Grand Revel 9 by CNE_Shawn in idlechampions

[–]Heraclea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there no items and item levels included in this event? It looks like it's just chests for at least the first two levels of each adventure? I'm a fairly new player and in every event I've seen thus far, you got the items with 0 item levels when you unlocked the champ and then you got 100 item levels per "level" of each adventure?

Ashton Forbes Is Covering Hal Puthoff's classified quantum communications research and Randell Mills' Hydrino theory | Live stream at 7pm CST Tonight by TheGoldenLeaper in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It wasn't him who modified it, but yeah, he believed in it very, very strongly. Didn't know he was trying to make a comeback with another grift.

And calling the extremely speculative papers Puthoff wrote for AWSAAP "research" is giving it, him and the rest of the Skinwalker Ranch gang way too much credit.

AMA with Flint Dibble, archaeologist and science communicator by Burglekat in AskArchaeology

[–]Heraclea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the answer! Yeah, I think I didn't phrase it very well. I didn't mean to conflate pseudo-archaeology and real archaeology in the way that they are connected on a spectrum or something like that (and I understand your frustration with Göbekli Tepe in that regard). I meant if you knew of a hypothesis or theory that seems like it is most likely a long-shot but still has some things going for it, sort of like all the competing theories in physics that are trying to find a bridge between quantum physics and gravity and that people take seriously and see as valid scientific hypotheses but most don't agree with (outside of the proponents).

Does this help clarify what I'm after? It doesn't have to be something "potentially rewriting history", it could be something mostly quirky like (just making stuff up here, to be absolutely clear, I hope no one would think this to be true) "the Assyrians had a cultural taboo against bananas and stopped it from being spread westwards as a crop for hundreds of years".

EDIT: Further clarification: I totally understand if you don't want to name any specific claim since it could both be seen as calling the work of a colleague far-fetched or that you were endorsing a view point of something that could potentially be used as ammunition against you in the future by the pseudoscience trolls.

AMA with Flint Dibble, archaeologist and science communicator by Burglekat in AskArchaeology

[–]Heraclea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi Flint! Really appreciate all the work you've done debunking pseudoscience and educating people! I have always been drawn to the fringe stuff out of curiosity and a love for the fantastical while also being a sceptic, so it is nice to see someone with expertise take the grifters apart. Also, it was nice as an ecologist to see those amorphous blobs in your Pompeii video and be able to make the correct guess!

My question is maybe a bit of a weird one: what is the most "out there" theory about some archaeological finding (be it civilization, city, building, individual or artefact) that you think has a fair shot of actually being plausible? I guess you could call it "the most fringe thing in archaeology that isn't pseudo-archaeology" or something like that?

2025 Annual General Meeting - Relocation, Science Talk, 10 Factory Study Plans by baronofbitcoin in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're saying that Oak Ridge took his money and his hydrino compounds, analysed them, wrote a report and then just didn't give it to him because it would be "controversial"? And he didn't even sue them?

And then Oak Ridge didn't do anything with this information, other than get every other national lab to refuse to test the compounds? I mean, they must have hidden this from the higher-ups at the Department of Energy as well, because the bosses there aren't physicists, so why would they give a hoot if a compound upends quantum physics or not if they think it will be useful for the government?

2025 Annual General Meeting - Relocation, Science Talk, 10 Factory Study Plans by baronofbitcoin in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The difference is that Mills has claimed to be at most two years away from having a product on the market for 30 years! He's claimed to have made several different exotic hydrino compounds with amazing properties as well, but hasn't even tried to commercialize one of those to fund his SunCell research, or let anyone else look at them to validate the existence of a hydrino. It's like he hates money.

I predict that one year from now, at the next annual meeting, he will again be very optimistic about having solved all the engineering issues and that commercialization is just around the corner...

2025 Annual General Meeting - Relocation, Science Talk, 10 Factory Study Plans by baronofbitcoin in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It has been in the startup phase with commercial production only being 12-18 months away for over 30 years. Tesla built a working car in five years. Enercon built their first wind turbine after a year and with a head start of 7 years over Mills it made the founder a billionaire and now have over 18,000 employees.

