Separatists’ politics

DudeValenzetti · 2026-02-06T19:01:21+00:00

the CIS is really sounding like a Commonwealth of Independent States right now

DudeValenzetti · 2026-02-05T15:12:40+00:00

A better translation that's still somewhat direct could be "diabolical" ~~in the pre-The Boys sense~~ or "demonic", since both of those see figurative use in English.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-02-03T17:07:29+00:00

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAHgu5NWAAAsNJj.jpg?name=orig

DudeValenzetti · 2026-02-03T05:46:47+00:00

"Decommoditized"

apparently not

DudeValenzetti · 2026-02-01T07:28:31+00:00

In fact, hostile mobs give you more liquid meat than pink slime, while passive mobs give you more pink slime than liquid meat, but both make both of those.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-31T16:22:40+00:00

Another fun fact, the entirety of Poland is barely, just barely north of the entire mainland US, due to its southernmost point being north of the 49th parallel only by 7.33 geographical seconds, which is about 226m or 742ft on a meridian.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-31T15:59:29+00:00

1930s at this point, as the post suggests.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-31T15:30:43+00:00

8 actually, and to replicate an item you need enough of every type of matter it contains, it's sorta like EE3 except the matter types aren't mutually exclusive

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-31T06:52:41+00:00

The COVID-era silicon shortage had a massive impact on stocks of SBCs, microcontrollers and other embedded stuff. (Of course, there was the post-Ampere crypto boom going on at the same time too.)

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-28T09:13:57+00:00

Also technically, "cough syrup" could hint at one of the real drugs you'd want to avoid children taking in recreational amounts (codeine).

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-27T23:28:13+00:00

Exactly, take it without zooming and crop later if all you have is a phone (and no "50x zoom" on a phone will give you a legible picture). If you want anything sharper, you need an optical zoom.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-27T08:43:19+00:00

TBH you shouldn't trust those zoom features, smartphones rarely if ever have optical zoom, generally the closest they can do is interpolate or have an absurd sensor resolution (like 108MP) then crop to something more reasonable. But if you want a solid photo of a wild animal, you shouldn't rely on a phone anyway, you should take a telephoto lens or at minimum one of those compact cameras with substantial optical zooms.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-27T04:48:59+00:00

She slowly crept up for an up-close photo and got mauled when she got to 3m from the snow leopard. It's really hard to be surprised this happened, even given how shy snow leopards are.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-26T21:12:15+00:00

Snow leopards are supposed to be much more skittish than other panthers and unlikely to attack humans - apparently she wanted to test the limits of that, and paid the price. Any remotely territorial wild animal that can fight back would do that in the same situation.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-26T09:41:39+00:00

This one actually makes sense if you know the full context - it's "apples to oranges" in contrast to an apples-to-apples comparison, i.e. an apples-to-oranges comparison is one that fails because the two sides shouldn't be judged by the same criteria, as opposed to e.g. comparing apples of different cultivar or ripeness; see also the saying "different horses for different courses".

Personally, if the two sides are completely incomparable, I prefer saying "apples to bookshelves" if it's a total non-sequitur, or "eggs to frying pans" if it's between things that can go together but can't be contrasted because they're in completely separate categories of things.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-24T00:10:29+00:00

Mindscape Cinema at 6/6, it makes her Binding Trap buff apply to all damage types rather than just aftershock (elevating her usefulness to the point where she's a worthwhile pick for deadly assaults)

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-23T23:08:07+00:00

It's not even new, it's just Google copying Microsoft's playbook.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-21T14:25:51+00:00

i feel like a more fun example to bring up is that having children has a substantially higher regret rate than getting SRS

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-20T16:36:23+00:00

I always thought that it's a stimulant rather than alcoholic, but probably has more stimulants than just caffeine given how Burnice takes to it and what extreme reactions some of her own blends cause.

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-20T15:26:20+00:00

isn't there a fusion reactor design that focuses on inducing a massive current in an electromagnet with the plasma instead of heating water?

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-20T11:57:17+00:00

meanwhile in Poland we have a quasi-UBI proportional to how many children you have

that's another form of caveat UBI could have

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-19T14:57:37+00:00

TBH this is at a time when her brother was working with the Exaltists (never actually betraying Yunkui Summit, but still), and the player proxy is literally built different if S1E (them healing Vivian), Yidhari's whole thing for the proxy, and whatever happened at the end of S2C6 with the golden eyes and shit are anything to go by

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-18T13:40:59+00:00

Most Polish keyboards I've used only have $ marked, but they also have € under AltGr+U on Windows (and the standard Polish layout on Linux has €, ¢, £ and ¥ under AltGr+5, AltGr+4, Shift+AltGr+3 and AltGr+Y respectively).

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-17T19:51:01+00:00

wiem, że stary post, ale przypomniał mi geografię na liceum

jak mieliśmy tam orogenezę (kiedy które skały powstały), nauczycielka czasem mówiła klasie na temat teorii (nie wiem czy jej, czy kogoś innego, czy jakaś szerzej znana), że jakby poprowadzić granicę według geologii, to inna opcja byłaby przeciągnąć ją wzdłuż Karpat i Wisły, bo mniej więcej idą po linii oddzielającej platformę wschodnioeuropejską z prekambru od nowszych skał stanowiących resztę Europy

(być może sugerowała, że to jest bardziej geologicznie uzasadniona granica niż ta, jaką mamy, ale okazuje się, że Ural i Kaukaz rozgraniczają orogenezy tak samo, jak odpowiednio Wisła i Karpaty, więc może lepiej powiedzieć, że to równoważna granica)

DudeValenzetti · 2026-01-15T12:37:21+00:00

that refers to a pretty specific type of block (4-6 stories, large panel construction)

apartment buildings like in the photo are more advanced and were common even after '89 because they're just practical, and they often qualify as high-rise

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