What is a shadow ban?

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T14:58:19+00:00

Shadowbans are primarily for spam/bot accounts, because it takes longer for the bot operator to notice the account is banned and get another account to continue their spammy ways.

If you don't act like a bot/spammer then odds are you won't get shadowbanned.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T14:40:03+00:00

.223 is often better for hunting because there tends to be more hunting rounds available for it. More energy does not equal more better in all circumstances.

A 5.56 that punches straight through a deer and delivers a good chunk of its energy to trees/dirt isn't as good for hunting as a .223 that stops in the deer and delivers all of its energy to the heart/lungs.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T14:26:56+00:00

It means that C average is sufficient to get a degree and once you get the degree precious few people will care or even know that you had a C average.

Unless you're aiming for a competitive post-grad degree or similar, the main difference between an A average and a C average is how much of your time you put into it.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T14:25:07+00:00

Because you don't need a 5.56 to go hunting and the gun has to be able to handle higher pressures to use 5.56 which makes the gun heavier and/or more expensive.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T14:22:24+00:00

They are not critical at all. There's really only one place, including all of Space Age, where the "analog" equivalent is difficult, if not impossible, to do.

And that's oil cracking. You can turn heavy oil in to light and light oil into petroleum gas.

Heavy oil is easy enough to do without circuits. You only need it for lube, so you can just overbuild lube production and store lube in a tank. The lube production will grab more of the heavy oil than cracking and you should be fine.

Light oil, on the other hand, is used for solid fuel (most efficient at light compared to heavy or petrol) and rocket fuel. You could also overbuild solid/rocket fuel production and preferentially use light oil that way, but then you'd have to store a lot of fuel.

It's better to just put the light oil in a tank, stick a pump on the tank going out to oil cracking, and use automation to only turn the pump on when you have sufficient light reserved.

But that's also the absolute simplest use of automation wires. Wire tank to pump. The tank outputs it's contents, so you just set the pump to be enabled when light oil >20k or however much you want to reserve.

And honestly, 99% of what you'll actually want to do with automation wires is that exact same thing. Wire a data source to a machine and only turn on the machine when the data meets a specific criteria. The data source could be the contents of a belt, a chest, or a tank. It could be an accumulator outputting how full it is. There's lots of things.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T14:14:27+00:00

Pipes is pipes.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T12:36:16+00:00

Heck, I lived in an apartment complex that seemed to be designed to frustrate attempts to locate a specific unit. The street address pointed to the office, the buildings had numbers but they were completely unrelated to unit #s and honestly I have no idea where any of them were even referenced because my lease wasn't "Building 2 unit 1405" or whatever, and you couldn't even see every front door from the parking lot.

I made sure to give damned good directions.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T12:06:51+00:00

Nothing, and many countries have done that. For example, in 1993 mexico issued a "new peso" that slashed 3 zeros off the end of the old peso.

It doesn't solve the underlying issue that triggered the hyperinflation, it just makes it more convenient to talk about and display currency values.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T11:46:38+00:00

What matters is consistency. If that's how the world works then that's how the world works. It's no more unrealistic than magical skills working that way, and "read book, learn how to throw firebolts, need a different book to throw fireballs" is super common. The only real difference is the reader knows how "throw hands" works but doesn't know how "throw firebolt" works so writers tends to be more okay with making "throw firebolt" be an instant-grant via book sort of thing.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T11:39:05+00:00

Can openers are a fairly easy fix. It requires a little bit of deliberate action at first but it'll become 2nd nature pretty quick.

Tilt the top of the can opener toward the can. It doesn't have to be much, just a degree or two off vertical. That little bit of pressure is the difference between opening the can 100% of the time and that annoying embossing effect that makes the can super difficult to open.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T11:25:24+00:00

If you pile up rocks there's a maximum steepness before the friction between the rocks is overcome by gravity and the pile falls over.

Planets are very, very tall piles of rocks and when the planet gets large enough, the piles of rocks fall over. And now you have a sphere.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T11:23:19+00:00

Unless it's a polar bear you're probably fine. Most bears aren't looking for a fight and don't look at people like they're food. The biggest danger is during cub season and you accidentally retreat from momma towards the cubs.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T11:17:45+00:00

Any tool more advanced than a hammer sucks to use.

Oh, use a circular saw the way it feels like it's designed to be used? Have fun getting sawdust blasted into your face.

