I tried a game that came free with my GOG account years ago, MagRunner.

Overpopulation, huge zaibatsu that is into digitizing people and they develop an incredible new technology in space: MagTech! Magnetic technology!

I guess the devs were being tongue-in-cheek at the time, but now it’s not funny anymore.

Terrible Portal wanna-be, by the way.

A sarcasm they actually thought about and already acted upon directly.

Semaglutide and insulin.

Peter Hummelgård is a man of Palantir, whose software solution Gotham, in a customized version, is in use since years by the Danish Internal Intelligence and Police.

As far as I remember the only fascists who stopped causing problems were not the ones who were deposed. They were the dead ones.

There is literally a demanded exemption for politicians and military/police.

Living in Denmark, I have tried bringing things up about chat control in the office and outside, and Danes’ reaction come in 2 flavors:

• “Peter Hummelgård is an idiot”, by those who didn’t vote for one of the “left-centrist” parties governing right now.
• Silence.

It is really the same reaction.

Also, I am surprised by how many people here learn from me that the Danish police is working with Palantir.

But Denmark is a place where the main issue right now that there are local elections is that there will be a way too high percentage of foreigners voting, mostly because the number of Danes going to vote have been dwindling for some time.

I guess chat control and Palantir are technologies built for the kind of people who don’t trust the “foreign neighbor who is into politics”.

If you are 58 meters tall it’s a breeze to walk that much. Please relate to the rest of us!

There are several tipping points that are worth calculating abd having a proper measurements of the levers in one’s body allows for proper ranking of the possible movements/exercises.

But yeah, there are general rules one can look at, like when you see Phelps with a 2 meters arm aperture that makes him very fit for swimming.

I am 40+ and I just realized the huge importance biomechanics has in choosing a sport or, in my case, the right free weights exercises to do in the gym: if you get someone who ACTUALLY STUDIED Biomechanics in university or anyway an academic-level course, they can take measurements of your limbs and torso and suggest literally the kind of exercise that would have the most return while keeping the chance of injuries at a minimum.

Of course, personal preference/enjoyment will always have to play the most important role in your choices, but when not having strong opinions reducing your chance of injury so that you can be constant in your practice is the best long-term strategy.

When?

Stanley Parable is amazing, not something I personally would laugh out loud at, but truly a masterpiece of a game.

I loved it, but I wouldn’t laugh out loud at any of the moments in it.

Mistake. I deleted the crosspost.

I tried many times before, mostly pushed by friends nerdier than me. Always failed.

Now I am on Mint since a few months pushed just by myself not accepting AI slop force fed to me by my computer and having become very protective of my privacy since GDPR (I am the DPO at my company).

I must say it has become incredibly user-friendly (at least on Mint CE) and as a gamer, I am very satisfied with both performance and variety (I would have said GabeN be praised one month ago, but I am slowly moving my library to GOG/Heroic, for similar reasons, so the praise has to be shared).

Want to go check how much what you described overlaps with the religious electorate?

I’ll wait here.

You can put all religious people in the same basket.

People who compromise on logic to create a made up coalition of people with arbitrary rules to contrast other such people or, you know, humanity at large.

That is actually good news. Means that people more likely to be “normies” are adopting an alternative solution.

Except for GOG. Way to go Poland!

In Italy, in our Humanist association we used “credini” for all religious people.

“Cretini” means “idiots” (originally “affected by cretinism”, the developmental syndrome caused by iodine deficit during pregnancy).

“Credere” is the verb meaning “to believe”.

So it could be read as “believing idiots”.

Always loved it and have been trying to replicate it somehow in English ever since.