I made the mistake of playing too much in early access and it was a lot of fun but I am worried it ruined the experience. Looking forward to trying a fresh playthrough!

Distributing money: requires acts of Congress, executive organization and execution, and so maybe a constitutional amendment. Withholding money: requires the whim of a dementia-addled pedophile narcissist in chief

I’ll be real, I assumed he was dead too; I grew up reading his column and even some of his books. I’m glad to see he’s still writing!

The most famous version of this might be Millikan’s oil drop experiments to measure the mass of an electron. His notebook is full of qualitative judgments of his measured values and which ones to include in the final determination. The mass of an electron settled down pretty smoothly

My mobile spelling has gotten to be garbage because my phone keyboard autocorrects Sometimes and I’ve gotten lazy about Swype/deleting mid-word mistakes. My pen/paper and also physical keyboard spelling remains persnickety

Absolutely. It makes me crazy that people can’t imagine what the consequences of American isolation will be. We built this position and lifestyle over generations, and every single other administration including his was smart enough not to fuck with it

There are a few podcasts like that I think. Notably Hello from the Magic tavern. A sitcom, even animated, would be pretty cool!

I didn’t make it through the whole whole thing, but it’s an interesting take, thanks for sharing rss bot! Central criticism seems to be that modern day technologists latch onto the Chosen one themes of LOTR and convince themselves that they’re special and good and justified in worsening the world in their own special and good way. While discworld antagonists are generally those self-styled chosen ones. I buy that difference and agree, but I don’t think LOTR made thiel an asshole sociopath - I think some people are just assholes and society rewards them too much for it. On the either hand maybe society would be better off not buying into chosen one mythology. How many people proclaimed Musk as a real life Tony Stark during his rise?

RIP… The wayners were such an integral part of the dd experience. Ruin has come to our family

Things like this are causing real dissonance for me. We’ve got people doing amazing, important, next-level development - alongside our Idiocracy slide. If it was just doom on the horizon, I feel like things would be simpler to process. I guess that kind of thinking gives rise to accelerationism.

I’m no help here, but I have been thinking strongly of converting an old windows box to Linux gaming with steam, so I’m hoping someone can help OP and I can pretroubleshoot my own transition. Steam has their own debian-based OS, right? I was planning on falling back to that if proton didn’t work