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@paco @BenAveling it is just a stupid electronic device

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  • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

    @jerk Yeah. We got into Obsession the last couple years. We can get it down to 2 hours with the 4 of us because we have all played many times.

    Stupid American Heiresses. Pretty gamebreaking if you ask me. We have never seen anyone get an heiress early in the game and not win.
    @CurtAdams

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    @paco @jerk I'm embarrassed to say I've gotten the American Heiress in Obsession and not won. My play times haven't been quite as long as Jerk's - we've never hit 4 hours - but I agree the box time is a joke.
    (Obsession is a real hoot to play, tho.)

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    • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

      Obi Wan says: “I’ve seen a security hologram of Anakin killing younglings”
      Amidala replies “But the Dow is over 50,000”
      #trump #uspol #dow50k

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      @paco
      We are killing America but the dow... maga make America go away the world knows

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      • curtadams@urbanists.socialC curtadams@urbanists.social

        @paco @jerk I'm embarrassed to say I've gotten the American Heiress in Obsession and not won. My play times haven't been quite as long as Jerk's - we've never hit 4 hours - but I agree the box time is a joke.
        (Obsession is a real hoot to play, tho.)

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        @CurtAdams Actually we hit 4h only twice, with one being embarrasing 5+ hours. The majority of our plays it with 2P, though. I also have witnessed plays, where a player, me included, with early AH didn't win. Sometimes by being unable to recover from the prestige hits (certainly by oberdoing it) along with bad luck on the builders market and/or guest draw.
        Regardless, a wonderful game, if only the rule books would have been better. Beautiful and interesting lecture, though.
        @paco

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        • klausfiend@dcerberus.comK This user is from outside of this forum
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          @paco Things are truly in a bad way when satire is just reality with a slightly different speech cadence.

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          • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

            Ad on the DC metro at the Pentagon station. I don’t even know where to start with this.

            #uspol #trump

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            @paco 😬

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            • jivens@beige.partyJ This user is from outside of this forum
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              @paco

              I don't know, but I have personally talked to engineers working on projects like this, and man... there is no lack of enthusiasm. It gives you a profound feeling of ick to talk with them.

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              • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

                The conch, the reef, his wife, and her lobster

                #SeaFoodAMovieOrPlay
                #HashTagGames

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                @paco
                Well played!

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                • slothrop@chaos.socialS This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @paco Obligatory smartass reply, mentioning that individual change is pretty pointless in the absence of society-wide measures to address the climate catastrophe; and that the concept of a personal “carbon footprint” was invented by BP to deflect responsibility

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                  • axels@mastodon.socialA This user is from outside of this forum
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                    @paco it's like coal and oil, once people get hooked it's over! We will just keep digging our own graves.

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                    • slothrop@chaos.socialS slothrop@chaos.social

                      @paco Obligatory smartass reply, mentioning that individual change is pretty pointless in the absence of society-wide measures to address the climate catastrophe; and that the concept of a personal “carbon footprint” was invented by BP to deflect responsibility

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                      @slothrop Fair enough. The point of the poll is that I realized a lot of my left-leaning friends do a bunch of things like recycling to help the climate. And then they use LLMs that do orders of magnitude more damage. These same people wouldn't throw trash in a creek or soda cans into the landfill, but they'll use LLMs for the most trivial purposes with minimal provocation.

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                      • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

                        @slothrop Fair enough. The point of the poll is that I realized a lot of my left-leaning friends do a bunch of things like recycling to help the climate. And then they use LLMs that do orders of magnitude more damage. These same people wouldn't throw trash in a creek or soda cans into the landfill, but they'll use LLMs for the most trivial purposes with minimal provocation.

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                        @paco Yes exactly! Not least due to the fact that you can’t even run a Google search anymore without interacting with an LLM.

                        And there’s the total failure of our political leaders to address the environmental impact of “AI”.

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                        • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

                          @slothrop Fair enough. The point of the poll is that I realized a lot of my left-leaning friends do a bunch of things like recycling to help the climate. And then they use LLMs that do orders of magnitude more damage. These same people wouldn't throw trash in a creek or soda cans into the landfill, but they'll use LLMs for the most trivial purposes with minimal provocation.

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                          @paco @slothrop Gross!!!

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                          • acdingman@sandiegourbanists.comA This user is from outside of this forum
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                            @paco I'm trying to think of a year in my adult life when I have not done everything except avoiding air travel. Which means those things are just part of the baseline, not "reduction".

                            (Some years, I flew twice weekly for work and then again on vacation.)

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                              @paco I guess it really depends on if they're a frequent flier already O.o

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                                @paco Why is this a poll where people can spew their gut feelings? Why don't you look it up and show us the real numbers?

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                                • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

                                  When I use NoScript in Waterfox, I often don't load much javascript. It can lead to some broken stuff that is funny. Think of all the ads, autoplay videos, and other crap I don't see at the bottom of this techcrunch article.

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                                  @paco
                                  I ended up turning off No script because between uBlock and an extensive hosts file, it tended to only break sites that actually needed it.

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                                  • v_perjorative@mastodon.org.ukV v_perjorative@mastodon.org.uk

                                    @paco
                                    I ended up turning off No script because between uBlock and an extensive hosts file, it tended to only break sites that actually needed it.

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                                    @v_perjorative Yeah. I’m with you. On my work laptop I have been running no script for almost 10 years. I’ve just gotten used to it. About 18 months ago I started a whole new personal laptop, and I went with ublock but not no script.

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                                    • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

                                      When I use NoScript in Waterfox, I often don't load much javascript. It can lead to some broken stuff that is funny. Think of all the ads, autoplay videos, and other crap I don't see at the bottom of this techcrunch article.

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                                      @paco I browse with js disabled by default (via uBlock Origin) and my favourite is a perfectly readable news article with an “enable JavaScript to make our site work!” banner across the top

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                                      • allanb@mastodon.socialA This user is from outside of this forum
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                                        @paco 😆

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                                        • paco@infosec.exchangeP paco@infosec.exchange

                                          This is my cousin "Second Romantic Subplot" and her sister "girl who probably will betray us later."
                                          #KungFuSat

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                                          @paco #kungfusat
                                          Introductions should clarify everything right from the start in that way. It would simplify life.

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