Urgent discovery for RADheads: Nanao sounds like a Peanuts kid and goes perfectly with Vince Guaraldi. I'd love to draw them as Peanuts kids too but I'm disabled and can't draw, so the furthest I can go is this audio mockup
u guys hear about this discord autoban wave thats getting people for posting any images that look like a grid? im hearing people are getting banned for posting screenshots of folders, brick walls, etc. sounds like a new dataset had some bad hashes for the “ban anyone who posts child porn” detection system and its getting tons of incorrect hits
We had an issue where the IRS would not process our tax return, and if you call the provided telephone number it's handled by an AI agent which literally doesn't have a branch in the decision tree for this, so it will talk to you for arbitrarily long without taking any actions or letting you leave a message for a human.
But then Google Gemini did some research for us, and it figured out that you can call the local IRS branch office and ask for an in-person appointment, and they really don't want to make one, so they will call the main IRS office and fix your problem for you to avoid having to schedule the appointment.
The only thing that stops a bad AI is a good AI...
Sometimes you'll hear people claim this is a cause for optimism in AI, that autonomous agents will give the common man a weapon against labyrinthine bureaucracies. I think this is foolish, non-materialist analysis: it ignores, why do these labyrinthine bureaucracies exist in the first place? Cui bono? They exist to increase friction and dropout rates, because everyone who gives up is one fewer payout which needs to be made. AI changes nothing about this structural analysis, which is why it won't—can't— help. If AI is deployed to give people an edge against bureaucracy, bureaucracy will deploy more AI in response to make the labyrinth deeper and more twisty, and we'll be right back where we started (except for the people who can't or won't use it, who will be worse off than ever)
jeff goldblum is the type of guy who gets mistaken for gay because he’s jewish. nathan lane is the type of guy who gets mistaken for jewish because he’s gay. stanley tucci is the type of guy who gets mistaken for gay because he’s a mild-mannered italian, which is jewish. seth meyers gets mistaken for jewish because of everything about him. zachary levi gets mistaken for jewish because everyone wants him dead. tom cruise gets mistaken for gay because he is.
I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help
It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.
The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.
This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.
Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.
This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.
In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.
Between 2011-2019, Leverage Research explored the deep psychology of Effective Altruism and Silicon Valley, then suddenly dissolved among ru
I can't really begin to summarise this other than to say it's extremely Californian and is a handy demonstration of selection effects, where you select for people prone to particular kinds of delusions and wonder of wonders they exhibit them.
the removal of physical media is not the inevitable progression of improving tech, its like the removal of the 3.5mm jack: purely a result of profit
physical games still account for about 1/5th of all sales of video games
but by only selling digital games sony can be the ultimate arbiter of their price.
they can stop you lending games and force another sale instead. they can stop the sale of second hand games and keep prices artificially high. they can set any price they want and that will be your only option.
Somebody asked for English translations of all of the prophecies from the Japanese version of Chapter 4, so, here they are! As a general note, I aimed for the most literal translations possible, but as Japanese does not distinguish present and future tense, I modeled the tenses on the English versions of the prophecies. (Also, as a spoiler, the only prophecy with any really significant differences between the two versions was the prophecy about love.)
Under the cut, as it's extremely long!
The shadows' whispering prophecy
The legend of this world
<DELTARUNE>
A world full of pure light
Beneath it extends eternal night
When the fountains are freed, the Roaring resounds
And Titans appear from darkened eyes
Jockington grows the beard
Both the light and dark will burn out in the end
A countdown to the Earth's demise
The pointy-headed will say "kirei kirei" "boy"
[Note: kirei kirei is an expression that means something akin to "sparkling clean" and is the name of a Japanese hand soap brand. It also has the dual meaning of calling Ralsei "pretty pretty boy."]
Lo, under hopes and dreams
3 heroes are sent at this world's end
[Note: The verb okurikomu has the connotation of dispatching soldiers to fight a war or deploying emergency aid during a natural disaster.]
The Queen's vehicle does not stop
The Knight which makes with blackened blade
[Note: The verb umidasu has the connotation not of constructing or crafting, but of producing or giving birth.]
Shall duel with heroes
The 3rd hero
The lonely prince in the depths of darkness
The duke of screens is cleaved by reddened blade
[Note: The title kou here is the same term used to refer to Rouxls Kaard as the Duke of Puzzles.]
The 1st hero
The cage containing human soul and parts
Last, the girl
At last, that girl
The 2nd hero
The girl with hope engraved on her heart
The girl finds out the true meaning of love
ROOTS
The girl
GALLERY
They'll hear it
The sound of heaven calling
They'll see it
The tail of hell crawling about
The flower man is trapped in a facility
[Note: While asylum in English can refer to a physical refuge or to the abstract concept of it, shisetsu refers to a physical institution of any sort, without necessarily having connotations of refuge.]
The Angel, banished, will finally meet with its desire
[Note: kibou literally means hope and is the same word used for hope throughout the other prophecies. It can however also refer to something one hopes for, i.e. a wish or a desire.]
The last prophecy
The story's end
When all hope is finally lost for the legend
The final tragedy is revealed
There is only 1 way to save the world(s)
If that is done, the world(s) will be saved
Bonus: Unused Prophecies
There are a few prophecies in the game files that are not in the game itself. Considering that a lot of unused text remains untranslated in the Japanese language files, the fact that these prophecies did get translated likely means that they were either cut very late, or that they were intended for people to find in the code.
Original English: AXE CARVED BY THE TORTOISE'S GRAND HAMMER.
亀の大いなる槌より 生まれいでし斧
kame no ooinaru tsuchi yori umareideshi ono
Translation: Axe born from the tortoise's grand hammer
Original English: COLDWATER FELL FROM THE TOP OF THE SKY.
冷たき水が 空より降り注がん
tsumetaki mizu ga sora yori furisosogan
Translation: Cold water fell from the sky
Original English: FOR TO SAVE THE WORLDS, WE LAST OF ALL SAY,
世界を救わんとするならば
sekai wo sukuwan to suru naraba
Translation: If (one) intends to save the world(s)
[Note: No subject is identified.]
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