It is a bit confusing.

Minecraft is a digital simulation of a physical (albeit blocky) world.

If we treat minecraft as a physical world (one simulated, but that’s beside the point), we can claim that it’s a (simulated) physical simulation.

He may very well be the personality to cause the Epstein files be released.

That is green gas. It isn’t green “natural” gas, because “natural” is exclusively the fossil fuel stuff. Stupid naming, probably some 19th century marketing thatfor some reason stuck.

Edit: 19th, not 18th.

“Natural gas” can never be green because it is specifically fossil-fuel gas.

No! You’re forgetting! It is Charlie who is the true martyr! \crocodile tears * - Someone, somewhere, for some fucking reason

The original Utopia of More is a dystopia in today’s standards.

It’s not wrong. The “common center” lies inside the Sun.

Therefore, the Sun orbits itself and the Earth orbits the Sun.

Of course I (re-checked) the criteria on my own before commenting, and it stands.

Evidence of receipt of lesser nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence

There are a bunch of international prises other than the Olympics. By the way, Oscars and Pulitzers aren’t inherently international - they’re made by the american film (newspaper) industry for that same industry. Awards juries are 90+% American, as are the awardees.

Anyway, more realistic would be to look at the International math olympiad, for example. There are about 10k contestants anually, and just under 50% recieve prizes. There are similar competitions for pretty much any school subject.

Then there’s sport. There are a bunch of sports, with each having a multitude of international competitions. The ATP Open for tennis, the FIFA/UEFA championships, for soccer, various regates for yachting especially - you name it.

And these are just of the top of my head, and the second level of prestige (after Nobels and Oscars). Saying there’s at least 20 international competitions per sport on average is an understatement.

All in all, for point one, aboit 5% of the population fit the bill, even discounting stuff like the France-Germany typists’ association anual speed typing competition, which just might fit the bill as well.

Evidence of your membership in associations in the field which demand outstanding achievement of their members

There’s Mensa, an international association - a special achievement required to join: IQ over 130. It has 150k members.

Similarily, there are: International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, World Federation of Neurology, European Mathematical Society - you name it.

Evidence of published material about you in professional or major trade publications or other major media

Not even that’s that hard. Every school shooter fits the bill.

Evidence that you have been asked to judge the work of others, either individually or on a panel.

Be a member of a society in (2) and you will.

Evidence of your original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance to the field

Another point for fittig the bill of (1), basically, since an award is, by definition, a recognition and evidence of achievment.

Evidence of your authorship of scholarly articles in professional or major trade publications or other major media

Work for a year at a university or a subset of (2), and it’ll happen.

Evidence that your work has been displayed at artistic exhibitions or showcases

This one’s for the more artsy types. There are literally millions of galleries and museums. Getting an exhibition also isn’t that impossible.

Evidence of your performance of a leading or critical role in distinguished organizations

Basically, have an important-sounding title of a (2)

Evidence that you command a high salary or other significantly high remuneration in relation to others in the field

So, be a CEO.

Evidence of your commercial successes in the performing arts

Be Taylor Swift, Rammstein, or any number of more “fringe” artists.

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To sum up, my point is: No, you don’t need to have an Oscar, Nobel or Olympic medal to qualify. Nor do you need to be Einstein.

Here’s someone who fits most criteria as an example:

Meet Andriei Ogushlow. He’s a polish CEO. He studied at and got a PhD in political science. He wrote 8 scolarly articles published in intenrational journals. In his free time he does photography, and had 15 exhibitions, of which 4 were in museums. He’s a member of Mensa and the European Accounting Association. While doing his MBA, he earned a bronze medal in the A4SIC competition.

He’d like US citizenship to be able to make his company have a strong and stable presence in the US.

(That’s 5 out of 10).

He’s not Einstein. But he fits the bill more than “good enough”.

“A category for Einstein” is still a bit of a high sell.

That’s like saying your mom’s like Hitler because he was a human.

Swiss Cheese FTW!

Last time I checked, cloaca was just the back. It is the everything door, though.

