I could see some kind of arrangement where the age would be something reasonable like 16-18, but then there is a test you can write (basic civics questions eg. who are the candidates, what does the legislative branch do, etc.) and if you pass that test, kind of like a learner’s permit for driving, you can vote even if you’re under that age, down to a hard cutoff of like 13.

Rule 5: must be a topic of discussion

This is not a subject of discussion. It’s just OP saying “help me do my job pls”

Trial by combat

For like 5 people?

Silicon Valley (the HBO show) was joking about this a decade ago. “Making the world a better place through highly scalable caching and consensus algorithms”, “I don’t want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do”, etc.

I never said it can’t understand it. I am agreeing with the notion that it has a bias against using it.

Those who fail history will be doomed to repeat it

Code names don’t need to be good for marketing, they are just for being able to talk about a thing

Makes sense. AAVE is mostly a spoken thing, LLMs are mostly trained on the corpus of written text on the internet and in books. It’s pretty rare for people to write in an AAVE style in those contexts.

New Theranos!

You’re comparing apples and oranges. It should be like this:

I sell my apples for $1500

People buy them

I sell my apples for $1500 (but they cost me less to make)

People buy them, I make more money

This reminds me of a method of trying to evaluate art in an objective way. Basically you ask yourself 3 questions:

• What is this trying to do?
• Does it succeed in what it’s trying to do?
• Is what it’s trying to do worth doing?

If the answers to 2 and 3 are “yes”, then it’s probably a good work of art. This helps remove the subjectivity of “do I enjoy it?” when evaluating a work.

I would say the answers for Desert Bus indicate that it is indeed a good work of art. It succeeds in being a monotonous parody of a video game which makes a political statement about what games would be if they lacked any fictional elements or conflict. And I think the statement P&T were trying to make with this game was definitely worth making. Plus, we know from the amount of people who play it as a streamed challenge game that there is some desire for a game like that to exist.

Was your position like an adjunct? I’ve heard those can be a real scam in the academia world.

Something really weird and interesting is Gemini Gemlogs. Technically not WWW, but still an internet platform.

Something more normal and accessible is Hugo.

Normally there are audio captchas

How about just making them actually pay an amount of taxes commensurate with the burdens they apply on society?

I might. I’m not as big on the podcast format for true crime stuff. I much prefer the docu format. But it’s okay, what I believe on the matter doesn’t matter that much. I’ll take your word for it that the podcast makes a compelling case for the other side.

Ken and Robin talk about stuff. Two TTRPG game designer/writers discuss gaming, history, conspiracy theories, occultism, and horror.

Also check out debunking a murderer. Remember making a murderer on Netflix? Turns out that doc was bullshit, dude totally did those murders. Hear the prosecutors side and all the evidence the Netflix show left out.

I don’t know one way or another but it was pretty clear that there was a lot of shaky evidence and a lot of coerced confession stuff which definitely doesn’t seem like justice. There was also a second season of that show where they brought in a much better lawyer (who specializes in exonerating false convictions) and showed some more significant problems with the prosecutor’s case and also that the guy’s defence lawyers were not the most competent (and IIRC also uncovered that the guy’s brother in law had a collection of r*pe porn images on his laptop)

Only thing I’m using currently is datatables, but I’ve considered using leaflet and the AI integration since I mainly use it for TTRPG prep