Too true. MacOS is the one place you can get a UNIX toolchain in a stable environment. If something works on my Mac, it works on my coworker’s Mac. If something works on Ubuntu but you’re using Nix… Uh, YMMV.

I love Linux, but if you’re gonna use it as a desktop OS, you pretty much accept that you now have a part-time job keeping up on Linux news to deal with the fact that each component of your system is in a perpetual state of “deprecated support for The Old Way, and experimental support for The New Way”.

Me at the bus stop as a teen with my bandana, Linkin Park hoodie, and noise canceling headphones, listening to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack.

Not all cows are owned by big-time farmers selling to storefronts. In that case, someone still has to pasteurize the milk. If the cow is yours or your neighbor’s, that “someone” is you.

You can make even more money denying cancer drugs.

H5N1 is absolutely horrible in cats. If you have raw milk in the house, even if you plan to boil it yourself, please treat it like concentrated poison and make sure there’s no way for a pet to get to it.

Symptoms of H5N1 infection in cats include labored breathing, bloody diarrhea and neurological abnormalities — loss of motor control, seizures, depressed mental state, stiff body movements, blindness, circling, copious eye and nose discharge and coma — with rapid deterioration and death in some cases.

If by consciousness, you just mean thinking, then sure.

But if you mean awareness — “phenomena”, if you prefer — then I don’t see why an experiential state would (or could) be entirely secondary to a physical state.

It is, after all, possible for me to write words and perform other physical actions based on my experiential state. In many ways, my mental world is more “real” than the physical world.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think rejecting physicalism necessarily requires embracing the idea of a soul. I’m an atheist, and a neutral monist, for example. But if I had to choose between only physicalism and idealism, idealism makes more sense. Before anything else, I’m conscious.

Smash Bros

Omega Boost

Prince of Persia trilogy

Most of those also have blocking, so I think the relationship between dodge and block is essential in those cases.

A good dodge doesn’t feel better or worse than a block, just useful for different scenarios.

Shades by design

Meanwhile, economist Yanis Varoufakis:

Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism

And if they were CEOs, they’d be social murder hornets

Never is a long time. Significant damage? Certainly.

It’s a common misconception that governments need to collect tax money so that they can finance public works.

In reality, any government that issues its own currency can technically spend as much as it wants to, whether it has the tax base to balance it out or not.

The only reasons to tax are to limit inflation, balance the wealth distribution, and maintain an incentive for people to actually care about your currency.

Descenders

Idk why. Well, I do know why: I grew up in an era where Flash games started to do physics-based gameplay, and something about that just made them endlessly replayable and easy to do while focusing on something else like a lecture or whatever.

So many games these days demand your full attention. And that’s great, when you have time for it. But if I just have 45 minutes to derp around while I catch up with friends on Discord, I can’t dive into an epic boss fight that I was prepping for a month ago.

And then the 0.1% goes “Hey you should hate that guy cuz his family had the kind of wealth we accumulate in five seconds instead of five milliseconds”

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

The Grim Beaker

The Palestinian workers have to wear different color clothes so security knows to not let them use certain hallways.

I can’t afford Covid Pro, so I have to watch ads

ITT: Time travelers from 2009, thinking my_game_dedicated_server.exe is still how all online games work.

I’m sorry to inform you that this is 2024, AWS has invaded every cubic centimeter of computing, and most companies couldn’t extract a business-critical system from the rest of their infrastructure in a way that another company could run it even if they had 3 years and 100 million dollars to get it done.

how can you just be ok with not being able to do stuff you want?

Huh? What do you mean?