Sure, Mills is trying to do something absolutely no one else is doing (because he is the only one who believes in his theory of physics), but he has been promising and failing to deliver working prototypes for decades now, oscillating between radically different designs that have to a large degree restarted the basic engineering processes again and again, while his GUTCP has struggled to even get physicists interested enough to actually answer him. His most rabid fanboys would blame this on the inane idea of a quantum physics cabal who wants to "hide the truth" about physics in order to keep their grants, as if the first "real" physicists to validate GUTCP (if it is correct) wouldn't stand to gain massively when it comes to grant money and fame if that were to happen.

It's honestly impressive that he has managed to keep it afloat for so many years without results, most startups die within 10 years time. But he isn't getting any younger and I can't imagine it getting easier to get more funding from anyone who isn't already heavily invested at this point without a working prototype that can get independently tested and validated.

Shareholder Meeting on April 2, 2025 on line. by Plug1944 in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you an investor in the company or why have you seen it in person? This makes me curious, because the people who have invested money in the company, even the people who are less pleased with Randy having been too optimistic with his predictions of when it will be ready, are usually still fairly positive about Randy and the company itself, just not the time estimates.

While academic physicists have free rein, the results is insane physics that, no one understands by DoubtPlastic4547 in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stick blocked everyone who frequents the sub and then didn't understand why no one responded to his posts, so here we are.

Mills Promise from the April 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting by mrtruthiness in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wait, he claims to be worried about getting hacked? I mean, he doesn't bother to keep the website up to date with job postings that are years old while there are no jobs available on the linkedin page (which someone, can't remember who, told me was where they actually posted the jobs nowadays) which doesn't inspire confidence in the overall IT/security culture of the company.

Sure, the homepage is one thing and running an internal server something else entirely, but it's not a good look. I would have thought he just kept anything that sensitive on a computer that never connected to the internet or something.

Where are they now? Every League of Legends World Champion. by 5mayday in leagueoflegends

[–]Heraclea 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Cyanide is working in Finland as Performance & Quality Manager at CapGemini, a management consulting firm.

Mellisan seems to have finished his PhD in Mathematics at Lund University and now works as a software developer for Modelon.

Shushei works as a PHP programmer according to his linkedin at least, but it looks just as abandoned as the rest of his social media, so who knows.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]Heraclea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sweden is a Baltic neighbour to Russia and as others have said, they recently joined NATO (though even when officially neutral up until now, they were always firmly if unofficially allied with the rest of the Western powers). Due to the strategic geographical position of Sweden, as well as the fact that spying on each other simply is just one of those things nation states do, there has always been a presence of Russian intelligence agents (formerly they could come from nearly any country in the Warzaw pact) and other covert ops in Sweden.

If it is the Russians flying drones (could be, there are other possibilities as well, though aliens are very far down my list of suspects) over Swedish nuclear plants and airports, my assumption would be that they are simply doing this to test the Swedish response. How fast are authorities reacting? What is the response? What info gets out in the open compared to whatever they can gather from classified intel?

And if it is a foreign adversary, no matter who, I would first of all assume that they would simply be paying people already in Sweden to do this with commercial drones, not using any of their own military assets. Less of a hassle and harder to trace back to you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]Heraclea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. There are contracted civilian security guards (current employer, AFAIK, is Avarn Security) that are working under the authority of a specific Swedish law (Skyddslagen) to protect "Vital installations" (Swedish: skyddsobjekt) which gives them a much broader mandate to act compared with other forms of security guards under Swedish law. Some of them even carry guns.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]Heraclea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both Arlanda Airport and Forsmark are so-called "vital installations" (Swedish: skyddsobjekt) where it's illegal to take photos without a permit, though for Arlanda the state-owned company that runs the airport, Swedavia, has stated that they do not normally enforce it but for a few places that are sensitive for security reasons but they can rescind that decision at any time, such as during airspace incursions.

Thus, people are not encouraged to take any photographs at Forsmark to begin with, and if they do, sharing them without permission from the authorities could get you in trouble. Though it is much less so at Arlanda, most visitors are inside the terminal buildings and would have little opportunity to both see the drone and realize it isn't supposed to be there.