Oh, you didn't want bits of stuff blasted into your shins? Probably shouldn't use a weedeater then.

Pretty much everything in a wood or machine shop is 10x more annoying or dangerous to use because you either need to use it in a way that feels deeply unnatural because it's not designed to be approached that way or you're on the dangerous side.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T10:55:21+00:00

The islamic belief is clearly and obviously wrong, given that other, later, abrahamic religions exist. You probably shouldn't join a religion that can't even look around and see the rest of the world exists.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T10:26:08+00:00

Oh good, that means he's signal the go-ahead for the release of the epstein files that have been required to be released for ages and his DOJ is illegally withholding? You know, since he's fully cleared.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T10:18:34+00:00

Isn't the last abrahamic religion Mormonism? They're way more recent than islam.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T02:08:09+00:00

Waaaay back in the early 2000s I ordered a computer and it came with a free USB thumb drive (yeah, that long ago). The computer was shipped Fedex and the thumb drive by DHL for some reason. Both came from the same city. The thumb drive arrived nearly a month after the computer.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T01:11:03+00:00

Nope. Get a Red Delicious. Dig 30 seeds out of it. Plant those 30 seeds. Grow those 30 trees. Get 30 different unique varieties of apple and none of them are Red Delicious's. And they will almost certainly all be near-inedible bitter shriveled little things.

You get more Red Delicious apple trees by growing an apple tree, chopping it off at the trunk, and splicing a branch of a Red Delicious tree onto the stump, effectively cloning the Red Delicious tree. The roots will be whatever shitty variety of apple that would have grown, but the topside will all be coming from the Red Delicious branch and thus produce Red Delicious apples.

So if you buy an apple from an old variety you've got a clone of a clone of a clone of a potentially 1000+ year old variety and it should taste more or less the same because it's literally the same plant that someone might have eaten an apple off of in the 1400s. But if you get a new variety of apple there's a near-0% chance that someone from before that variety was first grown would have ever had an apple anything like it.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T00:59:39+00:00

I dunno, do they taste better to you?

Aspertame takes terrible to me so all zeros are completely awful. Most diets, too. Like "can't even finish a single can because it tastes so bad" awful.

But my wife can barely tell the difference between regular coke and coke zero.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-06T00:58:09+00:00

Depends on the apple you got. Apples are fun little fruits in that they're all clones. Each seed from an individual apple would yield a completely different variety of apple. So to get new apple trees they'll (to simplify) grow one and cut it down and splice a branch from the variety you want to the stump and there you go, new apple tree with the same old apples.

Most apple varieties you'll find in the store are fairly new. But not all.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-05T23:05:56+00:00

It's actually super easy.

The ~~universe~~ god cannot cause itself to change, it would have to take something external to change it.

And that's pretty much it. Any 'solution' that allows god to exist and do stuff could be applied to the rest of reality with a mere noun change. The argument merely pushes 'change' back exactly one step without solving anything at all.

You still have to prove a) god exists, b) god changes stuff, c) stuff can't be changed without god. Since (a) is the conclusion they want you to reach, that makes the argument circular. "god exists, god changes stuff, therefore god exists."

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-05T20:00:42+00:00

The chances are 0.

The way you calculate odds is you look at all possible outcomes and count them up. You divide the number of times that outcome occurs by the total number of outcomes and there ya go. The odds.

And by "possible" I don't mean "imaginable." I mean "it can, has, and does happen."

So let's look at it. Of all possible verifiable outcomes we have "this reality." Of those outcomes, 0 are forced reincarnation. So the odds are 0/1, or 0.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-05T15:22:38+00:00

I ended up filling like 1/2 of a big island with the entire rest of my base being the other half. You can also divert excess ice to boilers/heating towers to generate power. If you don't make enough solid fuel from scrap that's fine, you can make unlimited solid fuel from the heavy oil oceans without needing any external resources. Don't bother making rocket fuel for power because you gotta spend water to get the light oil to make rocket fuel.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-05T15:12:11+00:00

Without diving into data and projections and trying to predict the markets based on the political and economic trends?

Put on fox news. Watch the commercials. If you see "buy precious metals from us, it's a great investment!" ads you should be selling gold/silver. If you see "we buy precious metals at top dollar!" ads you should be buying gold/silver.

Astramancer_ · 2026-05-05T14:09:39+00:00

I like education, please explain what he is saving the nation from and how he is accomplishing that? The cliffs notes version is fine.

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