TheOakTree

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TheOakTree ,

I think as the game progresses, you get to see why Astarion is so eager to act in his own interests. However, his backstory really only justifies half of his refusal to help people. The other half of his whining feels antithetical to his own situation, but perhaps that's just because he doesn't fully acknowledge his newfound freedoms until Act 2.

TheOakTree ,

레미에 한국인 몇명 있는지 궁금하다...

(My grammar sucks :( )

TheOakTree ,

This almost seems like the middle point between Desmos' scientific and graphing calculators.

TheOakTree ,

This sounds lovely

TheOakTree ,

I think tank in most MMOs is a low-desire role. It typically hinges entirely on having a healer to keep you tanking, as well as holding an immense responsibility to be aware of aggro patterns and incoming debuffs. You eat a lot of blame for not tanking well, even if it's just because your healers mispositioned or some DPS decided to steal aggro by spamming too much of X move.

And generally, you don't feel as much of the "I did a thing!" feeling as, say, a rogue pumping out damage or a mage casting a slew of debuffs and DoTs.

TheOakTree ,

I find that DMs become quite patient with helping players make character sheets when provided a can of coke and some donuts/chips.

TheOakTree ,

A lot of birdwatching, maybe some music-making, and learning to cook very well.

TheOakTree ,

Don't you feel it's a bit counterintuitive to call someone tonedeaf for being unaware of "International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners", something that more than 99.9999% of people are likely unaware of?

Wouldn't you be better off, say, helping build awareness of such a day instead of simply berating someone for not knowing about it? At the moment, you're teaching people to treat it like a joke.

TheOakTree ,

"I think I got gf bergamot, what to do next?"

TheOakTree ,

Been called a ch*nk multiple times by random people in public, been told as a child that I should be performing better in school because of the "type of person" that I am, been called a dog-eater by peers, asked "what's your real name" (even though my government name is an English one), etc.

One time someone called me a ch*nk, I explained that despite them being shitty for thinking that's okay, that I'm not even Chinese, so they must be extra braindead. I also said that it must be disappointing to know less of the English language than a non-white person, and that if a white person like them can't learn proper English, then they're failing their own expectations of what it means to be American. I suppose hearing me say that in perfect American English was enough for them to realize how dumb they were being. Everyone in the room glared at them and they shut the fuck up and left lmao.

TheOakTree ,

ALL of the ching chong jokes, lots of dog-eating comments, being told I wasn't welcome in white gf's family, etc. I feel that.

TheOakTree ,

One can both celebrate the good and criticize the bad. This article seems to focus on criticism, which does not exactly mean it's an exaggeration.

I think you missed the point.

TheOakTree ,

And yet, somehow, someone in your HOA will find a way to say "it looks abandoned" despite the clearly well-cared-for pathways.

Biden rips ‘convicted felon’ Trump, says ‘something snapped in him’ ( thehill.com )

“Here is what is becoming clearer and clearer every day. The threat that Trump poses would be greater in a second term than it was in his first term. This isn’t the same Trump who got elected in 2016. He’s worse,” Biden said, according to prepared remarks......

TheOakTree ,

There was a joke from the 2020 election where people were willing to pay to watch Biden and Trump duke it out in a boxing ring, or even just on the election debate stage.

I would still pay to see it. It would go down in history as legendary.

TheOakTree ,

Autism enables the source code HUD, but it only shows each chunk after you figure out the assembly.

TheOakTree ,

Hi Jeena, I'm visiting South Korea right now and also noticed the drought around that time. How can we get more Koreans to use Lemmy, I wonder?

TheOakTree ,

I thought vrbo was more of a timeshare thing but I was probably wrong.

TheOakTree ,

This is my best attempt at a rewrite:

Get (vegan) hotdog buns, the sweeter the better. Spread mustard on the bun, and add your meat substitute. Make an avocado paste, adding some garlic and sea salt, and add that to the hotdog. Dice a peeled tomato and top it with coriander, then add it to the hotdog. Lastly, add ketchup and vegan mayonnaise to taste.

Make sure to tell your friends that you're using meat substitute, so that they aren't disappointed. In the photo, boiled carrots were used as meat substitute.

