ZDL

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[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 day ago

That's what I was about to say, but quickly checked if someone else had already said it first.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago

P.S.

...there is a light at the end of the ~~tunnel~~gangplank.

Fixed that for you.

(As a joke, not seriously.)

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

Albeit in many countries, Twitter never really had the same impact as in the US. Where I live, Telegram is the source for notifications, updates and news.

Twitter has always been an also-ran in social media circles.

Twitter purports to be a world-scope social media site. These are the numbers for October of 2023 (the most recent I have info for):

Twitter is behind three local-scope social media sites (WeChat, Douyin, and Kuaishou) and running neck-in-neck with a fourth (that is locally largely considered a failure).

Note that: a "global" site is not just behind, but FAR behind in one case, several locally-scoped sites. And it barely registers against other world-scoped sites.

And this is in late 2023 before Apartheid Manchild opened the doors to reveal his batshit insanity and stupidity even more.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like the Spinning Jenny back then, AI is as bad as it’s ever going to be today. It’s only going to get better and jobs will be made redundant, I’ll put my money on that. It’s a real fear that many people have, whether they’ll admit it or not.

It's also as good as its ever going to be today (or the near future).

Degenerative AI has already dropped off in usage to the point that major stakeholders in it are terrified. It's going to go into the same winter that every previous "no really this time we've got it right" AI crazes went.

 

Hey, Luigi! I have your next target.

 

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm assessing whether your "guess" is wild SF-inspired imagination or grounded in anything, you know, actually factual.

You've answered.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago

Sportsmanlike behaviour in the modern age?

That IS weird! 🤣

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

This is "Single-Bamboo Drifting" (独竹漂), a traditional sport of the Miao peoples in Guizhou.

You stand on a broad bamboo trunk and steer/propel with a thin bamboo stick. Often combining it with complicated dance. It requires a lot more balance than I could ever have managed at any point in my life.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

Judging by later messages, this is a True Believer. Which when translated to English is "idiot".

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You seem both nice and very bright.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network -1 points 1 week ago

there are a bunch of orb-like UFOs exploring our sensitive areas

I think you will find that traditionally they do anal probes for this.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network -2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Seems like military drone tests in my opinion.

Have any actual expertise to back that opinion up?

(Hint: probably not.)

 

They are, after all, what they are.

 

Oopsie.

 

Because proper tea is theft!

 

It's time for the EU to grow up and give the USA its walking papers. I mean it's not as if the USA has been even remotely helpful as NATO countries face their greatest threat since the Soviet Union.

Throughout all of its history the USA has been an unreliable ally. Whoever banks on US support loses in the long term as the fickle US electorate changes flips its lid every 4-8 years and drastically rewrites the script as to who is a friend and who is an enemy.

And the script for the next four years says autocrats and other such assholes are the friends, and they're willing to throw the previous friends' bodies under the bus to prop up a failing business enterprise run by a crony.

 

Then it struck me.

 

Jesuszilla.

 

I saw it in the zoo a few years back.

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