Kimmo Merikivi
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... when in fact the real distribution of outcomes contains the possibility that a force mistakes reinforcements for the enemy and defeats itself before the real enemy even arrives (which in turn causes aversion to complex fiddly plans because they don't actually work)
No recommendations tho, sorry
No recommendations tho, sorry
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
... when in fact the real distribution of outcomes contains the possibility that a force mistakes reinforcements for the enemy and defeats itself before the real enemy even arrives (which in turn causes aversion to complex fiddly plans because they don't actually work)
No recommendations tho, sorry
No recommendations tho, sorry
There's a paradox in design. More complex games could IN THEORY reproduce better outcomes, but often in practice they make the player think about their specific mechanical implementation of rules over the big picture, and there's a temptation to deterministically simulate "what should happen"... /2
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There's a paradox in design. More complex games could IN THEORY reproduce better outcomes, but often in practice they make the player think about their specific mechanical implementation of rules over the big picture, and there's a temptation to deterministically simulate "what should happen"... /2
Oh, and bacterial cells too of course. Not the useful microbiota, but like, Yersinia pestis in bloodstream?
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Oh, and bacterial cells too of course. Not the useful microbiota, but like, Yersinia pestis in bloodstream?
To be honest, if there are any cancer cells ready start multiplying quickly, I would give them a pass.
December 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
To be honest, if there are any cancer cells ready start multiplying quickly, I would give them a pass.
I think the French had a technology to make people a tad shorter. This might help with the issue of prisons lacking space?
December 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I think the French had a technology to make people a tad shorter. This might help with the issue of prisons lacking space?
On the other hand, Trump never did honestly believe in "MAGA". Insofar as he think anything about America, he hates it, ideals of freedom, equality, democracy and all. What he actually wanted was to be worshipped by sycophants, and to steal from the American people, and he's been successful at that.
December 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On the other hand, Trump never did honestly believe in "MAGA". Insofar as he think anything about America, he hates it, ideals of freedom, equality, democracy and all. What he actually wanted was to be worshipped by sycophants, and to steal from the American people, and he's been successful at that.
(I made a quote post, dunno if it shows up anywhere, because I couldn't use the reply feature. Anyone know what's up with that?)
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
(I made a quote post, dunno if it shows up anywhere, because I couldn't use the reply feature. Anyone know what's up with that?)
Like, there's a concept of a "soccer mom" who takes their 17-year-olds to sports practice, because the youth have no independent mobility. In contrast, I routinely see first-graders walking and cycling to school, hobbies, buying candy, because it's safe to do so (ditto to elders with their walkers)!
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Like, there's a concept of a "soccer mom" who takes their 17-year-olds to sports practice, because the youth have no independent mobility. In contrast, I routinely see first-graders walking and cycling to school, hobbies, buying candy, because it's safe to do so (ditto to elders with their walkers)!
It's pedestrians and cyclists who are at most risk, and in many American places you realistically can't NOT use cars if you're not feeling suicidal, and so most people won't. In other words, even accounting for what's being graphed, the actual danger on the streets is likely much, much, worse.
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It's pedestrians and cyclists who are at most risk, and in many American places you realistically can't NOT use cars if you're not feeling suicidal, and so most people won't. In other words, even accounting for what's being graphed, the actual danger on the streets is likely much, much, worse.
Well, it'd be about time; we've been at war for a decade, so better acknowledge it and start fighting back with explicit goal of seeing ruZZian federation dismantled and its proxies, like Hungary, liberated
December 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Well, it'd be about time; we've been at war for a decade, so better acknowledge it and start fighting back with explicit goal of seeing ruZZian federation dismantled and its proxies, like Hungary, liberated
Because it feels weird to say his/her, I didn't want to be male-normative (in the sort of way some people might always call a nurse her and a doctor him), and I kinda flipped a coin in my head (perhaps slightly weighed because "in expectation" it's males that are violent) and it came done 'her'.
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Because it feels weird to say his/her, I didn't want to be male-normative (in the sort of way some people might always call a nurse her and a doctor him), and I kinda flipped a coin in my head (perhaps slightly weighed because "in expectation" it's males that are violent) and it came done 'her'.
Well, my hot take is that cars should be equipped with a built-in guillotine, because if the driver wants to feel like a murderer, and demonstrates it with her driving, it's probably a good idea to make sure they don't get to act on those impulses.
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Well, my hot take is that cars should be equipped with a built-in guillotine, because if the driver wants to feel like a murderer, and demonstrates it with her driving, it's probably a good idea to make sure they don't get to act on those impulses.
Itse lähtisin liikkeelle Kalmarin Reunionista jossa suomalaisilla olisi vain 10-20% äänistä (riippuen unionin koostumuksesta, OG jäsenten lisäksi olisi kiva saada mukaan ainakin Baltian maat), eli vähemmän mahdollisuuksia perseillä koko systeemi.