TheOakTree ,

Ah, I see, the texture of the sausage is quite different. I've previously had some luck replacing sausage with carrot by boiling carrots, seasoning with soy sauce and sugar, and then frying in a pan on medium-low heat.

I'm not a vegan/vegetatian but it's quite decent.

TheOakTree ,

I'm not that young, but sometimes I see people here refer to their childhoods, and then I feel like a baby.

TheOakTree ,

Dear downvoters... I'm pretty sure the picture of a bald eagle in front of a US flag is a stand-in for "/s".

TheOakTree ,

Why are you commenting fiction to raise false hope? ;-;

TheOakTree ,

Weak-ass comment.

  1. The question referred to the US as a whole. The specific state of Michigan was not a condition of the inquiry.

  2. Do you know why his license was suspended? Surely, your situation was annoying and probably unnecessary. This does not mean that your situation applies to most license suspensions. On the contrary, most license suspensions are a result of reckless driving or other offenses.

  3. People are allowed to insert additional irrelevant remarks as they please. This is a public online forum, not an institution or formal establishment. In the same way, I can tell you to get over yourself. Who asked for your judgement? Do you know exactly what the original commenter was looking for in a response?

Stfu :)

TheOakTree ,

Constitutional originadism

TheOakTree , (edited )

Chess engines initially had the same stigma "they'll never be better than humans since they can just calculate, no creativity, real analysis, insight..."

I don't know if this is a great example. Chess is an environment with an extremely defined end goal and very strict rules.

The ability of a chess engine to defeat human players does not mean it became creative or grew insight. Rather, we advanced the complexity of the chess engine to encompass more possibilities, more strategies, etc. In addition, it's quite naive for people to have suggested that a computer would be incapable of "real analysis" when its ability to do so entirely depends on the ability of humans to create a complex enough model to compute "real analyses" in a known system.

I guess my argument is that in the scope of chess engines, humans underestimated the ability of a computer to determine solutions in a closed system, which is usually what computers do best.

Consciousness, on the other hand, cannot be easily defined, nor does it adhere to strict rules. We cannot compare a computer's ability to replicate consciousness to any other system (e.g. chess strategy) as we do not have a proper and comprehensive understanding of consciousness.

TheOakTree ,

Yeah, I can agree with that. So long as the processes in an AI result in behavior that meets the necessary criteria (albeit currently undefined), one can argue that the AI has consciousness.

I guess the main problem lies in that if we ever fully quantify consciousness, it will likely be entirely within the frame of human thinking... How do we translate the capabilities of a machine to said model? In the example of the chess engine, there is a strict win/lose/draw condition. I'm not sure if we can ever do that with consciousness.

TheOakTree , (edited )

A tribe holds a vote to either cross a bridge to side A or stay on side B. Staying on side A means you won't have much food. Going to side B means you still won't have much food, but also most of the food is poisonous.

Part of the tribe (Group C) says "I don't want to starve, I refuse to vote in a way that accepts malnourishment as a solution!" Group C also opposes eating poisonous food. This partial group votes to try and find a better source of food (option C).

48% of people vote A. 49% of people vote B. 3% of people vote C.

Surprise, surprise, Group C had 0 impact on the starving situation AND helped facilitate the eating of poisonous food.

TheOakTree ,

A group holds a vote to either cross a bridge to side A or stay on side B. Staying on side A means you won't have much food. Going to side B means you still won't have much food, but also most of the food is poisonous.

Part of the group says "I don't want to starve, I refuse to vote in a way that accepts malnourishment as a solution!" Group C also opposes eating poisonous food. This partial group votes to try and find a better source of food (option C).

48% of people vote A. 49% of people vote B. 3% of people vote C.

Surprise, surprise, Group C had 0 impact on the starving situation AND helped facilitate the eating of poisonous food.

Fuck Biden, and FUCK Trump. But if you think voting for a leftist party or abstaining from voting will change anything in a system entirely designed around having only two candidates, you are just as okay with Trump as you are with Biden. At the very least, you are saying that they are equally as bad, showing that you clearly don't understand the dynamic.

TheOakTree ,

I believe it's such a broken democracy that it doesn't qualify as a proper democracy.

So, tell me, how does third party voting or abstaining from voting help oust the government?

