[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 9 hours ago

Honestly, I'm slightly skeptical of that. The man is old, and his health already appears to be visibly starting to degrade a little. That doesn't necessarily mean he'll be dead in 4 years, but barring some medical breakthrough on reversing aging in the next couple years, I suspect he probably won't be in good enough shape to campaign by then. Plus, it would be much more difficult for him to win the nomination in such a case. He's got a cult following that would help, but the republicans also want to win, and if he loses this, that will be 2 elections in a row, almost a decade, that they'll have lost the white house with him on the ticket.

The bigger issue is that his "deny losing elections and actively court bigots while saying whatever inflammatory thing he can to stay in the news" strategy will probably get picked up by whoever replaces him.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 48 points 10 hours ago

Its the "c" in the text portion

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 230 points 13 hours ago

Well, I've been losing sleep and having anxiety attacks over the possibility that he might worm his way back into office again, so no sympathy

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 0 points 1 day ago

That does kinda depend on the nature of the dystopia to be fair. Like, the ones that are just "a stratified society where the poor live in the dirt", or "an authoritarian regime", sure, but some dystopian fiction relies on tech that doesnt even exist to run.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

disease might be a particular issue beyond just that. Last thing you want is to give the past COVID or modern strains of the flu or whatever else, and in reverse, you dont want to bring back smallpox

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Not to mention that, being a decently sizable country, making them is really more a matter of motivation to put in the resources and deal with the diplomatic effects than it is capacity ultimately. Like, North Korea was able to build them with a fraction of the population and economy and as even more of a pariah state, the technology has existed for just about 80 years at this point and while details of the specifics are secret, the basic gist of what they require is well known. Basically any country that isnt a microstate probably could build a few eventually, if they really wanted to spend all the money

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago

Not authentic then, like why a replica of a classic car isn't valued as much as an original one even if you built it to the exact same design schematics.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 196 points 1 day ago

You would think Israel, of all countries, ought to know how blatantly evil this kind of stuff looks.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 25 points 2 days ago

To them it probably means "people who don't let anybody else know they're gay or publicly defend the LGBTQ community, so that we can pretend gay people are really rare and don't exist around us"

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago

Iirc the Russian casualty rate was supposedly on the order of 1000 a day recently, so probably implying the former.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 52 points 3 days ago

the issue with giving someone eternal office work as a punishment is that you cant have them fired without ending the eternal office work, and being dead presumably they cant starve to death, so if they just start slacking off and ignoring their "job", what are you gonna do?

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Theres someone I sometimes encounter in a discord Im in that makes a hobby of doing stuff with them (from what I gather seeing it, they do more with it that just asking them for a prompt and leaving them at that, at least partly because it doesnt generally give them something theyre happy with initially and they end up having to ask the thing to edit specific bits of it in different ways over and over until it does). I dont really understand what exactly it is this entails, as what they seem to most like making it do is code "shaders" for them that create unrecognizable abstract patterns, but they spend a lot of time talking at length about technical parameters of various models and what they like and dont like about them, so I assume the guy must find something enjoyable in it all. That being said, using it as a sort of strange toy isnt really the most useful use case.

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I know this seems like two unrelated questions, so let me explain why I would like to do one of these two things: I recently got a drawing pen tablet with a display, which works fine, except that I am left handed, and my wrist keeps hitting the side buttons. The driver allows me to flip the pen inputs, but not the actual display, it just works as a regular monitor in that regard and relies on the windows settings (windows 11 in my case).

Now, I can flip it if I set it to extend my main monitor, however, I would like to be able to see what I am doing on either monitor, so I would prefer it to mirror my main monitor, just rotated 180 degrees. Some googling suggests that windows does not allow you to do this, except for a glitch involving changing the settings to extend and then back to duplicate, which I cannot manage to achieve. Does anyone know any workaround, or some extra software or such, that would allow me to do this?

Alternatively, if this cannot be done by any means, I would rather not use the extend function as is as I also often play games where moving the mouse to the edge of the screen moves the map around, and so would rather my mouse stay at an edge when reached instead of moving to the next monitor, ideally with some sort of hotkey to toggle what monitor the mouse is on. Is there a way I might achieve something like this?

EDIT: turns out this was all unnecessary, because the tablet itself has an option to do this rotation, its just in a part of the on-board display settings I didnt see before, isnt accessible from the driver UI that Ive seen, and wasnt mentioned on the tutorials that I found on the manufacturer's site that suggested windows had be used to control that rotation. Thanks anyways to everyone that tried to help me while I spent hours searching for a workaround needlessly.

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All the spines and frills are supposed to be for sensing vibrations to help it not need eyes. Supposedly a herbivore, but not really since I just kept both cells mouths all the way through. Kept some cell movement as well, never realized before that the flagella makes a neat rat-like tail in creature stage if you make it large.

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Specifically the type of printer that prints using spools of plastic filament, but that seems like the most common type anyway

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Like, I just was thinking about how lots of pet species will just eat as much food as you give them to the point of making themselves sick, and keeping them at a healthy weight requires not giving them access to too much food. Obviously some humans have problems with this, but imagine how bad things would be if everyone were basically psychologically incapable of not eating food when we had access to it even when we'd had enough, given our dramatically higher access to food due to agriculture.

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They literally took the gold provinces- all the gold provinces that have generated in south america this run as far as I can find, and nothing else. Kinda looks like open wounds or something else gross with that combination of map colors.

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Name isnt anything too creative, its just called the "Slowboat Hauler", but it isnt supposed to be anything too fancy, just the space-fairing version of a bulk cargo freighter, designed by a species that at the time would have thought ftl travel impossible, needing its ships to take the slow way round. The big disk up front is supposed to be a shield to take the impacts of space dust and gas at extreme velocities.

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This little iron refinery probably isnt much to look at for experienced players, but Im pretty proud of it. has 2 miners on a pair of pure iron deposits behind the structure feeding into the 8 smelters inside, divided into 2 different output locations because the best conveyors I currently have can only handle half it's output. There is a small amount of clipping, but nothing super cheaty looking (the mergers that clip through the outside wall dont use the side that clips through, so I like to imagine the exterior bits of them as looking like some sort of ventilation ducts or something.

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This is more meant to resemble some kind of early interplanetary spaceship rather than a true interstellar one, but considering you get your ftl drive by just finding one on a nearby planet, I figure this is the sort of tech level your species would realistically have, to start with.

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