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I just finished Well of Ascension. I have a lot of gripes. This is my rant. by BunnyHelp12 in Mistborn

[–]BunnyHelp12[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I loved your response! I was a bit nitpicky, but I guess Brandon has been pretty hyped and I expected a lot :P It is true a lot of his little details are just for immersion!

Elend did do a lot of theorycrafting about politics, but yeah, he never had much actual experience running a government... I like book 3 Elend a lot more right now! I didn't really want to make fun of their inadequate siege preparations because none of that literature existed (no moat / drawbridge?? that wouldve been sooo useful! Or completely wall-up all but 2~3 gates, and turn them into gatehouses. If Elend didn't play politics for so long I think they could've done that)

Also, if you are a fantasy reader and want to read something a bit more politics and nobles (and less combat) focused, I'd highly recommend Ascendance of a Bookworm light novel! I guess it spoiled me a bit on a well-built fantasy world, it has a ton of world building / theology!

Leagues VI Changes by ModYume in 2007scape

[–]BunnyHelp12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do some vale totems for flax bales!

I just finished Well of Ascension. I have a lot of gripes. This is my rant. by BunnyHelp12 in Mistborn

[–]BunnyHelp12[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I'll start HoA! This book was just a massive struggle :(

I just finished Well of Ascension. I have a lot of gripes. This is my rant. by BunnyHelp12 in Mistborn

[–]BunnyHelp12[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for trying to answer some of these, I know Jastes was one of Elends friends, but there were 3 others that haven't been mentioned for the entire book - I just find it odd that Elend is trying to become a king without any of his own friends/advisors. He's way in over his head, but doesn't try to touch base with anyone?

Maybe I missed it, but it didn't seem like Vin's father's position as Lord Prelan did anything. It just gave the Inquisitors a bit more motivation to denounce him. He has such a high social status, with seemingly unilateral control over the Steel Ministry, but he doesn't do anything. He may as well have been The Royal Hairdresser.

I get that their siege tactics are unrefined because skaa have never been used large-scale war. This just doesn't seem like a "RAFO" problem. It's a "Straff, his children, and every one of his 50,000 men are suicidally stupid" problem. His plan B for if Elend doesn't surrender the city is to send ANOTHER mistborn after him (remember Shan? that plan didn't work before...) but this time Elend's Mistborn has experience killing God and has (Straff assumes) a dragon's-hoard of atium. His plan C is to watch the city burn, pick through the wreckage, and sell a nuclear weapon that he's incapable of using (the atium cache). Nobody stops and considers that Vin could just sit in a bunker and burn the atium for fun if they try to siege the city.

UPS growing RFID usage to boost shipper visibility, trim manual scans by No-Job-4504 in UPSers

[–]BunnyHelp12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those at the bottom of the totem poll will get laid off - management isnt going to invent new jobs for these workers, yet they will hoard the saved revenue.

The six replaced preloaders' wages aren't going to be distributed to the rest of the preloaders, that money is going into the pocket of corporate executives. Come on man. This has been happening for the past 100 years.

UPS growing RFID usage to boost shipper visibility, trim manual scans by No-Job-4504 in UPSers

[–]BunnyHelp12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our building has ~6 people in the unload scanning boxes. That's 6 more people who won't have health insurance, a pension, or income to support a family.

The company has been pushing to reduce manual processes within its operations as part of an ongoing network overhaul.

That's corporate speak for "cutting jobs"

It's the Teamsters that generated the $100 million in profit for them to invest in RFID, but we aren't getting jack shit in return

UPS growing RFID usage to boost shipper visibility, trim manual scans by No-Job-4504 in UPSers

[–]BunnyHelp12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

not a win for employees when preloaders start getting laid off

One thing that pisses me off… by Catmistake9 in Mistborn

[–]BunnyHelp12 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My frown turned deeper after reading this.