TheOakTree ,

Something something accelerationism... surely if we let the fascists win now then they'll let us win later!

TheOakTree , (edited )

I agree with you. If we could get the entirety of the democratic party to vote green/left, that would be super helpful. We both know that's not happening in America because of the broken electoral and political system. If we could suppress option C, we wouldn't be having this conversation at all, but there would surely be other complaints to be had regarding that matter.

In the end, the Group C votes are equivalent to not voting, which translates to having 0 impact on the outcome of vote. This exemplifies complicity with either option A or B.

TheOakTree ,

Thank you, I wanted to say this earlier but I was busy. It's a shitty parable to fit a shitty and broken system. If it were any nicer of a parable, I would have less to complain about concerning the electoral system.

TheOakTree ,

Sorry, you're right. My story doesn't quite match the election dynamic. In the hypothetical, Group C should be extremely aware that they cannot win the popular vote, since most tribe members are either unaware of or have no faith in option C.

In which case, yes, continuing to vote for option C is complicity with outcome A or B.

TheOakTree ,

I think an apt comparison is touching hot stuff with a wet glove. With a dry glove, the heat has to conduct through the fabric before heating your hand. With a wet glove, the heat is conducting through the water and burning your hand. The solder, like the water in the wet glove, is a bridge for the iron to transfer heat efficiently to the pad.

I think a lot of hobby soldering guides really neglect the idea of heat transfer and thermal mass.

TheOakTree ,

The honing steel doesn't actually sharpen (remove metal)

Doesn't a honing steel also remove burrs?

TheOakTree ,

Yeah, they sell hats made to work with any pair of sunglasses apparently... the brand is called Notch.

TheOakTree ,

Silicon is not silicone, so that spot is not correct...

Unless you're talking about using one of these fuckers:

https://www.powerwaywafer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/silicon-crystal.jpg

TheOakTree ,

Seems like the actions of a person who took too much acid and warped their own reality.

Children in Gaza dying from starvation-related complications since Israeli government began using starvation as a weapon of war, Human Rights Watch says ( www.hrw.org )

Concerned governments should impose targeted sanctions and suspend arms transfers to press the Israeli government to ensure access to humanitarian aid and basic services in Gaza, in accordance with Israel’s obligations under international law and the recent International Court of Justice order in South Africa’s genocide...

TheOakTree ,

It's like when US police kill a pedestrian in a chase and media outlets say "Pedestrian was Struck by Police Car while Officer was Chasing Suspect."

No, the police car didn't strike a pedestrian while a police chase was happening. A police officer struck and killed a pedestrian with their vehicle during a reckless chase. The car isn't an entity that makes decisions.

TheOakTree ,

I know you're joking, but it would still be better to have a bit less funding and much stricter enforcement than our current already-small funding + nonexistent enforcement.

Like all of those pandemic restaurant business funds that got sucked up by massive restaurant chains and hardly anyone else.

TheOakTree ,

This is what audiophiles call "wtf is this FR curve."

TheOakTree ,

No, it replies with tinnitus-inducing screeches :)

TheOakTree ,

Same as PEMDAS, except:

Parentheses -> Bracket

Exponent -> Order

Multiplication <-> Division

BODMAS

TheOakTree , (edited )

Order is often used to describe exponents when talking about functions and other mathematical properties. In a lot of cases, it's also equivalent to a degree. For example, a function y = x² - 9 is a second-order/degree polynomial.

Alternatively, one could find a second-order rate of a reaction, which means the rate of reaction is proportional to the square of a solution's concentration.

TheOakTree , (edited )

You have the right idea, and you are right in some regards. Generally the order of magnitude is an order of 10. That is, 1350 could be represented as 1.350×10³, so the order of magnitude is the third order of 10, which is 10³ (i.e. some value x×1000).

TheOakTree ,

For those wanting the archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220321020734/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-13/inflation-stings-most-for-those-earning-under-300-000

TheOakTree ,

I believe it is "ore wa"

Yes, I used to be a degenerate too...

TheOakTree ,

Kinda? In interstellar, the crew lives decades of earth-time while traveling space over what seems like a few years. The solution that is revealed when McConaughey returns is the result of decades of study spearheaded by his own daughter.

So it's a bit inverse in some ways.

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