Not really though. A lot of the positive representation in the player is incidental to providing a lot of options in character creation. All of the NPCs are essentially asexual, and the few you can marry are panromantic, but thats just easier to code so they dont have to check for gender or record different lines for rejecting you based on gender.

All of the elder scrolls games are still very rooted in amatonormativity and heteronormativity. They sort of skirt the issue by just never addressing it. Divorce is impossible in Skyrim without killing your spouse. You can only marry and live with one partner at a time. In terms of romance it’s basically the shallowest possible nuclear family simulator, with the player always in the role of the master of the house and the partner in the role of caregiver/house maintainer/slave. Any representation of queer relationships is only accidental, which for me gives them zero points. They just didn’t bother enforcing straight relationships.

Additionally they force a biological sex based gender selection. Theres no way to be trans or nonbinary, even in the sexless world of Skyrim. You choose the male body you’re he/him, you choose the female body you’re she/her. No women with facial hair, no men with boobs, no short kings or tall queens, no androgyny at all.

oh look another bullshit startup intended only to appear game changing long enough to enrich some greedy founders. im sure this will fundamentally change the world of heat pumps for the better. totally.

dig in those heals, double down on the argument you pulled out of your ass. you’re part of what sucks about the internet.

those are still estimated to have a mass topping out around 40 pounds, so a bird with the mass of a human would probably be more than twice the size of that one, at least.

why would you assume density would be conserved? all I said was mass so the density would absolutely be variable.

The largest flying animal to ever live, as far as we know, was the Quetzalcoatlus, which is estimated to have a mass up to over 400 pounds. Thats more mass than 99% of all humans, flatly disproving your claim. Just because theres no living bird with that mass doesn’t in any way mean its biologically impossible.

Why would you assume it would have the same density as a human? This is an arbitrary restriction you’re adding to the scenario. Conservation of mass doesn’t require conservation of volume.

thats… the whole point of the post. a bird with a humans mass would be huge. maybe you should have left your shitty assumptions in your ass. no offence.

Having spent some time doing licensing work for an orbital vehicle, the reason the reentries are uncontrolled is pretty stupid bureaucratic bullshit. Because of the way the licensing process works, its much easier to get an uncontrolled reentry license than a controlled reentry license. The FAA claims to prefer controlled reentry so the debris comes down in some uninhabited part of the ocean, but because they make it way easier to get a license for an uncontrolled reentry thats what everyone does. Being the FAA it takes forever to change anything, so maybe they’ll change the rules shortly after its too late to matter.

only an idiot would use ai for code cleanup or review. thats just asking for bugs.

In all seriousness using AI for codegen is at best shortsighted negligence. You know that problem huge long running software projects have where it becomes a nightmare to change anything? That’s some proportion of poor architectural design, lack of cleanup or refactor time, and poor understanding of the code by developers. Poor architectutal design can be repaired by cleanup and refactoring, so both of those issues end up being management/planning failures more than anything. Not understanding the codebase is much more complex. It can be caused by attrition causing loss of institutional knowledge, the code base growing faster than anyone can keep track of, the team being so large no one can stay on top of things, too much time passing since anyone has looked at or changed parts, lots of reasons. The only solution is doing a long audit and associated cleanup and refactoring. If you don’t it just takes forever to change anything because of all the knock on effects that no one can predict, meaning delays and bugs. When you use AI tools the code base grows very quickly, too quick to really comprehend, and you get shitty architecture to go along with it. You’re just speedrunning enterprise software or spending all your time reviewing slop code. It’s like a drug, the first time it does something fast and well you feel it’s so great, but it will never live up to that because it secretly sucks and can only ever suck. Best case it slows you down and you get good software at the end. Worst case you spend all your time wrestling with it and never get a finished product.

Have sex with me now?

( ) Yes

( ) Remind me in 3 days

I like it so far. In the words of Worf, it serves me. I definitely miss some of the settings I had available on my old phone, but this one is much snappier. The os is basically the same as normal android but without the builtin google garbage. I still have the android app store. I guess the main thing is since its a fairphone repair and battery replacement will be much easier so hopefully I can just keep it for a long long time.

I just upgraded to a fairphone 6 with e/os preinstalled after holding on to my LG G6 for at least 7 years. The thing that finally pushed me to upgrade was the camera, which was fine in 2019 but now is such a potato. Also the battery life was ass, the usbc port was super loose, and the micro sd card slot was broken so I was perpetually almost out of storage.

GET YOUR HAND OFF MY PENIS

Even if you assume that the politicians aren’t being intentionally evil, in the best case they are acting from a position of negligent ignorance. It doesn’t really matter what their reasons are for supporting this, or what they intend for it to accomplish, the reality is that these kinds of laws will be used for the things I said. Someone should have told them that. Someone likely did tell them that. They decided, in the best possible case, that protecting children from seeing naked people or swear words is worth the dystopian surveillance of the general population. They’re fucking wrong and this kind of legislation only shows how ignorant and/or complicit they are. Maybe you could think like one fucking step beyond the political talking points to the real effects this will have.

It’s kinda like “AI” is a new religion people will use to justify their shitty behavior and avoid thinking.

Oops I fed a troll. Imagine anyone not telling the whole truth! Heavens to betsy, the inhumanity!

Yeah it’s for deanonymizing your online activity so they can sell it to data brokers, who will then sell it to anyone who can pay. Anyone, including ad agencies, fascist governments, law enforcement, religious extremists, people who hate you for existing, etc. It’s not theoretical it’s right there in the open. Maybe the literal people taking your ID won’t do anything to you directly, maybe, but the data about you they sell without a second thought will be bought by people who will and do.

Now I’m imagining his mental decline culminating with him just saying his own name over and over like a pokemon, expecting people to clap and tell him how great he is.