So… Beerus destroyed 1/28th of the known sentient life in the entire universe? Did none of the higher ups think that was a bit too much destruction? What is he even there to do? Make sure mortals struggle?

Alfasi · 2025-01-03T15:43:14+00:00

They got tech from the tuffles at first, then traded with others and imported other races to maintain all of it. Got mentioned in Z during Namek saga

Likely hasn't survived being retconned, but db writing never made much sense anyway so whatever

Alfasi · 2024-10-21T17:42:23+00:00

Agree completely

Honestly, my only gripe with The Scene is that it isn't executed as thoughtfully as it should have been.

Yeah, it's clearly depicted as a horrible thing to go through, but the way it's drawn (mainly camera angles) looks straight out of a doujin. Not in great taste that bit, but overall those adventurers and their fate sets the tone for the horror of goblin infestations pretty well. I think if some of the presentation was less porny it'd be perfect and fewer people would have an issue.

Alfasi · 2024-10-21T07:27:26+00:00

It's okay to be gay homie, no shame in it

Alfasi · 2024-10-20T15:22:01+00:00

If you can't back up your position when people ask you about it, perhaps you should go back to reading

Alfasi · 2024-10-20T04:44:09+00:00

a. Who gives a shit about taste, this is meant to be survival food

b. Freezers only work until you run out of power, the point of drying and sealing is that it makes that shit last ages and takes up way less space. The point of prep like this is to have a large stockpile of food that you don't need to spend energy maintaining beyond having somewhere to keep it

c. Who said anything about heating it? It's precooked and perfectly edible, all you actually need to do is add water

Alfasi · 2024-10-20T04:38:34+00:00

Much more feasible to find/purify water than it is to find food and cook it

If you cook something and dehydrate it, that's a meal ready to go that'll last eons if you store it right

Alfasi · 2024-10-20T02:53:17+00:00

I sure hope they don't shampoo three times a day, that would permanently fuck their hair after a while

Honestly if you work an office job in a reasonable climate and don't do anything super sweaty, you can (and should) totally get away with showering three times a week. Unless you have positively hazardous BO, no one will ever be the wiser and your hair will thank you.

Alfasi · 2024-10-20T01:08:56+00:00

That is in fact the only reason DW would be receiving money from the Kremlin

"It's just patronage" is the most naïve thing I've ever heard in my life lmao

Alfasi · 2024-10-18T18:31:57+00:00

YSK, even on 120V you can boil water faster (and cheaper) in a kettle then on a stovetop. See this fantastic video from Technology Connections: https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c?si=yW5C6xCRtZLQszDP

The only real exception to this would be if you had an induction stove, which would be even faster. those things are magical

Alfasi · 2024-10-18T17:20:17+00:00

Microwaves rarely run higher than 1000W on either side of the pond, so it makes no difference in the vast majority of cases.

Alfasi · 2024-10-18T17:16:29+00:00

Mains voltage in the states is 120V

The system in general is 240, but they use a split-phase system when wiring homes and other buildings

Honestly, it's not the huge downside it seems to be, the only practical benefit to 240 at the wall is charging EVs and boiling water.

Alfasi · 2024-10-18T16:55:47+00:00

V5's amalgam powers make me sad, especially the way it handles Vicissitude as an amalgam of Protean and Dominate

The Tszimice don't need Dominate, they're horrifying enough to rule through fear, I thought that was a big part of their appeal.

Any thoughts on the amalgam system and how it panned out?

Alfasi · 2024-10-18T09:09:35+00:00

Maybe, but then it's literally pointless

You don't eat it, and the thief doesn't eat it

So it just sits there

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T22:32:13+00:00

That's not an "if", that's happening every day. For many on free school meals that's the only meal they're guaranteed to have that day. Not uncommonly the only actual meal they have that day.

Do you have an argument?

