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The whole Red/Blue button question is the new Trolley Problem as it has become a shitty meme and I hate it.

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Clone Hero is FINALLY adding leaderboards. Took them long enough!

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Do you normally buy appliances new or used/second hand?

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@sampler This is interesting, because there's no reason to push any button *besides* the red one. If you push the red button, you survive in either case. The blue button is for people that don't know how to draw a 2x2 box.
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Who could have anticipated this? Who with an IQ above double digits could have possibly seen this coming?
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hard sci-fi bores me and is also not more realistic. the prediction horizon means whatever you proclaim based on "today + 20 years" is almost entirely wrong.
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IT'S HAPPENING !

The hotel for #Pleromacon2026 has officially been booked from Friday, September 11-- Sunday, September 13 in Jakarta, Indonesia. We will have room to accommodate up to 80 guests (if people don't mind sharing rooms). There will be smoking and non smoking rooms. Ticket price is $30/person including meals and bus between the hotel and airport; $50 if you want your own room.

The venue has 3 conference rooms which gives us ~120 hours of usable time for presentations. The only talks scheduled so far are the keynote presentation, given by me and Lain, and something I'm cooking up called "Into the #indoverse : decentralized social networking in the third world." We could always fill empty time by streaming anime or movies. Bring your hard drives if you'd like to share anything!

Our hotel has not only a restaurant, but also a Cafe and not one but two bars, including a rooftop pool bar. What better way is there to relax than with a nice cold beer in the water. We will also be strategically located nearby some of the world's largest malls, in case you want to scratch that shopping itch.

If you plan on attending, please be mindful of local laws: consider that premarital sex is prohibited, homosexuality is prohibited, pornography is prohibited, promotion of communist ideology risks jail time, and there is death penalty for even small amounts of drugs including cannabis. Modest dress is encouraged but not required for women; Indonesia is largely Muslim.

Serious inquiries only to conference<at>pleroma.social.

* Crypto and PayPal accepted for ticket fees.
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If you're not giving Blender money but using the software to make money yourself, you should probably STFU

Blender is not a trivial piece of software and it takes a LOT of work to build and maintain.

If everyone who relied on Blender supported them they would have the capacity to reject outside funding based on ~internet vibes~, but when someone's offering to fund your roadmap and get you to the place where you can leapfrog Hollywood's proprietary tooling, you don't say No
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Next time a socialist says I don't work for my money-- and yes- I've literally been told that- they can go fuck themselves. Just got a ton of work to do today as I normally do... and well... I can't believe the insanity of the left wing socialist logic.

Yes, apparently if your self-employed or a founder/CEO of a company regardless of its size your evil and you don't work for a living/your money.

Mind you I'm pretty sure I was also told this by someone who was unemployed or otherwise not even working. Mean while I haven't been out of work since I founded the company ~18 years ago.

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If your car can be turned off, remotely and without due process, it’s not your car.

This is private property confiscation.

Coming in 2027.

Are you ready to own nothing and be happy?

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@phnt @icedquinn @fish @Deplorable_Degenerate @cy @sampler @strypey @light I can't believe we're this long gone from the early 00s era of the Internet that we need to reiterate that "Lurk Moar" was an important netiquette that was more or less true to most random communities you'd find around

Part of me wonders if it weren't for GameGate, the culture war, etc, how many of these political e-celebs and online commentators (real ones not CIA plants) would've followed their path into being a gamedev, comic artist, etc. It seems like a lot of them were originally going down that path, but got distracted by SJWs, the alt-right, GamerGate, etc and realized that that was their calling. I bet many of them are pissed by now realizing it was all a psyop and that politics has ruined their lives.

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