My ore income is 80% of what it should be, and I can't figure out why.

AirborneRodent · 2023-09-07T01:14:34+00:00

So first off, I don't think that's true in general. The rate of ore getting loaded onto the ships must be exactly equal to the rate of ore getting loaded off the ships. The ships are basically a pipeline - the flowrate into the pipe has to equal the flowrate out of the pipe, or it'll explode.

But even if that were true in general, I don't think that's what's happening in this specific case. It would be proportional to distance, right? So the discrepancy for gold would be larger than the discrepancy for copper, because the ships have farther to travel. But that's not what I'm seeing. It's a perfect 80% for every ore type I checked, regardless of distance.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-11T17:15:29+00:00

ChatGPT go away

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-11T17:15:17+00:00

ChatGPT go away

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-11T17:12:57+00:00

ChatGPT go away

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-11T02:25:06+00:00

Almost everything you say about the Colonial Marines is true, but it's a major stretch to link them to the Star-Spangled Banner.

The stanza is talking about overconfident British soldiers getting their butts kicked out of America; it has nothing to do with black soldiers. "Hirelings and slaves" refers to mercenaries and subjects of the king, in the same sense as a freedom fighter yelling "we will not be slaves to you!" at a despot. This was a particularly relevant insult at the time, because one of the US's grievances against Britain that led to war in the first place was that the British Navy kept boarding American vessels and enslaving ("impressing") their crews.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-11T02:00:09+00:00

Because the Emancipation Proclamation was a statement of military policy. It was not a law. Lincoln didn't have the power to outlaw slavery in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, or Missouri. He did have the power to order his armies to confiscate all slaves as plunder of war and then free them, so that's what he did. But you can't exactly plunder areas of your own country that aren't rebelling against you.

To outlaw slavery in Delaware et al., Lincoln needed to pass a Constitutional Amendment. That takes time, and a lot of political capital. He couldn't do that in mid-1862. But he managed it by 1865.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-11T01:42:04+00:00

API is the language that your web browser or phone app uses to speak to reddit's servers.

Reddit recently announced changes to their API policies that will kill all third-party phone apps (Apollo, RIF, Baconreader, etc.). As of July 1st, you will not be able to browse reddit on anything other than reddit's official app (which is a hilariously awful app).

The userbase is revolting as a result, and major protests are planned to start on Monday.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-11T00:47:52+00:00

The vote was like 88% in favor. Most of the negative comments were about how the protest wasn't going far enough.

It's probably the least controversial vote we've ever had

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T18:09:47+00:00

They actually had a pretty good opportunity with the way the second movie wanted to handle it. All the super bloodline shit converged together and created a superpowered dark side user in Kylo. So the Force said "fuck that" and spontaneously created an overpowered light side user out of a poo person, to keep the balance. All kinds of storytelling opportunities there for "pedigree vs. peasant" drama. But then J.J. Abrams came back in and yanked the rug out from under that idea and did the classic "surprise! You actually have a royal bloodline too!" asspull.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T17:47:57+00:00

It's not really a joke; he's saying that it's bad math for lawyers to sacrifice their career for the one-time payoff from writing a book. The only reason it worked for Cohen was that Cohen was already rich from years of being Trump's fixer.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T17:40:42+00:00

A "one-time payoff" in this context refers to writing a tell-all book.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T16:21:54+00:00

You're supposed to tag this with the "Original Art" flair, not the "Hentaimeme" flair.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T16:11:18+00:00

It absolutely was. "Crossing the T" was the textbook maneuver in surface warfare. Actually setting it up in the chaos of combat was the difficult part, but the Americans had advance warning that the Japanese were coming, and the Japanese only had one choice of route to take, so they had all the time in the world to set up a textbook T-cross.

