Tar_alcaran

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Tar_alcaran,

An aircraft carrier only has a draft of some 12 meters. Godzilla is over 100m. Much of the North Sea is only like 40m deep, with shallows much less than that.

Tar_alcaran,

Especially in Australia, where there’s an insane amount of empty nothing to place wind turbines. Northern Australia gets twice as much solar irradiation as western Europe, it’s absolutely ideal for (rooftop) solar.

Economies of scale and “high density” power generation make sense for some places, but even a place with the population density of the Netherlands can cram in enough wind turbines to get a significant fraction of renewable energy. It should be a total no-brainer for Australia.

Tar_alcaran, (edited )

Maybe I’m 20 years behind, but aren’t all tictacs white? The “green” and “orange” used to just come in coloured boxes, is that not the case anymore?

Edit: I’ve got some serious Mandela effect here it seems

Tar_alcaran,

So, you’re saying they’re sexist and racist, and we should all be enraged and immediately donate to our favourite bigots?

Tar_alcaran,

Yeah, because just pretending the previous movie didn’t happen is also a shitty solution.

Tar_alcaran,

As far as I can remember, the main character is just some random son of a smith.

Tar_alcaran,

Thanks Obama

Tar_alcaran,

Dutch “rood” is pronounced like English “road”.

Dutch “moed” is pronounced like English “mood”.

Tar_alcaran,

Multiple things can be true. Both of these claims are true.

  • It benefits NATO countries to curb the expansion of a rival power without losing a single soldier.
  • Assisting in a sovereign country in resisting annexation by a genocidal occupier is a good thing.

You don’t always have to suffer to help someone else, some situations can be win-win.

Tar_alcaran,

Fully Automatic Trans Mission?

Tar_alcaran,

Nobody on the left wants crappy surveys

Tar_alcaran,

It’s more than that. Conspiracy thinking like this is about feeling powerful and in control.

If all the bad stuff that happens to you is because of a shadowy cabal out to get you, it puts you in the middle of something huge, and you can even do something about it! If you just live in a vast uncaring universe where you can’t do anything and bad stuff just happens sometimes, that’s not comforting at all!

Tar_alcaran,

Also lag.

Tar_alcaran,

The party of Personal Responsibility thinks it’s only the responsibility of other persons. Again.

Let’s Skip The Dragon Age: The Veilguard Vs. Baldur’s Gate 3 Comparisons, Yeah? (kotaku.com)

*Dragon Age: The Veilguard *is going to be divisive. It already is. When you’ve spent ten years waiting for something with an idea of what it would be in your head, if it’s not that thing, you’re bound to be disappointed. But ultimately, *The Veilguard *is not trying to accomplish the same things *Baldur’s Gate 3 *did....

Tar_alcaran,

One could absolutely ask what BioWare is thinking straying so far from the original, successful, formula. The answer of course is valuing short-term profit over the creating of something that will stand the test of time.

“SoulsLike games sells well, let’s make dragon age a souls like” is what they thought

Tar_alcaran,

Get a million or be 17 again? Sounds like win-win!

Tar_alcaran,

Which game is this?

Tar_alcaran,

Honestly, I would drive sheet pile, and anchor is with folding anchors or simply injection. Unless you’re building in completely virgin ground.

Tar_alcaran,

This was reckless rather than deliberate,

Leaving the scene was pretty deliberate

Tar_alcaran,

But, how can you control for side to side motion on a flat ass without a valley?

Tar_alcaran,

Her poor ears

Tar_alcaran,

If you pay me her salary, you can motivate it however you want.

Tar_alcaran,

No, because conservatives need an enemy they can all hate. And it needs to be an enemy who is at the same time vastly powerful and hiding everywhere, but also weak and easily defeated. And now that they lost the fight on gay marriage, they need an even more marginalized group.

Tar_alcaran,

It’s a 700k suit to make in today’s money.

That doesn’t include R&D, and very notably doesn’t include things the life support backpack or helmet either. If you add those, you come to something like nearly 2 million in 1967 money, or nearly 19 million in modern money.

