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Why was the American federal corrections system harder to escape compared to Colombia's?

This is based off of my conclusions from watching Narcos. The narcotraffickers in Colombia were terrified of being extradited to the US because they knew they would never be able to break out of prison, whereas they were certain that they could strong arm their way out of any Colombian corrections facilities. Their methods in...

SolOrion ,

Even with mafia infiltration of American prisons, it was usually only done to increase the quality of life for mafia affiliated peoplein prison as it would be too risky to try to break them out and get three attention of the public.

Yep, which is why you get scenes in mafia movies where some dudes go to prison and while they’re inside they get steak and lobster every day and stuff like that. Like in The Goodfellas.

SolOrion ,

Noita is so neat!

It’s like if someone made a roguelike out of those sand physics flash games that were popular when I was younger.

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PS3 emulator is snappy

RPCS3 is a great emulator! They can be a pain to set up or tweak for performance but that one in particular is a very smooth experience.

SolOrion ,

If I could mindwipe one videogame and replay it, it’s 100% gotta be Outer Wilds.

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Same lmao. Sent me back in time a little bit. I have a sudden urge to play Runescape.

SolOrion ,

Are there languages with more than 2 genders? That sounds interesting.

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It’s easy to read, but it also reads like the written equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.

SolOrion ,

I was right! It was interesting. Thanks for the reply.

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That is very good AI art, if it’s AI art. Pretty sure it’s Norse mythology inspired- I think the snake is Jormungandr and the lil dude with the hammer is Thor. So it might be AI making the art weird or it might be the source material making the art weird lmao

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I just assumed it was a weird minimalist style or a terrible quality photo making it look weird, honestly. I didn’t examine it closely.

Looking at it on desktop, wow the faces are awful.

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To be clear it’s ‘prohibitively expensive’ on a governmental scale.

There’s so few places that have that combo of “not enough water” and “large amounts of wealth” that desalinization just isn’t used a lot.

SolOrion ,

I have actually been googling the hell out of this and I still don’t know.

SolOrion ,

Plus, once you run out of ammo it makes a suitable(but slightly unwieldy) club.

SolOrion ,

It looks to me like that’s a 6+2 connector and they only needed the 6-pin so the +2 is just left dangling, which afaik is fine.

SolOrion ,

What wattage is the PSU?

You could try taking the GPU out entirely and see if it gets anywhere. If it runs fine without the GPU it’s probably wanting way more power than your PSU can provide. I doubt that’s the issue for various reasons, but it’s a possibility.

SolOrion ,

Oh, yeah, okay, good point. I didn’t notice the solder. I’m not sure if it’s actually a six pin anymore. I have zero clue how an 8 pin GPU would react to only having 6 pins.

SolOrion ,

What’s a moderate Nazi even look like? I think if you even slightly deserve the term ‘Nazi’ you’re so far past anything considered moderate it’s absurd.

SolOrion ,

Cope cages on Western tanks, I think. Russians have had them for awhile but theirs look like shit.

I’m not entirely sure what they’re supposed to accomplish, which is what makes it a cope ig. That’s going to be irrelevant unless someone travels back to the 80s and steals some HEAT ammo. The tiniest amount of RPG or Javelin protection is my best guess.

SolOrion ,

There was another one a few days ago, too, from what I heard.

SolOrion ,

Warframe and Warthunder. Lot of war happening, now that I think about it.

I’m starting to get a bit burnt out on Warthunder, though.

SolOrion ,

I think, so yeah. Warframe tends to polarize people- a lot of the time people either enjoy it a lot or hate it a lot and it just depends on your preferences. I think it’s because of how grindy it is while it simultaneously has a very ridiculous amount of depth.

The most important thing I can suggest is that when you have questions, ask someone. Either a friend that’s knowledgeable, youtube, or hell just ask in Q&A chat. Don’t just try to figure it out- that’s probably not going to end well. The new player experience is miles better than when I started, but it’s still kinda rocky. Things aren’t explained incredibly well.

