Porkcharsui in the original pc version of Grand Theft Auto. If you named your character this, you had an overlay with coordinates so you could find your way easier, you’d get all the guns and the possibility to toggle a kind of sped up mode.

Oh and howdoiturnthison in Age of Empires 2 to get an AC Cobra with machine guns

Not bad actually. I’m trying to get back to work and I’ve already had two good half days this week. Today my wife has to go to the hospital and we got a new couch yesterday. Tomorrow I am going to a Blanco White concert with my mother.

How about you?

Typo in your network_mode of the qbit container?

I have the T6 as my main but I cannot do per-room heating because my Sonoff TRV’s cannot talk to it in HA. I got the T6 before working with HA though. In my country the T6 is WiFi and you need the Resideo app.

From the Netherlands. I speak English and Dutch pretty much on the same level. I can work my way around German if I’ve been in a German speaking country for a couple of days. I can speak French if I really need to and I’m currently learning Portuguese. Understanding Portuguese has made me also understand Italian and Spanish a bit better.

The monkey, of whom I’m wondering if it can see my ears.

I am in the hopeful side. Maybe an ASI can quickly analyze our issues and interfere. ASI might spit out any plans to improve everyone’s life but if the people in power ignore all of the advice because they’ll no longer be in power, nothing will really change except now there’s an ASI using huge amounts of electricity.

Considering how everything’s going, I honestly think an ASI won’t make anything worse happen than the current state of affairs.

Until humanity unites there is no ‘we’ who can do anything. We are currently too busy polarising, fighting and reinforcing poverty. If AGI ever arrives, it’ll most likely be weaponised or used to make rich people richer.

If ASI runs out of control, we can only hope it’ll be a nice god and doesn’t immediately see humans are a disease and try to kill us off.

It’s, at this point, hubris to assume AGI/ASI wants anything to do with us.

Yeah I can’t wait to blink in three days and wake up to October 7th

Usually sleep before midnight, but after 22:30. I wake up whenever, but mostly between 7 and 9. I haven’t used an alarm in well over a year.

I feel you. Chronic illness sucks, I’m just lucky mine doesn’t really affect my sleep anymore. I was lucky enough to catch a wave of medical science improvement. I sincerely hope you’ll once look back on these days as the past.

I think most defensive midfielders have committed fouls they aren’t necessarily proud of. What you don’t see in the image is that the ball is actually quite close. This was not an attack on Alonso per se, although it was not at all a clean attempt either.

Thing is, with football you have the kind of player that just doesn’t play with finesse and relies on being tough in duels, no backing down. De Jong was one of those.

These days, especially with VAR, you see a lot more deliberate kicks to Achilles tendons, knees, thighs, that get awarded direct reds. De Jong should’ve had a red card that day. But a red somewhere in your career shouldn’t mean you can never work in football again.

Xabi Alonso, current coach of Bayer Leverkusen and Nigel de Jong, current director of football of the Dutch Football Organization KNVB.

Dry’l in Wonderlands. Not particularly hard but it just took forever.

I have a really cute cat that actually shows affection and meows really cute

Well I hardly think people look up to gambling addicts. Considering the lucky few that actually get rich from it are very lucky and very few, there are tons of people who spend money that they can’t afford to spend in the hopes that it turns into a lot of money.

It’s all built in cognitive dissonance, which our minds try to bend by telling ourselves stuff like ‘I have the same chance as anyone else’ and ‘just one more and then I’ll quit’.

It is in its core no different from smoking, drugs or alcohol. There is profit to be made off people who are easily persuaded they need something to make their lives better and if the product is addictive, just a couple of tries can give you a lifetime customer who spends an obscene amount of money.

And yes, usually the people prone to addiction are those who already made a lot of questionable decisions in life and who generally can’t afford such an addiction.

Is it inherently their fault? Well, yes and no. Anyone can overcome these issues if they really want to. But it starts with proper education and the way parents and society as a whole sets an example. And then, should we say that we should ban these addictive things? Drugs are generally banned, yet they are still very prevalent and the illegality causes a lot of violence.

These issues are rooted deeply in our society and addicts are just victims of capitalism who are just too myopic to break free.

Gambling is very addictive and free money is a powerful incentive for people with little hope.

Picture of what used to be my cat, Henk, sitting upright in a window still looking at the camera mad as hell because he can no longer stretch there due to the new plants.

Yeah so I had this as well. Every day or so I’d get locked out, had to do the sms unlock thing which sometimes wouldn’t work.

What I did is I added an alias to the account, made it the primary and removed login priviliges from the ‘old’ one.

For all the things you still use the address, it’ll be fine. It’s just MS based logins that’s you’d have to change.

I’d keep an eye out for any talk of secession by states (I’d expect California to be high up the list). Another signal could be aggression from Canada or Mexico. As soon as relations with allies start to deteriorate, things could get bleak very quickly. Buuuuuut… The US collapsing would be internal warfare. Anything international would just be a lot of carnage and bloodshed.