of paying tribute for safe passage? Well when you went back into town the kobolds on level 2 raided all their leftover supplies you didn’t carry with you and now they have the upper hand against the dwarves on level 3 who don’t like you anymore as a result”
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I would love a game that is mechanically a pretty straightforward dungeon crawl but with much deeper faction/reactivity mechanics, like an actual D&D megadungeon campaign where clearing out a level has major downstream impacts on the balance of power
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He’s a translation savant, his only meaningful skill, and can passably simulate surface-level human interaction, but is incapable of planning, mind reading, or complex thought. He is essentially non-sentient and treated as such, and his body can’t perform any task more complex than serving drinks.
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Apples are related to roses which surprises some people, and potatoes are related to nightshade, so some wires probably got crossed on the “this common food is related to a flower” front
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I suspect a large source of the insistence on repeating the “actually 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” talking point despite how easily it gets refuted is because people need to imagine there’s a secret working class voting base so huge that activating it means you win forever
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Ok Step 1: we 9/11 the Hermes store in Riyadh and blame the Qataris, step 2: found the Institute for Gulf Fraternal Peace and Brotherhood and get fukkin paid