If you try it and end up having questions feel free to toss me a DM- I’m happy to help a new player out however I can.

SolOrion ,

I never could get into World of Tanks. It always seemed interesting but didn’t grab me.

I gotta get back into World Of Warships tho that game is neat.

SolOrion ,

A great power fantasy for the Grineer when I hit Steel Path lmao.

SolOrion ,

Oh, thanks, actually. I was very confused trying to figure out what USSC was. My dumbass was thinking United States Soviet Commune lmao.

SolOrion ,

If you remove everything after the & you’ll get people on desktop, too. The search= part.

I can preview the link, which considering how the link ends…

SolOrion ,

Oh, nevermind. You actually linked the search. I just misunderstood lmao. I wasn’t trying to prank you.

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M10 GMC. Oooh, no Ersatz M10, just for fun.

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I’m literally carrying around like a gallon of the stuff, sourcing it isn’t a problem.

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No! You think I’m made of money? The blood will stain and I’m not gonna get another gallon jug every month. I just use a big glass jar. Weirdo.

"Hacked" Instagram

My other half discovered that some dodgy person/company had managed to send instagram messages advertising handbags to all of her followers from her account. She changed her password immediately, but what could have happened here? Is it the case that a “hacker” had access to her full instagram account, or would they have...

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Meanwhile my main email account has started getting “WALMART.WIN.CONFIRMATION PLEASE REPLY TO LOCK IN YOUR NEW IPAD” emails from [email protected] (I mangled that email a bit but it’s close to accurate) about once a week. Just… in my main fuckin inbox.

It’s frustrating because it’s so obviously spam.

SolOrion ,

“It just started saying ‘yikes’ like five years back.”

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I’m really very much not a City builder guy so grain of salt here: I really enjoyed Banished.

I dislike the scale of other games- in stuff like Cities Skylines I tend to get overwhelmed by how much is going on and everything I need to make work together. So I guess it makes sense that I prefer a village builder over a city builder lol

SolOrion ,

Ooh, thanks. I’ll check it out!

SolOrion ,

I have a big thing of “biscuits” from a cold war fallout shelter. Government one, I remember that much. I gotta go find that thing sometime.

I thought about cracking it open and trying a biscuit, but honestly it was in pretty rough shape. I kinda doubted the biscuits would be edible, and if that was the case I would have just ruined the can further for nothing.

SolOrion ,

Oh I love that dude! “Nice hiss. Let’s get this out onto a tray.” He will dead ass stop mid chew like, “yeah that’s foul.” Then go back for another bite.

The issue with the biscuits is that the can is very very rusty in some spots. The biscuits aren’t the failure point the can is lol.

9 years later, I finally played fallout 4

Having dropped New Vegas in the past due to lost interest, I decided to try this game out finally since a friend of mine was having a fallout 3 playthrough himself. It was it 8 bucks, so I figured why not. I have to say, I put way more hours into this game than both other Bethesda games I’ve played through (Skyrim and...

SolOrion ,

The legendary system isn’t transplanted from Elder Scrolls, is it?

Unless you’re saying legendary weapons = enchanted weapons I have no clue what you mean. If that is what you mean, that’s a weird take but I guess I see it.

Also your take on the world feeling more large scale and alive is extremely interesting because I would’ve said the direct opposite. Fallout 4 feels incredibly dead to me. There’s enemies, sure, but they don’t exist past being targets for me to destroy so that I can loot them and whatever structure they’re functionally just guarding. I can’t really influence most of them past killing them and putting the Minutemen there instead. Fallout 4 feels too much like I was dropped in a sandbox.

Fallout 4 is a good game. I’d go as far as to call it great if you just ignore that there’s a main story. It feels like the devs wanted to make a looter shooter, but they got told they had to make a Fallout game with RPG mechanics. So they absolutely half-assed all the RPG parts.

