when dwarf fortress had money for a very brief period (this was before I started playing it and back when you couldn't dig down at all), players ran into a problem: a functioning society does not require 100% of its members to be productive.
so you would end up with dwarves for whom there was no work available, but because there was no work available, they could not afford any of the abundant high quality food and clothing and other goods.
and from this starting scenario and essentially physics-mandated capitalism comes a logical solution found by players.
if dwarves must complete jobs in order to earn money that they can use to purchase comfort, but comfort is extremely abundant, the solution is to create jobs that don't produce anything
and because of how Dwarf Fortress works, "pull the lever" is a job.
so players found they could build a room full of levers, not attached to anything, and assign the task of pulling each lever on repeat to whoever was available.
dwarves who could not find work otherwise would walk into the room and flip their lever from side to side, accomplishing literally nothing, until they got bored or hungry or tired and left to use the money they had "earned" to rectify that.
Tarn Adams found it was a better solution to simply delete capitalism.
and that's the story of why Dwarf Fortress no longer has an economy.
Got myself a bunch of #Shelly Plugs. It's nice that while they do offer Cloud, I can just add a script that sends the meter data anywhere…
https://codeberg.org/michael-simons/pv/src/branch/main/bin/send_switch_status.js
Yes, I did vibe this together, no that does not mean I used #AI, I just read the docs. AND I happily wrote a #PHP script too on the receiving end.
The whole AI-fication of Google makes it however so hard to find the OG docs and some good quality examples.
Okay. So I'm not sure what you were originally objecting to. I was concerned that "free speech absolutists" (which are an identity that exists) would abuse EU "free speech" regulations somehow to spread misinformation within EU-operated social venues.
You said there was no such thing as "free speech absolutism" because freedom of speech is an absolute binary*... which doesn't address my concern at all, but suggests that when it comes to government-moderated venues, you'd prefer unfettered disinformation over any kind of (possibly arbitrary or politically-driven) moderation by government operatives.
If that's not what you meant, then I suspect we're not actually in disagreement -- but I don't know how else to interpret it.
(* which, to my mind, kinda definitionally means that you yourself are in fact a "free speech absolutist", but whatever; the applicability of such labels is a side-issue)
@thehomespundays Ha, we also saw/photographed a red-shouldered hawk today (in Durham)! (Your photo is much better than the ones we took, however.)
cc: @Harena
Reminder: a person in the RICHEST 0.1 percent causes more carbon pollution in one DAY than someone in the BOTTOM 50 percent does in a whole YEAR.
The high carbon lifestyles of the super rich are burning through the world’s remaining carbon budget and costing us our future.
@maho You're avoiding addressing the questions I asked, pretending I asked something else and then claiming that what you act as if I asked is irrelevant.
Try again. You're arguing that there is no "free speech absolutism" because all free speech advocacy is either absolute or meaningless; I'm saying no, that's a false dichotomy. You reiterated that you think it is.
I then asked some questions about how freedom of speech applies in certain narrow contexts. If you truly believe that freedom of speech is an all-or-nothing condition, then it should be easy for you to answer those questions in that manner (I.e. yes or no).
That said, your 3rd paragraph shows me that you do understand it's not all-or-nothing: it only applies to how the government treats the speech of individuals.
I suppose it's possible that you're truly not familiar with the "free speech absolutist" position which holds, for example, that:
(I'm probably spending way too much time steelmanning your words in the hope that you actually are somehow arguing in good faith, but I find it helpful sometimes to encourage a stated position like yours to roll all the way to its logical conclusion.)
@ElleGray With right-wingers, it's never about actual principles (or even reality); it's all about making the other side look bad, so their side can win.
"Just so happens": nope -- and I think you totally know that's not what I meant.
Please, tell me more about "uncensored by definition". Does it include the right to lie in all circumstances? Does it include the right for your speech to be heard by every intended recipient, regardless of consent? Does it include the right for speech to be free of consequences to the speaker?
(Aside to @xgebi : sometimes, I enjoy toying with my prey. A little fried sealion sounds yummy right now -- it's been a long day.)
🌈 Did You Know: While most media file-types are measured either in gigabytes (GB) or gibibytes (GiB), anime video files are measured in Ghiblibytes (GhiB). It's true! :verified_paw: #LowQualityFacts
The context here for anyone who's missed it https://hey.paris/posts/appleid
@babe I remember similar dynamics when Google+ suddenly banned kids under some-number-I-don't-remember. It was... such a dense thing to do. ...but I guess history is made for rich people to repeat. >.<
@suricrasia Agoraphobia Conversion Therapy! :blobcatupsidedown:
(Actually, wouldn't Agoraphobia mean "fear of the lack of gore"? I am smart and clever.)
@jamey My idea was that the mixing could be done elsewhere, and send the post-mix audio stream to the amp. ...which seems like it's in line with your SBB concept, yeah.
@jamey Some good leads there -- I'll have to do some research 😅
For this application, latency isn't really an issue; it's for listening, not performance. (Latency could get annoying for the piano, I suppose -- but since I'd also have the local speakers, it would mainly mean just a bit of single-echo-effect getting added on.)
Re the audio-over-USB gadget-pair: yes, you'd think so! That's also a thing I'll have to hunt around for. (Also: audio-over-CAT5/6 might work better, but more expensive? So many inviting rabbit-holes...🐰)
@suetanvil It occurred to me to wonder if this unit is capable of receiving media streams that aren't from a paid proprietary service (I see "Pandora" and "Spotify" mentioned on the front) -- it has a LAN port -- or if it's hard-coded just for those services.
(I have some RTFMing to do on that, unless someone happens to know.)
If that works, though, it suggests a shortcut: just stream to it over the network, or stream to a "collation server" PC which then mixes the streams together as desired and forwards the mix to the amp.
(Added: A lot of the features I had in mind for my hypothetical digital amp wouldn't be possible with this, but it would take care of the primary requirements/wishes.)
