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  • I feel like there are cybernetic dick enhancements in cyberpunk but they’re not widespread or used a lot. Like they usually are peddled by sketchy folks and don’t seem to be something advertised that much.

    I mean, good chance I’m wrong on that but that was kind of the vibe I got playing the game.

    Dong slider is a hilarious thought. I don’t know enough about coding and game development but it feels like it might be hard to get the animations right if you had a slider vs selection because you’d have to be figuring out animations for those titties or cock on the fly.

    But maybe that’s just me showing my lack of knowledge, perhaps a slider from tiny titties to big ol tatas is already a thing in some games. I guess it’s also dependent on the game engine.




  • Yeah short of the insulation blowing between the studs like you said with stabbing holes … The other option is just replacing the plaster and lath at some point and when you do blowing insulation then. That’s a huge remodel though.

    There’s definitely pros and cons to older houses, I bet if it’s made of those materials it has a cool layout and flavor.

    I live in a place that was built up through the late 80s through mid 90s so the houses have a lot of variety. Feels like once the 00s hit and especially the 2010s single family home neighborhoods all became the same house copy + pasted.







  • Wow, crazy that it took a war, hundreds of lost lives, billions of dollars and we ended up with an agreement that’s worse by a fair margin than the one the Obama administration had brokered that should have gone into effect in 2016 except dumbass Cheeto in chief fucked that all up. Mind you that deal was a masterstroke of diplomacy and didn’t require bloodshed and would have helped to build a more positive relationship with Iran while (mostly) placating Israel. But nah, instead we got this bullshit.

    So. Much. Winning.*

    ^*The ^winning ^is ^not ^guaranteed ^to ^be ^in ^favor ^of ^the ^USA, ^some ^terms ^and ^conditions ^apply.



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    8 days ago

    My personal hot take: the middle east will be much more peaceful when Iran has nuclear weapons.

    I trust them more than Israel with them. I also would say that Israel is a fundamentalist religious state with nuclear weapons, hell so is Pakistan and I’d go so far as to say what has kept the conflict between Pakistan and India from exploding into even worse violence and outright war is that they both have nukes.

    After this debacle I would be surprised if Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons in a decade or less.



  • Yeah I’m in the USA so idk if you’re here or not too but yeah … As an elder millennial the world is not how I imagined it’d be when I was a kid.

    I mean, I got pretty jaded pretty quick growing up so I’ve always been a bit pessimistic but maybe more so I’m realistic. I hoped things would get better when we were at least trying to tackle some issues with global climate change - now it feels like we’re giving up and just marching towards even more destruction of the planet.

    That was 20+ years ago … I always imagined that humanity would probably turn this place into a Hive World but I desperately want to be wrong about that. So far we’re trending in that direction.


  • I just will never get this trust in LLMs, given I know even vaguely how they work.

    That’s probably a good stance to have. I just had an AI hallucinate the hell out of an answer and tell me 3 different times the wrong thing. I took a step back, started a new chat, and changed my question to be less specific and more general and the very first thing it spit back was bang on right.

    This is just in regards to figuring some shit out in a video game, it’s alarming to me how much trust people are putting into these LLMs and the AI tech. Just a huge bubble that’s going to wreck our markets when it bursts. Eventually venture capitalists (ew) do want a return on investment - and that just is not going to happen.

    I think the great AI bubble burst, whenever that happens in the next 1 to 3 years, will make the dot com crash and 2008 housing crash look like peanuts and that’s gonna be real bad for lots of people.

    But hey, the earth keeps on spinning, we’re just along for the ride.*

    *Unless you’re a filthy rich member of the borgeousie, in which case, for the love of God have your tech buddies reign this shit in.





  • I personally think we’ll eventually see swappable batteries but who knows. I also think that won’t happen for like 25 years from now or more but I think that’s a solution to the limitations of charging tech.

    Who knows, for most people most of the time EV is a better choice. I know the way I normally use my car an EV would work fine as a replacement.

    It’ll be interesting to see how it all develops. I do wish we focused less on cars and more on better infrastructure for moving people around. I think cars are just inherently inefficient but since our societal infrastructure is heavily centered around them I think they’re going to be around for awhile.


  • Yeah anyone that thinks making more money means they’ll end up with less money because of taxes is just wrong. It’s crazy how so many people are that naive that they want to actively handicap themselves.

    Having said that, you know what does work like that, our welfare system. It is possible to hit a point where you work too much and get xyz benefits taken away and the monetary value of those is larger than what your raise was. In particular, childcare/food stamp benefits are a hard one to lose and childcare can be a lot of money. So, that’s a valid complaint but if you are not receiving government aid any raise you get at work is a benefit to you.