There are issues, of course. The amount of carbon allowed to be emitted per dollar should be reduced over time, making it gradually more expensive to force lower emissions over time.

However, ambitious infrastructure projects like what’s going on in Africa atm wouldn’t be possible without them selling carbon credits.

Foundry VTT is amazing. Been running Kingmaker for almost 2 years on it with the official module (very slow pace, 1-2 sessions a month). I’d argue it’s basically mandatory if you’re serious about online TTRPGs.

Adam Something, is that you?

The GMan has broken containment and is now wandering through our timeline, inserting people into the right points to change the future. I guess this explains the whacky wild ride we’re currently on.

It’s not a specifically Indian issue, it’s generalized. It’s also not intentional, just a result of the way virality works.

Because the clips most likely to go viral are those that agree with stereotypes (fat American, lazy Mexican, drunk Russian, thieving Romanian, etc ad infinitum), those are the ones you see. Then people make more of them because it’s an easy way to get clicks. They’re popular because they reliably cause the same arguments (and thus engagement).

The machine does not care about anything but maximizing eyeballs on their platforms.

I edit PDFs all the time for work. It’s a pain in the ass, but perfectly doable. Trying to prevent people from editing files by making it annoying is not in any way a sane strategy.

Should have read the fine print my friend

Not much better at all, tbh. The problems are systemic, not individual. Another Zucc or Thiel would step up.

Not in an image it doesn’t

I had some of that at an extremely early age. Addicted ever since. I still can’t go a day without it without feeling terrible.

The thing they’re worried about is the precedent. The logic is that if the EU can legally decide to confiscate your money as a non-EU state, then your money can be used as leverage by the EU. This means that countries will be heavily disincentivized from making large investments in the EU.

I personally think the fear is overblown and it should be clear to the wider international community that this is happening because Russia is a direct military threat to the EU, but let’s not pretend this isn’t a pretty huge precedent they’re setting.

Late response, but anyways: the big advantage over regular bank transfers is you can use it like a virtual card without Visa or Mastercard. In essence, the biggest draw is pushing US companies out of the EU financial system.

This is even dumber when you consider we’re ~2 years away from the launch of the Digital Euro. As easy and fast to transfer as a cryptocoin with none of the drawbacks. No Blockchain nonsense, backed by banks, transactions can be cancelled and refunded just like any digital transaction, and standardized to all EU banks.

House parties and board game nights, basically. Supermarket prices, and guaranteed to be around people I enjoy the company of. There’s also normally events going on every week, so there’s normally some kind of food fest/pedestrianized road with buskers/something going on that’s either cheap or free.

The ending is a real cop-out though

Wouldn’t be the first time a government banned a number

Like sysiphus, we must continue pushing up the hill, forever. There is no final victory. If you’re tired, trust in others to continue pushing, very understandable. Just don’t piss on the people continuing where you left off.

That was for tabling the vote, actual vote is happening on the 14th of October

steaming services

One steamed ham, please.

You can’t run an LLM on a crappy PC, that’s true. You need at least a decent CPU. If you’re running an LLM locally, there’s no calls to the outside world. I have a very mid computer, it isn’t great, and unfortunately I need to work with LLMs due to my job. A call to my local LLM might take ~2 minutes where using an online platform it might take ~30 seconds, but I think that’s a reasonable trade.

If you have a gaming PC, you have a platform that can run a local LLM.