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I picked up Crusader Kings 3 last week. May have been a mistake, given the 30+ hours already spent in play, plus watching videos and reading the wiki. Ah well. Here's the story of my first post-tutorial playthrough. I started as the Earl...
I have been thinking why UBI and single-payer healthcare is totally unworkable in America. With fears of AI leading to mass-unemployment constantly in the news, the idea of a UBI is often touted as a solution. Democrats similarly have...
I’ve been lining up banner photos for the remaining months of the year, all of which are from last year (like almost all of the others so far); this month’s is from Sanna in Ardnamurchan, which I’ll be seeing again in a couple of weeks....
Sure, that's what happens in the book, but that's not really what it's about. By the time I got to high school, Fahrenheit 451 and the other dystopian classics weren't a meaningful part of the curriculum anymore. This fact really seems...
John Gruber has been dropping some bangers this week. On Claude’s awful desktop app (funnily enough, I only deleted it last week after realising it was 800mb, which is stupid): “It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were...
Post last updated 16 minutes ago It's been about two months since I got my first "real" camera, a Fujifilm XT30 III, so I thought it might be a good moment to write my impressions on it. You can click on the photos for the captions. The...
I was happier than usual when I clocked out yesterday afternoon.I suppose it's time to let you off the hook after last week's little cliffhanger.The Kindle survived. Well... it survived by not being bought.Instead of giving my love a...
Got up about 9.30. Again wind still cold. The gang came for tea. Gave Jane a swing but too cold to stay out very long. Went for a drink at night.
Picked up a load of wood from the Amish farm today. Ol’ Green struggled a bit under load on the hills between here and Buddha Bypass Road but we made it. The farm was, as I suspected, open despite the holiday. What to the Amish is your...
Opinion | Birthright citizenship overreach by the Supreme Court ends term - The Washington Post: A more modest ruling, relying on those statutes, would have left the constitutional issue for a future court to consider if and when...
I’ll be honest, I was a bit surprised that I knew anyone who would buy a pair of Meta AI glasses. Sure, they are readily available, and presumably heavily advertised, but most of the people with whom I spend time - online or offline -...
Earlier this year we had a rather unfortunate incident involving our 25-year-old stand-up freezer, in which the condenser failed while the thing was full of frozen things, which quickly became rather disgustingly unfrozen. The clean-up...
Tree Shadows on the Park Wall, Roundhay, Leeds (1872) by John Atkinson Grimshaw. • “In many cases, the rules of physics that apply in a real scene appear to be optional in a painting; they can be obeyed or ignored at the discretion of...
For my wife's birthday last weekend I ran her and her friends a D&D one shot. My brief was thus: level eleven a more classic dungeon crawl dragon There were six of them. I had no clue how to balance six level eleven characters where four...
Monday “Do you do this every week?” There’s trash in the open grass and trash by the bench. But there’s also a man on the bench admiring the view. As I didn’t want to disturb him, I was heading for the trash in the open first. I say sort...