TotallyHuman

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[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't like that the conservative party is using provincial funds to advertise for their political views -- especially with advertisements which aren't rigorously truthful. It feels slimy, but does anyone know if this is legal?

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Depends on the income period -- I'd do 25% of daily income for a first offence.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Interesting. Unlike most measures, bike lanes are also a positive on their own, climate change or not. I assume this analysis doesn't include negative-cost solutions like carbon pricing.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not how exploitation works, not really. The rich will exploit as much as they can. Prices are already set to maximize profit. The rich can't pass higher prices along, because if they could charge more, they already would. Cutting taxes on big companies doesn't create jobs or lower prices -- and raising taxes won't destroy jobs or raise prices.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

They're condemning microtransaction-based models, so it might not be bad... but I'll believe it when I see it.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

The teacher was selling prints of the art for hundreds of dollars. The article doesn't say how much profit they made, but it could be substantial. There's also the privacy violation, and split amongst ten kids it's $160,000 per victim. Don't get me wrong, that's not nothing, but it seems reasonable for such a wilful and knowing violation of copyright, rights to one's image, and privacy rights. (Assuming all alleged facts are true.)

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

That seems to be Tynan's MO. I like it. No hype, no teasers, just quietly works until he has something worth selling.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago

Yes, but it is a problem. It's a problem that has no partisan component, which can be fixed without political grandstanding. It's also a problem which kills people: the 6% increase in car crashes it causes is a lot of easily preventable deaths.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Perfect! We'd have pretty low utilization on those 80 CPUs, though -- if we made them smaller, the power draw would be lower and it would be cheaper. We could then get away with adding more CPUs. It would then make sense to put the array of simple CPUs on its own card, dedicated to graphics processing... wait a minute.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

If you can't come into work because your tires are slashed, you should not be fired.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

...really? The post was clearly a joke, and if it had any stance at all it was the celebration of modern medicine.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

With a name like that I hope it involves nuke-powered spaceships.

 

Let's make a list of magic items that are flavourful and interesting! I'll start us off.

  1. A fine tablecloth which, when placed on a table, conjures food, plates, and cutlery. The food is different every time, but always delicious and high-quality, conferring a minor rest/morale bonus. The table is always impeccably set. The food and everything else disappears if anyone at the table commits a breach of etiquette, no matter how minor. The tablecloth then has a cooldown period before it can be used again. (Depending on how clever your players are and how much you like watching them suffer, the tablecloth might have the relevant rule embroidered on it until the next time it's used.)
  2. A pair of bracelets which, when worn, make all non-magical animals friendly. They don't allow for communication or taming -- "friendly" does not mean "subordinate", and the animals are still animal-level intelligent. The bracelets also make nearby animals friendly to each other: if you're petting a rabbit, a wolf will just nuzzle up next to it.
  3. A laser gun that does no damage, but which causes its target to believe that whichever limb it hit was destroyed or severed.
  4. A tamper-evident magical lock: fairly easy to pick, but the person attuned to it (or anyone who knows the activation phrase) can tell when it was last opened by touching it.
  5. A clockwork bird that will fly in a path the user sets when activating it, but has no collision avoidance capability.
  6. A fortune-telling implement (marked bones, crystal ball, etc) which doesn't provide any sort of divination ability, but makes other people believe the predictions the user makes with it.
  7. An enchanted flare-gun that will draw a line in the sky between the user and the closest sapient creature that isn't within five meters.
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