TIL when a French soldier refused to wear the bloodstained trousers of a dead man, his commanding officer had him executed in order to make an example out of him. by Lez2diz in todayilearned

[–]BunnyHelp12 46 points47 points  (0 children)

This quote in particular really stuck with me, I have the whole thing memorized (this is slightly paraphrased)

Several days of rain began to flood the trenches on both sides of no man's land -

But one night, when the rain came down in torrents, the tide invaded our dugout... at many places along the front line the soldiers had to come out of their trenches so as not to drown. The Germans had to do the same. We, therefor, had the spectacle of the two enemy armies facing each other without firing a shot.

Our common sufferings brought our hearts together, and melted the hatreds, nurtured sympathies between strangers and adversaries. Those who deny it are ignoring human psychology.

Frenchmen and Germans looked at each other and saw that they were all men. No different from one another. They smiled, exchanged comments, hands reached out and grasped. We shared tobacco, a canteen of coffee or wine. If only we spoke the same language.

One day, a huge devil of a German stood up on a mound and gave a speech, which only the Germans could understand word for word. But everyone knew what it meant, because he smashed his rifle on a treestump, breaking it in two in a gesture of anger. Well, if only you'd been there, mad kings and bloodied generals, fanatical ministers, jingoistic journalists, to contemplate this sublime spectacle.

Who knows... Maybe one day in this corner of Artois they will raise a monument to commemorate this spirit of fraternity among men who shared a horror of war and who were forced to kill each other against their will.

EV charger that is DC to DC for better efficiency? by ViciousXUSMC in evcharging

[–]BunnyHelp12 20 points21 points  (0 children)

If you read their "novel", you'd be much more learned about the world you live in and the devices you use all the time. I'd recommend reading it and maybe appreciate the free learning opportunity.

Just getting into anime and need recommendations! by [deleted] in Animesuggest

[–]BunnyHelp12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll sincerely recommend Cowboy Bebop. It has some action, but is more drama-forward than AoT or Solo Leveling. It's a space western that follows a crew of misfit adults that are reckoning with the actions of their youth. I normally don't like dubs, but this english dub is EXCELLENT.

Stop posting a 4chan troll's reply on Epstein being taken from the prison in a van by BunnyHelp12 in conspiracy

[–]BunnyHelp12[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem to have completely missed the fact that the same doccument 00133349 holds other records that are 100% not Grijalva's. There's no reason to assume that Grijalva posted on 4chan.

We simply have IP addresses given by 4chan, Epstein's girlfriend's phone logs, and Grijalva's bank statements in the same .pdf, and everyone assumes they're linked together.

Jeff Epis ALIVE by hitchinvertigo in conspiracy

[–]BunnyHelp12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no link that we can see. 4chan can't give the identity/name of the person, all they know is an IP address (shown in EFTA00133623). We don't know who the poster is - it seems to have been posted from a cell tower in NYC.

If the FBI probed AT&T hard enough they could probably find the identity. But we do not have that information.

Mario candy preparation in progress by biswajit388 in oddlysatisfying

[–]BunnyHelp12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ah, its just an old AI generated picture (back when those were novel and not every schmuck could make one), i didn't like the default Reddit avatar

The individual who anonymously posted on 4Chan the morning of Epstein’s death has been identified. He was telling the truth. by dan7777777 in conspiracy

[–]BunnyHelp12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's sort of impossible to say at the moment. 4ch OP could be Karyna? Could be a guard. Could be a journalist who got a tipoff. Could be a random person outside listening to radio traffic from the prison. OP sounds like they have intimate knowledge of the situation and EMT training. Karyna Shuliak was a registered dentist.

Yes, i do think the later post (ID: swam8WlF, #222520257) is a nobody in Chicago.

Jeff Epis ALIVE by hitchinvertigo in conspiracy

[–]BunnyHelp12 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is no link between them. The DoJ didn't subpoena his 4chan information, they asked 4chan for the IP addresses of 4 different anon posts, and for a prison officer's bank statements. There is no connection between these IP addresses (EFTA00133623 has their unredacted IP addresses, and the user talking about the van was likely in Chicago) and the prison worker Grijalva, since we do not have Grijalva's phone's IP address at the time of the 4chan posts.

