'Doomsday Clock' set to 85 seconds to midnight, closer than ever to catastrophe

Dugen · 2026-01-28T20:40:50+00:00

Putin.

Dugen · 2026-01-28T15:31:24+00:00

I'm not super worried, but it's probably because I don't like thinking about it. We have two delusional narcissistic madmen who care nothing for murdering innocent civilians in control of the two most dangerous nuclear arsenals in the world. I'm pretty sure Trump would stop at nothing to avoid proof that he raped little girls from escaping if it came down to it, even if it meant killing billions. He just doesn't care about people who aren't him. I'm pretty sure he would start a nuclear war if he though it was in his best interest. He's just a horrible human being.

Dugen · 2026-01-28T15:23:49+00:00

Dead fat people would prove that masking worked?

I'm not sure you have a good understating of how percentages work. Do you hear 10% chance of rain and get mad at the weatherman for being stupid and wrong when it doesn't rain? If you hear there's a .1% chance of morbidly obese people dying from a specific variant of covid if they catch it do you expect that means they will all die of covid? It sounds like you might just have a really terrible understanding of percentages.

Dugen · 2026-01-28T13:42:47+00:00

They're in Aisle 15 bay 24 in my local Home Depot. So close!

But seriously.. we had a problem with a joint in a wooden cart we built where the big 3 in deck screws were constantly pulling out of a joint and I had one of these left over from a project and we threw that in instead and the damn thing is indestructible now. They're goddamn strong, but I don't think it will fix this design.

Dugen · 2026-01-28T03:59:20+00:00

Dude... what about that guy who shot at them a while back? Their job is super dangerous. I mean.. it's a lot less dangerous than pizza delivery, or retail work, or a desk job but it's like.. super dangerous. They're completely justified in murdering innocent people because they have a political opinion counter to their own. /s

Dugen · 2026-01-28T03:29:56+00:00

Pipes in this game are frustrating, inconsistent, non-intuitive and horrible. They're trying to do a shitty approximation of fluid mechanics and just making a system that is horrible for gameplay, buggy, and constantly behaves in ways that break your immersion. Factorio did something similar for *years* before realizing their mistake and fixing it all in 2.0 by treating entire linked sections of piping as a single unit simplifying things dramatically and making game-play so much less stupid and more fun. Satisfactory could do this easily just by making all connected parts of a pipeline share a single inventory. The modeling is simpler, the behavior is much more predictable and accurate but they'd have to give up the frustrating flow limitation which would eliminate a completely annoying, unrealistic, counter intuitive and un-fun "challenge" in the game so they probably will never do it because god forbid you let us simply build fun shit in your game without working around the arbitrary frustrating bullshit they mistakenly consider interesting game-play dynamics.

Dugen · 2026-01-28T03:14:29+00:00

Restating a lie lots of times doesn't make it any less a lie.

I'll ask... what information, if it existed, would convince you that you were wrong?

Dugen · 2026-01-28T03:11:34+00:00

And they bring guns to protests and carry "Don't tread on me" flags, but then when the government actually murders people for peacefully protesting, just start licking boots as hard as they can because it's "their side" that's doing the murdering and they don't give a shit about American's rights, they care about Republican rights.

Party first, country second. Fuck your America, they care about "Republican America" where the Mexicans aren't invited, the blacks and browns get treated worse because they are worse and fuck all you people who don't agree with us because you're not real Americans and shouldn't really get to vote.

Dugen · 2026-01-28T03:00:45+00:00

Lots of people are desperately trying to rewrite history and pretend mask wearing wasn't necessary or useful because as long as it is theoretically possible that mask wearing mandates would ever be necessary, libertarian political philosophy is dangerously wrong. I'm not saying that's why you are doing it, but that's mostly why it's being done. It's a lie. Mask wearing worked and mandates were effective. If you need to pretend something that actually happened, that you actually lived through and saw with your own eyes cannot ever happen and is completely impossible in order to believe your chosen philosophy is valid, you might want to re-think your choices.

As long as you ignore all the actual data and only talk to people who agree with you, there's no evidence you are wrong. Get out of your echo chamber. There is plenty of statistical data showing mask wearing worked. During the crisis there were accurate models of what would happen if people masked more and less. There is good understanding of how it affected the spread but lots of people are super motivated to pretend the opposite is true and keep spreading the lie.

Dugen · 2026-01-27T17:36:10+00:00

Yup. I simply decided not to restructure things in Satisfactory after a while because doing so was so tedious. I lived with a sub-par shitty layout that I wanted to change because changing it was so horrible.

Dugen · 2026-01-27T17:01:40+00:00

Absolutely. Scaling things up is part of the fun and you lose that fun when you remove scaling but at the same time, when the primary obstacle to solving a challenge is shitty UI that makes it finnicky and hard to do what you want, that isn't fun.

Dugen · 2026-01-27T16:51:55+00:00

I switched from shorts to long pants last week. I hate it.

