Yeah I hear it’s cold out there, that makes sense

Jealously eyeing Finland’s >400%. Finns are cool.

I’ve had this happen too.

Fox could really point at a democrat and be like “this fucker thinks it’s his job to govern well, can you believe it? Fuck him, right?!” and at least 40 percent of the viewers would be shaking their heads in angry disgust

Joke’s on them, I’m already in hell

I can’t even pretend to be Christian, but I also have an interest in the morality/ethics of free will in a seemingly deterministic universe. For the sake of conversation, I’ll try to articulate where my head is at.

The basic idea of determinism might be flawed. We don’t have a grand unified theory of physics at the moment, but the last Stephen Hawking book I read (The Grand Design) gave me the impression - carefully putting no words in his mouth - that every possible universe may in fact exist on some level.

In light of that, it kind of makes a sapient being something extremely privileged - to apprehend the present moment, to make choices between this or that, to see oneself within the larger context and make tenuous connections with others - we are like quasi-divine beings of chaos at the infinite centre of creation.

The universe is determinish. We can apprehend macroscopic forces, trends, material conditions and apply our understanding of natural laws to say X must follow W under prescribed conditions. The universe may be on some deep level completely deterministic on every scale, in ways that elude our ability to comprehend (or even balk at) quantum mechanics. But the question was never whether our fates are bound to good or ill, but what we chose to do with the small amount of insight we have been afforded.

One of the best things I ever heard was that “art is the study of choice”, and I think that there is certainly an art to life. To study ones own choices and make more meaningful choices in light of what we do know about ourselves and the world is the only meaningful sense in which we can have free will, whether the future is set in stone or no.

That may the problem, I don’t happen to have any of my FromSoft titles on PC, and the PS4 won’t talk to my 8BitDo.

They did say they’d pay so presumably there’d be some production value to the affair. I’m seeing a Roman theme, along the lines of “Christians to the lions”.

2A or not 2A, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in South Carolina to suffer the tweets and gators of outrageous assholes, or get strapped against a sea of idiots and by opposing, Luigi them.

Downloaded! I felt bad for not liking OrganicMaps’ interface as much as I like the idea of it, so I’m always on the hunt for something like it that scratches my map itch.

It’s torture for everyone involved. I had a speech impediment growing up, and getting interrupted became my biggest “immediately lose my cool” button.

So naturally my wife and kid have ADHD. Go figure lmao. We’re all working on it.

That’s wild, I was just talking about using it with my actual old switch. I’ve got the Pro 2 (the one on the left) and it pairs between the switch and my computer pretty seamlessly. I’m so much more basic than I thought, reading these replies!

I don’t do competitive stuff other than couch multi, but it sounds intense.

Maybe I need to limber up mentally, jeez! I’m so set in my ways that when I try to imagine any of this, my eyes start to glaze over. Like I’m scooping what you’re pooping but I’m startled at how much my mind is resisting.

How fucked would it have been if the third Reich had LLMs, I hear you ask?

Apparently the answer is “incredibly fucked, and in many surprising ways”.

I like that idea about gyro aim engagement. I think the only place I’d use that is BotW, but I’d like to go back to that game someday.

Anybody else find a use for the back buttons? I like the idea of them but I haven’t really found a great use yet.

A fresh one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_war

Might be a starting point. It’s not looking good.

Whisper of a dream