December 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Itse lähtisin liikkeelle Kalmarin Reunionista jossa suomalaisilla olisi vain 10-20% äänistä (riippuen unionin koostumuksesta, OG jäsenten lisäksi olisi kiva saada mukaan ainakin Baltian maat), eli vähemmän mahdollisuuksia perseillä koko systeemi.
...supporting their fascist petrostate allies, dismantling the sciences (truth is an enemy to fascism) or selling the lie of "return to past glories" (in fact an obsolete technology: a lie, as always) to in fact enrichen their buddies the oligarchs grown fat from fossil fuels, THEY MAKE IT WORSE.
December 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
...supporting their fascist petrostate allies, dismantling the sciences (truth is an enemy to fascism) or selling the lie of "return to past glories" (in fact an obsolete technology: a lie, as always) to in fact enrichen their buddies the oligarchs grown fat from fossil fuels, THEY MAKE IT WORSE.
Actually, I'm inclined to agree; the rise of fascism, Trump's brand of it among others, is a more URGENT threat, in part because they are a part of the bigger climate change issue! Whether it's because of taking an opposite stance to the Good because of culture wars... /2
December 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Actually, I'm inclined to agree; the rise of fascism, Trump's brand of it among others, is a more URGENT threat, in part because they are a part of the bigger climate change issue! Whether it's because of taking an opposite stance to the Good because of culture wars... /2
This allowed, among other things, unprecedented power-projection and economic/cultural dominance. For allies the hegemony wasn't a perfect arrangement, but it was an acceptable arrangement. Now they are treating former allies as enemies, and I sure hope we will not just sycophantically kneel down.
December 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This allowed, among other things, unprecedented power-projection and economic/cultural dominance. For allies the hegemony wasn't a perfect arrangement, but it was an acceptable arrangement. Now they are treating former allies as enemies, and I sure hope we will not just sycophantically kneel down.
True. It was not by chance the global postwar institutions have been set up the way they are: there was an element of idealism too of course (exemplified by people like Eleanor Roosevelt), but by and large the US set them up in order to be the hegemon as the informal leader of a coalition of allies.
December 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
True. It was not by chance the global postwar institutions have been set up the way they are: there was an element of idealism too of course (exemplified by people like Eleanor Roosevelt), but by and large the US set them up in order to be the hegemon as the informal leader of a coalition of allies.
The right choice. He's not the most outspoken anti-fascist, but chances are he'd be classified as an atifa terrorist nevertheless.
December 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The right choice. He's not the most outspoken anti-fascist, but chances are he'd be classified as an atifa terrorist nevertheless.
Yeah, the guy should go check out (a tiny portion of) the Pope's meme collection in the Vatican museums.
December 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Yeah, the guy should go check out (a tiny portion of) the Pope's meme collection in the Vatican museums.
Certainly, seeing such vivid hues must have been, well, a religious experience, for people who'd never seen such elsewhere! Even for moderns like myself who could wear ultramatine all day if I wanted to, Last Judgement makes an impression.
December 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Certainly, seeing such vivid hues must have been, well, a religious experience, for people who'd never seen such elsewhere! Even for moderns like myself who could wear ultramatine all day if I wanted to, Last Judgement makes an impression.
I'm not an art historian by any means, but "something like that". Besides Michaelangelo, I know at least Titian has used ultramarine for skies so it's not 1:1, but such an expensive pigment would have been used almost exclusively in religious painting, and mostly for Mary's clothes,yes. /2
December 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I'm not an art historian by any means, but "something like that". Besides Michaelangelo, I know at least Titian has used ultramarine for skies so it's not 1:1, but such an expensive pigment would have been used almost exclusively in religious painting, and mostly for Mary's clothes,yes. /2
No, they're clearly already there. Real civilization is defined by having traffic jams on 26-lane roads! Besides, trains are COMMUNIST. They force you into the same space with your fellow man, and everyone knows it's healthier to enjoy road rage in an isolated metal box.
December 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
No, they're clearly already there. Real civilization is defined by having traffic jams on 26-lane roads! Besides, trains are COMMUNIST. They force you into the same space with your fellow man, and everyone knows it's healthier to enjoy road rage in an isolated metal box.
That's just political "right". They campaign with the threat of a debt monster, but while in power, achieve new record rates by issuing wealth-transfers frompoor to rich, gutting efficient public sector to help their private friends, and cutting on public goods that pay themselves back with interest
December 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
That's just political "right". They campaign with the threat of a debt monster, but while in power, achieve new record rates by issuing wealth-transfers frompoor to rich, gutting efficient public sector to help their private friends, and cutting on public goods that pay themselves back with interest