They don’t. Not really.

America is nothing economically without its trading partners. And that goes for every country, not just the US.

Accepting what the US does is a stupid idea on any country’s part because Trump’s tariffs have nothing to do with “normal trading”. If anything, they’re abnormal.

And they should be treated as such. Laughed off. Ridiculed. And most certantly not appeased. This entire situation isn’t unlike the Hitler Sudetenland stuff.

Whatever Mr. President says Mr. President gets. Not really a good foreign policy move. It was percisely the US who set up penalties for countries “restricting trade”. Why should other countries not hold the US to the rules?

Both import and export tariffs are barriers to trade. Since Mr President’s childish demands are appeased, soon enough, those countries appeasing will start “reciprocal” tariffs on Mr President’s percieved enemies. Why? Because it’s Mr President’s next logical step.

Now, short of all countries that decided on appeasig the US make a sharp U-turn, what’s done is done.

But, should they decide on such a course of action, they’d isolate America on the world market, which would dissuade Trump from keeping his mercantilism up.

The alternstive is isolating themselves from others, together with America.

According to Israel, the only credible authority on anything and everything, you are Antisemitic Hamas.

Expect a live missile on your local hospital’s doorstep for your crimes against semitism.

Calories are interchangeable like this percisely because a calorie is a unit of energy.

This “energy” we speak of is in stored as chemical potential energy of molecules.

When the human body digests foods, it breaks down molecules to build new ones through chemical reactions. Some such reactions release energy, while others require outside energy to happen. Some molecules are, likewise good stores of energy for the body because they take part in reactions that release energy.

But, at the end of the day, energy is energy. Another type of chemical reactions that release energy is burning. It just so hapoens to be much faster and easier to create and control than the work an ingestive tract does.

The only difference is that burning converts things into a slightly different set of molecules than digestion would (with burning releasing all energy and digestion leavinf some untapped), so energy released by burning isn’t 100% on par to the energy extractable to a human digesting it.

That being said, the difference between the “theoretical” energy (burning) and usable energy (ingestion) isn’t too important. You may put in the 1500 calories on the label, but you won’t utilize all of them. However, taking into account the fact that whenever energy is measured, it’s measured by burning we stay consistent. We may not be 100% percise, but we’re at least consistently wrong. And the amount of unavailiable energy is incredibly small - humans are actually more efficient than machines from an “energy efficiency” standpoint. Given the fact that each person has a different metabolism (and metabolism changes regularily throughout the day, year and with age), neither does trying to be 100% percise make sense, since your values for today will be different from your values for tomorrow.

About losing weight: Weight is lost when energy is taken in, and gained when it used.

Since a human uses about 2000 calories a day, 1500 was discovered as the best middle ground between starving and not gaining weight altogether.

It really doesn’t matter where the calories come from because the only important thing for tracking weight is net energy, gained or lost. 100 calories “trapped” in sugar is the same as 100 calories “trapped in fat”. With the human body being as efficient at sucking out energy out of stuff, the only real difference is in how long the process takes - energy in sugars is practically instantly availiable, while energy in protein takes some time to be extracted.

A net gain or loss of 200 calories is the same, wether it’s through sugars or proteins. But, for the body, it’s all the same. If it has a sufficit of energy it’ll store it (and you’ll have a net weight gain). If it has a deficit, it’ll seem you’ve lost weight, as that energy went into something other than your body’s reserves.

Look, I get it. But I’m also burned out.

Noone forces you to use krita.

Krita’s devs specifically? No. I respect devs by default. I don’t doubt many of Krita’s devs love what they develop. I also use Krita. I don’t have it installed because I don’t need it.

The problem that I keep running into is my (Plasma) defaults being changed for (some) reason. Krita usually gets the defsult for photos. Rhythmbox for audio and MPV for video. I prefer using Pix for photos and VLC for AV.

Noone forces you to use krita.

Plasma, kind of - does.

99% of people do not want a photo editor to be their defsult app for opeing photos. Some artists? Sure. But me? No.

