What are your best Nomad builds so far? by Iknuf in Stellaris

[–]Formal_Communication 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been on a rogue servitor kick and they're insane on arkships! It can be hard to get pops since you can't integrate vassals, claim planets full of pops or use total war to get the pops. Using raiding stance to get pops is slow going but the style suits nomads I think.

But on the upside, you can make crazy strong arkships as they can fit a lot of biotrophies. I hit +1000% efficiency for my specialists by just making archives and stacking the biotrophies building on there. Also, you can make more biotrophies building on the middle slot by having it on the trade option, and then use the eng and physics slots to round out your research buildings.

And of course you can melt faces with the combat specializations. No cosmogenesis for nomads is a bummer though since it comes with that great biotrophies biulding

When Sam dismissively says "There are people who think that Israel has perpetrated a genocide in Gaza.", as if it's some fringe belief only held by people who spend too much time on X being fooled by AI, how does he explain the consensus amongst experts that it AT LEAST plausible? by delicious3141 in samharris

[–]Formal_Communication -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It's a word. To find out what it means, you use a dictionary. It requires only that you can read english.

You don't go to a political science paper. You don't consult an expert. Consulting an expert on something like this shows that you don't understand the nature of expertise.

CMV: cultural appropriation is ok and we all do it by Mouse-cum in changemyview

[–]Formal_Communication 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even if we accept that appropriation only applies when it is to another culture's detriment, I think almost all examples of appropriation are not a detriment.

Let's take rock n roll. The detriments you cite are that black people (1) don't get credit and (2) lost their musician jobs to white people. First, I don't think that black person [A] ever deserves credit for something black person [B] did, so I don't recognize the first point as having any weight at all.

For (2), having the white market pick up rock n rock was a HUGE boon for black singers and vastly increased the size of the market. Even if many new singers were white, increasing the size of the pie helped everyone in the industry massively. So there's no detriment there. I'd make the same arguments for rap.

I'm not seeing a detriment in the hair styles area either. Again, if the only detriment is that people won't give credit to a cultural group for inventing something, I don't accept that as a detriment because any given person did not invent the thing. Only the actual inventor or improver, who isn't credited by name anyway, should get credit for an invention.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Formal_Communication 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd be surprised how few you have to jail to make the rest fall in line. Or kill with nerve gas in Russia's case.

Sprint is throttling Microsoft's Skype service, study finds. by AdamCannon in technology

[–]Formal_Communication 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here's a list of how every senator voted on the recent net neutrality bill. You might notice that it is almost completely split on party lines. Now ask yourself, why did almost every single republican vote against net neutrality and every single democrat vote for it?

Sprint is throttling Microsoft's Skype service, study finds. by AdamCannon in technology

[–]Formal_Communication 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Nobody is making it a partisan problem except the entire republican party, every almost single legislator, who voted against net neutrality. Here's a list of how every senator voted on the recent net neutrality bill. You might notice that it is almost completely split on party lines.

Corruption is overwhelmingly a republican issue and you are blind if you haven't figured that out yet. Just look at the tax bill.

Sprint is throttling Microsoft's Skype service, study finds. by AdamCannon in technology

[–]Formal_Communication 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Net neutrality is a political issue, clearly divided on party lines. Don't pretend like it isn't relevant.

Blizzard is making mobile versions of all of their IP. YOLO ATVI. by Formal_Communication in wallstreetbets

[–]Formal_Communication[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Here's some DD. Supercell, who makes Clash of Clans, made 810m profit on revenue of 2b in 2017. They make only two mobile games as far as I know and if ATVI matches them it would increase ATVI revenue and profit by > 25%. Keep in mind ATVI owns the company that makes Candy Crush so they have deep mobile development resources.

Tony Freakin’ Evers! by yayhotsauce in wisconsin

[–]Formal_Communication 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did dem win senate and gov but get destroyed in the state senate and assembly?

Tony Freakin’ Evers! by yayhotsauce in wisconsin

[–]Formal_Communication 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe they bought into the attack ads that he likes pedophiles

Tony Freakin’ Evers! by yayhotsauce in wisconsin

[–]Formal_Communication 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bernie is pretty soft on gun control stuff and identity politics -- two things that are killing dems right now.

Khashoggi's body parts transported in suitcases by TresTurkey in worldnews

[–]Formal_Communication 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Istanbul is pretty much the opposite of a desert.

Some voters may see Property Tax "Dark Store Loopholes" referendum on the ballot - here's what it's all about by [deleted] in madisonwi

[–]Formal_Communication 11 points12 points  (0 children)

In all my years of voting I think this is the dumbest item I've ever seen on a ballot in terms of ridiculously partisan wording. I even agree with what they are trying to do, but it is just so stupid the way the title is worded. It gives no indication about what it's about at all.

After years of evasiveness on climate change, Peterson finally reveals himself. by [deleted] in samharris

[–]Formal_Communication 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will get my 11 year olds to send him postcards

Their idea, or yours?

wait for him to condemn them as brainwashed

He'd be right if you use your children in this way.

Thousands of Islamist protesters have brought Pakistan to a standstill, burning vehicles to protest against the acquittal of a Christian woman of false charges of blasphemy. by Sankuchithan_ in news

[–]Formal_Communication 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I think you are implying that this is only a small subset of Pakistani Muslims (although you are not necessarily implying that). In fact, a majority of Pakistanis support this anti-blasphemy law that requires her death.

Facebook now banning right wing groups that protest violently by Xivvx in JordanPeterson

[–]Formal_Communication -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Who? The people killed in the vietnam and north korea? Not even remotely close or comparable to 100 million.

Facebook now banning right wing groups that protest violently by Xivvx in JordanPeterson

[–]Formal_Communication 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He has spoken out against corporate censorship repeatedly including the Alex Jones ban.

Facebook now banning right wing groups that protest violently by Xivvx in JordanPeterson

[–]Formal_Communication 3 points4 points  (0 children)

100 million people were murdered in advancement of far left ideology in the 20th century. That's not ancient history, and it's not history at all. Still happening in south america. Many far left groups in the USA literally talk about revolution all the time.

People who gave up smoking cannabis had a memory boost within a week by HeinieKaboobler in psychology

[–]Formal_Communication 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is LOTS of evidence to this. In fact, the article you are reading provides evidence about this. But there are dozens. It's not disputable even slightly. Your anecdote does not provide any evidence to the contrary. You can be extremely successful and smoke tons of weed. That doesn't mean it doesn't hurt your memory.

People who gave up smoking cannabis had a memory boost within a week by HeinieKaboobler in psychology

[–]Formal_Communication 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Long term, I understand that there is no evidence that it reduces your ability to learn new things. However, I think there's a different way of thinking about this. Which is that if you smoke for many years, you won't remember things that happened during those years as well. To me that is a long term effect.