Have any of you played with OpenClaw? I don't get why I would want to?
Absolutely. I forgot about that, but you are totally right. With a few outliers like West Virginia, the "obesity belt" follows almost exactly the black belt.
I asked chatgpt, so, full disclosure, I have not gone to the sources.
🧑 Men
Overweight: ~34% (from earlier 2017–2018 NHANES)
Obesity: ~39.3% (2021–23 age-adjusted)
Severe Obesity: ~6.7% (2021–23)
👩 Women
Overweight: ~27.5% (2017–18 NHANES)
Obesity: ~41.4% (2021–23 age-adjusted)
Severe Obesity: ~12.1% (2021–23)
I guess it's possible there are enough muscular men to throw the numbers off in the "overweight" category, and the "Severe obesity" category is skewed a good bit more strongly to women for sure, but the numbers just don't strike me as that different.
What I've noticed is a real class difference, developing particularly over the past ~15 years. It's pretty rare to find an obese college professor (male or female). Sure, you'll have many with soft bodies, many in the lower spectrum of overweight, and many who are completely out of shape, but obesity+ is rare.
Lower end store workers, even construction workers, machine operators, etc., I see a lot more weight issues. Guy who re-gravelled my driveway recently was huge but a wizard the machines. He also did plenty by hand, was strong, and isn't being held back, but dude was 300+ for sure.
Bottom line for me. We need less processed food, less sugar, and we need food policies that make it possible and DESIRABLE for fast food and other restaurant to serve food that isn't absolute shit.
That's honestly not the full issue. That's an excuse. Women choose to eat the poison when they could choose not to. They still eat too much. Though, we should fix the food supply. If people just bought kosher, they'd be fine.
This perplexes me. Why single out women here? If you look at obesity statistics, there are more morbidly obese women than men, and slightly more obese women than men, but only very slightly. We're talking 41% vs 40%. That doesn't necessarily cover eating clean, but it's possibly a bit of a proxy.
Well, he was married to Kim Guilfoyle. And he's had affairs with married women. So there's that?
Hah, I didn't know that -- smart mercenaries!
Islam has a pretty strict restriction on idolatry and showing Muhammad's face. At various times and places this has meant a total restriction on images of people (driver's licenses, for instance, were protested in some Arab countries) to more limited restrictions on depictions of religious figures.
AI Muhammad would get some ... interesting responses.
Very common.
The Byzantine Empire had the Varangian guards (Vikings). They could no longer trust their own forces and political rivalries were out of control--bring in foreigners who could at least be bought.
The Ottoman Empires had the Janissaries (converted Christians mostly from the Balkans). Ditto.
Heck, the Gurkhas in British India were the elite forces of the British army for more than a century. Tens of thousands of Gurkhas fought for and served the British in World War 2.
Perhaps a leading indicator of a nation in grave decline.
I've only watched the first 3 episodes, and I've enjoyed them. I did read the Dunk and Egg books, year ago, and I don't really remember much about them.
I know it's HBO and violence and sex is kind of their thing, but I wish it would be toned down a little. I think my wife would enjoy watching the show, but she was out the second Dunk started spraying diarrhea in the first episode.
I found the giant dong pretty funny, not going to lie. Apparently the producers said they felt like they had kind of shit all over Ser Arlen and wanted to give the guy SOMETHING good in his life!
My other complaint is rather minor, but still. You're going for realism in this series, right? So there's a tournament that starts at night? There's no way they would be jousting in the dark. LITERALLY UNWATCHABLE.
It's hard to find numbers specifically for D&D, but Wizards of the Coast seems to be very profitable, primarily due to Magic.
2nd Quarter 2025, Magic: https://articles.starcitygames.com/magic-the-gathering/magic-grows-23-percent-behind-magic-the-gathering-final-fantasy/
- Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY made history as the best-selling Magic set of all time before its release date, so it comes as no surprise the highly-anticipated Universes Beyond expansion ushered in incredible sales and growth for the game. Magic: The Gathering revenue grew 23 percent*
September 2025: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hasbros-turnaround-real-wizards-coast-103139078.html
- However, beneath the surface, a turnaround is beginning to take shape. The company is in the midst of a strategic overhaul, and the early results are actually promising. Fueled by the incredible performance of its Wizards of the Coast segment, Hasbro is showing signs of life.