Again, it’s nor a Krita thing specifically - Plasma fucks with my defaults. It’s a Plasma/KDE thing. Krita is just the unfortunate app to have become Plasma’s senseless-default victm.

If it doesn’t fit your workflow or if you think developers are deliberately sabotaging your work

Oh, Krita fits my workflow quite well. Personally am in the process of switxhing to it from GIMP. I know I wrote up a huge wall of mostly garbled text in a passionate rage, but reading just the first part of my rant should’ve made that clear.

I use krita frequently and never met your bug so it’s not as recreatable as you think.

Of course you didn’t. Because who in their right mind enters “0” as the target resolution? That’s right - on one! Except for me, apparently. It’s a stupid bug. One which doesn’t mean anything. It opens no attack surface. It doesn’t cause random crashes. It doesn’t interfere with anyone’s work.

However, you clearly haven’t read my essay. Which is fine with me. It isn’t quality reading material by any sensible metric. But, were you to have read it and tried to recreate the bug, you probably would’ve succeeded.

With that out of the way, my main point was how no - devs (especially KDE, and very transparently so) don’t value your feedback as much as one might think.

Which is - understandable.

As you said, many keep FOSS software alive in their free time for nothing other than the moral gratification. Which is much more than merely commendable. And please, do not try to tell me I don’t respect that when I do.

Where would devs be if they only replied to stupid questions from new users? That’s right - in a tech support hub!

Which is obviously a waste of their time. The fact they don’t do that isn’t anything negative.

The problem, as always is - documentation. My little beef with KDE’s crash wizard is but one example of this deeply-rooted problem.

As is seen in our (both mine and your) example, reading is hard. Writing - harder still. Were I able to read and fully comprehend the ill-fated link on the KDE wizard’s “fuck you” page, you probably wouldn’t be rading this. But alas, I am a human whose reading comprehension skills aren’t top-notch.

Another, equally deeply rooted problem in FOSS is lack of general design thinking and logic. Am I calling KDE devs stupid? Of course not! But any UI (including the KDE crash wizard) should have a few eyes to assess it first. Then research on a batch of test users should be done. And then feedback from the general user population should be listened to. Is that a hard ask? Yes. Step 2 is expensive and as such out of reach of most FOSS projects, and not even Big Tech bothers with step 3.

But am I wrong in calling the KDE modal annoying and badly designed (“stupid”) even, when it has already wasted my time in the same way on 15 occasions? Maybe not. I am angry and it may have been irrational. But I feel my perspective is at least understandable even if the wording isn’t.

In the end, users can’t live without developers and developing user-facing applications makes little sense without users. I’m not in the Linux community because I don’t like FOSS, Linux or KDE. I’m percisely here to support them. However, sometimes issues arrise, and having a good community to help with fixing issues (because the devs can’t (obviously) handle all that load themselves) is good.

Having a community where the answer to a simple, begginer question is basically “bother the devs, they have a Matrix”, “it’s probably your fault” isn’t an answer. It’s a fuck you. And once they find out they’ve been mislead (not even intentionally perhaps), they might go back to Big tech.

Saying to me that I don’t support FOSS, that I don’t like it and that I can go back to Big Tech (when I haven’t been there for over 4 years now), is an even bigger one.

I like FOSS. Saying I don’t respect them wben I truly do is an insult. I merely don’t understand some of their decisions. Probably due to a lack of context and knowledge, which is on me.

But does giving a rant about, what are tiny problems in the running of a huge machine known as My Computer, spurred on by someone’s unhelpful advice, given in hopes of starting a discussion and the wholly implausible odds of the issue at hand given as an example being fixed due to it call flr the reply “Go to Big Tech, there’s clearly no room for you here”?

I’d hope not.

Are you sure it’s not a you problem? Or isn’t it a you problem? Go read the docs.

Have you contacted the devs? Reporting a bug would be helpful.

Sorry to be so rude, but you really hit a nerve. It isn’t even your fault.

