I don’t believe that. These people spend billions of dollars on media capture to put as many people as possible in a propaganda bubble. The more people you have in the bubble, the more awful shit you can get away with, which is why shit has gotten progressively worse as more people get segmented into echo chambers that foster extremism. It’s resilient too, because you can also scam your audience with commemorative coins and stuff, which makes it self-sustain long enough for people to feel like it’s just the way things always are. But I don’t think it’s just that people are awful. Too much money and effort goes into convincing people to be awful to each other for me to believe it’s a natural condition.

I finally set up Jellyfin and Sonarr! I’ve been using Plex and manually managing torrents for a while now, recently found the *arr services and they are very impressive. Got the Jackett - Sonarr - Jellyfin - Nginx stack set up, now working on getting SSL + DynDNS so I can make it available remotely. Also accidentally blasted my ratio downloading a bunch of TV shows all at once so gotta seed up for a bit before i fill it out more. But so far the setup has been pleasantly breezy for how complex a setup it is ❤️

I don’t know what the odds are on the US or a part of the US reaching the technical definition of famine, I’m just saying I wouldn’t put it in the “definitely not happening” category. And it wouldn’t be because there’s not enough food available, more like the government is actively aggravating domestic food production and international trade and they’re bumbling morons, which is a combination that could easily get us into shortages where a large chunk of the population is starving. And depending on which Americans it affects (or affects the most), the government may not care. Not saying it’s definitely going to happen, but I think it’s naive to say it definitely won’t just based on America’s buying power.

FWIW I agree that the current situation, whatever it’s impact on America’s food security, will impact other parts of the world more severely. I’m sure America’s shit will still roll downhill.

Seriously thank you, I remember watching this when it aired and occasionally have wanted to look it up but forgot the name.

You also reminded me of the uproar when “The Sci-Fi Channel” rebranded to SyFy lol

Started happening. There’s still plenty of consolidation left to go. Hence the current pressure.

It’s been happening steadily for a while, Trump just opened up a lot of avenues to accelerate it. There are still a lot of small and medium family farms that own their land and equipment.

IDK, there are already a lot of people hanging on by a thread in the US. A collapse in domestic production that leads to higher prices will push more people under the “secure” line. I think it’ll also cause food shortages worldwide but I think you’re overestimating how many Americans will be insulated.

Happens here too. And who scoops up the land when it gets liquidated? JD goddamn Vance and his vultures.

All part of the plan :(

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the best time to flip out about fascism is ten years ago. Second best time is today.

eventually this image will be cut, copied, and pasted until it has faded into a rectangle of white noise overlayed with layer upon layer historical image hosting watermarks, and then, when its meaning has finally passed beyond all human recollection, will Larry finally be able to rest.

I know y’all have your share of problems but this made me wish I was Canadian so bad. Such a placid headline 🥲

hope someone sends him some thoughts and prayers looks like he’s running low.

Here’s the (abstract of the) paper I was thinking of https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/opre.4.1.42

Appalling that I can’t find a free version of a 70 year old paper. You might be able to find the full text somewhere… I would of course never encourage anything that might run afoul of the scientific publishing protection racket.

I couldn’t find the paper I was thinking of that described the phenomenon of traffic propagating as a pressure wave, but I did find this paper (new to me) that describes a model for simulating how congestion spreads in urban environments (as opposed to an isolated highway, which IIRC the paper that most people reference models). It does have the full text available though, and it looks like a good read and has references that should get you going on the history of congestion research.

I am not an expert; I just found this with a few minutes of searching. If there are experts with better papers I’d be happy to hear from ya!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15353-2.pdf

I haven’t actually played this character yet because the group I made it for failed to launch (and I’m currently between tables), but I really want to play this character. He’s a Dwarven Wizard, scion to a massively wealthy trade baron. He got a job as a diviner for the family business and worked there most of his life, but at some point he realized that long-term divination is mostly bullshit, the bit that isn’t is just statistics, and his job is just a sinecure to keep him comfortable since he will likely never run the company (too many older brothers). He studied magic on his own time because he thought it would help him with his job so he has some skill as a wizard. Sometimes he will go to rougher pubs and listen to adventurers talking about their adventures and imagine what it would be like to leave it all behind. Then, after a messy, public divorce, something snaps and he walks out of his job, goes to the outfitter and buys a bunch of fancy equipment, and signs up with the first adventuring crew he can find under an assumed name.

Same. It’s a real joy if you have a good table. It’s more work though, which makes DMing a bad table that much more painful.

Damn girl are you a 16:10 display device because that ratio is visually pleasing and comfortable to hold.

😭 nooo I can change

The poems
I wrote,
I love 'em
but I'm broke.

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