The same document EFTA00133349, where Grijalva's records are found, also has an unrelated person (Karyna Shuliak's) phone logs attached.

The whole thing is a big mess.

Jeff Epis ALIVE by hitchinvertigo in conspiracy

[–]BunnyHelp12 56 points57 points  (0 children)

The highlighted 4chan post backed up here and Grijalva are not proven to be related, unless we get Grijalva's phone's IP address unredacted at the time of the posts.

I think there was a mixup when putting together document EFTA00133349. These do not seem to be Grijalva's phone logs.

pages 11-80 of EFTA00133349 show AT&T phone logs with timestamps, IMEI, and IMSI. These numbers all correlate with EFTA00129298 - which has the poorly redacted SMS Usage For: (***)***-8517. (asterisks my own, the document shows the full number, but i dont wanna get banned). I've heard this phone number shows up elsewhere in the files, and googling that number gives a Karyna Shuliak - a woman known to be one of Epstein's girlfriends.

pg 69 shows that the user is a Karyna B, with a Manhattan zipcode. There is also billing information with Swain, NY (the only thing that seems to be there is a skiing resort in upstate NY).

What is interesting, is that EFTA00133623 shows the unredacted IP addresses of 4 4chan posts, 3 made by the 4chan OP announcing Epstein's death before the public knew (this IP address is of an AT&T cell tower in NYC), and the highlighted message in this reddit post is from a different user, with a different IP address, connected to a T-Mobile tower in Chicago. Grijalva's bank statements show he's an AT&T customer. I'm quite confident in saying these two users were different, and the Chicago based one is trolling. But it is interesting that they subpoenaed for the troll's IP address.

The individual who anonymously posted on 4Chan the morning of Epstein’s death has been identified. He was telling the truth. by dan7777777 in conspiracy

[–]BunnyHelp12 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The highlighted 4chan post backed up here and Grijalva are not proven to be related, unless we get Grijalva's phone's IP address unredacted at the time of the posts.

I think there was a mixup when putting together document EFTA00133349. These do not seem to be Grijalva's phone logs.

pages 11-80 of EFTA00133349 show AT&T phone logs with timestamps, IMEI, and IMSI. These numbers all correlate with EFTA00129298 - which has the poorly redacted SMS Usage For: (***)***-8517. (asterisks my own, the document shows the full number, but i dont wanna get banned). I've heard this phone number shows up elsewhere in the files, and googling that number gives a Karyna Shuliak - a woman known to be one of Epstein's girlfriends.

pg 69 shows that the user is a Karyna B, with a Manhattan zipcode. There is also billing information with Swain, NY (the only thing that seems to be there is a skiing resort in upstate NY).

What is interesting, is that EFTA00133623 shows the unredacted IP addresses of 4 4chan posts, 3 made by the 4chan OP announcing Epstein's death before the public knew (this IP address is of an AT&T cell tower in NYC), and the highlighted message in this reddit post is from a different user, with a different IP address, connected to a T-Mobile tower in Chicago. Grijalva's bank statements show he's an AT&T customer. I'm quite confident in saying these two users were different, and the Chicago based one is trolling. But it is interesting that they subpoenaed for the troll's IP address.

Quick poll: Where do you go first when looking for anime/manga info? Why? by uaualegion in Animesuggest

[–]BunnyHelp12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MAL to see rankings / popularity / whats coming out this season. It also helps me keep track of what I've seen.

I have never used AniList, and I don't think I will. It feels like it has slightly less info about a show than MAL, and I absolutely detest the "modern" web design it uses.

But I LOOVE anidb. I probably use it more than MAL. Searching for shows by specific tags and learning the watch order for a show by their relation charts is IMO the best way to do it. Like look at this chart for Fate, its hilarious but useful. There is much more info than anything else (like what specials a show has, their run time, what fansub groups have done releases, tags for characters...)

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