OverthinkingThis

17858 pts ยท September 9, 2015


Things! And Stuff! I mean really, what were you expecting? An Illuminati code or something? Oh, and 1374758 by the way.

As much as I don't agree with supporting Ubers corporate goals, more automated driving would actually make mass transit easier to justify, as the last mile problem of mass transit could be addressed and automated driving's inherent weakness to long distance transportation would incentivize transport like trains

7 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

And the annoying thing as well is that the Spain outage wasn't exclusively because of renewables, it was because the grid expansion was rushed. The exact same thing would've happened with gas/coal/nuclear if they weren't well coordinated and/or the grid was shit

7 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Uironically that is the age range where people were raised and educated with the hopes and expectations of the 80's and 90's and now we have the previous generation doing a complete 180 and giving us shit for doing the exact thing we were told would be successful.

Of course people are in a bad place. It's so hard to find a reason to think things will get better. Personally I'm stubborn as shit and refuse to believe things can't get better, but that doesn't work for everyone.

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I know it's a *lot* easier said than done but don't let yourself run away with the hypotheticals. I'm very high risk for colon cancer myself (family history and such) so I can tell you colon cancer is rarely the end. Still **sucks** of course but work with what information you have, you've got this.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a very advanced automatic librarian. You query it for something and it has a good chance of finding something *relevant*. Sometimes even what you're looking for. But that's as far as it goes. Like a really advanced Golden Retriever. It plays fetch with information, and sometimes it'll bring a dead skunk instead a stick.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Speaking as a Christian, yes. Please do. Fuck em.

7 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Because some people want X thing, and those others have it. So it's easier to tell themselves those others aren't worth caring about.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's car affirming care

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Easiest way to explain it: Due to lens' law non ferrous but conductive metals can uno reverse card magnetic fields if they're moving.

This is the same kind of effect that most maglev trains use on the 'rail' portion. Just use spinning aluminum discs instead of electromagnets every couple meters. Much cheaper.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I sympathize. Had severe gas to the point I thought I was having a heart attack several urgent care visits later found out it was an H Pylori Bacterial gut infection. All better now, except I'm now high risk for colon cancer!

Colonoscopies at 32, yaaaaaaaaay......

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nah specifically being punished *for being a Nazi*. Not a 'normal' villain who also happened to be a Nazi.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Like....you joke....but

8 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Iirc it was solely because that character did not get away with it and was severely punished for being a Nazi.

8 months ago | Likes 148 Dislikes 0

I think I know what you mean. It's not something you look forward to but it gives you something solid to work from in the worst case. That kind of anchoring is really important for keeping yourself together when everything else feels like it's falling apart.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Agreed 1000%. Especially that while it's the biggest issue it's not a new issue. A lot of it stems from several generations of no education on civic and government.

I was an absolute *shit* student in regards to history. Hated every second. If *I* can suck it up and bring realistic expectations to our systems of governance than anyone can.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh no argument there on both points.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah it's this logistical problem where I think UBI breaks down at a point. On paper absolutely something I think everyone should want, but in execution I think we need to tackle stuff like universal healthcare and rent control before UBI becomes feasible.

That said I'm an engineer so I am absolutely bias to the pragmatic side of things here :P

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If you can, please look into either separate storage (some ranges do this) or having a family member you trust hold onto your handgun if that's the case. That way you can get it if things get dicey but you won't have immediate access to it if you spiral.

A number of my friends have the exact same concern and have looked into similar solutions.

8 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Honest question, how do you solve for UBI in a country as broad and varied as the US. Do you have a broad federal rate and simply eat the UBI disparity between high/low loving cost areas or do you have variable rates and try to manage remote drains?

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah there's a definite argument that uncapped capitalism is antithetical to a democracy in actual execution.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Funny thing is that this is how democracy is supposed to work. An unwlected individual arguably shouldn't be able to directly affect large swathes of the government. You can't expect yourself to be able to 'fix' these large systemic issues all at once. Proper representation and political pressure stems from grassroots permeation of local areas. Aka everyone's is chasing government change top to bottom, whereas actual change is bottom to top. It's how assholes like Mitch Mconnel got so much power

8 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Hey a fellow Stellaris player in the wild! I never thought about EE being intentionally disorganized but that does make more sense. Even people ahead of you in tech will just stop bothering to steal tech from you, lol

8 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Same. Same.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nah people, myself included, are absolutely that dumb. But people are dumb in different ways, and when it comes to self preservation from immediate dangers most people are actually ok in the intelligence department. Now non-immeriate dangers? Eeeeeeeeeeh

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Honestly mute notifications if you can. Seems like a small thing but it turns the dynamic into you looking at the chat when you want to instead of it demanding attention. Huge improvement imho

8 months ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

God I got the game on sale and it was utter trash. Pretty much "here's a scene from the movie, move around a bit". There was an idea of combat. Probably ~2 hours of play at best. Even on sale it wasn't anywhere worth the price

8 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This isn't the first time in history we've dealt with this flavor of shit and progress was made. It sucks right now, no question but things are better. We're feeling 1 step back from 2 steps forward and while it is --infuriating-- to live during that regression we can keep fighting to get back on track.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0