Anyway, rant time:

KDE and bug reports. They always come to you like "Hey, bug reports are so really importsnt to us! And we’ll guide you through it. Here’s our lovely oh-so-helpful wizard!

Except it ain’t lovely. Nor helpful. The only thing it does is pop up whenever a KDE app has an aneurysm and asks you for a backtrace. And then… backtrace is declsred useless.

Why even bother people with the stupid popup if in 90% of cases it’s declared as useless. Why not do the backtrace silently and then annoy the user only once you declare the bug “useful”.

Last instance of this: I was using my KDE desktop. For some reason, Plasma seems to really hate me, because I need to fix default apps every few weeks. For some reason, jpegs and pngs open in Krita by default.

So, wanting to close Krita, becuse I don’t need an entire editor to look at a photo, with tools taking up 25% of the screen, when it asked me about the import resolution, I pressed 0. Krita proceeded to crash and open the report bug dialog.

Not having seen the KDE report wizard for quite some time, I felt inclined to go fill out the report. Got through the first few pages just fine. Then came the backtrace. Sure, do it. I’d like whoever debugs this not snooping through a data dump containing god knows what, but sure. Then it gets called useless. AFTER you’ve taken 30-ish seconds of my life on preliminary questions.

Look, if you’re gonna ask people for input and discard said input if something unrelated happens, at least ask after the something unrelated decided it’s not gonna be yeeted away. No need for the “Oh, wait, we don’t really need this, it’ll take too much time to play detective” after the user already passed three screens of interrogation.

Anyway, the point is:

KDE clearly doesn’t care about bug reports. Because if they did, the guide on installing backtrace-enabled packages once the inevitable verdict of “useless” wouldn’t be a wiki page with the generaal message of “find backtrace-enabled packages, you buffoon” when you could point to them.

Another problem with this is: when a bug happens without backtraceable packages, how is the user supposed to recreate it if they don’t know how?

And besides, my bug is very recreateable. Open an image in Krita (preferably from Dolphin, after Plasma mangled the defaults, again and again). When prompted for some integer, enter “0”. Instead of a generic error message, see the entire app sink into oblivion.

Anyway, if anyone feels like reporting the totally useless report with totally unrecreateable conditions, feel free. I won’t. Just too much work, for it to be discarded just like that by some wizard no one even thought through.

And why would I contact the devs? Or rather, where could I do that? They’re worse than government agencies, for god’s sake. The right person or place just doesn’t exist. Wherever you go to or ask, it’s someone else’s responsibility or your fault. And the wizard, that true single point of contact - refuses any contact just as consistently.

So tell people to call the devs. Tell them it’s their fault. Tell them to make a bug report. Say it just might help not just you, but someone else when all hell will freeze over before anything like that becomes even a remote possibility.

Talk about adding insult to injury.

Being government-run, the store will obviously have:

• a poor selection of products leaving you with no choice
• ugly packaging meaning only the poors will go there
• long waiting lists for entry
• yearly, quarterly and monthly subscriptions, all required and renewed seperately, taking hours in a queue and three trips to the social services hq each to renew
• quotas on all items, groups of items and time limited - whenever one is passed the rest don’t matter
• no added value like delivery or good customer service
• no market research or innovation
• no incentive to do better or improve service
• an active loss of money due to bueraucratic ineficiencies

(Likewise, also spined it (almost) as much as possible.)

Paid luches are nice. But if I get the choice between $10.000 yearly more or paid lunches, obviously i’d go for the cash. It’s supposed to be a bonus (i.e. free), and not a way to cut corners and undermine your employees.

Maybe it does do the company some good in terms of retention, but counting on “I’ll save $6k if I spend $4k on lunches per person on average by cutting pay for new hires” is not a good strategy. Same for ping pong tables, horseraces, pizza parties and whatever else.

It’s basicallly just a label they beed to slap to suddenly be avle to circumvent some forms of non-consent. There’s also overriding legitimate interest (just as vague btw so it covers everything).

In other words, legitimate interest is a form of rape (what with the circumcenting consent and all)

An interesting way to misspell “subscription”