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EvilCartyen

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I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

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ElleGray , to random
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Biniam Girmay becoming the first Black cyclist (he's from Eritrea, Africa) and also the first Black African to win a Tour de France stage. Absolutely incredible performance

Photo of Biniam Girmay being hugged by a teammate who says, "You make history!"
Photo of Biniam Girmay wiping away tears

EvilCartyen ,
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@ElleGray Nicely done, he was also great when he won Gent Wevelgem in '22.

I think it's also Intermarché-Wanty's first tour stage ever, it's a super low budget team afaik.

randahl , (edited ) to random
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Denmark is known as a country with steep taxes. But there is a stark difference in taxation, depending on who you are.

Three examples:

A factory worker pays 51.8 percent in various taxes on their income.

Company profits are taxed at 22 percent.

The Maersk shipping company is not taxed at all, but pays a so-called tonnage which equates to around 0,3 percent.

Joachim Holger Waldemar Christian pays 0 percent tax on the profits of his farm, as he is the brother of the king and exempt by law.

EvilCartyen ,
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@randahl

Imagine if we as private individuals only paid 22% tax on our profits after expenses :D

EvilCartyen ,
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@xerge @randahl

"In Denmark, the average single worker faced a net average tax rate of 36.0% in 2023, compared with the OECD average of 24.9%. In other words, in Denmark the take-home pay of an average single worker, after tax and benefits, was 64.0% of their gross wage, compared with the OECD average of 75.1%."

https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-denmark.pdf

randahl , (edited ) to random
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Many Brits complain about the UK election system on Mastodon. If you have seen it and wondered why, this is it:

The UK has 650 election areas. In each area the candidate with most votes gets a seat in parliament. The serious flaw with this system is, everyone who votes for smaller parties do not get fewer seats — they get no seats.

For example, if 10 percent of voters vote for a party A, but either party B or party C gets more votes in each district, then party A wins nowhere and gets 0 seats.

EvilCartyen ,
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@randahl

My mind was completely blown when the brits rejected proportional representation at the electoral reform vote about a decade ago. It's just so self-evidently more fair that it blows my mind why the people would reject it.

EvilCartyen ,
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@randahl

Tbh that - and brexit - sort of made me disillusioned with the UK, and I mentally let them go. I've always felt a kinship with the isles, but something broke inside me.

ElleGray , to random
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    EvilCartyen ,
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    @ElleGray who will man the embassy??

    randahl , (edited ) to random
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    We live in stressful times, but I follow accounts like @unclepj, and then at least I laugh in the darkness.

    EvilCartyen ,
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    @randahl @unclepj

    My body is a temple.

    A Dionysos-temple where we celebrate wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.

    You just have to pick the right deity, is what I'm saying.

    EvilCartyen , to random
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    After an initial burst of productivity and research, my Byzantine TTRPG setting has been allowed to rest for a bit so I'd have time to consider the direction.

    But it's about time to get back to it.

    Yesterday I ordered one of the old GURPS historical settings - Imperial Rome - which will help me turn the project from 'Carsten writes 100 pages about the Byzantine Empire' to 'Carsten provides you with a setting to use for campaigns'.

    So that's gonna be fun :)

    EvilCartyen OP ,
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    @SJohnRoss hehe, well this is a ancients focused campaign setting, so 😂 I like the overall style of the GURPS settings. We'll see if I do something similar, they're very good at giving a relatively short thematic introduction to an era.

    futurebird , to random
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    Every now and then I hear conversations from outside of here about "the state of social media" and let me tell you: People are suffering. People are miserable. Many people feel addicted to social media but unable to have positive and valuable interactions in the space. Mostly, in the profit-driven social media space negative emotional reactions glue eyeballs as well as positive, so a heap of the experiences is just ... unpleasant.

    Meanwhile around here things are different.
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    EvilCartyen ,
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    @futurebird

    Well, that's why we're here, right? To just exist and make little jokes and talk about our passions and our troubles and our lives in peace from corporate social media.

    futurebird , to random
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    Blood for the blood god!
    Garbage for the garbage machine!

    (re: LLMs and training set degradation)

    EvilCartyen ,
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    @futurebird

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    Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or simply sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

    Donald Trump wants to stoke so much fear and hatred that people forget this.

    Do not.

    EvilCartyen ,
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    @rbreich we're not all Americans here yknow

    futurebird , to random
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    Although tornados can happen in places like Italy and India ... they are kind of "Uniquely American"

    I grew up in OH and have happy memories of hiding in the basement listening to the radio because a storm system that runs around like a D&D creature gobbling houses might get me. I assumed every kid on the planet had to do that... but nah... it's just a midwest/western thing.

    I'm trying to imagine watching "The Wizard of OZ" and the tornado sounding as exotic as IDK a Typhoon.

    EvilCartyen ,
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    @futurebird I've had recurring nightmares about tornados since I was a kid, still have them now at 40.

    I live in Denmark where no tornado has ever been.

    Except, for the past three years we've had a couple each year. I am now starting to fear my dreams were visions of the future.

    And this house does not ave a basement...

    EvilCartyen , to random
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    So I am sure it's been done before, but I've decided to create a campaign setting for historical tabletop roleplay focused on the Byzantine Empire set during the Anarchy period from 685-717 CE.

    It's mainly for my own sake, because I like it as a writing challenge, and because there's so much potential for fun campaigns during that time.

    Let me know if there's something related I simply have to look at, or if you're interested in the project.

    EvilCartyen OP ,
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    @SJohnRoss is there a historical setting you feel is well done that I should consult for inspiration? 🙂

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