All-dressed.

So it’s an MMO full of bots. Sounds like every other MMO out there.

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I do imagine that Russia’s economy will collapse eventually, and probably soon. And while that may be (and hopefully is) true… what do we imagine the vacuum of power in Russia is going to look like? Hint: nothing good.

A country that badly damaged by decades of kleptocracy, corruption, pugilism and alcoholic self-medication is not going to land on its feet, it will turn to chaos, and the chaos will not decide to stay within its borders any more than it already has.

As history repeatedly says about Russia: “And then it got worse.”

And icebreakers. And the million other things we desperately need from the rest of the world. And give them what they need. I want to be part of the world economy, not the US economy.

Seems pretty good, using the latest version of ollama (downloaded the default Q4 from ollama) and then popped it into Codex with this config.toml:

model = "qwen3-coder-next:Q4_K_M"
model_provider = "ollama"
model_reasoning_effort = "medium"

[model_providers.ollama]
name = "Ollama"
base_url = "http://localhost:11434/v1"

[analytics]
enabled = false

Works well in Codex CLI and VScode Codex IDE plugin. Did not work well with Kilo Code or Roo plugins unfortunately (but I have yet to find much that does).

I am not an expert, this may not be the best way, I don’t know… just sharing my experience for the other non-experts out there.

I suspect it’s actually the progressive politicians (the ones we would consider the decent, or at least not completely corrupt and evil ones) who are overwhelmingly the targets of violence and abuse. For example, Ilhan Omar. The ones who are doing this are being called to action by the evil, they support the evil, and will replace them with more evil. This is part of the plan to replace our democracies with something more evil: fascism. While yes, some significant amount of blame can certainly be laid at the feet of all politicians for this situation, and even our best politicians leave a lot to be desired, I’m not sure we should throw the whole baby out with the bathwater just yet. That’s committing to a pretty serious fight, and the fight we’re facing is already plenty serious enough without trying to fix all the world’s democracies problems at once. I think we need to focus on democracy surviving this at all, and I think there will be time and energy left to work on fixing its problems after that. But maybe I’m wrong.

All that underground real estate in that post and not a single Saddam hiding anywhere? *tsk tsk*

I deal with kubernetes daily for my job and it manages to melt my brain at least a few times a week. It’s not bad… it’s actually great… it’s just… a lot. Like, a lot a lot.

For what it’s worth, I do not use it at home, because I prefer to be getting paid when my brain is melting.

It would theoretically work, but you would probably need dozens, maybe hundreds or even thousands of them to power a single lightbulb. They create almost zero power. They have barely enough energy to move themselves under their own power. There is almost nothing leftover to turn into useful work or electrical energy. As soon as you add the resistance of an electric coil, they will just stop, especially if even the merest hint of electrical load is placed on them, like you dropped them into a bucket of glue. If you don’t think adding a mere coil of copper wire can stop such a movement, it absolutely would do so, instantly, like slamming on the brakes. As an experiment, try dropping a magnet down a copper pipe, or look at what this guy does. Moving magnetic fields (which are what you need to turn that motion into energy) are really wild and counterintuitive the way they instantly counteract their own movement into something resembling friction, but that turns into energy. Regenerative braking on vehicles does exactly this.

The problem with this kind of device is that its physical power output is so limited, even at scale, it would become a waste of physical space that would be far more productive, cost efficient, and reliable with wind turbines, solar panels, or even just batteries storing energy from some other renewable source.

There is no physical impossibility, it’s just really, really, really, really impractical. It would be like trying to power your farm equipment by growing millions of potatoes to use as batteries for an electric tractor whose only purpose is to farm more potatoes. Okay, great thought, that’s technically renewable energy, except you’d be better off farming something much more energy-dense and turning it into biodiesel or ethanol or something, and suddenly about 99% of the farmland you were going to use for battery-potatoes can now be used to grow actual food or cash crops, and you’re still just as renewable and environmentally friendly so like… why would you want potato batteries, except just to say you can? Same with this idea. It’s nearly impossible to get any useful amount of energy out of it. Yes it’s “free” energy, and sure it’s funny, but… nah.

Rob from the Westons, Sobeys and Pattisons 🖕 , give to the poor.

Even if we find ourselves on opposite sides of a conflict, that does not change that we have always shared many values with the American people, we have always worked together to promote our shared values in the world, and I certainly hope that always continues. As fellow supporters and defenders of the freedom of all people, we will always be allies in that. And no matter how many freedoms you seem to be losing down there, I hope that you will never lose the freedom to choose where to point your guns. Choose wisely, because your choices will have consequences, either good or bad, that’s all I will say.

I don’t think any of us pretend to know why your dictator in chief does anything anymore, but we’re going to try to be as fully prepared for the possibilities as we can be, and given our propensity for creative forms of violence, it is our duty to provide you fair and adequate warning of the potential consequences in advance. Consider yourselves warned.

Yeah the world’s 10th largest economy with one of the world’s most highly skilled workforces, abundant renewable energy, and some of the most natural resources in the world should focus on just giving its resources away for the cheapest price possible and don’t even try to do anything else by itself. Come on, gaslight us some more, trade partners. Keep telling us we can’t do anything without your help, fuckers. I’m not sick of it at all and I’m sure other Canadians aren’t either.

I’m not sure prison terms are still relevant anymore, it seems like the choices are becoming either indefinite, deportation, death, or no enforcement or punishment at all (if you’re rich or powerful)

He’s still alive right now, it can’t take that long to build a guillotine, what exactly are we we waiting for?

They get a lot of retail business too I think. They have lots of retail stores all over the country, they are not online-only. To be honest I usually don’t even think of buying online from them, when I need something I just go there in person, it’s faster (granted I’m lucky enough to have one nearby).

You should probably talk to a psychiatrist about it to be honest. I’m not a professional, and I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but the fact that you seem to be having trouble distinguishing your fantasy from reality, and choose to write that your cat says these things, without taking responsibility for the fact that it is you saying these things in your own head, suggests you may be suffering from some mental illness, in which case you need to see a mental health professional, or you’re trolling, in which case kindly go fuck yourself with a rusty knife.

Your cat doesn’t do anything. You are doing it. That said, thoughtcrime is not a crime. However, you should probably spend some time having some deep thoughts about why you choose to imagine your pet this way, because it says a lot more about you than it does about your cat, and maybe by continuing this, you’re not reinforcing helpful thoughts, ideas, and behaviors for yourself. Or maybe it’s just a harmless fantasy. I’d be more concerned with outcomes than the actual method you’re getting there in your own head. Do you think this is having a positive impact on your life? Is it relieving stress and giving you joy? If that’s all it is, no judgement, have fun with it. Just make sure it doesn’t start leaking out of your head and into your real life where it doesn’t belong.

They don’t expect to win today, or tomorrow, and when (not if) they lose, they aren’t just going to walk away. These things are indications of how much they are committing to this. This is how a long-term destabilization campaign starts. They have taken over much of our country’s media already. They are going to use that to continue legitimizing these efforts, inflaming public opinion with rhetoric, emphasizing negative events, and shifting the overton window towards a future where the idea of “dependence” is itself automatically considered bad and wrong, the question will no longer be whether Alberta should be independent, but how independent should they be, what kinds of autonomy do they need. And spoiler: it will only increase. The demands will only increase. The autonomy expectations will only increase. Because they’re being intentionally fueled. They’re not organic, but they become organic because people start to absorb it through osmosis from their surroundings.

Will they ultimately succeed? I don’t know, I don’t think anyone can know, but I do know we need to take this threat seriously. Because it’s not going to stop, and they can afford to spend a lot more instigating it than we probably will to defend against it.