Opportunity makes the thief. These people are intentionally trying to get people to commit a crime that might have never otherwise have happened, just so they can beat someone up and/or create content for their channels. That is morally wrong.

Spent most of today on trains coming back to Germany from my 2 weeks Interrail trip to the UK. Had a great time there. Spent yesterday exploring Bath and climbing up Solsbury Hill in the evening.

Sehe mich zwar auch als links, aber was Europapolitik angeht bin ich von den meisten linken Parteien enttäuscht. Gerade am linken Rand herrscht oft eine Euroskepsis vor, die man ähnlich auch am rechten Rand findet (womit ich sie keinesfalls als Ganzes gleichsetzen will). Damit kann ich nichts anfangen. An Volt gefällt mir, dass sie den Wert der EU erkennen und die Zusammenarbeit vertiefen wollen, mit dem langfristigen Ziel einer europäischen Föderation. Auch finde ich gut, dass sie sich für ein offenes Internet ohne Überwachung und Zensur einsetzen. Wirtschaftspolitisch bin ich mit ihnen nicht auf einer Linie, was ich aber im EU-Parlament zweitrangig finde, da die Wirtschaftspolitik immer noch deutlich stärker von der Bundesregierung beeinflusst wird als dem EU Parlament. Ich selbst habe meine Stimme nicht für Volt abgegeben, aber denke schon dass sie eine positive Kraft im EU Parlament sein können.

Some of the polls on wahlrecht.de include the smaller parties. The latest one that does is from march though, unfortunately.

Black people founded one of the first Christian nations, Ethiopia.

These NPCs would have to be written by people too. Otherwise you'd just get ChatGPT. Depending on complexity, it might even require more writing work.

Where I live, it used to be Twingos instead of Beetles for some reason.

The way it works right now is usually over the cloud. I've already tried out a bit of "Convai" as a developer, which is a platform where you can create LLM NPCs and put them in Unreal Engine. It's pretty neat, not perfect, but you can definitely give characters thousands of lines of backstory if you want and they will act in character. They will also remember any conversations a player had with them previously and can refer to them in later convos. Can still be fairly obvious that you're talking to an LLM though, if you know what to ask and what to look for. Due to its cloud-based nature, there is also some delay between the player input and the response. But it has a lot of potential for dialog systems where you can do way more than just choose between 4 predefined sentences. Especially once running these things locally won't be a performance-issue.

Mate, this community is more left-wing than probably 90% of online communities. If that's already "fascist" to you, I can't even imagine where you'd put a place like reddit. If you apply that word to everyone you disagree with, it loses all meaning.

I got to fly a lot and always looked forward to it as a situation where no one can get mad at me for spending the whole time watching movies, playing games or reading books. Some of that childhood joy stuck with me, and I still look forward to a chance to sit back and read or zone out to music without any nagging work obligations

Pretty much the same reasons I like traveling on trains. The reasons why I don't like plane traveling nearly as much (kind of hate it TBH) is the whole airport bureaucracy and security theater you need to go through just to get on the plane. And the incredibly cramped seats (though maybe not a factor for you, if you were privileged enough not to fly Economy).

Probably didn't harm me ultimately, as he did prescribe regular medicine when it was really needed (in addition to some sugar pills usually). Still, it might not have harmed me, but it sure didn't help me, only filling the pockets of some quack companies.