BAKidd
@bakidd.bsky.social
Here for TTRPG takes, sports and commentary on the fallen nature of the world.
I can just buy my cousin a damn crock pot and $80 of beans and rice a month. I can’t cover my uncle’s tripled ACA premiums.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I can just buy my cousin a damn crock pot and $80 of beans and rice a month. I can’t cover my uncle’s tripled ACA premiums.
That’s because my $100 bucks to the food bank goes a lot further to help a hungry family than my $100 bucks to the GoFundMe for someone’s cancer treatment.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
That’s because my $100 bucks to the food bank goes a lot further to help a hungry family than my $100 bucks to the GoFundMe for someone’s cancer treatment.
Norwegian science accomplishment erasure!
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Norwegian science accomplishment erasure!
Vastly easier to get player buy-in for 5e players trying a system where a ”fighter” can have 1 hp if they‘re a mouse.
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Vastly easier to get player buy-in for 5e players trying a system where a ”fighter” can have 1 hp if they‘re a mouse.
Dude we call it Hansen’s Disease now.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Dude we call it Hansen’s Disease now.
It was good. We’re just salking because we didn’t think of it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It was good. We’re just salking because we didn’t think of it.
Maybe senate Democrats should have considered they before they acted, then.
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Maybe senate Democrats should have considered they before they acted, then.
This is not the time to be rational. Just because I’m going to come back for the next election doesn’t mean I’m not incandescently angry at all elected Dems everywhere right now, and wishing I’d just given that money to a food bank instead.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is not the time to be rational. Just because I’m going to come back for the next election doesn’t mean I’m not incandescently angry at all elected Dems everywhere right now, and wishing I’d just given that money to a food bank instead.
Kayfabe only works if the faces are taking real hits. They want people to buy this kayfabe when only the audience has been taking chairs to the face.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Kayfabe only works if the faces are taking real hits. They want people to buy this kayfabe when only the audience has been taking chairs to the face.
Burning sphere of white-hot rage is now the front runner for the Democratic nomination as well.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Burning sphere of white-hot rage is now the front runner for the Democratic nomination as well.
If senate dems cave I don’t have any arguments left when my son tells me he and his friends all think Republicans are evil but Democrats suck.
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
If senate dems cave I don’t have any arguments left when my son tells me he and his friends all think Republicans are evil but Democrats suck.
”We promise won’t execute the hostages till the TV cameras are gone” is still a terrible deal.
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
”We promise won’t execute the hostages till the TV cameras are gone” is still a terrible deal.
I don’t think it’s going to happen, but mRNA and AI leading to unbounded possibilities in gene editing could easily lead to human extinction by any number of plausible scenarios starting with “some moron thought it was a good idea to”…
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I don’t think it’s going to happen, but mRNA and AI leading to unbounded possibilities in gene editing could easily lead to human extinction by any number of plausible scenarios starting with “some moron thought it was a good idea to”…
Mechanisms include solving currently intractable problems in medicine and energy generation. In other words, discover workable cold fusion and gene edit our way to unlimited prosperity.
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Mechanisms include solving currently intractable problems in medicine and energy generation. In other words, discover workable cold fusion and gene edit our way to unlimited prosperity.
The closest real world analogy for imperialism as practiced by the Federation is astronomers building telescopes on Hawaiian holy land on Mauna Kea.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The closest real world analogy for imperialism as practiced by the Federation is astronomers building telescopes on Hawaiian holy land on Mauna Kea.
Sure, but the “imperialism” angle is absolute bunk economically. The idea that you have functional replicators but need bulk resource extraction to power your society is risible.
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sure, but the “imperialism” angle is absolute bunk economically. The idea that you have functional replicators but need bulk resource extraction to power your society is risible.
The only space where you can move frictionlessly from idea to product is in software design, and the idea that you can produce software using generative AI without creating half a dozen zero day exploits for every 10k lines of code is ludicrous.
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The only space where you can move frictionlessly from idea to product is in software design, and the idea that you can produce software using generative AI without creating half a dozen zero day exploits for every 10k lines of code is ludicrous.
The vast majority of ideas, even good, world-changing ideas, work this way. Just having the mathematical proof of an idea doesn’t create a usable product.
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The vast majority of ideas, even good, world-changing ideas, work this way. Just having the mathematical proof of an idea doesn’t create a usable product.
Using generative AI to create movies or music, on the other hand, basically relies on ending copyright law, but only for billionaires who own server farms.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Using generative AI to create movies or music, on the other hand, basically relies on ending copyright law, but only for billionaires who own server farms.
Once you use AlphaFold to invent a new drug, it still has to be brought to market using pharma company infrastructure, not a server farm.
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Once you use AlphaFold to invent a new drug, it still has to be brought to market using pharma company infrastructure, not a server farm.