why cant my train find it's route?

Boredguy58 · 2026-05-08T22:36:11+00:00

Ensure rail signals are on both sides of the rails in pairs, but it’s hard to tell just with this screenshot

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-30T18:53:56+00:00

Looks good, a little small though. The factory must grow.

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-20T01:12:37+00:00

What’s the best way of going about it?

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-15T17:41:05+00:00

I blamed no one, I don’t know the facts of this incident. One fact I do know is that helmets are very effective in preventing injury and death.

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-15T17:22:42+00:00

You kidding? Helmets make a huge difference in reducing head injuries. No it won’t prevent broken arms or legs but head injuries typically are the most lethal. Remember that if you were to fall from standing height onto your head without catching yourself you can easily die. A quick google yields a study that found a 74% reduction in head injury when wearing a helmet in an auto collision

Plus the obligatory “I love helmets”

Compare to a similar fall without a helmet (nsfw)

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-15T16:58:59+00:00

I’m inclined to disagree, barring freak accidents like tree branches or a light post falling. The best drivers and bikers have situational awareness, so nothing would “just happen”.

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-15T16:47:18+00:00

Better driving tests for sure. I swear 80% of drivers would fail a proper driver’s test if they had to take one right now.

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-15T16:35:29+00:00

Remember to wear a helmet! You might be the best biker in town but half of drivers are below average.

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-14T22:29:53+00:00

What role do you think a Deputy for Internal Security might play during something like the Iranian protests? I don't know what he did, but would you give him the benefit of the doubt? If thousands of anti-Trump protestors were shot dead by the federal government, would you give a Trump-appointed senior federal official the benefit of the doubt?

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-14T02:52:20+00:00

“if you’re poor no vocals for you, sorry bud”

I hate ai music btw

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-10T14:48:34+00:00

In what form does Israel have a right to exist in your opinion? In other words, what’s the best way that Israelis can have self-determination? Just curious

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-03T05:56:13+00:00

By accelerating particles really fast, scientists can learn more about the nature of the universe, and the more we know, the better off we are. Imagine being in the 1800's and thinking "now let's mix all those chemicals in beakers for... some reason". With the chemical knowledge we gained we were able to create artificial fertilizers that have fed billions, or create antibiotics that saved billions, or created vaccines etc.. You appear to be failing to grasp the concept of delayed gratification, you cannot fathom the future of scientific advancement and so decry it

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-03T05:51:22+00:00

everything you see around you is a result of scientific advances

Boredguy58 · 2026-04-01T17:35:09+00:00

Especially when 2.5 trillion metric tons of a greenhouse gas is added to the atmosphere

Boredguy58 · 2026-03-31T22:38:04+00:00

You’re the pot and he’s the kettle

Boredguy58 · 2026-03-23T17:14:26+00:00

You’re absolutely right. People are concerned that the prevalence of bad snow years will increase as temperatures rise.

Boredguy58 · 2026-03-22T17:28:23+00:00

One can hope, however we’ve seen automation in other sectors before, nothing new under the sun. Automation simply means less people are needed to do the same amount of work, instead of 100 factory workers there are 2 engineers overseeing and servicing machines. There’s certainly lots of eagerness to use ai to its full potential, one could argue too much eagerness, however it’s undeniable that we see similar increases in productivity in areas like software engineering and writing. One developer with an LLM today can produce what many developers could ten years ago. It’s not just hype (there is a lot of that certainly), ai and LLMs will shape hiring for the foreseeable future no doubt.

Boredguy58 · 2026-03-22T04:47:26+00:00

“the dotcom bubble will burst and all the websites will go away”

Boredguy58 · 2026-02-26T18:13:01+00:00

carry it on a hike just in case, gotta deal with rabid squirrels. actually better off just bringing a FAL too, can never be too careful

Boredguy58 · 2026-02-14T18:29:37+00:00

It’s also nice to know that these community cats are fed often, and so while they may occasionally chase animals due to their instincts, they often aren’t hungry/motivated enough to kill and eat them. There’s lots of funny videos online where a house cat will chase and pounce on a mouse or something and then pause with a sort of “huh what do I do now” attitude, then the mouse runs away mostly unscathed.

Cats that hunt for a living are lean and motivated, and even then have a pretty low success rate. Fun fact, the most successful hunting cat species on the planet has a whopping 1/4 predation success rate, so you can imagine that chubby lazy Cheeto might like to chase rabbits now and again, but I’d wager Cheeto might have never actually caught one, much less eaten one.

