Ads need to be banned. They are inherently harmful, inherently deceptive, and only valuable in competition with other advertising. There is a direct line between the advertising model and the malignant politics that are destroying our world. Ban them all.

I love Shipbreaker, so I’m interested in others’ replies as well. It’s the only game I might actually consider breaking my ‘no paid DLC’ rule for if they ever put out more ships.

Some ‘immersive sim’ games have a similar impression of segmented, defined processing tasks:

• Mech Mechanic Simulator (more relaxed)
• Space Mechanic Simulator (more detailed)
• Ship Graveyard Sim (a bit silly)
• Mess Sim (2D Viscera Cleanup)
• Train Station Renovation (not so puzzle-y)
• Leaf It Alone (more linear, not so puzzle-y)

But there are also other games that can have the same ‘little puzzles’ impression.

• Mars First Logistics (build modular bots to deliver stuff over rough martian terrain)
• maybe Quarantine Zone, Contraband Police, and other Papers-Please-likes (non-horror anomaly spotting)
• Tunnet (build a simplified computer network in underground tunnels with just a hint of Lovecraftian horror)
• abstract programming games like Autonauts, Molek Syntez, or Infinite Turtles (You get As. Cut them into /s, \s, and -s, and then make Ws.)

Welcome to the future.

So, we’re all agreed, right? Justifiable homicide?

I’m all for electric, but this is, at best, a negation of the complaints that solar requires ‘too much space.’ In terms of an efficiency argument, this is not remotely appropriate, a girders to oranges comparison, if you will.

Got word from an American teacher just the other day. ‘Some of these [high school] kids don’t seem to know how to spell their own name.’

Another from an American adult, ‘I learned more from Ms. Frizzle than my teachers.’ Ms. Frizzle is the teacher from an educational cartoon.

Turns out portraying a character on TV can lead people to think you have the same qualities as that character. Thus people thought Trump was a ‘great businessman and leader.’ I’m kind of amazed Zelensky, a comedy actor, has done as well as he has given what he has had to deal with since being elected. I would not have expected telling jokes for a camera to have helped prepare him for a war with Russia but he has managed to do far better than I would have ever guessed.

TIL is not a place for jokes.

An indefinite amount. They could come for you today. They could come for you in 43 years. You’ll never know until you see the wave marching across your shoes.

‘Don’t do that thing that these several clearly successful musicians do because it’ll make you sound weird.’

Having a word for it is fun but this woman is a dunce.

If the big consideration is really sound, doing whatever is necessary to use larger, but slower (wide, high CFM per dB/RPM) and higher quality (fluid dynamic bearings) fans might serve the purpose regardless of other hardware. Some of them are rated to be <20dB, quieter than a whisper, and fluid bearings are supposed to be mostly impervious to the noise added by aging that hits a lot of fans.

Society: Sunlit Valley, a Minecraft modpack based on Stardew Valley. It’s relaxing.

Phone call to ask ‘Hey, did you predict 9/11?’ costs nothing if you already have the phone. No need for billions.

This just in: God feels no need to consult I Ching on the laws of physics.

One of the biggest problems with human societies is that parents, by necessity, have their brains broken and, due to modern values/life, are under constant strain. Being a parent means (generally) the kid is priority 1, then there’s everything else. This is a necessary irrationality, but if this means you have to do the occasional genocide or violate someone else’s civil rights to ‘keep our kids safe’ then, by god, those people are just going to have to suck it up and die. Sometimes, if you have the time, you can talk some people around and remind them, one day their kids are going to have to live in society as one of those 'someone else’s and won’t always be their precious little baby, but almost no one has the time and energy for a more nuanced thought than ‘save the babies!’ much less if they also have to work 48 hours, commute 10 hours, and parent their kid(s) for 167 hours each week.

Asking a question and answering it in the next sentence… is there a word for that?

Don’t forget the third thing ads tell you: ‘Our product is, at best, no better than our competitors’, and quite possibly much worse, otherwise we wouldn’t have to spend so much on controlling our reputation.’

Or Tubular

Battling anything is built of two parts, making it immoral, and making it illegal. Making it illegal makes it easier to argue that it’s immoral, because many people take cues for their morality from legality, but if you want to keep it illegal you have to maintain the cultural belief in its immorality. Each reinforces the other.

So many people on lemmy seem to not be the types to hate based on nationality, except for this. The only nationalities I have seen attacked on here are Trumpicans and the French. Trumpicans at least are an ideology, but what is happening with the French that makes them the exception?