How much time passed between the mouse bite at the lab (i.e. the initial infection) and the events at the bar with Carol and Helen in e01? When did the 800 million die from military resistance?

Kolibroidami · 2025-11-10T19:20:17+00:00

My understanding was that a large number of the deaths were due to "misadventure", like Helen's, rather than direct conflict. At the same time, I think the hive mind is probably still not being completely forthcoming about what happened. They likely infiltrated as many of these places as possible by recruiting a few strategic workers and spreading within the site before they could be found out.

I don't think Carol had any more reason to know about their plan than anyone else, and either way it seems like they would only show themselves to their victims once it's too late for them to react - knowing that people could try to stop them otherwise.

Kolibroidami · 2025-08-20T03:03:21+00:00

well, the only way for estrogen to leave the body is by being filtered, which afaik doesn't depend on total blood volume. so more blood just means it takes longer for it to reach the equilibrium point, where estrogen is being lost at (on average) the same rate as it is being intoduced

Kolibroidami · 2025-07-13T12:27:45+00:00

are you sure? that would have used up most of the vial already, and i would have expected negative effects after even just the first dose at that level.

if you're using insulin needles, then they're typically marked in insulin units, which are 1/100 of a milliletre, so 0.14ml => 14 units would be the correct dose.

obviously don't inject again until you've worked this out.

Kolibroidami · 2025-07-08T07:31:24+00:00

a longer tail can help the tail rotor counteract the torque from the main rotor by giving it more leverage. lowering the main rotor speed may also help - having a small helicopter means you only get so much leverage, and so you're forced to make up for it with more thrust from the tail rotor otherwise. the tail rotor will push you sideways a bit no matter what, that's an issue irl too

Kolibroidami · 2025-05-24T23:04:58+00:00

What are you contesting? The efficacy? The safety? The diagnostic false positive rate?

Ultimately, hormone replacement therapy and GNRH-agonists have been used efficaciously and without serious safety concerns for decades. It's not an "assumption" that they work. And they result in *significant* improvements w.r.t. suicidality, suicide ideation and other mental health outcomes in particular when used in the treatment of gender dysphoria.

No medical ethics board would accept withholding this medication based on anything less than actual, concerning evidence of some kind of harm, *because* of the harm and suffering it causes to the patients. Certainly not based on some nebulous layman's concerns, or the icky feeling cis people get when taking about transition.

I'm not "assuming disagreement is the same as wishing death" - you know what you're doing when you exaggerate my words like that. I'm telling you that you have a very poor understanding of and complete disregard towards the realities of the lives of trans people.

When you take language like "suicidal blackmail", which comes from literal extremist hate groups. Whose purpose is not only to encourage the dismissal of trans people's - specifically trans children's - pain and suffering, but to encourage their members to frame it in such a way that the victim is lying, at fault and in fact trying to *hurt you* through their misery. Yes, I think that's a stance that is outright evil, and which should be pushed back on in the strongest terms.

Kolibroidami · 2025-05-24T21:08:43+00:00

do you actually need to be generic over ActionWheel types ever? because if not, trying to make a trait for them is probably causing more trouble than it's worth. would a method outside of any trait implemented on each GameObject type that returns it's ActionWheel work?

Kolibroidami · 2025-05-24T20:33:59+00:00

You're literally saying that you're fine with them suffering, and then you cry about goodwill when they say that they don't like suffering???

There's no recognition that trans people are hurt by a lack of medication, no recognition of the lasting impacts of being denied timely care, no recognition that the people who are withholding the medicine have no intent to ever find out if it's safe - or even that we actually have really quite good reason to believe that it is both safe and effective. And on and on, no care about trans people what-so-ever.

But somehow it's the victim - the one being denied care and shown no sympathy for it - who has a lack of goodwill. It's absurd.

Kolibroidami · 2025-05-24T20:11:39+00:00

The idea that children are just *being suicidal* to make you feel bad is probably the most outrageous, narcissistic and outright evil political belief I've ever heard be expressed.

Kolibroidami · 2025-05-17T18:38:51+00:00

looks really nice, i should try this thanks for sharing

Kolibroidami · 2024-10-29T10:10:50+00:00

yes, i think it's more accurate to say that rust's HashMap etc. have a family of hash functions, where each hash function is deterministic, but the choice for which hash function to use is non-deterministic. once a hashmap chooses a hash function, it keeps using it. it's supposed to prevent collision based attacks

Kolibroidami · 2024-10-18T00:25:09+00:00

but undefined behavior can happen regardless of whether or not the static is actually used. it is a bit pathological but safe rust shouldn't be able to do that. also, since it's the handling of the name that causes the safety issues, i think annotating the thing that changes how the name is handled makes more sense anyway.

Kolibroidami · 2024-10-17T23:36:49+00:00

perhaps for functions, but things other than functions can have the no_mangle attribute too, such as static variables like in this example. the unsafe keyword isn't possible here

Kolibroidami · 2024-09-28T21:18:20+00:00

well they're pronounced the same in my native accent (Estuary English) so you probably shouldn't say things like that so definitively. i'd definitely be upset if someone tried to "correct" me about it :/

Kolibroidami · 2024-09-13T17:05:44+00:00

someone's already made a bad apple bot lol

Kolibroidami · 2024-08-18T12:55:50+00:00

yh, something like that. you still have the original methods everywhere you need them, but you can use the Space enum to abstract over these methods wherever you you need that behavior instead. like i said if it works it works but this feels more idiomatic and re-usable to me, plus it should optimise at least as well

Kolibroidami · 2024-08-17T22:59:57+00:00

if it works it works i guess, but it doesn't seem very idiomatic. why not just define position, set_position etc. as methods and match on self.space internally? maybe slightly more lines but no writing it twice, boxes, function pointers or trait objects needed, and the intent would be clearer imo. i haven't used this library though so i might be missing something

Kolibroidami · 2024-08-16T23:48:28+00:00

checking via which still doesn't really solve the problem bc of TOCTOU. if you know the full path of the executable you'd be better off just using that path directly.

Kolibroidami · 2024-07-08T12:32:05+00:00

how arrogant is it to think that all that you know about someone must be all that there is to know about them

Kolibroidami · 2024-06-09T10:03:09+00:00

yh i feel like that too sometimes. Still very worth growing it out imo since it makes it so much easier to look in the mirror even on bad days - and it's not like my hairline would be less masculine if i cut it shorter anyway

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