You already had it. They pretended to have an election and then they slowly dismantle the remains of a pretend democracy while the dictatorship/oligarchy continues. You don’t wave banners or do any big loud moves and there’s minimum resistance. Hell, you can even have a little concentration camps and death squads as a treat.

Just like there’s been WWIII going on in Europe for years now with minimal resistance outside the immediate warzones.

And there’s been several country wide invasions in recent decades. A bit of news for a while, but as long as you don’t put up new flags, they’re forgotten about after a few years as businesses get going again.

I was always a burrower when a bit of extra wall on top. Kind of dreamed of being more mason.

Me too. It’s beautiful. It’s amazingly beautiful and interesting and kind of simple. But I hate twitchy platforming and being thrown back a long way because of a tiny mistake or ten every time.

Yes, for some values of dumb. New ones? I don’t know. But many older ones have no connectivity at least.

https://librervac.org/Supported_Devices might be a good start (and maybe even end).

I have read Silmarillion and don’t remember there being much about the ring. But that may be just that I don’t remember. There’s a lot of it.

“I’ll just put in ‘edgelord’.”

Wings3d is worth a look at as a modeller as well. I really liked that. Not as colossal as blender. Nice, focused features.

Garbage in, garbage out is one of the older laws for a reason.

Kind of funny if the model/training isn’t better at filtering out repetitive or nonsensical noise from coherent data. Doesn’t seem like it would be too hard considering how well e.g. spam filters work.

No, they mean a disconnectable coupler that can be used to disengage the brain.

Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?

Basic dictator.

As an engineer, no we don’t have to and usually don’t (get to) say that.

And whatever falls from the ceiling if the building gets shaken a bit.

Not Safe For Work.

“If this was on your screen at an office when HR walked by, would there be words?”

Everything generally is.

War has never been so much fun since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Crab's_Treasure

It’s been so long since I listened. Maybe I should give it another spin sometime.

Like the fair folk or the kindly ones.