Is this a Black Mirror episode or something?

The EV of Theseus

We just had a vote for government officials along the EP vote. Less than 60% turned up which means the most common vote was a vote for nothing. The average voter doesn’t care.

Happy Birthday Lemmy.zip!

It’s okay. I played Borderlands 3 with voices off, only sfx/background sounds/music. I’m sure I can do the same with this. Maybe turn picture off too while I’m at it.

In 6 your buildings in cities are categorised into districts. The districts take up a hex on the grid and receive bonuses based on adjacent hexes. A large part of the game revolves around planning your districts in every city as once they are placed, they cannot be moved. This is a slightly different playstyle compared to 5 where only the city location itself matters.

Some other changes were around science, policies and eras. You unlock policy cards which you can swap out for different bonuses when needed instead of a constant effect. Policies are just as important as science this time around, and researching science and policies is boosted by actions in the game instead of only using Great scientists/writers. Every set amount of turns the world enters a different era, which also offers different policy cards for that period.

There are no (or few) multiplicative bonuses. Having more cities is always beneficial.

Let’s hope it isn’t. Even though civ 6 had multiple interesting aspects and in certain ways it was objectively better than 5, I just could not look past the ugly presentation.

Are you saying vampires want my D?

S stands for slow, right?

I recently switched over my ARR stack to only use usenet. Working well now but you really need a good indexer. The public ones are just not quite good enough.

Funnily enough Pornhub became kinda shit these last few years. Not because of overbearing advertising but because they periodically delete large amounts of their content, I think to appease payment providers. Kinda like the dmca takedowns on YouTube but much worse.

Take the pill and be a good, docile citizen. It’s insane for me to think that a quarter of the UK has some sort of mental illness, that requires medication. Either this is a wild amount of overperscription, which wouldn’t be that surprising, after having had some experience with the NHS; or things are very broken at a fundamental level.

Then again whenever you hear something about the UK in the news it is either some overbearing, authoritarian, conservative bullshit or some ultra liberal nonsense, there seems to be no middle ground. Lived there a few years and have no intention of going back.

My Brother in Christ, WTF is a sCiEnCe?

Is this a US thing? Does it cover the entirety of chemistry, biology and physics (and maybe maths or geography)?

The new stunning, groundbreaking, and bespoke iPad Pro. They are nice enough but it is safe to say I was not stunned.

Now that’s a reference

There is definitely a buzz, the SPT (single player Tarkov mod) servers have been constantly overloaded for days now

Jesus, that’s like a month’s rent in some places. What do you get out of it in return?

Let’s see.

• We’ll probably be up to the iPhone 22 but I doubt that’s what they’ll call it.
• We will have missed the majority of the global warming deadlines to transition to greener energy by 2030 with most companies pushing out their timeliness to 2050.
• The buzz around AI will have died down a bit but the technology will have found its niche and been adopted both as a useful tool and the next step of enshittification against users.
• The SpaceX Mars mission will still be nowhere to be found
• The first $10 trillion+ market cap company will exist by then
• There will be some other, different conflict in the middle-east
• The invasion of Taiwan will have either already been attempted or China gives up on it and decides to focus on building their own fabs
• Putin is still in control of Russia but extremely rarely seen outside of his bunker. Thee are many conspiracies that he is dead and has been replaced by a double
• The war in Ukraine has stalled with neither party being able to achieve complete victory. There is an armistice in place but not a proper peace accord
• The price of food has almost doubled again compared to today but wages only increased by 60%
• There is an even higher social tension between the left and right but people are unwilling to try to break out of the two party system
• Lemmy has 2-3 x users compared to today but is still a niche platform

I lost faith in the verge after how they handled the whole PC build fiasco

Aren’t you a little short to be a stormtrooper?