I’m glad it is this obvious from the outside. I’ve felt gaslit ny entire life living here. We’re sold this bill of goods, The American Dream, but we have to buy it on credit and it never really meets expectations.

The sad fact is its taken the general population around 50 years to wake up to the klepto-kakistocracy being forged and the only hope I have is that they’re overplaying their hands too soon while the general population still has a hope of reversing course peacefully.

In our neighborhood a lot of families set up a fire pit in the driveway and hang out passing out candy. It’s something we hadn’t seen before moving into our neighborhood and we love it.

At least when you’re wrong about something you’re willing to keep doubling down and not see how!

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I mean, if you’re into that sort of thing.

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The work these folks are doing is pretty cool. They utilize polarized light to allow for multiple viewing angles of holograms. https://axiomholographics.com/

holograph - A document written wholly in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears.

I think you meant hologram. In which case, check it out: https://axiomholographics.com/devices/hologram-room/

you are now in uncharted territory

Holy shit, it’s so complex you can end up in a new IP franchise entirely?! I’ll never wrap my head around programming.

We have one where they throw rolls at you .

Moving Out also fits in with those.

I’m just basing it off of being married to a Walmart manager for 10 years but hey, maybe outsiders’ anecdotal feelings on the topic are more accurate than observed first hand experience.

Walmart is ALWAYS hiring cashiers.

I admire your faith in our legal system but despair at you lack of imagination.

They’ll prosecute a bag of money for potentially being involved in a crime.

Walmarts keep the same number of cashiers before and after self checkouts are installed.

Thanks for saying the exact first thing that came to mind.

I have this wishlisted but Satisfactory and Space Marines are capitalizing my play time.

What are your impressions of 9 Sols? Metroidvanias are my favorite genre and this one is so beautifully drawn and animated.

It’s a phenomenon I seem to encounter more and more where previously inconsequential and simple to accomplish tasks have been obfuscated and enshittified just enough that its “easier” to do the shitty longer way they want to force you to use.

As someone that works in tech and is in no way averse to updating my own drivers: this is why I just used the stupid app out of frustration. Even knowing my exact GPU it was still a hassle.

It’s the massive list of GPUs and all their variants that probably made it such a memorably bad experience.

art should never be efficient defined in absolutes or otherwise arbitrarily constrained

Baduk is the Korean name for it, I believe. Also known as weiqi and igo, it is the longest continuously played board game at around 2500 years old.

At its core, Go is actually quite simple. Played on a 25x25 grid, stones are played on the intersection of the lines instead of the spaces. The goal is to fence off and create territory, zones of control where you expect to capture any stone your opponent might play in that area.

Stones or chains of stones are captured when surrounded. Empty spaces (intersections) adjacent to a stone or chains of stones are referred to as liberties. Once all liberties are occupied the stone(s) are captured, removed from the board, and held by the captor. A single stone has 4 intersections connected to it, so 4 liberties. 2 connected stones have 6 liberties and so on…much easier to grok that with a visual aid or a better writer than me.

If a player does not see an advantage to making any more moves they can pass. The game is concluded when both players pass. Scoring is done by each player using their captured stones to occupy their opponent’s territory and then counting what remains.

TLDR this cartoon probably does better than me at explaining it: https://www.britgo.org/cartoons/index.html