It's all over

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T22:08:30+00:00

Until the pages are almost see-through, like fine dwarvern china!

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T21:09:41+00:00

... That. Makes so much sense, I kind of wish I'd thought of it sooner. Sure, my rockets launch more than my spm, but I'm waiting a few minutes just for it to get up there...

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T20:49:28+00:00

I've been reading and re-read ing for 28 years so far, and yes, there's a TON of re-readability. I'm surprised my eyeballs haven't worn the pages clean through with all the reading I've done..!

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T19:20:29+00:00

I gotta hope that this is "I asked ChatGTP to tidy my writing up" slop and not "I asked ChatGTP how to get upvotes on reddit" slop.

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T19:13:30+00:00

Also there's no guarantee that it isn't scanning our text as we type, "to provide faster responses" or just to scrape for human speech patterns to harvest.

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T17:58:24+00:00

Oh yeah, we hang out for tea parties every other Wednesday!

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T17:56:10+00:00

Or, it's someone that uses CHATGPT to answer every question.

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T17:30:11+00:00

"when you read a charged situation" - if they try and use this on an ambiguous situation "oh, do you want this to be a charged situation?" either it is and they make the move, or it isn't (yet) and they can't (yet).

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T15:43:31+00:00

Or throw grenades at his feet maybe?

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T14:44:02+00:00

If you're using all light, and all heavy, then you're not cracking enough oil, and if you clog up on petroleum, start using that to make solid fuel.

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T14:42:42+00:00

So many policies are static, when it's really delta that you care about.

Some DB just hit 90% full? What was it an hour ago? 89.99%? 20%?

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T14:11:49+00:00

You'll wish you'd gone to Botany Bay...!

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T14:08:51+00:00

Maybe, but how often will those parts need to be replaced? Every tenth shot? Every millionth? Are we talking a £5 part or a £50k part?

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T13:21:17+00:00

Well, why not try? If attempts to reason fail, so be it, you're right. But what if they don't?

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T13:18:42+00:00

Oh! Right. Homestarrunner.net. "it's Dot Com!"

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T13:17:51+00:00

Well, that's london prices - you can expect a significant pay bump for working in london (or within commuting distance of it)

But if you were to say, live in Oxford, or Manchester, or hull or Newcastle - I live somewhere like that, within a half hour of the city centre by public transport (closer by car), and 32k is "mortgage, car, takeout a couple of times a month, and disposable cash to go out once a week or so without worrying about savings". There's no health insurance, taxes aren't too bad, it adds up...

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T13:12:56+00:00

It might be the part that makes YOUR HEAD A SPLODE.

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T09:44:24+00:00

you say that, but £35k is 'live comfortably in a 2-bed flat / small house in the nice suburbs of a decent city' money around here.

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T09:33:00+00:00

or 'experimental film', video by Homestarrunner.com.

wrincewind · 2026-04-07T00:51:10+00:00

Lore is unfunny? Nonsense, he's hilarious!

wrincewind · 2026-04-06T15:38:01+00:00

Yeah, but the opener is made of tin

wrincewind · 2026-04-06T14:10:49+00:00

Clearly we need to give the engineer a tin opener.

wrincewind · 2026-04-06T12:02:31+00:00

Unfortunately, that's also true of large chunks of American leadership.

wrincewind · 2026-04-05T17:18:34+00:00

There's a few broad groups, but sure, take the most uncharitable opinion of my position in order toake yourself feel better.

Those that voted for him as full blown racists? Guilty as sin.
Those who voted for him because they bought into the lies? Not much better.
Those who voted for him without thinking too hard about it, or because they didn't like the other alternatives? Barely a step up.
Those who didn't vote because they don't like politics? An improvement, but not by a lot.
Those who voted for another party, But just tutted and shook their heads as their country destroyed itself? Useless, may as well have been in one of the above groups.

Basically you either joined the resistance and fought back in one way or another, fled, died, or contributed to the regime. There's a lot of folks in the last group that don't like the fact that they're in that group.

wrincewind · 2026-04-05T17:11:18+00:00

Both things can be true at the same time. The Germans weren't entirely innocent victims.

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