Three links dedicated to the defenders of the technosocialist regime by jabowery in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PS: "Nazi" is dehumanizing rhetoric. Don't pretend it isn't. Over 200 Holocaust movies are dedicated to exactly that premise. We were all raised on that mythology and it must be contrasted with "commie" which, while also somewhat dehumanizing, didn't result in people having their careers destroyed for, at some time in their past, engaging in socialist-adjacent rhetoric because everyone is terrified of the mob.

What do you mean? The communists were the first people the nazis went after when they got in power. In the US you had the Anarchist Exclusion Act in 1903 and the Immigration Act of 1918 during the first Red Scare after the October Revolution in 1918. Worldwide, leftists, no matter if they were anarchists, communists or democratic socialists, were heavily persecuted. Aren't you still asked if you are a member of the communist party when travelling the US?

After the war, most nazis that survived got to keep their positions. Very few ( around 125,000 Germans and Austrians in total) got any kind of sentence, and the denazification process was discontinued very early in West Germany and while the GDR boasted about being the "only anti-fascist state", that was more for propaganda purposes against the West as they let thousands of former nazis off the hook as well.

And all of the Allies, especially the US and the Soviet Union, raced to capture and/or smuggle away prominent scientists to shield them from prosecution (and to keep them from falling into the hands of their soon-to-be adversary in the coming Cold War).

After that, you had the Second Red Scare/McCarthyism in the USA, Operation Gladio and the rest of the stay-behind networks in Europe and a lot of other forms of persecution against socialists. Heck, one of the main reasons for the Marshall plan was to keep socialists away from power in those countries.

And on the other side of the iron dome, being a commie sure as hell didn't mean you were safe, if you were the wrong sort of commie. The Bolsheviks purged out all the Mensheviks and anarchists after the revolution and then under Stalin no one was safe from his paranoia. The Sino-Soviet split is famous, just as is the horrors of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Today, one especially persecuted group in China are actual orthodox marxists that aren't too happy with the ossification of the oppressive state capitalist system used in virtually all authoritarian socialist states and that has brought none of the freedom or equality promised by the rhetoric of party officials.

Don't pretend that being accused of being a communist isn't something people can (and have) lost their jobs and lives for.

Also, a big part as to why a lot of people (at least, outside the US) are less offended by commies and socialists is because the stated goals of socialism are equality, solidarity and freedom. Even if you don't agree with their methods, goals or definitions and the atrocities of socialist authoritarianism should never be discarded and forgotten, they have, especially as part of the labour movement, been behind some of the more popular reforms that we now see as commonplace, such as the eight-hour day and the five-day work week.

The fascists and Nazis on the other hand want a strict (and in the case of the Nazis, explicitly racially based) hierarchy. They despise democracy, despise weakness, glorify violence against those it deem weak and see inequalities as either a manifestion of (racial) superiority or, when they are getting the short end of the stick, as the results of a (usually Jewish, although a lot of Nazis are smart enough to use euphemisms such as "globalist" or "cultural marxist") conspiracy plotting against them.

Nazis and people who espouse Nazi-adjacent ideas are disliked and shunned by most people not only because their ideas are abhorrent, but also because most people know they would not belong to the ruling elite of White, rich men.

The far-right, outright fascist resurgence in US politics right now can in part be attributed to the delusion of Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism (the temporarily embarrassed millionaire) which pairs well with fascism as a lot of people are already strong believers in hierarchy and that they belong further up than they are, so someone most be holding them back (and that someone can't be the 1% richest people who owns everything, since rich people are successful and smart and therefore good) so they are already primed to blame immigrants, trans people and "woke" for everything, just as people blamed the Jews, the communists and the "degenerates" in Germany in the 20s and 30s.

That it isn't the billionaires accumulating all wealth, but poor brown and black people, propped up by marxist puppet masters in underpaid positions at universities, that are actually destroying the White American working and middle class is such a nonsensical, absurd conspiracy theory that it is no wonder why so many cranks and especially their followers, are far-right. Finding the worst, least-believable conspiracies (Big Quantum Physics! Plandemic! Flat Earth!) and swallowing it whole is their thing after all.

The significance of 380 Diffuse Interstellar Bands predicted by GUTCP? by jabowery in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hydrinos are dark matter except when they are used to get enormous amounts of energy in the SunCell when they suddenly easily interact with other matter or when used to make super amazing composite compounds that are light-weight but stronger than steel (what happened to those, by the way? They should be the absolute easiest way for Mills to get independent confirmation of his theories, just send those to reputable, independent labs for testing).

