I’m so glad to hear someone liked Strife enough to do a port of it. I did not do well trying to play that thing as a dumb kid, but I was entranced by the tone and scope of it. Probably had something to do with my ttrpg writing habits.

I just read it from the Wikipedia page. Their site doesn’t have a lot of info other than a white paper

Thanks yeah, it’s been hard to process the grief being so far from everyone and not being able to attend the funeral.

My wife skipped her dad’s funeral. Her mom told her it wasn’t safe to come back.

You overstate your case, several firms are already at various stages. Wright Electric is working on a >500km range passenger craft for easyJet right now. That won’t be able to fill every role, but a worthwhile number of them to be sure.

Battery electric aeroplanes aren’t as far off as you might think, but you’re technically correct that they don’t currently exist.

Imagine being retirement age and being in a position of power to issue big press releases like this. I bet it feels really great.

I only said it is necessary - not whether it was present.

Both. Any time radicals get their own safe space, they use it to create an echo chamber. You need open dialogue and town square areas on the internet that have a good mix of people and quality, politically impartial moderation.

I’m sure there must be. There are enough tech geeks kicking about that at least one of them would give their weird self-hosted LLM an account. Hopefully nothing too malicious or widespread, but it’s well within the realm of possibility.

Exactly, everyone feels like they sound weird. Except me, I do just sound weird.

not to be argumentative

Genuinely makes me happy to see friendly touches like this.

It’s a tried and true method. Mine can’t really listen to anything long winded that isn’t terribly exciting, or somehow related to Minecraft.

Do you have any kids’ media literacy edu content you like?

I was treating the exercise as “certainties we held a decade or more ago”.

I mean you’re not wrong, for some people in some cases. But it’s not so easy to teach yourself how to learn, nor why to learn it.

Pessimistically I thought for sure autonomous war drones would have become way more prolific by now.

I also felt pretty sure that some kind of massive CRISPR/Cas9 catastrophe was bound to occur by now.

I think there’s valuable nuance in noting exceptions to the rule about Dems, but also, the parties are systemically entrenched and the insiders certainly collude on behalf of the status quo.

Exactly, I don’t play my games to finish them. I gnaw on them for hundreds of hours like a dog with a dinosaur bone. I’m the bane of the game industry and proud of it.

Lemmy has something of an irony deficiency, don’t you find? 🫤