I'm not sure. It's partly just that Alito is a selfish, lonely, bitter, viciously bigoted person. The progressive justices don't seem to be having a problem following the ethics rules.

Fair enough - I don't have one. At least not to hand. There has been a LOT of reporting about misinformation, disinformation, and fucked up cultural trends unique to TikTok, but I used that phrase hyperbolically to reinforce my actual point: that it is literally impossible to cite sources on TikTok, making it the only social network where credible, knowledgeable, expert, and authoritative creators cannot in principle be distinguished from hoeseshit.

I stopped playing salt and sanctuary because of the platforming, despite being an ardent lover of souls likes.

I really like minor stat boosting items instead. So rather than giving me an inventory full of potions, give me three or four slots for items that can have a huge range of different bonuses and penalties, and they are pretty minor, but they're permanent. That way I get to craft a build instead of just being annoyed

I've been whining to everyone in earshot about all the puzzles in remnant 2 hahaha

Ayyy that person can go eat hog turds alone in a field

You're worthy of respect and as real a woman as anyone alive. Sorry for the shitty Pride experience. There are Pride events that aren't like that, I swear. My local Boston Block Party is mostly weed stores and a killer drag show. Wishing you happier Prides and reciprocated trust in the near future.

If TikTok starts allowing standard hyperlinks it would dramatically reduce the platform's peak harm potential. Tiktok's single biggest problem rn is that it is literally impossible to cite your sources - that's why it's the runaway global leader for misinformation. Adding text would help, bringing it back down to regular Facebook levels of social erosion and election distortion.

The most interesting piece of this for me is that the "gender politics index" is an even stronger predictor of Trumpy support than the "modern sexism index." The gender politics piece is outrage politics - it's culture-war, cult of victimhood stuff with minimal substantive claims attached. And that's what most strongly predicts voting preferences.

What that means to me is that, as with everything that makes the news coming out of high profile republicans, their positions are utterly cynical and calculated to induce fear-based rage voting, rather than a reflection of a sincerely held set of moral and cultural beliefs.

Lovely read, thanks for sharing!

95% of people definitely aren't hetero though. Or anyway, they aren't cisgender and straight and vanilla and mainstream in every other possible way related to sex and gender. We have no idea how many people are queer, but it's a lot more than 5%, and we won't know what the actual numbers are like until there have been several generations that are very queer accepting.

If you want slightly less tactical (but even more fun) turn based combat with a lot more RPG, divinity 2 original sin is phenomenal.

I agree that cashing in is at least important part of this. As I understand it, however, past a certain point creating and using LLMs is in fact extremely expensive. That's why GPT4 limits user interactions, for example. I also think that the more restricted these tools are in general, the better for everyone. It's absolutely possible to use them in positive ways, but as it stamps they are mostly just flooding the internet with garbage at killing low level content jobs.