Maybe fighting fire with fire and setting the whole board with olive oil now would help at least hide the spot. Beyond that, only time and use helps in my experience.

I think the idea is to fuck with AI. Why not, it doesn’t really help much, it doesn’t do much harm either.

I guess this is where the insight that you should judge a society by how it treats its weakest comes from. That’s a problem with OP’s scenario, as you’d be thrown into a completely foreign context without access to the more family and community-based security nets that are essential in poorer parts of the world.

I have travelled to some not very wealthy regions to small communities that can only be accessed by a 4x4, horse, or motorcycle (or by foot, as I prefer), and seen severely handicapped people in such places live what at least appears from the outside to be highly dignified and decent lives as the community works together to take care of them. It’s not at all obvious that they would be happier in a western city. Once anyone needs professional medical care or expensive treatments it of course becomes more clear-cut, and if you’re an outsider (or just unlucky) you’re of course out of luck.

Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder

In the short run, maybe, but sawing off the branch one is sitting on is dangerous business. :)

Yeah, in general if you have a good starting point anywhare not affected by tyranny, war, or genocide you’ll be alright. Behind a veil of ignorance there’s a whole lot of developing countries I’d go to before I’d risk being poor in the United States.

I wonder what people in this thread think the third world is, and what they imagine living there is like.

It’s not like there’s a clear answer. I guess technically Sweden is a third world county, while North Korea and Slovenia are both second world. America is as first world as it gets, and it’s a fucking mess.

If I could choose my own third world country I’d be quite alright. If they sent me to the worst first world country they could find, well, Alabama.

There are people whose concerns it is worth listening to. I’m sure they will show up eventually.

Happy holidays!

As much as I appreciate the effort the DoJ made to spare us from seeing Trump’s ugly face, I wish they’d make a more holistic effort for the cause. Why not put him away for good.

There are movies to be made where it makes sense to strive for historical accuracy, bit I’m not sure the Odyssey is one of them. It was always a spectacular tale.

The most generic looking Greek armour *with dangling golden spines attached

Yeah, fair point about the horse hairs at least. But I also can’t help but feel like people might have had all kinds of strange ideas about how they want things to look in the past, and a lot of it would probably surprise us if we had the chance to go back and check. So I still struggle to see things like this as genuinely upsetting. Had it been a proper blunder like imitating a roman armour or something I would have agreed much more, but taking some creative license with what ancient Greece looked like I feel should be expected.

I’m not a historian of ancient Greek armature, but if I were to fasten a bunch of horse hair to stand up like a Mohawk on top of a helmet chances are I would drill a bunch of holes of roughly .5 cm diameter systematically throughout hardwood base and stuff each hole as full of hairs as I possibly could. It would probably come out looking something like a shoe brush.

Of course, I have no idea how they were made; again, I’m not a historian. I just don’t see what is so obviously machine made here. On the contrary, I would be surprised if this helmet wasn’t in fact custom made by hand by the costume department. It would be very unlike Nolan to buy a mass produced Halloween costume from China.

I feel like it would be pretty bland and uninteresting without it. The golden spine makes it interesting. Presumably it might make sense after watching the movie.

I can’t wait for people to freak out about the lack of historical accuracy, as they always do whenever they see anything at all in a movie set before 1850.

I found their roadmap for 2026 to be pretty inspiring.

Learning the language is not a political statement, and you’ll outlive Putin. Besides we’re not solving anything by refusing to communicate with each other. If you want to learn Russian, learn Russian. Just be careful not to fall for the propaganda.

It runs om mainline Linux, generally better to get drivers supported upstream? Also it’s not a zero sum game, they benefit from mobile Linux doing well as an ecosystem. Just because it’s not open source doesn’t mean it’s irrational and evil. Not yet, anyway.

On the positive side it’ll possibly be a great phone for postmarketOS.

I see the mouse is still at it.

Don’t forget to report, if you have good reason to believe you’re seeing a bot that is not properly marked as such.

(also, I’m not here to tell you how to live your life, but you might hopefully find a slightly less toxic open source community over at [email protected] )

I think instances with ideological underpinnings is fine, and maybe inevitable. The crucial thing is that they need to be honest about it, so that those not interested can go elsewhere.

The problem with lemmy.ml is that it pretends to be a catch-all instance when it’s in fact very much not, and that it doesn’t tell users up front what it’s all about. Both Hexbear and Lemmygrad are better in that respect—at least they’re honest.