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Any and all escalation goes in this direction. It's not hard to see. Don't be a fool on purpose.

You've been to the cloud - come down to the canopy.

Canopy Multiverse, from Amazon.

Isolation, better observation of the heavens, doubles as a rookery for sending and receiving grim tidings, proximity to the dungeons and/or tower prisoners in case you need a research spec-*ahem* volunteer.

And if you blow the place up running arcane experiments or attempting congress with demons, hopefully the damage is contained.

"And then like... I needed to do something right? So I decided we'd sensor all *hurk* Russia becau... I mean... it's just such a big deal. How bout I buy another round and we go back to my place?"

"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information."

Yes, it is censorship. The what, why, how, shoulds, and coulds of it are irrelevant to the fact that it is censorship.

... but thank God it has not come to that"

Is the rest of the quote. Cherry-picking 101. Jesus, Reuters. WTF do you want me to pay for?

*lose

"loose" rhymes with "goose" and is the opposite of tight.

This attitude doesn't square with the dense bureaucracy, unavoidable surveillance, and complete monopoly on violence that modern nations hold. Especially in a place like Russia, where "organizing" is nearly impossible because opposition leaders have a bad habit of accidentally eating plutonium and nerve agents.

> the only web institution that hasn't broken down over time, and has done an impressive job of holding itself to quality standards given the absurdly large scale.

Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg come to mind. Wikipedia might be an encyclopedia, but those are the libraries.

At the end of the day, Wikipedia is just another source of "but I read it on the Internet!" Take it with a grain of salt.

You customize it before you download it. There are four different zeroes and only one looks like the O. See the other examples.

All those zero glyphs... is it getting hot in here??

Never seen that one with the negative-space slash. Is there a name for that?

You know... That seems like just about the most click-bait title possible. I'm leaving that one alone. Dismissive? Maybe, but some things really are better left dismissed. Tell the mods I'm sorry, I'll review the guidelines again, and I'll try to be more substantive in the future - just not for this on a Friday.

> it's not reasonable to expect the following driver to constantly be considering the possibility that the driver in front will slam on the brakes for no reason.

It's totally reasonable. It's not hard to maintain a safe following distance. Sudden braking isn't the only reason to do so, and insurance claims aren't the only motivating factor. You drive defensively so as to reduce the likelihood of death and destruction while making life easier for other drivers.

This is another reason why I think of commuting as a religion. Where else would you see such zeal and self-righteous behavior?

Sadly, we don't offer our turkey up to any thunder god. It's even traditional for presidents and governors to pardon a turkey. Blasphemy!

> I learned a similar lesson in a simpler form when waiting tables.

This is something everyone should be required to do. Try to last a month at it. I sure couldn't. But I'll be damned if it didn't make me 1000x more considerate towards just about everyone. We all have a choice whether to cause a fuss over stuff that hardly matters, or whether we blame someone for circumstances outside their control. There's no clearer way to see these problems and decide what kind of person you're going to be than there is from the ground level.

Your family is not every family. Your definition of handle is not everyone else's definition of handle. Your kids are not everyone else's kids. "Frazzled" is normal because the past few years have been completely batshit. Your community's response is not everyone else's community's response, nor are the stresses and behavioral side effects.

> And the infamous McDonalds "coffee might be hot" lawsuit

Except it's not supposed to be hot enough to cause third-degree burns. The entire event is horribly mischaracterized.

From https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts

> Mrs. Liebeck was not driving when her coffee spilled, nor was the car she was in moving. She was the passenger in a car that was stopped in the parking lot of the McDonald’s where she bought the coffee. She had the cup between her knees while removing the lid to add cream and sugar when the cup tipped over and spilled the entire contents on her lap.

> The coffee was not just “hot,” but dangerously hot. McDonald’s corporate policy was to serve it at a temperature that could cause serious burns in seconds. Mrs. Liebeck’s injuries were far from frivolous. She was wearing sweatpants that absorbed the coffee and kept it against her skin. She suffered third-degree burns (the most serious kind) and required skin grafts on her inner thighs and elsewhere.

Great. Now the Do Your Own Research people won't test because of the toxic chemicals. Nice work. Can't the ivory tower just sit on these a little while? Don't they know the depths of stupidity out there?

That ruptured eyeball peninsula is prime real estate.

What pipe? That's not a pipe.

> The "Dark Night of the Soul"

I've always wondered if there'd be less incidents of that if it didn't have such a sexy name.

> It's not nuts, it's Christian.

Talking snakes and virgin births! Command hallucinations telling you to kill your son!

IIRC, this is what MySpace was supposed to be in the first place. They made the mistake of leaning into a more general social media audience while Facebook was on the rise, but it seems to me like Bandcamp excels at being what MySpace could have become.

> developer can change things easily, like changing a super rare card in a collectable card game to a common card.

NFT doesn't block this at all. Just because an attribute on the token specifies it's rarity, doesn't mean there aren't a gajillion other tokens pointing to the same thing. Or that someone won't just tweak things on the server so that token_url /foo/92 isn't legendary magic beans anymore but common turd burgers instead.

> an interoperable standard that allows the assets to be traded on unified exchanges with assets from other games in a way that doesn't require any of the game developers to have to deal with money transmission issues

FALSE. The assets from the games are not being traded in your hypothetical. The NFTs are.

> minimal external yet-trustable representation of the existence of some in-game asset

TRUE, BUT all it does is confirm someone calls dibs on something. Actually integrating those dibs in any sensible way is a huge task. It might be the "Deluxe Crystal AstroBlaster9000" in one game, but due to trademark issues, you might have to settle for "1 Ripe Banana" in another.

> so people can then go and use all of these systems you don't have to worry about

UNLIKELY. Developers would be one hashtag away from the Internet mob demanding they not allow people to use items pointed to by NFTs purchased with Dunning-Kruggerands that have dirty histories. The whitepapers might say you don't have to worry about it, but the users will.

Then there are security concerns. There will be a bad contract. There will be a phishing scam. The whitepaper might say code is law, but the users are still going to want the developer to make it right, or they'll walk.

> imagine star citizen where everyone could model ships and sell them as nft and set a counter of how many they sell (are available) the market should then set the value between work put in to design the ship, sell it and how many are available.

Uh, is that fun or am I back in economics class?

Did he? It sounded more like he said you'll lose the audience if the games aren't actually good. That seems disconnected from monetization.