CarbonIceDragon

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 19 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I have been known to not get humor, I thought the joke was in sharing someone else documenting a stupid decision of theirs unwittingly, and therefore if it was itself fake it wouldn't have the same impact

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 55 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

Would a wild (I think coyote?) even let someone wash it? I suspect maybe a tame one that someone used a picture of to make a funny story.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 9 points 9 hours ago

What happens if you put the cursed forbidden knowledge book through a photocopier and just read the copies rather than the original I wonder

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Also known to more modern, less superstitious cultures as a proctologist

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 46 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Why even have a health department if their answer to disease is "literally just do nothing about it"

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 15 points 12 hours ago

Tbf assuming South America is just kinda ours to mess with or else just forgetting about it is a pretty common thing for the US to do, it tracks

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

First they'd have to get fusion power to produce net electricity, and then for it to produce it economically compared to other sources. We've made progress but it's been decades in the making and I'd be willing to bet will be a few decades more, even if I do expect it to get there one day.

But what's dystopian about fusion? It's just another energy source. A bit cleaner than some of the older ones, but not really anything fundamentally different.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 points 21 hours ago

For the moment, I guess the cynic in me expects his people will probably manage to get it to after not too terribly long and that it wouldn't be good for people to get complacent about it just because he's struggling now.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 188 points 21 hours ago (14 children)

I get the sentiment of "it's funny when someone tries to call the AI in on their side and it disagrees", but do we really want to encourage this sort of "the AI agreeing with someone means they're right" behavior? Beyond LLMs being notoriously inaccurate, they are also subject to potential manipulation by whoever owns them.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 0 points 22 hours ago

Imagine how grand and rewarding a task it would be for us to reach out and grab more than a few grains of that desert.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly, I'm beginning to think that maybe up/downvotes shouldn't federate, with each instance having it's own score for each post. Though maybe that makes the score-based sorts less useful on small or private instances. Or alternatively, each instance could send a single up or down vote based on the ratio of voted from it's users if any had interacted with something, to let vote score be mostly coming from within one's instance but still with some amount from outside to sort the timeline with. Could make it take more effort to manipulate the rankings since one would have to either make bots on many different instances or set up multiple whole instances for it instead of just bots on a single one.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago

Under this line of reasoning, a rich person could kidnap the kids of poor people and then say "what, you're against me lifting children out of poverty?" Or to make the analogy more apt, do that after making that family poor first.

 

I know this seems like two unrelated questions, so let me explain why I would like to do one of these two things: I recently got a drawing pen tablet with a display, which works fine, except that I am left handed, and my wrist keeps hitting the side buttons. The driver allows me to flip the pen inputs, but not the actual display, it just works as a regular monitor in that regard and relies on the windows settings (windows 11 in my case).

Now, I can flip it if I set it to extend my main monitor, however, I would like to be able to see what I am doing on either monitor, so I would prefer it to mirror my main monitor, just rotated 180 degrees. Some googling suggests that windows does not allow you to do this, except for a glitch involving changing the settings to extend and then back to duplicate, which I cannot manage to achieve. Does anyone know any workaround, or some extra software or such, that would allow me to do this?

Alternatively, if this cannot be done by any means, I would rather not use the extend function as is as I also often play games where moving the mouse to the edge of the screen moves the map around, and so would rather my mouse stay at an edge when reached instead of moving to the next monitor, ideally with some sort of hotkey to toggle what monitor the mouse is on. Is there a way I might achieve something like this?

EDIT: turns out this was all unnecessary, because the tablet itself has an option to do this rotation, its just in a part of the on-board display settings I didnt see before, isnt accessible from the driver UI that Ive seen, and wasnt mentioned on the tutorials that I found on the manufacturer's site that suggested windows had be used to control that rotation. Thanks anyways to everyone that tried to help me while I spent hours searching for a workaround needlessly.

 

All the spines and frills are supposed to be for sensing vibrations to help it not need eyes. Supposedly a herbivore, but not really since I just kept both cells mouths all the way through. Kept some cell movement as well, never realized before that the flagella makes a neat rat-like tail in creature stage if you make it large.

 

Specifically the type of printer that prints using spools of plastic filament, but that seems like the most common type anyway

 

Like, I just was thinking about how lots of pet species will just eat as much food as you give them to the point of making themselves sick, and keeping them at a healthy weight requires not giving them access to too much food. Obviously some humans have problems with this, but imagine how bad things would be if everyone were basically psychologically incapable of not eating food when we had access to it even when we'd had enough, given our dramatically higher access to food due to agriculture.

 

They literally took the gold provinces- all the gold provinces that have generated in south america this run as far as I can find, and nothing else. Kinda looks like open wounds or something else gross with that combination of map colors.

 
 

Name isnt anything too creative, its just called the "Slowboat Hauler", but it isnt supposed to be anything too fancy, just the space-fairing version of a bulk cargo freighter, designed by a species that at the time would have thought ftl travel impossible, needing its ships to take the slow way round. The big disk up front is supposed to be a shield to take the impacts of space dust and gas at extreme velocities.

 

This little iron refinery probably isnt much to look at for experienced players, but Im pretty proud of it. has 2 miners on a pair of pure iron deposits behind the structure feeding into the 8 smelters inside, divided into 2 different output locations because the best conveyors I currently have can only handle half it's output. There is a small amount of clipping, but nothing super cheaty looking (the mergers that clip through the outside wall dont use the side that clips through, so I like to imagine the exterior bits of them as looking like some sort of ventilation ducts or something.

 
 
 
 

This is more meant to resemble some kind of early interplanetary spaceship rather than a true interstellar one, but considering you get your ftl drive by just finding one on a nearby planet, I figure this is the sort of tech level your species would realistically have, to start with.

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