Tar_alcaran,

Best I could find were a 5 million and 100m dollar order for the 60ish suits plus 20m for what I’m guessing are 60 more PLSS units, though I’ll admit there might be fewer of those. Inflation happens and you’re on my number. But if you have a better source than someone said it on a forum once, I’ll gladly accept it.

Regardless, it was crazy expensive, and shouldn’t be swapped out with the other. The point stands

Tar_alcaran,

If they make me leave, I would say it’s very successful

Tar_alcaran,

I haven’t prepared meat in 2 and a half decades, and I feel bad about this.

Tar_alcaran,

But damn, is it spot on!

Tar_alcaran,

Because it’s a piece of crap that mostly serves to impress people psychologically. And the guard tower isn’t great either.

Tar_alcaran,

Yeah, it even included a “Look, Vanya said she bla bla bla”, “you mean Viktor”, “yeah Viktor, obviously, but my point was that plot plot plot”.

Tar_alcaran,

One area, however, in which I understand Christianity to be admirably clear and progressive is its opposition to war

Buddy, have you actually read the bible?

📄 rule (sh.itjust.works)

alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang). Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via...

Tar_alcaran,

2, 4 or 23.

Tar_alcaran,

And for 4, the spacing between them is the same as for the 2, leaving you 3 equal spaces.

Tar_alcaran,

Well, it’s 2024, so they mostly say things like “out of A4 paper - load A4 paper in tray number 3”. But yeah, they used to.

Tar_alcaran,

I use the “A5 booklet” function all the time.

Tar_alcaran,

Wasn’t Narsissus aromantic, right up the point of being punished? Although I have to admit I’m not super up to date on the myths finer details.

Tar_alcaran,

The whole story is that Narsissus was ridiculously handsome and any woman would be overjoyed to have him. But he was way too busy enjoying nature, hunting and doing other non-sexual stuff to start a relationship with anyone.

Then the nimph Echo fell madly in love with him, but he didn’t care much about that. So, in unrequited love she fled to a cave where she wanted away, only her voice remaining.

Depending on which myth you read, either this, or him denying some other woman is why Aphrodite decided to punish him to fall in love with his own reflection in the stream. Which is doubly insulting, since Narsissus’ dad is basically the god of rivers.

The point is, he was aromatic until he was cursed by the gods for it.

Tar_alcaran,

Nah, this isn’t boring, i find this very amusing

Tar_alcaran,

There are demonstrably not infinite humans alive at the same time though.

Tar_alcaran,

How is a spectrum supposed to not have a total ordering?

I’m pretty sure a spectrum is always totally ordered. You can’t say “this point on the spectrum holds no relation to that point”, because then it’s not a spectrum.

Tar_alcaran,

There are more than 0 people currently the gayest.

Tar_alcaran,

While we may have a currently highest number that doesn’t mean it IS the highest possible

I would argue you can only be gay if you’re alive, so you only need to compare living people, the theoretical maximum doesn’t matter, only the actual maximum of a finite number.

nor that there is exactly one of them.

Agreed. It might be a shared gold medal.

Tar_alcaran,

When I tell people I larp, they automatically assume I’m into weird sexual roleplay.

I mean, I am, but not because I larp.

Tar_alcaran,

And with modern fabric, most of period-cute is a lot more comfy than pre-industrial revolution.

Tar_alcaran,

How to guarantee you’re going to lose the <30 vote, step 1.

Tar_alcaran,

You know how to really get people interested in helping their society? Mandatory unpaid labour! Which lonely elderly person wouldn’t love to spend time with a teenager who doesn’t want to be there? Who better to help the NHS than a completely uneducated, unmotivated slave labourer? And I can see the police lining up to get the opportunity to work together with everyone who got the rejected from the other programs!

Tar_alcaran,

THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WON

Ah, now I see why conservatives want to learn history from statues.

Tar_alcaran,

As someone who does safety audits and advice for both civil and chemical, the main difference is that when something goes wrong on a chemical site, it takes hours. When something goes wrong at a civil site it takes like 3 seconds.

They both have their ups and downs. I still don’t know if I should prefer sudden and dramatic collapse, or the “shelter in place because running will kill you” alarm while in what’s basically a drafty garage.

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