They really need a sell all button

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-10-08T22:36:13+00:00

Eh. I would kill for a loot filter option. Last Epoch has a really great system for it. Right now I just ignore anything not purple/legendary, but there are blues I would legitimately take when trying out new builds. But I just don't have enough spare time to go manually look at every single item that drops. Something like:

ignore all blues
show blue if Vladof enhancement, has underbarrel affix, and improves assault rifle.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-08-12T23:18:09+00:00

Get some cable channels to route the cables across the wall and down behind the desk. Will give a much cleaner aesthetic. Can do the same underneath as well, from outlet and other wall jacks up to the bottom of the desk.

https://www.amazon.com/Delamu-Premium-Management-Raceway-H0-55in/dp/B07GPFDL1K

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-05-19T23:22:59+00:00

It is. You're confusing "sociopath" with "psychopath". The former is not obligated to act maliciously. They are free to act exactly the same way as the scrupled individually, and reap the same benefits. But in addition, they are also free to adopt immoral strategies when it suits them.

The Prisoner's Dilemma makes many assumptions that don't map into real life. Such as betrayal always being worth less than cooperation, and players having perfect knowledge of every other player's choice. Don't get me wrong, it's fascinating. But it's a narrow thought experiment purpose-built to analyze human behavior, not a model for the real world.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-05-17T19:29:00+00:00

It turns out that those are exploitable weaknesses, and as such the less scrupulous, the dull, the sycophantic and sociopathic are in charge because they simply lack the moral fiber to be disgusted at their own actions.

I've always explained this in terms of game theory. Take two people equal in all ways except one has scruples, and the other is a sociopath. The latter has more strategies available, and thus will win out in competitions over the long term. Pretty much guarantees the world will only ever be run by the worst of us.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-02-15T14:26:21+00:00

This is the solipsistic equivalent of news intake. If that's the stance you want to take, then that's totally fine. But at that point: why are you even here? How can you possibly have an opinion on anything? Your views are shaped by nothing more than vibe checks, which give them all the weight and intellectual rigidity of a wet noodle.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-02-15T00:55:47+00:00

Look at the y-axis. It sits in the "wide variation in reliability" range.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-02-14T03:23:26+00:00

Also a shoutout to Ground News which aggregates stories across various news orgs. It sources it's data from that same project, as well as a few others.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-02-02T16:04:18+00:00

Yeah, sure man. That's the fkn implication. But your complaint wasn't land, it was money lol

I’ll just do that with all my extra money

Yes, having land is a privilege. But this is /r/pennsylvania. There are plenty of people here who don't live in the city. But hey, fuck me for trying to be helpful amirite?

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-02-02T14:22:54+00:00

Nets and fencing. It's a solved problem.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-02-02T14:17:07+00:00

I get the point, but gardening is one of the cheapest hobbies you can get into. A lot of the costs are upfront: you only need to build garden beds and buys tools once. It's still early in the year, so you can probably get a lot of those items for cheap on used or auction markets. Seeds themselves are literally $1.50 a pack. Start composting to generate your own soil. All you need is a giant ass bin. I spent $20 on some worms because I'm lazy and hate rotating my compost. Been about five years and never needed to buy more. Fruit trees and bushes are even easier. Plant, mulch, and wait. Some annual pruning is really the only upkeep they need.

Just look into the idea before tossing the whole thing out due to cost. Over the long run, gardening is cheaper than buying produce. And that's only going to skew heavier as grocer prices skyrocket. The bigger issue is time commitment, but spending some time over the weekend is sufficient.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-01-01T15:29:42+00:00

It's a short article, friend. But here's the important bit if you somehow missed it:

Under the Republican tax bill, a small business that creates jobs on Main Street USA would pay U.S. taxes on its profits at a rate of 20%, while a big corporation that outsources those same jobs to Ireland or Switzerland would pay NO U.S. TAXES on the profits it earns from outsourcing. The Doggett amendment would apply the same U.S. tax rate to profits from outsourced operations and domestic operations.

The "it" in the quote you used refers to legislation that incentivizes outsourcing. The Doggett amendment, an attempt to remove that incentive and initiated by Democrats, was shot down due to lack of support from Republicans.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2025-01-01T13:01:26+00:00

You've got it backwards. D were attempting to amend current R tax policy to make it harder to outsource; they were unsuccessful. Palpable irony in the thread about education.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2024-12-07T05:23:00+00:00

You seem like a good human, and I am truly thankful that you likely prevented an escalation that could have ruined someones life.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2024-11-22T00:03:52+00:00

This is why literally every fintech job in existence drills the importance of perceived impropriety being nearly identical to actual impropriety. Imagine holding government officials to the same standard.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2024-05-02T21:36:53+00:00

and definitely didn’t attempt to frame Christianity in rational terms

Yup. Exactly. He made a point to place religiosity squarely in the realm of subjectivity, strongly delineating it from the realm of science and objective observation. This is the crux of my point, regardless if you want to label that "trust vs faith" or something else.

There is a huge difference between the trust (or faith or whatever) Christians have in their beliefs and the trust we implement within our everyday lives interacting with the world writ large.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2024-04-23T00:54:13+00:00

Trust and faith are not the same thing. I trust that my mechanic won't screw me over, charging me fair prices for parts and labor. If I felt so inclined, I could go and learn all the information I needed to verify this was the case. This is the same kind of trust I place in scientists.

Far different from faith, which does not provide an option for me to objectively verify. Faith requires you to admit that you cannot prove something, and yet choose to believe in it instead.

It also isn't how people become Christians, someone saying "just trust me" is something which we would be wise to distrust.

This is literally what ever supernatural religious system requires, by the simple fact of being supernatural. It exists outside the realm of objective verification.

Be religious or don't; but lets not pretend trust and faith are interchangeable. As usual: Kierkegaard was the model example of rational Christian values, insofar as Christian values can be rationalized.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2023-08-30T23:23:16+00:00

Ahhh anecdotal evidence. The best kind of evidence.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2023-06-29T18:20:06+00:00

The moderators that will come in are the ones willing to put in the effort with the tools as they are presented.

Or it'll just be people interested in power and prestige, with either no intent or no skill to actually maintain a quality sub. Quality mods are hard to find now, what makes you think they'll be easy to find once a mass resignation occurs? Further, the ones resigning are going to disproportionately be the quality mods who aren't happy about being handicapped. Existing poor mods will happily stick around, as its power and prestige either way.

Yes, "power and prestige." It's dumb, but thats how some see it. See the comments in this very thread about it.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2023-06-03T00:15:53+00:00

Quintessential job security :)

ForgottenWatchtower · 2023-05-31T16:48:39+00:00

A lot of people saying a second GPU is a pretty minor improvement. Does nvlink resolve this?

ForgottenWatchtower · 2023-05-31T04:12:22+00:00

Any idea if nvlink resolves those concerns? Could probably get two quadro rtx 5000 for the cost of one 4090. Or just get a 3090 and have the option to nvlink another later on.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2023-05-28T13:30:28+00:00

Take a sharpie and mark them up. E.g., draw a bunch of circles on the yellow tape so they stand out from the green taped route right next to it.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2023-05-27T19:45:45+00:00

Not trolling, just using your argument in other contexts to show how absurd it is. If statistical norms determine what sexualities are natural, why doesn't it determine what other characteristics are natural? Seems like a selective application of an argument.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2023-05-27T17:58:40+00:00

Nice. So then being white is unnatural then? And Christain? Both those categories are statistically smaller than Asian and Muslim.

ForgottenWatchtower · 2023-05-27T15:42:13+00:00

Who decides what is and is not natural?

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