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  • The existence of officials looking for infractions in the few rules that they do have does not mean that overall they don’t have a looser set of rules compared to head to head competitive games. Like I said before, there often isn’t even a turn order for these events. You make your number of attempts over a long period of time and then are done.

    I wouldn’t call those events “play” either. No one is really having fun riding a heavy stone multiple times. They might feel accomplished afterwards. But they aren’t engaging in play. And I still say it’s not a sport. You busting out a tautological oxford definition doesn’t really help anything.


  • That’s not what this admin is doing though. They’re taking a few random reports of something, pointing at people NOT doing that, and using that to attach their actual valid free speech against the horrible acts our government is fully supporting in another country.

    This is a classic “for the children”-esque civil rights assault.

    I’m not sure why YOU don’t understand this.

    They’re not actually trying to solve the problem they’re talking about. You’re like “yes please, take my rights, hopefully it will help this niche situation” it won’t. It was never meant to.


  • Nah. Those aren’t games. The rules are often quite loose. You’re often not even directly competing with anyone else. Like, one person acts, and later another person acts and the results are compared. Your opponent’s actions don’t affect your results. Those field events don’t even necessarily have a set order to act on… people just wander in and out making their attempts, it’s mostly them competing with themselves.

    You could run a race asynchronously as well, but time constraints prevent that.

    Games have action, AND reaction. They have strategy. Throw things harder isn’t a strategy. Run faster longer isn’t a strategy.


  • I’ve never seen any of these articles explain what this means. How is generative AI “using up” water. When a search uses a liter or whatever of water, what is happening to this water?

    Every time that happens, a little more water is burned and a little more carbon is released.

    This is just nonsense that makes me think the author doesn’t know either.

    Water is often used in cooling servers. But it’s contained and reused. It doesn’t go anywhere, it’s the vehicle to move heat from the servers to wherever else. In a pipe. In a closed loop. All these doomsday AI articles act like water is being lost permanently due to the use of these servers. Even if the water was escaping the closed system…did no one pay attention to the water cycle unit in grade school?!






  • This is all very vague, and given that I’ve seen video of people carrying Israeli flags and harassing the anti genocide protests, those same people then turning around and claiming antisemitism against themselves can account for some of those reports.

    I’m sure it’s happened. But this doesn’t even draw a link to those protests. We know the right wing is very anti Jewish given how often they march with those swastikas mentioned in the article.