I typed this on mobile, so there’s definitely typos. Sorry.

SolOrion ,

Yeah, that’s the part that confused me. Skyrim’s enchantment system is just it’s enchantment system. It’s not as… exclusive as Fallout 4’s legendary system. I think that’s what makes it distinct in my mind. I definitely see what you mean.

a deathclaw is a deathclaw.

Fallout 3, sure, but with New Vegas? Not really. There’s plenty of places you can go and then decide whether you’re making friends or enemies. You can interact with them, and then decide if you want them dead or not. There’s definitely some places where- like you said- a deathclaw is a deathclaw, but there’s also plenty of exceptions.

SolOrion ,

The more modern Total War games are pretty hard to run, so keep that in mind OP. If you still have Windows 7 stuff like Total War Three Kingdoms or the Total War Warhammer games are going to laugh at you. That said, anything before Shogun 2 is likely to run on anything made post-2010.

SolOrion ,

It requires a special type of insanity to learn, but the rewards are WELL worth it.

That’s very accurate. I’m not that guy, I tried lol.

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I have pretty much the direct opposite experience so it was the first thing that came to mind- I started with Rome 2 and couldn’t run it at the time lol.

SolOrion ,

Free as in: unlimited calls and texts are included in pretty much all but the most bargain bin plans nowadays.

I was looking for a new cell provider a couple months ago, and I honestly don’t recall even seeing a plan that didn’t come with unlimited talk and text.

SolOrion ,

There’s literally like four places with free wifi in my entire town. Most of the restaurants don’t have it, and we only have two hotels… neither of which has properly free wifi- you have to get a room to use it.

SolOrion ,

is it true that you have to pay to receive calls in the US?

I’m not certain what you’re asking. Are you asking if someone can call you and make you pay for it? Not that I’ve ever seen. With the exception of jails/prisons- inmates can collect call you. I imagine it’s a thing in other contexts, but not that I’ve ever experienced.

Generally, ime pretty much everyone has unlimited calls and texts these days. It’s pretty dirt cheap. Data is much more expensive and limited. Even “unlimited” data plans are only technically so- after some arbitrary but generally high amount of data they’ll throttle the absolute hell out of you.

US foreign aid package: how is it financed?

I was just wondering how the US (or any country really) can pull out 100 billion on a given occasion ? Is the treasury just “printing” more money, or are taxes raised? (let’s say 200million Americans are active, that’s still $500 per person) . Or is it just debt passed on to future generations? It goes without saying...

SolOrion ,

Debt for governments doesn’t really work like debt for people. The vast majority of it is owed either to the US government, or individuals/companies in the US.

It’s generally treated like a low-yield extremely safe investment. You can absolutely count on a US government bond being paid on time, every time. If the US starts defaulting on debts like that, it’s a safe assumption that the entire economy has gone to shit a long time ago. Which means it’s good for everyone.

The French Wikipedia uses the Thin Red Line flag in the legend for a map (fr.wikipedia.org)

Context: the Thin Blue Line is symbolism for the role of police in maintaining public order. It has been co-opted by the alt-right. There is also a Thin Red Line to represent nurses. The French Wikipedia happened to use it in a legend to explain what the red lines on a map mean.

SolOrion ,

It literally uses and links the image for ‘thin red line for nurses’: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modèle:Début_Rue_Judaïque#/…) as part of the map’s legend.

I don’t think it’s meant to be anything even remotely political or even intentional I just think it’s amusing. I have no idea what OP’s take on it is.

I also think a Finnish first aid course accidentally linking something related to the KKK would be incredibly funny. “Oh, right I forgot what the three Ks stand for. Thankfully they have this helpful link to jog my mem- uhhh…”

SolOrion ,

Is anyone making non-commercial AI? Is that actually an issue?

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That is absolutely fucking metal. TIL.

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The crickets aren’t competition for the crickets.

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