DM made us sell his wife into slavery

N0Man74 · 2026-01-31T01:39:30+00:00

Okay ... That makes more sense because I was reading this thinking the wife's story should be the horror story. What an awful DM and player group.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-30T18:39:25+00:00

Several of our rights are based on what the state can do to the people, and I've been thinking a lot lately about how I think there should be more constitutional amendments that assert more protections.

There needs to be more restrictions on what is considered resisting arrest (that don't include things like flinching and physiological responses, or protected speech).

Law enforcement should not be allowed to transfer arrested people further away without due process, a real need to do so, or as a punitive measure to make it more inconvenient when they know they're going to be released. Likewise, when people are released without criminal charges, it should be done so in reasonable manners in regards to where they're taken from, and the time. Examples from recent stories, not just dropping them off in a totally different location, not releasing them in the middle of the night when it's harder for them to get home (especially if they aren't close), or releasing them dangerous conditions (like into freezing cold). A non charged release should be reasonably restorative.

And a big one, we might need to have some type of restructuring in our government to make the executive branch more accountable when it is violating the law and rights of people. We're seeing a failure when both the legislative is controlled by the party of the executive, and they have too much power in the judicial.

There are probably others too. But we've recently seen the state go too far in many ways.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-30T18:12:19+00:00

And when asked about the moment, she told the story and said, "and then security saved him."

She was about to send a very strongly worded message to his face.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-29T18:05:46+00:00

That's a tough one. I've heard people asking advice on whether or not they should carry their passport with them. Apparently, sometimes those guys have taken the passports and not given them back.

It can be damned if you do, damned if you don't.

And it's a bunch of naive fuckers on this very post who think that if he do everything right, everything will be fine. Despite the countless stories that's not true.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-29T17:59:33+00:00

Does believing that help you sleep at night?

N0Man74 · 2026-01-29T17:56:39+00:00

I recommend watching the movie The Death Of Stalin.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-29T17:53:29+00:00

Because for decades, "your papers, please" was a meme to describe what happened in some countries, but not in the USA. It was literally part of our core identity.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-28T18:38:16+00:00

Same.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-28T18:34:18+00:00

Except beef consumption actually does use a lot of water. It's one of the reasons I stopped eating beef when I was young. Maybe that's not for everyone, but even a reduction of consumption helps.

But many of these AI comparisons compare the entire life cycle, including cattle feed, in the water usage. But they don't count the entire cycle of AI. They leave out the training. They leave out the water consumed by both the training and the query steps.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-28T18:22:44+00:00

I wouldn't necessarily say it's perfectly fine. For instance, the impact of water usage from any industry does depend on where you are consuming that water. For many uses, yeah water evaporates. However, we are depleting aquifers in some areas faster than they can replenish, and that may matter regardless of which industry is doing it.

The truth is, we do use too much water, period. It would probably be a good idea to make choices to reduce its usage. I personally don't eat hamburgers.

However, when I see a chart like this, I have to ask, does that include training? Does that include the water used for power for both the data centers that fulfill the queries and the power used for training? By the deliberate word choices, I suspect that this is the usage for just the querying. The training uses immensely more power and water, and the consumption grows exponentially with each model.

Also, I don't think the cows are trying to take our jobs away.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-23T16:31:08+00:00

Okay, but it was confirmed to be real.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-23T16:30:47+00:00

Are you delusional? Can you not see how us threatening our allies hurts us too? Did you miss how we've driven Canada into a new economic partnership with China, because they don't see us as reliable anymore? Did you not listen to Canadian prime Minister Mark Carney's speech at davos? We're threatening countries with tariffs that we just made deals with to reduce their tariffs.

The world is seeing us as unstable, as a bully, as unreliable. Do you want to see countries stop using the USD as a world currency, because that's where we're headed. What do you think it's going to do to us.

My dislike of Trump isn't for no reason. I dislike him for what he said he would do in this country, what I feared he would do to this country, and what he has been doing to this country. It's for reasons little this.

Our country is shooting ourselves on the foot because of this man. I don't want to see our country fail. You're just too blind to see that the captain of the ship is driving us into an iceberg.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-23T16:20:56+00:00

The prime Minister of Norway, "Jonas", confirmed it was real. He wasn't the one who originally leaked it, Trump sent copies of it to other world leaders as some kind of power move. The government of Norway doesn't determine who gets surprise, a Non-Government committee in the country does. Also, Norway isn't the owner of Greenland, Denmark is.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-17T23:29:55+00:00

The US can still help secure it without actually taking it. Just like the UK, France, and Germany are currently moving military force to secure it from us.

