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https://xcancel.com/RichardHanania/status/1969534195782598947

Trump is setting new standards of government transparency.

If I am playing Chess with you, and I call “Checkmate” … The game is over, right? I won. Or do you think you should be able to undo your last move after you lost and try something else? And then try again, and again, hoping that somehow you can come up with something that avoids the checkmate?

This is very common when teaching people chess, you let the learner undo a move after they see your response. It’s a great way to learn and is pretty commonly allowed as an advantage when playing against less experienced players.

Don’t worry too much about missing things, it’s not that kind of game. Feel free to try vibe-based and experimental stuff, it’s not a difficult game. I would avoid the wiki until you feel you need it. However, here are things I would have liked to know when I started.

1. Watch TV every day. You can get recipes from the cooking show and useful info from the other channels. Although this is less important now apparently.
2. You can give people 2 gifts a week, one per day. Everybody resets on the new week.
3. Seasons have 28 days, not 30. Don’t plant things that you won’t be able to harvest by day 28.
4. I would recommend the four corners farm, even for single-player. Each of the corners has it’s own specialty so you get a little bit of everything.
5. Don’t buy a Jojamart membership, lol. This starts the corporate path.

Edit: Somebody else mentioned that if you don’t like a specific part of the gameplay (fishing, etc.) you don’t have to do it. I would like to emphasize this.

Edit2: They added big chests? Damn, maybe I should also get back into it.

keeping a note under my keyboard in an attempt to secretly communicate my intentions to my partner and then immediately folding when asked one question and meticulously giving a written record of everything the state needs to prove my guilt in a chat log while I am vacating the scene

That’s probably a zoomer thing. They have all kinds of memes like this.

The roommate looked under the keyboard and found a note that stated, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.” Police found a photograph of this note.

“To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.”

The fuck?

What’s the format this conversation is supposed to have taken place over? Is this face-to-face or over text?

Group A’s trinket can instantly produce any raw resource. A raw resource is anything that could exist without a humor labor process (cooking, blacksmithing, woodworking, etc). If something absolutely requires human labor to be put into it to exist, it can’t be made by the magic box.

What can group A even create? They can’t make metals but they can maybe makes ores? They can’t make any food except for what can be found in the wild? They can’t even make domesticated animals, they have to summon wild deer or something. They might be able to make stone dwellings if they can summon raw resources in any shape. They wouldn’t be able to make lumber or even timber but could make trees? They could make rain water in any quantity so that’s pretty nice.

Group A would probably fuck up and try to make a new sun (so it isn’t so dark at night) and accidentally destroy the planet because they made it only 1000 miles away.

https://festivusweb.com/festivus-the-human-fund.php

It’s money for people.

“Actually my algorithms are good and will only mass murder guilty people”

decide to flip the switch, unguard the switch and flip it

Are you aware of what the F-35 cockpit looks like? It’s mostly a giant touchscreen. What’s all this nonsense about “flipping a switch”? Surely you mean navigate to the correct settings menu.

The F-35 is a piece of shit. There were two separate problems.

A. Problem 1 is that the hydraulic fluid froze because of shitty maintenance. It’s not supposed to do that. This caused the landing gear to become stuck in a partially retracted position. The pilot couldn’t land so he called tech support and spent 50 minutes on a conference call. B. The tech support guys told him to do some touch and go landings to see if that fixes the problem. Basically hitting the landing gear against the runway to see if that fixes it. C. During the 2nd touch and go landing the F-35 decided it was landed and switch the pilot from the flying controls to the ground controls. These are really only meant for doing stuff on the ground like taxi-ing or starting the take-off. You can’t fly the plane like this so the pilot ejected and the plane crashed.

Yes there should be an override but also that may not have helped in this situation. Once the F-35 decided it was on the ground he would have only a few seconds to figure out the problem, override the system, and pilot his way out of a crash. What would have been useful is an override he could have set up in advance to prevent the F-35 from switching to ground mode regardless of what its sensors tell it. I’m sure Lockheed can code something like that for a few billion dollars.

He didn’t. He was flying for 50 minutes in the normal and correct “fly-by-wire” settings. Then he did two touch and go landings. On the second touch and go the F-35 decided that he was now on the ground. The new fly-by-wire settings were now in ground mode and this made it impossible to fly the plane properly in the air.

I’m only reading 3.6 microHitlers. Not great but not terrible.

If the world was fundamentally different from the way it is now then we would say different things. I suppose that is true.

You’re right next to the expanding tiger empire though.

Ukrainian morale suffers as troop favourite Warhammer stops translating novels

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/25/ukrainian-morale-troop-favourite-warhammer-translations-end/

A Ukrainian special forces sergeant told The Telegraph that the loss of new Warhammer novels in Ukrainian was a blow to morale.

Access to Ukrainian translations was more important than ever, he said, because soldiers should not have to rely on bootleg translations in Russian, the language of their enemy.

“Warhammer 40,000 holds a secret spot in my heart, as well as thousands of Ukrainian soldiers from all the branches and services of the defence forces of Ukraine,” said the sergeant, who can be identified only by his call sign “Shekel” for security reasons.

This is a great and informative write-up. Consider reposting this in the News megathread on Monday (for visibility). There’s a lot of information addicts in there.

That’s difficult for Ukrainian soldiers. A lot of their COs are commanding through iPads.

Americans can’t identify Nazis even if they’re larping with swastikas and Hitler Salutes. They just say “Oh that’s just Ukrainian culture”. It certainly fucking isn’t, Ukraine did the more to defeat the Nazis than any western ally.

This is very silly. Did Obama kill some people? Yeah maybe, but with drones I think?

Obama bombed Libya into a failed state.