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People have actually become more unhinged: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2023-releases/2023-06-04-02/

“One thing I know I wish we could have done is there’s the character Mord the Jailer,” Benioff says.

“It was a mistake not bringing Mord the Jailer back into it,” Weiss says. “We always talked about doing it.”

“And we had the scene for it,” Benioff says. “There’s a scene set in a tavern…”

“Was it Brienne or The Hound?” Weiss says. “But we realized too late that Mord could have owned the tavern. We could have had that actor in the background acting exactly the way he did as a jailer, except now as a small business owner. It was just such an obvious, no-brainer, day-after idea.”

How many magic users do you expect there to be in a given area? 1 per nation means you could make them pretty strong and influential but their abilities are limited by their physical presence, so most people are relying on traditional methods to do things and the fact that the wizard can make water or food is pretty meaningless. You still have to farm.

You can also limit magic by making it cost something. Some fantasy makes it physically exhausting, costing rest and food. That can be fun because dramatic, high emotion situations inherently allow for more dramatic uses of magic. It can also cost physical components, stronger magics utilize more or rarer components. That limits how a society might use magic to replace mundane tasks. Medieval peasant labor is going to be cheaper than whatever costly magic can offer.

Sort of, there's a long train of things here. The Stonehenge theories primarily come from "Chariots of the Gods?" by Erich von Däniken who stole a lot of the Stonehenge stuff from Robert Charroux who thought that white people were actually descended from aliens and brought technology and civilization to the rest of the world.

In my wood stove, at least, it would drip though into the ash catch, which is a much thinner metal than the cast iron stove body and not really meant to have something actively burning in it. Kerosene also likely burns hotter than wood.

So you'd have a too hot fire burning in all the wrong places in the stove, it might be ok and it might burn a hole through something and start a fire.

S1m0ne 2: crypto boogaloo

And fun fact, David Koch died in 2019.

I run Lemmy, Plex, and a bunch of other services from a desktop in my basement. It works great. The Lemmy docker setup is a little finicky but works well once you get it.

Digital assistants are good for timers, turning on smart lights, and sometimes playing music. None of those things require a large language model to spit random text back at me.

Check some recent comments, they used the correct term to describe themselves.

Do you want companies to follow the law or not? Why even have truth in advertising laws if no one is going to enforce them?

Aren't traditional satellite providers download only via satellite and use phone line for upload?