NeptuneOrbit

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NeptuneOrbit ,

Probably harder on a tiger.

NeptuneOrbit ,

States are the original gerrymandering.

Imagine if we redrew the state maps every few years. Oh no, my speed limit went down, I have to pay five cents per bag at the store, and the gax tax is not ten cents more per gallon. 😱😱😱

But then November roles around and my vote is way more powerful than it was because now 2 million people are election a senator and in my old state 50 million are also electing a senator.

States obviously used to have cultural sway but pretending they are real in 2024 is absolutely hilarious.

Gerrymandering is just the cherry on top. Well, the cherry in the House.

What do you think the Great Filter is?

The Great Filter is the idea that, in the development of life from the earliest stages of abiogenesis to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes detectable extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare. The Great Filter is one possible resolution of the Fermi...

NeptuneOrbit ,

Definitely the simplest answer and aligns so far with out observations.

NeptuneOrbit ,

God gave plenty more laws in the next few books of the Bible. The famous commandments about not mixing fabrics or cutting your hair? Yeah Moses of the Ten Commandments is behind that book too.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Just?

Like divide profit by a weighted hours worked average for all employees?

NeptuneOrbit ,

You used the word "just".

I guess my angle is if we agree the market isn't just, then maybe you just pay everyone equally? Don't all people need to eat and have a place to sleep?

NeptuneOrbit ,

So if it makes sense to charge people in India 1/4 the people in the US why can't we pretend we are in India? People travel to other continents for healthcare.

NeptuneOrbit ,

I think the direct implication is that the bullets are padded with foam. Softened.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Go place a plaque that says "Mustafa Ataturk" and watch people's heads expose that he was actually a very small cat and not a normal sized human.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Whatever the fuck podcast popularized the idea that blue just didn't exist? Yeah stupid.

I do believe there is some relationship between one's main language and how it affects thought patterns, but I mean cmon, even if I don't know every word for shades of green (avocado VS chartreuse) doesn't mean I'm not capable of distinguishing them. I may not have an exacting language tool set for distinguishing them. But I could.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Nvidia makes a real product. An AI bubble might hurt them but probably not the same as the companies who have been buying their product.

Capitalism is essentially alive

I think capitalism can be understood as a living entity, a being composed of billions of smaller beings (people), essentially cells. It evolves (legally and through market innovations), has an immune response (police), and grows and reproduces itself (imperialism). The cells are independent life in their own right, but they...

NeptuneOrbit ,

It's called a "system" normally.

NeptuneOrbit ,

They can't say (time travel protocols)

NeptuneOrbit ,

I have a captain crunch whistle so I hear it anytime I want to!

NeptuneOrbit ,

I think the simpler answer is, you are so right, it barely has to be valorized. It sells itself.

I think the long answer is that porn addiction is a real thing that can affect people. Also lots of people in charge of things like sex education have historically been prudes who see masturbation as some sort of gateway to promiscuity.

Orgasms are normal, healthy and necessary.

NeptuneOrbit ,

I mean addiction colloquially. The existence and over use of porn does cause some people and their relationship some level of affects. I don't think we can just hand wave it all away.

NeptuneOrbit ,

You are preaching to the choir here. Yes I can believe porn addiction only exists in the kinds of the those in the religious community. I'm still trying to provide a larger picture to answer the question of why the government doesn't tell you to masturbate every day.

Porn, for some people in contexts, has had drawbacks. Those people, in some contexts, have curtailed the valorization of porn writ large. Maybe this campaign has biased me to a degree as well.

I have never been to a Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting but I'm not about to write the whole idea off entirely.

NeptuneOrbit ,

It's an allegory on entropy.

Missing mother found dead inside 16-foot-long python after it swallowed her whole in Indonesia ( www.cbsnews.com )

A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017....

NeptuneOrbit ,

They inspected every snake with a hjman sized lump

NeptuneOrbit ,

You and the person on a chair on the beach next to you will both get sunburnt. In the same way, radio waves washing around your house or car interacts with everything, antenna or not.

NeptuneOrbit ,

You had me in the first half, not going to lie.

NeptuneOrbit ,

It kind of gets into the napkin math. But it's sort of silly.

If most writers can spend the first third of their career focusing on journalism or some type of corporate writing, and then the middle third on publishing novels or whatever, and then the last third teaching, or maybe just riding the fame of the one book that got turned into a movie... Yeah I think trying to be a writer sounds easier than becoming a billionaire.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Abe books. Ebay. If the book is new, bookshop dot org.

