Don’t focus on what you can take out. Focus on what you can add. So like if you live instant ramen. Make a half pack and add bok choy and a soy egg or something. Kylie Sakaida on YouTube (actual dietician, dunno all her credentials) focuses a lot on this and gives examples. Changed my life and lost maybe 30 lbs just by following that train of thought.

For me meal prepping is big too. Make a bunch of something on Sunday when I have time and divvy it up throughout the week. My wife can’t eat the same stuff as much so I freeze some now and pull something out from a previous week. If you plan it out right you start building variety of your favorite stuff in the freezer for easy meals you just throw in oven.

I’ve been in his exact same spot, at APEX, but with a Windows machine. This guy is definitely an idiot if he’s blaming Linux. Things just happen at shows and you have to be prepared. Anyone who’s worked expos knows to have a backup plan for their main thing. Sounds like his main thing was taking notes during interviews. So no notepad? No pen? No bootable USB with notes saved to it? Yeah, definitely user error.

He’s also quoting Alistair Mcfarlane, a nutjob who acts like the entire world is out to get him. Not the kind of guy who’s opinion you should care about.

And his argument about battlefield 6. “It’s probably been popular with some who don’t play many other multiplayer games at all.” I cherry picked but the entire paragraph feels like he’s trying to convince himself with vague “I dunno”.

He posts that list saying people can’t branch out to try multiplayer but his own list has about 500 games that work on Linux if I’m reading it right. Certainly options to branch out to.

Guy sounds like he’s trying to convince himself he’s right, not convince others.

Occupy Wall Street was a very vocal minority of idiots (my brother helped organize it though did not go himself, I’m intimately familiar with it). They kind of just wanted vague change and did not build a lasting movement, just screamed really loud.

And as I said, that 5 million number misses so many intricacies that are hard to describe, like all the groups that intentionally skipped for valid reasons.

Comparing the on the ground reality of the current efforts for change to Occupy Wall Street is like comparing apples and beef.

The problem is not the federal force which is why it might seem like we aren’t doing as much. The problem is the 50% of the country that still buys into the indoctrination and would vote the same people in again. A lot of focus in the general population has shifted to trying to educate and win over those people. That’s not really reflected in the media which is still largely owned by billionaires and likes to push the hatred and keep the working class divided.

Just look at all the red areas losing seats in the special elections. Look at NYC and Zohran Mamdani getting elected inspite of how much money and influence was pushed against him. That’s the sort of stuff people are working on right now.

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It feels like the No Kings protests maybe weren’t reported in your area unless that’s the 2% you mean? The DC protest around the White House drew 200,000 people. That’s just the DC protest which is not a large area. DC only has a population of 700,000. The larger metro area around DC had numerous protests as well.

Nationwide roughly 6.5 million protested in October. That was the largest protest in US history if I’m not mistaken. Calling it “just 2%” does not acknowledge any of the actual realities. Large chunks of the population (such as many Latino communities) specifically chose not to join the protests so as to not instigate ICE violence that day. I saw that reported literally nowhere when it was happening and still gets glossed over in discussions today.

And of course a large chunk of the population voted for and still supports Trump. So that 6.5 million came from the half of the population that opposed Trump. The protesting crowds are trying to pull the other half from very deep seated indoctrination that news just can’t express. The absolute strangle hold that the Puritan “salt of the earth, pull yourself up by the bootstraps, rugged individual” mindset has is so deep rooted and is being fought against daily.

Around me there are constantly protests and movements still going on at least once a month, far from DC, trying to connect with those people and drag them to the side of empathy.

The national guard was mobilized to crack down on protests around the White House starting back in August. That’s still ongoing and yet there are still protests that try to organize and march around the White House. Doing so risks open warfare with a weaponized group of people so yes it doesn’t happen as much.

So yeah, as @[email protected] said, it’s easy to judge from afar, but the actual on the ground reality here is complex.

Came to say the exact same thing

Your definition of “reasonable” is way low I think. Especially with a lot of people working from home so their time isn’t eaten up by driving anymore. I do not know a single gamer who doesn’t consistently put in over 3 hours a day average. More broadly most people I know put that much time into their hobbies (many with kids).

No why? The Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Superior, what’s in Lake Michigan? Besides the monster

A lot of the AI you hear about in the scientific community is likely not an LLM. It might use bits of similar technology behind the scenes but they aren’t using chatgpt to fold proteins or develop new weather models. That’s the problem with lumping everything under “AI”.

Unless you’re talking writing the papers afterwards, but that’s back into using LLMs for paperwork that every industry is discussing.

I mean Meta’s own chief AI researched, Yan Lecun (sp?), has stated that current AI models cannot achieve AGI and new unknown technology is needed. Circular investments like are rampant in the tech sector now have historically led to large market corrections. And most average people I know are getting tired of things crashing all the time and are starting to ask if it’s because of the current “vibe coding” trend they’ve heard about (yes anecdotal but the first two aren’t).

Sure the bubble might not pop, but signs point to it happening. We can’t predict the future, but it often rhymes with history

I have fully embraced “lived in hosting”.

I live here. My wife lives here. My cat lives here. I’m not going to try and pretend this isn’t a home and make it spotless for guests. Anyone who complains is probably not the sort of person I want around. Don’t get me wrong it’s not a pig sty, the dishes are done, I vacuum, and clean the bathrooms and such. But seriously, no one has time to make the house perfect. That comes from magazines and TV where there’s money hiring cleaning crews you don’t see or something.

To be fair most humans don’t scrutinize themselves either.

(Fuck AI though. Planet burning trash)

Except most of them are MAGA and want more coal. He’d need something else.

There is no joke. It’s a very American heritage product made in a very American style. Just because a Japanese company recognized bourbon was growing in Japan and Jim Beam was profitable doesn’t matter in the context of the comment they replied to comparing American and Japanese whiskeys. Different styles, different products

It was bought by a Japanese company in 2014 but it’s usually considered a very American whiskey.

Grab godot, grab some tutorials, make something. It really is that simple. Just set your expectations. Your games will be closer to Pong for a while but there’s nothing wrong with that.

If you don’t know what you enjoy the only way to find out is to try things, and it’s never been easier to try making a game. If you have zero programming experience whatsoever I’d say start here: https://gdquest.github.io/learn-gdscript/

Sure, but a divide in what has mostly been a solid wall is a good opportunity

Repeat after me folks “Jury Nullification”. I’m shocked how many people don’t know anything about it. (Not saying you don’t, just venting).

Well, the suspect was just just found dead so they didn’t take all that long

Honestly they’d probably be doing less harm if that’s what they did.

They aren’t even joking. Here’s the article