Oddly, I found myself going back many times over the past 15 years or so. Something about the simplicity kept me going intrigued. Guess Trollegle/bellawhiskey, and whatever other chatrooms died as well
Until all 3 of you die because you accidentally started an uncontrolled fire while you’re already in an emergency.
2 people and 2 space blankets have just as good odds as surviving the cold than 2 people and some candles. Without needing to worry about fire.
A candle is going to heat up the area around it and dissipate that heat. The blanket will simply keep that 350 btu that you produce every hour much closer to your body, and stop you from freezing to death.
The number of per capita patents taken out by inventors is decreasing, suggesting that ideas have become harder to find.
A metric they use for measuring scientific progress is how innovation is bureaucratically represented, which these god damn geniuses follow to the conclusion conclude alongside the idea that science has
“become bureaucratic, with too many inputs and too much process required to reach success".
Man economists are all fucking stupid and you’ll never convince me otherwise
Edit: Skimmed the paper, the metric of per capita patents had its own claims and was discrete from the source that led to the claim about bureaucracy. It’s still stupid that the paper is at odds with itself.
The theoretical motivation of the paper was actually so dumb. It was all bullshit quotes from entrepreneurs and other economists, not researchers whose jobs revolve around actually creating the innovations that these losers go around parading.
The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti Western: A grizzled and mysterious loner, against the odds, ekes out an existence on the American Plains.
I personally went from having to have everything on low or turned off to literally cranking everything all the way up and it’s still playable. Mind you, I’m running an eight year old quad-core Xeon, 64Gb of 2400mhz ECC DDR4, and a 2080ti. Game’s installed on a SATA SSD that isn’t exactly new.
And yes, I’m aware that’s an odd mishmash of parts. Most of it came from an old server my last job was throwing away.
I liked the original but found it a bit too punishing/affected by RNG. But I LOVE the sequel - they smoothed out the worst rough edges and made things more predictable. For example, no more hit% for attacks - now attacks hit unless enemies have a Dodge token, which gives then 50% miss chance and is expended after one attack against them. And of course the roguelike structure is a great fit. I feel like this is the perfected version of Darkest Dungeon mechanics - you will suffer, odds are overwhelming, but you have a lot of options to mitigate or occasionally even benefit from bad status effects, and combat is much more predictable.
I think it’s a great game and I’m interested in the DLC.
No almost about it. It is adversarial in a lot (maybe most) cases. When it is only, and always, about money, with no other priority the company has a strong incentive to screw over and exploit workers more. And if beholden to shareholders, squeezing blood from every stone is a requirement.
Chasing dollars sure seems to be at odds with virtually anything good and decent.
Why would anyone wake up at half 5 if they didn’t have to? You only wake at half 5 if you have to. You may find the odd person who likes being up that early but 99% of people would want to get up at a proper time.
I mean I had to deal with all the bs indoctrination of Christianity when I was growing up, but I definetly wouldn’t assign those barbaric constraints as the motive behind a highly advanced alien species, religion was a blight from power hungry authoritarian people in the past. As I’ve stated I don’t believe a society which has not mastered harmony with its own species and planet as capable to be that advanced. A greedy authoritarian society will tear itself apart before it ever reaches a “highly advanced” society. You could commit genocide and given enough time different races will be born again, bringing you into a repeating cycle of chaos. Look at how unstable any extremely religious area is on earth, you think that’s going to create advanced societies? I sure as hell don’t nor would I attribute such nonsense to a being capable of traversing the universe, one who understands the principles of physics and can unify them with the quantum mechanics is not going to assign unkowns to a god, they would investigate the mechanisms behind them and try to define them. That’s a step above what we have rationally discovered and I don’t attribute religion to rational beings, it’s completely at odds.
‘It’s not you, it’s me’ is the gist of college student qualms with dating apps. Hook-up culture declines while young people search for genuine connection.
So you gave up online dating a decade ago? The Internet has come a long way since then.
I don’t know what you’re looking for, but I would urge you to give it another try if you’re not finding what you want. It’s not magic, but it will simply put you in front of a lot more people than you would otherwise see. If your perfect match is a 1 in 1000 you’ve got way better odds running into them online than via random chance IRL.
That’s odd, mine actually has a “moist” mode. It has a little cavity where any juice that get sucked up go. You just have to empty it often if you’re doing alot of meats that are juicy. As for soups, I do one of two methods, freeze over night in a Tupperware, then remove from Tupperware and Vac seal or ill just let it cool and vac seal, which might leave a small air gap, but I haven’t notice it effect the soup like it does meat.
The fact that you see vandalism and protest as mutually exclusive is really odd. Reminds me of the liberal types who claim they’re all for protesting and yet draw the line at anything past marching or petitioning maybe.
Super great deflection technique by the big oil guys by the way - everyone’s arguing over art in a museum rather than holding them accountable
Actually that argument is literally Oxford philosophy professor Nick Bostrom’s argument in his simulation hypothesis given the unitary quality to the original and multiplicity potential of copies. If there can only be one original and can be more than one copy, then as long as there can and will be copies the odds are you are in a copy.
If you are totally honest, you'd admit that for a huge percentage of the transportation, we don't have any real option other than hydrogen. That's certainly the case for many types of commercial vehicles, ships and airplanes. But it is also true for a large percentage of passenger cars. Not everyone can accept a battery powered car in their lifestyle. So it is inevitable that transportation is part of what hydrogen is good for. And once we start using hydrogen for this, batteries quickly become the odd-man out. After all, why spend trillions on a highly destructive and arguably unsustainable technology that will have to be replaced anyways?