I would love for WotC to fail and D&D (in its current forms) to die. I've been burned too many times by YouTube clickbait "Kathleen Kennedy is FIRED -- will be out by next week" / "Kurtzman Trek is over, new series to return to classic Trek!"
Corporate products are just terrible.
What's the evidence that D&D is a dying franchise. Everything I can see, in terms of financials, seem to indicate that Wizards of the Coast is the best part of Hasbro, and that WotC is making a shit ton of money from D&D and Magic.
Dosbox, Scummvm, even buying direct from gog. Very accessible. Some of the older games can be challenging to play today. Some are just as good as ever.
The archive link shows you the original link.
I mean, what growing boy doesn't dream of growing "chesticles" and becoming an anime cartoon girl? Perfectly normal stuff here!
https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/2021592535152414945
"u/jesseboy347 is the Reddit account of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter.
@MalesOfReddit posted this screenshot of u/jesseboy347 back in 2023.
Turns out if you post enough random screenshots from r/MtF you'll eventually post a mass shooter."
https://www.reddit.com/user/jesseboy347/
"This user has deleted their account"
The same Males of Reddit post (first link, above) was discussed on the Vaush subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VaushV/comments/12td9s0/matt_walsh_quote_tweets_account_that_posted_a/ ( Archive https://archive.ph/wip/61oV3 )
A lot of what I do is just copy+paste into chatGPT. Table schema, function stubs, a handful of functions or classes or what not, and then ask questions, ask to implement a narrow function, etc. It's been super useful for that.
VERY useful with SQL. I'm pretty good with SQL but llms are SQL wizards.
I've been using Claude for just a few weeks. It's pretty insane, but I have not gotten that deep into the agentic coding.
(Most) Iranians are Persians or Kurds, speak an Indo-European language, and are ethnically different from the Turks of Anatolia, the Arabs of the Middle East, and the South Asians of Pakistan and India.
Historically, Persians and Arabs have not gotten along.
Historically, it was kind of a sore point for Persians that these barbarian Arabs with no culture conquered the great millennia old Persian civilization and converted them to Islam. Persian culture became the dominant culture of much of the middle east for many years. This is why things like Persian miniatures (artwork) and architecture are so widespread.
If you were in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, the language you'd speak would be closest to Persian (kind of a hodgepodge of Persian, Turkish grammar, Arabic/religious vocabulary). Persian was kind of the cultured language like French or Latin.
Anyway, I think we just have a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation going on.
My MtG group almost fell apparently due to 2 dudes competing over the one girl. She was pretty chill, they were not.
No, that's false, he did not name his bank account "Baal." It was a scanning error. If you disagree, please link to the source document and not some shitty screenshot.
You may want to rethink that. A friend of mine sold all of his cards (of that era) a decade or so back, and made some serious bank; It gave him a pretty decent downpayment on a new car.
Your post is hilarious to me. That’s exactly the era when I played magic and, more specifically, when I stopped playing magic.
I thought Misborn Era 2 was great. Yes, there are signs of Hollyweird peaking through, but it's pretty minimal.
The whole "schtick" of Stormlight is that almost all of the main characters are broken in some way. That's integral to how the magic system works.
The last 2 books have had more "cringe" moments than any other pieces of Sanderson's writing.
I think the real reason is that his longtime editor, Moshe Feder, left. Moshe had edited I believe every single Mistborn and most of the other Tor books. Oathbringer (Stormlight book 3) was the last book Moshe worked on.
I don't think it's a coincidence that books 4 and 5 were far weaker. Sanderson does this whole "alpha readers" and "beta readers" feedback groups, and with a strong and good editor in place, that's manageable. Without a strong guiding hand, it's easy to get bullied around by shitty superfans.
So what kind of things do you do?
I use LLMs daily for coding assistance, database assistance, and other random knowledge/google-replacement tasks.
I'm just not sure what I would what an agentic AI to do for me that I'm not already doing? Genuinely curious! I am planning to buy a decked out Mac Mini when M5s come out.