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Georgia Guidestones - Huge granite stones inscribed with words of advice that the author intended to “guide humanity forward”, destroyed in 2022

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If you read "Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity" as eugenics and genocide, I think you might be jumping the gun a bit based on personal biases. Population bottlenecks require you to be very careful about species-wide gene pools. In a population of 10,000, you don't want Cletus reproducing with his first cousin.

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I just saw the movie last night and felt the exact same way. I said the first 45 minutes were basically just eye candy for nerds lol. Going through all the famed scientists of that era whom we grew up revering.

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Yeah there's even very popular examples in recent history, the Lego movie series to name one. I haven't seen them, but I think the general consensus about them is positive. Hopefully studios look to this and see the the success in the vision of the film maker and the statement of the art, rather than in the commercial name recognition from a popular toy.

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They have books about this, David.

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The fire bombing of Tokyo killed more people than either of the atomic bombs. I don't pretend to know the right decision about the Bombs, but I know the casualty estimates for Operation Downfall included 400,000 US deaths and 5,000,000 Japanese deaths. I think I would have been hard-pressed not to make the same decision, whether it was right or wrong.

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The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 27-07-2023

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Just finished my second play through a couple weeks ago, what an incredibly unique game. The balance system almost felt like a rhythm game to me, really makes me hope it inspires other similar games. This was my first time on directors cut, I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of bonus content. Definitely worth playing if it ever goes on a big sale or gamepass.

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Check out Llama ccp sometime, it's foss and you can run it without too crazy system requirements. There are different sets of parameters you can use for it, I think the 13 billion parameters set is only like 25 gigs. Definitely nowhere near as good as gpt, but still fun and hopefully will improve in the future.

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The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 27-07-2023

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Unfortunately it doesn't look like spoiler tags are working for me (I'm on voyager, formerly wefwef.) So I'll just spam spoiler and hope people see it lol.

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:::Tons of equipment/vehicles were added in the DC that were super helpful earlier in the game. The transporter trike jumps out at me as being a game changer. Also they added that loop of road that goes through the mountains in the second map which was very helpful:::

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Okay awesome, that's even better than I thought. I had a friend showing it to me last night, I was thinking about trying it out today. I run a 12th gen I9 and a 2080TI, I assume I would probably get better performance on my gpu right?

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