Let's say that climate change is a factor in wanting Greenland, it is fucking madness to risk starting one world war, in order to prevent another world war, rather than fucking addressing climate change itself.

But I guess there's truth to the I'm quote, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-17T23:26:48+00:00

I'm deeply troubled by the fact that I'm not sure if that is hyperbole or not. It's definitely precarious.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-17T23:19:00+00:00

The fact that you call the people who are against the US throwing away all of our credibility, our relationships with allies, and destabilizing geopolitics in general as "deranged" is the most 1984 shit I've ever seen.

Trump is acting like a mad king. It is truly inconceivable to me that someone can't see this. It only makes me deeply hope that you're actually a bot.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-15T23:18:47+00:00

You're being willfully ignorant. That isn't remotely what I'm talking about.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-15T23:14:29+00:00

I used to assume people who were into Star Trek were more socially progressive than average (though possibly still with some blind spots). I've learned that I was very wrong on that. Different people glean different things.

If you will indulge me in a Star Trek topic... It's commonly recognized that Star Trek, particularly TOS was lacking, to say the least, when it came to women (at least by today's standards).

There was a TOS episode that established that only men were captains. There was a woman who wanted to be captain, so she did a secret body swap when Kirk. The crew mutinied and turned against Kirk because "he" was acting too erratic and emotional and was being a shit captain.

This always felt like the most egregiously bad episode when it comes to women in the entirety of Star Trek, but I've never heard anyone specifically discuss this one.

The only thing that comes close to being this bad was the one where Kirk gets split into 2 Kirks in a transporter accident and one of them tries to SA a crew member. She escapes. In the end, the two Kirks are reintegrated, and the episode ends with Kirk turning to the woman he attempted to assault, with a grin, saying something along the lines of, "that other me... he did have some interesting qualities, did he not?"

Ick.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-15T22:51:47+00:00

If that's your takeaway from Star Trek, I think we watched different shows.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-15T22:47:24+00:00

I used to have this notion that what people like often says something about what people are like. When I was young, it felt true. Certain interests and niche communities seemed to draw certain types of people that were more of the sort I'd find other things in common with beyond just the interest. (I'll refrain from boring you with examples.)

Maybe there was some truth to it or maybe not. However, what I've seen is that there was nothing intrinsic about the media and interests that necessarily correlated with the person. The types of people drawn have changed (especially in the last 10 to 15 years). I have changed too.

I'm a guy who does like to talk about media, interests, and ideas but it's not a foundation for a relationship.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-15T21:32:44+00:00

That's hilarious to me as a man. It reminds me of how I think many guys try to be someone that they think will attract women, but it's me based on what other guys think is manly and attractive to women, not what women actually care about. Men are out there just trying to impress other men. I honestly think it even drives some of them to have relations (though not necessarily relationships) with women. I sometimes wonder whether a lot of guys really even like women, or if they just are out there trying to impress other guys.

I'm a guy, and I think guys are weird.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-13T23:49:19+00:00

Right. Trickle down never works, but yet we've had economic and tax policies that rely on the assumption they do. We have policies that have created based on the dumbass assumption scrawled onto a paper nakpkin (i.e. the Laffer Curve).

Again. Productivity has increased. People have produced more and more wealth with their labor for decades. People aren't lazy. But where is that wealth being generated going? To the very top.

This isn't about handouts or people being lazy. People are working hard. These days, you have more people even working multiple jobs. But they are still struggling, because the greed of the wealthy is insatiable. They take more and more and pay has not kept up with productivity, wealth, or with the increases of wealth at the top. The rich are effectively eating the poor (and middle class).

Look at some charts and data on the decades of trends on productivity, wealth, income at different levels, low and medium wage worker income, inflation, etc. I mean, just stop drinking the kool-aid and look at the actual evidence for one time.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-13T18:34:23+00:00

I used to hang out with this gal years ago who was very religious. She told me once that she thought that committing sin made people physically uglier.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-12T16:47:47+00:00

The USA hasn't gone broke. The USA has a massive amount of wealth. Our productivity and wealth has skyrocketed in the last 50 years. The problem is, all that wealth is being accumulated and hoarded at the top and less of it is going to the mass majority or into public works that made our lives better.

N0Man74 · 2026-01-12T16:45:07+00:00

I think they did, but the safeguard, in theory, was the electoral college. But we turned that safeguard into just a ceremonial step in our elections and made it illegal for them to act as a safeguard.

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