skulblaka

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[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

Being cute to humans was an evolutionary advantage. That's the look of a shrewd and calculating hunter. Cats have domesticated humans, not the other way around, they still pretty much do their own thing and are largely resistant to training, but we still keep them around and feed them because we think they're adorable little derps. Meanwhile they're in the back yard demolishing the local bird population.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

Will be interesting to see where it goes. Mostly I'm just happy to see anything escape the clutches of Embracer Group.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah but I want to sneak mine in between the Van Goghs and the Dalis and see how long it takes people to notice

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

Some of those I understand complaining about but honestly Sets & Logic is a great class for a programmer. I wish that was in the standard math path so that everyone got a little of it in high school, the closest I got was doing proofs in geometry which while that is a sort of logic training it doesn't really teach you how to make use of anything.

Also, depending what you're building exactly, advanced Calc and Numerical Analysis may be very useful and/or required to perform. Especially if you're trying to accurately model something that happens in meatspace.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

When you hit phase 2 of the fight and the boss pulls out a crack pipe

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That just means it's good satire

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

As it seems to me, who hung around with a lot of drug users back in the day, as well as regular folks: most people who are interested in trying them can and will get their hands on it regardless of legality, sometimes easily. It's about as low risk of a crime as there is. Those who aren't interested, won't, again regardless of legality. There will be edge cases where somebody will go "Ah what the hell, it's legal now, why not" and toddle on over to their local dispensary for the first time but largely speaking anybody that wants to smoke weed or snort coke is probably already doing it.

Now what probably would change is the number of people on record using drugs, per capita, over the next few generations if it becomes normalized like alcohol has been. Which makes sense. But, counterpoint to that, in countries where they have legalized many drugs they still often have lower rates of severe addiction because they've generally also set up safety nets for those folks. Accessible medical care and available addiction treatment options will keep many drug users from hitting rock bottom, but we don't really have that in the US so many users will often go unassisted in any way for ages and lose jobs and homes because of it, only getting "help" when it becomes forced upon them by the state (which is frequently not in any way helpful).

Anyway, I'm rambling, but tl;dr it's definitely a multifaceted situation and blanket legalization probably isn't a great move without accompanying medical and social support, which needs to happen anyway regardless of any moves for drug legalization. Gotta walk before we can run, unfortunately.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

I have only know about them because the internet exists.

It's even better than that, even with the internet existing I'd have never interacted with these bits whatsoever if it weren't for the person in question throwing a hissy fit and trying to get something deleted off the internet. If they just laughed it off and let it slide it would have gotten about 1% of the attention currently being brought to it. We only know about this painting because she was so offended by it that she decreed no one must know about it. We only know about Barbara Streisand's house because she decreed no one must know about it.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, glad you asked. Let's talk about mate-in-omega.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Plants consume, produce, and "fix" (make usable) different resources, hence the wild success of crop rotation for the last 8,000 years.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 42 points 10 months ago

If anybody's gonna know what will kill you...

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