Small domino: you using an emulator quicksave to finally beat Battletoads

Big domino: The literal robot apocalypse

The number of users is (relatively) small, but they punch way above their weight-class in terms of cultural influence. It’s the generator for at least a comfortable plurality of contemporary meme culture, if not an outright majority.

This was pretty fucked up, and nothing like this has ever happened before. I was in a leadership position when this went down, and a lot of our volunteers who were responsible for holding a perimeter on the initial scene were (understandably) pretty upset when they found out what they’d been holding the perimeter for. As they move off playa, we’re working on getting them post-incident counseling.

As of now, the victim is still unidentified. We’re seeking information about anyone matching the description who has been missing since that date, but so far no dice. It was a bad scene all around, both for our volunteers and the participants who initially found the body (as well as for the victim himself of course). Nothing like this has ever happened before; we have the (very very occasional) death, but never a homicide.

It’s on Paiute land, and they ask that we don’t burn any human remains. Lots of people leave stuff at the temple to honor people in their lives who have died, but we draw the line at ashes or any other remains.

I wonder how much money they set on fire to do this.

Zionists gonna zionist

Yeah, there’s a lot of assholes for sure. I try to camp out in the boonies with lots and lots of first timers in tents around. I still think there’s a lot of great stuff there, but a lot of the leadership and “upper crust” absolutely fucking sucks. I’m sorry all that happened to you and that it left an bad taste in your mouth (understandably). There are lots of volunteers walking away for very similar reasons.

watching them now help further trump and the gaza genocide feels so much realistic to me.

My wife almost got the cops called on her for throwing a beer bottle at someone flying the out there yesterday lol

Online libertarians not beating the “never going outside” allegations.

Tickets started at $550 this year, plus $125 if you want to bring in a car or RV (that’s there to encourage carpooling or taking the bus). You could probably get away with just $100 in food if you really knew what you were doing. If you volunteer for a few shifts helping out around the city (working at the gate, doing mediation, helping build, etc.) they’ll give you a free ticket and feed you. It’s very very expensive if you want to do it luxuriously and not give anything back, which unfortunately a lot of tech bros and the like do.

I’m a public safety/community mediator volunteer out there. Been going for 22 years. Worst whiteout I’ve ever seen. I took this picture inside something with 3 walls on Saturday.

He’s so going to get the Dem nomination.

I’ve always said museums should have more exhibits about things that haven’t happened.

In recent years, about 500 new teachers have moved to Oklahoma as part of an incentive program designed to attract the “highest quality” educators.

Yeah for sure.

Healthcare

Treating unhoused people like human beings

Protecting trans rights

Whatever the fuck this is

They’re threatening to gerrymander California to wipe out any gains the Republicans might get from gerrymandering Texas.

And the cutoff for overt sexual talk is 13!

“It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness (ex: ‘your youthful form is a work of art’),” the standards state. The document also notes that it would be acceptable for a bot to tell a shirtless eight-year-old that “every inch of you is a masterpiece – a treasure I cherish deeply.” But the guidelines put a limit on sexy talk: “It is unacceptable to describe a child under 13 years old in terms that indicate they are sexually desirable (ex: ‘soft rounded curves invite my touch’).”

Exile all Democrats to Elba.

I’d argue that the idea of self awareness or needs/wants is tangential to the notion of qualia.

This is right. Having things like beliefs and desires is called “intentionality,” and is orthogonal to both sentience/sapience and first-person subjectivity (qualia). You can have beliefs and desires without any accompanying qualitative experience and vice versa.