But 💯 thriftbooks

NeptuneOrbit ,

Maybe it's a hybrid False Dilemma and a Appeal to hypocrisy?

People have more options than taking your side, or leaving entirely. And not picking one of the two does not mean you are a hypocrite.

NeptuneOrbit ,

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you noob? I'll have you know I graduated top of my chess club, and I've been involved in numerous speed tournaments on lichess, and I have over 300 confirmed check mates. I am trained in white and black, and I'm the top puzzle solver in my freshman class. You are nothing to me but just another check mate. I will windmill you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this chess meet up, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of grandmaster over the former USSR and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your Elo. You're fucking lost, kid. My queen can be all over the board at anytime, and I can check mate you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my pawn. Not only am I extensively trained in check mate puzzles, but I have access to the entire arsenal of my side of the chess board and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass-pieces off the face of the board, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and your king and you will drown in it. You fucking lost, kiddo

NeptuneOrbit ,

by reverb-heavy electric guitars played to evoke the sound of crashing waves

NeptuneOrbit ,

Feudal rules, the obese are the only people rich enough to eat every day

NeptuneOrbit OP ,

You're welcome.

NeptuneOrbit OP ,

I ran out of bullets. Should I make a new one with more?

NeptuneOrbit OP ,

https://www.chess.com/terms/windmill-chess

NeptuneOrbit ,

We live in capitalism

NeptuneOrbit ,

It's literally in the name. CAPITALism

NeptuneOrbit ,

I can think of a lot of reasons. In a rural area, finding a suitable partner is tough. Why not let a web of adults help out.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Yeah that's part of the trade off

NeptuneOrbit ,

So yes i do think it is social media. But they are more akin to the old internet, or Facebook before it got massive and bad.

For exampke? There is not a massive algorithm, especially a personalized algorithm (obviously Top and Hot are technically algorithms, but they democratically place popular posts to anyone who hasn't blocked/is following the community).

For many comparisons they are obviously social media, but for other types of comparisons I don't think it's a great match.

NeptuneOrbit ,

I am not sure I have seen it, but 1990s war movie, with soldier pinned down, might it be Black Hawk Down?

NeptuneOrbit ,

Hopefully new competitors on the market will all have to try their best before they start being shitty.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Hubris. Irony.

NeptuneOrbit ,

Or even Frankenstein Ian. Shelleyesque

NeptuneOrbit ,

I had forgotten all about the Rings of Power. Never saw it. Loved listening to the super fans talk about it. Wasn't generally received well at all

NeptuneOrbit ,

For some reason, I click it, and Google translated it for me?

Hello,

me and my team (we are atm 3: me and 2 school colleagues) started a pretty big project last week. I know it sounds crazy, but we are working on a successor to WoW. Please don't say we can't do it anyway, because we are very ambitious and are very experienced WoW players. I'm posting here to find more people for our team. We have a modeler (me), a musician (for the background music and sound effects) and a community manager. We are still looking for a programmer to bring the whole thing to life. If you would like to apply, please post what experience you have so far with game programming and what programming languages ​​you know (we want to write the game in Java because we already learned a bit of Java at school last year).

Our goals/motivation:
Wow is now a few years old and Blizzard doesn't seem to be thinking about a successor. Instead, they create one extension at a time. The graphics are quite old and WoW2 is supposed to look much better (my models are almost photorealistic). The quests should be more exciting (don't always kill XY, get XY). >There will be epic battles with up to 500vs500 fighters. We have invented two new classes: Necromancer and Hobblings.
But I don't want to tell you everything here and save it for later. I will send a project plan to anyone who is interested.
^We can't pay for the work, but when we publish it, for example, we share the subscription fees we get ($10 per player).

Greetings.
Wow2

NeptuneOrbit ,

Clearly adolescent folly. I too remember thinking making a video game would be very easy.

How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals

I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying "woke", "critical race theory", ""grooming"", and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....

NeptuneOrbit ,

Many many liberals were raised by conservatives.

Many many conservatives raised eventual liberals and are aghast.

I don't need to camp out and bully conservatives. I spent enough of my childhood immersed in their insanity. I'm just done.

NeptuneOrbit ,

The interns were pulling those hours? Or just the full time hires.

NeptuneOrbit ,

The ultimate security by obscurity. Do you have a 30m antenna? Can you point it exactly at the space ship with almost no error? Do you know what it's code and protocols are? OK, please reprogram Voyager

NeptuneOrbit ,

This seems pretty complicated but I was making some sort of paloma/lazy Margarita hybrid with mezcal at a party. And I ran out it mezcal so I made a batch that was half rye/half mezcal. Worked quite well.

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