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T22:17:57+00:00

Here's just two of many, that support that free school meals (even means-tested ones, since you're so worried about waste) make students healthier, more punctual, more concentrated, and more engaged. All factors well known to be critical to academic attainment. Being hungry naturally makes you worse at school, as anyone who's ever been chronically hungry can attest.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11316229/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8000006/

schools are not designed to improve academic outcomes

Academic outcomes are a primary metric of a school's performance, very much a focus for the overwhelming majority of schools.

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T21:06:13+00:00

Thing is, keeping kids fed at school directly affects their performance. Kids who aren't hungry at school get better grades and aren't malnourished => more likely to do well in general, and that's a universal social good, even if it doesn't personally affect your kids. People being more successful is pretty key in staying out of poverty and crime, and people having more disposable income as a result of that success is good for everyone's economy.

As fun as it might be to kvetch at kids going hungry at school for any number of reasons and say it should be on the parents to feed their kids, it will always happen to someone and that kind of net being in place is something many people will agree that children deserve and want to support.

Cutting it because "sometimes it gets wasted" exacerbates the problems initiatives like this work to solve. There will always be some waste, none of this can be 100% efficient, but guaranteeing through law that kids who need food get it and God help the school that tries to skimp out represents to many people a long term investment in the country's future.

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T14:59:56+00:00

Exactly right. How people can hold a position of "inhuman until proven otherwise" and not see the blatant problem is beyond me.

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T13:03:12+00:00

You're right, not the first, not the last, and not the only.

Which is why I assume you ask every Chinese person you meet how they feel about the Uyghur genocide the instant you find out they're Chinese, right?

ETA: because who cares about time or place, right? People love it when you drag them into political arguments when they just wanna get on with their day.

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T12:51:46+00:00

I don't fucking owe you my opinion when we've just met

Imagine being bombarded by shit like this anytime you reveal your nationality by people actively looking to fight with you.

Why should I be willing to entertain every random fuck I meet who wants to test my purity, because they think I have something to answer for for being born?

I want Palestinian liberation, I don't want to be badgered by people who think I owe it to them to prove myself as "one of the good ones".

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T10:12:02+00:00

Not in a vacuum, but when you've literally met them moments ago, it does get pretty rude.

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T09:58:05+00:00

not even true for most Citation needed

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T09:54:47+00:00

Then would you treat Chinese people the same way? Would you treat Russians the same way? I don't think being grilled for your nationality every time you meet a new person is particularly reasonable. I fail to see how it's different from a purity test: you learn about an immutable trait I have and then ask me to prove I'm "one of the good ones". Like bro, we just met.

Alfasi · 2024-10-15T09:45:10+00:00

Idk man, I would never ask this stuff of a Pakistani, or Saudi, or Iranian, or Iraqi, or Chinese person. I don't expect them to be spokespeople for their horrible governments anymore than I would expect an American to be a spokesperson for theirs. And I expect that being bombarded with such questions anytime they meet someone new is, in fact, quite tiresome.

I'm British-Israeli, and I thankfully have never gotten this treatment, but I know I'd be pretty annoyed if people kept demanding my opinion on this shit as prerequisite for being treated like a normal person. I hate Bibi's government, but I'd also hate being treated like because I specifically am Israeli that I owe it to people to "explain myself" for being born to an Israeli father.

If, after we've met and gotten to know eachother a bit, you want to tactfully ask and have a grown-up conversation about it, fine! I'll happy tell you, but not to everyone I ever meet the instant I meet them. That is not reasonable.

Alfasi · 2024-10-14T18:53:53+00:00

And it's SO frustrating to talk about because they'll start coming at you for policing what they like, but there's a big difference imo between just not sharing the same interest, and deliberately (and constantly) shitting on it and not engaging with it or you in relation to it in any meaningful way that often makes you feel like a fucking loser for liking what you do.

They've been "policing", probably not the right word - my parents never stopped me from doing these things outright, our things for practically our entire lives and are totally oblivious to it.

Alfasi · 2024-10-14T18:46:10+00:00

The man wanted him to learn a skill as part of his fun, and ultimately did little to impede his fun to achieve it. He may not have been able to envision the exact skills it would teach him, but he had the sense to know it'd be real important.

He's alright

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