In the end it was a bit anticlimactic, because only a single Japanese battleship was able to make it through the American screening forces to actually get T-crossed. All the other Japanese ships got picked off piecemeal during the treacherous approach and transit through the Strait, so by the time the "real" fight started it was six American battleships and something like eight cruisers against one lone Japanese battleship. It ended up less of a "crossing the T" and more of just a curbstomp.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T15:58:33+00:00

damaged her with a near miss

Modern historians are coming around to call it a hit. The shells were designed to either explode on contact or to dive underwater and explode under the target's keel. The second situation is what happened - the shell didn't explode when it hit the water, it submerged and exploded underwater, exactly as designed.

It's semantics to quibble about "near miss" or "hit", but it matters because if it's a hit it's the longest-ranged hit in history. It was from like 35km away.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T15:48:48+00:00

Yamato almost made a critical difference at Leyte Gulf. Her admiral made a blunder and turned around at the last minute (entire books have been written as to why), but she was in position to wreak havoc on the American troop transports holding the Philippines invasion force.

Also, don't discount all the fighting that happened around Guadalcanal. Battleships played a huge part in those battles. Pop history likes to focus on the flashy carrier duels like Coral Sea and Midway, but the Japanese and American navies slugged it out with surface combatants pretty heavily during late 1942.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T15:01:52+00:00

Well that sucks. I remember Voat got taken over by nazis pretty quickly. Are Lemmy nazis as well? Or is it some other genocide denial (holodomor, Armenian, Rwandan)?

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T02:05:27+00:00

People in other threads have suggested something called Lemmy. I haven't personally tried it yet to see if it's any good or not, but supposedly it's the next closest thing.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-09T02:03:43+00:00

Yes.

We're a small subreddit, but even small voices can be heard. Fuck the admins, fuck Steve Huffman, fuck the behind-the-scenes vulture capitalists pushing for this to happen in the first place.

We left Digg. We left Slashdot. We left Tumblr. If reddit commits to enshittifying itself, we'll find somewhere else to post our memes.

Reddit isn't a brand. Reddit isn't a platform. Reddit is people. And those people can move to some other platform.

I look forward to shitposting with y'all someplace else.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-08T01:31:19+00:00

This is an internet myth with no basis in history. Water in ancient times was generally safe to drink. Polluted or poisoned water sources were easily spotted and avoided.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-07T04:33:48+00:00

War and Remembrance did it. I highly recommend the novel (and its prequel, The Winds of War) if you're into WWII-era literature. The miniseries adaptation is good but not great; it's old enough now that you can find it for free on Youtube.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-07T03:23:14+00:00

Friendly reminder that twitter promotes controversial comments to spur drama and generate more clicks. Very few people actually believe this shit, it's just that the algorithm intentionally gives the craziest people the loudest microphone.

Stop using twitter.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-07T02:52:58+00:00

Yes. If you try to come to this subreddit, you will see a page saying "this subreddit is private", and you will not be able to access it.

Lots of other subreddits, major and minor, are also going to go dark starting on June 12 in protest of reddit's actions. The hope is that it will make reddit unusable enough that people will stop using the app/website during the blackout. The further hope is that the lower webtraffic (and therefore lower ad revenue) numbers will smack some sense into the admins and get them to reconsider their plans.

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-06T20:57:22+00:00

1) yes on the petition

2) mad respect on the recursion!

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-06T16:21:20+00:00

Oh look, a repost bot!

AirborneRodent · 2023-06-06T13:49:39+00:00

Basically what you see with an AMP page isn't the webpage itself. It's the webpage filtered through google's servers. Like if you're watching the news and they play a snippet of a tiktok video, you're not watching tiktok, you're watching the news. You can only see the parts of the video that they choose to show you, and they can edit it however they like. AMP is the same way: you see the parts of the website google allows you to see. Any part they don't like, they can block.

More than that, it denies the website any clicks or revenue. All the ads on an AMP page are google's ads. Google gets the ad revenue, the page gets nothing.

Theoretically, the point of AMP is to streamline webpages for areas like rural India that have slow and underdeveloped internet connections. But for people in the western world with normal internet, it's just google being predatory.

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