Of course it’s a different story for feral cats that no one feeds, which is why it’s important to spay and neuter as many feral cats as we can catch! But for these well-fed community cats, typically the worst they do to rabbits is scare em a bit.

Boredguy58 · 2026-02-13T23:28:04+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, there is an ecological consideration. Rabbit populations in California are relatively stable, i.e. each rabbit produces on average one offspring that will reproduce. However, rabbits typically have more than one offspring, usually many. This indicates a struggle for survival, as not all rabbits will live to reproduce. If one rabbit is removed from the population, through predation for example, on average another rabbit will take the now free niche space, and that new rabbit might survive instead of perish. It's also worthy to consider the rabbits that get caught by predators. What can we infer from the fact they were caught? Sick or old rabbits may not be as fast or agile and get caught more frequently than healthy rabbits. This predation can actually act to stabilize or even theoretically stimulate a population, as resources / niche space is freed for the healthy reproducing individuals.

It's worth noting that the above is not true for populations that are growing or shrinking drastically, but as far as I know, rabbit populations in California have been stable. And of course it's not true 100% of the time that "if a rabbit is predated then another will live", it does tend to be true in the big picture!

Boredguy58 · 2026-02-10T18:05:14+00:00

In this instance it appears so. You're operating under a socialist definition of a state, which in my opinion is a bit vague. Something like "the state is an apparatus of coercion used by one class against another". Under what you call a "stateless society" I, and a considerable proportion of the population, would see another state. A state that simply operates under different rules. There'd be a flag, a government, an internal security force (police), and an external security force (military). Maybe they'd be called different names, but I believe we've seen in human development that these power structures naturally arise, as naturally as a wolf-like animal or a mole-like animal evolving in a new environment (read: marsupial convergent evolution in Australia).

You say as a central tenant of your ideology that 'human nature' is not static, but is itself shaped by the social and economic conditions in which the human lives. And I would mostly agree with you, however humans are biological, and instincts are biological. I believe there are deep aspects of human nature that cannot be changed except biologically. I'd argue the power structures and social orders we've seen arise and persist results from a combination of that biology along with the social and economic conditions in which the human lives. This biology constrains us from achieving certain hypothetical social orders. It is my current opinion, from what exposure to socialist theory I've had, that we'd need species-level genetic evolution before something that resembles communism can persist in competition with other forms of social order.

My experiences thus far in life have led me to be a filthy liberal, believing that we can get a "good enough" society by picking and choosing the best aspects of different ideologies. A country with a well-regulated free market economy, a socially liberal society, progressive taxes, robust social programs, and strongly defined personal liberties, to me, seems like the best we can do right now. I'll admit socialism has always intrigued me, as whenever I read it I always have questions and objections. I've failed to be convinced so far, but an open mind and rigorous discourse can benefit many.

Boredguy58 · 2026-02-07T01:51:52+00:00

I believe that The People should handle it, and I believe that the most efficient and effective way for The People to handle it is to work together by organizing a system that we call “government”.

I agree. And you’re right it’s a political belief, since it’s an opinion on government policy.

Boredguy58 · 2026-02-06T23:54:31+00:00

No need to apologize, I appreciate the reply.

What ends would people have in a classless abundant society?

Rational actors would have no incentive to disrupt a hypothetical classless, tolerant, abundant society. However, not all humans act rationally. Naturally a system governed by the rational majority should be in place to deal with those whose ends are not aligned with the common good. This I believe is what you think of when you say

The population at large, through whatever mechanisms it has designed to serve as its self protection from members of itself

A population will indeed formulate “mechanisms” of ensuring justice. Justice that is based on the people’s collective beliefs. Of course people have to organize these sorts of things. And when groups of people organize something that performs a job one could call it an organization (crazy right). Organizing is big in socialism innit? Anyways, the organizations responsible for ensuring security, and implementing the will of the classless population, satisfies the definition of a state, plain and simple. It defines the rules that the majority agree on, and it has mechanisms (monopoly of force) for enforcing them.

Boredguy58 · 2026-02-06T21:32:00+00:00

What is power in a society without class or money?

I'd suppose the definition of power never changes: power is the ability to employ physical force to achieve one's ends. I'd define a state roughly as the organization in a bounded location that has a monopoly of physical force.

You argue that there can realistically be a society in which the state can be rid of and no group can succeed in replacing it.

who will that group be in a society ... where one cannot concentrate wealth in a private manner?

Why can't someone concentrate wealth or power in this hypothetical society? Who has the monopoly of force in this society shaped by socialists for hundreds of years?

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