The reason why it is a climate change denial tactic is that it completely ignores the fact that we can easily build enough renewable energy for pretty much whatever we want. It is thousands of times more plentiful than fossil fuels, and won't run out either. So even if we accept your claim of needing 3x more capacity, that is still no problem. However, it won't actually need that, since renewable energy requires vast amounts of energy storage to be viable. That storage is most easily done using hydrogen. So in reality, hydrogen is pretty fundamental to renewable energy altogether.
Why is it only about deaths and not also about people who get shot without dying?
Why isn’t the US the safest country in the world if there’s more guns than anywhere else?
Why do experts agree that having access to a firearm increases the odds that bad situations will end in violence in a moment of panic if guns actually increase safety?
How would you have pulled out your gun if the attacker had pulled his knife at 5’?
How would you have pulled out your gun if the attacker also had one?
How come mass shootings keep happening if people are armed and able to shoot the shooter?
Is it possible that all your drills are very nice in a controlled environment but reality isn’t a controlled environment?
Let me repeat what I said from the beginning. Pretty much no one in rich countries need a gun these days. 100 000 events in a country of 330 000 000 affects 0.03% of the population, that’s exactly what “pretty much no one” is. I was right from the beginning, deal with it.
Fun to see you lose your temper and start throwing more and more insults, shows how weak your arguments are. Go back to your NRA meeting and tell them how mad you are.
I want the one where the working class finally wakes up,
That is unlikely to happen. While I’ve certainly spoken to a number of younger people at shooting events that would agree that it’s a class issue rather than a left/right thing, most of the people that I’ve run across do not see it that way. They have the simple view, “Republican good, Demonrats bad”. (BTW, I do tend to vote Democratic, because there are many things that I value that the Dems at least say they’re in favor of, even if they usually don’t act. Lesser of two evils, etc.)
Like enough fascism that it causes “good christian southern white folk”
Uh. Who, exactly, do you think the fascists are? Odds are pretty good that if you’re in a white SBC church, any megachurch at all, TradCath, or some other similar trash, you’re probably rootin’ for the fascists. As the saying goes, there’s no hate like Christian love.
In the meantime, I do plan on obtaining a firearm,
I’m down with that. Take some classes, and take classes from people that have a solid track record as competitive shooters, not some old fudd that kisses the NRA’s ass. (Ben Stoeger is the gold standard for shooting instructors; if you’re LGBTQ+, check Operation Blazing Sword or The Pink Pistols for LGBTQ+ friendly instructors.) Practice and train regularly, and compete. You don’t git gud shooting at slow firing at paper targets; you get good by forcing yourself to shoot accurately while moving and on the clock. Steel challenge is a good place to start, and then USPSA and IDPA. You don’t need a gucci gun, you just need something that’s accurate and reliable. Glock is the standard for a reason; you can run them for thousands of rounds without cleaning, while race guns (like Staccato) need to be cleaned every 750-1000 rounds or else they start jamming badly. In fact, for IDPA, you can’t use the gucci-est of gucci race guns; production optics is as fancy as it goes, and you’re going to have to be able to conceal it. Get a carry permit; you don’t have to carry–I don’t, because I simply don’t need to–but having the permit and knowing the laws on when you can carry, and when you can legally use lethal self defense is generally a good idea.
…And then hope to fuck that we can hold it together as a country, and turn this shit around without a class war, because US Civil War Pt II would be the bloodiest war in human history, and the world that would emerge after that war isn’t one that I’d want to live in, regardless of who “won”.
Omegle has officially shut down (www.omegle.com)
That's an oddly specific phobia (beehaw.org)
It's that time of year when Scotty's brain melts. (lemmy.world)
18+ Lie Detector (lemmy.world)
Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations (www.livemint.com)
Birds are great (lemmy.ca)
Fossils tell tale of last primate to inhabit North America before humans (phys.org)
The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti Western: A grizzled and mysterious loner, against the odds, ekes out an existence on the American Plains.
Cities: Skylines 2 dev says it won't release paid DLC until performance "fixed to our standards" (www.eurogamer.net)
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Music for Global Cyberattacks
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Though Bat'leths are way cooler than guns. (lemmy.world)
Darkest Dungeon II - The Binding Blade DLC Announcement Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Gen Z is forcing a workplace reckoning that should have happened years ago (www.businessinsider.com)
The hardest workers get the smallest pay. (lemmy.world)
The Aliens did a little trolling (lemmy.world)
College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down (gizmodo.com)
‘It’s not you, it’s me’ is the gist of college student qualms with dating apps. Hook-up culture declines while young people search for genuine connection.
What are your favourite things under 50$ that make your life a bit easier or more pleasant?
I need some holiday gift ideas (that I will probably gift to myself as well)!
Just Stop Oil smash glass on paintings at the National Gallery (www.theguardian.com)
Two activists arrested after Rokeby Venus artwork targeted, as dozens of others held after blocking Whitehall...
Perhaps (startrek.website)
Trump and His Lawyers Dare NY Judge to Throw Him in Jail (www.rollingstone.com)
Solar energy storage breakthrough could make European households self-sufficient (sifted.eu)
3 children and woman killed in Israeli strike on car in south Lebanon (www.naharnet.com)
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Man Gets 100 Years for Accidentally Killing His 8-Year-Old Daughter While Trying to Shoot His 18-Year-Old Son (people.com)
Young Activists to Biden: Change Course on Gaza — or Lose in 2024 (www.rollingstone.com)
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