No it isn’t

Dual purpose phrasing, I love it

Yes, with the caveat that it will need to be coupled with a massive pendulum swing in favor of workers rights.

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For tips, hide behind doors for as many strikes as possible.

I’ve definitely ‘abused’ the hell out of that. But at a certain point with the original, it seems like all the little tricks I learned hit an upper limit to their usefulness.

The original was just brutal.

Try to enhance a Glaive with speed, from the Stone of Augmentation(stay with staff for mage). Then upgrade and add a glyph.

I’ll definitely have to give that a try next time.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

This has been the only version of the game I’ve ever gotten close to beating. For that reason alone it’s worth mentioning.

Notepad ++ is invaluable for writing code, I’ve used it for a long while now.

Not to pick an argument, but as a dev VSCodium has been a significantly better experience. It’s a good text editor, it’s got good search functionality, can be used as an IDE, and has good support through extensions.

And more of a shallow reason, it’s got much better dark mode support.

2nded

Been using this for a few weeks now, and it is really fucking convenient

Actual - Accounting/budgeting/etc

Wrote up a python script or three to handle parsing my bank CSV export files into an actually usable form, with automatic categorization, and so now I just do a periodic export and sync, and have all my financial records all in one place with some nice visualization, categorization, and budgeting features from Actual. It saves everything to a local sqlite db, so I can always jump ship to a different system if needed, and also itself provides a CSV export option.

10/10 software, would recommend

I still need to catch up on the latest season(s?) of lower decks. And given the fact that lower decks is a comedy, and borderline non-canon, I’d take that with a giant grain of salt.

That simplifies just about any economic system, which takes a lot of the complicated stuff out of government and class hierarchies.

Right, but they very clearly don’t get all of their food out of a replicator, nor do they use the holodeck for things like hair cuts. There is still people who serve as cooks, waitresses, barbers, etc despite the technology being there to not need those jobs.

And that’s what I want explored in more depth.

I’m a casual Trekkie, but I don’t recall much detail about the Federation’s or Earth’s government structure. Do people still vote? Is it a benevolent military dictatorship? Who knows? And who cares?

I’ve been dipping my toe in the books. At least in the first book for PIC, The Last Best Hope, they very clearly still have political struggles for power, corruption, tribalism, and voting. It ain’t a dictatorship, but the goals and views of the government leaders aren’t wholey benevolent.

A particularly good example was the Federation council member Olivia Quest. She’s a rep from a border planet, whos been facing some issues with the romulan star going supernova, and all the immigrants that are mayhaps being sent their way. So she raises a big stink over any and all help towards the romulans. It’s self serving, selfish, and tribalism, but she was voted in and she wasn’t alone.

All of this is very familiar to real life. But it’s the exact kind of details I want, but on one of the shows. They made it interesting in the books, they could just as easily make it interesting in the show.

That’s the very core of the entire franchise and I’m fine leaving it that way, unscrutinized, since it clearly doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Maybe the tech of replicators/transporters/holodecks should be left unscrutinized, because ultimately it relies on technobable for it to be compatible with a suspension of disbelief. But I don’t think the same goes for the societal structures of the federation. It worked in the Last Best Hope, I think it could work on the screen.

They need to actually give a full look into the economics of the federation. Yeah, it’s space communism. But I want more specifics.

The point was to throw out some ways that one can push for change without murdering people

And that point is undermind by those ways not being viable.

I replied to another comment about one specific way to introduce licensure risk to insurance company doctors as a way to get them to change their policies

That’s a bandaid solution at best.

Long term, I think our best bet is to keep pushing for universal healthcare that will effectively make health insurance obsolete. It’s a winning message (something like 60% of America already supports it), and we’ve come close at least twice in recent history.

This country couldn’t even turn down the guy paraphrasing Hitler, whose promised to finish gutting the ACA. The chances of us seeing universal healthcare through “the right way” isn’t good.

the broad strategic decisions made by the executives aren’t going to factor in a remote likelihood of violence on a particular executive.

That only remains true so long as this doesn’t turn into a copycat situation, which it very well might given how numerous the people with motives are, how easy it is to get guns in this country, and how fervently the people of this country are supporting the gunman.

I’m not necessarily disagreeing that it’s a false dichotomy, but do you have viable alternatives?

Trying to use the threat of possible assassination to get someone to act in a CEO role in a way beneficial to their millions of customers, that’s just not stable.

Nothing about our current situation is stable. So yeah, of course the violent symptoms of the starving and ill masses won’t be stable either.

Watching For All Mankind makes me feel bad for present-day Russians because even those Soviet Russians have it better.

I just started watching the series and I’m in season 2. I’m loving it so far, and couldn’t agree more.

Looking at you c/linuxsucks

I’m not even talking about myself. Quit bullshiting