“Protests” like this are the “it was just a prank bro” of activism.

I have three things I want to see in a fictional world (either mine or someone else’s):

• Furries, but not in a weird “metaphor for racism” way.
• A nice sophisticated magic system.
• Either a mideaval fantasy or spacefaring sci-fi setting.

The current idea rattling in my head is for a game which will likely never get finished. A spaceship with a small crew gets blown off close while travelling at warp speed or whatever. The heroes need to visit a bunch of planets (and learn secrets within) to find… Elemental crystals or something, I guess, to make their way home. Not sure how I can incorporate magic into it though, or if that would just be scope creep.

All previously played moves get played again.

I like flatpaks and flathub, but this is just something they do badly. I think as well they also have “probably safe” which is just as unhelpful… And what does “access certain files and folders” even mean!?

I think they should just follow the example of every other app store; list the permissions in an easily understandable list and let the user decide whether or not they are comfortable with it.

The best sexy times are ones where you both have to stop because you’re laughing too hard at something.

All lgbt flags are terrible because they don’t follow the rules of tincture. /s

But seriously though, I think the trans flag is good. It has a nice amount of contrast and the colours compliment each other well. Other flags seem to have the problem of not enough contrast (like the bi flag) are too noisy (the main rainbow one) or the colours don’t mesh well together (polyamorous). All my personal subjective opinion though!

Although it could just be because I’ve seen the trans flag a lot more than the others (which is fair; trans rights are super important right now).

Doomscrolling.

Very badly.

I have never wanted to play a game so hard in my life. It seems to have the atmosphere of Inscryption, the gameplay of Papers Please and a lot of buttons and knobs to mess around with.

Video games for a time had warnings saying people should take breaks every hour or so. That would go much farther than some weird nebulous warning that social media is “bad for you”.

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Did they have to go with such a loud shade of blue? It would look so much better on the eyes if it was a nice deep dark blue.

Tbh I don’t even know why it needs to be blue or any colour at all.

… I mean, you can actually probably go without a computer entirely for a month.

I’m not sure if this would cause the issues you are seeing, but ensure your hosting provider allows you to make outgoing connections over port 25. A number of them block it for spam reasons.

What advantages does the blockchain give compared to just having a government website that allows you to download a zip archive of these documents?

(Also, having public records of house ownership and tax is a terrible idea in general…)

Giving everyone a gpg is a fair idea (with pros and cons), but I’m not sure what you mean by including blockchain?

So aside for a few wording and technical issues, something stuck out to me. Using “special” to refer to neurodivergence is a bit problematic and potentially dogwhistley because of the historical contexts it’s been used in to dismiss and look down on people. And even if it wasn’t, it’s a bit ambiguous; can someone who feels that they are in touch with their “spiritual side” consider themselves to have a “special brain”?

If you’re wondering about neurodivergence, probably better to just ask “Are you neurodivergent?” rather than using euphemisms.

Tfw you make a joking insult to a friend and then worry that you went too far and they might take it seriously so you immediately apologize.

“Learning how to learn” is an important skill that I think people overlook. It’s important to know how to get information and understand things when the AI isn’t helpful.

My worry isn’t about “AI taking our jobs”, it’s that people will not learn the skills and abilities to progress beyond junior levels due to relying on AI.

… Or maybe that’s just me being a grumpy old fogey.

Out of interest, what did you have trouble understanding? I’m always curious about how people learn programming and how resources can be improved.

Maybe we’d be warmer towards AI if it wasn’t being used as a way for big companies to steal content from smaller creative types in order to fund valueless wealth generators.

Big surprise that a group consisting of people rather than corporations is mad about it.