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Well, he’s clearly not talking about small people like say, me or you compared to Trump or Musk. And let me be clear, he is probably wrong about that as well. If Trump is anti-google that is likely nothing more than a negotiating position.

It’s probably just a language thing. When he says small people he means sub-mega corporations. Actual humans probably pass beneath his notice.

I think it depends a lot on the nature of your world. In most of our myths, monsters are a product of some breach of the ‘natural order’ for instance, I don’t believe a centaur is ever described as a monster, though they are often depicted as a menace. The Minotaur on the other hand was a punishment devised by the gods, and I think could be considered a monster.

If you don’t want this system you could simply state the monsters are an especially dangerous type of animal, and could include, say, a specific dangerous wolf as a warg while generally excluding wolves that keep to themselves.

What is and what isn’t a monster can be (probably should be) culturally defined unless you really need something to only interact with monsters, like Pokémon, or D&D’s distinction between charm person and charm monster.

Larry isn’t a young cat. Steps need to be taken to ensure continuity of government.

A pretty nice desk I’m told.

There are also several parties interested in contact details for dumb as hell audience who don’t mind giving money to obvious scammers.

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Generally I find they are. Herbs are leaves, flowers and (herbaceous) stems, spices are other parts. A plant might provide both a herb and a spice, but they will typically be different parts of a plant.

Tea would be a herb.

2050s for 1st edition, I think current edition is 2070s. Dragons started waking up in the early 2010s though. There has also been significant geopolitical upheaval, especially in the Americas and Europe. The general assumption is that a nuyen being about 1 modern dollar is about the right ballpark.

Shadowrun probably throws these assumptions off a bit. Dunkelzahn’s net worth is hard to pin down but I think the listed cash dispursements in his will exceeded 1 billion nuyen, plus all the real estate and the establishment of several foundations, several items of extreme power and a number of ‘wishes’.

Lofwyr owns a AAA megacorp that he assembled out of purchases made within about 30 years of waking up. My personal he’d cannon is that he ate Musk at some point in this process.

Even the less well known ones have serious stock portfolios and including multiple point shares in megacorps. Dragons took to business rather well as soon as they worked out what share certificates were.

“Greed is not the issue here” - actual dragon sitting on literal pile of gold.

Yeah, this is much the same kind of use. If you work on the assumption that it is just something that has read everything, and everything that has been written about everything you can find it’s utility. Folk want it to be some kind of fact genie, but the only facts it knows are what words go together, and it literally doesn’t know the difference between real and made up.

Isn’t the entire purpose of copilot that it shouldn’t need much in the way of training? I think the extent of it at my employer is “this is the one you use.”

I’ve tried it a few times, the only thing it seems remotely good for is when your recollection of a source is too fuzzy to form a traditional search query around. “What’s that book series I read in the early 2000s about kids who traveled to another world and the things they brought back from it just looked like junk.” Kind of questions.

Hey, you know that thing you use? What if it had a button on it that opened an AI prompt?

Well my mum says it’s a really smart idea from her special little innovator.

Unironically? Maybe not. But using something ironically is still using it.

Why did you, personally, leave Reddit?

Just don’t read The Mirror. Generally not worth the effort of moving your eyes from one word to the next.

Yeah, you are right.

I think it’s the Ge’ez script used in Ethiopian.

There comes an issue when a private citizen seeks to use the engines of state to punish those whose speech offends them.

It’s one thing to withdraw society and business from someone who offends you, quite another to demand that the state crush them for you. Of course, most states will do that to a greater or lesser degree. No state extends an absolute freedom of speech.