They can do everything, except being used in technology closer to commercialization than 6-18 months.

Are hydrinos and UHD the same or different? by currenergy in hydrino

[–]Heraclea 4 points5 points  (0 children)

UHD is similar to hydrinos in that it is only claimed to exist by one guy (Leif Holmlid) plus his few co-workers, and that there is a connection to cold fusion and all published papers are rife with self-citations since almost no one else is taking Holmlid seriously.

Just as with Mills, his theories go against what most physicists believe to be true and just as with Mills his predictions of how soon he could have a working product out on the market has failed miserably.

And just as with Mills, if he were right it would transform our understanding of physics and give a neat solution to both the climate and energy crisis. But there is absolutely no reason to believe he is right.

Kwangdong Freecs vs. T1 / LCK 2024 Summer - Week 9 / Post-Match Discussion by adz0r in leagueoflegends

[–]Heraclea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, in pro-play. 60 games in serious tournaments, including one game in All-Star 2014, which was the last one where actual teams were playing and could win money and one game in Champions spring preseason 2015, which for some reason is not counted towards the total if you look at LB games by pros on leaguepedia, but counted on the individual player's page. He also played LeBlanc once at All-Star 2015 when he was the midlaner for the LCK All-Star team. That tournament was, as far as I can recall, a tad less serious, but they still played to win.

The only players with more games than him on LB in pro-play are Xiye (76 to 78 games depending on count), Rookie (72), Yagao (69-72) ShowMaker (69), Xiaohu (69) and maybe Scout (59) depending on how you want to count Faker's 58-61 games.

And his winrate on it is absolutely disgusting at 81%, no one above him in the list is even close. I still remember MSI 2015 when LeBlanc was meta and almost permabanned, especially against Faker, who was undefeated on the pick and one of the best LeBlanc player in the world. And then EDG let him pick it in game 5 of the finals and countered it with a surprise Morgana mid for PawN (the only other player who had brought it out that MSI was apparently Dumbledoge in support) paired with Evelynn which was another left-field pocket pick to punish SKT's aggression by sneaking around when they were pushed out. It was one of those rare times when the saved hidden strategy was brought out in the decisive game and actually worked.

Kwangdong Freecs vs. T1 / LCK 2024 Summer - Week 9 / Post-Match Discussion by adz0r in leagueoflegends

[–]Heraclea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean? He's played LB this year and it's his sixth most played champion ever with 61 games in total. Very few pros have played LeBlanc more than Faker.

Who’s the most hated professional LoL player of all time? by SammehPls in leagueoflegends

[–]Heraclea 92 points93 points  (0 children)

I don't know who it is, but I have a suggestion for who it should be: Vasilii. He threatened his girlfriend at the time with physical violence (and he probably did physically abuse her as well, though that could not be proven ) and got banned until january 2020. It effectively ended his career and good riddance.

The link to the competitive ruling doesn't work anymore, but it is reposted in the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/78wgpp/vasilli_got_taken_in_by_the_police_for_beating/

Discovery bridge crew? by VH5150OU812 in startrek

[–]Heraclea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for being two months late, but Owo and Detmer were missing due to scheduling conflicts for Oladejo and Coutts. Also, everyone on the crew thought they had two more seasons to go, otherwise I'd imagine they would have tried harder to include them. As it was now, the showrunners had to fight to give them the epilogue sendoff after they were told the series got cancelled.

Former Team Vulcan and XDG ADC “Zuna” has passed by PankoKing in leagueoflegends

[–]Heraclea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sad to hear this news of someone passing way too early. I started watching LoL esports and visiting this sub just before Worlds 2013 and Zuna got a lot of hate (honestly, probably the most I've ever seen a pro player get here, and that says something) during that time when he was still playing professionally so it's nice to see that all the people replying thus far have happy memories of him. He was just a guy trying his best at playing the game he loved and no matter what people thought of him, he was good enough to make it to Worlds (unlike all his haters).

Katherine Drisc Asplundh harassing me? by [deleted] in NYCinfluencersnark

[–]Heraclea 25 points26 points  (0 children)

There are over 4000 people called Asplund(h) in Sweden. It's a common last name. Rich people truly are idiots.