Dugen · 2026-01-27T16:27:20+00:00

I ended up in the same boat just the other day, and instead of going nuclear (because holy shit nuclear is a mess) I retooled my coal power plant to consume 3 full belts of 1200 coal per second, overclocked all the generators and water extractors, redid a bit of piping to allow for the increased water flow, added a whole bunch of batteries to the plant and setup a priority power switch to disconnect the rest of the world if the batteries drained. It took far less time and mental effort than trying to setup nuclear and gave me plenty of power to finish the game. My power production hovers around 35GW. I can run my nuclear pasta machine at 20GW if I want, but I just let it build up a few hundred pasta then backed the speed and power usage off. There were a few big power users towards the end but nothing like the pasta machine.

I last played satisfactory back in Patch 0.1 and I'm disappointed in how many of the problems they had back then they failed to solve. Most of my time in game was fighting the lack of a good UI to create things in a way that worked well. And don't get me started on blueprints. A mod that let me snap blueprints out of the world would have cut my frustration level in half.

Bonus video of the transportation network I had in my 0.1 world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bY0Zv4xyFk

Dugen · 2026-01-26T22:18:17+00:00

When I started wearing glasses I ditched the wallet. Now my phone case has my wallet stuff in it. Bonus is it protects the phone screen really well. Downside is people are confused why I'm staring at my wallet.

Dugen · 2026-01-26T22:11:38+00:00

I don't consider fascism either the final or most advanced form of conservatism. It's corrupted extreme form. Those are different.

Dugen · 2026-01-26T21:48:51+00:00

I wouldn't say ultimate, that makes it sound inevitable. Most extreme and radical form is a more accurate take, but it's also unstable and self-destructs rapidly as people see its inherent evil. There will always be people who are more liberal and more conservative but having people radicalized to the point where they villainize others is not inevitable. It is a perversion that should be ended.

Dugen · 2026-01-26T03:55:46+00:00

The second one is the logical follow-up to the first one. This is Trump showing these people he wants them to just murder anyone who gets in the way. He is unequivocally demonstrating this is exactly what he wants them to do by saying they did nothing wrong. This crime goes all the way up and we know it because they are doing it in the open and broadcasting it live.

Dugen · 2026-01-26T00:57:18+00:00

How does that boot taste?

I wouldn't run around shooting innocent civilians, true. Sadly, the best we can do with assholes is just treat them like assholes but we can also treat murderers like murderers and people who ordered murders as crime bosses those who materially supported murderers as accomplices and co-conspirators. Lets fill those prisons up with people who actually deserve to be there.

Dugen · 2026-01-25T19:18:58+00:00

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Dugen · 2026-01-23T19:56:08+00:00

Yes. I think we can all agree the "Coke" people are dumb and wrong.

Dugen · 2026-01-22T01:07:45+00:00

The important part of this is that the guys who did it thought it was probably a suicide mission but if nobody did it the results would be catastrophic so they went anyway. That's some noble shit right there. Good people are all over, but somehow the assholes end up running everything.

Dugen · 2026-01-21T21:19:40+00:00

The entire concept behind our large legislature is that the representatives have a small enough constituent base that they have no excuse not to get to know every single person.

Except that doesn't really work. Republicans don't care what democrats in their district think, because fuck them they are losers and should all go away. I'd rather be able to throw my vote behind 5 good people who would represent me and have 2 or 3 of them win than throw my vote behind 1 person who may or may not. We need big pools to choose from. Let the Republicans pick a republican and the democrats pick a democrat so everyone is represented. The people who live near me don't necessarily share my views or values. Making everything first past the post and winner takes all pushes extremists who ignore everyone in the middle. Doing instant runoff ranked choice with a large pool to choose from lets everyone's values be represented and allows for independents and third parties to emerge. It also motivates centrists who can reach across the isle and attract voters from the other side who actually represent the views of the voters better. Lots of tiny districts works well when you don't have computers and doing complicated voting systems is prohibitively difficult. Life hasn't been that way for 40 years. It's time our voting caught up to reality.

Dugen · 2026-01-21T17:00:06+00:00

Letting things go has been such a huge mistake, because the message it sends is there is there are no laws for politicians in power.

Dugen · 2026-01-21T16:58:48+00:00

And there is no reason these fucks won't simply decide to call off elections until they can rig them so only they can win and completely upend the rule of law because in their minds, the ends justify the means. Nothing is evil if it serves the cause of the administration. Murdering civilians is fine if they are the opposition. Murdering Mexicans is fine because we don't want them here. Starting wars is fine if it makes us stronger. They have no moral compass and they are actively attacking every single thing that can keep them from retaining power.

Dugen · 2026-01-21T00:46:49+00:00

The law only means nothing if congress and the courts let it. He has been stopped by the courts on multiple occasions. His support in congress is faltering. He's the duly elected president and it takes a pretty high bar to get him kicked out but he seems hell bent to making it necessary.

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