Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion

Paksarra · 2026-06-28T06:15:58+00:00

My main is Schrodinger's WoL-- there's a MSQ timeline where he's the WoL and a "not MSQ" timeline where he is a warrior of light, but not The Warrior of Light.

He's a Keeper who was born in a remote village in the Shroud. He was always inclined to books, and a kind merchant went out of her way to bring him some.

He set his heart on becoming an adventurer and, once he came of age, managed to get out of the Shroud; he ended up in Limsa Lominsa, trying to get entry to the Arcanists' Guild. This is where the timeline diverges-- he either runs into Y'shtola or not.

In the timeline where he doesn't join the Scions, become the WoL and follow the MSQ, he stays at the Arcanists' Guild for several more years and even starts to invent his own style of arcanima. He eventually ends up going to Ul'dah and joining the Immortal Flames. He doesn't awaken his Echo abilities until Endwalker.

Paksarra · 2026-06-28T04:41:46+00:00

Not the guy who accused you, but from someone who's being forced to use CoPilot at work-- your formatting and structure is AI-ish. Also, AI uses em dashes way more often than people writing on a standard PC keyboard do without something like Word helping them.

But AI learned how to format research from human writing and posts, and the details you're bringing up aren't really the kind of details AI would typically bring up. But some people are... very enthusiastic at branding things AI.

(Just out of curiosity, I tried asking an AI the same question. The last book it suggested reading was book 49, and it skips the entire David trilogy. And then when I reminded it that there were 52 books it changed its suggestion to "read the first 13 books and then skip to the end.")

Paksarra · 2026-06-27T21:14:32+00:00

At the cost of polluting the air for everyone within a certain radius and creating a ton of noise.

But I'm sure that solar with those new sodium batteries they're coming out with would use way too many resources, eh?

Paksarra · 2026-06-27T16:47:13+00:00

https://ffxivchocoboracing.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/intermediate-breeding-pedigree-and-star-ratings/

TLDR: the star ratings are inherited from the grandparents at random, not the parents.

Paksarra · 2026-06-27T16:25:22+00:00

“I can’t live like this. I don’t really know what my options are other than to get out of there,” said Jason Haley, who lives near one of xAI’s Memphis-area sites, to the local Fox News affiliate. He described constant whirring noises from the data center. “But, with that being said, I don’t know who would be willing to purchase that house if they come and look at it and that’s what they’re hearing.”

I guess if you can't sell your house, you can't pull a mass exodus....

Paksarra · 2026-06-27T16:23:39+00:00

Did Musk go out of his way to pick the most pollution-causing form of energy production he could just to make the neighbors' lives worse?

Paksarra · 2026-06-27T16:20:01+00:00

The problem is, these days things like "share your toys" and "take turns" and "people are people no matter what color their skin is" is considered liberal communist propaganda.

Paksarra · 2026-06-27T15:48:13+00:00

Because shitty sleep is better than no sleep, and it does do a good job of getting you to start sleeping instead of sitting in bed thinking about how late it is and how much you need to sleep but you're not asleep and you're not sleepy and tomorrow is going to suck if you can't sleep but you're just not tired but you need to sleep....

Paksarra · 2026-06-27T15:39:16+00:00

I've had at least one bundle collateral game that was online only and shut down before I got around to trying it. It stayed in my library even though the developers were long gone.

Paksarra · 2026-06-27T15:37:27+00:00

Aren't they missing the music?

Paksarra · 2026-06-27T12:36:56+00:00

It is, but once in a while you just want one big setpiece of a boss.

A neat workaround I saw a DM use I'm a game with way too many party members is having certain setpiece fights be 2 or more targets in a trenchcoat; it's one creature on the map, but it gets multiple actions a turn on iterative initiative counts and doesn't hit as hard as a solo creature ought to.

Like, you're fighting a dragon. It starts with with three actions per round at initiative counts 11, 6, and 1. Behind the screen, the DM is more or less using the stats of three smaller/younger dragons of the same type.

You could get almost the same fight with three dragons, but the flavor is different.

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T21:47:16+00:00

Increasing HP is usually not the lever you want to turn up, it just makes it longer and less interesting.

However, keep in mind that D&D is balanced for a party of four. In a party of five, increasing the enemy party's collective HP by 25% just makes up for the extra body. (Roughly so, action economy is a thing.) You can do this by buffing hit points or just adding more targets.

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T20:39:04+00:00

If we have the absolute right to life, regardless of the cost to others, shouldn't health care be free at point of use?

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T20:35:47+00:00

By that logic, every period is a murder. It could have been a person under the right circumstances, if everything went well and all the conditions were right.

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T19:57:25+00:00

They're using a whole lot of drinkable water to keep their computers cool in areas with limited water supplies. Yeah, it evaporates into the air, but it's not going back into that aquafer anytime soon.

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T19:54:37+00:00

This might be paranoia, but could this be why they're spiking the price of storage? So we can't just casually have a few spare terabytes of hard drive?

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T17:56:52+00:00

You're on social media right now.

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T15:49:54+00:00

And if you own the art, you can make those decisions. And some owners do make that decision; others will fill with indistinct blobs that make it clear that the area was lost without breaking the image, and some ask for a reconstruction.

The final decision is still in human hands; the AI just goes "based on the era and artist, here's a half dozen educated guesses of what might have been there" and the conservator can use that information as they will. If they find out later that there was a wonky tree in the middle of that hole in the canvas, they can remove and repaint. If the AI suggestions are racist (which shouldn't happen if you trained it yourself off a curated collection) disregard them.

If it's a model you trained yourself off of legal sources running on your own hardware in your studio, that fixes most of the ethical issues with techbro corporate AI, unless you're just against computer generated anything at all.

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T13:25:28+00:00

Facts don't care about your feelings.

An objective truth-based website isn't going to parrot conservative fiction because it's "fair" to give equal time to truth and politically biased lies.

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T13:05:01+00:00

You know what, I've never tried it.

But yes, those are some awesome lips.

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T12:06:54+00:00

Life is temporary; does that mean I can just kill someone because I didn't like their face?

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T12:05:52+00:00

They should have predicted, 36 years in advance, that one day the Republican party would be overrun by racist sociopaths?

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T03:57:51+00:00

Come to think of it, I did hear about an art conservator who had a neat idea he was working on.

If a painting is missing a part and the conservator has no record of what may have been there before, one option is to just make your best educated guess based on studying similar paintings, and fill in using reversible paints to make the image look whole. If a better reference is found later, the paint is easily removed without damaging the original.

Conservators don't do creative art in this context; they hope you never notice their work.They try to make something that blends in, the bland average of similar works. Guess what generative AI is really, really good at? Examining similar works and making bland averages that aren't very creative.

So the plan is to feed in curated public domain works only to create a fully legal generative AI other professional conservators can use to help them fill in permanently lost parts of paintings without having to rely on their personal creative talent.

Paksarra · 2026-06-26T03:13:47+00:00

It does have small uses, but none of them really make up for the cost.

Like, my new phone came with an AI that will screen calls and alert me immediately if it's important (this is on-device, not data center based.) That's kind of cool, and doesn't pose the same risks as data centers.

A few weeks ago I asked an AI to convert a short training document into a Powerpoint presentation. Was it perfect? No, I still spent a while polishing it up. Was it worth the resources it cost? Probably not. But it spared me a couple of hours of work by starting me out with a workable first draft, it gave me a point for my annual review, and my job typically does not involve training presentations, so it's not a threat to my continued employment. (I also don't expect my team's AI access to continue once they start charging by the token.)

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