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What bothers me about Cities Skylines is that it initially was much better than existing city builders, and then it just... banked off that success, instead of continuing to improve.

The zoning system was slightly better than that of SimCity and the like. And then it never improved, and just always *stayed* slightly-better-but-still-pretty-terrible. And it's still there in the sequel, and still can't deal properly with non-grid city designs.

Same deal with traffic planning; the whole thing *continues* to be car-centric, as far as I can tell. Even in the sequel, a car-free city apparently completely breaks the internal game logic. Building roads is made trivial, but every other type of transport requires much more work (even though that doesn't match the reality of infrastructure construction!).

And like, a lot of the new stuff in the sequel basically just seems to be stuff that mods already fixed in the first one?

To me, Cities Skylines feels like a great example of something that stopped innovating as soon as it saw success.

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@joepie91 a mocha with soy is 3-bean soup

Dishwashers are devices that usually wash all of your dishes but sometimes leave some of them dirty and make that leftover dirt immune to any and all dishwashers forever

articles are like "the economic cost of long covid is too high, we need a cure!!!"

i mean a cure would be rad but we already know how to prevent long covid:

1. vaccination
2. ventilation & filtration
3. masking

society is currently so disinterested in the ramifications of long covid we can't even be bothered to prevent long covid using cheap and effective methods

: Spotted a flag that's one white band and one blue band and nothing else, equally-sized. Don't remember the order. Which flag might this be?

(Inspired by a post I boosted... yesterday?)

If you're calling for a 'revolution' and to 'violently overthrow the system', have you thought about:
- Where (chronic) medication is going to come from?
- Who is going to provide services for disabled folks that are currently provided by the government?
- How you're going to replace food assistance programs?
- And so on, and so forth.

If you haven't, then how is your call for revolution any materially different from, say, people promoting eugenics? And I don't mean *intention*, I mean in practical outcomes.

This is why, despite being an anarchist, and despite not being *fundamentally* opposed to violence in activism, you don't see me constantly shouting about overthrowing the system.

Step one is building up, alternative support networks specifically; tearing down only comes *after* that. If you don't get the order right, the most vulnerable people will die.

Computer touchers building a thing without asking the target audience, Level 999 S-Rank edition: "Hey arcade operators, I made a payment app to replace coin doors, 'cause surely it kinda sucks how you have to do all your own bookkeeping manually like that."

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Turner Pinball: 🐩 Hey arcade operators, what's the worst part of your job?
🦝 scrubbing rat piss off a 40-pin connector?
🐩 the CASH BUCKET, right!
🦝 no
🐩 now imagine, if you will, if you didn't have to deal with BUCKETS of MONEY anymore
🦝 what, no
🐩 well what if we told you, our vision for the future: where nobody has to deal with the distasteful sight of an ACTUAL, LITERAL, BUCKET, of IMMEDIATELY SPENDABLE, UNTRACEABLE CASH
🦝 *plunges hands compulsively into beloved bucket of cash and hisses*

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Support trans women. That includes the woman from the hood. The loud one.The sexworker. The dropout. The one whose hair aint laid and outfit ain't always on point. The one with clear mental health issues. The one with nowhere to go. Not just the models, writers, and public figures.

- Devin Lowe

#trans #queer #DecoloniseGender #TransWomen #SistaGirl #SistaGirls #SistersNotCisters

The good: initial-syncing on the Matrix homeserver is now much faster

The bad: trying to actually do so somehow seems to break the whole server??

Another UC Davis development program for grad students that is only offered in-person during a pandemic, masks not mandated. In fact, masks are sure to be off because food is included.

When people react like disabled students are "cheating" by getting their access needs met, remember all the education/research/career opportunities disabled students weren't even considered part of the intended audience. @academicchatter @disability

#DisabledAndSTEM #COVID #UCAccessNow

Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware

Official number notation for Rotterdam. I always knew that my dash in the 7 is worth the extra pen stroke.

You're telling me that being agile is constantly prioritizing new stuff while pushing maintaining old stuff into the backlog and then being surprised when things break like there's some kind of mysterious energy at play here I'm absolutely shocked I tell you

You don't need a reason to want to block adverts.

It doesn't have to be for security reasons (although there are good security reasons).

You don't have to do it because you want to lessen online surveillance (although that's a good thing too).

You can do it just because you don't want someone trying to sell you something the whole damn time, getting up in your face and interrupting your reading/viewing.

You can block ads because it's simply a form of self-care.

content warnings, current events in oblique, second person not the reader 

untraumatised neurotypicals, i don't know what's going on in your heads, but let me fucking tell you
/everycreature is not like you/
just because /you/ can handle this shit fine, apparently, doesn't mean that everycreature can
have some goddamn consideration for those in the space around you

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gender affirming care research, positive, you love to see it 

"there is no evidence that gender assessments can reliably predict or prevent regret better than self-reported gender identity and embodiment goals. This conclusion provides additional support for informed consent models of care, which deemphasize gender assessments in favor of supporting patient decision making."

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-16010-001.html

Please don't share pictures of death without a CW. My anxiety is back. Need to tune my war-filters a bit more tight.

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