Also no one was going to blame Amazon for inflation. There are still people in the US who are under the impression that the only reason they would be paying any part of the tariffs is due to corporate greed instead of that just being how tariffs work.
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grraaaaahhh commented on Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech techcrunch.com/2025/01/29... · Posted by u/Tomte
> Trust, but verify
Tellingly, Reagan’s America is where I really notice cultural growth dying out and trust vanishing.
I feel like its easy for "Trust, but verify" to degrade into "Verify, then trust". It's that initial step of distrust while verifying that starts to sour things.
I find this mystifying. I think of "choosing a dwarf makes you a lesser wizard" as being a pretty core part of D&D. Have they released specifics on this? If race/species is going to become purely cosmetic, have they explained what will replace it, mechanically?
I mean, if you go far back enough "dwarves cannot be wizards" was a core part of D&D as well.
grraaaaahhh commented on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/elorant
Hilariously that 32% may well include all the bots doing stuffing attacks.
Also probably includes all the times my company has made me change my password. It always takes a good week before I remember that my old password isn't the one anymore.
grraaaaahhh commented on Don't Get Distracted (2017) calebhearth.com/dont-get-... · Posted by u/Kerrick
do you know what happens if military does not have a system to find and target specific people in a building? they just might need to bring down the whole building. everyone in it might die but at least your conscience is clean.
Honestly, this just Roko's Basilisk but even dumber.
grraaaaahhh commented on A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green." theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ColinWright
I would agree that's obvious, if not for the original error.
The liar doesn't necessarily "have" any hats. Again, the assumption that the liar has hats is incorrect because it's relying on an conversational implication, rather than a specific assertion.
Sure, but the question isn't about which statement is possible from the liar's statement, it's about which statement we can conclude from the liar's statement.
The liar could be lying because they have no hats. They could be lying because they have a non-green hat. We cannot conclude E because it's possible that E is not correct.
grraaaaahhh commented on A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green." theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ColinWright
> All my hats....", you are simultaneously making an existence statement that you have at least one hat
It does not. All my unicorns fly. There is no assumption that I have a unicorn. There is an assumption, based on the claim but it is not a fact.
The puzzle also assumes that "my" implies there is some ownership (we'll take for granted "my" means "has" for simplicity), which is another quibble that unravels the whole thing.
E is correct. I don't see how A comes to be the accepted answer.
E cannot be correct.
"All my hats are green" is still false even when I own a red hat and a green hat.
grraaaaahhh commented on Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023) researchgate.net/publicat... · Posted by u/seanhunter
This is clearly the law of conservation of reality at work.
Likewise, when you hear a word for the first time suddenly you hear it five times in a row. Or if you see somebody once you suddenly start running into them all over the place.
It's because it's cheaper to repeat past realities than to create new ones.
Or how when you look for something it always ends up in the last place you look, if it weren't there would have been some number of places you looked that were completely unnecessary.
> In January 2024, an individual affiliated with the Torswats Telegram account and claiming to be a friend of Filion suggested that he was part of a group aiming to incite racial violence and that he sought money to “buy weapons and commit a mass shooting.” The allegation aligns with a written tip, placed to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center in April 2023 and obtained by WIRED, alleging that the person behind the Torswats account was involved in a neo-Nazi cult known as the Order of Nine Angles.
I wonder if this was supposed to be Nine Angels. Copy editing on the web is so sloppy that I'm going to assume so because it makes more sense (to me).
Wow, neo-nazis are a fun bunch. Their ideas about accelerationism and trying to induce race riots have got to be our biggest semi-organized domestic threat. It's encouraging to see authorities seemingly beginning to catch on to this, as well as widespread recognition of what swatting is. Five years ago was a very different story, especially on the latter.
>I wonder if this was supposed to be Nine Angels. Copy editing on the web is so sloppy that I'm going to assume so because it makes more sense (to me).
I'm going to assume that wired got it right and it's the neo-nazis that misspelled it; it's much funnier that way.
grraaaaahhh commented on Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017) forums.tigsource.com/inde... · Posted by u/CharlesW
There's loads of puzzle games that are great for this! Off the top of my head, check out Lorelei and the Laser eyes, the recent Monkey Island, Case of the Golden Monkey, the two Talos Principle games, maybe The Witness?
I'd add Chants of Sennaar to this list. It's similar to Case of the Golden Idol/Obra Dinn in that the entire game is about making deductions about the game world, but in this case it's about decoding fantasy languages.