what in the heck are you talking about?
  buy a set of first or second edition books, maybe a few expansion books, or get the pdfs online.
1st edition was DESIGNED TO BE MODIFIED. Gary just wanted people to have a loose framework to have FUN and tell cool stories. it says so IN THE BOOKS.

This total madness around the bureaucracy of D&D rules blows my mind. It genuinely feels like political propaganda, but by WotC, making people think there's some HUGE group out there playing exactly by the "aaaaaakshually" rules.
And YES I have played with the people helped Gary make the game, dammit, and they say the same thing: people slavishly buying up all this new stuff are morons. Just play the old editions or make up your own rules.

Yeah but within 20 years of their doing that, their entire situation collapses.
Without sovereignty to obtain and evolve everything from asphalt materials to zofran medicine, larger entities will gobble them up, and in the short time span they can enjoy this âoefreedomâ I guarantee that people will already be angling to break out of their techno fascist fever dream.

Sure, they can try and launch themselves into space or put themselves in a bunker, but they will last maybe a few years at most and the rest of the world will eclipse them and come for them. Without a political and social community, they are utterly alone and will be unable to control everything all at once. Trust is needed.

Is this really the answer the answer you are posting on slashdot? How far have we fallen?

It has to do with the amount of rare earth reserves, but more importantly how easy those are to refine. The ones in China are the easiest and most environmentally, friendly to get in the world. Elsewhere in the world the process is much nastier and costly, and obviously more difficult.

China has rare earth reserves of approximately 44,000,000 tons. Brazil has about 21 million, India is next with 6.9 million, Australia after that at 5.7 million metric tons.
Russia with 3.8, Vietnam with 3.5, and number seven the United States with only 1.9 million metric tons in rare earths reserves. Again they are also much harder to refine than in China.

So basically, everybody here is wrong. You have no idea what the specifics of the situation are, and it is that not only does China have a larger reserve than everyone else, they are easier to get

They are not insane. You are just being a thoughtless internet knucklehead. Cut it out and do a little research on stuff before you go spouting off.

Jared Leto just makes us pay and pay and pay with his⦠acting.

What theyâ(TM)re really saying is that we are in a massive recession?

Just fyi, the real reason for high electricity prices is not due to AI and data centers. Itâ(TM)s due to middleman that demand a very high return every year.

High prices could be fixed immediately if state governments mandated a lower return on this and had more sane policies around energy. Instead, blaming AI and data centers is a red herring and it just keeps feeding oligarchs tons of cash on the backs of everyone else.

Honestly? What I am seeing is a lot of small communities online getting together to curate content and create new things, asking for a small donation each month to keep it going.
Some people seem sick and tired of streaming content. Itâ(TM)s nice to have and all, but I can pirate it if I want. But i donâ(TM)t, cuz it sucks. I want the cool and interesting stuff, and I vote with my wallet.
If Disney were smart, they would start seeding individual content creators and allow them carte blanche to make a new type of Disney Channel where people can subscribe, watch one-off fun shows hosted by characters, celebrities, and hosts they can connect with, and have fun together as a community.
But they wonâ(TM)t. The MBAs wonâ(TM)t allow it.

It seems as if the younger generation, as well as cutting edge communities are all getting back into physical media. Itâ(TM)s definitely a trend.
There are video stores opening up in some places again, so one can hope this place catches that wave

Why don't we just move the clocks 30 minutes and make it permanent? This seems like a no-brainer.

that tracks. It was weird seeing people complain about egg prices, but at the places I got them from local farmers prices went from five dollars to six dollars and have just stayed there. Meanwhile, in a rich republican suburb a few hours away, I ran into a dozen eggs for $18 at a market.

Thatâ(TM)s like eating 10 chicken breasts per day.
Thatâ(TM)s 7 1/2 pounds of meat per day.
That could also be 14 scoops of a protein shake.

While I appreciate some scientific information here, I think they are talking about a truly excessive amount of protein.

Care to link us to some evidence on this?

Then they are on way too high dose. Dial it back a bunch, same benefits.

As someone who already has a four day work week every other week? Itâ(TM)s absolutely fantastic. I get a day to do errands on Friday, and then I actually get a weekend. I feel much more refreshed coming back to work the following Monday. Love my job, and even if the coworkers arenâ(TM)t always perfect, I have enough energy to handle all of it just fine.

What gets me is that if the data were actually used in a meaningful way, it could be revolutionary for people. If companies actually correlated things like sleep patterns along with habits, places visited, speech patterns, and socialization during the day, it really could change peoples lives and make for a deeper understanding to help people with their health, habits, social welfare, any number of things.
You could have an AI assistant that provides people for coaching needed to lose weight or to exercise or to stop smoking, etc.

The problem is these companies are too bureaucratic and too penny-pinching and beige to actually do any good or try something interesting and different.

I agree with you, giving a company all this information is terrible. Their stupid, expensive ventures are going to flop as long as they keep doing stupid things with the data, though.

Like a junkie they will keep hovering up electricity and data until they implode.